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Opinions expressed are my own

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

After years under rubble, all that remains of Hamza & Fatima Ahmed Al-Sawafiri are the clothes they wore the day the israelis slaughtered them

[bigC @El_bigC]

@wfaaweather Gotta take the small wins at this point 😁

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

I think this perfectly illustrates why the community concerns about mass-surveillance are justified.

As soon as he gets any pushback the police chief threatens to investigate concerned citizens in attempt to dig up any and all dirt on them. Imagine what he would do with Flock.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The father of 17-year-old Palestinian Karim Sanad Raja Shalaldeh, who was killed Friday, says about 50 Israeli settlers descended on his village during the attack.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Lima @limalemonnn]

this is insane. i genuinely don't understand why ambitious people aren't shown this lecture before their careers start consuming their entire lives.

clayton christensen spent his career studying why successful companies collapse. in his final class, he asked students to apply the theory to themselves: if you keep allocating your time the same way, what life are you actually building?

he had already seen the answer in his own harvard mba class. everyone looked successful at the fifth reunion; by the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th, many were unhappy, divorced, and living far from their children.

work shows you the score immediately. close a sale, ship a product, finish a presentation, earn a promotion, get paid.

an hour with your child may produce nothing you can measure today; it may take 20 years to understand what that hour built. so the next free hour goes back to work, one rational decision at a time.

this is how people build lives they never planned: through hundreds of right decisions that lead in the wrong direction, day after day.

money, titles, and headcount are easy to count. christensen believed a life should be measured by the people who became better because you were there.

he died in 2020.

one question remains: if someone saw only where your time, energy, and attention went this year, what would they think actually mattered to you?

the full 19-minute lecture is in the video below.

[Lance Lambert @NewsLambert]

7 years -> Crossover when the principal payments make up a bigger share than the interest payments on a 30-yr with a 3.0% mortgage rate

19 years -> Crossover when the principal payments make up a bigger share than the interest payments on a 30-yr with a 6.5% mortgage rate

[bigC @El_bigC]

@NBA @Suns That's a goaltend. Ball is on its way down.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

🤦‍♂️The FBI gave her the bomb and the gun and the funds to spend at Home Depot. The government literally encouraged and enabled this terrorist plot in order to foil it. One day they’ll have to admit this how the J5/J6 pipe bomb happened as well. H/T @KyleSeraphin

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Absolutely disgusting atrocity propaganda here.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Do they think this makes her look bad?

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

The IDF decision is wrong and is painful for all of us. There was no excuse for their attacks on our team. There is no excuse for any attacks on any humanitarians. We will never ever forget our friends, our heroes, who were killed in Gaza. They lost their lives trying to feed hungry people. We will never stop fighting for truth and justice for them, for their families, for all humanitarians.

[The White Rabbit @TheWyteRabbit1]

Four deputies from the Harris County Sheriff’s Office in Texas have d1ed by su1cide in the past six weeks.

Something very strange is going on here…

Do you think they uncovered a human trafficking operation and were silenced?

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

The Evil

[Yousef Munayyer @YousefMunayyer]

The US continues to use sanctions as a tool of transnational repression targeting judges, lawyers investigators and rapporteurs.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Israel is committing the worst journalist mass-murder spree in human history.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Let’s not forget that Israel hunts children and kills them for sport.

[bigC @El_bigC]

@JoshChambers No mention of the refs in 06.

He's a better man than me..

[bigC @El_bigC]

@MOFR25 Don't get attached to characters 😁

[bigC @El_bigC]

@BibsCorner @MOFR25 The last episode for The Sopranos was a surprise to me cus I would watch a few at a time. I was like "Wait.. what do you mean no option to watch the next episode?"

The song of the closing scene stuck with me for a while.