FreerangeTortoise

America’s Our Hometown 🇺🇸Don’t blink. Life is fleeting. Make it a “Great Adventure”!

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

I’m an avid fan of Rick Bragg’s writing. He’s the real southern deal with a big heart. Don’t go messing with his tomato sandwich!

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[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

The Last Generation https://t.co/mAxLfPrZ6J

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Such an incredible story! Well done, @lawrence_wright . Told in an informative, enlightening, sensitive way.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Lawrence Wright follows the spiritual journey of the women condemned to Texas’s death row—and the nuns who minister to them. https://t.co/s7QBrpXSli

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Nailed it! Thank you, @SenRandPaul
We need MAHA! Please confirm @RobertKennedyJr ASAP.

[Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul]

Today, at @RobertKennedyJr's HELP hearing, I made it clear that we need medical freedom.

There's such a belief in submission.

"Submit to the government. Do what you're told."

There is no discussion. There ought to be a debate.

RFK Jr. has my vote. MAHA!

[Jocko Willink @jockowillink]

Loyalty.

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Magic happens here 💫

[Michael Pollan @michaelpollan]

They’re Lying About Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - The American Conservative https://t.co/3rATP8lOUJ

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

This is spectacular news for the Republic, The Unity Movement, the West and the world. @RobertKennedyJr is the best possible choice for HHS. Let’s make America healthy again!

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Such an incredible tribute of love. She was a “whatta woman” I always admired, an inspiration for me and all mothers. Beautiful, heartfelt, @RobertKennedyJr

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

My mom, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, passed peacefully into Heaven this morning. She was 96. She died in Boston surrounded by many of her nine surviving children and her friends. God gave her 34 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and the energy to give them all the attention they required. He blessed her with a rich and eventful life. Even as she declined in recent months, she never lost her sense of fun, her humor, her spark, her spunk, and her joie de vivre. She wrung joy from every moment, but for 56 years she has spoken with yearning of the day she would reunite with her beloved husband. She is with him now, with my brothers David and Michael, with her parents, her six siblings, all of whom predeceased her, and her “adopted” Kennedy siblings Jack, Kick, Joe, Teddy, Eunice, Jean, Rosemary, and Patricia. From the day she met my father, her new family observed that she was “more Kennedy than the Kennedys.” She was never more enthusiastic about the afterlife than when she considered that she would also be reunited with her many dogs, including 16 Irish setters — all conveniently named “Rusty.”

The cognitive dissonance that allowed her to keep two inconsistent truths in her heart at the same time without budging made my mother a collection of irreconcilable convictions. Among these was her ironic combination of deep — nearly blind — reverence for the Catholic Church and irreverence toward its clerics. She was at once starstruck by America’s presidents, all of whom she came to know personally, and at the same time skeptical of government and toward all figures of authority. She balanced her contempt for pretension and hypocrisy with a boundless tolerance for error and mistakes in others.

God also endowed her with a perpetual attitude of gratitude that fueled her taste for adventure and an irrepressible buoyancy in a life beset by a continuous parade of heartbreaking tragedies. Her sunny optimism eventually brought my shattered father back to life following the assassination of his brother and then helped her children to thrive after her husband’s assassination five years later.

Among her most defining qualities were moral and physical fearlessness. She was a peerless equestrian and held the high jump record on horseback, jumping 7′9″ on a Quarter Horse. Critics named her among the best female amateur tennis players, and she was a competitive diver. But she did every sport well — from football to skiing, waterskiing and kayaking. Her disciplined stoicism and her deep faith in God enabled her to endure over ten years of pregnancy without complaint. She also suffered the murders of her husband and Uncle Jack, and the early deaths of two of her children. Various air crashes killed both of her parents, her brother, her sister-in-law, and her nephew John. She never enjoyed flying, but her worry never stopped her from boarding a plane. While giving short shrift to her own monumental suffering, she always showed intense compassion for others.

My mother invented tough love, and she could be hard on her children when we didn’t live up to her expectations. But she was also intensely loyal, and we always knew that she would stand fiercely behind us when we came under attack by others. She was our role model for self-discipline, for resilience, and for self-confidence. She deeded to each of her 11 children her love of good stories, her athleticism, her competitive spirit, and the deep curiosity about the world, and the intense interest in people of all backgrounds, which caused her to pepper everyone she met — from cab drivers to presidents — with a relentless cascade of questions about their lives. She also gave us all her love of language and for good storytelling. I credit her for all my virtues. I’m grateful for her generosity in overlooking my faults.

[RescueTheRepublic @RescueRepublic]

Since @mtaibbi 's speech yesterday at #RescueTheRepublic is now a top trending topic on @x, we'd like to remind everyone of these powerful words he had to say on #censorship and our duty as Americans to defy it:

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Such a tragedy. Well done, @praddenkeefe . Eye opening and heartbreaking… @NewYorker

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

.@praddenkeefe chronicles the case of Zac Brettler, a teen-ager whose entanglement with two businessmen in London resulted in a fatal plunge into the Thames.
https://t.co/8vIzctDFs7

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

“Time is undefeated. The only way you can have a fistfight with time is to do things you’ve always wanted to do. Do something that lasts forever.” -Jesse

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

The motivational speaker Jesse Itzler began setting life goals in his mid-20s: be a millionaire by 30; have a song in a movie; run a marathon (check, check, check). Can his methods bring him to the top of his industry? https://t.co/h7gv2STxPd

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Dog sat in shelter 11 years. Oh my heart… she looks just like Rex, a dog my son, ⁦@Darth_Nater⁩ rescued. Vanessa finally found her person. 🙏🏻💞 https://t.co/I83oHnrFcS

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Well done, Jill Lepore.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In the early 1970s, there were estimates of fewer than 100 black bears in New Jersey. That number is now about 3,000. “Bears, in short, are coming back to places they haven’t been in generations,” Jill Lepore writes. https://t.co/pMsPqndQwx

[NBC10 Philadelphia @NBCPhiladelphia]

Talk about a good boy! King waited patiently for 563 days at the Brandywine Valley SPCA until he found a new owner. https://t.co/EfvlQkBVuH

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Congratulations, @SpaceX ! Exciting stuff!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting first integrated flight test of Starship!

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Very thankful for you, @HeatherEHeying and @BretWeinstein
Apparently, We’re the Bad Guys, by @HeatherEHeying https://t.co/CbWGCIPVnH

[FreerangeTortoise @FreerangeTortis]

Such an aspiring story. My daughter’s number one Peloton trainer choice, @RobinNYC

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Peloton’s magnetic cast of instructors are workout celebrities on a scale unseen since the heyday of Richard Simmons. For our Interviews Issue, @erenorbey speaks with Robin Arzón, one of the trainers most emblematic of the brand. https://t.co/5vxLCNDQaQ

[NFL @NFL]

Mom's always there. 💚

@JasonKelce @DKelce1

[Nate @Darth_Nater]

@jordanbpeterson loved you as usual on Joe Rogan, Dr. Peterson. Your insights are necessary and appreciated. I’m sorry you are a target but thankful you are continuing to battle back against this strange woke assault.