Nancy M James

[Nancy M James @NancyMJames11]

@Crazymoments01 Thank you for your service Drake!

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@AntiLeftMemes My Grandfather!

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@harukaawake So sweet! What a great B-day present! Thank you so much!

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@cherylwils76578 @bluelivesmtr How many people do you know who can predict a seizure before it happens, or tell you when your blood sugar level is rapidly falling? My service dog does, and she helps me be able to visit places I normally can’t—so educate yourself please!

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@HustleBitch_ The same standards used to be followed by many grade schools in the 60’s. Each school had a nutritionist, a school nurse, an art teacher, a music teacher, a dance teacher, all were considered necessary for the health and well-being of children. Now?

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@KimballCall Say what you mean, mean what you say and follow through.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

It is OUR money!!

Thank you Mr Secretary
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.
I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

Please, for the sake of our country, share this message. It's important!!!

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@CliffW08950229 Yay!

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This!

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@JeremyWingert79 The Song of Roland

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@TommiPedruzzi Claude

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@iam_Yankie @RandomTheGuy_ @grok Sailfish!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

We have reached a strange place, where you can drain a river, poison a coastline, and lean on people with no rights, and still be thanked for saving the planet, so long as the damage happens somewhere you will never have to look. Follow the virtuous plate home, one item at a time, and watch the halo slip off it.

The avocado came from Michoacán, where the cartels run the orchards, divert the rivers, and murder the people who object.

The almonds in the milk came from California, drawn out of a drought and an emptying aquifer, pollinated by bees trucked three thousand miles across a continent and worked to exhaustion in a fortnight.

The salad was grown under a sea of plastic in Almería, by migrant workers on thirty euros a day in forty-five-degree heat, on groundwater so poisoned the region now has to import its own.

The peppers were grown beside a Spanish lagoon that has died so many times they had to give it the legal rights of a person just to defend it in court.

The cashews were shelled by hand by people whose fingers were burned by the acid in the husk.

The cotton bag it all came home in helped drain the fourth largest lake on earth into a salt desert.

Every item crossed thousands of miles, from somewhere left drier, poorer, and more poisoned for having grown it.

And the person carrying that bag home walks past a field ten miles up the road, where a cow stands in the rain turning grass nobody can eat into food, dropping dung that feeds the soil it stands on, on land that has looked more or less the same for a thousand years, and thinks, with total sincerity: there it is. The thing destroying the planet. A cow. Burping in a meadow.

It is one of the strangest acts of misdirection of the age. We built a supply chain that strips deserts, drains rivers, flattens forests and runs on people with no rights, and we taught ourselves to feel virtuous about it, purely because the alternative was an animal we could see, standing in a field we could walk to.

The cow you can point at gets the blame. The catastrophe you cannot see gets a halo and a sticker that says plant-based.

Heal the planet, they say, with the asparagus flown in from a drought.

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@ScottPresler One of my favorite phrases from the Bible is “this too shall pass“”. Your Mom is right, and you have many more of us in your court — love you love ya kid!

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@EricDhouser @MrPitbull07 @BooneRepublican @CycloneFB I have some lovely friends from Boone, Iowa. That town produces some fantastic folks!

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@ScottPresler @therealroseanne Way to go Scott!

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@Babywwir 20/20

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@elia_mafhh Hi

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Thank you for your service to this country in all its various forms! Your honesty and integrity will be missed! Godspeed on you and your husband’s journey to battle once more! I am praying for your husband’s complete recovery and for you and your family’s strength and fortitude during this difficult time—much love to you all!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Your great-grandmother's cast iron skillet from Erie, Pennsylvania, weighed four pounds, cost a dollar fifty in 1942, and is still on a stove somewhere in 2026 cooking the same eggs it was cooking when Roosevelt was in the White House. The seasoning is the polymerised record of every breakfast it ever met. The pan will outlive you and probably your grandchildren.

The Teflon pan that replaced it is coated with polytetrafluoroethylene, a member of the PFAS family known to science as forever chemicals. A single scratch on the surface releases approximately nine thousand plastic particles into your food, per a Flinders University study. Heat it above 500°F and it gives off fumes capable of killing a parakeet on the kitchen counter and inducing polymer fume fever in the cook. The coating fails inside eighteen months. The pan goes to landfill, where the chemistry persists for approximately a thousand years.

Cost of the cast iron, amortised across a hundred and forty years of service: about a penny a year.

Cost of the Teflon pan, plus the cancers, plus the landfill: incalculable.

The skillet is at a yard sale in Wisconsin for nine dollars.

Iron leaches into the food. The food carries the iron into the cook. The cook carries it for the rest of her life.

The Teflon pan leaches something else. It also stays with you.

Choose your isotope.