Some nations have freedom in the blood and are ready to face the greatest perils and hardships in its defense. It is not for what it offers on the material plane that they love it; they regard freedom itself as something so precious, so needful to their happiness that no other boon could compensate for its loss, and its enjoyment consoles them even in their darkest hours. ~ Alexis de Toqueville

Interesting pattern I keep noticing. The left says he is targeting political opponents. I noticed three things about all of these people. Every person Trump is supposedly "targeting" happens to check all three of these boxes: furious that the NGO gravy train got shut down, LOUDLY against DOGE finding fraud, AND has active whistleblowers reporting they are actually committing — or knowingly allowing — fraud. What a remarkable coincidence. Very political, indeed. 🤔 But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who notices patterns. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Trump

It’s not a full boycott yet, but Pennsylvania’s participation under Gov. Josh Shapiro is limited and uncertain. He’s providing no official state government booth or delegation.

Let me explain what is actually happening with the left calling the current Supreme Court "rogue." I have four kids. When one of them does their chores, I give them a piece of candy. When my three-year-old sees that and loses his mind screaming "IT'S NOT FAIR," he is not making a legal argument. He is making a FEELINGS argument. He does not care about the chores. He just wants the candy. That is Quinn's Law #26 in a Halloween costume: liberals love the courts UNTIL the decision does not go their way. Here is something the dim bulbs on the left conveniently forget. Republican-appointed justices have disappointed conservatives REPEATEDLY. Gorsuch — TRUMP'S OWN PICK — sided with liberals on LGBTQ employment cases. Roberts saved the ACA. TWICE. Let that land. Sandra Day O'Connor preserved Roe in 1992. Reagan appointee. That happens because those justices are actually doing their job: applying the law to the text, NOT reverse-engineering the outcome they want. When have you EVER seen a Democrat-appointed justice deliver a ruling that disappointed Democrats? I'll wait. That silence you hear? That is not a coincidence. That is the tell. A court that never surprises you is not a court. It is a PR department with gavels. The left has that. They built it on purpose. And NOW — because they do not have it at the Supreme Court level — the whole institution is suddenly "illegitimate." FDR tried this in 1937. His OWN PARTY killed the court-packing scheme in committee. They called it what it was. Let that sink in: even Democrats in 1937 recognized naked power grabs when they saw them. The left does not want a Supreme Court. They want a super-legislature with lifetime tenure that ratifies whatever Congress failed to deliver. The Constitution is just an obstacle between them and what they want. And when that obstacle holds, they call it rogue. My three-year-old also calls things unfair when I enforce bedtime. He is three. What is their excuse? But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who actually read the Federalist Papers, including No. 78, where Hamilton called the judiciary "the least dangerous branch," not the most convenient one. @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman @JoJoFromJerz #MAGA #Trump #SCOTUS

This is: The United States Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller: “The reason why those Americans in North Carolina, those mothers, those fathers, those precious little children, were left to die begging their government for help that never came is because the Democrats turned FEMA into an illegal alien resettlement agency.” Meaning: The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left fathers to die in Maui. The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left mothers to die in East Palestine, Ohio. The Democrats said FEMA had NO money and left children to die in North Carolina. BUT FEMA had an extra $1 BILLION to spend on illegals, including Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP, and voter registration. And, as a bonus, they complain that Elon Musk is now a trillionaire.

Save me the crocodile tears about hostage taking on FISA when Republicans themselves just took ICE funding hostage to try to kill the Anti-Weaponization Fund. They did not back the blue, they used them as ransom. ICE deserved better.

Agreed with every word

You want to know what's most chilling to me? At first I couldn't figure out what was going on with this post. Wildly disproportionate likes to views and almost no one was commenting on it. Very few were actually seeing it. Then I started to look at WHO was liking the post. Likes are anonymous. That's what was going on. It quickly became apparent the Northern Irish specifically and the British in general OVERWHELMINGLY were liking my post. They couldn't comment on it and they couldn't share it.. for fear of crackdown. But the algo, recognizing that people liked it, showed it to friendly Americans who COULD share it. And did. By the hundreds. The natives may only speak in support of their own suicide. That's all the government will let them do openly. If they speak in support of their survival they risk prison. So they don't. But they can, as a tiny act of subversion, like a twitter post that says exactly what they wish they could, if they only could. That's what's happening. That's why everything seemed so wildly off. Quiet Patriots clicking one button to show they love that finally, they are fighting back.

Sheryl. Your article exemplifies the biased reporting we have come to expect from you and @nytimes. It was unfair, inimical, and inaccurate. All one needs to refute your argument is to glance at my publicly available calendar and to review my unprecedented list of accomplishments on a wide range of issues, all of which I drove. You evidently never undertook these foundational due diligences. Why let facts obscure a good story? You fault me for missing a couple of monthly counselor meetings. However, I meet one-on-one with my counselors every day to decide policy and strategy. We schedule the monthly meetings to give the divisions a chance to keep each other informed about HHS-wide policies with which I’m already intimately familiar. Had you read my calendar, you would have seen that I have back-to-back meetings all day, every day, with both career and political staff, with my counselors and with outside stakeholders, interspersed with press conferences and other policy announcements. I am knowledgeable and active on every issue in every division of my department, and I always make the final decisions. I meet with the principals at FDA, NIH, CDC, and my senior counselor every morning, something, I’m told, is unprecedented in HHS history. I try to get out of the office between 4:30 and 6:00 PM, so that I can spend three hours, in quiet, responding to emails. I normally work until 11 PM every night, mostly on phone calls to staff. In order to prove your preconceived case for my disengagement, you quote anonymous employees, some of whom I fired or who quit to avoid being fired. You also deceptively quote HHS employees without identifying whether they were among those I fired, thereby depriving your readers of the opportunity to make an independent judgment about their credibility. I came into this job to change the culture of a broken agency that has presided over the worst decline in public health in American history. Of course I fired people—lots of them! It's an easy task for even the laziest journalist, to comb that flotsam and jetsam for malevolence toward the Trump administration. And of course, this species of journalist will always be able to find disgruntled individuals among the 70,000 employees of the Department from whom to cherry pick "facts" to flesh out a preordained hit piece. All that is required for this brand of journalism is the ethical elasticity that you seem to have in spades. You had a preconceived thesis, and you set out to prove it. This is a widely accepted technique in journalism today, but I grew up in an era when it would not have been tolerated by the New York Times. Ultimately, God puts us all on this earth to search for existential truths. I've tried to instill this mission at HHS by implementing gold standard research to end the regime of politicized science that COVID exposed to the American public. There was a time that journalists were proud to be the fearless and uncompromising champions of truth. Standards have devolved, and journalism is dead. The Times now employs propagandists. Your capitulation to partisanship further compounds your journalistic challenges; since we all are aware of your predictable bias, we at HHS are unwilling to talk to you about the topics that are important. The fact that you have minimal access to decision makers leaves you covering trivia and relying on your own capacity for invention. Btw. When I took this job, the building was empty. About 90% of the employees were not coming to work. I changed that, but your newspaper never covers my reforms. Nor did you cover the fact that my predecessor almost never showed up for work here during his four years in office. When we came in, there were still artifacts from the first Trump administration in many of our office drawers because no one showed up for work during the Biden years. Just as Rochelle Walensky spent her entire term as CDC Director in Cambridge, Xavier Becerra reportedly spent most of his term as HHS Secretary in California. (I live in California, but I’ve only been there once in fifteen months). His only notable accomplishments here were losing 300,000 children, referred to HHS for custody and care, to human traffickers and drug runners, encouraging transgender surgeries, and disabling the entire program-integrity apparatus, allowing hundreds of billions of dollars of theft from my agency. I have set out to find the children Becerra lost. He is now the front-runner for the governor of California. These are not invented stories; they are genuine scandals that the Times will never cover, presumably, because the malefactors are Democrats. Finally, you criticize me for spending time with the Indian tribes in Alaska. I consider that part of my job. I run the Indian Health Services, and I’ve had unprecedented success in transforming IHS from a backwater to a top priority for this department. I’ve made more trips to Indian country and to Indian health clinics and hospitals than any HHS secretary in history, and I’ve brought Indians into high positions on the sixth floor for the first time in agency history. This is another success story that the Times will never cover.

1/ Pop culture quiz. Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star with over a million people aboard. Did you walk out of the cinema asking whether the Rebellion were terrorists? No. You knew who built the superweapon. Context told you exactly who to blame. Hold that thought. 🧵

I stand with Ireland!

If we had taken a genetic test when my wife was pregnant with him, it would have shown he had an ultra rare chromosomal abnormality. One that could cause failure-to-thrive, growth problems. He might never talk, never walk, never leave home. It’s impossible to tell how it’ll affect him His first night alive his heart stopped and his oxygen levels dropped. They told us he essentially died. We bought an oxygen monitor to go home with. At the time we didn’t know he had any other issues. We wouldn’t know for nearly a year and a half. When we did it took a while for it to set in that all the dreams and hopes we had for him were dead. But he, he was alive. He was with us. He is still our wonderful boy, just now with extra struggles. His immune system struggles more than the rest. At 6yrs old he’s the size of a 3yr old. He didn’t walk until he was 3-4. He’s only semi-verbal and still not potty trained. We’ve had him in every form of therapy available. Even a routine dental procedure requires anesthesia which local dentists won’t do due to his condition. Those are his struggles. They’re real. They’re difficult. If we’d done the testing back then, the doctor would likely have offered killing him in utero as the solution to his and our “problems.” But his life doesn’t begin or end with his problems and struggles. It begins with his life. His incredible, God-given life. His beautiful smile, his bubbling laugh, the way his crimson curls bounce as he runs around the yard after his little sister or his brother. It’s in his love for his siblings, and their love for him. It’s in his kind heart and thoughtfulness and desire to help with anything he can, even if it means he puts dishes in the trash by accident. He’s my little buddy, follows me around like a shadow and his favorite thing is to snuggle up with me when I’m sitting on the couch playing a game. He isn’t a burden on our lives. He’s not an inconvenience. He’s a blessing who enriches every single part of all of our lives Every day I’m beyond grateful that God gave me my little boy.

I’ll take #SPLC for $500.

Because the 33rd paid for their defense and stability. #lb

“You can’t solve problems with violence” *opens history book. Well well well

Let me save everyone some time. Our corrupt Congress specifically created and hid a new funding program under FEMA specifically to fund the NGOs to bring the illegals into our country. Nancy Pelosi set it up and all of the Republicans knew about it and helped fund it. It was funded with $100 million of our tax dollars. So, when you hear ALL of the elected Republicans claim that Democrats brought the illegals here, understand that the only way Democrats got away with it was with elected Republicans help. When McCarthy then Johnson took control of the House majority, they continued to use Senate Democrats funding budget known as the Omnibus that kept funding the illegals entry and stay. In fact, for fiscal 2025 AND fiscal 2026, the Republican Majority still passed the Senate Democrats Budget, written in part, every year, by Senator Patty Murry.

F- yeah!

SCOOP: Meet Susan Dinsmore, a licensed therapist at @SanfordHealth. She allegedly made this post online cheerfully asking if President Trump "is dead yet." We reached out to Sanford Health multiple times for comment but they did not respond. Would you trust this person with your mental health?

What many of you refuse to acknowledge is that political parties and labels of “partisanship” are largely dead. You are either pro or anti Western civilization at this point. Order or disorder. You must pick a side.

Yay! Pennsylvania has teens too. 🙄