.@TomLatchem of The Daily Beast thinks that mocking and rejecting the burka is “a sickening display of racism.” @UnderSecPD continuing to set the left off in the best ways.

One can have mixed opinions about AI itself, but the revolt against data centers is a very ugly sign for the U.S. It shows America headed in the direction of Europe, developing the moral sense that any kind of development or economic activity is somehow immoral, so it’s better to just not have such things. The proper response to worries about water is to point out that it is a hysterical lie (data center water use is minuscule compared to agriculture or other industries); the proper response to worries about electricity is to build more power plants as quickly as possible. The end result of this panic will be economic stagnation and domination by foreign powers that choose growth.

🚨 Wow. Taxpayer-funded Ball State University disclosed it’s hiring an entry level "budget analyst" on a H-1B visa. The university has graduated thousands of finance and accounting students. But apparently ZERO are qualified for this job. It’s time to end the H-1B scam

This is hugely unfortunate and a real sign of intellectual decline. Even today, there is still no substitute for a detailed book (ideally, several books) for gaining a rich understanding of a topic, and actively reading challenging books is the best mechanism for becoming a rigorous thinker. Podcasts (or worse, AI summaries) are a pale substitute.

Democrats claim to champion women’s rights, yet they allow men to infiltrate women’s spaces under the guise of identity politics. Then they gaslight anyone who questions it and smear women as “transphobic” for defending basic reality. The hypocrisy is astounding. God created men and women intentionally and in His image, each with a unique design and purpose. A society that can no longer recognize or honor that truth is not just losing fairness in sports, it is losing its understanding of God’s creation and, with it, its humanity.

An interesting thing we have in Arizona: Married couples have the option to get a covenant marriage, whose main effect is to make it harder to get divorced. Instead of no-fault unilateral divorce, a divorce must either be mutual, have proof of wrongdoing (adultery, abuse, abandonment) by one party, or come after an extended separation. Even among conservatives and Christians I know, the vast majority of people have never heard of this; only a few hundred people have them. One of the biggest reasons marriage has declined is that we've ruined the incentives for it. When marriage is easy to dissolve, power in a marriage rests with the person who is more willing to break up. When it's hard to dissolve a marriage, power instead rests with the person who wants the marriage to work. And overall, when divorce is harder, marriages are actually happier, because they provide a greater sense of security and stability for those in them. If we want to encourage a revival of marriage on the right, a good idea would be to start with ourselves: Pastors in Arizona should make couples aware that this option exists, and encourage them to get it. If we think marriage should be for life, we should put some skin in the game to show we mean it.

You’re right, Candace. The video is crucial, which is why I asked @TPUSA to see it. I approached them in good faith, and they agreed. It’s real, and multiple people who were in Aspen that day remember the moment. The video does matter, but it’s not the only reason the board voted to appoint Erika. I spoke to several Turning Point donors and close friends of Charlie who revealed that after Butler, there was a very real fear about his safety and the future of his organization. Charlie reassured them: He would leave Turning Point to Erika and the board to carry on the mission if the worst happened.

Current situation: -A Daily Mail reporter was writing up the "controversy" over who Charlie wanted to succeed him: His wife who knew him best, whom he trusted most, and whom the TPUSA board eagerly supported, or some other person (Hint: Candace obviously thinks it should have been herself). -Of course, no video is actually needed to "prove" Charlie wanted Erika to succeed him if something happened -- everyone who knew Charlie well and spent time around him knew this was the case and there was zero suspense going into the board vote. -Still, while Turning Point would still rather not release private videos in response to insane screaming from lunatics, they did show it to the Daily Mail reporter just to confirm that the video exists. For good measure, the reporter also spoke to three separate donors to confirm that the question and answer did happen. So, the Mail accordingly reported that the video is real. -Candace is now screaming that the video must be made using AI, exactly as I said she would a month ago. -Candace has publicly accused the Mail of lying about contacting her, so he posted a screengrab of his email to her publicist, which was sent two whole days before the article came out.

Yesterday, Stanford University (@Stanford) filed yet another notice of intent to hire an H-1B Software Developer Salary: $123,795 Nobody in Silicon Valley was qualified for this job.

Trump's DOJ has secured a settlement with Texas Children's Hospital in which they not only stop transitioning children, they have committed to opening a Detransition clinic in response. The Trump admin matters. Kamala's DOJ would be enforcing gender ideology at gunpoint.

This helps explain the political alliance between bleeding-heart liberals, who go easy on crime because they can't imagine the mindset of violent anti-social criminals, and radical antifa liberals, who want to go easy on crime because they share the mindset of said anti-social criminals.