Anne Marie Kratch

[Anne Marie Kratch @am_kratch]

He’s the best !

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Dima Zeniuk @DimaZeniuk]

Neuralink is planning its first Blindsight implant later this year, aiming to restore limited vision even for people who have lost both eyes, their optic nerve, or were born blind

Over time, it could potentially go beyond that and offer enhanced or even superhuman vision

[Boston 25 News @boston25]

HAPPENING NOW: Loved ones, family members, and hundreds of first responders are saying their final goodbyes to fallen firefighter Robert Kilduff Jr.

STORY: https://t.co/lP9i0hjuHU

[WCVB-TV Boston @WCVB]

Mass. lowers flags for Boston firefighter Robert Kilduff Jr., a retired Marine | Click on the image to read the full story https://t.co/yVFOn8s6b6

[Boston Fire Dept. @BostonFire]

Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Robert T. Kilduff who tragically killed in the line of duty tonight at a 3 alarm fire on Treadway Road. May he rest in peace and always be remembered.

[Steve Cooper @scooperon7]

Solemn Scene: Throngs of firefighters lining Albany St in Boston in the pouring rain tonight joined by police for the dignified transfer of the body of fallen Boston firefighter Bobby Kilduff killed in the line of duty in Dorchester last night #7News

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Oil Tanker Slips Anonymously Through Strait Of Hormuz By Adding Fake Nose And Mustache https://t.co/YC7QNajnV2

[Renee @TexasCowgrl1111]

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.
If I bought my property outright for $60,000 in 2009
Now the county says it’s worth $246,000.
Did I sell it? No.
Did I make a profit? No.
Did I get a check for $246,000? No.
But my taxes jumped like I did.
That’s the problem.
This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it.
If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.
If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.
So why does owning a home work differently?
Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?
A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.
You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.
This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.”
It’s about being charged for value you never received.
And people are starting to notice.

This needs to be on everyone’s mind✔️

[ASTEROID SHIBA @Asteroidcto]

Liv, we did it! Asteroid is now the official mascot of SpaceX! Thank you for bringing Asteroid to life.

Liv, we can go to space again…Your dream has come true! Thank you @elonmusk for making this possible.

Thank you @rebeccaperrotto, our brave and strong mom. We love Liv❤️

[New York Post @nypost]

Elon Musk fulfills teen's last wish in touching X post after she was too weak to take his call https://t.co/G2Hmm5cJJ8

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

The Somali Community Of Minnesota Would Like To Remind America That Today Is Tax Day https://t.co/DcBAloJwCZ

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Can someone please explain, in very simple language, how growing almonds in a Californian desert, draining the local aquifer until the ground subsides, spraying the entire crop with fungicides because almonds can't survive without them, killing off the commercial bee population in the process, then refrigerating the harvest and shipping it six thousand miles to Britain is environmentally friendly,

but buying a piece of beef from a farmer twelve miles down the road, whose cattle eat the grass that grows in the rain that falls on the hills that have been there since before anyone had opinions about this,

is a planetary emergency?

Asking for the cow.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Mia Heller at the age of just 18, invented a water filter that eliminates 95.5% of microplastics.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

They attacked wool. We got polyester.
Half a million tonnes of microplastic fibres enter the ocean from synthetic clothing annually.
Microplastics are now in human blood, lung tissue, and placentas.
Wool biodegrades in months.
Polyester persists for centuries.

They attacked leather. We got PVC.
PVC production releases dioxins.
The vegan leather peels within two years.
Both require petroleum.
Leather is a byproduct of food production.
It lasts decades.
It biodegrades.
The ethical alternative requires an oil well.

They attacked butter. We got margarine.
Trans fat disease for a generation.
Now on its third formulation.
Butter contains vitamins A, D, E, and K2.
Margarine contains seed oils and an ingredients list.
The butter never changed.
The butter never needed to.

They attacked beef. We got plant-based burgers.
Pea protein extracted with hexane.
Seed oils. Nineteen other ingredients. A supply chain across multiple continents.
Soy driving deforestation in Brazil at a scale that dwarfs British cattle farming.

Beef on British marginal land grows on hills that cannot grow crops.
Sequesters carbon. Fertilises without a factory.
Complete protein. Every fat-soluble vitamin. No dead zone.

In every case: the traditional animal product was nutritionally superior, environmentally lighter, and cheaper to produce.
In every case: the ethical replacement was industrially complex, petrochemically dependent, and worse for the body using it.

The ethics were the marketing.

[Anne Marie Kratch @am_kratch]

We can do better …

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.

That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.

Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”

The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.

That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.

But the education system still runs on its logic.

A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.

Neither is being served. Both are being processed.

Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”

AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.

One at a time. Every time.

It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.

It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.

A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.

The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.

No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.

Because the math doesn’t work.

AI doesn’t have that constraint.

Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”

The brain isn’t broken. The format is.

Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.

That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.

Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”

Four years. Six figures of debt.

And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.

The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.

Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”

The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.

The question isn’t whether the old model survives.

It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

[Anne Marie Kratch @am_kratch]

Harpo and Lucy … classic comedy at it’s best 🤣🤣🤣

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

While most people moved on from victims of Hurricane Helene… Greg Biffle never did.

One year ago today, Greg flew his helicopter to Swannanoa NC and airdropped thousands of Easter Eggs dressed as the Easter Bunny for Easter.

Greg Biffle was truly the best of America. 🇺🇸

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Health Sec. RFK Jr. just announced the Systematic Targeting of MICROPLASTICS nationwide — a program to surge the ability to REMOVE microplastics from the human body

HUGE!

RFK JR: "We can't treat what we cannot measure. We cannot regulate what we don't understand. So today, HHS, alongside EPA, is taking direct action."

"We are launching STOMP, which stands for Systematic Targeting of MicroPlastics. It's a $144 million national program to measure, understand, and to remove microplastics from the human body."

"We are focusing on three questions. What is in the body, what's causing the harm, and how do we prove it? And we're answering them everywhere." @RapidResponse47