Why did politicians send war plans on Signal? They didn’t. Those were W.A.R schematics which are different. 🤪

To better understand the odds for success of the economic policies of the new Trump Administration, it helps to talk to someone with first-hand experience in managing the Federal budget.

Today's guest, has been a true insider in both Washington DC and Wall Street for his extremely long & accomplished career.

We're fortunate today to speak with former Congressman, economic policymaker & financier, David Stockman -- who served a the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan.

He's also the author of the new book: 'How To Cut $2 Trillion: A Blueprint From Ronald Reagan’s Budget Cutter To Musk, Ramaswamy And The DOGE Team'.

We'll hear his advice for bringing the runaway fiscal deficit under control, and whether he thinks the Administration is indeed up to the task.

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#running #trailrunning #laufen #video

How a helicopter built of phone parts survived Mars for 3 years.

The work is mysterious and abhorrent.

Imagine clocking out of politics like the employees in “Severance” do with work. Too bad reality doesn’t have an “outie” mode.

Good intentions, bad results. Watch the whole series: #^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUrH4Sbgh8&list=PLBuns9Evn1w9XhnH7vVh_7C65wJbaBECK&index=1

New York Times columnist and linguist John McWhorter discusses the rise and fall of "woke," DEI and affirmative action, and his new book on the history of pronouns.

Is the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cleaning house and gutting the federal bureaucracy, or overstepping the limits of executive power while failing to cut much spending?

Could it be a bit of both?

Learn about the first Total Lunar Eclipse we've had since November 2022!

Big news in our fight against civil forfeiture! We just closed a loophole that let Nevada law enforcement skirt state law to take your stuff.

In the 1970s the government passed the Bank Secrecy Act. It required banks to keep records on customers and report any transaction over $10,000. Today the surveillance keeps expanding.

"Somehow they have the impression that if the money comes from Washington, somebody else is going to pay for it."

Milton Friedman reminds us of an uncomfortable truth: That "somebody else" is you.

Meet the man who is practically the patron saint of Gracearchy. Daryl Davis is a blues and rock-n-roll pianist who spent three decades touring with Chuck Berry and other notable acts. Daryl has also been the subject of an award-winning documentary and is a sought-after speaker because... Music is Daryl's profession, but race relations is his obsession.

Bret Weinstein speaks with Jo Ellis, the transgender pilot with the Virginia National Guard who was wrongfully targeted by social media users as the captain of the Black Hawk helicopter that tragically crashed.

#^Is The Penny *Finally* Dead?

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All 5 of the naked eye planets are going to “line up” in the sky during the second part of February 2025!

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#^My Statement to Congress

Opening remarks on John Kerry, European speech law, and USAID before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he has instructed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to halt the production of pennies, citing the high cost of producing one cent.

#^Why does the U.S. keep making pennies?

The penny costs over 3 cents to make and cost US taxpayers over $179 million in FY2023. Yet we still produce billions of pennies a year. Why do we keep making them? And where do they all go?

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Bret Weinstein speaks with Dr. Toby Rogers on the subject of the economics of autism.

"If there hadn't been a Thomas Drake, there couldn't have been an Edward Snowden."
-- Edward Snowden

Donald Trump is threatening to abolish the Department of Education. Should you freak out?

#video #politics #education #humor

The ultimate guide to actual weight loss results! This one of a kind video will explore the most tried and true weight loss methods to discuss what works!

#video #health #science

#^Tragic Pharma Magic in the Confirmation of RFK Jr.

Walter Kirn shares his perspective after sitting front row in the confirmation hearing of RFK Jr.

Why do Democrats and Republicans behave like this in every confirmation hearing ever?

Donald Trump is releasing more secrets than any president in history. Matt Taibbi on the top ten mysteries we’re likely to solve.

(0:00) Fauci’s Pardon
(7:32) The J6 Committee’s Pardon
(11:02) The Golden Age of Journalism Has Begun
(17:44) The Major Questions We Should Be Asking Now That Trump Is President
(29:00) The Destruction of Nord Stream Will Kill the EU
(33:57) The Key Players of COVID That Have Yet to Be Investigated
(36:20) The New Media Landscape
(45:17) Trump’s Mass Disclosure Will Make Certain People Very Dangerous
(51:13) Will We Ever Truly Know the Purpose of the COVID Regime?
(58:45) Russiagate and the Leaked DNC Emails
(1:03:28) Kash Patel and Political Espionage
(1:20:30) The Intel Agencies That Control Wikipedia
(1:33:47) How They Try to Brainwash Us Into Submission

The founder of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer, discusses whether conspiracy thinking is on the rise and whether it's coded right or left.

"Even paranoids have real enemies," said the poet Delmore Schwartz, who was both clinically paranoid and definitely on to something, according to today's guest: Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic magazine, Substack superstar, and author of many best-selling books about rationalism, the evolution of morality, and pseudoscience.

He quotes Schwartz in his latest book, Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational, to drive home the point that big, world-changing secret plots happen all the time, but there are reliable ways for us to decide whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, 9/11 was an inside job, or vaccines cause autism. For the record, Shermer says yes, no, and no on those counts.

Reason's Nick Gillespie talks with Shermer about whether conspiracy thinking is on the rise, whether it's coded left or right, how wokeness poisons science, and whether the reelection of Donald Trump means free thought is ascendant. This interview was recorded at a live event in New York City in January.

#^Woman Taken to Court Over Christmas Decorations

IJ condemns the city of Germantown, Tennessee for its brazen violation of Americans’ free speech rights after it cited Alexis Luttrell, a Germantown resident, for violating the city’s sign code.

Her supposed crime: Incorporating Halloween decorations like skeletons into her Christmas yard display.

You would think that only a grinch would look at Luttrell’s decorations and think they deserve a court summons.

But IJ cases from over a decade show that officials across the country regularly abuse ordinary Americans by acting like the “speech police.”

Lee Schmidt and Crystal Arrington live in and around Norfolk, Virginia. Like most ordinary people, they have daily routines. Work, church, trips to the store, visits with family, school pickups. And like most ordinary people, they don’t like the thought of somebody following them around and watching their every move.

But that is exactly what the city of Norfolk is doing. In 2023, the city installed over 172 cameras around town. These are not your standard traffic cameras. The cameras are strategically placed to capture everybody’s daily travel. They’re straight-up surveillance cameras, set up to watch people 24/7 as they go about their lives.

As the police chief has explained, “it would be difficult to drive anywhere of any distance without running into a camera somewhere.”

The cameras snap photos of every car as they drive by and upload them into a database. Officials can then use this database to go back in time and create maps of where people have been, where they tend to drive, and even who they tend to meet up with. All of this happens without a warrant or even probable cause.  

But the Fourth Amendment doesn’t allow the government to set up a surveillance state. If the city wants to track suspicious people, it can do what the police have always done: get a warrant. What the city can’t do, though, is watch ordinary people everywhere they go and create a record of their lives without any judicial oversight. Lee and Crystal, with help from the Institute for Justice, are suing to make sure of that.

During the Great Depression, Roscoe Filburn grew more wheat than the government allowed. He got fined and fought back in court. In 1942, the Supreme Court ruled the government did have the power to regulate wheat that never left his property. It’s a ruling that has paved the way for even more government power over the stuff we do on our own property.

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On this channel we conduct deep-dive discussions with hundreds of experts a year, doing our best to see through their eyes and chart a wise course through the economic waters ahead.

But with all the different approaches, opinions and conclusions, it's important to remind ourselves not to overcomplicate things.

The fundamentals to wealth building aren't rocket science.

And for most non-professional investors, keeping it simple, consistent and disciplined makes success more attainable.

In fact, today's guest claims that everything the average investor needs to know can fit on a standard index card.

So what's on that card? We'll ask the man himself.

Today we'll talk with Harold Pollack, University of Chicago Professor and co-author of the best-seller The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated

Folks if you have children in college or starting out in life, this may be a particularly valuable discussion for them to hear.

Can he do it? It depends.

Are you afraid of being mistaken or outed as a white supremacist? Doctors say Americans accidentally make Nazi salutes six to eight times a year. That’s why we’ve made Shoulderlok.

Students are taught to report anyone who "offends" them.

Universities even provide hotlines.

The new documentary, “The Coddling of the American Mind" points out how that hurts students.

Here are a few students’ experiences with campus indoctrination:

#^Everything ILLEGAL Trump Has Done (SO FAR)

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Can you trust Mark Zuckerberg? This episode dives into Meta’s sweeping policy changes and question whether they reflect a commitment to free expression or strategic pandering. We analyze his six-point plan, including community-driven content moderation and efforts to fight global censorship. Along the way, we explore the limits of shame, the Popper Paradox, and why fostering trust and Grace is essential for meaningful societal change.

Partisan pundits cover Trump's inauguration.

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The secret to why government spending fails isn't what you think. It's not corruption. It's not incompetence. It's something far simpler that happens to all of us every day. Milton Friedman breaks it down perfectly in this 2-minute clip that will change how you think about government spending forever.

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#^Far Out Journal Club -  Tim Russ (December 5, 2024)

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As we begin a new year, I thought it appropriate to continue Thoughtful Money's ongoing commitment to highlighting the principles components of true wealth -- of which money is simply a means, not the end in itself.

Research tells us that true wealth is primarily a function of quality relationships, purpose & health.

And today, we're going to drill down deep into the purpose part of that equation.

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Whitney roasts The Democrats, Hunter Biden, the Menendez brothers, Luigi (last name) Hollywood, The Corporate Media, Big Pharma, and all things 2024...

Robby Soave and Amber Duke react to the Wall Street Journal's coverage of President Biden's cognitive decline since the beginning of his term and why it was just reported on now.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slated to head the Department of Health and Humans Services in 2025. Under this government agency is the CDC, the FDA, and the NIH! These three bodies have an immeasurable influence over what ends up in your body, yes, YOUR body! This video highlights the challenges the United States faces with regulatory government bodies, including corruption.

#^Babylon 5

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#^Chiron Beta Prime

This video is part of the Jonathan Coulton Project, which is a #video podcast that makes music videos for Jonathan Coulton songs.

#^Boeing charged HOW MUCH for a soap dispenser!?

A whistleblower called to report a tip that Boeing massively overcharged the Air Force for soap dispensers on their C-17 cargo plane. So the government did an investigation and it turns out Boeing charged an 8,000 percent markup on 44 generic looking soap dispensers costing taxpayers an extra $150,000.

Can the government take your property just to hand it over to your business competitor?

That is the question New York developer Bryan Bowers is asking the United States Supreme Court after New York’s courts said it was perfectly fine for a county redevelopment agency to condemn his property and give it to a rival developer to use as a private parking lot. In most states, that kind of one-to-one transfer of property between private owners would be forbidden—or at least be subject to serious judicial scrutiny. In New York, though, it’s business as usual.

The culprit is the Supreme Court’s much-maligned 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London. In that case, the Court blessed the condemnation of the working-class Fort Trumbull neighborhood—not to build a road or a school, but because the government wanted to hand the land over to new private owners who would pay more in taxes. The Constitution says eminent domain is reserved for public uses, like building roads or parks, but the Court held that the public-use requirement was satisfied by the prospect of the public benefiting from claimed higher tax revenues.

The backlash to Kelo was swift and widespread. Between legislation, constitutional amendments, and court decisions, 47 states changed their laws to make Kelo-style private-purpose takings more difficult. But in the few states that didn’t, eminent domain abuse continues to occur.

Bryan’s case gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to reconsider and hopefully overturn its decision in Kelo and to restore some constitutional protections against eminent-domain abuse—an opportunity that several Justices have publicly supported.

Learn more about this important case at IJ.org

Chris and guest, Tracy Thurman, highlight the toxicity of the food system, the transformative power of dietary changes, particularly raw milk, and the need for individuals to make informed, healthier food choices.

#^How the Electoral College's "winner-takes-all" works

Based on the book Winner-Takes-All: The Secret History of the Electoral College

Ever notice how biased news articles can be? Harvard economist Roland Fryer explores a surprising truth: When consumers demand biased news, more competition leads to more bias, not less.

Discover how market forces and consumer demand——not corporate control——shape today’s news landscape and why media companies mirror their readers’ political preferences instead of challenging them.

Join Fryer as he explains why the solution to media bias starts with our own choices about what media we consume. Are you ready to step outside your comfort zone?

The freedom to explore new ideas, especially when they don't conform to existing understanding, is critical for the advancement of science—just ask Galileo!

Dogma isn't exclusive to any particular school of thought.

Being able to challenge dogma, even when that challenge is upsetting or just incorrect, is how we advance our understanding of the universe around us.

Scapegoating CEO's Won't Fix U.S. Healthcare. So What Will?
In the wake of the assassination of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson, we delve into the deep-seated issues plaguing American healthcare. Why did Brian Thompson’s death elicit schadenfreude? This episode explores the satisfaction some felt at Thompson's demise. Jim sees Girardian scapegoating at play. Jim exposes the hidden costs of "free" government services and challenges both the cathartic allure of human sacrifice and the illusions maintained by central planners. Discover the root problems and the misrepresented solutions in this timeless critical analysis.

Glenn Greenwald and Elizabeth Price Foley debate the president's immunity from prosecution for official acts.

Did the Supreme Court err in its July 1 ruling that "the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority"? That's the subject of this month Soho Forum debate. Law professor Elizabeth Price Foley and journalist Glenn Greenwald debate the resolution, "Presidential immunity for official acts is a key factor in the proper functioning of the U.S. government's executive branch."

Defending the resolution is Foley, a Professor of Law at Florida International University, where she teaches constitutional law and separation of powers. She has testified before Congress on numerous constitutional topics, and is the author of three books on constitutional law.

Arguing for the negative is Greenwald, a journalist and podcaster who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the NSA-Snowden revelations. He left The Intercept in 2020 to become independent, and is now the host of SYSTEM UPDATE nightly on Rumble.

The moderator is Soho Forum director Gene Epstein.

Make sure you share this with your friends so they don't get ripped off! Learn how to change out the Blinker Fluid in your car or truck with my easy to follow how-to video!

Argentina elected the first self-identified libertarian president in history. Is he a madman? Or a savior?

Can his libertarian ideas transform Argentina into a beacon of prosperity? Reason visited Argentina to find out if Javier Milei's reforms are working.

In New York City, 32 percent of all McFlurry machines are broken. In San Antonio, it’s 20 percent. In D.C. 13 percent of McFlurry machines are currently broken. What’s happening?

It turns out for decades, McDonald's franchise owners haven’t been allowed to repair their own machines.

You probably don’t understand how a rainbow really works.

Can Potassium lower blood pressure? This video was made to highlight how potassium can positively impact blood pressure. Whether it be from an apple, a banana, or an avocado, potassium has the power to redirect sodium and significantly influence blood pressure.

Yesterday, the Department of Justice suspended the Drug Enforcement Administration’s controversial practice of having agents intercept travelers, interrogate them, and insist on searching their bags in what the agency calls “consensual encounters.”

That suspension comes on the heels of an Office of the Inspector General report that criticizes the practice and refers to shocking footage of one traveler’s experience, which IJ released on YouTube in July.

Aftershock II is believed to be the world’s first civilian-built rocket to reach an altitude of 470,000 feet. The latest rocket designed and built by the student-run USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, has broken the international altitude record – reaching further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before.

This is a clip from our show SYSTEM UPDATE, now airing every weeknight at 7pm ET on Rumble.

#^Empathy: The Human Connection to Patient Care

Patient care is more than just healing -- it's building a connection that encompasses mind, body and soul. If you could stand in someone else's shoes . . . hear what they hear. See what they see. Feel what they feel. Would you treat them differently?

Folks are laughing at the Harris campaign for raising over a billion dollars, losing the race, and allegedly winding up $20 million in debt. Can you imagine somebody that bad at math being in charge of the federal budget?

Political scientists Hyrum and Verlan Lewis discuss the 2024 election and the power of self-narratives in American politics.

In the wake of massive victories by Donald Trump and Republicans, here's a question worth asking: What does today's GOP really stand for? Longstanding support for free trade and overseas wars seems to have been replaced with tariffs and non-interventionism.

Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis are the authors of The Myth of Left and Right. They argue that the way we talk about the political spectrum misleads and confuses us because it reduces complex special-interest coalitions to one or two issues that really aren't representative of what the parties actually stand for. As a result, they say that the next four years will be as fractious within the GOP (and the Democratic Party too) as the last four.

Bret Speaks with Kevin McKernan on the subject of accountability and the dangers of centralized control in public and science. They discuss the complexities surrounding COVID vaccines, molecular biology, and the implications of PCR testing.

The conversation touches on regulatory oversight, potential fraud in vaccine production, and the controversial presence of SV40 in vaccines, raising critical questions about public health and safety.