T. Jefferson, POTUS @SupremeAlterego

@DonutOperator What has become of my beloved state?!?

Fresh off a stellar performance against Baylor, TCU punter John Hoyet Chance has been named to Ray’s 8 for the third time this season! Chance’s 40.4 yard punting average was the best of any Big 12 punter with at least six punts during Week 7. #GoFrogs

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A pool company flyer showed up in the mailbox Tuesday My wife left it on the counter Next to my keys Nothing was said Thursday at dinner she said the kids would love a pool I asked how much She said you can't put a price on summer I said the pool company did, it's on the flyer She said think of it as an investment in the family I made a note She said stop making notes I said we'd discuss it Saturday She agreed Saturday 7:04am She came downstairs in her robe Coffee in hand The back door was open My analyst was in the backyard Quarter zip Two iced coffees in the grass Laser measure in hand He had been measuring since 6:38am I texted him at 10:52pm Friday The text said backyard 6:45am bring the model and the laser He sent a thumbs up My wife stopped at the back door She said why is he in our yard I said you wanted to discuss the pool She said this is not a discussion She sat down at the patio table anyway A printed deck at each seat A third copy in case Slide 1 Build Cost > $118,000 gunite > $14,000 decking > $6,500 fence, city code > $3,800 landscaping repair All in $142,300 My wife said okay I said I'm not done Slide 2 Carrying Cost > $6,400 per year > Chemicals, heater, resurfacing reserve > Plus a man named Blake who comes on Tuesdays She said everyone with a pool has a Blake I said that's the problem Slide 3 Utilization The analyst modeled usage like a customer cohort > Year 1: 61 swims > Year 3: 19 swims > Year 5: the cover stays on Cost per swim by year 5: $711 She did not look Slide 4 Terminal Value > $142,300 invested at 10% instead > 60 years > $43 million She was quiet She said the kids are only young once I said the money is only young once too She said you can't swim in a brokerage account I said you can't compound in a pool My daughter walked in She is 3 Floaties already on Nobody had said the word pool to her She looked at the deck She looked at me She said Emma's pool has a frog in it She left My son walked in behind her He is 5 Dinosaur pajamas He looked at slide 3 He said what happens to the utilization curve when we're teenagers The analyst uncapped his pen My wife looked at the sky He said also is the $43 million nominal or real The analyst stopped writing She stood up She went inside The analyst started packing the laser He said should I get quotes for a smaller pool sir I said no Ordered a slip and slide instead $34 Arrives Tuesday Utilization guaranteed Sent from my iPhone

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this.

My wife mentioned a nice private school over dinner this week She said the campus was beautiful I asked what's the tuition She said we should look at it as an investment in him not a cost I made a note She said don't make a note I said I always make notes She said this isn't a deal I said everything is a deal She closed her eyes She said we'd discuss it Saturday I agreed Saturday 7:02am She came downstairs in her Saturday robe Coffee in hand I had my cargo shorts on The dining room had been cleared The projector was on The analyst was at the head of the table Quarter zip on, three iced coffees, a legal pad, and two laptops He had been there since 6:44am I texted him at 11:14pm Friday The text said dining room 6:45am bring the model He sent a thumbs up My wife stopped in the doorway She said what is this I said you said you wanted to discuss it She said this is not a discussion I did not respond She sat down anyway The analyst stood He said good morning ma'am She did not respond He sat back down A printed deck in front of each seat A fourth copy in case Slide 1 Tuition Schedule $38,500 per year Thirteen years $500,500 nominal Before escalators The school has raised tuition 4.2% per year for a decade With escalators $648,000 My wife said okay I said I'm not done Slide 2 Opportunity Cost Even before escalators $38,500 invested annually 10% nominal return S&P long-run average since 1928 By his eighteenth birthday $944,000 My wife said we can afford it I said I know that's not the slide Slide 3 Terminal Value at Age 65 $83 million She was quiet The analyst slid the sensitivity tables across the table 8% return $31 million 10% return $83 million 12% return $222 million She did not look She said this isn't about money I said it's always about money She said no it isn't I said then what is it about She did not answer She said you can't put a dollar value on his teachers his classmates his environment I said I can the analyst already did slide 6 He flipped to slide 6 She did not look She said the school is the best in the city I said best is a feeling She said it produces the best students I said the students were already the best before they got there She said our son deserves it I said our son deserves $83 million My son walked in He is five Dinosaur pajamas He looked at the projector He looked at the open deck on the table He looked at slide 3 He said are we modeling pre-tax or after-tax The analyst opened a new tab My wife looked at the ceiling He said what's the discount rate The analyst set down his pen She closed her eyes He said is this the same return assumption from the 529 conversation The analyst stopped typing He looked at me I did not say anything She stood up Sat back down He said dad can I help I said yes He pulled up a chair The analyst handed him a printout He started reading My wife watched him read She watched him for a long time She said his name He looked up She said do you like school He said the work is too easy and the kids don't ask questions She did not respond She looked at the ceiling She walked out of the room The analyst started packing up He said should I follow up Monday sir I said no follow up needed He'll be fine Sent from my iPhone

@Babygravy9 No comment.

@masterzofone @wbridgefa @rubiesforlife @mroctober Two out of three. Not bad for a newbie. We don’t count that hot 16 year old he picked up in college.

@idletexan Do you adjust for windage?

@idletexan @grok This is proof that AIs are trigger happy. Beware the Rise of the Machines.

Here is a very normal chart that we shouldn't debate or scrutinize in any way.

@CSOonX That’s a premature report. I have it on good authority that Kiffin and Rubio are the two front runners, and Jimmy Sexton is representing both.

@tickthief @idletexan @TheGreenOldDill @wbridgefa @bossadaguns @PoleDancingPooh @LakesFirearmsTr @DownGrayedd I can offer a single shot .50 BMG for your enjoyment…

@idletexan @SDSheriff Do it in another state. In fact, do EVERYTHING in another state.

1866: Cotton seeds are agricultural waste. After extracting cotton fiber, farmers are left with millions of tons of seeds containing oil that's toxic to humans. Gossypol, a natural pesticide in cotton, makes the oil inedible. The seeds are fed to cattle in small amounts or simply discarded. 1900: Procter & Gamble is making candles and soap. They need cheap fats. Animal fats work but they're expensive. Cotton seed oil is abundant and nearly worthless. If they could somehow make it edible, they'd have unlimited cheap raw material. The process they develop is brutal. Extract the oil using chemical solvents. Heat to extreme temperatures to neutralise gossypol. Hydrogenate with pressurised hydrogen gas to make it solid at room temperature. Deodorise chemically to remove the rancid smell. Bleach to remove the grey color. The result: Crisco. Crystallised cottonseed oil. Industrial textile waste transformed through chemical processing into something white and solid that looks like lard. They patent it in 1907, launch commercially in 1911. Now they have a problem. Nobody wants to eat industrial waste that's been chemically treated. Your grandmother cooks with lard and butter like humans have for thousands of years. Crisco needs to convince her that her traditional fats are deadly and this hydrogenated cotton-seed paste is better. The marketing campaign is genius. They distribute free cookbooks with recipes specifically designed for Crisco. They sponsor cooking demonstrations. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher: neither meat nor dairy. They run magazine adverts suggesting that modern, scientific families use Crisco while backwards rural people use lard. But the real coup happens in 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. They're a tiny organisation. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding, influence, and a major corporate sponsor who manufactures vegetable oil. 1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace it with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. The conflict is blatant. The organization issuing health advice is funded by the company that profits when people follow that advice. Nobody seems troubled by this. Newspapers report the guidelines as objective science. Doctors repeat them to patients. Government agencies adopt them into policy. Industrial cotton-seed oil, chemically extracted and hydrogenated, becomes "heart-healthy" while butter becomes "artery-clogging poison." 1980s: Researchers discover that trans fats, created by hydrogenation, directly cause heart disease. They raise LDL, lower HDL, promote inflammation, and increase heart attack risk more than any other dietary fat. Crisco, as originally formulated, is catastrophically unhealthy. This takes 70 years to officially acknowledge. Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent. Modern seed oils remain. Soybean, canola, corn, safflower oils everywhere. Same chemical extraction process. Same high-temperature refining. Same oxidation problems. Just without hydrogenation so trans fats stay below regulatory thresholds. These oils oxidise rapidly when heated. They integrate into cell membranes where they create inflammatory signalling for months or years. They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels. But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start. Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history. We traded animal fats that built civilisations for factory waste that causes disease. The soap company won. Your health lost.

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse. This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s. The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity. I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night. Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war. We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread. Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore. It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.

The activist class has urged white progressives to take to the streets and put their bodies on the line. They are doing so. The idea was that a different standard of force would be applied to white people because the country is systemically racist. That theory appears to be incorrect.

I’ve never related to a face so much 🤣 Whenever you hear one of em just yappin like that…

Absolutely incredible write up here. This may well be the greatest op in human history. My opinion, it surpasses Entebbe, Princess Gate, and anything else I know of. substack.com/inbox/post/183…

Happy January 6th everyone. May all the doors be opened for you and may you be welcomed in by those inside.

Important thread. Good work, @kevinnbass!

Kevin Bass @kevinnbass

10 months ago

I crunched the data. Again. I made a map. Again. The picture is now even CLEANER. States without voter ID requirements are 16x more likely to offer welfare benefits to illegal immigrants than states requiring ID (67% vs 4%, p<0.0001). Dems are importing and paying illegals

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