RESCUE aid society heads held high touch the sky. 🌇Our hearts 💞 we pledge to THE. In a jam in a scrap and you think no escape, do not fear we’ll be here. 🐭🐭
To Those on Twitter ignoring the Great MAGA purge right now:
History is your teacher...
“There was no one left to speak for me.”
~ Martin Niemoeller #NoOneLeftToSpeakForMe
BREAKING NEWS: Maryland is listed in the declassification batch by the @WhiteHouse this evening, in which a "sensitive government agency" stated that the People's Republic of China obtained voter data files.
The doc is heavily redacted, but it appears Maryland is one of 18.
This is why having different outlets like X or Truth social, even telegram back in the day were so important.
The MSM no longer gets to decide what is news, and what isn’t. That loss of narrative will be their demise.
So the major MSM outlets don’t want to show Trump’s address tonight huh?
EXCELLENT 😈
The message will spread regardless, and they have done nothing but confirm their complicity in their treason against We the People.
They are merely justifying what we must do to them later.
This is why most media outlets refused to air this tonight… DAM, he has it all
“The Chinese Communist Party sought to identify US journalists who report negatively on the U.S. President and PAY THEM LARGE SUMS OF MONEY to write more negative stories”
TREASON!
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Gambling is now a more common leisure activity than reading.
57% of Americans placed a bet last year. Fewer than half read a book.
To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization. If the collapse in reading is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.
Every 4-6 weeks, we read a new great work together: we've covered texts like Homer's Iliad, Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, and Don Quixote.
We're about to start reading The Brothers Karamazov.
We are reading the great works slowly, intentionally, and in dialogue with each other. The kind of reading that helps to shape the mind and spirit.
If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group. Consider a paid subscription if you'd like to support — it makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate. We are entirely funded by our members.
You'll get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next
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Welcome!
To save cinema you’ll need an experience. Something not possible at home.
They (theaters, studios, imax) don’t want to invest the capital to make it happen.
They are missing the opportunity to save films and theaters. All over money.
Irony being it’s dead without this anyway.
The Odyssey sold out 41 theaters five weeks deep. Scalpers are clearing $1,500 a seat. Theaters are running 2am showtimes. And the IMAX CEO looked at the biggest demand signal in his company's history and said building more projectors is "not practical." Every part of that answer falls apart under math.
Start with the claim that nobody makes these machines anymore. IMAX built brand-new film CAMERAS for this exact movie. The carbon-fiber Keighley, 35% quieter than its predecessors, engineered from scratch because Nolan asked. The company that just restarted film camera manufacturing wants you to believe film projector manufacturing is impossible. What's actually missing is a purchase order Gelfond hasn't signed.
Then there's the economics he never lays out. Oppenheimer grossed $17M from just 30 film screens, roughly $567K per screen. A new-build projector at even $3-5M pays back within a handful of releases once the format runs more than one film every three years. Peele and Chazelle are circling. Prints last 20 years, and Interstellar anniversary runs sell out instantly. Gelfond is pricing 2026 demand with a 1976 spreadsheet.
The last defense is labor. Only about 90 people on Earth currently know how to run one of these projectors. Sounds fatal until you remember projectionist was a working-class job held by hundreds of thousands of people for a century, and IMAX itself trained 50 new ones for Oppenheimer in a matter of months. There's a line of film-school kids who would crawl over glass for that booth job.
So every one of the 41 screens is a money printer with a waitlist, and supply stays frozen at a number set when Gerald Ford was president. Fans delayed pregnancies and crossed oceans for this product, and the man who controls it decided the right amount is the amount he already has.
Build the projectors, Rich.
Literacy starts at home. 📚
Dive into your favorite books through @SLOTUS’ Summer Reading Challenge!
Find out how your family can get involved here: https://t.co/kgzGg0RvyL
Hello again.
We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip.
The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity.
I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool.
I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy.
I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know.
I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia.
A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia.
This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was.
And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Thanks for reading.
Book sales were higher in 2025 than they were in 2019.
The number of independent bookstores in the US grew by 70% from 2020 to 2025.
Readers borrowed 10% more books from libraries in 2025 than in 2024.
As Mark Twain said, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
🇺🇸 New slow-motion enhancement of Pentagon UFO footage is mind-blowing
People are spotting tiny details they missed for years.
One of the most debated UAP clips just got a whole new level of clarity.
Writer: Val
Sources suggest Iran does not have control over parts of its military on the coastline and rogue units have been firing at shipping causing ceasefire violations.
What…
For me it’s a cultural phenomenon and problem.
There needs to be a converted effort by each society to foster reading.
At this point it’s a democratic imperative 🌟
The Atlantic just ran a piece called "The Age of Reading Is Over." We are literally losing the ability to read anything longer than an Instagram post. This is not good. Think about history for a second. During the slave trade, what was the one thing punishable by death? Teaching a slave to read. Why? Because tyrants have always known that literacy is the ultimate key to human freedom.
Less than half of American adults read a single book in 2022. It’s so bad that a staffer at Harvard actually complained that assigning books to students is "arbitrarily withholding information" because it forces them to use a "difficult medium." Let that sink in. IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS have a hard time reading something and then paraphrasing it.
If we stop reading, we go straight back to the dark ages. We'll be sitting around waiting for a government agency or an AI script to tell us what the Constitution means through a paraphrased post on X.
The Atlantic just ran a piece called "The Age of Reading Is Over." We are literally losing the ability to read anything longer than an Instagram post. This is not good. Think about history for a second. During the slave trade, what was the one thing punishable by death? Teaching a slave to read. Why? Because tyrants have always known that literacy is the ultimate key to human freedom.
Less than half of American adults read a single book in 2022. It’s so bad that a staffer at Harvard actually complained that assigning books to students is "arbitrarily withholding information" because it forces them to use a "difficult medium." Let that sink in. IVY LEAGUE STUDENTS have a hard time reading something and then paraphrasing it.
If we stop reading, we go straight back to the dark ages. We'll be sitting around waiting for a government agency or an AI script to tell us what the Constitution means through a paraphrased post on X.
Got tired of reading the kiddy books for bedtime and decided to read the Hobbit to my 6 & 7 year olds
I hadn’t read it since like 5th grade and it’s over the top linguistically advanced for kids
I thought they might struggle but they absolutely loved it
Every page they’d stop me 5+ times asking what certain words mean and I had to consistently stop and explain things but man I feel like it has been absolutely great for them (and me tbh)
Only classical novels from here on out at bedtime
Tick-borne diseases are a growing public health threat. @CDCgov released a new MMWR on alpha-gal syndrome, a serious allergy to red meat and other mammal-derived products that can develop after certain tick bites.
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