Nicole Lalonde

No matter where I find myself, Montana is home.

[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

‘Would Sadiq Khan back a rave in a mosque?’ My column in this week’s @spectator https://t.co/TOerotprPk

[Pro America Politics @proamericapol]

Democrats: "How dare Trump offer a $5000 dividend. This is bribery."

Also Democrats: "We'll give you free groceries. Free healthcare. Free daycare. Free buses. Forgive your student loans and $1M in reparations."

[Nicole Lalonde @HazeletteWinter]

@mattvanswol I am not usually into new tech, but I am constantly doing family business on my phone. This I could use. The larger screen would be nice.

[Nicole Lalonde @HazeletteWinter]

@hwinkler4real This is so dumb. We already give free meals to those that qualify. We don’t need to waste money feeding those that don’t.

[Real Doc Speaks @realdocspeaks]

This is sad, brilliant, and accurate! Patients and physicians are both stuck in a purgatory-like system!

Another great video by @JoinCrowdHealth

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

Big Announcement:

I've joined CrowdHealth as CMO to help build an iconic brand in a badly broken industry.

I have the hard-earned luxury of picking my projects and this is one of the best I’ve ever seen.

A few months ago, I met @andyjschoonover, the CEO of @joinCrowdHealth. CrowdHealth is tackling one of America’s biggest problems: our dysfunctional health insurance system.

It’s a marketer’s dream: a truly disruptive product in an industry that is broken beyond repair. It's time for something new.

This is personal for me:

I used to pay $2,500 a month for health insurance that my family rarely used. Now we pay around $500 a month for CrowdHealth.

But the biggest benefit is not having to deal with insurance companies any more.

I told Andy two things:

1) CrowdHealth is going to become a multi-billion dollar company.

2) I can help you get there.

Our marketing plan is deceptively simple:

🧡 Provide a superior alternative to health insurance.

🧡 Treat customers the way we’d like to be treated (in other words, the opposite of the way health insurance companies treat us).

🧡 Let our members spread the word.

As a 4-time CMO (and the only one to rebrand 3 public companies), I can tell you this:

The best marketing is a great product.

Truly great products don’t need to be force-fed to customers via ads and funnels. Today, over half of new CrowdHealth members come from word-of-mouth referrals.

CrowdHealth would much rather give millions of dollars to our members as a thank you than pay a tax to Google or Meta.

So stay tuned—there’s much more to come. For now, check out CrowdHealth at https://t.co/t3J1BNJOBT.

It’s not a fit for everyone, but for healthy individuals and families without major pre-existing conditions, it’s much better than health insurance.

(If you sign up, use my code: CAMP4.)

🧡

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Twenty-five years after September 11th, an entire generation of Americans has grown up with no memory of that morning.

That makes teaching them what happened more important, not less.

They need to know who attacked us, why America was attacked, what we lost, and what happened next.

They should know about the innocent Americans who went to work and never came home.

The firefighters and police officers who ran toward burning buildings.

The passengers of Flight 93 who fought back. And the generation of Americans who raised their right hands and went to war because their country had been attacked.

History cannot become something we soften, sanitize, or allow to disappear with the generation that lived through it.

Because history forgotten becomes history vulnerable to repetition.

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

This is brilliant.

Health insurance is broken beyond the point of absurdity.

I’m convinced that @joinCrowdHealth is going to become a massive company. It's a marketer's dream—a far better product for a much lower price.

(Stay tuned for an announcement. 🤫)

[CrowdHealth @JoinCrowdHealth]

Washington's dream for healthcare (inspired by Nate Bargatze).

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Mothers in Ceuta are GOING OFF on the rampant crime in the cities since Spain was INVADED by Muslims.

Her children can’t go to school.
She can’t walk the streets alone at night.
Families are not safe in their homes.

This is no way to live.

The leaders of Spain have betrayed their own people and allowed an invasion.

Now the people are rising up…

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

I've heard from some folks in Alabama that so many people showed up to support Mr Fenn, they had to move the proceedings to a bigger courtroom. THAT is what I like to see. Americans supporting their neighbors when they are being mistreated. Makes me proud to be an American🇺🇸

[Nicole Lalonde @HazeletteWinter]

I hear the name Ella Langley in the Joe Rogan podcast this summer.

We play her songs on repeat now. She’s great.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I haven't heard this apparently record-breaking song once, literally never encountered it. Feels like that says something interesting about the state of pop culture.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This is what enforced hijab looks like.

In a clinic, a woman refuses to provide medical care to another woman because she is not wearing a hijab.

“I’m in charge here. You have to wear a hijab,” she tells her.

The woman refuses, drops her appointment number, and walks out.

Regime supporters are now circulating the video as an example of how women who reject compulsory hijab should be treated.

But no amount of intimidation can erase what is happening across Iran: millions of women are refusing to comply.

Iranian women have faced detention, violence, torture, and even death for refusing to surrender their freedom. They have not backed down.

The regime can enforce rules. It cannot force women to believe in them.

#Iran

[Nicole Lalonde @HazeletteWinter]

Unreal.

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

Yesterday @ADFLegal sued Lake Washington School District for violating parental rights in defiance of Supreme Court precedent. We’re representing Konstantin Averkiev: a Christian and the father of a 5th-grade boy in the district.

Last year, after the Supreme Court decided Mahmoud v. Taylor in favor of religious parents seeking opt-outs from LGBTQ+ lessons at school, Konstantin requested a similar opt-out. His son’s 4th-grade teacher initially agreed.

But the teacher soon broke that promise. This June, Konstantin’s son came home talking about a “Pride Month” lesson he’d been forced to sit through at school—without parental notice or consent. It covered topics like “gender-change surgery” and the Stonewall Uprising, and an LGBTQ+ “belonging” survey. It even implied that to disagree with the LGBTQ+ movement was to deny others’ “humanity” and “right to exist.” (See attached slides from the lesson.)

Entirely missing was any concern about the “belonging” of students from religious families. In fact, in further exchanges with the school district, officials threatened to punish Konstantin’s son if he doesn’t use biologically inaccurate pronouns—in direct violation of the religious beliefs Konstantin is seeking to instill.

That’s exactly what the Supreme Court prohibited in Mahmoud. The Court further ruled this year in Mirabelli v. Bonta that “parents—not the State—have primary authority with respect to ‘the upbringing and education of children.’”

These SCOTUS rulings are binding nationwide. But Lake Washington is acting as if they don’t exist. When ADF exchanged letters with the district this summer, the District ignored the Supreme Court precedent, granting Konstantin only the limited opt-outs required by state law and denying the rest.

That’s not good enough. We’re asking a federal court to uphold Konstantin’s parental rights and require the school district to opt his son out from:

- LGBTQ+-related lessons,
- compelled pronoun use,
- secret social transition policies,
- being assigned to share bathroom, locker rooms, and other intimate spaces with the opposite sex.

We’re also seeking damages from the officials who violated Konstantin’s clearly established constitutional rights.

Washington may want to push LGBTQ+ curriculum. But public school isn’t a Constitution-free zone.

We look forward to standing up for Konstantin’s rights—and the rights of all Washington parents—in court.

[Nicole Lalonde @HazeletteWinter]

@The_Margrave44 @DKH013 @_SmokeyGirl25 Most D1 athletes can’t work. The schedule does not allow it.

[Nicole Lalonde @HazeletteWinter]

@SweetTexanRose I am in Hawaii post hurricane. The humidity is off the charts. Why shower at this point?

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

I am a proud supporter of @AngelStudiosInc

[Ann Bauer @annbauerwriter]

The cost of free school meals has risen beyond projections

The cost of family medical leave has risen beyond projections

The cost of minimum wage hikes has risen beyond projections

What cost in Minnesota has not risen beyond projections?

[Nicole Lalonde @HazeletteWinter]

@littleapostate Yep. Idk…I quit my job after I had baby number 2.

I just could not physically do that again.

I was working a corporate job from home. I worked 7 days a week and it was just insane.