Bruckner

Aloha

[Ben Owen @hrkbenowen]

Wow, wait until you get to the end!

[AweSookySooky @AwwSookySooky]

@japan_nobunaga

[Audit Hawaii @AudittheVoteHI]

She’s right you know

[Audit Hawaii @AudittheVoteHI]

This is the saddest most ridiculous insane thing I’ve ever seen
Watch them shake the lauhala basket and select the winners 🙄

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

BREAKING: Virginia just legalized abortion up to birth.

Pray for unborn babies.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

America just went from:
Debt, War, Mass surveillance.

To:
Debt, War, Mass surveillance. 🌈

[Weapon 𝕏 @HellRaz0r1776]

As I get older, I realise I don't look good in
certain things anymore.

Like photos and mirrors, for example.

[Audit Hawaii @AudittheVoteHI]

The sanctuary county charter question passed.
Oahu is officially now a sanctuary state.

So deceiving how they call it a “police department” question.

QUESTION 6: Should the Charter be amended to require the Honolulu Police Department to 1) adopt policies to ensure the constitutional rights of all persons regardless of immigration or citizenship status are protected, and 2) assist federal immigration enforcement activities only when required by statute or court order, and after the requesting agency’s identity and authority have been confirmed?

[Bruckner @BruckeM]

@Pricci0 Just mom. My brother in law says "My Mom and my dad." even when talking to siblings 🤔

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.

Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.

"What do you miss?"

She expects hamburgers.

She almost never gets hamburgers.

And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.

"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)

"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)

"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)

"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)

"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)

"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)

"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)

"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)

"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)

Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.

Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.

"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.

She was wrong.

In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.

It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.

"Saw the storm. You home safe?"

Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.

"Home safe."

Her host mom wrote back one line.

"Good. That's all I needed."

My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.

They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.

So, America. You think you've lost something.

You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.

You don't remember doing any of it.

A kid in Tokyo will never forget.

[FTND @FightTheNewDrug]

Even after being exposed at an extremely young age and struggling with compulsive porn consumption as a teen, Smith was able to find hope and healing.

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[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Is it 'Autumn' or 'autumn'?

Seasons are common nouns, not proper nouns, so they're usually not capitalized.

Capitalize them when they start a sentence, appear in titles, or are personified, as in poetry.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

I haven’t seen a fight where everyone lost.

[Jum @JesterJum]

Ladies, listen up:

No man has ever said "You know what would make her hotter? If her eyelashes were longer."

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

The next 2 years in the U.S.

[Bruckner @BruckeM]

@LymanSughroue Vape refills? Speculation.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

One of the signs of how easily we are bullied by small and vocal groups is how many universities, among other institutions, dare not even refer to the Christmas vacation but instead refer to "the winter holiday."

[FTND @FightTheNewDrug]

While deepfakes are AI-generated and used in various scenarios—like seemingly harmless Snapchat face swaps—it’s most commonly used to exploit individuals via nonconsensual pornography. No one deserves to be exploited. You can help stop the clicks.

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