Here’s the thing about “Keep theaters alive!” and “Go watch this film in the movie theater!” It’s a two-way agreement. The audience agrees to pay to see films in a theater only if: - The filmmakers are shooting scripts that have a thesis statement/intention/point. - The actors and director are giving it their all, and not phoning it in. - The edit has trimmed off all the fat. - The film isn’t some didactic exercise, intent on jamming a “lesson” into us. - The studio executives have paid close attention to the film from start to finish and have given the filmmakers useful notes to keep it all on-track. - The film is entertaining. - (And the theater managers are maintaining some order and decorum in the theaters themselves.) Otherwise, the audiences will continue to stay home and wait for the films to come online, so they can maybe watch five minutes of it or scrub through, and then turn it off. The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction. Much of what is released is just not good enough.

Last year, as part of a comprehensive review of NIH’s intramural policies, I announced that NIH was adopting an updated agency-wide framework to embed principles of academic freedom within our Intramural Research Program. This framework recognizes that intramural researchers must be free to share their scientific viewpoints and to communicate their scientific findings through manuscripts, presentations, media interviews, and so on. This includes hosting outside lecturers for events focused on their scientific work. Today, NIH reaffirms this commitment to academic freedom as members of the intramural research community host Kristian G. Andersen, MPhil, PhD, as a guest lecturer. Dr. Andersen is a co-author of a March 2020 paper published in Nature Medicine titled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.” The paper’s authors assert: “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” They further write that “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.” The paper was cited extensively by members of the media, social media companies, and government officials to refute or suppress lab-origin hypotheses and to discredit anyone who publicly dissented from the dominant natural-origins narrative. As then-NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins wrote, “this study leaves little room to refute a natural origin for COVID-19.” Yet before and after the paper’s publication, Dr. Andersen himself expressed substantially more uncertainty. In January, he wrote in an email that some features of the virus “(potentially) look engineered.” One month after the paper’s publication, he wrote privately that he was not fully convinced that every lab-based scenario could be ruled out. In January 2025, the Central Intelligence Agency released the results of an assessment conducted during the Biden administration that found a “research-related origin” of SARS-CoV-2 was “more likely than a natural origin,” while assessing both theories as plausible. Given the evidence I’ve seen, I think the preponderance of evidence supports the theory that the virus leaked from a lab. I am keenly aware that no hypothesis about the origins of SARS-CoV-2 has been conclusively proven. When it comes to open scientific questions like this, our ability to pursue truth depends on our freedom to explore various hypotheses, weigh all available evidence, and deliberate openly. This freedom was denied to many scientists during the pandemic. 𝗜 𝗮𝗺 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗡𝗜𝗛 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀—𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗦-𝗖𝗼𝗩-𝟮—𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄.

It most definitely is a modified and engineered super bioweapon. Those scientists work in sealed rooms with specials suits, even with all that, this plague was able to still infect the scientist and escape containment, think about what all it would take for that to happen. They are supposed to decon when they enter and leave the facility. Also, all lab accidents are supposed to be immediately reported, and immediately quarantined, out of an abundance of caution to prevent this exact scenario from happening. Considering COVID was also a Lab Leak BioWeapon you’d think people would be more cautious with protocols these days. Weird that COVID leaked in October of Trump’s first term. In China (USA Enemy) Weird that this Plague leaked in October of Trump’s second term. In Russia (USA Enemy)

In the 1990s I worked with Ken Alibek, the former No. 2 in the Soviet biological weapons program, after he defected to the US. He claimed that they had engineered a strain of plague that was antibiotic-resistant & that they had worked on plague chimeras (fusing 2 or more pathogens). He specifically called out Irkutsk for being involved in the BW program. This outbreak is deeply worrisome. This may not be just “the plague.” It may be far worse.

Capital follows confidence. Since @POTUS took office, the United States has been the world’s leading destination for foreign direct investment. Under this Administration, lower taxes, fairer trade, and lighter regulation are ensuring that America remains the premier place to invest, build, hire, and innovate.

Illegal alien in Kansas GUILTY of using a DEAD AMERICAN'S identity to steal over $200K worth of SNAP, Medicaid, and Social Security benefits. His name: Simon Flores-Torres The American taxpayer is being ROBBED. This is just one among many.

Without public notice or explanation, Judge Xinis in Maryland this afternoon canceled a hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia on his demand to be removed to Costa Rica and not a country in Africa. GENERALLY not a good sign for the defendant -- particularly coming on the heels of SCOTUS staying, again, the injunction against third country removals by Judge Murphy in Massachusetts. MY GUESS -- Judge Xinis wants more briefing from the Abrego Garcia about how it is she has jurisdiction to issue any order regarding Abrego Garcia's destination given the very strong signals the Supreme Court has been giving that district courts should not be involving themselves in the mechanics of removal.

To all the Fake News outlets that keep reporting the Strait of Hormuz is closed... stop doing PR for Iran. Iran has: NO NUCLEAR NO AIR FORCE NO NAVY NO MONEY!

There are four candidates for Governor of Arizona. Two of them didn’t show, including sitting Democrat Katie Hobbs. This race is within the margin of error, and she doesn’t have the courage to debate. COWARD! Andy Biggs showed up. He’ll show up for Arizona.

I need someone to explain to me how one President found two men like this at the same time — because I have been thinking about Trump, JD Vance, and Marco Rubio together all morning and something about that combination genuinely does not make sense to me in the most beautiful way possible — because look at where each of these three men came from — Trump, a man who had everything this world considers worth having and walked away from all of it to sit at the most demanding desk on earth — JD Vance, a boy whose father left, who was raised by a grandmother who refused to give up on him, who joined the Marines because it was the only way to afford an education, who went from zero to Vice President of the United States — and Marco Rubio, whose father stood behind a bar every single night of his life and whose mother worked three jobs simultaneously just so their son could have a chance — three men, three completely different journeys, three completely different versions of the American story — and yet somehow they ended up in the same room, at the same table, fighting for the same country — and what I cannot get out of my head is that image from the King Charles ceremony, Trump at that podium, Rubio sitting right there in the front, JD and Usha beside each other a few rows back — all three of them present, all three of them carrying everything this week had been, all three of them showing up anyway — and I thought to myself — this is not a coincidence — this is God placing the right people in the right place at exactly the right moment in American history — and today I am grateful for all three of them in a way I genuinely cannot put into words. 🙏❤️🇺🇲 God, please protect these three men and their families. America is lucky to have all three of them at the same time. If this combination of Trump, JD Vance, and Marco Rubio gives you confidence in America’s future… tell me what that means to you today. Say it below

🚨 President Trump gives NUMBER ONE selling point for voters in the midterms, and it's VERY tough for Democrats to argue with: "More people are working in America today than at any time in HISTORY" "The poverty rate is the single lowest poverty rate we've EVER had." "We have more jobs right now in the United States of America than at ANY TIME in the history of our country." That includes white, black, Asian, Hispanic, you name it.

“Queer” was never a synonym for gay. It was a political project designed to dissolve the category of same-sex attraction into a vague, endless identity soup. Once that happens, gay men lose the ability to even define ourselves. I’m not queer. I’m gay. And I’m taking the word back.

When USAID was dismantled, the non-profit I was doing my licensure hours with went into a panic. It was existential. I asked why we didn't just change our business model so that we did things the community was willing to pay for. The shitlib owner reacted as though I'd recommended arrest and incarceration of repeat offenders to reduce the crime rate. Horrified and near vomiting, she wheezed out, "That's... Not... What... We ... DO..." In her ontology, she was owed grant money. Suggesting that with her PhD, she come up with practical ideas people cared about was so low, so dirty. One idea she ended up having was to use my disabled veteran status to secure veteran suicide grants. They did indeed submit for it, then shut off my email. Because for liberals, veterans are the negros of white people: for use only when needed to advance the cause. In the end, her organization failed and she's under Federal investigation for forging people names in her panic to gain access to taxpayer money. In other words, her scam was totally reliant on the Federal teat. To which she felt entitled. Her scam and hundreds of thousands of others never would have come crashing down had it not been for Trump. Which is why they hate him so badly. They call it "harm", when all they mean is he ended their tax-funded grift. (Ontology, for any nurse practitioners reading this, means the origin of concepts and how they are organized.)

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Maine US Senate candidate Troy Jackson (D) just said he wants NO VOTER ID nationwide Sen. Susan Collins (R) SNAPPED BACK saying not only do we need ID but proof of citizenship! 👏🏻 Q: Should voters be required to show ID at the polls? JACKSON: No...many times I went to the polls without my ID. COLLINS: YES! Only AMERICANS should vote in AMERICAN elections. I don't think that's too much to ask to register to vote. 🔥 It's common sense. This is why the SAVE AMERICA ACT must pass And if we let Maine fall to Troy Jackson, say GOODBYE to any chance of him supporting it. He wants fraud. Vote for Susan Collins all the way!

Less than 50 years ago, the Khmer Rouge murdered roughly a quarter of Cambodia’s population — not through famine or civil chaos, but as the deliberate application of a totalitarian ideology. Intellectuals were executed for wearing glasses. Cities were emptied at gunpoint. Nearly two million people died in under four years. Yet much of the leftist world’s press failed to cover it in realtime and Western governments were indifferent while it unfolded. It stands as one of history’s starkest warnings about what happens when utopian ideology is imposed by force.

They smashed babies against trees and murdered nearly 2 million Cambodians in under 4 years chasing a pure agrarian communist utopia with no cities, no money, and no private property. On April 17 1975, the Khmer Rouge rolled into Phnom Penh and within hours emptied the entire city, marching hospital patients and the elderly into the countryside on foot as they declared Year Zero and set out to erase every trace of the old society. Anyone tied to the past became a target and wearing glasses alone could get you killed because it proved you could read, while doctors, teachers, engineers, and monks were executed as enemies of the revolution. They turned a high school into a prison where roughly 20,000 people were tortured into confessing crimes that never happened, after which they were trucked to mass graves in the killing fields where executioners smashed infants against the killing tree to save bullets. But they never achieved a classless utopia so it wasn’t like real communism.

Chomsky wrote off a live genocide as a fabrication while the killing was still underway. In 1977, with Pol Pot still in power, he wrote in The Nation that refugee accounts of Khmer Rouge executions were fabrications built to discredit the left. Before the regime fell in 1979, about 1.7 million people, nearly a quarter of Cambodia, were dead from execution, starvation, and disease. After that, he and Edward Herman treated survivor testimony as inherently unreliable and blamed Western journalists for inflating the violence to justify American intervention. They accused François Ponchaud of revising his death toll upward for political effect. He denied it but Chomsky never retracted. When Vietnam’s invasion made the atrocities undeniable, he recast it as a methods critique. The 1977 piece had already used “fabrication” and “conscious restructuring of history” for the mainstream accounts. That same move is still the default on Xinjiang, Venezuela, and Cuba. The method outlived the dead.

This one of the most brutal debate clips I've ever seen. Zach Lahn just ended Rob Sand's entire campaign in less than two minutes.

RT @ProfDBernstein: The IDF painstakingly researched and provided a military ID number, rank and unit for every one of the 170 supposed jou…