Karthik @Karthik_LPKY

This is terrible but shockingly common. More than one third of children are investigated by CPS over their childhood. CPS operates with very little legal restraint. maximum-progress.com/p/does-cps-inv…

Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg

2 days ago

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. substack.com/home/post/p-20…

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All you need to say is that you're excited that by 2060 (or whatever date) white people will no longer be a majority or ecen have a plurality.

Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630

a day ago

You can say that the "Great Replacement" is real without drawing criticism, as long as you support it.

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Science vs Judith Butler

Rob Sica @robsica

2 days ago

Both prenatal & circulating T are central to the superiority of Evolutionary Neuroandrogenic (ENA) Theory over Social Role Theory in explaining 15 universal sex differences (each supported by 100+ studies, among 275 supported by fewer; they expect more). cambridge.org/core/elements/…

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@jessesingal Just another reminder that we shouldn't give that much consideration to 3rd worldists.

More people need to understand that the Nordics heavily tax everyone, not just the rich.

reason @reason

19 hours ago

"This is not a novel result," adds Cato's Adam Michel. "Research by the World Inequality Lab concludes that 'the US stands out as the country with the highest level of tax progressivity.'" For more on how Americans are already paying their "fair share:" reason.pub/4aTIxU9

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@AaronJay954127 @wil_da_beast630 Your mind has been rotted by partisanship and whataboutism. Even if he didn't do any of those things, that's not the same as actively swatting someone under false pretenses.

@KaiSchwemmer Depends on the breed of dog...

And this is why it's good to have real time intellectual counterweight, as simple as someone who holds you accountable when you parrot claims that are either false or deceptive. @mykehendrickson does that for me, both with regards to claims of Israeli control and dogmas of the Catholic Magisterium. Here's something worth checking out: youtu.be/y8hLnRJ3cGk

@ChaseForLiberty Let this be everyone's reminder that the state, or at least the federal government, shouldn't be in the marriage business to begin with. It started as a civil institution/contract, which then went on to be recorded by the state, and that's what it should return to.

@AP4Liberty While I will likely never be a neocon, I must admit that the level of conspiracism and anti-westernism exhibited by some of the anti-neocons has given me pause and forced me to actually consider foreign policy on a case-by-case basis instead of being reflexively anti-war.

Honestly true compassion often takes the form of doing things that people don't appreciate in the moment but that send true signals, e.g., weed-out classes, firing, accountability, justice, and high standards. Hell even decisive and devastating military action to wrap up a conflict quickly is compassionate in its own way by sparing everyone involved from a protracted and internecine spat.

How have I not seen this skit before?

RyanPatrick🇺🇸🦅 @RyanHatesGovt

2 days ago

I’ve got full blown AIDS

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@AP4Liberty Mike Pence? Not Vance?

@RealAngelaMc Seems to me that they should price gouge to better allocate the ACs, but I honestly think it would be better if America moved towards room units. Cooling/heating where you most want it is so much less wasteful (and cheaper).

@AP4Liberty From one of my friends: youtu.be/cfo1JsrE-eg

When most people hear "free market capitalism," they picture a CNBC ticker. Traders shouting. Earnings reports. The S&P green on the screen. So when stocks go up, they assume capitalism is winning. It's one of the most expensive misunderstandings in modern finance, and once you see it clearly, you read the entire economy differently. Wall Street is not capitalism. Financial markets are not free markets. And traders don't actually trade capital. Here's the part almost nobody gets right. The "capital" in capitalism was never money. It isn't a stock certificate or a balance in an account. Capital is productive capacity, the tools, equipment, knowledge, and organization that let people produce real goods and services over time. The bakery that sells bread people actually want. The trucking company that moves freight efficiently. The machine shop with skilled workers and reliable customers. That is capital. That is the real value financial markets are merely attempting to price. Someone flipping a stock ten times a day may move the price. It may even add liquidity. But it isn't building a business, serving a customer, or producing anything. Finance can serve capitalism. It is not capitalism itself. At best it makes the real economy more productive. At worst it becomes a casino detached from reality, extracting value instead of creating it. And the engine underneath all of it is one thing: competition. Strip out competition and capitalism quietly turns into something else. Prices stop carrying honest information. Customers lose choice. Firms get lazy and Sovietized. Costs rise while quality falls, and companies spend more energy protecting their position than improving their product. A market with no competition isn't a free market, it's just private power with financial numbers painted on top. Which leads to the uncomfortable part for a lot of "pro-business" people: Pro-capitalism is not the same as pro-big-business. Scale isn't evil. Most large firms got large by serving customers well. The problem starts when size, political influence, or control of infrastructure gets used to block competition, collusion, predatory pricing, lobbying for rules small competitors can't afford to follow, subsidies and bailouts for the politically connected. That's not the free market. That's corporatism. It's also why the bailout is the cleanest example of the confusion. When a firm earns private profits in the boom and gets a public rescue when its bets blow up, people are told to call that capitalism. It isn't. In a real market, failure is information. Loss is what disciplines bad behavior, frees up trapped resources, and clears space for the next, better firm. Protect the monetary system if you must, but let equity get wiped out, let management be replaced, let creditors take losses. Privatize gains and socialize losses, and you no longer have a market. You have a privilege system. Failure isn't a bug in capitalism. It's a feature. Creative destruction only works if destruction is actually allowed to happen. So why does this matter right now? Because the financial markets are in the middle of telling you something, and most people can't read the message. Curves are being reshaped, twisted, flattened, inverted. As an investor or allocator, those signals carry real information about what's coming. Almost nobody follows them, and even fewer truly understand them. This Sunday, June 28th at 5:30 PM ET, I'm hosting a free live webinar you can sign up here webinar.eurodollar-university.com/home

@AP4Liberty While there are some libertarian wins from MAGA, I'd be wary of relying on them too much since it's based in populism. Libertarianism relies on competent and elite institutions while populism is almost constitutionally anti-elite.

@RealPeterLeo Fair enough, though I've still run into the occasional person who is just not politically tuned in.

@RealPeterLeo If a normie parrot is all they are, then I understand. But someone who just goes along with stuff because they don't find politics interesting to follow could be an excellent foil to a political junkie.