Some of y’all are really upset because I have WHITE children in my program. It’s been constant in my DMs etc. And I’m not apologizing for helping a child. You can debate race, privilege and politics all day. I’m dealing with actual children standing in front of me who need guidance, structure, skills and people who care about them. When they walk through my doors, they’re MY boys. They’re going to learn. They’re going to be challenged. They’re going to be corrected. And they’re going to be loved. I’ve had to grow and challenge some of my own prejudices over the years too. But one thing I know now: a child’s skin color will NEVER be my reason for refusing to pour into him.

Family, I’m hitting the road and heading to Tampa, Florida (10hr drive), to attend The Mighty 25 Awards Gala, and I’m truly honored that I have been selected as one of this year’s Mighty 25 honorees. The Mighty 25 recognizes individuals and organizations who turn service into meaningful action, especially in support of service members, veterans, and military families. Honorees come from many different backgrounds , including advocates, creators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leaders , but they all share one thing in common: using their platform, work, and passion to make a real difference. This recognition represents every child who has served a veteran through the 50 Yard Challenge, every family who has supported our mission, and every veteran we’ve been blessed to help along the way.

I had a strong Objectivist influence in my teens. More than giving me a set of political conclusions, it taught me to value reason, logic, individual rights, and intellectual honesty. From there, I’ve tried to reason from first principles rather than starting with the conclusion I want and working backward. For me, the case for free markets begins with the individual: individual rights, property rights, voluntary exchange, and the principle that people should be free to act so long as they aren't violating the rights of others. The economic benefits of capitalism matter enormously, but I don't think its moral justification depends solely on those benefits. I also don't think the best way to understand capitalism is to read only people who defend it. Read its critics too. Ask what their premises are, whether their conclusions actually follow, and compare their claims with history and reality. I've changed and refined plenty of my views over the years by doing exactly that. So I wouldn't attribute what I believe to any particular formal education or single reading list. Objectivism gave me an intellectual foundation and, more importantly, a method. Most of what followed came from years of reading, questioning, debating, listening to opposing arguments, and trying to apply reason as honestly and consistently as I can.

Why do we only question the camera when it’s pointed at something GOOD? Nobody asks why somebody posted the shooting, the fight, the arrest, or somebody’s worst day. But let somebody feed families, mentor children, clean up a neighborhood, or change a life and suddenly it’s, “Why did you have to record it?” Because goodness deserves documentation too. If all we share is the worst of our communities, eventually we start believing that’s all our communities have to offer. So yes, document the work. Tell the good stories. Give people something positive to share. Our cities are more than their worst headlines. Make the good louder.

I don’t care what anyone says, Sydney Sweeney didn’t set women back decades. OnlyFans did. Men competing in women’s sports did. Lindsay Clancy’s defenders did. “Sex work is work” did. Dylan Mulvaney did. DEI did. Calling women “birthing people” did. The total mainstreaming of porn did. Treating stay-at-home moms like they wasted their lives did. A beautiful actress isn’t the problem. A culture that stopped protecting women is. Tell me I’m wrong. 🤷‍♂️

The promise of capitalism isn’t that everyone will become rich. It’s something more human: that your life belongs to you. You are an individual capable of learning, creating, building and becoming more than the circumstances handed to you. A good society should want fewer people crushed by burdens they cannot escape. But the highest aspiration isn’t making those burdens permanently comfortable, it’s removing barriers between people and their potential. There is dignity in saying: I built this. I learned this. I earned this. I chose this. I helped someone because I valued them, not because either of us was forced. Capitalism doesn’t tell the struggling person to accept his place. It tells him his present condition need not define his future. It protects his freedom to think, create, trade, fail, try again, prosper and give. The goal isn’t a society where everyone has someone else to carry them. It’s one where fewer people need carrying, and more experience the pride of standing on their own.

🚨MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN IS FACING CALLS TO RESIGN FROM INSIDE HER OWN PARTY AFTER HER USE OF THE AUTOPEN WAS CONFIRMED BY DOOR LOGS FROM THE WEST WING! Warren entered the room on 116 separate occasions, corresponding to times noted on the signing of 112 documents, pardons, and executive orders. With the evidence mounting, lawmakers in her state and across the Hill are growing increasingly concerned. If Warren goes down, the entire autopen scandal blows up, and there goes the midterms. Share this everywhere so the autopen scandal blows up the midterms! She is done!!!

How do we tackle our $40 trillion deficit? With my Six Penny Plan. We make even across-the-board cuts and eliminate six cents from every dollar the federal government spends. After five years, the budget would be balanced. It can be done. Washington just has to have the willpower to do it.

🚨If me defending Caitlin Clark makes you uncomfortable, unfollow me right now. Seriously. I’d rather lose every follower who expects me to stay quiet than become another coward who sees the bullshit happening and pretends it isn’t🚨 I will continue using my platform to support Caitlin Clark, and I’m not asking anybody’s permission🗣️🗣️🗣️ I’ve watched the constant negativity, the slick comments, the social-media shots and people seemingly trying to turn their own fan bases against her. Meanwhile, Caitlin largely keeps her head down and plays basketball. And as a Black man, I’m especially going to speak about something I see happening in parts of my own community👇🏽👇🏽 There are Black fans who act like supporting Caitlin somehow means betraying Angel Reese, A’ja Wilson or Black women. Like somebody handed out a loyalty test and decided we all have to dislike Caitlin because of who our favorite players are. Absolutely not. I’m not participating in that tribal nonsense. I can support Black women AND support Caitlin Clark. I can praise Angel or A’ja when they deserve it AND call out their behavior when I disagree with it. Nobody gets immunity because they look like me. And Caitlin doesn’t get immunity either. If she plays terrible, I’ll say she played terrible. I’ve criticized her basketball before and I’ll do it again. But attacking her character simply because you resent her popularity? I won’t participate. I’ve met Caitlin twice. I don’t KNOW her personally, and I’m not pretending I do. But from what I’ve observed publicly and the energy she gave me both times I met her, she came across as a genuinely good human being. So yes, I’m going to keep being a voice against the unnecessary hate thrown her way. If that bothers you, the unfollow button works perfectly fine. I’d rather lose followers than lose my ability to think for myself💯💯💯 Am I wrong ?👇🏽👇🏽

I support a mosque being built anywhere in the US. I think it should be the goal of every American to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. To promote tolerance, I would also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, The Turban Cowboy and the other, a topless bar, would be called You Mecca Me Hot. Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork and across the street, an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called Iraq of Ribs. We could also have a lingerie store called Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret and a liquor store called Mohammered. All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us. Yes we should promote tolerance, and you can do your part by passing this on. 😎 I did my part 😉or we can just send them back to where ever they came from.....

We’ve never seen anything like this before. A man was conscripted into jury duty by the government. He performed his civic duty and followed his conscience, refusing to acquit a woman who confessed to systematically executing her three children. The defense attorney immediately launched a public smear campaign against the juror. Soon several other jurors joined the campaign. Then the media. Even the defense attorney’s wife has joined. Now they’re doxxing the man, digging into his past, contacting his family, showing up at his house. All of this both to punish him for refusing to go with their program, and to pollute any future jury pool by making it clear that anyone who votes to convict Clancy will have their life destroyed. It’s truly one of the most outrageously evil things we’ve ever seen from the Left, and that’s saying something. A direct assault on the integrity of our justice system. They are burning down every boundary and standard in their path. And doing it all for the sake of a child murdering psychopath. Unfathomable.

I'm gay. I work. I pay taxes. I don't wear a costume. I don't need a parade. I don't need your pronouns. MAGA people I know don't care who I love. They care that I don't try to turn their kids into a political project or pretend men can become women. The Alphabet Mafia does not speak for me. I didn't sign up to be a mascot, a victim, or a recruitment tool. I just want to live my life. That's why MAGA accepts me. Because I'm normal.

I believe that the most pernicious and little-understood effect of 9/11 is the way it made so many Americans in political leadership positions grovel about Islam being a "religion of peace" so they could not be accused of "Islamophobia." This, along with "we need to understand why they hate us" led to immigration policies that have allowed people who believe in Sharia, jihad and forced religious conversion at the point of a scimitar (and who treat women as chattel property) to capitalize on the openness and fairness of the American mind to impose their own sicknesses on our society. As a result, you get a jihadist mayor laughing and smiling at the NYC 9/11 Commemoration and thousands of Minnesota Somalis literally stealing from American taxpayers and laughing about it. All of humankind is CREATED equal, but not all cultures are created equal. Some cultures are monstrous abominations and have no place amidst our American Consitutional order. On this day of all days, we need leaders who understand this and are willing to boldly speak truth.

Don’t mail out $5,000 checks. We want a decrease in government spending and a decrease in taxes.

Are you even surprised it’s taking the @WNBA this long to define one simple word? Woman! The confusion reaches all the way to the highest court in the country. We have a sitting Supreme Court justice whose job is to interpret the law, yet she declined to define what a woman is. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, I know you went to law school for many years and passed the bar exam, but let the man who speaks English as a second language define it for you: An adult human female. Or, to make it even easier, just check your birth certificate. But this isn’t about winning a culture war. It’s about whether our institutions still have the courage to say what ordinary Americans already know. When leaders become afraid of simple truths because they might offend someone, they stop leading. Politics should not decide reality. Reality should guide politics. This is bigger than you can imagine. They are trying to make me look like the villain, the bad guy, the troublemaker, the extremist, the enemy. But I’m what they fear. I stand with a truth that unmasks them, and I carry the light that exposes their darkness. I’m a voice they cannot silence. Their power ends where truth begins. I do not walk alone. I walk with the truth God has commanded us to uphold. And the one who carries truth never bows to oppression or hypocrisy. I stand with American values, In reality, they are not after me, they are after your children. I am just in their way.

🚨 BOMBSHELL JUST DROPPED 🚨 Don Lemon’s federal indictment just got UNSEALED and it’s worse than we thought. The ex-CNN clown is charged with CONSPIRACY AGAINST RIGHTS and violating the FACE Act for helping storm a Christian church in St. Paul, Minnesota during Sunday service to attack worshippers over ICE. New details prove he was in on it from the jump: In the pre-op meeting he thanked the ringleader Nekima Levy Armstrong “for what she was doing,” promised her he wasn’t going to spill the plan, then said “see you there.”This wasn’t journalism. This was coordinated intimidation of Christians praying in their own house of God. Trump’s DOJ is finally holding these people accountable. Share this EVERYWHERE before the media buries it.

The Missing Middle Look at the shape of it. Two of the most prominent men alive at the top. Tens of thousands of ordinary readers at the base. And between them – almost no one reposting those texts of mine. A complete void where a society’s connective tissue is supposed to be. That shape is the diagnosis. A healthy civilization has a middle: editors, professors, ministers, mayors, entrepreneurs, priests, columnists, heads of institutions – thousands of people with names, standing, and something to lose, who say what they think out loud. That layer is what carries an idea from the top of a society into its ordinary life. Take it away and nothing moves. The two men at the top can amplify an argument to millions and it still won’t reach a single classroom, ministry, or editorial board, because there’s no one in between willing to carry it the last mile. Why is the middle empty? Because the middle is precisely where the système has leverage. Musk and Milei can’t be removed by the people they contradict. The reader with 200 followers is too small to be worth removing. But everyone in between – the associate professor, the deputy editor, the mid-sized business owner, the local politician – is exactly the person who can be punished cheaply and effectively. One phone call. One HR complaint. One withdrawn contract. So the middle went quiet, and then went into internal emigration, and now stands empty. This is what the long march actually produced. Not a population that believes things – a population that has learned which sentences cost money. The captured institutions don’t need to convince the middle of anything. They just need to keep the price high enough that the middle stays silent, and let the silence look like consensus. And notice what the void does to both ends. It leaves the top isolated – a handful of men carrying an entire civilizational argument on their own reach, which is exactly the concentration of risk I keep writing about. And it leaves the base atomized – tens of thousands of people who each believe they are alone, because the only people confirming their view are two billionaires on another continent. So the void is the task. Not another platform, not another argument – the middle itself: people with names and positions who say true things at a survivable cost, publicly, in their own countries, in their own fields. Every one of them makes the next one cheaper. That’s the whole mechanism of the counter-march, and it’s why the counter-march is a staffing problem rather than a persuasion problem. The top is filled. The base is enormous and growing. What’s missing is the layer that turns an argument into a country. Fill the middle. That’s the job – and unlike almost everything else in this fight, it doesn’t require permission, funding, or genius. It requires a few thousand people deciding, one at a time, that the price of speaking is lower than the price of the silence they’ve been keeping.

At some point, you have to stop calling it a coincidence. You have to call it what it is: the bill coming due. Portland didn’t stumble into this mess. It was dragged here by years of political cowardice, ideological posturing, incompetent management, and leaders who repeatedly chose excuses over accountability. Gov. Kotek. Mayor Wilson. The City Council. These people didn't inherit a perfectly functioning city and accidentally scratch the paint. They helped create the conditions we’re living with now. And every time the consequences arrive, the response is the same pathetic routine: clutch pearls, issue a statement, blame someone else, demand more empathy, and pretend the latest disaster materialized out of thin air. It didn't. You built this. Portland has become a city where disorder gets rationalized, failure gets defended, dissent gets demonized, and accountability gets treated like an optional feature. Common sense has become politically offensive. Enforcing standards is controversial. Expecting people to behave like functioning adults is apparently “extreme.” Meanwhile, ordinary residents are expected to step over the consequences of failed policy and politely applaud the people responsible. No. The experiment has failed. And the people who spent years insisting everything was fine don't get to suddenly cosplay as firefighters after pouring gasoline on the building. The activist fringe doesn't get to define reality for everyone else. The professional outrage machine doesn't get to substitute emotion for competence. And politicians don't get to hide behind compassion while refusing to confront behavior that destroys neighborhoods, businesses, public spaces, and people's sense of safety. Empathy without accountability isn't leadership. It's surrender. Crime doesn't care about your political slogans. Disorder doesn't care about your intentions. Broken systems don't magically repair themselves because someone held a press conference and used the word “community” twelve times. At some point, outcomes matter. And Portland's outcomes are becoming impossible to defend. This isn't bad luck. It isn't a coincidence. It isn't one unfortunate incident. It is what happens when bad decisions compound for years and the people making them face no meaningful consequences. Failure became policy. Excuses became culture. Accountability became optional. And now we're supposed to pretend this happened by accident? Please. The clown show isn't an unfortunate side effect of Portland politics. The clown show IS Portland politics. The same people who created the dysfunction cannot be trusted to fix it. Portland doesn't need another slogan. It doesn't need another task force. It doesn't need another lecture about compassion from people who have apparently forgotten that law-abiding residents deserve compassion too. It needs competent leadership. It needs consequences. It needs standards. It needs order. And above all, it needs the political courage to admit that the experiment failed and change course. I've had enough. The circus has had the city long enough. Time to take the keys away. @MayorKWilson @GovTinaKotek @PortlandDSA @mitch4portland @pnwpolicyangel @TeacherTiff4PDX @jvegapederson

SEATTLE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE STARTING THE YEAR TODAY BECAUSE OF THIS MAN: Rather than caving to a radical union run by a special education teacher on suspension who "more likely than not" assaulted students, Superintendent Ben Shuldiner called out the Seattle Education Association for: - Dragging its feet on starting negotiations - Noted the contract was still in effect through negotiations & said there was “absolutely no reason to strike other than to flex power.” - Demanding more money from a district that is effectively out of money. Shuldiner repeatedly said “we’re broke” as SPS faced a roughly $100 million budget problem, warning that additional spending has to come from somewhere else in the district. - Downplaying what teachers are already paid. Shuldiner released compensation figures showing the district's largest teacher cohort receives $142,584 in wages before benefits, retirement, stipends or additional hours — including TRI, technology and professional-development days, for only working 180 days a year. - Seeking raises beyond what the state actually funds. He explained that when the state provides a 2.6 percent inflationary adjustment, SPS receives funding sufficient to cover only about two-thirds of it, meaning the district has to find millions elsewhere to provide the full increase. SPS nevertheless offered SEA a minimum 8.8 percent increase over three years with no furlough days, with an upside adjustment if state inflation funding comes in higher. - SPS presented multiple versions of a plan intended to keep more special-needs students in their neighborhood schools, lower ratios for many students and provide teachers more behavioral support. After hours of discussions, he said SEA's latest formal proposal simply read: “Special Education.” Shuldiner said he was inundated with hundreds of messages demanding SPS take special education “off the table,” arguing that doing so would prevent the district from addressing a system he believes is failing students. - SEA's public bargaining tactics. Shuldiner said he normally would not negotiate publicly but felt compelled to respond because SEA had been publicly discussing the talks while the district remained silent. He even noted that the union had responded to one district proposal with a poop emoji.

Let's gooooo! Tuskegee’s retired general president told critics the dress code stays and the bar is going up. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Brown, president and CEO of Tuskegee University in Alabama, is not backing off after activists framed the HBCU’s new rules as an attack on black culture. Students must arrive with a business suit and proper shoes for professional meetings. Classrooms and the cafeteria are off-limits for bedroom slippers, sleep bonnets, and durags. Revealing clothes and sagging pants are out in official settings. Phones stay off in class unless a professor says otherwise. Brown told Fox News Digital, "We are a university of standards. I believe all of higher education should be a university of standards." He added, "If you raise the bar, students will reach it. Why don’t we raise the bar? That’s what I think we ought to do. We’re unapologetic about that part." His letter to families put the point in employer terms. "The goal here is not meant to restrict you from enjoying the Tuskegee Experience, but to prepare you with a solid foundation for the workforce you will enter once you leave Tuskegee. Employers are less forgiving and too often presentation may overrule stellar preparation." FIRE called the policy a free-expression problem and said preparing adults for work "does not hinge on requirements about what adults wear to class or lunch." Some students used the phrase "respectability politics." Brown answered with a closet for students who cannot afford a suit, The Golden Tigers Community Closet, so money is not the excuse. Tuskegee is expecting its largest incoming class in 32 years. A school that once put men in dark blue suits in 1886 is again treating campus like practice for the rooms graduates actually want to enter. An interviewer does not pause to decode a durag. #Tuskegee #HBCU