Edi W

American GenX. ✌🏻

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

Libraries literally aren’t just places to borrow books for free. They’re some of the last truly public spaces where you’re allowed to simply exist without being expected to spend money.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

It would be a lot cooler if we just ended the program and let young Americans have American jobs instead of mocking them as lazy and threating to send them to Iran

[Edi W @EdiW369]

@oliverhenry Lockhart, TX, near Austin, is the Barbecue capital and Black’s is awesome!

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

The UK and USA are both amazing countries.

The crazy thing is, they could be SO much better if their governments stopped doing stupid stuff at scale.

I wonder what these countries would look like if most of the political leaders were genuinely on the side of their citizens.

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

Current position of the Supreme Court:

Actual Native Americans were not covered by the 14th amendment until Congress passed a law extending coverage to them in the 20th century.

Chinese birth tourists who have a child in the United States are of course originally covered by the 14th amendment and have produced a child more American than a 19th century Native American.

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

No one that I have encountered can square this logic with the Supreme Court holding on birthright citizenship….

If native Americans on reservations weren’t covered by the 14th amendment because they were under their own territorial and political jurisdiction… fine. Logical.

If native Americans who left the reservation and had kids in U.S. hospitals weren’t given citizenship at birth… fine, not under political jurisdiction of the U.S. even though they were under the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.

But the court just said that tourists and illegals, who are under the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, while still subject to the political jurisdiction of their home countries, can produce citizens.

No one who agrees with the court holding has so far been able to explain to me why in light of these circumstances, the holding makes sense.

[Edi W @EdiW369]

@FreddyLA7 Head west and see Santa Fe, NM, and then head over to the Grand Canyon or Sedona in Arizona.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

The fact that being 'anti-AC' is an actual political position shows you just how stupid large swathes of humanity are.

It's essentially a pro-death position.

It's as stupid as being against heating in the winter.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

The thug treatment of @CaitlinClark22 by the @WNBA is pathetic.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

No fear.

[Skye @skye0xz]

Dad said “problem solved” and built a whole invention 😭😂

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

We introduced a Constitutional Amendment to ban dual citizens from holding federal office unless they formally and permanently relinquish every last tie to the foreign country first.

The people making our laws, leading our government, and sitting on our highest court should have one allegiance and one allegiance only: The United States of America.

America First.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

Everything on the internet will require an ID check soon.
And the government will monitor everything you do, pretending they don't need a warrant because you "voluntarily" gave your data and identity information away.

[Edi W @EdiW369]

@Architectolder Don’t change the cabinets; change the countertop, hardware, and floor.

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

Along the narrow carpet ride,
With primroses on either side,
Between their shadows and the sun,
The cows came slowly, one by one,
Breathing the early morning air
And leaving it still sweeter there.
~A.A.Milne

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

"My mother was like a cat in the way she loved the country. She responded to the beauty, the peace and the solitude that it offered. She found this in her garden and she found it too in the countryside beyond. Solitude." ~C.R.Milne #nationalpetday

[Kenny Carmody @KennyCarmody]

COVID was a live-action replay of the Milgram experiment.

No walls. No laboratory. No electrodes.

Just a television, a daily briefing, and an authority figure in a suit telling people what to do.

And the results were exactly the same.

For those unfamiliar, Stanley Milgram’s landmark experiments in the 1960s demonstrated that ordinary people, when placed under institutional authority and given clear instructions, would administer what they believed to be severe electric shocks to innocent strangers simply because someone in a position of authority told them to continue.

The conclusion was uncomfortable and definitive.

Obedience to authority, in the presence of sufficient social pressure, overrides individual conscience in the vast majority of people.

COVID proved it again. At global scale. In real time.

But the truly devastating part the part that I find most difficult to reconcile , was the medical profession.

Doctors. Physicians. People who spent years “studying” human biology, pharmacology, immunology, and medical ethics. People who took an oath. People who knew or had every professional obligation to know that mandating an experimental intervention, suppressing early treatment, isolating the dying from their families, and dismissing adverse events without investigation was a profound violation of everything their training stood for.

And so many of them did it anyway.

Not reluctantly. Enthusiastically.

Do as you’re told was not a private capitulation for most of them. It was performed publicly, proudly, wrapped in the language of science and responsibility and care by people who had abandoned all three the moment the institutional authority spoke.

Follow the science became the most cynical slogan of the era. Deployed not by people following evidence but by people following orders and using the language of reason to avoid the discomfort of exercising it.

Milgram’s most haunting finding was not that monsters do terrible things.

It was that ordinary people do when the structure around them makes it easy enough.

We just watched it happen again.

And the lesson, as always, is the same.

An obedient population is only as safe as the integrity of whoever is giving the orders.

Think for yourself.

Question everything.

And never under any pressure, from any authority switch off your conscience because someone told you to.

[Edi W @EdiW369]

@miles_commodore E. My personal favorite was his dramatic role in Mr. Church. Such a talented man.

[Charlie @LAChas77]

In 4 days, we change a our clocks again cause 90% of us don't want time change ...and that kids is your definition of representative government