Orthodox Christian, VA is home but NY is in my soul, worked abroad & in DC. Politics, power & the occasional inconvenient fact.
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No violent response, we will win this with our minds and through our positive actions to carry on Charlie Kirk’s legacy.
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I traveled to a conference last weekend. In the wake of the FAA ground-stop yesterday, many of the conference participants now report they had been concerned about traveling, myself included.
It's not mysterious. We were all primed by recent discussion of grid down scenarios and bases needing to be self sufficient for 90 days.
Mere coincidence? Could be, but I doubt it. Suddenly shut down air travel within the U.S. and it touches many, and reaches all. We just experienced a synchronizing event that follows from a single order we can't evaluate. Let's hope my suspicion is wrong.
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I was wrong. THIS is as dark as it gets. I’ll warn you I couldn’t finish the video. People wonder how communists could kill 100 million people in the last century…this is why. These are not liberals. These are not democrats. They are demons. God help us.
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Italians gather in Parma today to drive out the criminal invaders.
No violence. No arson. No looting. No burning cars. No smashed windows.
Only patriots with the Italian tricolor, order, and discipline.
This is what a real protest looks like. 🇮🇹
No masks. No chaos. No hate. Just ordinary Italian citizens mothers, fathers, grandparents, young people standing together peacefully and saying: Enough is enough.
Enough of feeling unsafe in your own city.
Enough of watching criminals take over your streets while the politicians look the other way.
Enough of being told you’re a bad person for wanting to protect your home, your family, and your country.
They didn’t come to destroy Parma. They came to SAVE Parma.
They marched with pride. With the flag held high. With discipline. With respect for their own streets because they actually LOVE their city.
That’s the difference. Patriots don’t burn their own neighborhoods down. They protect them.
Italy for Italians.
Not because they hate others. But because they love Italy first. They love their culture. Their history. Their families. Their future.
And they have every right to say it.
Parma stood up today. And the whole of Italy is watching.
You’re like that one guy that stood with the protestors who were calling for gov’t funded/“free” condoms that one time.
This will probably land me tons of hate but I don't care. I'm a civilian, so I'm gonna talk about civilian things.
The fact of the matter is this: there are tons of professions which are far more dangerous than serving in the US military. Even those actually in combat.
Why should a veteran be "entitled" to anything that a logger, fisherman, or roofer isn't entitled to?
What does our country need more of at the moment? Construction workers and loggers, or killing brown kids on another continent for the benefit of Raytheon's shareholder dividend?
I have more respect for these guys than I do for most "run of the mill" servicemembers.
Some servicemembers did incredibly brave and heroic things far above comprehension. Some of them moved crates between bases "outside the wire" and never saw a single round head their way.
I worked in commercial insurance prior to this industry and saw plenty of permanently disabled and/or killed manufacturing workers over 10 years. Nobody's talking about those guys or their families being exempted from property tax or some other special entitlement.
Can we all just be honest about this?
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BREAKING: Senator Fetterman says that he will leave the Democrat Party is Chris Van Hollen is Senate Majority Leader.
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Remember when Pete Hegseth exposed Microsoft's decade-old arrangement allowing Chinese nationals to work on sensitive Pentagon cloud systems?
He shut it down. He demanded an audit. He ordered an investigation.
He didn't tiptoe around it. He didn't do the usual Washington "we're looking into it" routine. He said this is a national security risk, and it stops NOW.
Now fast forward.
Microsoft experiences a massive global outage. And at the exact same time, Hegseth faces an impeachment effort led by Thomas Massie.
Are these events connected? There is no evidence establishing that.
Let's be clear about that. I'm not saying one caused the other.
But the Pentagon's relationship with major technology contractors and China's access to sensitive systems deserve serious scrutiny.
Because think about it. For a DECADE, Chinese nationals were allowed to work on sensitive Pentagon cloud systems? How did that ever get approved? Who signed off on that? Who was getting paid while our national security infrastructure was being exposed?
And the second someone actually tries to shut it down and demand answers — suddenly he's the one facing impeachment? Suddenly the systems go down?
Coincidence? Maybe. But Americans deserve answers about who has access to our national security infrastructure and whose interests come first.
Is it America's interests? Or is it Big Tech's profits? Or is it China's?
Hegseth asked the questions nobody in Washington wanted to ask. He challenged the cozy relationship between the Pentagon and massive contractors. He put America first over contracts and connections.
And now he's being targeted for it.
We shouldn't just move on from this. We should be asking: Who approved this arrangement? How deep did it go? What did they have access to? And why did it take Hegseth to stop it?
Our national security is not for sale. Our cloud systems are not a playground for foreign nationals. And the people who protect this country shouldn't be punished for doing their job.
Americans deserve answers.
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Bill Maher wants Democrats to CUT THE DSA LOOSE.
“There is no tent that big.”
Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “You don’t build a strong economy by giving everything away.”
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I worked the George Floyd/BLM “mostly peaceful” riots back in 2020.
I was there when the anarchists tried to take over the 88 Precinct.
SRG was instrumental in going through the boros and restoring order. I can’t tell you how many times I heard over the radio “SRG on the air? Respond to this location.”
Same with the “mostly peaceful” Free Palestine protests that are backed, funded, and controlled by the same folks who were behind the riots.
SRG is needed. Their work is ugly, but it has to be. Without them, this city is going to devolve into chaos the next time there’s a big “mostly peaceful” event.
You voted for this, NYC. Reap ALL of the consequences of it.
🚨 MAMDANI PRESSED ON DISBANDING NYPD COUNTERTERRORISM UNIT
REPORTER: “Who responds to terrorist threats if the Strategic Response Group is disbanded?”
MAMDANI: “As I’ve said… I’m committed to disbanding the Strategic Response Group and that I do not believe that the responsibilities of counterterrorism and enforcement and First Amendment response are one and the same.”
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani faces questions over his plan to dismantle the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group, an elite unit deployed for terrorist threats, mass shootings, violent crime and major emergencies.
The question remains: Who takes over those critical responsibilities?
Imagine how beaten into submission you have allowed yourself to come that you forget: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
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This is f*cking insane. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was asked what a kid finishing high school should do now. His answer:
"AI can do entry-level law work. It can do entry-level finance. It can do entry-level consulting
We can't deny that it will also eliminate jobs, and probably a large number of them"
In a few minutes he names which jobs go first and the one skill that keeps you in the game
His own prediction: 50 percent of entry-level white-collar jobs disrupted in the next 1 to 5 years
Prompts → Agents → AI Coworkers → Entry-Level Work Done By AI
Farming to factories took generations. This time AI hits every step of a career at once
His advice fits in one line: "Of course, learn to use AI"
The people who start this year won't be competing with AI, they'll be the ones running it
Everything below is free. Start today:
Anthropic - Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial: the fastest way to learn to direct a model
github.com/anthropics/prompt…
Anthropic Courses: from your first prompt to running agents
github.com/anthropics/course…
Anthropic Cookbook: real task recipes you can copy today
github.com/anthropics/anthro…
Microsoft - Generative AI for Beginners: 21 lessons, no degree required
github.com/microsoft/generat…
Microsoft - AI Agents for Beginners: build agents that do the entry-level work for you
github.com/microsoft/ai-agen…
Hugging Face - Agents Course: free and certified, start to finish
github.com/huggingface/agent…
Google Cloud - Generative AI: Google's own hands-on notebooks
github.com/GoogleCloudPlatfo…
OpenAI Cookbook: code for every common task
github.com/openai/openai-coo…
DAIR.AI - Prompt Engineering Guide: the reference everyone links to
github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-En…
Andrej Karpathy - Neural Networks Zero to Hero: understand what is under the hood
github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-…
CrewAI: run a small team of AI workers
github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI
Microsoft - AutoGen: put several agents on one job
github.com/microsoft/autogen
Awesome LLM Apps: hundreds of real builds to learn from
github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awes…
DeepLearning.AI - Short Courses: free 1-hour courses from the people who teach this
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Total cost: $0
You don't need another year of tuition to learn this. You need to start telling AI what to do
95% will graduate and compete with AI for the same entry-level job
The 5% who learn to run it this year will manage the agents doing that job
Save this and send it to someone graduating this year
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🇸🇻🇭🇹 Nayib Bukele anuncia que fuerzas salvadoreñas e haitianas tomaron el control total del Estadio Nacional Sylvio Cator en Puerto Príncipe, Haití, otrora guarida de los criminales, y que ahora se ha convertido en una base operativa para avanzar hacia los territorios controlados por las pandillas. ¡Y va por ellos!💪
En sus propias palabras: "No hay Estado que no pueda contra los criminales. Si un Estado no vence a la criminalidad es porque el Estado es cómplice. Una vez el Estado se libera de la complicidad con la delincuencia y va con fuerza hacia los criminales, los vence."
¡Todos con Bukele y con el pueblo de Haití!❤️
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UPDATE // GLOBAL OIL SUPPLY: Supply is higher than demand for the first time since the war.
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EURO REPORT // BULGARIA SINGS HEY, HEY, HEY GOODBYE TO GLOBALIST:
bntnews.bg/news/-39vazrazhda…
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WTF, France?
🚨 EMERGENCY!
France is reportedly considering handing over the Afghan Embassy to the Taliban.
This is not diplomacy. This is a betrayal of Afghanistani women, girls and everyone who has fought for freedom.
The Taliban must never be rewarded with diplomatic legitimacy while they continue to erase women from society.