Jamie C. Higdon

Communication Consultant. ABD.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@DavidAFrench And yet so predictable.

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

Ben Sasse: "What’s really happening is these superdevices in our pockets — the largest tools any median individual’s ever had access to in all of human history — allow our consciousness to leave the time and place where we actually live, the places where we break bread, the people who are living next door to us, the people that you can physically touch and hug, the small platoons of real community, and we allow our consciousness to go really far away"

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@AsburyUniv Hate to have missed this!

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

The Anxious Generation was published two years ago today, in a very different world. Back then, the most common objection I got was resignation: "The train has left the station." "You can't put toothpaste back in the tube." "It's how the kids connect today."

Today, the world looks very different. It turns out that if our kids were all on a train and we learned it was heading toward a collapsed bridge, we'd find a way to stop it and bring them safely back to the station. That’s what’s happening now.

After the historic verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico, today is a great day to reflect on the capacity of people in democratic societies to take action, even when opposing some of the most powerful corporations in history. We're getting access to the courts. We're getting phone-free schools. We're seeing whole neighborhoods letting kids out to play, unsupervised, which is what we older folk all remember as the best part of childhood.

So I want to recognize:

--The mothers (and, right behind them, fathers) who rose up by the millions and powered the movement.

--The farsighted governors and legislators in red states and blue states who have been innovating on policy solutions.

--The leaders of a dozen of nations, who are raising the age to 16 for opening social media accounts (with a special shoutout to Australia, for going first).

--The teachers and school administrators who had their classrooms disrupted for 15 years, and who are now eager to think through new solutions as screens have taken over and obstructed learning.

--The grassroots organizations who have been dedicating their efforts to advocate for all of the above in their local communities.

--The millions of members of Gen Z who have been rising up, demanding agency over how they spend their lives in the digital era, and finding better ways to connect in real life.

And one final group: the survivor parents--the ones you saw in those pictures of people embracing on the front steps of the LA courthouse. I have met many over the years. I am in awe of their courage and tenacity, their willingness to tell their stories of loss, over and over again, to different audiences, in the hope that no other parent would have to endure what they have endured. At long last, juries and legislatures are hearing you, and are acting.

Together, we are calling the train back to the station. Together, we are rolling back the phone based childhood and reclaiming life in the real world.

The work continues. If you’re not already involved, join us: https://t.co/HdJDTKOQ3T

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

Our country is going to pay a heavy price for the over-emphasis on sports we have placed on children. The mental health dangers of sports is piling up (esp. travel sports). The negative consequences often don’t show until the 20s, by then it’s assumed to be about something else.

[Heath Mayo @HeathMayo]

How can almost every House Republican so quickly support this war when they weren’t consulted, they didn’t debate it, and certainly didn’t vote on it?

Support may be warranted, but it shouldn’t be blind. Congress needs to do its job.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@realmattcarr It’s nuts, and I can’t believe anything still shocks me.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@jenniferwilkin Say more about this. I have a Facebook “friend” who’s very deep into whatever this is right now and it seems bonkers to me.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@MichaelRWear It’s honestly the part of the last 10 years that hurts the most. Not the PB specifically, but Trump’s brazen rejection of a godly life and “Character Counts” Christians’ full-throated embrace nonetheless.

[Mike Cosper @MikeCosper]

My favorite thing is when people who support large scale government intervention, tariffs, federalization of the economy, and an imperialist presidency call me, a small government, hawkish conservative that wants Congress to reassert its authority, a “leftist.”

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

"Nobody’s always right." Exactly @BethMooreLPM.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I don’t know what to make of prolific people on social media who appear to never have mixed feelings. Who take a certain side, defend a certain position down the line no matter what has occurred. I mean, nothing ever happens to make a person cry foul on their own team? Nothing?? Is there no point when our side has gone too far? I can’t comprehend it. Seems to me that is putting way too much confidence in humans. Nobody’s always right. The thing about straight lines drawn by human hands is how prone they are to get crooked.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@smerconish Can I respectfully ask that you clarify for your audience the difference between CBP & ICE? They are two different agencies. There is likely a lot of overlap in training and policy WRT LEOs and Use of Force, but different mission sets, different playing fields, different targets.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@ryanburge I’d argue the same divide shoes up between Christian nonprofits and their donors.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

Why is no one adopting a line of questioning along the lines of, “So you’re telling me the greatest military in the world is incapable of destroying a tiny drug boat with a single missile?” It, among so much of their hogwash, strains credulity.

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@trinityforum @Peter_Wehner @nytdavidbrooks @ChristineEmba @drmoore @KSPrior What a night! What a panel! What a setting!

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

@shanevanderhart @pj_schreiner There’s that humility coming into play. Well done.

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

Statement by President George W. Bush:

"Today, a young man was murdered in cold blood while expressing his political views. It happened on a college campus, where the open exchange of opposing ideas should be sacrosanct. Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square. Members of other political parties are not our enemies; they are our fellow citizens. May God bless Charlie Kirk and his family, and may God guide America toward civility."

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

This your son’s couch @smerconish?

[Jamie C. Higdon @DCJamie]

Snake bites. Gotta be a first. #StateOfTheUnion