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Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Central planning isn’t just inefficient 
It can be deadly
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Handre @Handre
The Soviet Union turned the Aral Sea from the world's fourth-largest lake into a toxic wasteland in just forty years, directly causing one of history’s worst human-caused ecological catastrophes.
Adding to central planning's disastrous environmental record: when bureaucrats control resources, they destroy them faster than any capitalist ever could.
In 1960, Moscow's planners decided Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan should grow cotton for the empire. They diverted the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers to irrigate two million hectares of desert. The Aral Sea, deprived of its water sources, began shrinking immediately. By 2000, it had lost 75% of its volume. Today, rusted fishing boats sit in what locals call the Aralkum Desert.
The economic logic was textbook central planning stupidity. Cotton prices were set artificially high by the state, making the crop appear profitable on paper. The true costs never entered any calculation: the destruction of a fishing industry that employed 60,000 people, the collapse of local climate patterns, the salt storms that now poison crops 500 kilometers away. Private property owners would have factored these externalities into their decisions. The Politburo simply ignored them.
Markets can misprice things temporarily. States can eliminate entire ecosystems permanently. The Aral Sea disaster killed 24 fish species, created 150,000 square kilometers of new desert, and gave the region some of the world's highest rates of throat cancer and kidney disease.
Private actors respond to price signals and bear the costs of their mistakes. Central planners respond to political signals and force others to bear the costs of their disasters.
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2061087592079343827

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Umm … what?
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John Solomon @jsolomonReports
Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico's church includes porn in its library: critics
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/texas-democratic-senate-nominee-james-talaricos-church-includes-porn-its
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2060959032442290447

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Let’s leave NATO
Before Europe becomes our problem
https://x.com/marionawfal/status/2060937991489466640
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2060958566064980223

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - New Jersey is a fallen state
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Nick Sortor @nicksortor
Video: BREAKING: Anti-ICE rioters are now STEALING items from local businesses and SETTING FIRES in the street near ICE Newark
Police  are a QUARTER MILE AWAY
TOTAL ANARCHY
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2060958025838653935

Mila Joy @Milajoy - In less than 24 hours, Tina Peters will be FREE. 
It's about damn time.
https://x.com/Milajoy/status/2061206694945054767

NASA @NASA - New data from @NASAWebb shows that supermassive black holes can grow to their current size without a much larger host galaxy to feed them.
This helps to explain why some black holes in the early universe got so big so quickly. 
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-reveals-black-hole-that-formed-before-its-galaxy/
https://x.com/NASA/status/2060452257406005586

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin - Happy Birthday
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Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts
#HappyBirthday to ASE Life Member and ASE-USA Vice President @CommanderMLA, who has flown to space six times since 1995 (STS-73, STS-92, STS-113, Soyuz TMA-9, Ax-1, and Ax-3), including as part of trips and expeditions to the @Space_Station
 (Expedition 14)!
https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2060910735530537073
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