My sister bought a starter home in suburban Ohio back in 2018 for $195,000. Her property taxes were originally $2,400 a year. Last week, her county completed its mandatory 6-year reappraisal and arbitrarily jacked her home’s paper valuation up by 42%. Her new tax bill? $4,600 a year…. adding nearly $200 every single month to her escrow payment. She hasn't remodeled the kitchen, added a pool, or upgraded a single square foot. She just painted the front porch and mowed the lawn. When she called the county auditor to protest, they told her: "Your home’s market value increased based on recent neighborhood comps." She looked at the representative and said: "I’m not selling my house. I just live in it. Why am I paying a penalty tax on unrealized equity I can’t spend?" Unrealized capital gains taxes aren't a futuristic policy proposal. Local governments are already enforcing them every single year through property tax reassessments.

I recently learned a 1/3rd of Gen Z got aborted, and I am really trying not to think about it but my mind keeps coming back to it. It is horrific and mind numbing. All those children dead, and for what? Deaths of convenience, of "not ready," of "I don't have the money/time/lifestyle." A great sacrifice to Baal. A civilization collapsing under the loss, the architecture of the cities itself emptying out, becoming horror set pieces. An endless, starless abyss without end.

New Jersey has over 1,000 layoffs in the last 15 days. Good tracker from @njdotcom, bad business environment from New Jersey.

AMERICAN VOTER: I’m frustrated. Gas is expensive, diesel is expensive, foreign conflicts keep dragging on, and Republicans aren’t delivering everything quickly enough. I might just stay home. AJ: I understand the frustration. But what exactly does staying home accomplish? AMERICAN VOTER: Maybe Republicans need to lose before they finally learn. AJ: And who pays the price while they’re LEARNING - you or your children? AMERICAN VOTER: What do you mean? AJ: Every decision has a cost, a benefit, and a trade-off. You almost never get a perfect result. You choose which pain you can live WITH - and which consequences you cannot afford. AMERICAN VOTER: Give me an example. AJ: You don’t quit your job because it isn’t perfect. Your family still needs food. You don’t abandon your house because one room needs repairs. You fix the room because the house is still worth protecting. You don’t hand your business to someone who hates everything you built because your current manager disappointed you. So why hand the country back to people who oppose your values because Republicans didn’t deliver everything immediately? AMERICAN VOTER: But I’m tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. AJ: You make those choices every day. The cheaper vehicle may use more fuel. The better-paying job may take you away from home. The safer investment may produce a smaller return. Every choice comes with a trade-off. Voting isn’t a marriage proposal. You’re not choosing a perfect person. You’re choosing who controls the border, taxes, energy, judges, guns, schools, foreign policy, and the future your children inherit. Jesus isn’t on the ballot. Every candidate is imperfect. AMERICAN VOTER: So I’m supposed to ignore Republican failures? AJ: Absolutely not. Criticize them. Pressure them. Primary the weak ones. Demand results. But don’t confuse accountability with surrender. AMERICAN VOTER: What’s the difference? AJ: Accountability is forcing your side to improve. Surrender is staying home and allowing the other side to take control. One side may frustrate you because it isn’t fighting fast or hard enough. The other side wants to weaken the border, undermine parental rights, attack the Second Amendment, expand abortion, punish American energy, and fundamentally transform the country. Those are not equal risks. AMERICAN VOTER: But what if my vote doesn’t change anything? AJ: Imagine millions of people saying the same thing. Freedom usually isn’t lost because everybody suddenly rejects it. It’s lost because enough good people become tired, discouraged, divided, or too frustrated to show up. AMERICAN VOTER: So what are you asking me to do? AJ: Spend 15 minutes voting. You don’t have to pretend Republicans are perfect. You only need to understand the cost of handing power back to people whose agenda directly opposes your values. Don’t make your children pay for your temporary frustration. Freedom can survive imperfect leadership. It cannot survive a generation of patriots deciding to stay home.

BREAKING: Maryland House passed a bill to FORCE ALL private schools to hand their admissions processes to the government. Religious schools would be forced to embrace transgender insanity. Leftists would have a new right to sue schools over gender ideology. It passed 100–35.

A little Bach accompanied by the sound of rain. For anyone who needs a beautiful, peaceful moment today. 🎻🌧️

These incentives are called Health Equity Incentives (HEI). HEI focuses on racial disparities — meaning that providers score better by redirecting services to ‘underperforming’ races from other races.