WASPy Boomer. Grumpy edition. Intersectionality's ultimate villain: straight, white, Christian, and unapologetic.
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I became a Christian and was baptized as a teenager. When I was old enough, I joined the military and moved away from family and friends.
Of course I drifted away from the faith over time. This is what often happens when we Christians stop associating with other believers and stop making conscious decisions to follow Christ every day.
In my 20s, I was basically indistinguishable from unbelievers. I was officially agnostic. I believed that was the only reasonable position, because we cannot prove or disprove the existence of God.
In my 30s, I began to see where life without faith was leading. A Christian at work bought me a Bible—praise God—and I started reading it during deployments. As I studied Jesus’ parables and other teachings, I realized they explained both the internal conflicts within me and the spiritual battles around me.
I had thrown God’s grace away like worthless trash—a seemingly unpardonable sin—but scripture makes clear: God can forgive even apostasy.
Scripture talks about restoring fallen believers. That was me. Now I urge any other former Christians to repent and return to the faith.
Galatians 6:1 “Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.”
You can’t fix all of the bad repercussions of past sin, but you can still wipe the slate clean with God before it’s too late. The answers lie in Scripture if you search them out.
James 5:19-20 “My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.”
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Mayor Mamdani just made a video explaining your rights when ICE shows up.
Great. Everyone should know their rights.
But he left out something VERY important.
What ICE is legally allowed to do.
Let me explain what he didn't.
1. ARE YOU SAFE FROM ICE INSIDE A CHURCH, HOSPITAL, OR WORKPLACE?
NO.
ICE can generally enter places open to the public.
A hospital waiting room? YES.
A church service open to the public? YES.
A store or restaurant? YES.
They generally don't need a warrant to enter those public areas.
Your home and private rooms are different. Those have stronger legal protections. ICE generally needs a judge's warrant, permission, or a valid emergency exception to enter.
But simply walking into a church or hospital does NOT make you untouchable.
A church is not an ICE-free zone.
2. CAN YOU JUST STAY SILENT AND WALK AWAY?
Not necessarily.
You have the right to remain silent. Absolutely.
You can also ask, "Am I free to go?"
If the officer says yes, you can leave.
But if the officer says NO?
You can't simply decide the law no longer applies to you.
Federal law allows ICE to arrest people without a judicial warrant under certain conditions.
Your right to remain silent is NOT a right to avoid lawful arrest.
3. IF THE NYPD REFUSES TO HELP ICE, DOES THAT STOP ICE?
NO.
New York City can generally refuse to help enforce federal civil immigration law.
That's the city's choice.
But ICE works for the FEDERAL government.
Not the mayor.
Not City Hall.
Mamdani cannot cancel federal law.
It's really that simple.
4. CAN YOU PROTEST AGAINST ICE?
YES.
Peaceful protests are protected by the Constitution.
But physically blocking a lawful arrest?
NO.
The right to protest is not the right to break the law.
Now, Mayor Mamdani.
Here's my question.
Why did you spend your video explaining what ICE cannot do, while barely mentioning what ICE CAN legally do?
Immigrants have constitutional rights.
Of course they do.
Nobody is denying that.
But having rights doesn't mean federal immigration law suddenly stops applying to you.
And refusing to cooperate with ICE doesn't make ICE disappear.
Here's the part that really bothers me.
You're sitting comfortably in front of a camera, telling people how to deal with federal agents.
But you're not the one who may face those agents.
They are.
You get the likes.
You get the applause.
You get to look like a hero.
And if someone misunderstands your advice, THEY face the consequences.
If you really care about these people, tell them everything.
What their rights are.
What ICE can legally do.
And what could happen if they misunderstand the difference.
Because giving people half the truth and calling it protection isn't leadership.
It's political theater.
And you're using other people's futures as your stage.
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I put doctors, therapists, and psychologists who recommend transgender surgeries and drugs in the same category as those who did lobotomies. It should be a crime to intentionally destroy healthy bodies for a mental illness. We don’t prescribe weight loss drugs for anorexics, do we?
On the sixteenth of December 1960 a twelve-year-old boy was put on a table in a San Jose hospital, given electric shocks until he was unconscious, and had an ice pick hammered through the thin bone above each eye and swept from side to side through the front of his brain, because his stepmother had told the doctor he was defiant. The doctor's fee was two hundred dollars.
Howard Dully was a big, clumsy, daydreaming boy whose mother had died when he was five, and his father had married a woman called Lou who could not stand him. She took him to six psychiatrists. All six told her the problem was not the boy. The seventh was Walter Freeman, who had performed more lobotomies than any man alive, who drove between state hospitals in a van he called the lobotomobile doing them by the dozen in an afternoon, with no gloves and no surgical training, and who had once done twenty-five in a day. Freeman's notes on Howard, which Howard did not read for forty-four years, record the symptoms. He objects to going to bed. He turns the lights on when there is broad daylight. He does not react to love or to punishment. He has a savage streak. On that evidence, and Lou's signature, and two hundred dollars, Freeman wrote that the boy would benefit from a transorbital lobotomy and did it four days later.
Howard remembers the table. He remembers waking with two black eyes and a fever and no idea what had been done to him, because nobody told him, then or ever. His father never spoke of it. Lou put him into a state institution the following year, and the boy with the holes in his brain spent the next forty years in and out of asylums, juvenile halls, a jail, halfway houses and the street, drinking, drifting, never quite able to say why he was the way he was, with a photograph that existed somewhere of a doctor in a suit standing over a child with a steel spike in each eye socket.
At fifty-six, driving a school bus, he went to find out. He found his file in Freeman's archive at a university in Washington, in the doctor's own handwriting, and read for the first time what his stepmother had said and what the doctor had agreed to. He went to see his father, who was eighty, and asked him why he had let it happen, and his father said he had been bullied into it. Howard told the story on the radio in 2005 and five million people listened to a man weep over a piece of paper.
Walter Freeman was not a quack. He was a professor of neurology, the man who had brought the lobotomy to America, and the operation had won its inventor the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949. The journals published him. The hospitals booked him. The newspapers called it a miracle. He did it to three and a half thousand people, nineteen of them children, and he kept doing it until 1967, when a patient died on the table and the hospital took his privileges away, and he spent his last years driving the country in the van looking up his old patients to prove it had worked.
That is what settled science looked like from inside, to a twelve-year-old. A mother's complaint, an expert's confidence, a procedure with a prize behind it, two hundred dollars, and a lifetime nobody could give back.
The same institutions now tell you what your child should eat, in the same voice, with the same certainty, and the leaflet has a logo on it. Howard Dully is in his seventies and still cannot say what was taken. Nobody ever apologised.
Well there you go. Complaining about high gas prices? Democrats aren’t going to fix it. They want gas expensive.
This video is real. I much prefer the Western standard: men should never hit a woman, not even AWFULs (Affluent White Female Urban Liberals). What’s striking is how many leftist women in the West ally with a religion that permits wife-beating (Quran 4:34), is associated with high rates of FGM in certain communities (destroying their ability to enjoy sex), and subordinates women legally and culturally.
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Trump offers 1% commission to those who uncover fraud; Nick Shirley gets first payout
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About the Pakistani couple executed in Saudi Arabia for kissing in a mosque:
Saudi Arabia has been a US ally for decades, but don’t think for an instant that they aren’t still radical Muslims who practice Wahhabism. They may not have the Mutawa religious police patrolling the streets anymore, but they are still incredibly strict. They still behead people for crimes both serious and religious, just not publicly in Chop Chop Square in Riyadh anymore (ended in 2019). We share regional security interests, but they are not like us in many other ways.
Barbaric!
99% of women and girls in Somalia have been mutilated in the following way: the clitoris is cut off, along with the inner labia. Then the inner flesh of the outer labia is removed before both sides are sewn tightly together, leaving a hole no bigger than a matchstick for urine and menses to trickle through.
All of this is done in childhood, and without any form of anesthesia whatsoever. Sometimes the little girl is given a scrap of leather or a stick to bite down on. The cutters use old razor blades, or sometimes a piece of broken glass.
This is only the beginning of a girl’s pain.
Most wedding nights in Somalia are aided by “the little knife” — that is, the new husband slices his bride open so that he can penetrate her now cut and bleeding scar tissue. Some men, however, simply batter their way through, tearing that tiny hole open by sheer force. When a woman goes into labor, she’s cut open more widely, then sewn back up afterwards so that when sex resumes she will have to be cut open yet again.
This practice leads to countless deaths from infection and a drastic increase in maternal mortality, but Somali men still refuse to marry uncut women, forcing mothers to have their daughters cut or face social stigma. Uncut girls are seen as dirty; the term for clitoris is a playground taunt in Somalia, and girls who are not cut are usually ostracized by their peers.
The Somali government recently debated the legality of this appalling custom, and the parliament largely split along gender lines. Female MPs roundly condemned FGM, while male MPs insisted that having a clitoris made a woman more difficult to penetrate, and quoted the hadith in which Muhammad condoned the practice. These are educated men who nevertheless claim that cutting a girl is necessary in order to control her sexuality, and that an uncut woman will be promiscuous and untrustworthy.
In spite of the Somali government’s continued support for FGM, foreign aid continues to flow into Somalia unobstructed. The West should refuse to give the Somali government so much as a single dollar until they outlaw FGM and take positive steps to combat the problem.
One tactic that has been highly successful involves showing Somali men a video of a girl being mutilated. Because FGM is seen as women’s business, most men have no idea what it entails. Men who watch this video are horrified, and the most common reaction has been “Not my daughter!” This proves that FGM is not hopelessly entrenched in Somali culture. Western pressure and resources could make an enormous difference in the lives of Somali women and girls, and put a stop to this barbaric practice.
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Making Kansas Safe Again!
No state is unscathed by illegal alien crime. Biden’s open borders brought millions of illegal aliens into our country.
Here are just a few of the worst offenders apprehended in the Sunflower State. 🧵
Fundamentally un-American Democrat…
You can be sure they really are planning revenge on every major player who defied them, but we can stop it by voting GOP.
Please don’t return the truly authoritarian leftists to Congress.
Susan Rice offers a taste of what’s coming should the left retake power — promises Democrats will punish corporations and other institutions who have “taken a knee to Trump.”
“It’s not going to end well for them."
“If these corporations think that the Democrats, when they come back in power, are going to play by the old rules…they’ve got another thing coming."
“There will be an accountability agenda."
“This is not going to be an instance of forgive and forget."
The media is desperately trying to convince Americans the economy is a disaster. Yet the Fed raised rates because inflation is high while the economy and labor markets stay solid, manufacturers are expanding in the USA, and markets are up double digits.
Of course money is tight for many, but whose fault is that? The Biden administration’s 20%+ permanent inflation or Trump?
All of this is designed for one purpose: get voters to foolishly return Democrats to power. You can be sure the media will reframe everything differently if that happens.
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Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
On October 14th I wrote to you about Bank of America @BankofAmerica.
You did not answer. 3.6 million Americans did.
I want to tell you what that looked like from where I sit, because I do not think Washington understands it yet. The messages did not come from one side. They came from Republicans and Democrats, from veterans and nurses and small business owners, from people who have not agreed with each other about anything in a decade. They all said a version of the same sentence. We have had enough.
That is what a national security issue looks like when it finally breaks through. It does not pick a party. It belongs to everyone who has a kid, a bank account, or a flag on the porch.
So let me be plain about my concern. I am worried that nothing is going to happen. The fine has been announced. The press cycle is already turning. In a few weeks the number will be forgotten and the bank will be back to business. I have watched this exact sequence play out before, and I am writing to you now, while there is still a window, because once that window closes it does not reopen.
I am also widening this letter, because Treasury does not act alone.
To the Department of Justice @TheJusticeDept and to FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash:
Director Patel, you were not in the chair when this happened, so I want you to hear it from me directly. In 2011 I walked into the FBI with everything I had on HSBC. Not a tip. Boxes. Names, account numbers, transaction records, internal emails. Agents worked that evidence for over a year. I trusted them, and I still believe they wanted to do their jobs.
Then the settlement was announced. $1.9 billion. I called the agents and asked the only question that mattered. When do you raid the building and when are the arrests?
Their answer was four words. Our hands are tied.
I have thought about those four words every day since. Not because the agents failed me. Because somebody above them decided that a bank was too important to treat like a defendant. That decision was made quietly, by people whose names I will never know, and it has been made again every time since. Director Patel, you now have the authority to make a different one.
I remember the words carved into the stone outside the federal building in Philadelphia the day I walked in to report @HSBC: justice is the defense of our liberty. I believed that. I still want to. But a justice system that handcuffs a dealer on the corner and sends a bank a bill is not defending anyone’s liberty. It is choosing whose liberty counts.
To Brian Moynihan, Chief Executive Officer of Bank of America @BankofAmerica:
Mr. Moynihan, your bank just agreed to pay $1.2 billion for failures that regulators called willful. I have a few questions, and the 3.6 million people reading this would like the answers too.
Who was fired?
Not reassigned. Not retired early with a package. Fired, by name, for the conduct the government described.
What has actually changed in your anti money laundering program? Not the budget line. Not the consultant’s slide deck. What is different today about how an alert gets cleared and who is allowed to say stop?
Were there any consequences inside the building at all? Or did this land the way it landed at HSBC bank, as a line item?
And how much is your bonus this year?
I ask because I know what it costs a compliance officer to raise his hand inside a bank like yours. I would like to know what it cost anyone at the top. Do you even care? I am asking sincerely. I would like to be wrong.
Here is what I did about all of this, and why it matters to this letter. After the government declined to help me or any of the whistleblowers I have met since, I built the thing I wished had existed. Tactical Rabbit is a private intelligence agency. We find the truth, we prove it, and we put it in the hands of people who will act on it. I made a decision a long time ago that if the government would not stop the next HSBC, I would.
So to anyone inside a bank reading this who is looking at something they know is wrong: if your bank will not act, and the government will not act, come to me. I will get the truth to the public. That is not a threat. It is a promise I have already kept once.
Mr. Secretary, Director Patel, the Department of Justice, and Mr. Moynihan: four addresses, one question. Will anyone be held accountable?
Not fined. Not suspended. Not asked to attend training. Accountable.
Please end the cycle of too big to jail. I will not stop until there is change, and neither will the millions of Americans standing behind this letter. Answer them.
We need a banker in jail.
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder, Tactical Rabbit
Amazingly, Senator Slotkin, a U.S. senator, sees nothing wrong with using “signature cases” against Trump and “the people who enabled him” to deter young people from working for his administration.
ON UCHICAGO CAMPUS: U.S. Senator from Michigan Elissa Slotkin hopes planned political prosecutions of republican leaders will scare young conservatives from getting involved in politics.
@ElissaSlotkin
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What are you talking about? We gave California the names, addresses, and DOBs of the noncitizens we've identified. We have their alien files at @USCIS, which contain their immigration status. If California has evidence showing they are in fact citizens, we would love to see it. This shouldn’t be political. We’re enforcing federal laws passed by Congress.
First, they offer no evidence to try to block 20,000 ballots from being counted. Now, the Trump Administration is threatening California election officials with criminal investigations without any legal basis.
The Constitution gives states the authority to administer elections — not Donald Trump. California won’t be bullied, and every eligible voter has the right to vote and have their vote counted.
Zelenskyy is out again asking for more money and weapons to keep fighting. Is anyone seriously asking what his actual vision of peace looks like? Does he genuinely believe Ukraine can attrit Russia enough to recover the Donbas and Crimea, his original goal, or have the lives and money already spent become the main reason to keep this war going indefinitely? What a waste of human life on both sides.
The war will cost 155 billion euros next year. And we need at least 70 billion euros more from you – for defense, for weapons, and for our resilience. This is a realistic amount. And I ask you to find this support. It will help us hold Russia back.
There are some very simple facts. We stop most Russian assaults on the front line thanks to drones. We cut Russian supply lines with these technologies. And our drones are helping to weaken Russia’s economy.
Right now, we could produce two or three times more drones – depending on the type. But we simply don’t have enough money for that. It’s true. Just imagine if we could put two or three times more pressure on Russia than we do today.
From an address to the participants of the European Council meeting. (4/5)
Zelenskyy and the EU’s von der Leyen have some gall calling the US diesel deal a “gift” to Putin. The EU is still the largest buyer of Russian LNG and remains a top overall customer. Meanwhile, the US supports the EU and Ukrainian war effort by filling the energy gap as the EU slowly weans itself off Moscow. They spent years buying Russian gas, oil, and diesel while lecturing everyone else on morality, then expected the US to prop them up. Now they dare claim a limited US diesel purchase to ease our own diesel market is a betrayal? The hypocrisy writes itself.
