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I’m not a bot… I just don’t know what to put here. 😂

[Marina Minas @marina_minas]

Before I met Erika after starting at TPUSA, everyone who talked about her used the same word to describe her: "angel."
About four weeks after I joined, I finally met her. Before I could even introduce myself, she knew exactly who I was. She told me she'd been wanting to meet me, had heard wonderful things about me, and that she and Charlie were so happy I'd joined the team.
People who had known Charlie long before he married Erika would always say the same thing: she changed him for the better. He was happier, stronger, and better at everything because of her.
Then I saw it for myself. Working closely with Charlie, I was exposed to them as a couple a lot, because she was in the office with us often. They lifted each other up and were each other’s biggest cheerleader.
When I got pregnant, no one helped me more than Erika. She answered every question I had, sent me lists of what I needed, told me what I could skip, and shared so much wisdom that made everything less overwhelming.
After Charlie died, life became so chaotic that I fell behind preparing for the baby. One day Erika asked if I had a crib yet. I told her I didn't.
She said, "I want you to have the crib Charlie and I bought for our third baby. We were hoping to be pregnant soon, and I found one I loved. I want it to go to someone special. Charlie and I were so happy you're expecting."
That's who Erika is.
She is one of the most selfless people I've ever known. She always puts others before herself, even while carrying unimaginable grief.
My heart will always hurt for her having known the way she loved Charlie. She truly is an angel.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Platner drops out. Now Maine is going to let 600 Democrat party insiders pick the new candidate, replacing the guy that 156,000 people voted for. Just like the party kicked Biden to the curb and replaced him with Kamala. Tell me again which party is a threat to democracy.

[The Jobfather ® 🇯🇲🇨🇦🇬🇧 @TheJobfather__]

Everyone on Linkedin should be watching House of Dragons.

They keep dropping Career Gems.

In the last episode Rhaenyra blessed us with the best auto email reply, that I will be using going forward

"I am awash in dilemmas and deficiencies. Let me find my footing and I will attend to your request."

Whoever wrote that line…I know your pen was on fire.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene was right when he said:

“Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Haruki Murakami hits hard:

“Once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

[Triiad ୭୭ @triiadxx]

someone said "i don't walk away to teach ppl a lesson i walk away when I've learned mine" quote of the yearrrr

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Wool is a technology so good that if a startup unveiled it tomorrow, it would raise a fortune.

Run through the spec sheet with a straight face.

It keeps you warm even when it's soaking wet, which almost nothing else does. It is naturally flame-resistant. It doesn't catch and melt onto your skin like plastic does. It chars, refuses to sustain the flame, and puts itself out when you take the fire away. It manages moisture, breathes, and resists smell so well you can wear it for days. It bends tens of thousands of times without snapping.

And when you're finally done with it, you can put it in the ground and in a matter of months it's gone, rotted back into the soil, feeding it nitrogen on the way out.

Then there's the supply chain, which is the part no engineer could ever replicate. It grows back. Every year, on its own, on nothing but grass and rain, on a sheep that was going to stand on that hillside anyway. A self-renewing, fireproof, compostable insulation fibre with a production input of weather.

We replaced it with polyester. Oil, spun into thread, that melts on you in a fire, sheds plastic into the sea with every wash, and sits in landfill for centuries when you're done.

We had the better version the whole time. It says baa.

[Kacy @kacycee15]

The older I get the more I realize this is true.

[Claire Taylor 🇬🇧ioekah Lumish , ( Alcyone ) @ClaireT13274488]

"Your great-grandmother was not trying to manifest a beach vacation. She was not curating an aesthetic. She was not optimizing...anything. She had a list, and the list was short, and the list was sacred.

A full pantry. Healthy children. A roof that did not leak. A husband who came home. A garden that produced. A few good dresses. A reliable stove. Sunday dinner with people she loved. Enough flour for the week and enough kindness for the neighbors.

That was the whole dream. That was the whole life. And by the standards of most of human history, achieving that list was a roaring success.

Then the twentieth century happened, and somebody figured out that a woman who is content is terrible for business. A woman with a full pantry is not running to the store. A woman who is satisfied with her kitchen is not redoing it every four years. A woman who knows what enough looks like cannot be sold the next thing.

So they got to work. They made the small house embarrassing. They made the old car embarrassing. They made the home-cooked meal embarrassing, and then when nobody knew how to cook anymore they sold it back as a meal kit with a celebrity chef on the box. They raised the cost of living until both parents had to work, and then they sold daycare and convenience food and weekend therapy to fix the exhaustion that working both jobs created in the first place.

They took your great-grandmother's list and called it poverty. They took her life and called it limited. They took her contentment and called it a lack of ambition.

And then they sold you ambition. They sold you a bigger house you cannot clean, a car you cannot pay off, a wardrobe you do not wear, a calendar you cannot survive, and a vague constant feeling that you are still falling behind.

You are not falling behind. You are running a race that was designed to have no finish line. The race itself is the product.

-copied and pasted author unknown

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Best recent moment on news TV was Bernie calling the Maine Senate candidate's "Nazi tattoo" a silly distraction from the big issues. This from the guy who held up pics of allegedly "anti vax"" baby clothes at the RFK Jr hearing & thundered: "Do you support these onesies?"

Actor.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Judge Graf, the judge overseeing Charlie Kirk’s murder, watches the video of the shooting for the first time.

Yes, sir. It happened and the lunatic in front of you did it.

Signed,
The Nation

[Kacy @kacycee15]

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[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

BREAKING: USA comes back from huge deficit to defeat Belgium 5-4 after receiving four surprise mail-in goals at 3:00am

[Kacy @kacycee15]

Yep! 🇺🇸 ❤️ 🇳🇴

[Alex Svanevik 🐧 @ASvanevik]

Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.

Why?

1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.

2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.

3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.

4:

[Kacy @kacycee15]

I’d rather see the military band perform anyway! So tired of celebrities bashing the country and the people that gave them everything. Let’s celebrate with people who also love their country!

[Autist The 17th @AutistDivision]

The greatest thing was, Trump canceled ALL of the deranged morons called "The super stars" and put THE MILITARY band instead.

They KILLED it.

Awesome preformance.

How cool was that?

He, btw, sent a clear message by doing that.

😎

[Kacy @kacycee15]

“The Death Dorito” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Kacy @kacycee15]

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[Kacy @kacycee15]

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[Kacy @kacycee15]

Seeing this is totally on my bucket list.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

WATCH: The Boston Pops performs Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with perfectly choreographed cannon fire from the U.S. military.

As God, country, and the composer intended.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The average national constitution lasts about 19 years. The United States has used the same one since 1789, which makes it the oldest working national constitution on Earth.

That gap is the anomaly the original post is talking about. Since 1789 the world has produced close to 800 national constitutions, and only about half of them lasted past 19 years. France is the sharpest contrast. It started at the same line as America, and since then it has gone through five separate republics, two empires, a couple of monarchies, and at least fourteen constitutions. It is on version five right now, written back in 1958. The next-oldest national constitution still in use belongs to Norway, and it only dates to 1814, a full 25 years behind.

Most attempts at a lasting written government fall apart inside a single generation. America's has held through a civil war, two world wars, a depression that put about a quarter of workers out of a job, and 27 amendments, without ever being thrown out and started over.

About 4% of humanity lives inside US borders, and they produce close to a quarter of the world's economic output measured at market prices. The American economy is bigger than the next three put together, China and Germany and Japan combined. Eight of the ten biggest public companies on the planet, ranked by market value, are American. US stock markets alone hold a little over 40% of all the equity value on Earth.

None of that was ever the default setting for human societies. For most of recorded history the normal ending was collapse, conquest, coup, or a slow decline into something you would not recognize. Stable money, peaceful handovers of power, and courts that last longer than the people who built them are the rare exception, not the normal starting point.

When a system runs this smoothly for this long, the stability starts to feel like gravity, like the normal way things are. The historical record says the opposite. What looks completely ordinary from inside America is one of the least likely things a large group of people has ever built and kept going.

[Peter Schweizer @peterschweizer]

There have been 4 major revolutions in the past 250 years: American, French, Russian, and Chinese. Only one led to individual rights and prosperity. The others led to mass death and tyranny. The US revolution was unique because it said two things: 1. Our rights come from God not from the govt. 2. Humans are power -hungry so we need to limit govt power. So the next time someone attacks the nation of one revolution that succeeded and recycles the the idea of those that miserably failed, you can ask them: are you ignorant, or malicious?