Heidi

Follower of Christ, Mom, Wife, Graphic Designer, football fan. Been a Seahawks fan since the time I was still playing with barbies.

[Heidi @colvillerunner]

Who but Jr. would try to pickpocket Mattingly during tense playoff? He made the game fun. #JrHOF #Mariners

[Cliff Mass @CliffMass]

Are the Recent Northwest Wildfires a Sign of Global Warming: The Science Says No
https://t.co/SxBOfwmFod

[Brit Hume @brithume]

This is not getting the coverage it deserves. Is that because so many media luminaries were so chummy with the man at the center of a major medical controversy?

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Arguably the greatest ESPN commercial ever made was Steve Irwin wrestling an alligator that casually walked out of the elevator

[J Michael Waller @JMichaelWaller]

This is the finest US government report in history about Cuban Communist subversion and violence.

Until now, the Reagan Administration held the record.

This report far surpasses that 40 year-old standard.

[stevemur @stevemur]

Washingtonians: Are you curious how to vote for the August 4th Primary? Here are Endorsements by Concerned Taxpayers of Washington.

You may have concerns about elections in WA, but until those are addressed, PLEASE DO NOT SKIP THE PRIMARY. Ballots are on their way to you now, or may already have arrived. This is how I'll be voting:

https://t.co/1rGFXWxGPw

[Wild Sassy Angel | Freedom First @WildSassyAngel]

I am outraged by this.

Kindergarten children are FIVE.

They should not be watching Pride videos, doing activist flag projects, being offered Pride-themed clothing, or having adult identity politics pushed into their classroom day without parents knowing and consenting.

That is not “inclusion.”

That is adults using very young children as a captive audience for political and sexual-identity messaging they are too young to understand.

It is disgusting that parents keep finding this out after the fact.

Public schools are funded by taxpayers and entrusted with children — not handed a blank check to bypass families.

@TheBSD405 and every district allowing this should publish the materials, approvals, parent notice, and opt-out policy.

Parents are not the enemy.

Parents are the line you do not cross.

#ParentalRights #ProtectChildren #PublicSchools #TheBSD405

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

BREAKING: A same-sex couple is suing their surrogate for $600K after she refused to abort their baby at 22 weeks in Canada.

Scans indicated the child had a cleft lip and a possible heart defect.

The little boy was born healthy.

That child is alive today not because of the men who purchased his life, but because the woman who carried him in her womb protected him.

Children are not commodities. Ban surrogacy now.

[We Heart Seattle @weheartseattle]

My friend can’t sell or rent her Seattle home, now stuck across the street from a DESC low-barrier property overrun with dealing and prostitution.
This is what ‘Housing First’ does: it doesn’t help people, it destroys neighborhoods and wipes out families’ life savings. Low-barrier disasters kill communities. We need treatment-first with real accountability. Enough. @washdems @GovBobFerguson @SeattleCouncil @KCGOP @KingCoRHA @DESCSeattle @ExecZahilay @BattleEndsHere

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

The Fort Worth PD police account is an official government account. Because these pages serve as official government channels, courts—including the U.S. Supreme Court—have consistently ruled that blocking citizens based on their political or critical viewpoints violates their free speech rights.

In other words, it is illegal for them to block @libsoftiktok.

This police department really does not understand the first amendment.

[The Undercurrent @NotTheirScript]

Years ago, I knew someone who claimed that a young man killed in a motorcycle accident had been her boyfriend. She told everyone she was devastated, quit her job, and made his death the defining story of her life. I believed her initially.

Later, I learned the truth.

They had never actually dated. He had pursued her briefly, but they were never a couple. In fact, before his death, she had told mutual friends that he annoyed her and that he was a loser.

There’s a term for this: grief appropriation. It’s when someone inserts themselves into another person’s tragedy, elevating themselves into a central figure in a loss when, in reality, they played only a minor role in that person’s life.

Often, there’s a secondary gain. In her case, it was attention. It gave her a reason to quit a job she didn’t want, receive sympathy, and continue being financially supported by her parents. She even tried to enter his bedroom to collect personal belongings she claimed he “would have wanted her to have.”

She genuinely believed she was entitled to them.

The story became more elaborate over time. The more she invested in it, the more convinced she became that they were soulmates and that she was one of the primary victims of his death.

Meanwhile, his real family was left to deal with the confusion and additional pain her behavior created. His parents had lost a son. His siblings had lost a brother. Instead of allowing them to grieve, she made herself another person they had to manage.

That’s one of the cruelest parts of grief appropriation. It doesn’t just rewrite the past. It competes with the people whose grief is actually rooted in reality.

I share this because I see striking similarities in Candace Owens’ attempts to position herself as the guardian of Charlie Kirk’s legacy. Charlie has a real widow. He has real children who will grow up without their father. He has parents, a sister, lifelong friends, and colleagues who are carrying an unimaginable loss.

When someone elevates themselves into the center of another person’s tragedy, they aren’t honoring that person’s memory. They’re appropriating it. And in the process, they often make an already devastating loss even harder for the people who loved that person most.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Charlie Kirk never got to see America’s 250th birthday.

So, in his honor, watch him shut down the typical liberal “stolen land” argument.

A college student confronts Kirk and says Americans are living on “stolen land” taken from the Mexicans.

Kirk asks who the Mexicans stole it from, then expertly turns his own words against him.

By the end, everyone is cheering for America. Watch how this one plays out.

STUDENT: “I want to acknowledge the fact that we are right now on stolen land and that we are on indigenous land and that we are on original Mexican land right now.”

KIRK: “I love this stolen land argument.”

STUDENT: “…I really make it a point to notice that I’m on stolen land at all times, especially when we think about things like Manifest Destiny.”

KIRK: “Who did the Mexicans steal the land from?”

STUDENT: “Actually, the Mexicans were there originally in Texas…”

KIRK: “Wrong. They stole it from lots of Indian tribes… Texas was not indigenously Mexican… there was the Cherokee. There were many different Native American tribes there. So Mexico was participating in Manifest Destiny at the behest of the Spanish crown.”

[Student acknowledges Kirk is right]

KIRK: “At some point, you have to believe in self-determination. If you can win the land, it’s yours. That is what built the West.”

STUDENT: “I can agree with that.”

KIRK: “So instead of a land acknowledgement… you should have a gratitude acknowledgement. ‘Praise God, I live in America! I’m glad!’ A gratitude acknowledgement would be nice.”

[Crowd erupts]

Charlie would have loved to experience America’s 250th birthday more than anyone.

He defended America on campuses exactly like this one until the day he died. The least we can do is carry his message forward.

Rest in Peace, Legend.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

For some unknown reason, Thomas Jefferson is preoccupied this morning with recording the temperature.

He writes that upon awaking at 6 AM, the temperature is a pleasant 68.0 degrees Fahrenheit, but that it is creeping up toward 70.

On his way to Congress, Jefferson purchases a thermometer. It costs three pounds and 15 shillings.

No-body knows why he is so concerned with the temperature today, especially, and for what reason he desires an accurate read.

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Happy 250th Birthday America! Our nation was born in adversity and we’re still in adversity today. It is God Who has brought us through every storm and trial, and we need to continue to call on Him for wisdom, direction, and help. Today, let’s thank God for these 250 years of freedom and for His hand of blessing on this nation. Most of all, let us thank God for giving His Son, Jesus Christ, so that we could be free from the bondage of sin!

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord…” (Psalm 33:12)

This photo of Jane and me is from a couple of years ago in Alaska.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

—Alexis de Tocqueville

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

The goal of this Democratic socialist is to destroy western civilization. I’m sure the socialist utopia she has in mind will turn out so much better as long as we ignore human nature and all of history. https://t.co/fh8EKxE6xX

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

The dad who uploaded the video said that if the security camera hadn’t caught it, he wouldn’t have believed it.

[Adam Housley @adamhousley]

I find it interesting that so many people attack @elonmusk for becoming a trillionaire after building companies, creating products, generating jobs, and helping create wealth for countless employees and investors. Yet there’s far less outrage directed at a government that has spent and wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars—often with little accountability, limited transparency, and documented cases of fraud. One fortune was built by creating value people chose to support; the other was spent using money taxpayers had no choice but to provide.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

Foreign tourists trying biscuits and gravy is now my favorite timeline.

[Brandi Kruse @BrandiKruse]

NEW: Prosecutors say they will not charge trans wrestler with alleged sexual assault of Kallie Keeler because of "case law concerning consent in athletic contests." If only the state of Washington had given Kallie the option to consent to being touched by a male.