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[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@Fascinate_Hist Placerville, CA (Hangtown)

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@JohnCornyn This will be a good post to bookmark when the good Senator asks his staff, "How did we lose this election?"

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@OberkromKicking but it is a good start and happy you are there.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@darren_stallcup I don't know how long you plan on being in TX but a can't miss the first weekend in August is the XIT Rodeo & Reunion in the panhandle town of Dalhart. Largest free BBQ event in the world.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

We encountered this same scenario. Screens were the main culprit in our house. Once we turned off ALL screens, we started hearing, "we are bored" and then we knew we were close. Being bored is step one, parents doing nothing to help with boredom is step two. Then they just eventually figured out, on their own, outside was less boring than inside.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

While the op-ed raises legitimate environmental concerns about BLM’s draft SEIS for oil and gas leasing in the Bakersfield and Central Coast areas, its alarmist framing overlooks key realities:

California imports over 60% of its crude from foreign sources, while the sector supports over 15,000 jobs and $4.6 billion in economic output in Kern County alone (8% of local GDP).

New federal wells, developed under strict BLM and CalGEM oversight with modern technology and site-specific mitigations, provide a safer, lower-emission bridge during the renewable transition—far preferable to tanker imports or aging infrastructure.

Policymakers should back balanced leasing plans that protect jobs, ensure energy security, and enable a pragmatic all-of-the-above strategy.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@Kekius_Sage Indoor plumbing

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@Kekius_Sage Physically escape... I doubt it. The closest I think you could get would be more like the movie "Free Guy".

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

I have noticed for a while that content that I see in my "For You" show up multiple times, even though I did not like it. Not sure why it does that, probably because different people share it, or someone comments, but it would be nice to not see the same content 3+ times if I did not "like" it. I am sure this request has downstream negative consequences I am not aware but it sure would be nice not to see all of this duplicate content.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@Kekius_Sage August 2, 2031

[Camus @newstart_2024]

The moment the West decided evidence no longer mattered — if it got in the way of utopia.

Melanie Phillips (former Guardian journalist):
“Objective evidence was cast aside because it was too inconvenient. The very idea of reason and rationality was dismissed.

All these ideologies — multiculturalism, lifestyle choice, deep green environmentalism, moral relativism — were utopian. They promised perfection. Anyone who brought facts against them wasn’t just wrong… they were evil.”

Result?

- Evidence became “right-wing”

- Dissenters were bullied, ostracized, fired, threatened

- The Guardian itself became the heart of this ideological machine… until she fell foul of it.

When ideology is sacrosanct and the world must be perfected, facts become the enemy — and truth-tellers become heretics.

Have you watched this shift in real time — where inconvenient evidence gets labeled “hate” or “misinformation”?

Which sacred ideology do you think has done the most damage to open debate?

Your honest take 👇

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Czechia's Ondřej Satoria, who is a full-time electrician, leaves his final career game to a standing ovation after throwing 4.2 shutout innings against Japan!

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

I was skeptical of this clickbait headline but this article is very interesting. Why Hazing Makes Better Men https://t.co/YhmG9adTf4

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

I went to the Saturday game with my family and during the pregame infield warmup, we watched the speed, accuracy and efficiency of the UCLA team. Then TCU came out for their infield, and the difference in skill was immediately evident. My wife noticed it before I even mentioned a word, and she is not a baseball expert by any means. I say this as not a knock on TCU or Sarloos, but maybe UCLA is just that good.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@FrogPreacher I attended the Saturday game with my family and we all commented during warmups just how good the UCLA players are especially compared to our warmup routine. It was just a huge difference in speed, accuracy and athleticism.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

@SNFonNBC @carrieunderwood @NBCSports First time in Super Bowl history a kicker wins MVP.

[Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn]

Pizza Hut is closing 250 location and Yum Brands is looking to unload the chain. We really need a mega-billionaire to take over Pizza Hut and blanket the country with old school sit down Pizza Hut Classics.

[Stefanek @Stefanek]

Brilliant!

[Bruce Fenton @brucefenton]

Our Town Council keeps raising taxes.

So I showed up with an English Lord’s wig to speak in *favor* of taxes.

“If you can’t pay your taxes…don’t be poor.”

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

This survivor of the Maduro regime should be required viewing for every American and it should be played on every news station in America before anyone forms an opinion about the Venezuela op.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

There was a line from Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address yesterday that took my breath away. He said he intended to replace “the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Collectivism in its various forms is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred million people in the last century. Socialist and Communist forms of government around the world today—Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, etc.—are disastrous. Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism and has embraced the market economy, which people like Mayor Mamdani caricature as “rugged individualism.” In fact, it is the economic system that is based upon the rights, freedom, and dignity of the human person. For God’s sake, spare me the “warmth of collectivism.”