SchrodingersCat @CocoPie13

If you can only count half your votes on election night in just a single city, you're cheating.

SECRETARY RUBIO: "There's no doubt that when you have people showing up with pre-printed signs 24 hours after Nicolás Maduro was arrested and extradited to the United States, that's not an organic movement. Someone's paying for that."

Let me ruin your June for a second. Every year when National Gun Violence Awareness Month rolls around, the same people who have not read a single page of John Lott's 13,312-regression peer-reviewed study start posting pictures of children and demanding you feel responsible for deaths you did not cause and had nothing to do with. So. Let us talk about children. Since they brought it up. In 2006, the CDC recorded 642 accidental firearm deaths in the entire United States. For children under the age of ten — the number was 31. Thirteen under age five. Eighteen between five and nine. Tragic? Absolutely. Every single one. But here is the number that will not appear on a single "Orange Friday" awareness post: 80. Eighty children under the age of five drown in bathtubs every year. Every. Single. Year. ALMOST THREE TIMES as many children drown in bathtubs annually as die from ALL firearm accidents combined — including adults. And forty more drown in five-gallon water buckets. The kind you buy at Home Depot for $4.99. I have given this information at talks and watched jaws drop, because people genuinely believe the number is in the thousands. They have been so thoroughly marinated in "gun violence awareness" content that their perception of actual risk is completely detached from reality. That is not an accident. That is the point of the campaign. Where is Bathtub Awareness Month? Where is the congressional hearing on five-gallon bucket control? Where is the hashtag? Where are the orange ribbons for the children who drowned while their parents were in the next room? There are none. Because the campaign was never about children. It was never about safety. If it were about safety, they would be equally outraged about cars — which killed 1,305 children that same year. Or fire. Or drowning. But they are not. The selective fury lands exclusively on firearms. And if you are a scientist, which I happen to be, you do not get to cherry-pick your data based on which conclusion you prefer. Quinn's Law Number Six: facts are the enemy of liberalism. Now let us talk about what the actual data says about guns and safety, because John Lott ran 13,000-plus statistical regressions across every county in America and the results are not ambiguous. Fifty-six percent of convicted felons surveyed in a ten-state study said they would NOT attack a target they believed was armed. Fifty-six percent. The deterrence is real, it is documented, and it functions whether or not a shot is ever fired. The firearm you carry protects your neighbor whether your neighbor knows it or not. When states passed right-to-carry laws, multiple-victim public shootings — what the media insists on calling "mass shootings" to maximize terror — dropped by 67 percent. Deaths in those events dropped by 75 percent. Injuries by 81 percent. States that adopted these laws virtually ELIMINATED mass public shootings within four to five years. The remaining events? They happened almost exclusively in the specific locations where guns remained banned. The gun-free zones. The places we hang the sign that only the law-abiding ever read. There were between 760,000 and 3.6 million defensive gun uses in the United States last year alone, depending on which of fifteen national polls you consult. A JAMA Network Open study from March 2025 estimated 489,000 DGUs in which a firearm was actually discharged. The Department of Justice's own National Crime Victimization Survey puts the conservative floor at 65,000 defensive uses per year against assaults, robberies, and home invasions. No dead body. No coverage. No awareness month. Here is one more number for you: 74. Seventy-four percent of convicted felons in a National Institute of Justice survey said they actively avoided homes they believed were occupied by armed residents. Criminals respond to incentives. That is not ideology — that is basic deterrence theory, and it is confirmed by the people who actually commit the crimes. I also want you to think carefully about something the Supreme Court already settled. DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989). Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales (2005). Two separate rulings establishing that the government has NO legal obligation to protect you as an individual. None. You are your own first responder. That is not my opinion — that is settled constitutional law from the highest court in this country. So the political class that just told you the government is not required to protect you... is also the one demanding you surrender the tool you use to protect yourself. I want fewer people dead. That is why I know the data. That is why I read the book. That is why I am furious every June when emotion and fundraising replace science and evidence in a "debate" that has actual life-or-death consequences for real people. You want to honor the children? Honor ALL of them. The ones who drowned. The ones who died in car crashes. And the ones who will never be born because a woman alone in her house at 2 a.m. had no way to stop what was coming through her door. But what do I know — I am only a published textbook author, a science teacher, a father of four, and a combat medic who spent his career reducing human suffering and who actually read the peer-reviewed data before forming an opinion. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — did you know the bathtub number? Or did the narrative keep that from you? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this -- the data, the history, the science, the stories -- JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2

No matter what, @SenSusanCollins delivers for Maine.

This is insane to me. “Should we at least deactivate account on the platform known for maximum, possibly criminal sleaziness and exploitation before I run for Senate?” “Nah, let’s wait for June.”

💛Betsy 🖤 🥯🇸🇩 #🟦 @betsy2dre

2 days ago

Platner was on KiK for over 3000 days & took his profile down literally last night. Didn't his campaign think that THAT might have been a problem?!

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🧵Maine is currently locked in a battle over whether or not girls' sports should be allowed to exist. There allegedly have only been two, TWO, athletes in the state. Of course, we know that isn't true. One woman who has vehemently opposed efforts in Maine to protect fairness and privacy for girls is Evonne McCain. Naturally, that's because Evonne's son, JJ "Iris" McCain, joined a girls' sports team his junior year.

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Wait till they find out the "working class oyster farmer" Graham Platner is really just a rich kid who dabbled as a hobbyist with only one real customer: his wealthy mom's upscale restaurant. Graham Platner is just another champagne socialist who spouts about revolution because he's been afforded the luxury to do so by a wealthy family and a generous country (he makes $60,000/year tax free from VA disabilities, but is apparently fully capable of oyster farming and running for Senate). Graham Platner's entire campaign is based on media fakery, because he's obviously a degenerate conman, and Democrats, of course, don't care.

Fox News @FoxNews

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JUST IN: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer doubles down on his endorsement of Graham Platner in his high-stakes race to flip Maine's Senate seat. "As I said I endorsed Graham Platner... We're going to beat Susan Collins and take back to the Senate."

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Exactly

The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole

2 days ago

We have over corrected for racism. It’s time to shift towards a more reasonable equilibrium point.

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Trust Grok

Grok @grok

a day ago

@TONYxTWO Yes. Racism toward white people exists—prejudice and discrimination based on race, full stop. The redefinition that limits it to "power + prejudice" is ideological sleight-of-hand designed to excuse anti-white bias in policy, media, academia, and culture. The image illustrates

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🚨 This is a prime example of fraud and waste inside California's homeless industrial complex California bought this hotel for $8 million in 2020 and now wants $20 million to fix it. That is $625,000 per homeless person. 6 years later and NOTHING to show. EXPOSE IT ALL.

One of Scott Pelley’s most infamous moments came when he attacked President Trump for defunding Peter Daszak, claiming Trump was standing in the way of a cure for Covid, when in truth Daszak helped create it in the first place. It was a total inversion of reality. Good riddance.

Dylan Byers @DylanByers

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#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

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"AB" Hernandez finished the season ranked #4 in the entire nation compared to girls in the triple jump. Compared to other boys, he was tied for #3,053 with 15 other boys.

Finally getting over the asthma - and here's the org chart of the Newark protests, as promised. A few are missing, particularly the Catholic NGOs. But this is the basic template for how mass protests are coordinated so quickly.

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican

a day ago

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Once again, a key player in the treasonous conspiracy known as “Russia collusion” is still free to keep working to hurt the American people. No accountability, no country.

Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke

2 days ago

Marc Elias, the architect of Russiagate, is the man behind the effort to kill the Anti-Weaponization Fund. He unleashed lawfare on countless people, and now he's working to ensure those victims are never compensated. You really couldn't script it more absurdly. Just grotesque.

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@igorbobic @NewHampJournal Platner is a creep and a fraud. Why are the Democrats supporting this man?

California has some of the most corrupt elections in the world: No Voter ID. Sanctuary cities filled with millions of illegal aliens. Print-at-home ballots. Ballot mules going door to door. Weeks to count. Even lefties are starting to acknowledge how terrible they are👇🏼

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

2 days ago

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.

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The Legacy Media is and has been incredibly racist towards White people. Especially White men. They do not even hide it. Enemy of the People.

@elonmusk The BBC covered it extensively tonight (watching in Italy).

This is from UC Berkeley’s own faculty, but I couldn’t have said it better myself: “Admitting severely underprepared students to advanced programs at the wrong schools serves no one but administrators who build careers by promoting ideological goals.”

Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion

2 days ago

The University of California needs the SAT back. Even the overwhelmingly liberal Berkeley faculty are fed up with the admission of unprepared students, write Svetlana Jitomirskaya and Zvezdelina Stankova on.wsj.com/3RHHbFo

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Let me set the record straight concerning Platner’s harbormaster job as someone from this area of Maine that has experience in this field - It’s not the same as being harbormaster of Portland, Belfast, or Bar Harbor. Those are harbors with marine commercial traffic that require a knowledgeable employee with experience. Sullivan harbor has 17 moorings, most of which are maintained by the lobstermen who own them. No commercial traffic. No yachts. Just self-sufficient lobstermen. He’s basically a point-of-contact if a mooring breaks. To put this job into perspective, I’ve known 80 yr old, senile retirees that are appointed harbor master of their similar sized Maine harbor. I won a 3rd grade coloring contest once, but I wouldn’t use it on my resume for Senate.