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[Carole Mac @HerbsandDirt]

This MD is a ROCKSTAR!

We need so many more like her.

[Harlow Glenn @harlowwglenn]

POV: you're a SAHM feminist warrior fighting against the patriarchy one tik tok at a time 🥹

[CReband @CReband]

@GovPritzker You are the single worst thing that has ever happened to Illinois. You kept our state from participating in the Great American State Fair. You are a self-aggrandizing, egotistical, morbidly obese, obtuse, mean hearted SOB. You fail to represent most of your state.

[CReband @CReband]

@DrewMarianiShow Please pray for my son. He is in surgery now for bladder cancer. Praying his lymph nodes are not positive and his recuperation is without problems.Through the intercession of Mother Mary, in Jesus name I pray.

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

This ten-year-old Coke commercial (released only in Argentina), remains the single best minute-long argument for pro-natalism that I have ever seen.

@MoreBirths @BirthGauge

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤨

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I just had the craziest experience at the airport.

We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight.

Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.”

Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess.

The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.”

He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.”

Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate…

Start clapping.

I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message.

All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest.

It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time.

@Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

[CReband @CReband]

@DominiqueDufils So beautiful!

[Rattlesnake Slim II @RattleSlimSnake]

@FLOTUS

[@MikeBeach @mike123qwe]

@FLOTUS @JeffW701 Starting today, I won’t buy any products advertised on the @jimmykimmel Show-
@McDonalds @jcpenney

[Krissy @kalmkerfuffle]

@mike123qwe @FLOTUS @JeffW701 @jimmykimmel @McDonalds @jcpenney Nice to know!!
I hope they see a drop in their profits, my lord we have to start standing up for something!
@ABCNetwork
@McDonalds
@jcpenney @Starbucks
@Venmo
You are supporting hate and a trash human being by sponsoring this garbage!

[RosarySon @SkyVirginSon]

Amen 🙏🏼

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1866: Cotton seeds are agricultural waste. After extracting cotton fiber, farmers are left with millions of tons of seeds containing oil that's toxic to humans. Gossypol, a natural pesticide in cotton, makes the oil inedible. The seeds are fed to cattle in small amounts or simply discarded.

1900: Procter & Gamble is making candles and soap. They need cheap fats. Animal fats work but they're expensive. Cotton seed oil is abundant and nearly worthless. If they could somehow make it edible, they'd have unlimited cheap raw material.

The process they develop is brutal. Extract the oil using chemical solvents. Heat to extreme temperatures to neutralise gossypol. Hydrogenate with pressurised hydrogen gas to make it solid at room temperature. Deodorise chemically to remove the rancid smell. Bleach to remove the grey color.

The result: Crisco. Crystallised cottonseed oil. Industrial textile waste transformed through chemical processing into something white and solid that looks like lard. They patent it in 1907, launch commercially in 1911.

Now they have a problem. Nobody wants to eat industrial waste that's been chemically treated. Your grandmother cooks with lard and butter like humans have for thousands of years. Crisco needs to convince her that her traditional fats are deadly and this hydrogenated cotton-seed paste is better.

The marketing campaign is genius. They distribute free cookbooks with recipes specifically designed for Crisco. They sponsor cooking demonstrations. They target Jewish communities advertising Crisco as kosher: neither meat nor dairy. They run magazine adverts suggesting that modern, scientific families use Crisco while backwards rural people use lard.

But the real coup happens in 1948. The American Heart Association has $1,700 in their budget. They're a tiny organisation. Procter & Gamble donates $1.7 million. Suddenly the AHA has funding, influence, and a major corporate sponsor who manufactures vegetable oil.

1961: The AHA issues their first dietary guidelines. Avoid saturated fat from animals. Replace it with vegetable oils. Recommended oils: Crisco, Wesson, and other seed oils. The conflict is blatant. The organization issuing health advice is funded by the company that profits when people follow that advice.

Nobody seems troubled by this. Newspapers report the guidelines as objective science. Doctors repeat them to patients. Government agencies adopt them into policy. Industrial cotton-seed oil, chemically extracted and hydrogenated, becomes "heart-healthy" while butter becomes "artery-clogging poison."

1980s: Researchers discover that trans fats, created by hydrogenation, directly cause heart disease. They raise LDL, lower HDL, promote inflammation, and increase heart attack risk more than any other dietary fat. Crisco, as originally formulated, is catastrophically unhealthy. This takes 70 years to officially acknowledge.

Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent.

Modern seed oils remain. Soybean, canola, corn, safflower oils everywhere. Same chemical extraction process. Same high-temperature refining. Same oxidation problems. Just without hydrogenation so trans fats stay below regulatory thresholds.

These oils oxidise rapidly when heated. They integrate into cell membranes where they create inflammatory signalling for months or years. They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels.

But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start.

Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history.

We traded animal fats that built civilisations for factory waste that causes disease.

The soap company won. Your health lost.

[Sr. Mary Joseph Calore, SSCJ @sscjusa]

This is powerful.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

When Erin Friday’s daughter was 13 years old, she began identifying as male and school staff began using a male name and pronouns to address her—without the knowledge or consent of her parents.

When Friday found out, she called the school and told them to stop. A week later, Child Protective Services showed up at her door—followed by the police a day later. No action was taken against Friday, but it was an alarming experience. 

A few months later, her daughter ran away in the middle of the night. Under normal circumstances, a parent would probably call the police, but Friday didn’t dare to, having heard about parents who had lost custody of their children when they refused to consent to their child’s gender transition: “It's two o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning, and I can't make that phone call because I know that there's already a file open on me, and that Child Protective Services can swoop in at any time and take my child.”

After finding her daughter, she moved her to a different school, and her daughter has since desisted and resumed identifying as female. 

“I made a deal that if I could safeguard my daughter from this—which I did—that I would help save other parents and save other children,” she said.

Now, Erin Friday serves as co-lead of Our Duty, a parent-led international organization that opposes gender transition for minors and related medical procedures.

“When have we ever treated a mental illness by cutting off body parts?” Friday says.

In our wide-ranging interview, we discuss the legal battles Friday has been involved in against Child Protective Services and the state of California over the last few years. 

From the Epoch Times and the
great journalist,
Jan Jekielek

[CReband @CReband]

@Holy__Bible1 Amen

[Prognostikater @prognostikater]

If the New York Times is copping to no Epstein evidence against Trump, noise from the Dems needs to cease.

[Damani Felder @TheDamaniFelder]

So...liberals were fine with giving hundreds of billions to Ukraine but now that Trump is sending $1,776 checks to military service members, they're concerned about fiscal responsibility? Lol this is why nobody takes them seriously any more.

[CReband @CReband]

@timotheeology @Catholicizm1 @AnnB05030505 Pretty horrible thing to say. A woman SHOULD be home with her children but that's not always possible. I raised my son alone since his worthless father left us behind. I didn't want to work and leave him but I became a nurse. A heinous bitch, life saving nurse. You moron.

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

My wife stopped asking me to help with Christmas.

I didn't notice.

"Don't stress," I'd tell her. "It'll all come together."

She'd nod. Keep moving.

One night I found her at the kitchen table.

2 AM.

Wrapping gifts I didn't know we had.

For people I forgot existed.

"When did you buy all this?"

She didn't look up.

"It doesn't just come together."

That's when it hit me.

I was the one saying don't stress.

She was the one making Christmas happen.

I wasn't helping.

I was watching.

Your wife isn't stressed about Christmas.

She IS Christmas.

And you're just showing up.