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An avid nature photographer who is enthusiastic about all things science and economics.

Delaware, USA
Joined June 2009
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We went from “girls can play with trucks too” to “if a girl plays with trucks, cut her breasts off” at an alarming rate. And they call that “progressive” 🤡 Save the tomboys.
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🇺🇸 The soldier who called out Pete Hegseth's group at Arlington National Cemetery is now reportedly being HONORED by Hegseth himself. During a Veterans Day visit to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a guard loudly ordered the group to maintain silence after someone was heard laughing. The Pentagon publicly backed the soldier, saying he acted correctly and respectfully. And that's exactly how it should work. Doesn't matter whether you're a tourist or the Secretary of Defense. At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the rules are the rules. And that soldier wasn't about to make an exception. Writer: Oliver
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I don’t have enough words to describe these people; even when you tell them the truth right to their faces, they just don’t get it. It’s unbelievable how stupid they are.
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This is exactly what's happening in our society today. Well done @SoveyX . Reality has become so absurd in this country that no fictional comedy can compete with it.
When Socialists Take Over Our Schools, Part 5: "PTA Meeting" 🏳️‍🌈☪️ - One group wants parades. - The other wants them banned. - Somehow they're on the same team. How does this alignment make sense?
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As someone who was born in the 1950’s you need to watch this brief video clip
Did people actually have it better in the 1950s? In my latest for @WSJFreeEx, I debunk some common nostalgic myths.
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The Chinese Communist Party is paying socialist astroturf “activists” through the CodePink founder’s husband (who lives in China) to intentionally cripple American tech advancement and its insane to see how many people are falling for it. Almost as baffling as the lack of PR from tech, itself.
JUST IN: Developer abandons $10B Michigan data center project after residents reject the proposal, despite promises of $54 million in annual tax revenue & a $20 million community investment fund.
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She is someone very much to be proud of. Among other things, she's been a great addition to the Commentary Magazine daily podcast.
Proud of my daughter @elianayjohnson taking on @davidaxelrod before a huge crowd at the Jewish Federations of North America event that just concluded in DC. David Axelrod & Eliana Johnson: What the Midterms Mean for American Jews youtu.be/oMjxa-9KV3Y?si=q64i… via @YouTube
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My GOD.
JUST IN: Maryland activist who blocked the $5B AI data center now wants an indoor trampoline park built instead, calling for something that can "serve all the residents."
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EXCLUSIVE: We spent weeks in Napa Valley investigating Gavin Newsom's wine empire. According to a whistleblower, the operation is built on undocumented migrant labor, in violation of the law. Illegal aliens pick the grapes—and Newsom sells the wine for up to $7,000 a bottle.
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I’ve been driving since Monday to arrive in Starbase tonight with a vehicle full of cameras. Launch is Friday, Starship catch is Saturday. History will be made, and I will be present to document it. Sending nothing but positive vibes to the talented team at SpaceX. You got this.
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At 16, Brian Banks was one of the best high school linebackers in America. USC had offered him a full scholarship. Pete Carroll personally called him. One afternoon at school he made out with a classmate. Consensual. By the end of the day he was in jail, charged with kidnapping and rape. She said he dragged her into a stairwell. It never happened. The DNA came back negative. His mother sold her house and her car to pay for a lawyer. He couldn’t make bail. He spent a year behind bars waiting for trial. His lawyer told him: plead no contest, or risk 41 years in prison. He was 17. He took the deal. He did 5 years in prison. Then 5 more on parole. Registered sex offender. GPS monitor on his ankle. Couldn’t go near schools or parks. No one would hire him. Meanwhile, the girl and her mother sued the school district for not keeping her safe. They won $1.5 million. In 2011, a Facebook friend request popped up on his screen. It was her. She wanted to “let bygones be bygones.” Brian went to a private investigator. They hid cameras in the office and invited her to talk. She came by bus. On tape, she admitted it. He never raped her. He never kidnapped her. Then she said she still wouldn’t tell prosecutors the truth. Because she’d have to give back the money. In May 2012, a judge cleared his name. The hearing took less than a minute. 10 years of his life. Gone in one lie. Erased in 60 seconds. A few days later his phone rang. “I’m looking for a linebacker. You know where I can find one?” It was Pete Carroll. The same coach who recruited him 10 years earlier. He finally signed with the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons. At 27. The dream he had at 16. She was ordered to pay $2.6 million back. What should happen to someone who steals 10 years of your life with one lie?
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This story about a potential $5 billion economic development project being blocked by a functional midwit backed by Chinese money is the perfect metaphor for America's utterly insane society today. Incredible.
The woman who blocked the project told Fox the $5B investment would only benefit the employees of the data center, advocating for the site to be turned into an indoor trampoline park instead. Every local trade union and small business is weeping.
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Prediction. Screenshot this post, we'll talk again in five years. They're going to pull it off. Jensen Huang is going to be pushed out of Nvidia. And here's what happens next. Elon hires Jensen and puts him in charge of Terafab. He's already said it publicly: hiring him would be an honor. And Terafab is the project made for him. A chip factory Musk wants to be the largest ever built, one terawatt of compute per year, from design to packaging under one roof. Terafab's challenge is to do in a few years what the industry took decades to build. There's only one man on Earth who knows every layer of that stack. They execute like absolute maniacs. Musk brings speed, capital and appetite for risk. Jensen brings thirty years of mastery of the stack: architecture, software, customers, supply chain. Musk builds factories faster than anyone alive. Jensen knows exactly what to put inside them. It's the only duo in the world capable of compressing a decade into three years. SpaceXAI merges with Tesla. This isn't even science fiction anymore: independent committees are already studying the merger. Rockets, satellites, AI, robots, self-driving cars, energy, and now chips. One single entity, integrated from silicon to orbit. The group climbs to $50 trillion. Today, SpaceX and Tesla are worth around $3.4 trillion combined. $50 trillion sounds insane. But remember: ten years ago, Nvidia was worth a few tens of billions. When you own superintelligence, the robots that do the work and the rockets that go to space, you don't capture a market. You capture the economy. Elon buys Nvidia. Meanwhile, Nvidia without Jensen does what every company does after losing its founder: it manages. It protects its margins. It loses ground to its own customers' in-house chips. And one day, it becomes a target. For a $50 trillion group, buying Nvidia is just one acquisition among others. Jensen becomes the chip boss again. He takes over the semiconductor division of the new entity. Pushed out of his own company, he gets it back from above, inside the largest industrial group in history. Sounds crazy? Steve Jobs did exactly that. Pushed out of Apple, he came back when Apple bought NeXT. You know the rest. Nvidia's board thinks it's getting rid of a problem. It's creating the biggest competitor in its history. See you in five years.
Replying to @zerohedge
That would be an honor
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This is exactly what I mean when I say the world is turning a blind eye to human rights violations in Iran. In the West, they shake hands with the terrorists who massacre, torture, execute, and imprison us. They give them legitimacy and a platform to lie to the world.
SHAME: The U.N. General Assembly just elected the murderous Islamic Republic of Iran to its Committee for Program and Coordination, the main body shaping the world organization’s priorities on Women’s Rights, Human Rights, Disarmament and Counter-Terrorism. 144 voted for Iran. 🧵
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In other words, this is less than 1% of the taxpayer cost of Somali daycares.
Marco Rubio’s personal travel appears to significantly outpace that of his predecessors, former State Department officials said. The flights have cost the government more than $1.2 million, The Post found, using Defense Department-published rates. wapo.st/3UHhabe
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Seems illegal. Will send on. The way to make this a case in private practice, is for a person outside the parameters to apply. Then any lawyer in private practice can sue and win. This is work I routinely did in PP — and won.
BREAKING: Colorado State Senator Iman Jodeh is advertising an internship program where you must be muslim or north african. How is this legal?
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Many small, online news outlets are running with a story about a BC nurse accused of being sexually inappropriate with a patient. Many are posting the allegations as fact. The BC College of Nurses (yes, the same one that came after me) published her name and workplace (!!!) and suspended her license pending an investigation. She vehemently denies the allegations. She alleges that the BCCNM, by publishing her name, has put her safety at risk. She has posted a statement and her text messages with the patient/client in order to defend her reputation. This is nuts. If she’s indeed innocent (sure looks that way) I hope she finds a great defamation lawyer.
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God bless all who served the greatest country in history. Today we recommit ourselves to become worthy of your sacrifices. Because I fear we no longer are.
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You guys killed Charlie Kirk and celebrated his assassination. Spare me.
Stephen Miller has blood on his hands.
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If you have a refrigerator with food, you are rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
You are not rich enough to be afraid of socialism.
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