Eric Munro

Boy Dad - Dog Dad - #AllGrit

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.

What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.

Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.

Happy Fourth of July, New York City.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Next time you're feeling sad or down remember what Eddie Murphy once said...

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:

“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.

At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.

But cancer doesn’t care about plans.

Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.

I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.

Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.

Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.

Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.

Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.

Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.

Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.

You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.

Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.

And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.

Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.

And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”

Holly 🩷

Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️

[Red Pill Dispenser @redpilldispensr]

Some extremely profound words of wisdom from Alan Watts.

"One day you'll realize you've already lived through some of the best days of your life and you didn't even know it at the time."

"You were too busy chasing what's next, busy worrying about what's missing. Thinking happiness was something you'd arrive at one day."

"But while you were waiting you were laughing with people who won't always be around. You were making memories in places you'll one day drive past and feel something you can't explain. You were standing in moments that didn't feel like the good old days until they were gone."

"So stop waiting for life to start. You're already living it."

[James🗳 @_fat_ugly_rat_]

It’s honestly shocking that Trump basically never brings up the fact that he was almost assassinated.

[Hutch @hutchinson]

I resent this president for tearing at the fabric of everything I was raised to believe makes America great. I resent his criminality. I resent his incompetence.

But I think most of all I resent him for actively making this country dumber. He really does. Everything is stupid.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

An anti-war ad from a decade ago is going viral. Because the same wars keep happening-for the same interests, at the same cost, with the same lies

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

The most dangerous thing about leaving Earth isn’t the vacuum.

It’s the clarity.

When astronauts return from long missions, most talk about the Overview Effect in poetic terms. They describe seeing Earth as fragile, borderless, beautiful.

What rarely gets reported is the second layer of that experience — the part where the beauty curdles into something more disturbing.

Because once you’ve watched the planet from that altitude long enough, the human activity you observe starts to look less like civilization and more like a colony of organisms running programs they never consciously chose. Wars over invisible lines. Cities choking on their own exhaust. Seven billion people sprinting toward goals that were handed to them before they were old enough to question whether they wanted them.

I don’t think the “Big Lie about humanity” he’s describing is some kind of a conspiracy.

It’s something quieter and far more pervasive. It’s the collective hallucination that the world you were handed at birth is the world as it actually is. That the values you absorbed from your culture are the values that exist in nature. That the urgency you feel about status, money, and approval reflects something real about the universe rather than something manufactured by systems that benefit from your compliance.

Orbital altitude strips that hallucination away with brutal efficiency.

Gravity keeps more than your body on the ground. It keeps your perspective locked inside the consensus.

Astronauts who spend months outside that gravity field don’t just lose bone density. They lose the psychological weight of inherited assumptions. And when those assumptions lift, what sits underneath them is a question most humans never get forced to confront in a lifetime.

What would you actually want if nobody had ever told you what to want?

The Big Lie was never about them.

It was always about that question and how hard the entire structure of modern life works to make sure you never stop long enough to ask it.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

He was a college student studying information systems who volunteered in the reserve. He probably had a bright future. He likely believed the pervasive lies Americans are fed from birth that joining the US military means "serving your country" and "defending freedom." What it really means is fighting barbaric imperialist wars and taking away life and freedom from others. The bitter truth that those who loved him won't have an easy time facing is that no ordinary American will be freer or safer for his loss. He died for "Israel" and for the Epstein vampire class — none of whose children have rushed to volunteer in Trump's war of murder and aggression.

[Rikki Schlott @RIKKISCHLOTT]

ICE roving around a city asking people “are you an American citizen” is very different from proactively identifying and targeting a dangerous illegal immigrant for deportation. This is why people are upset.

[Izzy Gardon @iGardon]

You got off work…

On roads paved and maintained with taxpayer dollars.

You drove home protected by:
Traffic lights
Street lighting
Highway patrol
Road maintenance crews

All paid for by taxpayers…

Your paycheck exists because of:
Contract enforcement courts
Banking regulations
Consumer protections
A stable currency
Public schools that trained your coworkers

All taxpayer funded…

You didn’t get poisoned today because of:
Food safety inspections
Clean water systems
Environmental protections
Disease surveillance

Taxpayer funded…

If something went wrong today, you’d rely on:

Police
Firefighters
EMTs
Emergency rooms (that must treat you)

Taxpayer funded…

Your internet? Exists because of publicly funded research…

Your weather forecast, GPS, and phone time?

Satellites
Federal standards
Public infrastructure

Taxpayer funded…

Your kids’ school.
Your parents’ Medicare.
Your mortgage interest deduction.
Your disaster aid when things go sideways.

Taxes don’t disappear into a scam. They show up everywhere — including in the very life you’re complaining from.

[Goad Gatsby @GoadGatsby]

This is horrible. The only solution I can think of is to do pull-ups in an airport.

[Daddy’s Lambeau 🧀 @Daddys_Lambeau]

This is too funny 🤣😭 #GoPackGo

[Kyle Bandujo @kylebandujo]

Not to dive in too deep to a golf exhibition, but I think the repulsive crowd behavior speaks to a further issue in a contingent of this country believing patriotism is simply being cruel and repulsive to anyone deemed the opposition, vs simply being proud to be an American.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

A question that lives rent free in my head...

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Keep showing up:

[Eric Munro @emunro24]

@mcuban Then run next election

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Savage community note 🎯

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

What a privilege to be tired from work you once begged the universe for. what a privilege to feel overwhelmed by growth you used to dream about. what a privilege to be challenged by a life you created on purpose. what a privilege to outgrow things you used to settle for.