Falynne Miller

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The case for synthetic fleece was this: animal-free, cheap to produce, warm, machine washable.

All true. Every single one of those points. And every one of them misses the actual problem.

Synthetic fleece is plastic. Specifically, it is polyester: PET plastic, derived from petroleum, formed into fibres, woven into fabric, and sold to people who want to feel warm and responsible simultaneously. It does the first. It does not do the second.

Every time you wash a synthetic fleece, it sheds microplastics. Estimates vary, but a single wash cycle releases between 700,000 and 1.7 million plastic fibres. These pass through wastewater treatment and enter waterways and oceans. They do not biodegrade.

They are now in fish, in drinking water, in human blood and breast milk. The full ecological consequence of this is not yet known because we are in the middle of the experiment and cannot see the end from here.

Wool does none of this.

Wool is a protein fibre: essentially the same structural protein as your own hair. It is produced annually by a living animal that eats grass, maintains pasture biodiversity, and fertilises the land it walks on. When it sheds fibres during washing, those fibres biodegrade in soil within months. When wool garments reach end of life and are composted or buried, they disappear. The nutrients return to the earth.

Wool is also, if we're honest about it, technically superior to synthetic fleece in almost every functional category:

It insulates when wet. Polyester does not. Ask anyone who has been caught in a Scottish squall in a softshell jacket.

It regulates temperature in both directions: warm in cold, cool in heat. Polyester only insulates; it cannot actively cool.

It is naturally fire-resistant. Polyester melts.

It is antimicrobial, meaning it doesn't stink after one wear the way synthetic base layers do.

It is durable: quality wool garments last decades and improve with wear. Fast fashion fleece lasts three years before pilling into illegibility.

The wool industry has welfare concerns that deserve honest scrutiny: mulesing is real, certain farming practices are objectionable, and it is right to ask questions and demand standards.

But the response to imperfect animal agriculture is not petroleum clothing that decomposes into indestructible microparticles and disperses through every marine ecosystem on the planet.

The sheep existed before the fleece jacket. The sheep built topsoil. The sheep maintained upland biodiversity. The sheep's wool kept humans alive through Northern winters for twelve thousand years.

The fleece jacket has been here since 1979. It is currently in the Arctic food chain.

We replaced the right thing with the wrong thing and called it progress.

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@GuntherEagleman @grok verify if this actually happened. Source primarily for people who are there.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In the early 2000s, climate models projected warming, but the actual observations did not follow.

This gap between models and measurements became known as 'the global warming pause'.

The response to this discrepancy was not to revisit the models, it was to revisit the measurements.

More weather stations were added in the Arctic, the fastest warming region on earth, increasing its influence on the global average.

Large areas with sparse measurements were filled using estimates.

Stations in regions showing cooling, including parts of South America, were removed or down-weighted.

Sea surface temperatures were also reprocessed. Older ship readings were adjusted cooler, with recent buoy data blended warmer.

Homogenization algorithms lowered earlier temps and raised later ones, further steepening the trend.

The models stayed fixed.
The observations were adjusted to match them.
That is how the pause disappeared.

Climate scientists reversed the scientific method.

[Rep. Lauren Boebert @RepBoebert]

Today is day 6 that the SAVE America Act has 50 co-sponsors.

Time to bring it to the floor for a standing filibuster, @LeaderJohnThune!

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

The Gregory Family does NOT CONSENT to the @TVAnews running transmission lines across their 239 year old, Revolutionary War Era farm. Thank you @jeremymansfield for ringing the bell! I call on @SecRollins and @USDA to look into this ASAP.
Pls watch/share this powerful message👇

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@TheFreelyAshley Yes. And when one was lost on a move, I figured out how to order another one. It was ridiculously simple.

[Heatherheather007 @LibertyValkyrie]

For anyone who’s scared they won’t be able to vote in the midterms if the SAVE ACT is passed:

•Go to Vital Records dot org … find your state, and apply for a certified copy of your birth certificate.
Problem solved.

•If you’re a MARRIED/DIVORCED woman who’s lost their MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE or DIVORCE DECREE…contact the courthouse that issued the certificate/decree, and request a copy.
Problem solved.

•If you are a NATURALIZED citizen, and don’t have your certificate, apply for a new one. Problem solved.

None of these will take more than 9 months to receive.

Anyone who can’t cast a vote come the midterms, is because they’re either:
•Lazy
•Irresponsible
•Don’t care enough
•Poor time management
•All of the above.

Follow me for tips on how to be a responsible, productive adult.

[Andrew Kolvet @AndrewKolvet]

My message to @ElonMusk: It's time to ban porn on X.

There are many reasons why it's a good idea to eliminate this inherited issue. The most important is the prolific, and often monetized, presence of CSAM material.

I have teams ready to relay evidence at your request. Just let us know where to send it.

@X is such an important platform, and it's time to ensure demons aren't profiting from the abuse of children.

As new troves of Epstein documents are getting exposed, and the nation’s attention is on this issue, now's the time to deal with it.

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@TheBabylonBee I would have actually tuned in for that one.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

It’s not until paragraph 36 that the @nytimes decides it’s finally time to mention they’ve been committing criminal identity fraud for years.

[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.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

🚨I DIDNT WANT to do it BUT I have too.

You didn’t see this yet.

The narrative that “he was just filming and the officers got angry” is false.

The narrative that he was only trying to protect two women is also false.

He, along with others, was actively interfering with a legitimate law-enforcement operation. That is why officers moved them off the street.

That does not mean he deserved to die.

When officers attempted to detain him, he resisted arrest.

That does not mean he deserved to die.

He was armed and chose to insert himself into an active enforcement operation while resisting arrest.

That does not mean he deserved to die.

An agent called out the presence of a firearm. During the attempt to secure it, the weapon discharged before the agent could declare the scene clear. Other officers, hearing a gun call and a gunshot while a suspect was resisting arrest, reacted according to their training.

From their perspective, they were confronting an armed individual resisting arrest. That is why, immediately after the shooting, one officer urgently asked where the firearm was. He believed he had just engaged an armed suspect, because that is precisely the situation as it appeared in real time.

He did not deserve to die. However, his actions, his decisions, and his criminal interference were contributing factors, alongside serious failures by the officers involved.

I believe the shooting was unnecessary. I believe there were many alternative ways the situation could have been handled. I do not believe the officers were truly under lethal threat.

Recklessness on all sides resulted in a man losing his life.

Approximately 23 percent of ICE activity occurs in Texas, yet we do not see these outcomes there. Minnesota accounts for roughly 2 percent of ICE operations, yet has seen multiple shootings involving American citizens.

The difference is organized resistance. Blue states have coordinated efforts designed to insert civilians into active ICE operations to interfere intentionally and directly.

Interfering with law-enforcement operations is illegal, and it is dangerous. This is how people get killed.

Resisting arrest is illegal, and it is dangerous. This is how people get killed.

Within the Second Amendment community, there is a common saying: “I would rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.” It refers to choosing survival over moral victory.

That same principle applies to interactions with law enforcement.

Would you rather be right, or would you rather be alive?

Make smart decisions when dealing with law enforcement. Survive the encounter. Then take the fight to court. Use every lawful platform available to expose misconduct. Name departments, supervisors, and officers. Demand accountability through evidence and process.

But interfering with an active operation, resisting arrest, and doing so while armed creates a predictable and deadly outcome.

Was it legal for him to be armed? Yes.

Should citizens carry lawfully? Yes.

Is it profoundly reckless to interfere with law enforcement and resist arrest while armed? Absolutely.

When we carry firearms, we accept greater responsibility. That responsibility was neglected here.

It is possible to support immigration enforcement while condemning reckless policing.

It is possible to criticize law enforcement while also acknowledging the dangerous behavior of civilians.

It is possible to recognize complexity, rapid escalation, human error, and shared responsibility in a fast-moving situation.

He did not have to die.

Liberty only survives when it operates within order.

Nothing about this situation was orderly.

When order collapses, lives are lost.

He did not have to die.

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@RodKahx lol. I did vote for him and I’m getting exactly what I voted for. ✌️

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@EndWokeness Mask nazis of 2020. Welcome to the thunder dome.

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@LeaderJohnThune @sbaprolife https://t.co/VwfQ2RfPfq

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

@LeaderJohnThune @sbaprolife If you want to protect moms & children, pass the SAVE Act.

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@persianmama111 🤨

[Falynne Miller @FMiller1776]

@Nero @ScottPresler @phil_lyman Jealous you’re not as effective as he is?

I used to really like you. Which I know means nothing to you, but still.

[Kat Kanada 🏴 @KatKanada_TM]

LOL yup.

A Liberal today would be pro-Führer

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

@ABC Hey, you’re welcome.