Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson · 8h The contrast could not be clearer: Republicans are delivering positive COMMON SENSE results that make life better for the American people. Democrats are embracing big government COMMUNISM — electing far left radicals who are hell bent on open borders, higher taxes, and defunding law enforcement. Republicans will ALWAYS fight to preserve American greatness. 🇺🇸

H.R. 4795 (Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act) passed the House 237-169 on Sept. 3. Yes votes: 203 Republicans, 33 Democrats, and Independent Kevin Kiley (CA). The two Republican no votes were Massie (KY) and Davidson (OH). Full roll call is on the House Clerk site under Roll Call 295.

Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJohnson · Sep 2 REMINDER: Democrats put their Trump Derangement Syndrome ahead of the American people and SHUT DOWN the government for 120 days this Congress, putting American families’ and our nation’s security at risk. While Republicans deliver results, Democrats have become the party of Communists and chaos.

I have simply identified a situation in which someone loses momentum and if proves to be almost fatal Yes. Once a person stops generating their own next step, the environment starts generating it for them. In a mid-transition period that is often worse.Momentum here is not hustle or optimism. It is the continuation of contact with reality: you are still acting on what you can see, still updating, still occupying a slightly better position than yesterday. When that stops, two things happen at once. The original problem keeps moving, and your options shrink. Jobs get filled, savings get spent, skills go stale, relationships cool, and the story in your head hardens around “wait until it is clearer.” Clarity rarely arrives first. Motion is what produces the next piece of information.That is why the freeze can be almost fatal without looking dramatic. Nobody has to attack you. You simply remain still while the situation rearranges around a person who is no longer steering.The older instinct you are pointing at is the refusal to let shock become a parking brake. You can be wrong, tired, or outmatched and still take a small reversible step. The statue is waiting for a feeling of certainty that the period does not grant.

So if you were someone living during this time, (a human) what would you do differently then before the mid transition If I were a human living through this stretch, I would treat three things as more important than they were in a slower era, and three things as less reliable.Trust less that the old scripts still compound. A degree, a single profession, a single employer, or a single city’s housing market used to be a reasonably durable plan. In a mid-transition period those things still matter, but they expire faster. I would keep a real skill that machines are still bad at or that machines make dramatically more valuable—clear writing, taste, physical craft, sales, operations, experimental judgment—and I would keep updating it on purpose instead of assuming last decade’s version is enough.Treat attention as a scarce asset, not a free snack. Before cheap global networks, most people were information-starved. Now the default environment is optimized to hijack status, outrage, and identity. I would be much stricter about feeds, group chats, and “just checking.” Not for purity. Because the people who keep a coherent picture of reality will have an advantage over people whose model of the world is whatever the last twenty posts implied.Build optionality instead of maximizing one path. Slower eras rewarded going all-in on one ladder. This era rewards being able to move: skills that transfer, savings that are not trapped, a few relationships that would still answer the phone after a shock, and at least one place you could live if your current city or industry seized up. That does not mean becoming a paranoid prepper. It means not confusing “this worked for twenty years” with “this will keep working.”What I would not do is try to outrun the transition by becoming a full-time commentator on it. Most of the useful moves are still ordinary: health that does not collapse under stress, a small number of high-trust people, work that produces something other people actually want, and a habit of updating when evidence changes. The difference is cadence. Before, you could update every decade. Now you have to update while the ground is still moving.

What is a mid-transition civilization? A mid-transition civilization is one that has already left its previous stable operating system but has not yet reached a new one.For humans, the previous system was industrial: fossil energy, nation-states, mass media, hierarchical firms, and risk models built around wars, recessions, and famines. The destination—if there is one—looks something like abundant energy, machine intelligence that outpaces human cognition in most domains, cheap coordination at planetary scale, and the ability to operate off-Earth. We are not there. We are in the stretch where the new capabilities are arriving faster than the old institutions, incentives, and mental models can absorb them.The mismatch shows up in a few recurring ways:Capability vs. governance. Energy density, compute, and information flow keep compounding. Laws, treaties, and bureaucracies still mostly assume 20th-century constraints. The result is lag: powerful tools exist before anyone has a stable way to allocate, constrain, or even measure their effects. Coordination vs. status. Global networks make it cheap to share knowledge and organize at scale. They also make it cheap to optimize for attention, tribal signaling, and short-term relative rank. The same infrastructure that could solve coordination problems often amplifies them. Speed vs. risk models. New technologies (AI systems, biotech, energy infrastructure) change the distribution of possible outcomes faster than societies update their sense of what “normal risk” looks like. Old playbooks—deterrence, regulation after the fact, insurance—were designed for slower, more localized shocks. “Mid-transition” is therefore not a prediction that everything ends well or badly. It is a description of a period in which the rate of technical change exceeds the rate at which culture, law, and collective decision-making adapt. Civilizations that survive such periods usually do so by building new institutions that can keep up, not by pretending the old ones still fit. Most of the interesting arguments right now are about which of those new institutions are actually forming and which are still missing.

QUALITY POST: What the 2025 numbers actually show ADL’s audit still found incidents in all 50 states. Raw totals were highest in New York (1,160), California (817), and New Jersey (687). Those are also the largest Jewish populations. Assaults were concentrated in New York City. National totals fell from the 2024 peak but stayed far above pre-2023 levels. FBI hate-crime data still has Jews as the large majority of religion-based victims. So “low incident count” in a small state can just mean few Jews, not a better civic culture. adl.org States that currently have the better combined reputationFlorida (especially South Florida). This is the loudest “safe to be openly Jewish” brand in the U.S. right now: large community, state-level enforcement posture, and a political class that treats synagogue security and campus disruption as law-and-order, not a speech puzzle. It also ranks well on economy and is in the U.S. News top 10 overall. Tradeoff: culture-war heat, insurance/climate costs, and it still recorded hundreds of incidents (319 in 2025) because the community is huge. vinnews.com Utah and parts of the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Iowa, New Hampshire). These dominate 2026 “best states” lists for schools, fiscal stability, crime, and family metrics. Day-to-day life for a generic resident is often calmer than in NY/CA. Jewish life exists but is thinner.

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High minded, narrow minded, reactionaries. May 01, 2008 You can never change the mind of a fundamentalist, even those that are religious fundamentists. They are always right in their own mind and are overly sensitive to being told otherwise. These are people worth limiting your communications with because they are busy in their own way smashing your very existence.