THE PURPOSE OF A SYSTEM IS WHAT IT DOES:

As Thomas Sowell has pointed out, it’s a mistake to judge a law or program by the stated good intentions of its creators. You have to judge it by the incentives it creates. This program creates vast financial incentives for fraud…so that’s what we get.

— Jim Williams (@Alpowolf) December 31, 2025

Related:

DAVID SACKS: "In California, we have $24 billion going to homeless programs, and yet the number of homeless people keeps rising.

They can't pass an audit. The state refuses to even permit an audit. We know there's massive fraud going on in that program." pic.twitter.com/Nx7wFR3OOg

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) December 31, 2025

PETER THIEL: FLORIDA MAN.

NEW: Peter Thiel is opening an office in Miami for his personal investment firm, Thiel Capital.

Thiel just put out this press release. Why? Because he is trying to show publicly that he is a taxpayer in Florida, not California.

Note that it says the lease was signed Dec. 2025. pic.twitter.com/S9qh1nf1pX

— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) December 31, 2025

CONGRATS TO THE FINNS. WELL DONE!

Permanently seize the ship and the cargo. Prosecute the ship's officers for espionage and sell the cargo and the ship. Use the money to repair the damage to the cables. pic.twitter.com/EHvyUGbzbb

— John Bulkeley (@bulkeley_john) December 31, 2025

WHEN A GUY NAMED “CATTURD” IS THIS OPTIMISTIC, ATTENTION MUST BE PAID:

2026 is gonna be the best year ever for the United States.

Block or mute all black pill, Panican, pessimistic losers.

100 things can be going perfectly and one thing wrong. And they’ll dwell on that one thing wrong all day, every day, on X.

Eliminate these losers from your…

— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) December 31, 2025

Actually, I kinda think he may be right.

WELL, DAVID FRENCH:

I’m an AO OG, but if @DavidAFrench is referencing MAGA’s critique of the MSM’s coverage of the recent rampant fraud in MN and elsewhere, respectfully, he’s just wrong.

I’m a regular reader of both the @nytimes and @StarTribune, and helped prosecute fraud in MN as an AUSA.

No… https://t.co/1BbKP2M2aW

— Joe Teirab (@JoeTeirab) December 31, 2025

OPEN THREAD: Party on. 2025 has exceeded my expectations, and I expect 2026 to be an excellent year.

EVENTUALLY: Space debris led to an orbital emergency in 2025. Will anything change?

WHY DO MEN HAVE BEARDS? An Evolutionary Explanation.

GODSPEED, IRANIAN CITIZENS:

“The Iranian uprising is a nightmare for the Western left.
No Gaza, no profitable victimhood, no veil to defend, just a people who want freedom.
So they look the other way, they stifle, they stay silent.
The truth disturbs more than the mullahs.”#Iran https://t.co/NRFecFJsR4

— Sativa (@Sativa888) December 31, 2025

Related: Iran says regime loyalist killed as protests turn violent.

Chances of Iran regime falling surge as unrest spreads.

Iranian protests expand beyond economy as students demand freedom, end to regime rule.

UPDATE:

BREAKING:

The Iranian anti-regime protesters have taken control of the city of Ramhormoz in the Khuzestan Governorship.

They are now burning down the regime’s local government HQ pic.twitter.com/AjaK0hJ7NZ

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 1, 2026

#JOURNALISM:

We found the first immigrants that liberal writers at the New York Times are prepared to criticise: white Americans pic.twitter.com/9Wab4CdRa3

— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) December 30, 2025

POWER ISN’T THEIR CHIEF VALUE. IT’S THEIR ONLY VALUE.

Elon Musk: The people demanding vaccine passports are the same ones who say you don't need an ID to vote.

“Hillary and Obama in prior speeches were hard-nosed about not letting in anyone who's a criminal into the country, having secure borders, all that stuff. So why did they… pic.twitter.com/xyJbqSrLsk

— ELON CLIPS (@ElonClipsX) December 31, 2025

HAHA: Is our children learing?

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: AI model uses social media posts to predict unemployment rates ahead of official data.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: After 26 Years, Gary, Indiana’s Long-Running Lawfare Assault on Gun Makers Finally Comes to an End.

TO BE FAIR, I AM PROBABLY DELICIOUS: Would my dog or cat really eat me if I died alone?

IT’S NOT A DEFECT, IT’S AN ADAPTATION: Loss of vitamin C synthesis protects animals from deadly schistosome infection.

SHUT IT ALL DOWN:

Wow it's crazy that vandals would steal *checks notes* all the evidence that investigators would want. https://t.co/nQXSfJUNuC

— Upstate Federalist (@upstatefederlst) December 31, 2025

SKYNET, AND HOWARD WOLOWITZ, SMILE: Researchers make “neuromorphic” artificial skin for robots.

HMM: Older Americans Quit Weight-Loss Drugs in Droves: In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects.

GOOD. Yes, The Trump/Bondi DOJ Is Aggressively Pursuing Multiple Fraud Investigations In Minnesota — Here Are The Details. “Social media is INFESTED with mis- and dis-information merchants peddling falsehoods about the DOJ efforts in Minnesota before and after January 20, 2025.”

LOL: ‘Hatecrimed five times in one night’ – here are the 31 campus hoaxes uncovered in 2025.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Son of Minnesota AG collecting $110,000 city salary despite full-time Harvard fellowship 1,000 miles away.

I DROVE A SELF-DRIVING TESLA THROUGH ATLANTA TRAFFIC THIS WEEKEND. I’ll be posting a report soon.

I am proud to announce that I have successfully completed the world’s first USA coast to coast fully autonomous drive!

I left the Tesla Diner in Los Angeles 2 days & 20 hours ago, and now have ended in Myrtle Beach, SC (2,732.4 miles)

This was accomplished with Tesla FSD V14.2… pic.twitter.com/DFA8HiH5Yf

— David Moss (@DavidMoss) December 31, 2025

SPECIAL NEW YEAR’S EVE MORNING OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

REMINDER:

In a year when maybe the most influential conservative speaker was shot and killed in the neck in front of the whole country in daylight. The most viral assassination in American History. And @joshgerstein still hit SEND.

Do you think he just did that by accident?

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) December 31, 2025