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[Sara @firething]

I think this every time I get a ladder out or drag a bar stool over to a high cabinet. I bet ladders hurt more retired firefighters than on-duty ones.

[Kristin M. Collier, MD @HSRdirector]

I’ve witnessed a lot of harm done to my patients from various expected things like cigarettes, guns etc but I never imagined how much harm I would see in my adult patients from ladders. LADDERS. so much devastation

[Sara @firething]

@coldhealing @uncledoomer Decent food and time to relax in a clean park during your (hopefully) eight hour work day. Not a bad thing to wish for your descendants. Throw in some freedom and a living wage, and your ancestors can rest easy in their graves.

[Sara @firething]

@JoshLipnik If you happen through Muncie, Indiana, this dentist office is a fascinating little building I wish I’d learned more about when I grew up there. Google Maps doesn’t do it justice. It has some kind of clayish exterior with friezes carved or pressed into it.

[Sara @firething]

After watching what private equity has done to fire apparatus and emergency service software, I am ready for some tradcapitalism.

[Oren Cass @oren_cass]

"We must be willing to say that the hedge fund managers have no clothes and their parading about is an unpleasant sight for us all." https://t.co/VvtagMUlGQ

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

"Immigrants are going to replace our culture!"

What culture is that, exactly?

Is it the Iowa State Fair? Seeing the Hawkeyes play the Cyclones on Saturday night? Eating pork chops on a stick? Church choirs volunteering to help rebuild homes after a tornado?
Is it barbacoa on Sunday morning before mass and your little girl's quinceañera? Or accordion-driven Tejano music playing from a pickup truck?
Is it moms dropping their kids off for Calabasas ballet in Range Rovers and Teslas? Lululemon and Vuori? Angry meetings about fence heights at the HOA?
Is it salsa coming through open windows on hot days? Folding chairs gathered around a domino game? Puerto Rican and American flags everywhere to honor Marines coming home?
Is it Southern comfort food at Mary Mac's Tea Room? Morehouse and Spelman grads meeting to network? Southern rap blasting at Magic City?

People afraid of being "replaced" have too narrow a view of what America is about. And yes, America can include a statue of the Hindu god Hanuman in Houston. (Because, c'mon, what is more over-the-top Texan than a 90-foot golden statue of a dude wielding a huge bad-ass club?)

My American culture doesn't discriminate based on ethnic background. My American culture is one that can deal with immigrants because it embraces their myriad varieties. My American culture holds dear democracy, freedom, and independence.

My America believes in self-governance, from jury rooms, where 12 strangers gather to decide a fellow citizen's fate, to town halls, to local elections, to national campaigns. It's watching locals grill an annoyed city council about a new park or too much crime downtown.

My America believes in free speech so much that we put it at the top of the Bill of Rights. I get to call my leaders idiots and feel no fear of prison or punishment. I believe in allowing marches and protests, from the good ones (Selma and Stonewall) to the ones I dislike (Proud Boys or Antifa).

My America is proud to see rows of new citizens lined up at city hall, with many different skin tones but the same expression of hope and anticipation. Because my America is Ronald Reagan's America, "still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."

So it's ok if some people march in a St Patrick's Day parade while others celebrate the Vietnamese (Tet) New Year, as long as they are all committed to freedom, democracy, the Constitution, and this amazing thing called "America."

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[Sara @firething]

@billypilgrim333 @DrNeilStone My work achieved 95% Covid vaccination without a mandate. I think resistance would have been higher if vax was mandated. Those who refused the vaccine got tested weekly. This worked for us. Childhood vaccines seem more critical. I’d hate to see polio return. God forbid, smallpox.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

More and faster please.

[Sara @firething]

@HistoryBoomer Not sure I would watch that reality show.

[Sara @firething]

@davevowels I’ve been watching the ridiculous Elon-fueled meltdown. Bonsignore is very qualified and seems a great pick since the EMS side of FDNY is facing more difficulties at present than the fire suppression side.

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

The Pope handing over gift cards he’d saved to his brother because he can’t use them now is the most midwestern thing I’ve ever heard. Do we think the pope has a plastic bag full of other plastic bags under his Papal sink?

[Sara @firething]

@dmtrubman I swear, watching marijuana legalization unfold in New York almost turned me libertarian.

[Sara @firething]

@PeterMoskos In my best Philly accent : “Dickhead!”

[Sara @firething]

Do kids read books or build forts anymore? Prowl neighborhoods on their bikes? Kinda glad I grew up before smartphones and video games.

[The Alex Nowrasteh @AlexNowrasteh]

A major reason why kids began roaming less in the 1990s and early 2000s is that playing at home got more fun than other options. Toys became cheaper and better.

Just try keeping your kids indoors without any toys or video games under current norms. You’d last a week.

[Jake Auchincloss @JakeAuch]

Basic research funding + talent + IP protection = science & technology success.

America (especially Massachusetts) aced this formula for decades. Now China is winning, with Trump's help.

Democrats should counter with an agenda to double R&D funding, improve math & science education, rationalize the visa program, and streamline tech transfer & IP law.

[Sara @firething]

@davevowels You must be relieved that the Twitterati have moved on from being tariff experts.

[Sara @firething]

@DPearsonPHL Sovereign citizen?

[Sara @firething]

@davenewworld_2 @NotHoodlum I figured they’d screen me out for the $1 million. He better pay me my $100 and my sister her $47. Gotta donate it to FIRE and Moms Demand Action.

[Sara @firething]

@joshtpm I live in PA and already voted for Harris. Should I take his money and donate it to FIRE and Moms Demand Action? After all, I support the first and second amendments.

[Sara @firething]

@davevowels Wawa is overrated. There. I said it.