I believe in American exceptionalism. The founding ideals of the USA are worth lifting up and aspiring to, regardless if we ever truly achieve them. We can claim the ideals and constantly work to reach them. Where we fall short should not be the focus. soundjudgments.com/p/where-i…

Angela Davis, the godmother of Soros prosecutors, stakes her entire case on a single claim: that incarceration and aggressive policing don't actually reduce crime. Then consider New York. After years of staggering violence, the city ran exactly that experiment -- and the results, as documented in @PeterMoskos's book, demolish the claim: - Murders fell 70% over the 1990s. - The steepest drop followed 1994, when the NYPD embraced proactive policing and Compstat (the data-driven system that mapped crime in real time and held precinct commanders accountable for driving it down.) Nearly 20% fewer murders a year, five years running. - Across two decades, murders fell 87% even as the population grew, dropping below 300 in a city of 8 million. If Davis and the prosecutors who follow her truly want what's best for the communities they call oppressed, New York should thrill them. The lives saved were overwhelmingly in those very neighborhoods. More than 90% of the city's shooting victims were black or Hispanic -- so driving murder down rescued them directly. Tens of thousands of mostly minority New Yorkers are alive today because cops, prosecutors, and prisons did what a generation of academics swore couldn't be done. That's the strange thing about this moment: We're being asked to unlearn something we already proved, at enormous cost, within living memory.

California billionaire tax odds of passing plummeted last night. Someone knows something 👀

It's OK to love America, even when it might not live up to its ideals. Where we fall short should not be the focus.

It's OK to love America.

Under 16 social media ban in the UK? Which means if you are over 16, you have to prove that you are over 16 before you can access social media. Which means you have to ID yourself to the government. Which means if you run a pseudonymous account the government will know who you are. Which means if you say something the government disapproves of, they can arrest you.

It sure does seem that way.

Yes. It’s ok to celebrate America. Great place. 10/10.

Correct, you don’t have a First Amendment right to interrupt a private event to proclaim your mental illness. Go see a therapist.

Gov. Abbott: "We must empower the Legislature to impeach DAs who refuse to do their job."

Cynical isn’t wrong. Politics is religion for the Left. Why are you so upset about people mentioning Jesus. I’m not Christian either but I’m not bothered because I can recognize the importance and value of the Christian religion in Western civilization. People shutting up about Jesus will absolutely not solve this because the Left will not respond in kind

California: An example of what *not* to do

There is apparently some debate about whether this study actually says what right wingers think it says, but this CS Lewis quote shows why it doesn’t even matter. It’s getting at something he noticed 100 years ago. It doesn’t matter what this individual study happens to say.

Classic Konstantin Kisin street interview. Bloke marching with a big sign demanding a “socialist intifada” for the New Workers’ Party. Kisin: “What’s a socialist intifada?” Bloke: “If I’m being honest with you, I just got this at the stand over there… I don’t actually know the definition of the word intifada.”😂🤣 Zero clue what he’s chanting for, but the sign looked revolutionary so why not? Peak protest cosplay. The slogans are loud, the understanding… nonexistent. Much love and respect to @KonstantinKisin @triggerpod 👊🏼

Will the Iranian deal work? I don't know yet if it will, and nobody does. I pray it will. But when Pompeo, Pence, and other Never-Trumpers start prematurely poo-poohing the deal - now you know to check and see if money is involved here. THREAD END.

🚨 THREAD: What do Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Elaine Chao have in common? They were all paid by a Marxist-Islamist Iran group that was designated as terrorist until 2012. No, this is not a joke. Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) was founded by leftist Islamists to oppose the western-backed Pahlavi, and participated in his 1979 overthrow. Khomeini barred MEK afterwards. MEK was implicated in multiple bombings, including that of Americans, and remained an openly armed group until 2003. Since they got de-listed as a terrorist organization in 2012 on procedural grounds, MEK and their fronts have been actively recruiting US politicians selling themselves as a moderate alternative to Khomeini. But RAND Corporation says MEK meets the qualifications for a cult, citing criteria such as forcing their members to work 16 hour days and forced divorces. Polls of the Iranian-American community shows that they do NOT accept Rajavi, MeK's leader, as legitimate, with a 46-point net disapproval - numbers nearly as bad as the existing regime. As Pence's former Chief of Staff, Marc Short, has already weighed against Trump deal, it's helpful to recall this. Receipts below. As always, patience as I pull the thread together.👇

It is not a small thing that a U.S. senator believes that all personal property of any citizen outright belongs to the government. “It is our money,” he said, referring to the federal government. That sort of thing is the opposite of what America is. And he’s far from alone.

In 8th grade, I won an essay contest for an essay titled America and Me. I was 13 years old. It was about God, country, and patriotism. The rest of my essays that year were about Metallica. I grew up in a conservative household. My dad loved Reagan in the 1980s and absolutely hated the Clintons by the 1990s. I came up in the opposite of a woke world. This image reminds me of the America I grew up in. Air shows. Space shuttles. Big dreams. Technological optimism. A belief that the future would be better than today. Maybe that’s why I’m so excited about AI, space, and what’s coming next. It feels familiar 🇺🇸

A floodgate will open at Tom Miller Dam soon. That will send water from Lake Austin to Lady Bird Lake. It has been a while since that has happened. It will be quite the scene around Red Bud Isle #atxwx

Union Pacific 4014 and RBM&N 2102 pace each other as they approach the crossing at Penebscot in Mountaintop, PA, before making the descent down the grade to the Wilkes Barre / Pittston area. Occurred around noon on June 14, 2026.

One of the things I find most distasteful about liberals in the Trump era is this fake outrage over irrelevant trivialities.