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[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

@JillFilipovic Also people overly fixate on the notion that this is all to delay her first child instead of the reality that these procedures increase the likelihood that she could have a 2nd or 3rd that might not otherwise be possible later due to the later start.

[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

@xwanyex I’d say the other benefit is a few days of this hammer and nail work over a week has led a few youth to seriously consider the trades.

[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

Was it only one day? When we take our youth, it takes a few days to settle in and become truly proficient. We also make a point to teach them how to use the tools so they walk away with a new skill or two.

I did a Habitat day last year near Chain of Rocks treatment plant that I’d rate positively. Quiet, peaceful new neighborhood of Habitat homes & homeowners helping out… vs trying to flip an existing neighborhood.

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

We have an oversupply of conversations on how to defy death. How fortunate are we to watch a man confront a death sentence with bravery and unwavering faith.

[Logan Hall @loganclarkhall]

A math prodigy was accepted to Harvard at age 15 for what could have been a lifetime of achievement.

But after living in the wilderness in Montana and writing a prescient manifesto about industrial society, his life would drastically change due to packages he sent in the mail.

[Peter Robinson @p_m_robinson]

"Be of good cheer." Herewith a man who fulfills the gospel admonition with intelligence, humility, and a transcendent valor. BEN SASSE on Uncommon Knowledge. https://t.co/L2Z2axBIEZ

[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

@Fair_and_Biased The full cast recordings for HP on Audible are delightful. Totally different (and beautiful) way to experience the text.

[Matthew Pirkowski @MattPirkowski]

I don’t know why people are surprised by what’s happening in Minnesota right now.

It’s an archetypal defection loop.

The nature of such loops is that they simultaneously increase the probability of violent mistakes, as well as the escalatory consequences of said mistakes.

We literally had to invent entire religions in order to up-regulate the concept of forgiveness to the point at which it could act as a distributed memetic brake on such dynamics.

Because once you’re in the defection loop, *every choice other than forgiveness* leads to escalation.

There is no way out.

It is the literal Hell toward which the mythopoetic signifier gestures.

Minnesota therefore offers us a glimpse of the Hell toward which we’re all steering, mostly unconsciously and reactively.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later.
In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow.
At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action.
Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last.
The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure.
What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable?
It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

@JillFilipovic Exactly! One of the parents had to pick me up and drop me off because… I couldn’t drive yet.

[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

@SenBillCassidy Senator, this is a bad take designed to appeal to public’s hatred of attorneys, not the truth. “Someone who must deeply understand the nuances of a topic to successfully argue the facts of a case in court has no credibility on a topic.” Is that really what you’re going with?

[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

Moth in the Iron Lung has an alternative hypothesis that the eradication of polio (or more accurately the paralysis symptoms diagnosed as polio) coincided with 1) the discontinuation of widespread use of lead & arsenic based pesticides and 2) changes in how paralysis symptoms were classified (confirmed as polio vs a non-polio cause)

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Endless money printing is the source of most of your economic woes.

It's not 'billionaires', 'capitalism', or any particular race of people.

Your pounds, dollars, euros, naira, and yen are devalued daily.

And as long as the problem is misdiagnosed, it will continue forever.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

If you are feeling discouraged today, don't. Evil usually loses by exposing itself. That has happened in a big way. The truth is getting harder and harder to deny or ignore, and once it cannot be denied any longer, movement will arrive.

[Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza]

When I debated Nick Fuentes I got frantic texts from Charlie Kirk asking me why I gave him any attention. But now Tucker has done what Charlie feared most: platform Fuentes and give him a friendly, uncritical hearing. I challenged Fuentes; Tucker shamelessly promotes him.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

“But these ideas are popular with young people.”

So? What does that prove? The question isn’t whether an idea is popular with kids or young adults, but whether it’s good and true. Treating popularity as a moral compass — or as a mandate for the rest of society to radically change course — is a complete inversion of moral responsibility. It’s the same logic that's justified every destructive cultural revolution.

Conservatism aims to conserve the good, not to conform to whatever's popular. Anyone — young or old — who doesn't understand this should be corrected, not followed.

[Tennessee Jet @TennesseeJet]

New Song - The Senseless Death of Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11 @TPUSA

[Tracy @TracyMulderig]

RT @MsMelChen: This is a total schizo self-own by Republicans.

After all that effort in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado to allow business…