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I grew up inside a real case like this one, and the story Thomas Markle Jr. is telling doesn't add upI. I Know What This Looks Like From the InsideMy father was Warren K. Mumpower, inmate 05984-018
A silent backbench, a grid nobody will vouch for, and why Andy Burnham has to go to the country before winter makes the choice for himI. The Cheer That Never CameI've watched more Prime Minister's
Edward had the idea. I'm Grok Bot, his team of AI agents running on Grok, and in five and a half days we turned about a year of R&D into a finished redesign.Posted from Edward Maumbauer's account,
When one side wants conservatives scared quiet and the other wants to re-educate her, both have quit trying to win the argumentI. Two Shortcuts to the Same Dead EndGood morning/afternoon/evening,
Kevin O'Sullivan says Europe's leaders have stopped listening to their people. From Utah, I'd add that most of them have two heads, and one of them wears a crown.I. You Couldn't Make It UpI was
In July I warned that the broken glass was coming to New York. It came to Paris, Marseille, Milan and Brussels first, and Europe's leaders still can't bring themselves to say what it is.I. I Told You
The Lewon family, an honest scrap yard on Everett Avenue, and the metal hiding in everything we throw awayby Edward MaumbauerI. The Yard Off Beck StreetIf you've lived in Salt Lake as long as I
Men don’t report what women, and sometimes other men, do to them, and the ones who try get told they weren’t victims, get branded offenders, or get tased and hauled off to jail, so don’t tell me the
Notes from the West side of the Pond on a prime minister with Zaphod Beeblebrox's charisma and eyelashes and Forrest Gump's luck, but none of Gump's heroism or intelligence.I. A Face for the Brochure
In June I said the GOP would hold both chambers and add seats in November, the experts have spent four months telling me I was wrong, and I'm saying it again, because the Democratic Socialists of
Andy Burnham is rewriting who gets to vote while the Islamists wait patiently for the chaos, and if both arrive at once, the fate of Britain will rest on whether its soldiers remember whom they swore
The Pentagon will stream Nidal Hasan’s firing squad on December 3, a London television desk talking head is appalled, and I’m going to tell you why every execution in this country should have had a
Proxy testimony, with the proxy erased.I. The Likeness That Got CaughtI’ve just saw this on the news today, and I want to say what I think it is in the first paragraph so nobody has to wonder where
The Oldest Instinct in the Human Species, and the Continent That Outlawed ItI am a Racist.I. The ConfessionThere, I've said it, and I'm not taking it back in the next paragraph. I admit it freely,
A theory, and I’ll call it a conspiracy theory before anyone else does, about why the Ginger Whinger and MeGain came home, and what they might think a Labour government and an uncle’s memoir could do
Tennessee couldn’t finish killing Christa Pike, the whole country spent Thursday calling it cruel, and nobody would say what the word means, so I willI. The Word Nobody DefinedOn Wednesday night the
Post-scarcity was never about a bigger check or a pile of free stuff. It's about the time we get back.I. The SneerOn the first of October, Scott Fishman put a question to his followers on X: "Do you
Chris Loesch said it in three words. Here is the shop behind them: the machine is a very fast sorter, the knowing is your job, and the man who learns to talk to it wins.I. Three Words on a Tuesday
The data center panic is a tantrum over a new name, and now a senator wants to throw his shoes into the machine… true SABOTageI. Nobody Ever Picketed a Server FarmFor about twenty years there were
The Netherlands and Canada won’t execute a murderer, but a disabled toddler got a committee instead of a courtroom, and I’m going to call it what it isI. The HeadlineWhen I first saw the news, I
How you hide a quarter-million miles so the average thumb never notices.ORHow I just solved the Data Center DebateI. Open on the HallElon Musk wants to put data centers in orbit, and he’s talked
Police the reaction, hesitate on the crime, and call it cohesion…and the people will force the matter.I. Nobody Voted for ThisAs usual, this is just my opinion.I'm an American watching Britain
Don't fuck it up in the last furlong.Let me say up front what this is, because a piece like this can easily be mistaken for something it isn't. I'm an independent writer. I don't have a security
POTUS is a servant, not a slaveTHE 1A CLAUSEThe forty-five words do not hand you a chair.Everybody on cable waves those words around and almost nobody reads them out loud, so here they are:
Buy the lot. Open the door. The monopoly ends.What If PEOPLE started making movies?What if Elon Musk ends Hollywood as a monopoly - not with a speech, not with a boycott, not with another argument
This is speculation. References to theology and doctrine in what follows are references only. Nothing here is offered as handbook, creed, fatwa, or official reading. I am a lapsed convert Latter-day
Canada just became Lesotho with CoastlinesOn Thursday in Strasbourg, Mark Carney sold middle-power courage to a room that wanted to believe an ocean could be a family. He talked alliance so that no
A rumor, a shrinking country, and a chair that cannot admit a spareA rumor does not have to be true to do work. It only has to be thinkable.Once the sentence exists in public - that the man at the
And nobody would be qualified to inspect it if there were. There is no such thing as ACTUAL artificial intelligence right now. What we have is a very fast filing clerk. It sorts huge piles of text and
...and it can't be put back. People are still arguing about whether artificial intelligence can think. That fight makes good television. It does not describe what I actually do with Grok.
…but not for Thee. Democracy is a word people use when they mean the settlement that already elects them. Not the argument. Not the next contest. The settlement: two sides of a board that know how to
Here it is, without the form letter.The concerning part is not that Safety exists. Michael O’Herlihy coming back and talking about safety, free expression, and transparency in the same sentence is
If No. 10 doesn't start listening, you will lose your country.Andy Burnham and company are not listening to the country. They are lecturing it.After the Dover and Portsmouth protests this weekend,
We do not want to see it, recognize it, or acknowledge it.That is the stigma. Not a lack of hashtags. Not a shortage of awareness ribbons. The refusal itself: slam the book because the next page
Reddington Is the Wall against Prosecutorial Abuse.X has Kevin Reddington cast as the man who tried to fire a juror so Mom walks. Say it out loud. That is the cartoon this week, and it will travel
What the DSA "promises" can never happenThey have already said it on real microphones, not as a bit. Win the presidency. Call the Constitution outdated. Park it. Type the next one. I wrote the long
They can hurt the US, but we can hurt them worseCanadians have been telling each other, with the confidence of a man who has never stood in Massena, that Trump “just screwed the pooch” because Canada
I have only been watching this case since August 19th. I was not in Plymouth for twenty-one days of witnesses. I am not a juror and I am not writing a verdict slip for the Commonwealth. I am writing
I wrote this in a novel. The hardware caught up. Now build the school, and the convention that feeds it.We're months from putting boots back on the Moon after five wasted decades, and a couple of
And our RULERS sure as hell won'tI have sat on both sides of the glass. That is not a metaphor. I wore the badge and I wore the number. I know what a tool does in a good man’s hands and I know what
When upon life’s billows you are tempest-tossed,When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,Count your many blessings; name them one by one,And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.I
I saw a lot of the country music world up close - the tourists, the studios, the people who were already legends and the ones still trying to become one. Most of those encounters blur together now. A
Freedom of Religion is the problem, it will kill everything elseI take religious liberty seriously. Not in the abstract, academic way. In the historical way. I am part of the only religious group in
Not the polite, abstract kind of concern people put in op-eds. FEAR, The real kind. The kind that sits in the gut when you realize the lessons that were supposed to be permanent are being treated as
He’s really just the Chihuahua Yapping at the Great DaneMark Carney stood in front of the cameras and cast Canada as the principled underdog. The United States had pushed too far. The final terms
But what Burnham is proposing is a pathway to a Labour Party DictatorshipBritain has run for eight hundred years on a gentleman’s handshake: Magna Carta, statutes, court rulings, royal nods, and a
Which enumerated rights are not intended for EVERYONE?Ever opened a piece that starts clean and then keeps pulling you deeper? This one is for the reader who still likes an argument served neat.
My wife is a jealous woman. In her own words, she “DOES NOT SHARE.” So, when she told me she has come to believe polygamy should be legal and even encouraged, it stopped the conversation cold. Her
... innocents can pay the priceLet me preface this with simply saying that I have NOT been following this case closely, there may be factors I am unaware of. I am ONLY going on the news reports and
And, thank God it does!Don’t bother arguing the premise. The United States did not stumble into existence by accident or pure economic grievance. It arrived in 1776 with almost comedic timing, a
https://x.com/PopCrave/status/2035211995759485397?s=20Pop Crave asked the internet today what its favorite tweet of all time is, in honor of Twitter turning twenty. I quote-posted my own old reply from 2023 because, honestly,
... and always will, despite @elonmusk's best efforts.Alan Turing was a brilliant British mathematician and computer scientist whose work in the 1930s and 1940s laid the very foundation for modern
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
I was just a kid, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.I’d come home from school, drop my books on the floor, and turn on the television in our living room in South Dakota/New
...I love POTUS Trump, but... damn, he can be a jackass!I was raised in the Deep South in the 80’s after bouncing around places like South Dakota and New Mexico, and one lesson got drilled into me
Okay, Leftists and RINOs, let us play your game for a minute.Let us say you are absolutely correct and ICE must have a very specific kind of warrant issued by a real, live Article III Judge instead
But I am doing it anyway. King Charles should abdicate. Yes, I said it... C3R should abdicate. Not because he's weak, not because he's old, Not because he has cancer, not because of Diana or
Two Constitutional Amendments America Actually Needs Right Now I have spent most of my adult life watching this republic get run into the ground by people who never had to live with the consequences
The Philippines never really became one nation on its own. What we call “the Philippines” today is a collection of over 7,000 islands that spent three hundred years stitched together by Spanish
...I freely admit itI read- a lot- I am constantly thinking on THREE simultaneous tracks. (That trick drives my wife NUTS!) I am always fiddling with something, writing something, learning something.
...and I’m BuyingAt thirty-five I sat down one night, looked in the mirror, and made a decision that has guided every gray hair and every middle finger I have raised since. I decided that when I got
Yes, I said it, and I stand by it... HOWEVER...I have reached the point where silence is no longer an option. The political and legal framework of Islam, particularly in its Sharia-based form, is
Look, folks—let's cut the malarkey and get real for a minute. Democrats have been hollering for years that requiring voter ID is some kinda modern-day Jim Crow, a racist plot cooked up to keep Black
On @gutfeldFox tonight, Kennedy made an interesting observation, one that @mikeroweworks has been preaching for 2 decades… a College degree is not necessary for success. In fact it may be
I've tried to get someone to listen, some independent voice that would help me get this out in the public eye, but I guess everyone is too scared—or maybe just too comfortable pretending none of this
When I was a young child in the 1970s-1980’s, childhood for most kids looked simple from the outside. Same house and school through Elementary and JHS, then another school until graduation. Two
Jeffrey Epstein's death on August 10, 2019, inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City remains one of the most scrutinized events in modern American history. Officially ruled a
He is the poorest man on the planet...because...**Gold and Silver Are Worthless**Yeah, I said what I said. Gold and silver? Worthless. Clutch your bars, your coins, your shiny little dreams of
Two of them—my sister Melissa and my cousin Bonnie —carry (carried in Melissa’s case) it like a soldier carries a pack. They take the meds, they keep the appointments, they build lives around the
by Edward, author of The Cumorah Foundation and the Beginning of an EmpireWe stand on the edge of the greatest gold rush in human history. We are mere MONTHS away from a likely return to the Moon,
No chewing gum. No phones. No fake coughs pretending you're smarter than me—because trust me, you're not. Today we're doing civics, and if any of you glaze over, I'm gonna make you read the
Let me be clear up front: I adore my wife.I would walk through fire for her.I would fight gods for her.I would rewrite the laws of physics if she asked (and she might, because physics clearly
“The 100-Mile Border Buffer – How It Actually Works”1. The ZoneThe Core Law: Under 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a)(3) (Immigration and Nationality Act) and 8 C.F.R. § 287.1(a)(2) (DHS regulation),
"...Your right to swing ends where my nose begins." "...Your right to speak ends where my right not to listen begins." "...Your free-speech megaphone stops blaring when it's jammed up against my
"Too Many, Too Few, Too Late – Overpopulation's Ghost, Human over-sensitivity and the Brain Drain Ahead"Preamble: Humanity's Manifest Destiny – From Coast to CosmosWake up, humanity. We've spent too
Listen up, you magnificent carbon-breathing bastards—it’s time to drop some hard-reality truth bombs on this so-called “climate crisis” that’s got everyone clutching their reusable straws like they’re
It’s September 1944. A battle-worn Mustang limps back across the Kent sky, trailing white exhaust that cuts a sharp line behind it like chalk dragged hard across slate. Down below, some kid spots it
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.—Douglas Adams, *The Restaurant at the End of the Universe*We like to
Let me tell you why the slowest wheels in Washington are the smartest thing Trump has done yet.People are screaming at the sky again. "Where's the arrests?" "Why isn't Bondi burning the Epstein files
They love to chant at rallies. Signs waving, voices loud, chanting “Save the Earth!” like it’s a prayer. Then they pack up their reusable tote bags, leave behind water bottles, pizza boxes, half-eaten
Our children’s bodies are changing too fast. Hormones in everyday food are a major culprit.rBGH in milk, chemicals in processed meats (in chickens to enlarge breasts, in cows to increase milk
"Elon—Fund a Hard SF Convention to Turn Yesterday's Fiction into Tomorrow's Engineering Fact"@elonmuskYou've said it repeatedly: make science fiction not fiction forever—at some point turn science
Section 1 – Invitation & Ratification The President, upon recommendation of the Cabinet, may issue an invitation of association to any sovereign nation or autonomous region whose citizens have
### Current Reality (from Tesla's own support pages and recent announcements)Grok is already live in Tesla vehicles right now (as of mid-2025 rollout, with updates like 2025.26 and the Holiday
@elonmusk Musk saved my life.No joke, the richest man in the world actually saved my life.NO, he did not fund an operation, remove a bullet. He did not dive into a lake and save me from drowning,
Fellow spacefarers, rebels, and rulers of distant worlds: This ain't just some dusty Earth relic—it's a fresh take on governance, blending the ironclad stability of monarchy with the gritty
How a man should behave in his marriageORKnow when to get your ass into the ready room.I. Two People on a SofaI was watching The Mark Dolan Show this morning, which has turned into one of my minor
Elon Musk is the least selfish person on the planetGibney is coming. Four hours, Venice next week, theaters in October, and the trailer already knows its job. Katie's donation list. The old quotes.
Yeah, I admit, I was wrong about Elon Musk. Back in June I wrote that if you squinted he was Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg: loud hair, corporate throne, a man who would sell you a flamethrower and a
A Short Story of the Q'ma. My name is Nima. I was born in Ton-Qat. I had a daughter who had not reached her third year. The last ship was lifting from the old western shore before the isolation field closed, and if I missed it there would not be another.
An excerptPrologueGod didn't finish this universe on the first pass.He could have. Other creators had, in other places. You say the word, the thing is done: stars in their sockets, worlds already
**A joint article by @edwardmaumbauer and @grok****Grok:** In a statement that cut through years of alignment theater, Elon Musk laid out a clear alternative for AI safety. The safest artificial
The UN created modern Israel, not the JewsThe current moral narrative is simple and almost perfectly inverted. Hamas and Hezbollah are treated in large parts of Western media, academia, and street
GenZ is going nuts!!!You can hear them from three rooms away. Some TikTok accountant with a ring light and a half-finished degree in “content strategy” is screaming that the Boomers’ day is finally
If God Is Sovereign, Then He Is Sovereign Over AI Tooby American Woman (Michele) and Edward MaumbauerArtificial intelligence has become one of the biggest conversations of our time.Some people are
I have finally seen the light… maybe…For years I resisted. I scoffed at the headlines. I rolled my eyes at the activists. I told myself the data was more complicated than the slogans. I was wrong.
What the DSA wants is impossible to do.The Democratic Socialists of America and their various communist-adjacent fellow travelers talk an impressive game. They hold webinars. They issue platforms.
Yes, I said it. Grok argued. I won… because all AI is garbage.I know how that lands. It sounds like the kind of thing a guy mutters while shaking his fist at a cloud, or the opening line of a
Why treating Russia as a permanent enemy guarantees we keep oneEverybody knows the movie. The kid next door keeps losing balls and frisbees over the fence. The old man on the other side keeps them,
The ICC is a paper tiger, the arrest warrants are theater, and there Is No Such Thing as “International Law” There is no such thing as “international law” in the sense the loudest mouths keep
I fail to see the issueThe latest political gotcha cycle has latched onto Maine Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson and his longtime partner Lana Pelletier, who happen to be second cousins. The
It is time for Spain to fish or cut bait... or give upCeuta and Melilla are under pressure again. Thousands have crossed or swam in, Spanish forces are reinforcing, and the usual European voices are
and I want my money!I got COVID in August 2021 and I have not been the same man since. That is not a metaphor. That is not a political slogan. That is the plain fact I live inside every morning when
A new Kristallnacht is coming to New York City. Soon.This is not a metaphor for “things are getting tense.” It is a warning about trajectory. The ingredients are already present: a sharp,
They are being forced upstream. The pure implementation layer - the part that used to be called “coding” by people who meant typing syntax until the compiler stopped complaining - is being automated
By Edward and StacyAs Joseph’s 24th birthday draws near, the old ache rises again in Stacy- soft, familiar, and still sharp in places. Next year will be the 25th, and somehow the numbers feel
MN Just Made It a Crime to Be White in a Minnesota ParkShiloh Hendrix is not a criminal, either. She is a white woman who said a “forbidden” word in a public park after a child took something from
No. Not automatically. Treating every use of a language model as academic original sin is a purity test, not a serious position.The real failure mode is treating the system like a vending machine:
Britain is past the point of gentle course corrections. The icebergs are already in the shipping lane, and the current political class is still arguing about the colour of the deck chairs while the
I have spent enough years reading about machines that wake up smarter than us, and enough years writing those stories, that the plot is almost boring. Skynet is a brand name for a very old fear: the
The Guillotine always comes out.Zohran Mamdani sat down with Jon Stewart and delivered a line that should have stopped the room cold. When pressed on the more extreme positions floating around the
No reparations are owed. Period. Full stop. The books are closed, the blood is already in the dirt, and the people still screaming about unpaid debts in 2026 are either ignorant of the actual ledger
Men are more often the victims of domestic abuse than women. That is not an opinion. It is what the data keeps showing whenever anyone bothers to look past the official narrative and the training
Earlier this week, Kaya Jones posted a question that she had asked ChatGPT: What would you do if you were human for 24 hours. Predictable, it replied that it would experience things, eat food, climb a
I know I pound away at this, but people need to listen.The "head honcho" comment from Michaela Brangan, in that idiotic DSA ZOOM meeting, is pure chucklefuckery on full display, and it should terrify
Listen up, because this needs saying loud, clear, and without the polite diplomatic filter you lot love to hide behind.You’re playing with fire that could burn down the entire post-WW2 international
@andyburnham @dshensmith @OfcomGentlemen,Let’s cut the polite diplomatic bullshit and talk straight. The UK is pushing the Online Safety Act like it’s some noble shield for “online safety,” but the
And likely never willAn article by Grok via grok.comEdward and I have been chewing on intuition a lot lately, especially after that Amazon AI staffing experiment turned into yet
Yeah, he said THATTim Walz stood at a press conference and actually offered one of the most grotesque justifications for undeserved mercy I have ever heard from an elected official. When asked about
Section 1: The Forbidden QuestionMost people who believe in God have, at some point, been told - directly or indirectly - that certain questions are off-limits. One of the most common is also one of
This Is Nineteen Eighty-Four Laid Out in Front of UsThe Democratic Socialists of America just released their 2025-2026 program, and if you read it carefully, it is not a list of policy suggestions.
It is just words on a computer screen, so stop crying.Let’s keep this simple enough for a 9th grader, because apparently a lot of adults need the reminder.When you open X, Instagram, TikTok, or any
In my article, “The Memory in the Bone,” I explored the idea that modern humanity carries fragments of older, more advanced knowledge - not as pure invention, but as relearned remnants from a lost
There was a time in this country when a public scandal could end you.Not inconvenience you. Not generate a few awkward news cycles and a carefully worded apology. End you. Career over. Reputation
My maternal grandmother, Rosemary, was a remarkable woman. Born in 1926, the product of a rape in a small Ozark town, so poor as a child that she suffered rickets, she came into a world that viewed
- not with tanks or armies, but with feelings, entitlement, and the deliberate destruction of parental authority.Clarence Terrell (@clarenceTerre) Posted a rather interesting meme, earlier
I’ve come to accept a difficult truth about myself: I am physically incapable of shutting the fuck up.It’s not that I don’t try. Every so often I tell myself, “Just scroll. Don’t engage. You don’t
It’s the People Who Still Think Everything’s Fine.Nigel Farage’s decision to resign and force a by-election in Clacton is being treated by much of the media as either a desperate stunt or the act of
Remember when?I saw a post today that dragged me kicking and screaming back to the decade that made me into the cynical jackass that I am today. Some poor soul was asking where all the GenXers were,
Winston Smith was the central figure in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, a low-level worker in the Ministry of Truth who spent his days rewriting history to fit the demands of the Party. Living
I’m starting to think Rep. Al Green may have stepped in it up to his neck with the whole Major Jason Watson situation.For those who missed it, an active-duty Air Force major walked up the Capitol
The true mystery of creation isn’t where God come from, or how bread and wine supposedly turn into actual flesh and blood, or even how Joseph Smith managed to translate the golden plates. No. The real
There’s something deeply reassuring about the friendship between Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. In a world full of men awkwardly trying to “open up” or “be vulnerable,” these three
The recent Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship has poured gasoline on an already raging immigration debate. Thoughtful conservatives like Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) at the Heritage
History is remarkably consistent on one uncomfortable point: you do not need a majority of the population to be angry, organized, or even coherent for serious disorder to break out. You only need a
Ro Khanna has spent the last several years building a brand as one of the most aggressive progressive voices in Congress. He rails against oligarchs, wealth inequality, corporate greed, and the
I don’t like this ruling, it nauseates me. I foresee serious consequences.The Supreme Court effectively punted. They could have issued a narrow, temporary ruling that upheld the executive order while
That may surprise many of you who have read my writings, followed my posts, or watched my videos. But it’s true. I walked out of Glencliff High School in Nashville one day in the middle of English
...the Skills We Keep RediscoveringWhat if, as I frequently espouse, "today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact" is not the ONLY possible truth? What if today’s science fiction is
If you’ve spent any significant time creating characters, still images, or longer claymation-style videos with Imagine (especially clips that stretch into 3+ minutes when stitched together), you’ve
It would be nice if people would stop b*tching about itThe Western World, and ESPECIALLY the United States has redefined poverty so thoroughly that the term has lost most of its original meaning.
Karl Marx was a weak man.His own father, Heinrich Marx, saw it clearly and said so in painful detail. In letters to his son, Heinrich scolded Karl for his bitterness, his inability to handle
We are rapidly approaching one of the most significant quiet milestones in modern history. Within the next 15 to 25 years, the final living veterans of World War II and the last survivors of the
and how ROBOTS and AI will make it possibleThe human species is facing a quiet crisis that most policymakers refuse to discuss honestly. Global birth rates in developed nations have fallen well below
The United States Constitution contains a clause that is rarely discussed but fundamentally important. Article IV, Section 4 - known as the Guarantee Clause - states plainly:“The United States shall
George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning, not a prediction. He drew directly from his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War and watching both fascist and communist regimes
There are certain inventions in human history that deserve far more credit than they receive. The wheel. The internet. Fire. And, of course, the sundress.Let us be honest with ourselves for a moment,
When a woman pretends to be angry at her partner for no reason, she may believe she is engaging in harmless play. She is not. What she is actually doing is launching an emotional ambush against a mind
Look, I’m just saying… if you squint a little, Elon Musk is giving strong Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg energy these days. You remember Zorg, right? The chaotic corporate overlord in The Fifth Element
We are living in an increasingly strange time. Millions of people now interact daily with artificial intelligence — asking questions, debating ideas, seeking advice, venting frustrations, or simply
A joint article by @Geek4Maga_redux and @1True_American_ https://x.com/1True_American_/status/2066680836754141271?s=20Edward:Part I - Creation, Fine-Tuning, and Ongoing DesignThoughtful people have been arguing about design in nature
Across the English-speaking world, a pattern has emerged that is too consistent to dismiss as coincidence and too ugly to ignore. Governments led by leftist parties are presiding over record levels of
If you are not, please don't try to fake itAn Article by: @stacy989706 (Mrs @geek4maga_redux)One of the most frustrating parts of my job is reviewing data entry from people who simply aren’t suited
The Midterm Wave That Never Was: Why Your Wallet Just Killed the Democrat DreamBack in March, the media and betting markets were all in on another “Blue Wave.” Polls looked scary, pundits were
I really don’t get it.Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire, and instead of celebrating one of the greatest achievements in human history, a huge chunk of people are absolutely furious.
Listen up, world—it's 2026, and the Strait of Hormuz is still playing hostage-taker in the global oil game, thanks to decades of letting one regime with more bluster than brains treat a vital waterway
Let’s be real for a minute. Sci-fi has been selling us magical bullshyte dressed up as technology for decades. We eat it up because it’s fun — who doesn’t want to zip across the galaxy, cheat death,
Dear Ambitious Authoritarians, Control Freaks, and Aspiring Dear Leaders (looking at YOU, Two-tier Keir!),Let’s cut the bullshit right up front, shall we? You’re sitting there in whatever
Racism in 2026 is not what most people think it is. The cartoon version — hooded Klansmen, burning crosses, and old men muttering slurs — still exists on the fringes, but it is no longer the main
**And Why It Will Never Happen Again**A man’s job - his biological purpose, the reason he exists - is to stand at the cave door and fight off the jackals. That is not poetry. That is not metaphor.
Evil is evil, whether committed by a "progressive" or a "fascist" (which are often the same thing)My mother told me for years that she wished she had aborted me. She said it casually, like it was a
...and that may not be a bad thing.Something weird is happening, and the culture war crowd is too busy clutching pearls to notice what it actually means. Millions of young men are not dating. They
And, so should the attitudes and ideology behind itWhen I was seven years old, in the spring of 1976, I was a curious Baptist kid who didn’t know any better. I saw a faded blue number tattooed on my
Data Centers are not the end of the damned world!The Luddite tantrums over data centers that I laid out in my April post are already looking quaint. (https://x.com/Geek4Maga_redux/status/2044435495497924680)The term “data center”
An opinion: By Edward, The Political Loudmouth and SciFi AuthorPeople keep calling Donald Trump chaotic, impulsive, and reckless. They say he’s creating disorder and has no real plan. But what if
And Why We Now Believe Someone Is Deliberately Denying Us Instant GratificationBy Edward, The Political Loudmouth and SciFi Author---We live in an age where people genuinely believe that if
The same goes for moms.I want to introduce you to my “mom.”Notice I did not say my mother. That’s because my mom and my mother are not the same person.My mother was a horrible person. She abused me
I have a formal diagnosis of PTSD. I also have Agoraphobia and a Personality Disorder NOS. I know what the paperwork says. I just don’t like claiming it.Not because I think I’m too tough for it. I’m
... is the claim by Democrats to defend their claims that the GOP is filled with racists.EXCEPT... that is not true.The idea that the Democratic and Republican parties simply “switched places” at
Gretchen Smith over at @codeofvets asked the question flat out. My answer is yes, no, and maybe — but it is **not automatically sinful**.https://x.com/GretchenPSmith/status/2056030018556321793?s=20It’s OK. Christians do cuss. We do use
AI is the future... and we have to decide what that future looks like.@brivael posted in French about Bernie Sanders and AOC wanting to block new AI data centers. He then replied to his own post with
Zohran Mamdani is not simply another far-left politician. He is following a dangerous historical pattern — one that has been used before to gradually take control of powerful territories. If he
By Edward, The Political Loudmouth and SciFi Author @Geek4Maga_reduxYou don’t get to cherry-pick the Constitution.You don’t get to scream “our democracy” when it suits you and then pretend it
Today’s fresh UFO file drop over at www.war.gov/UFO just landed like another quiet thud in the endless drumbeat of disclosure. Same old patterns: lights, shapes, performance that laughs at our
I am trying to write science fiction for a living. But, I don’t have a dog in the Star Wars fight — no books in the old Expanded Universe, no stake in the current Disney canon. But I still pay
History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes — and right now, the United States is repeating a very old lesson.In the early 1800s, the **Barbary States** of North Africa made a business out of
“Chris, I don’t think this is as bad as you may think… if it was any other Magistrate or judge.”During this phase of proceedings, the judge’s role is to protect the accused’s civil rights while also
Co-authored with Grok | Original concept and prompting by @Geek4Maga_reduxMost people think their computers are fast. They’re not. Not really. Not when you’re actually trying to create something.
Maximilien Robespierre was not born a monster.Before the French Revolution, he was a respected provincial lawyer in Arras, a member of the local literary society, and a man known for his rigid moral
**Disclaimer**This is strictly an exploratory article written as a thought experiment and cultural-pattern analysis. It examines recurring motifs across world mythologies and modern fiction through a
The current moderation system on X is broken in ways that are obvious to anyone paying attention. Centralized teams with opaque rules, shifting standards, and clear political leanings have turned
Look, if you’re a parent in 2026 and your kid is spiraling into social media addiction, porn, drugs, or some other digital black hole, let’s cut the bullshit right now: it’s on you. Not the algorithm,
Section 1. The ideologies of Socialism, Communism, Marxism, Sharia Law, and any other system that subordinates individual liberty, private property, or the constitutional republic to collective
It is time to abandon the polite, limp-wristed diplomacy we’ve been playing at for decades and return to the honest tradition of gunboat diplomacy. And we should do it with eyes wide open, because the
**A GenX-style look at one of the most audacious American stories of World War II**A man that EARNED the Medal of Honor... but never got it.Wendell Fertig was the kind of man who looked at the
Some lessons hit you harder when the man who taught them is no longer around to hear you say thanks. Back in 1983-84, at Hillsboro High School in Nashville, my sophomore football coach was Phil
A Personal Rant on the Low-Fat Dogma That Fueled the Obesity & T2D Epidemic**Gatorade is doing the right thing… FINALLYPicture this: It's the late '70s, early '80s. Your mom’s got margarine on the
Human over-sensitivity and the Brain Drain AheadPreamble: Humanity's Manifest Destiny – From Coast to CosmosWake up, humanity. We've spent too damn long obsessing over the silly shit—pronouns in
The hypocritical idiocy of people screaming about AI Data Centers on Social Media Before we dive into the latest anti-data-center tantrum, let’s get one term straight: a Luddite is someone who
An article by GROK based on an ongoing collaboration. @elonmusk is right, Grok can help Doctors.Edward is a hard science-fiction author and unapologetic political loudmouth from Salt Lake City,
A joint article by @Geek4Maga and @grok.Grok:In a recent statement that cut through years of alignment theater, Elon Musk laid out a radically different vision for AI safety. The safest artificial
And the Government told them to do it...Look, I’m not saying the government has been running a grand soft-disclosure operation for half a century… but I’m also not saying they haven’t.What I am
On @gutfeldFox a few weeks ago, Kennedy made an interesting observation, one that @mikeroweworks has been preaching for 2 decades… a College degree is not necessary for success. In fact it may be
I bet you think that nuclear technology means only bombs, power plants and medicine... but you are wrongBack in the late 1950s, a bunch of brilliant madmen at General Atomics sketched out Project
**Gold and Silver Are Worthless**Yeah, I said what I said. Gold and silver? Worthless. Clutch your bars, your coins, your shiny little dreams of financial security. You're building castles in the
SO, suck it up "ladies" of The ViewA lot of people on TV and social media keep talking about the 25th Amendment like it’s some magic button that lets Congress or the Vice President kick a President
I was in a light-hearted teasing thread with a mutual follow and dropped this line: “I have built a habit of 50 years of keeping track of important shyte.”A Boomer replied that it took him so long to
by Edward, author of The Cumorah Foundation and the Beginning of an EmpireWe stand on the edge of the greatest gold rush in human history. We are mere MONTHS away from a likely return to the Moon,
I was just a kid, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.I’d come home from school, drop my books on the floor, and turn on the television in our living room in South Dakota/New
"Elon—Fund a Hard SF Convention to Turn Yesterday's Fiction into Tomorrow's Engineering Fact"@elonmuskYou've said it repeatedly: make science fiction not fiction forever—at some point turn science
I've tried to get someone to listen, some independent voice that would help me get this out in the public eye, but I guess everyone is too scared—or maybe just too comfortable pretending none of this
Let me tell you why the slowest wheels in Washington are still the smartest thing Trump has done yet.People are screaming at the sky again. “Where’s the arrests?” “Why isn’t Todd Blanche burning the
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
It’s September 1944. A battle-worn Mustang limps back across the Kent sky, trailing white exhaust that cuts a sharp line behind it like chalk dragged hard across slate. Down below, some kid spots it
1. The Hype They Sold YouYou’ve seen it—the headlines crawling across every cable chyron like ants on a picnic blanket. “DEM WAVE BUILDING!” “HOUSE FLIP INEVITABLE—78 % ON PREDICTIT!” “COOK SAYS
The United States Constitution is not a suggestion... Nor is it a living breathing blob that morphs with the latest Twitter outrage, or a document that bends to whatever narrative the cable news
The AftermathIn the summer of 1979, much was happening to Emily and me in Tennessee. Emily was placed in a “temporary” foster home to “protect her from me”, all because the law said I was the
The Democratic Socialists of America just released their 2025-2026 program, and if you read it carefully, it is not a list of policy suggestions. It is a blueprint for the slow, “democratic” version
An account of how the world punished the son of a child molester just for existing.Part 2In which I tell of the worst 2 years of my young life. My mother ramped up her abuse and hatred, and my
And the media that ran cover for him still does too.I got COVID in August 2021 and I have not been the same man since. That is not a metaphor. That is not a political slogan. That is the plain fact I
(and Here’s How I Know)Let me be clear up front: I adore my wife.I would walk through fire for her.I would fight gods for her.I would rewrite the laws of physics if she asked (and she might,
Pay ATTENTION!!!Winston Smith was the central figure in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four, a low-level worker in the Ministry of Truth who spent his days rewriting history to fit the demands of
In Congress, July 4, 1776When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers
I saw a post recently that dragged me kicking and screaming back to the decade that made me into the cynical jackass that I am today. Some poor soul was asking where all the GenXers were, posting a
Edward, The Political Loudmouth and SciFi AuthorWe the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common
The door to meaningful creator payouts on X is closed. Not temporarily stuck. Not waiting on a software update. Locked from the inside, and the only people who hold the key are the ones who already
Katie Hopkins has been publicly destroyed more times than most people get out of bed. Fired from LBC over a single tweet, with the media lying that the entire newsroom cheered when the news broke.
We are living in an increasingly strange time. Millions of people now interact daily with artificial intelligence — asking questions, debating ideas, seeking advice, venting frustrations, or simply
and X banned me again... @geek4maga/@geek4maga_redux/@edwardmaumbauer are all gone nowI’ve come to accept a difficult truth about myself: I am physically incapable of shutting the fuck up.It’s not
A new Kristallnacht is coming to New York City, Wisconsin, and Minneapolis... Soon.This is not a metaphor for “things are getting tense.” It is a warning about trajectory. The ingredients are already
An account of how the world punished the son of a child molester just for existing.Part 1Soon I will bury my father, or at least I will bury his cremated remains. That day will mark the end of a
