Dan Wilson

Software and sports! #GoCougs

[Kite & Key Media @kiteandkeymedia]

On a trip to Ireland, Frederick Douglass met abolitionists who kept copies of the Declaration of Independence framed on the wall. That small gesture led him to begin rethinking America.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.

[Kite & Key Media @kiteandkeymedia]

The U.S. federal deficit, revenue, and debt since 1981.

[critter @BecomingCritter]

how it started how it's going

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Free speech is a legal right. It is also part of a larger inheritance, protected by people who paid costs most of us can barely imagine.

On Memorial Day, we remember those who gave their lives in service to that inheritance.

They did not die so Americans would fall into a dreary consensus on all things.

They died helping preserve a country where disagreement is possible without bloodshed, where dissent is not treason, and where citizens can argue, worship, protest, publish, persuade, offend, forgive, and begin again.

That is not a small thing. It’s the inheritance we are obliged to protect.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

The learning recession for American students began in 2013. Decades of progress began to reverse:

[Dan Wilson @killroyboy]

@DurrantMark Congrats to Stratton! What a great year for her! Alex barely missed the cut, but she’s excited about next year.

[Kite & Key Media @kiteandkeymedia]

A study from the Tax Foundation found that the higher prices resulting from tariffs imposed by the last two presidents cost every American household about $625 a year. https://t.co/2swDBG91El

[Dan Wilson @killroyboy]

@WyzeCam Hey! This is my video! That dog… no idea how he’s still alive. Dumber than a bag of hammers.

[Kite & Key Media @kiteandkeymedia]

Americans have spent generations worried we're destined to become Rome. But there's a strong case that civilizational decline isn't fate — it's a choice.

Our new video explores the common features of historical golden ages — and the common features of their declines.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The war in Iran has now cost us $29 billion, NOT including the cost to repair bases damaged by Iran, according to the Pentagon. That cost could cover:

- The entire border wall

or

- Free school lunches for every American child for about 3 years

or

- 2 years of ICE operations

or

- Fund the EPA for 25 years

or

- Entire VA mental health budget for 15 years

or

- Fully fund the coast guard for 4+ years

or

- Head Start for 10+ years

or

- Cancel all federal student loan interest for roughly two years

or

- Universal pre-K for 3-4 years

We've spent more on 10 weeks of war with Iran than we spend on the entire federal judiciary — every court, every judge, every clerk — over roughly 15 years.

[Lenore Skenazy @FreeRangeKids]

SO GOOD! From @stevemagness:

"Playgrounds & free play are risk calibration tools....When risk is removed from play, kids are more prone to anxiety disorders, because they never develop the ability to cope with fear-inducing situations."

Risk of comfort:
https://t.co/UZn9bF4uVz

[Kite & Key Media @kiteandkeymedia]

Research has found that childcare is more than twice as expensive in states with the most restrictive regulations than in states with the least.

[Dan Wilson @killroyboy]

@AlexSJacquez @Ike_Saul @AnnieLowrey It’s like expecting praise for giving someone crutches after breaking their leg.

[Dan Wilson @killroyboy]

@AlexSJacquez @Ike_Saul @AnnieLowrey The last sentence is rather ironic. “… cost the government hundreds of billions of dollars.” The entire government is funded by tax dollars. How about we don’t take those taxes in the first place?!?

[Dan Wilson @killroyboy]

@kiteandkeymedia How dare you tell me that my negative emotions aren’t based in reality?!? I enjoy being angry and I have to have a reason. It’s the world’s fault!

[Kite & Key Media @kiteandkeymedia]

In the 25 years from 1990 to 2015, the rate of undernourished people in the developing world decreased by 46%. The number of childhood deaths around the world was cut in half. So was the number of people living in extreme poverty.

[The DC MD VA Live @TheDMVLive]

This might be the best bodycam footage we’ve seen yet:

Kid Calls 911 About a Monster Under His Brother’s Bed (via The PublicServices911:/YouTube)

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

How much data did we need before we understood the harmful societal effects of smoking and implemented restrictions?

Actually, it was a lot.

A lot of data was needed because the cigarette companies wanted to milk their golden goose as long as possible. The cost of paying class action lawsuits in the future was far less than the cash they could make in the moment.

This is the same incentive today with social media and their app makers.

Some parents try to organize their other classroom parents together in a coalition to limit the apps. This seems to work but it’s so few and far between.

A broad societal moratorium on social media for people under 16yo diminishes NOTHING and probably helps millions and millions of kids and then these kids as they enter adulthood.

It would also help parents. I, personally, have strict social media rules for myself and my kids. And I will keep pushing back on my kids when they ask for instagram because that’s my job as their dad.

But having a broad moratorium would make the lives of all parents far simpler and, in hindsight, will be proven as the right public health policy thing to have done.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

The national debt just exceeded 100% of GDP for the first time since 1946: https://t.co/VSDBUUTaUH