This is the best explanation between left and right I have heard in a long time! #RepublicanValues #democraticvalues

Huge accomplishment right here.

An X user fact checked my ‘unskilled labourers on Taxpayer funded sites in Victoria get double the pay of resident Doctors in Taxpayer funded hospitals on Sundays”. Truth is I’d already done this, I don’t post without checking, but I’m happy for anyone else to do it too. The @victorianlabor Government are controlled by the CFMEU, not the medical association, so the union get all the cash to go as slow as possible on worksites and sick honest Victorian’s have to go without proper care. There are so many brand new hospital wards empty in new Victorian Hospitals because the Labor/CFMEU coalition gouge so much taxpayer money during the hospital builds there’s none left to make any use of the new buildings to fulfill their purpose. How long as a state are we going to allow this to happen?
The new ‘integrity not optional’ Premier @BenCarrollMP is just lying his way through this election campaign, with every scare tactic under the sun again, so it leads me to believe that integrity will always be optional while @victorianlabor run Victoria.

Fact review
For 8 ordinary hours on a Sunday, first-year public hospital doctors get $517.42 while general unskilled labourers on the Suburban Rail Loop get $1,023.44 to $1,155.28 (including site allowance) — about twice to a bit over twice the doctor.

First-year doctor — Enterprise Agreement AE518015

Weekly base (first full pay period on/after 1 March 2025): $1,638.49 (HM11 Intern)
Ordinary hourly rate = weekly ÷ 38 = $43.1182/hour
Sunday ordinary hours: 150% (cl 37.2(a))
Calculation: $1,638.49 ÷ 38 × 1.5 × 8 = $517.42

SRL Unskilled TW1–TW4 — Enterprise Agreement AE532306
Sunday = double base (cls 39.7 / 44); site $11.15/hr all hours (PPC 1 July 2026)

TW1: $58.39 → $934.24 @ 2× + site = $1,023.44
TW2: $65.20 → $1,043.20 @ 2x + site = $1,132.40
TW3: $66.07 → $1,057.12 @ 2x + site = $1,146.32
TW4: $66.63 → $1,066.08 @ 2x + site = $1,155.28

References
AE518015:
[dms.fwc.gov.au/document-view/…](dms.fwc.gov.au/document-view/…)
Wages (FFPPOA 1 Mar 2025):
[westernhealth.org.au/sites/default/…](westernhealth.org.au/sites/default/…)
AE532306:
[fwc.gov.au/document-view/…](fwc.gov.au/document-view/…)

New York Democrats have declared WAR ON THE AMISH. Thanks to their unconstitutional attack on religion, they're now able to fine EACH unvaccinated Amish child $2,000 EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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The $118,000 bill is one day, not the cap. Three one-room schools alone already owe that t $2,000 each.
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Health Commissioner Mary Bassett imposed it on December 15, 2022. She called the sum conservative because it assumed only one day out of compliance.
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Dygert Road was billed $52,000 for 26 children. Pleasant View was billed $46,000 for 23.
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Shady Lane was billed $20,000 for 10.
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Footnote 9 of the Second Circuit opinion records the state's view. Each day an unvaccinated student attends is a fresh violation and a fresh $2,000 fine.
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Another day for those 59 children is another $118,000. A 180-day year at that rate is about $21 million, and the families say they cannot pay the first bill.
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Joseph Miller, Jonas Smucker, and Ezra Wengerd run the schools. The schools sit in Clymer and Heuvelton, plus the Canajoharie settlement, and take no public money.
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They had a religious exemption for decades. On June 13, 2019, Democrats repealed it after measles spread through Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Rockland County.
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Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill. Governor Kathy Hochul left it in force.
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A parent may not excuse a child for faith.
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Senator James Skoufis said the exemption was made up and fake. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz called it utter garbage.
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Counsel Aaron Siri told the New York Post the families can pay only if the state takes their land. Some in the community have talked of leaving the state.
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The case is Miller versus McDonald. The Second Circuit ruled against them on June 30 in 2026.
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A Supreme Court petition was due around September 28.

Make sure EVERYONE sees this. If WE don't stand up for these incredible men and women - WHO WILL?!?!?!
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Where is the “my body my choice crowd now”? 

I miss chatting about my broken yo-yo; it just doesn't come up very often

RT @SenatorAntic: Tomorrow in the Senate, my “No Jab No Pay” Repeal Bill finally gets to a vote.

If passed it would restore the basic rig…

Hello @Coles , care to explain why you're adding folic acid, a synthetic man made substance, to bread and not only that calling it a vitamin? It's classified as a drug and is contraindicated for various medical conditions such as cancer.

And how much are you adding? It doesn't say.

It's been a while, but this is worth celebrating with you all....

youtu.be/X-MOz5UKh_I

"Nobody loves Hughesy"
*turns off comments

One thing before I start: everything in this post is public information from my own docket. None of it is new, and I'm not revealing anything you can't already find in the court filings yourself.

The retrial just got pushed to April 26, 2027. The order came down today (Dkt. 300). My acquittal motion is still sitting there, undecided. I honestly don't know when this ends.

Prosecutors are supposed to protect American interests and go after people who broke the law. A jury deadlocked on the two most serious counts against me. And still SDNY won't stop, because this case was never just about me. It's about setting an example.

Don't take my word for it. Tara La Morte, the chief of SDNY's Illicit Finance and Money Laundering Unit, said it herself at a New York City Bar Association event (Law360, Feb. 23, 2024; filed on my docket as Doc. 25-2):

"We want the industry to take notice."

"What we're trying to do is sort of bring the industry into compliance, and I think Tornado Cash is an example of that."

An example. Out of a developer who wrote code.

At that same event, her deputy praised the government's blockchain-tracing partner, Chainalysis.

Here is what they didn't tell the audience. All of it is from the public docket in my case.

According to the trial transcripts, Chainalysis was running its OWN Tornado Cash relayer, and earning fees on the transactions flowing through it.

- Chainalysis's own lawyers admitted to "a relayer node that Chainalysis operated"; my subpoena sought documents on Tornado Cash relayer(s) "used from March to August 2022." (Dkt. 211)
- In open court, the prosecutor said it plainly: "I think the parties agree as to that part of the testimony, that the Chainalysis relayer earned fees." Same hearing: "there's zero evidence that the defendant was in any way aware that Chainalysis was running a relayer." (Dkt. 259, July 25, 2025)

So the company that helped trace my "criminal" transactions was itself profiting from Tornado Cash transactions, while I was prosecuted over software I helped create.

And when my lawyers subpoenaed them to testify?

- Chainalysis moved to quash. (Dkt. 211)
- The government backed them: "Your Honor, we agree with the position outlined in the motion." (Dkt. 255)
- The night before, prosecutors called Chainalysis's counsel. The judge asked point-blank: "Did you let them know that they were potentially subject to investigation or prosecution?" The answer: "We have discussed at a high level some of the issues surrounding the relayer with Chainalysis." (Dkt. 259)
- The Chainalysis witness took the Fifth. My lawyers learned about that call only afterward, from Chainalysis's own lawyer. (Dkt. 263)

The jury never heard any of it.

This spring, at the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, something happened that I still can't quite believe. The Acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche, and the FBI Director, Kash Patel, sat on a panel called "Code is Free Speech."

Think about that. The two top law enforcement officials in the country. Blanche told thousands of developers: if you're a coder and you're not the one committing the crime, "you are not going to be investigated and not going to be charged." He said the last administration's crypto cases were "outrageous attacks on the industry." Patel praised "the Chainalysises of the world" as FBI partners.

And when the moderator pointed at the elephant in the room, my case, Tornado Cash, Roman Storm, the Acting Attorney General called it a "lingering case" they are "continuing to deal with."

So here is my hypothetical question. If code is free speech, why am I still being prosecuted for writing it? And if the Chainalysises of the world are the partners, the same Chainalysis that ran its own Tornado Cash relayer and earned fees from Tornado Cash users, while I never did, why is it off the hook?

They made an example out of a developer for writing code. Their own vendor ran the same infrastructure, pocketed the fees, and got a phone call instead of a prosecution.

Sources 👇👇👇

TCG COLLECTORS ARE SLEEPING ON SPLINTERLANDS.

Eight years of cards. Provable scarcity. Rare foils. Digital binders. Real utility.

Collect them. Battle with them. Put them to work on land.

Build friendships. Join a global community. Become part of the game and help shape what re than collecting cards.

It’s finding where you belong. 🔥

🥳@splinterlands

Att single ladies; Slap on some lippy and get out there.
Thousands of wise, family minded lads are kicking their Clancyfan shrews to the curb right now.
This is a once in a generation opportunity.

@TRobinsonNewEra One day, there will be Nuremberg trials for those who enabled this

🚨🚨 It's time to prosecute the editors in chief of @Nature for conspiring to cover up the origins of the worst act of biological terrorism ever enacted on the world.

And no, I'm not kidding.

@RandPaul @SenRonJohnson forget #FifthFauci... These people enabled all of it.

Justice is served!

Due to the recent Splinterlands proposal, I've decided to substantially increase my accumulation of SPS.

My view is based on a simple business principle: expenses should be covered by income. If this proposal passes, I believe it gives much greater confidence that DEC will and that SPS at or below $0.005 also becomes a priority to defend.

This isn't financial advice, it's simply how I'm interpreting the long term incentives. If approved, the $0.005 level becomes significantly more important for SPS than it has been in the past.

That empty spot tho

🚨Big announcement from Asmongold!

He just said live on stream that he’ll be reading the entire UK Rape Gang Inquiry report word for word on stream.

With his huge audience of 3.4 million+ Twitch followers, this is going to reach a massive number of people.

No more relying on mainstream media spin.

Tune in to @Asmongold on Twitch tomorrow. This one’s important.

#Asmongold #RapeGangInquiry #GroomingGangs

Yesterday an elderly Australian man was forced through sheer desperation to use a gun on an intruder who had stabbed him and his wife.
Police have indicated charges won't be laid in his case which is a win for common sense, sure, but the particulars of his case were VERY specific, allowing him time to retrieve a gun from storage AFTER he and his wife were stabbed.
That is a luxury of time that most victims will never have, and this couple were very nearly killed because of Australia's gun laws and gun storage laws.
Common sense may have prevailed in this case, which I'm grateful for, but the fact remains that in Australia there's a very real possibility a victim may be charged with firearms offences or storage related offences just for the 'crime' of having the gun accessible in a moment of need.
More than that, if their attacker is hurt they may be charged with assault or even manslaughter if an attacker dies of the gunshot wounds inflicted by their victim.
Of course we dont know what the police will do in any given case, but that's the point.
There should be no uncertainty. The uncertainty of the 'process' is the punishment, often even in cases where no charges are laid. The quick 'no charges' decision in this case is the exception, not the rule.
In Australia we're not allowed to arm ourselves for our own protection, and if we do then in all but the most clear-cut circumstances we will face years of legal threat and uncertainty.
But when I advocate for self defence to be decriminalised, for castle law, and even yes for *gasp* legal gun carry, guns in homes, guns in shops, even grannies with guns *clutches pearls*, the immediate response is:
"Would you rather be like America???"
Its not a question, its an accusation. It's a received truth, an article of faith, that no sane person would want to be 'like America'.
I beg to differ. I first began researching US FBI crime statistics in 2010. I personally interviewed the statistician Davi Barker on the ACTUAL statistics of mass shootings in the US and world wide and my world changed.
I've been an outspoken gun and self defence advocate ever since, not that its done much good in Australia yet.
Recently I interviewed Dr John Lott when he visited Sydney. Again my world changed.
I already knew the US was a lot safer than most people think, but I didn't realise just how manipulated I'd been regarding crime stats in the US.
The reality now is that not only was the US already far safer than I thought, their crime rates are falling, for example murder is at an ALL TIME LOW.
And not only was Australia more violent than I thought, but as followers of this page well know, our violent crime rates are sky-rocketing to record levels, especially home invasions, stabbings / slashings, and car-jackings.
Those truths about our relative crime rates are hidden in the differences between our definitions of different crimes, and in reporting rates vs actual rates, and so the statistical malpractice continues largely unnoticed.
Given what I know, would I rather be 'like America' when it comes to guns and self defence?
Well I can tell you I'd like for my wife to be equipped to defend herself like the woman in this article by Dr John Lott, and like millions of US women, wives, mothers, and yes... grannies.
I'd also like to have a firearm in my home to protect my family in the event of a home invasion, like the one I posted about yesterday.
We're not all going to be lucky enough to have the minutes needed to retrieve a gun from a safe, ammunition from a locked box, install the firing pin, load, and then face our attacker.
Examples like what happened yesterday are vanishingly rare.
The right to self defence is a human right, it is ours by birthright, but that right is violated daily in Australia by our gun laws and our police who enforce them.
You have the 'right' to defend yourself in theory, but in practice you better watch yourself because if you prepared your home in advance then you're the criminal and whatever you did was 'premeditated', if you used a weapon you're almost certainly a criminal and even just a strategically placed baseball bat near a door is enough to see you dragged before a judge to explain yourself.
No, you're not allowed to prepare in advance, you have to improvise once the attack has started, use only what you can explain as 'lying around', even if you take the weapon off the attacker you'd better not use it on him because now he's 'disarmed' so you'd be assaulting him with a deadly weapon if you simply did to him what he broke in to your home to do to you.
Not to mention that if you make one wrong judgement call while fighting for your life and the life of your family, one moment of 'excessive force' you go directly to gaol, probably for longer than the person who smashed his way into your home.
'But its the police's job to protect you'.
Yep... that went well for Henry Nowak didn't it?
Even if police show up we know from bitter experience in Australia and around the world that we can't be sure whose side they'll be on, and whether they'll correctly understand the scene unfolding in front of them.
Here's the bitter pill no Aussie wants to swallow: It's not the police's job to protect you.
They have no obligation, no KPIs, and no liability when they fail. It's literally NOT their job.
The police's job is to give condolences to the widow while handing her a r4p3 kit and making empty promises about how they'll do everything they can to catch the thugs who should instead have been shot by her husband (or her) upon forced entry to her family home in the middle of the night.
This isn't about whether you 'know a police officer' and they're 'really lovely'... brave, moral, etc. I dont doubt you, I too personally know police officers and (with some exceptions I've encountered over the years) they're fine upstanding people who I'd chat with happily at a BBQ.
But that doesn't change the laws of physics or give them super powers.
When you need them they won't be there.
Not because they dont care, nor because they want you to die, in fact most of them would love nothing more than to be on-site to stop a crime instantly the moment it starts... that's literally why many of them joined in the first place... the hope of being there to save a life, stop a crime, catch a crook.
It's what many of them want to do more than anything, and that desire is a credit to them.
But what they WANT is irrelevant, and what they 'would do' IF they were there to protect you is meaningless.
They won't be there.
All their courage, care, and moral virtue, all their fitness training, gym time, range time, even the shiny badge will not change the fact that when you're fighting for your life not only will they NOT be there to help you, THEY are in fact the reason you're disarmed and struggling to help yourself.
Forget the good intentions (the pavers on the road to hell), the practical reality in Australia today is that the government and police have disarmed the victims of crime for the protection of criminals.
We have a government-run protection racket where the people most protected are the criminals who ignore the weapons laws and have near immunity from risk when committing violent crimes.
Would I rather be 'like America'?
When it comes to self defence and guns... yes. Yes i would.
Here's John's latest article: realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/…

Everyone be cool; this is a strobbery