This guy is an inspiration - he is working to save lives from poorly installed guard rails. He’s been able to get face-to-face meetings with congress people because of his engagement on X. He also has 8 pages in the new infrastructure bill.

Scott Horton on JRE LETS GOOOOO youtu.be/KBNfvk5Ali0?si=8972…

Hate it when you are the only car stopped at a light? I do. With roundabouts, that’s not a problem. They are better, for many reasons:

When America sends missiles and tanks into a sovereign country, is it war? You might be surprised by the answer...

I don't need to search the world for things to be concerned about. My concerns are the ones right in front of me: my family, my friends, my town. I get that neocons will neocon. But even a handful of people on the actual right are cheering about Iran. How are house prices doing in America? How about the lost souls wandering the streets of our cities at night, or the conservative families who did everything right but their kids got caught in the trans hideousness anyway? It is the left that, bored with bourgeois life, historically inverted this natural order. Rousseau was all tears and pity about the earthquake in Lisbon, but put his own children in a foundling asylum. John Lennon wanted world peace, but had no contact with his son from his first marriage. The best line in the Tucker Carlson interview of the heretical Mike Huckabee was when Huckabee said that without Iran we wouldn't have the problem on the border with Lebanon, and Tucker responded, the way a conservative would, by saying: what problem on the border with Lebanon? I'm not having a problem on the border with Lebanon. I live in Maine. And we weren't born yesterday: no right winger, observing the American regime, thinks to himself: these people care deeply about the Iranian public. But as our own country crumbles, the temptation to get excited about foreign adventures increases. It's a perverse paradox. I promise you, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin do not steer you right, and they are not steering you right now. If you're on the right, you have an appreciation for the precariousness of the human condition. You certainly do not think: if the regime deposes a man it dislikes, this will lead to a better outcome. You do not know that. History is not kind to that kind of naïveté, and if there's one thing right-wingers are not, it is naive. The true heart of America is not Ben Shapiro but John Quincy Adams (and Henry Clay, and so many others who echoed the same sentiments): "[America] has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. "She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.... "Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. "But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. "She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. "She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."

Dragon is docked with @Space_Station

In 1971, money changed from a natural system (gold) to a socialist system (fiat). Crypto is tech to replace socialist money with a free-market system. Market systems are inherently competitive and as tech evolves, new monies will continue to emerge to challenge existing ones.

i got into an argument with a couple of ppl here a few days ago. i told one guy im asian; i told the other guy im white. i told them both to meet me outside uniqlo

Today’s episode of @nytimes The Daily is cringe af when you’ve been listening to The Tom Woods Show @ThomasEWoods during the pandemic…

🚨 Gavin Newsom & his allies just forced 12 historic family farms & dairies out of Point Reyes National Seashore in California. They claim it’s about saving the environment — but the truth couldn't be more different. Here is the true story — and it's heartbreaking. ⬇️🧵1/

Ross was just granted a FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON by @realDonaldTrump. Words cannot express how grateful we are. President Trump is a man of his word and he just saved Ross's life. ROSS IS A FREE MAN!!!!!

Prepare for news stories about "evil insurers" that don't tell the whole story. Proposition 103 in California makes it illegal to accurately price fire insurance. Insurers can only use historical data, not projections. So insurers did the rational thing: they dropped customers

With Paul Krugman retiring from his column, Bob Murphy and I recorded one final episode of Contra Krugman, featuring our greatest hits of Krugman's errors. If I put the link in this post nobody will be allowed to see it, so think hard about where I may have put it

Ok night owls🦉let's talk about the recent tsunami warning🌊We don't get these alerts very often and there are lot of questions, frustration, and even some anger about how it all unfolded. We'll go over the history, science and warning process👇

Okay can I post this now that Trump won? 9/11 😬

In 2013 Ron Paul called me up and said he needed me to do something, and that it had to do with what he thought would be his most important legacy. That got my attention. You may have noticed that our ideas aren't given a fair shake in schools and colleges. Our view is either presented in caricature, or doesn't exist at all. Then we scratch our heads as to why there aren't more of us. Now what if students had a chance to evaluate different viewpoints for themselves, and what if our view of history and economics were given a fighting chance? I had a chance to make that happen, so I took it, even though the project was brutally difficult. I created hundreds of videos for the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum. (Trust me: adults can listen to them without feeling talked down to, and many thousands have.) We're talking nearly 350 lessons on Western civilization from Plato to the present, plus another 90 on government. So yes, I'm now going to show you everything I did. And how you can get it. Here's my 90-lesson Government course, which crams 25 years of learning on my part into one semester. You think this might give a student -- or you yourself -- a leg up in understanding the world? 1. Introduction 2. Natural Rights Theories: High Middle Ages to Late Scholastics 3. Natural Rights Theories: John Locke and Self-Ownership 4. Natural Rights Theories: Argumentation Ethics 5. Week 1 Review 6. Locke and Spooner on Consent 7. The Tale of the Slave 8. Human Rights and Property Rights 9. Negative Rights and Positive Rights 10. Week 2 Review 11. Critics of Liberalism: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the General Will 12. Critics of Liberalism: John Rawls and Egalitarianism 13. Critics of Liberalism: Thomas Nagel and Ronald Dworkin 14. Critics of Liberalism: G.A. Cohen 15. Week 3 Review 16. Public Goods 17. The Standard of Living 18. Poverty 19. Monopoly 20. Week 4 Review 21. Science 22. Inequality 23. Aid to Developing Countries 24. Discrimination 25. Week 5 Review 26. The Socialist Calculation Problem 27. Working Conditions 28. Child Labor 29. Labor and Unions 30. Week 6 Review 31. Health Care 32. Antitrust 33. Farm Programs 34. War and the Economy 35. Week 7 Review 36. Business Cycles 37. Industrial Policy 38. Government, the Market, and the Environment 39. Prohibition 40. Week 8 Review 41. Taxation 42. Government Spending 43. The Welfare State: Theoretical Issues 44. The Welfare State: Practical Issues 45. Week 9 Review 46. Price Controls 47. Government and Money, Part I 48. Government and Money, Part II 49. Midterm Review 50. Week 10 Review 51. The Theory of the Modern State 52. American Federalism and the Compact Theory 53. Can Political Bodies Be Too Large? 54. Decentralization 55. Week 11 Review 56. Constitutionalism: Purpose 57. The American Case: Self-Government and the Tenth Amendment 58. The American Case: Progressives and the “Living, Breathing Document” 59. The American States and the Federal Government 60. Week 12 Review 61. Monarchy 62. Social Democracy 63. Fascism I 64. Fascism II 65. Week 13 Review 66. Marx I 67. Marx II 68. Communism I 69. Communism II 70. Week 14 Review 71. Miscellaneous Intervention: Postwar Africa 72. Public Choice I 73. Public Choice II 74. Miscellaneous Examples of Government Activity and Incentives 75. Week 15 Review 76. The Industrial Revolution 77. The New Deal I 78. The New Deal II 79. The Housing Bust of 2008 80. Week 16 Review 81. Are Voters Informed? 82. Is Political Representation Meaningful? 83. The Myth of the Rule of Law 84. The Incentives of Democracy 85. Week 17 Review 86. The Sweeping Critique: Robert LeFevre 87. The Sweeping Critique: Murray N. Rothbard 88. Case Study: The Old West 89. Economic Freedom of the World 90. Week 18 Review (By the way: the reason there's a review each week is that an overview of what's been learned is the best way to retain new material -- no sense in learning all this stuff if you're just going to forget it by next week!) Here's Western Civilization to 1492: 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Hebrew History I 3. Hebrew History II 4. Hebrew History III 5. Week 1 Review 6. Hebrew Religion and the Hebrew Contribution 7. Minoan Crete 8. Mycenaean Greece 9. Homer, The Iliad 10. Week 2 Review 11. Homer and Hesiod 12. Classical Greece: Overview 13. Pre-Socratics, I 14. Pre-Socratics, II 15. Week 3 Review 16. Socrates 17. Plato: Introduction and Overview 18. Plato’s Worldview 19. Plato and The Republic 20. Week 4 Review 21. Aristotle: The Philosopher 22. Aristotle’s Ethics 23. Aristotle’s Politics 24. Classical Greece: The Polis, Sparta 25. Week 5 Review 26. Classical Greece: The Polis, Athens 27. The Persian Wars 28. The Peloponnesian War 29. Herodotus and Thucydides 30. Week 6 Review 31. Greek Drama, I 32. Greek Drama, II 33. Classical Greece: Art 34. Greek Religion 35. Week 7 Review 36. Greece and Western Liberty 37. Alexander the Great 38. The Hellenistic World 39. Hellenistic Philosophy 40. Week 8 Review 41. Rome: Beginnings and Foundations 42. Struggle of the Orders 43. Expansion of Rome 44. Toward the Empire, I 45. Week 9 Review 46. Toward the Empire, II 47. Toward the Empire, III 48. The Augustan Settlement 49. Latin Literature: The Golden Age 50. Week 10 Review 51. The Silver Age of Latin Literature 52. Rome After Augustus 53. Second-Century Rome 54. Roman Art 55. Week 11 Review 56. Christianity: The Background 57. The Birth of Christianity, Part I 58. The Birth of Christianity, Part II 59. Early Christian Sources I: The New Testament 60. Week 12 Review 61. The Spread of Christianity 62. From the Underground Church to the Edict of Milan 63. Early Christian Texts II: Didache, Shepherd of Hermas, Apostolic Fathers, Apologists 64. The Development of Christianity I 65. Week 13 Review 66. The Development of Christianity II 67. Monasticism, Part I 68. Monasticism, Part II 69. The Church and Classical Culture I 70. Week 14 Review 71. The Church and Classical Culture II 72. Rome: Third-Century Crisis 73. Diocletian and Constantine 74. Rome and the Barbarians, Part I 75. Week 15 Review 76. Rome and the Barbarians, Part II 77. Rome: Significance 78. St. Augustine I 79. St. Augustine II 80. Week 16 Review 81. The Church and the Barbarians 82. Merovingians and Carolingians 83. The Papal-Frankish Alliance 84. Charlemagne 85. Week 17 Review 86. The Carolingian Renaissance 87. Christianity in England and Ireland 88. Christianity in Germany 89. Midterm Review 90. Week 18 Review 91. Islam 92. Byzantium I 93. Byzantium II 94. After Charlemagne 95. Week 19 Review 96. Ninth- and Tenth-Century Invasions 97. Feudalism and Manorialism 98. Medieval Art 99. England: William the Conqueror 100. Week 20 Review 101. The Gregorian Reform, Part I 102. The Gregorian Reform, Part II 103. The Church-State Struggle and Western Liberty 104. Christendom 105. Week 21 Review 106. The Great Schism 107. France: Capetians to Louis IX 108. The Medieval Church: Sacraments and Liturgy 109. The Medieval Church: Popular Piety 110. Week 22 Review 111. Crusades: Background 112. The First Crusade 113. Later Crusades 114. The End of the Crusades 115. Week 23 Review 116. The Albigensian Crusade 117. The Mendicant Orders 118. England: Magna Carta 119. France: Philip the Fair 120. Week 24 Review 121. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century 122. The Rise of Universities 123. Scholastic Philosophy 124. Thomas Aquinas: Biography and Overview 125. Week 25 Review 126. Thomas Aquinas and the Quinque Viae 127. Thomas Aquinas and the Divine Attributes 128. Just War Theory 129. Later Scholasticism 130. Week 26 Review 131. The Cathedrals 132. The Rise of Towns 133. Economy in the High Middle Ages 134. The Medieval Contribution to Western Prosperity 135. Week 27 Review 136. The Holy Roman Empire I 137. The Holy Roman Empire II 138. Medieval Literature 139. Dante and the Divine Comedy 140. Week 28 Review 141. Philip IV vs. Boniface VIII 142. Marsilius of Padua and the Attack on Papal Power 143. The Avignon Papacy 144. Fourteenth-Century Crisis 145. Week 29 Review 146. England in the Fourteenth Century 147. France in the Fourteenth Century 148. The Hundred Years’ War 149. The Great Western Schism 150. Week 30 Review 151. The Fall of Byzantium 152. The Renaissance: Ideas 153. Petrarch and the Renaissance 154. Renaissance Humanism I 155. Week 31 Review 156. Renaissance Humanism II 157. Machiavelli 158. Renaissance Art I 159. Renaissance Art II 160. Week 32 Review 161. Renaissance Art III 162. Renaissance Art IV 163. The Northern Renaissance 164. The Renaissance Popes 165. Week 33 Review 166. Renaissance Italy: The Key Political Units, Part I 167. Renaissance Italy: The Key Political Units, Part II 168. Fifteenth-Century France 169. Fifteenth-Century England 170. Week 34 Review 171. The Holy Roman Empire to the Fifteenth Century 172. The Church on the Eve of Reform 173. Centralization in Spain 174. The Age of Discovery, Part I 175. Week 35 Review 176. The Age of Discovery, Part II 177. The Age of Discovery, Part III 178. Concluding Remarks 179. Preview of Western Civilization II 180. Week 36 Review Here's Western Civilization from 1493: 1. Introduction 2. Review of Western Civilization to 1492 3. The Church on the Eve of the Reformation 4. The German Reformation, Part I 5. Week 1 Review 6. The German Reformation, Part II 7. The German Reformation, Part III 8. Other Protestant Figures 9. John Calvin 10. Week 2 Review 11. The English Reformation, Part I 12. The English Reformation, Part II 13. The Catholic Reformation, Part I 14. The Catholic Reformation, Part II 15. Week 3 Review 16. Sixteenth-Century Portraits: Charles V 17. Sixteenth-Century Portraits: Philip II 18. The French Wars of Religion 19. Sixteenth-Century Portraits: Elizabeth I 20. Week 4 Review 21. The “Eutopians” 22. The Thirty Years’ War 23. The English Civil War 24. The Levellers 25. Week 5 Review 26. Oliver Cromwell 27. The Glorious Revolution 28. John Locke, Part I 29. John Locke, Part II 30. Week 6 Review 31. France Before Louis XIV 32. Difficulties and Revolt in Spain 33. Constitutionalism 34. Absolutism 35. Week 7 Review 36. Mercantilism 37. Louis XIV, Part I 38. Louis XIV, Part II 39. The War of the Spanish Succession 40. Week 8 Review 41. The Hohenzollerns 42. The Habsburgs 43. Russia: Peter the Great 44. A Survey of Art 45. Week 9 Review 46. The Scientific Revolution, Part I 47. The Scientific Revolution, Part II 48. The Scientific Revolution, Part III 49. The Enlightenment, Part I 50. Week 10 Review 51. The Enlightenment, Part II 52. Adam Smith 53. Europe in the 18th Century, Part I 54. Europe in the 18th Century, Part II 55. Week 11 Review 56. Enlightened Absolutism 57. The American Revolution, Part I 58. The American Revolution, Part II 59. The American Revolution, Part III 60. Week 12 Review 61. The French Revolution, Part I 62. The French Revolution, Part II 63. The Reign of Terror 64. Napoleon, Part I 65. Week 13 Review 66. Napoleon, Part II 67. The American and French Revolutions Compared 68. Edmund Burke and the French Revolution 69. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Women 70. Week 14 Review 71. The Industrial Revolution, Part I 72. The Industrial Revolution, Part II 73. Slavery and Its Abolition, Part I 74. Slavery and Its Abolition, Part II 75. Week 15 Review 76. What Was the Source of Western Prosperity? 77. The Congress of Vienna 78. The Conservative Reaction, 1815-1830 79. The Growth of State Education 80. Week 16 Review 81. Education Without the State: The Case of England 82. Liberalism, Part I 83. Liberalism, Part II 84. Liberalism, Part III 85. Week 17 Review 86. Liberalism, Part IV 87. Socialism 88. Neoclassicism 89. Romanticism 90. Week 18 Review 91. Midterm Review 92. The Revolutions of 1830 93. The Revolutions of 1848 94. Marxism, Part I 95. Week 19 Review 96. Marxism, Part II 97. Marxism, Part III 98. Marxism, Part IV 99. Naturalism 100. Week 20 Review 101. The Crimean War 102. The Unification of Italy 103. The Unification of Germany 104. The Second Industrial Revolution 105. Week 21 Review 106. Southeastern Europe: New States Emerge 107. France and England in the Late 19th Century 108. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia 109. Imperialism 110. Week 22 Review 111. Did The West Grow Rich Through Imperialism? 112. Modernism, Part I 113. Modernism, Part II 114. The Coming of World War I 115. Week 23 Review 116. World War I, Part I 117. World War I, Part II 118. World War I, Part III 119. The Paris Peace Conference 120. Week 24 Review 121. The Russian Revolution and Its Aftermath, Part I 122. The Russian Revolution and Its Aftermath, Part II 123. The Russian Revolution and Its Aftermath, Part III 124. The Russian Revolution and Its Aftermath, Part IV 125. Week 25 Review 126. The Broken World of the Interwar Period 127. Communists, Fascists, and Others 128. Nazis! 129. The 1930s and the Coming of the War in Europe 130. Week 26 Review 131. The Beginning of World War II 132. Axis Invasions in Southern and Western Europe 133. The United States as a Neutral 134. Global War: Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor 135. Week 27 Review 136. Total War Mobilization: Propaganda, Production, Transportation 137. Military Matters 138. The Final Solution and Other Mass Murders 139. Bombing and Mass Destruction 140. Week 28 Review 141. 1944: The Beginning of the End: Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, and More 142. Coordinating the Allied Effort: Allied Planning 143. January 1945: Barbarism on All Sides 144. The End of the War 145. Week 29 Review 146. The Axis in Ruins 147. The Nuremburg Trials 148. Origins of the Cold War 149. Two Power Blocks and Orwell’s 1984 150. Week 30 Review 151. The Economic Miracle 152. Decolonization 153. European Union and Cold War 154. The Cold War from the ’50s to the ’70s 155. Week 31 Review 156. Art and Architecture in the Twentieth Century 157. The World of the Sixties 158. The Middle East and Western Civilization to the Seventies 159. The Soviet Union from Brezhnev to Gorbachev 160. Week 32 Review 161. The Collapse of the Soviet Empire 162. Migration, Economics, Nationalism, Ethnic Cleansing 163. The West and the Rise of Asia 164. Lessons: Liberty, Technology, Society, and the State 165. Week 33 Review Understand that you can learn all of this, no matter your age, from someone (me) who doesn't hate Western civilization or you. I'm giving away these courses as a bonus when this Black Friday weekend (which ends in a flash) you pick up a membership to my Liberty Classroom, where since 2012 my (normal-person) colleagues and I have been teaching the history and economics they kept from you. If you're going to fight for Western civilization, the least you can do is know it well, so you can properly love it. And remember those friends of yours whose homes are already filled to the brim with knick-knacks -- or your father, who already has all the "#1 Dad" T-shirts he can handle. Give them knowledge this year instead. They will thank you. Link in the next post.

45. By this time (1963), poliomyelitis (aka “polio”) had all but disappeared. As it turns out, neither of the vaccines were actually necessary. The Salk vaccine was horrible at actually preventing paralysis, and the Sabin vaccine came too late to make a difference.

The newest course on Peterson Academy releases tonight at 8pm EST, @michaelmalice's six-hour course: The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. Enroll now for immediate access at petersonacademy.com In this course, we undertake a profound and thought-provoking journey through the rise and fall of the Soviet Union. From the early days of anarchism and communism to the tumultuous events that led to the collapse of the Soviet empire, we explore the key figures, pivotal moments, and far-reaching consequences of this significant period in history. Across eight detailed lectures, we analyze the reigns of Joseph Stalin and his successors, the Cold War era, and the roles played by Western leaders and intellectuals, ultimately witnessing the dramatic fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself, offering a comprehensive view of the forces that shaped the modern world.

Currently listening to Javier Milei on Lex Fridman youtu.be/8NLzc9kobDk?si=1Y96…