Palmer Luckey says companies are exaggerating the cost of American manufacturing to justify staying in China: “They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳 “I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who pretend that manufacturing in the U.S. is this impossible, order-of-magnitude problem. A lot of it is very self-serving. They want to justify why they’re in China. They want to justify why it’s OK for them to stay in China. They know that when sanctions hit as a result of a potential Taiwan conflict, they want to say, ‘Nobody could’ve predicted this, and I had no choice anyway.’ They don’t want to admit that it is a choice. If Chinese subsidized steel is a third of the price of American unsubsidized steel, a tariff isn’t going to work. But if the price difference really is 30%, then a tariff could bring the American steel industry back. It’s critically important to get this question right, and there aren’t enough people talking about it.”

If the system can lose billions and survive, our tax rates have no right to be this high. Fix the payroll tax and stop bleeding the middle class. 🧠 The Department of Justice just accidentally handed us the ultimate proof that American citizens are being violently over-taxed. 🧵 Every time a federal official gets up at a podium and brags about stopping "hundreds of billions of dollars in systemic fraud," they think you're cheering for them. They want you focused on the bust. But look at the macro reality: while hundreds of billions of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars were being stolen and funneled into fraud schemes, the country didn’t collapse. The infrastructure didn't freeze. The economy kept moving. Then the politicians instantly try to redirect the narrative: "Now that we're stopping the fraud, we can use that money to pay down the national deficit." Let's expose the absolute fraud in that logic. 🩸 If the state can lose hundreds of billions of dollars to scammers without the nation failing, it proves that money was never necessary to run the country in the first place. It was pure, unadulterated surplus extracted directly from your pocket. It is the ultimate confession of over-taxation. We don't have a revenue shortage; we have a parasitic spending problem. Politicians are the ones who ran the national debt into the stratosphere, and instead of cutting payroll taxes to relieve working families, they use fraud recovery as a shield to maintain their bloated budgets. #Taxes #IRS #AnttsInc. #Fraud.

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov. The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison. I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return. I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something. Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged. Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working. A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats. This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried. There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go. Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him. I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them. This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one. Three things would change the math overnight. Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined. End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them. Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine. I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it. Respectfully, Everett A. Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

I have hit a wall, and I need help. Since launching this fundraiser, I have received two donations. I am deeply grateful to both donors. But the bills are piling up, and my most urgent needs remain unmet. On September 13, I lost my beautiful Yolanda after her nearly six-year battle with cancer. For more than 27 years, she was my best friend, my confidant, and my partner in everything. Her care depleted our savings and retirement. Now, while grieving her, I am facing another round of lawfare. My immediate priorities are getting the attorneys paid so they can respond to lawsuits designed to punish and bankrupt me, and securing at least limited personal security. That is what I am asking you to help fund right now. I am trying to meet these obligations and keep my intelligence and cybersecurity work going. But I cannot carry all of this alone. If my reporting and analysis have been useful to you—if I have helped you understand a threat or connect the dots—please consider standing beside me now. A gift of $25, $50, $100, or whatever you can afford will help. If you have the means to make a larger contribution toward legal costs or security, I would be profoundly grateful. Please donate here: givesendgo.com/TonyAndYoland… If you cannot give, please repost this appeal. Your share could reach someone who can. Asking this publicly is difficult. But I need to be honest about where things stand. Thank you for helping, for sharing, and for keeping our family in your prayers. Tony

🚨 WOW!! Argentina President Javier Milei just walked up to the mic at the United Nations and RIPPED THEM TO THEIR FACES "It's become a USELESS organization whose only purpose is to sustain a caste of fatefully arrogant PARASITES masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats!" 🔥🔥🔥 "The alleged 'defenders of human rights' have sheltered bloodthirsty dictatorships and regimes that stone women in the streets!" "Good people do not think about controlling the lives of their fellow human beings." "Those who were supposed to guarantee collective security and human rights failed in their task. Instead, they allowed chaos, violence and international terrorism to flourish." YOU ARE A LEGEND, @JMilei 👏🏻 Seems like President Trump and Milei both had the BEST speeches at the UN. Pure nationalist first, globalist last The UN is filled with hypocrites who cozy up to Islamism and 3rd world mass migration, while attacking the nations who want to retain their own borders and their national interests Those days are over. MAGA! 🇺🇸🇦🇷

🚨 TRUTH TV is live! President Trump just said it best: “It’s just biased news… if they’re fake news, I really think I have an obligation not to allow them…” Follow @TRUMP_TV_News Retweet for support and so you never miss the news! 🇺🇸 This account will post the best clips from TRUTH TV. x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2102…

9/11 — 25 years later. Twenty-five years ago, I was 14 years old, sitting at Al-Mansoor Zoo in Baghdad, Iraq, with my friends. We had very limited information. Saddam Hussein’s regime tightly controlled what the Iraqi public could see and hear through state media. Then we heard the news: the Twin Towers in New York had been attacked. Even at 14, I knew one thing: ordinary Iraqis had nothing to do with it. We didn't know who was responsible. Most of us had never even heard the name Osama bin Laden. And Saddam Hussein didn't operate that way. I left my friends, went back to my father's shop, and told him what had happened. Then I said something that made him laugh: “America is going to invade Iraq and get rid of Saddam once and for all.” My father looked at me and said: “Son, Saddam isn't going anywhere. And if he dies, his son Qusay will take over.” I didn't argue with him. Two years later, Saddam Hussein was gone. For me, September 11 ultimately changed the direction of my entire life. At 17 years old. I went on to begin a career as a combat linguist supporting the U.S. military. I served, deployed, and experienced things I never could have imagined as that 14-year-old kid in Baghdad. Four IEDs. A kidnapping. A bullet to my elbow. The assassination of my father because of my service to the United States. And the assassination of my fiancée. Eventually, I became a U.S. citizen. And after everything I've experienced, I can say this without hesitation: I am proud of the choices I made. I am proud of my service to the United States. And I would do it all over again. September 11 also taught me something that Americans should never forget: Freedom cannot be taken for granted, and security requires vigilance. We must protect our borders, enforce our immigration laws, thoroughly vet applicants, and make sure programs designed to help our allies are not exploited by those who seek to harm the United States. Also, I have Exposed IOM Immigration process last year. Twenty-five years later, I remember the innocent people who were murdered that day. I remember the families who never got to say goodbye. And I remember exactly where I was when the world changed. Never forget. 🇺🇸

Seriously? This man deserves a medal. Talk about weaponization of govt. These are the people Republican Senators like Thune & Cornyn disregard completely. The weaponization fund could have made a difference to good people like this but they blocked it. shame on them all.

I just learned that the Trump administration is giving farmers 4x the amount of assistance given under Biden. And the farmers are shouting “betrayal”. This makes me sick.

Hands raised - both of them.

🚨NICK SHIRLEY JUST EXPOSED RAPHAEL WARNOCK — MORE VOTES THAN ACTUAL RESIDENTS IN THREE GEORGIA COUNTIES! 🔗 t.me/+o-xXNYKd7fE4ZDc0 Atlanta is next on the citizen journalist’s hit list. Nick Shirley and his team have taken Atlanta by storm this week, tracking down leads from Tulsi Gabbard’s document dump on the 2020 election. They discovered that Senator Raphael Warnock, who “won” that year alongside Biden, received more votes in three separate counties than those counties even have residents. “We compared voting numbers to the number of people, and it was just wrong,” Shirley said. “I’m honestly surprised nobody has found it before.” He credited the Gabbard dump for pointing them in the right direction. “I think with some more time we can break this thing wide open.” The same man who keeps uncovering Democrat election fraud just dropped another bombshell — this time on Georgia’s junior senator. Share this everywhere so Georgia finally sees the real numbers! Follow @mcafeenew for more drops.

A farmer in the county died in September and his corn was still standing. I want to give the number first, because the number is the story. He had somewhere over four hundred acres. One man with one combine takes roughly a hundred acres in a long day. On the fourteenth of October, at seven in the morning, I counted twenty-three combines on the road. They came from other farms. Some from other counties. A man told me one had come ninety miles, which I did not believe, so I asked the driver, and it was ninety-four. They took the entire crop in one day. Grain trucks ran to the elevator in a line. Women set food out on tailgates at the edge of the field, which I understood, and then a second table appeared with food for the drivers who had not stopped, which was carried out to the machines, which I did not understand until I watched it happen. I asked a man at the edge of the field who had organized it. He said, "Couple guys called some guys." I asked whether the family had asked for help. He said, "No." I asked whether anyone would be paid. He said, "For what?" I said to him that twenty-three men had pulled their own machines out of their own harvest, during their own harvest, in the only weeks of the year in which those machines earn anything at all, and had driven as far as ninety-four miles to finish the work of a man who could no longer thank them. He said, "It's not really a thing you decide." The widow came out in the afternoon. She did not make a speech and nobody expected one. She walked down the line of trucks and put her hand on the door of each one. She did it to all of them. It took a while. I asked the man beside me why she was touching the trucks. He said she knew whose they were. Every one. From the door. The corn was in by dark. The machines went home that night, in the dark, in a line, and I stood on the road while they passed, and I counted twenty-three again, because I wanted to be certain I had it right.

Nobody in Walton County knew who was buying up the Panhandle. Timber companies sold him tract after tract. Sod farms. Played-out peanut fields. Pine that had been cut and cut again. The buyer was a timber and oil commodities trader, and he never told a single seller what he wanted it for. He was buying it so it could NEVER be developed again. Marion Clifton Davis grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in the Florida Panhandle. He summed up the whole childhood in one sentence: "I grew up with five other people in 300 square feet in a wore-out trailer on a dirt road." He gambled his way out, hustling pool and poker from the time he was 16 until he was 30. It paid for a political science degree and then a law degree. He moved the winnings into land and mineral rights, and they turned into hundreds of millions of dollars. He had spent his entire life climbing out of that trailer, and he got all the way to the top of it. Then he said this: "I finally made some money and it wasn't what it was advertised to be." What changed him was a traffic jam. Stuck in a line of cars going nowhere, he read a high school marquee advertising a presentation on the Florida black bear. He pulled out of the line and walked in. "I hate to confess to this. I didn't know Florida even had black bears at the time." He gave the two women running the presentation enough money to keep going for another two years, then asked them for a reading list and spent the next year working through Thoreau, John Muir, and a Harvard biologist named E.O. Wilson. In 2000, he started buying. He spent roughly $90 million assembling more than 50,000 acres along the Choctawhatchee River, tract by tract, never tipping his hand until each deal closed. He named it Nokuse. It is the Muscogee word for black bear. Then he did the thing no land man does. He took it apart. His crews thinned 22,000 acres of pulpwood pine and hand-planted EIGHT MILLION longleaf seedlings across 24,000 acres, scattered in deliberately random patterns so the forest would never come back in rows. They burned about 10,000 acres a year on purpose, because longleaf needs fire. He told people it was a 300-year project. In 2009 he spent $12 million of his own money on a 28,000-square-foot science center for Panhandle schoolkids. He named it for E.O. Wilson. Not for himself. In November 2014, doctors found stage 4 lung cancer. He kept working. That June he sat down with a national radio crew and said it plainly: "I'm dying, as we all are. It's well advanced." He got 15 years of the 300. M.C. Davis died on July 11, 2015, eight months after the diagnosis. Not one tree he planted had grown tall enough to matter yet. He spent thirty years learning how to take. He spent the rest putting it back. Around here, thousands of Panhandle fourth graders get loaded onto a school bus and driven out to that center. Almost none of them ever find out who paid for the trip. Then the bears came back. They cross under US 331 now, through three wildlife underpasses finished in 2012, funneled in by a mile and a half of fence on both sides of the four-lane highway. The man who did not know Florida had black bears built them a way under the road. They den on land named after them. Nokuse Preserve is 56,258 acres today, endowed and permanently protected, the largest private conservation project east of the Mississippi River. More than 3,800 gopher tortoises pulled off Florida development sites have been released there since 2006. In 2025 the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center took in 5,500 students from 56 schools, and it charged none of them a dollar. A longleaf pine can live 400 years. The seedlings put in the ground in 2004 are barely out of childhood, and the forest he was actually aiming at will not stand until sometime around the year 2300. He knew that when he wrote the checks. M.C. Davis, a poor kid from a dirt road, spent everything he ever won on a forest he would never walk through.

Just spoke with Kevin McDaniel, who owns 14 Piggly Wiggly Food for Less stores across Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. Kevin is boldly stepping up to lower costs for families. His model is simple: When costs go down, prices go down. Through Cost Plus 10% pricing and the Power Buy Program, 100% of manufacturer promotional funding is passed directly to customers. Lowering prices on fresh beef, pork, and poultry. Thank you, Kevin, for answering President Trump’s call and putting American families FIRST! 🇺🇸

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Posting for an associate of mine: Madeline Avillion is the daughter of a close friend of mine Tony Avillion retired Chief Warrant Officer from the 160th. I’ve known him since we were 15 years old. He’s one of the good ones, and this is his daughter. Madeline she is 30 years old. She was last seen Friday morning, July 31st around 6:00 a.m. in the 1800 block of Belmont Road NW in DC. She’s 5’2”, about 100 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes. Last seen wearing a black bodysuit, black skirt, and white cowboy boots. If you’ve seen her, or know anything at all, please contact: Youth and Family Engagement Division: (202) 576-6768 Real Time Crime Center: (202) 727-9099 Anonymous tips: call (202) 727-9099 or text 50411 This one hits close to home. Please share it far and wide. Let’s help get her home.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! President Trump just accused Big Oil companies of making "too much money" off the Iran war — and he called them out BY NAME "Chevron — too much money!" "Exxon Mobil — too much money!" "I'm NOT HAPPY." "GIVE SOME OF THAT BACK TO THE PUBLIC." "When you look at one company, where they made 12 times what they made the year before...they better CUT the retail price, the consumer price!" "You're surprised I'm saying it. I'll say it loud and clear!" 🔥🔥🔥

South Africa is the only country that built nuclear weapons and then deliberately destroyed them before a new demographic majority took power. By 1989, they had 6 assembled warheads and a working intermediate range missile that also launched satellites, all developed alone under total embargo. >1990: de Klerk ordered the arsenal dismantled >1991: every gram of enriched uranium was melted down 1994: the missile program was cancelled It was all finished before the ANC inherited the state. France and the UK will sooner or later have to face similar difficult decisions.

For my 27th birthday, I'm raising $270,000 to keep The X for Boys & Girls free for every child we serve. Thank you to Delta Air Lines for leading the way with a $10,000 donation. We operate 5 days a week, free of charge, with no government assistance, BECAUSE OF YOU! ❤️🔥