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You know you're living in a healthy democracy when everyone has to pay for a VPN to stop the state from spying on them.

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

For decades, American politicians cited Sweden as proof that democratic socialism works. The Wall Street Journal sent a reporter there in 2026 to see for themselves. The Sweden they found is not the country Bernie Sanders describes on the debate stage. 🧵

Everything on the internet will require an ID check soon. And the government will monitor everything you do, pretending they don't need a warrant because you "voluntarily" gave your data and identity information away.

Milton Friedman's greatest regret. The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous. Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time. Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude. This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent. Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

Another week, another attempt by woke academics to push sex pseudoscience. In my video, I explain why a new paper in Neurotoxicology claiming that "sex is a spectrum," a "mosaic of factors," and a "conglomeration of variables" isn't just wrong, but totally self-refuting. It tries to argue that the term "sex differences" is an "underdefined generalization that creates a distinct binary" when sex is actually a "spectrum." So instead of saying "sex differences," the authors propose a new term: "Sex-Associated Variables," or SAVs. These SAVs, according to the authors, include morphological, genetic, and endocrine factors. The authors state that "The use of SAVs allows for a more nuanced analysis of potential sex differences by using several different sex related characteristics as a defined variable that can be correlated with outcomes, rather than a reductive category." But ask yourself this: How do the authors know which variables are "associated" with being male or female without knowing what males and females are independently of these SAVs? The entire point of the paper is to deny a gamete-based view of sex on grounds that it is overly "reductive" and fails to capture the complexity of sex differences. But the authors are totally oblivious (or at least willfully ignorant) to the fact that their ability to assign SAVs to a particular sex, not just in humans but in non-human animals as well, necessarily presupposes the validity of the gamete-based view of sex. Watch the video for a more detailed breakdown. I've covered this argument, and many others, in great detail in my scholarly paper "Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes." If you want a solid framework that exposes the central flaws in woke pseudoscience surrounding biological sex, I strongly recommend reading it. It's open access and relatively short. Why There Are Exactly Two Sexes:link.springer.com/article/10…

With unfettered access to someone's life, you can piece together any narrative that suits your agenda. This is why mass surveillance is dangerous. Because you're only safe until you become someone's target.

Unpopular opinion: The debate between MAGA and the left is increasingly a debate over who should be the central planner, not whether central planning is legitimate. Trump is many things, but a laissez faire, hands off leader isn't one of them. The argument is drifting from freedom versus control to competing brands of control. This is the inevitable consequence of placing faith in politicians and then granting them unaccountable sanction. Once political power becomes the solution to every problem, the only remaining question is who gets to wield it. The debate shifts from limiting power to capturing it.

The 5D chess was that Trump has been a Democrat this whole time and just got everyone to go along with it.

The President’s Big Beautiful Bill, the Iran War, and Republican spending bills will create a $2 trillion budget DEFICIT in 2026. Financing just the new debt costs more than all federal road & bridge projects, and we will be making those new interest payments each year, forever.

Thanks to @LPNational for inviting me to deliver a keynote at the Libertarian National Convention in my hometown of Grand Rapids. As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, I spoke about our libertarian heritage, the Constitution under assault, and how we must seize this moment.

'Voting against the party on every single issue, you're eventually going to make too many enemies.' @JDVance grossly mischaracterizes @RepThomasMassie's record but makes it crystal clear the Trump GOP is a conformity racket & personality cult, not a party of principles.

More money is being spent to defeat @RepThomasMassie than any other U.S. House member in history. Not because he can single-handedly change legislative outcomes—he has just one vote. But because he exposes the lies and corruption of those who hold political and financial power.

Thomas Massie is actually trying to drain the swamp. Trump's trying to make it into a protected wetlands.

Ok, like you’re 5. No one is backing billionaires except those clamoring for more central planning. There are two ways people get rich. One way is by making things people want. You can say yes or no. If you don’t like them, you walk away. The other way is through government. They take your money and give it to people you didn’t choose. You don’t get to say no. The first one is choice. The second one is force. People aren’t defending billionaires. They’re defending the first system over the second.

What Age Verification does: -Mass Surveillance -Internet Censorship -Creates a hackable honeypot of your personal data What it does not do: Make you a better parent

They know: ► What you search at 3am ► Who you message most ► Where you go when stressed You know: ⚠️ Nothing about their algorithms ⚠️ Nothing about their data retention ⚠️ Nothing about who they sell to That's not a relationship. That's a power imbalance.

"Nothing to hide" is the biggest lie they sold you. Privacy isn't about secrets. It's about power. Who has it. Who keeps it. Who gets to say no. Without privacy, you're not free. You're exposed to systems designed to control you. Here’s 7 cases that prove it: