jonathan

Clemson, cook, #2A, wine

[Callum 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @CalOnBundesliga]

Man I fucking miss the Euros 😞

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.

The species is Swiss stone pine. Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.

6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.

Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.

Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Obama's entire legacy is Donald Trump.

[TheIntelFrog @TheIntelFrog]

Absolutely, positively, not what you want to see under a post about an aircraft crash.

Eight souls came to work to help make the B-52 better.

Keep the eight families that just had a hole blasted in them in your thoughts this evening.

[cdrsalamander @cdrsalamander]

...and they have no concept how baseball is played, but they don't care.

Just superb.

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

Is this really the line the MLB wants to draw?

Trans pride displays are essentially required, bible verses are banned.

[jonathan @davisj1]

Up-arm the fleet with the 21st century evolution of your grandfathers gun, https://t.co/p7lyWdp81L

[jonathan @davisj1]

‘Inclusive’ Left Attacks Giants Players For Expressing Christian Faith On ‘Pride Night’ https://t.co/lHWULq7jyF

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

One of the great ironies about the #FIFA World Cup in America is that European patriots can celebrate their national pride and wave their national flags without fear of arrest or persecution by police.

Think about that for a second or ten.

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

Important to understand that while this lady sounds like a lunatic –

She also has the most popular political Substack in the world.

This is how all the middle-aged ladies in your Facebook and Instagram feeds have been completely radicalized.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

@FrancescaHongWI Communism - taking credit for everyone else's hard earned work since 1917.

[Billy McMorris @FBillMcMorris]

Nothing says “truth-to-power!” like bragging about how you got labor in trouble with management because you hate Christianity

[Billy McMorris @FBillMcMorris]

“Will not be tolerated”

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

From 1992 to 1996, I was the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) Exercise Sergeant Major. This May 1995 photo was taken in Jordan. One night in the tent, I had an unusual bed partner. I was sleeping on the ground in my sleeping bag. In the morning one of the guys noticed that a horned viper was snuggled up for warmth – just next to my head. I lay there until the snake was dealt with. The desert, like every environment I had operated in, demanded respect and constant awareness.

[ZitoSalena @ZitoSalena]

When Tocqueville came to America in 1831, just shy of 200 years ago, what he observed astonished him. His expectations, much like the expectations of the elites in Europe and our own country today, began with our “remarkable tendency to organize themselves in pursuit of shared goals.”
“Americans of all ages constantly unite,” Tocqueville wrote in his book Democracy in America. “Not only do they have commercial and industrial associations, in which all take part, but they also have a thousand other kinds: religious, moral, grave, futile, very general and very particular, immense and very small.”
When Tocqueville visited the U.S., we were in an era of rapid change, not unlike today. Some were moving westward, others toward cities, others away from cities, all while building transportation systems, such as canals and roadways, to achieve that moment.
The Industrial Revolution was at the center of all that cultural and political change. Our postal system was also speeding up. Our political parties were raucous, populist, and changing with the times. And we were influenced by those changed by how we formed communities.
Sound familiar? We are also in a moment of rapid change, building high-tech superhighways, this time through artificial intelligence and the internet. We are also moving inward this time, some rediscovering the middle of our country, while others try to remake our cities.
And the technological revolution of AI is having as much of a cultural and political impact as the industrial revolution.
What @FreddyLA7 @shaunvlog_ and all of the other World Cup soccer fans are experiencing is a modern-day Tocqueville moment. Freddy and Shaun likely had no idea what to expect when arriving here. If they read the European press or the Atlantic, it was probably pretty dark. Tocqueville himself wrote that he expected to find a raw, chaotic society, which is pretty much a condensed version of the criticisms you read about America and Americans from elite news organizations today.
What Tocqueville found instead were Americans who were constantly developing ways, and or tools, for creating associations, both large and small — associations with wildly different interests, from small local sports and community or religious groups with little internal order to vast national networks with structures. Think the Rotary Club, NAACP, the Elks, Lions Clubs, Future Farmers of America, the Grange, and 4-H.
https://t.co/jPWdm4clXl

[Throwback Iran @Tarikh_Eran]

Meanwhile incredible scenes unfolding outside of sofi stadium

Iranians are handing out t shirts with names & faces of protestors murdered by the Islamic regime on January 8-9

The IRGC wont be allowed to wash the blood of these youth through sports

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Our most American experience so far🇺🇸

We met with the Houston Police department and ate typical Texan BBQ together. It looked in there just like in the movies. They even put on Ella Langley just for us.😂

[Christian Toto @HollywoodInToto]

Quiet during the Twitter Files scandal
Quiet while 'sensitivity readers' ransacked classic books
Quiet as Team Biden censored Americans
Quiet as YouTube censored 'wrongthink' over COVID
Quiet as Cancel Culture crushed comedy
Quiet as radicals silenced conservatives on college campuses

[TV News Now @TVNewsNow]

🔥 NEW: Fox’s Ben Domenech: “This President has been the best foreign policy president of my lifetime. I think he has been incredibly bold, used American power to restore our sovereignty, and protect our interests and look out for the American people.”

“I think it was a gutsy call for him to go into Iran when he did. He didn’t have to do it but he did and he thought it was the right time. I still think that was the right decision.”

“This deal and everything we know about it to the degree it is being spun by this administration: everything about this deal seems bad to me. It all seems like a setback. It doesn’t meet any of the measures the president put out there of his goals for this conflict,” adds @bdomenech to @BretBaier.

“At some point the Republican party needs to decide which kind of foreign policy it’s going to have. An American first policy.. or are we going to backslide into being some kind of ‘hillbilly Obama’ kind of GOP? That’s not something that is acceptable to me and it shouldn’t be acceptable to Republicans or any conservative who is interested in the success of America.”