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[Bobby D🎙 @robertdunlap947]

Canada IS SCREWED and the worst part is THEY KNOW IT AND DON’T CARE😳! Wouldn’t it be nice to have leaders of countries that ACTUALLY GAVE A 💩 ABOUT THEIR CITIZENS🤬! We don’t need Canada FOR ANYTHING, but they sure as heck need America🇺🇸

[Tironianae 🍊🍊 Z. - Ultra Verbum Vincet @Tironianae]

This is one of the most important moments ever aired on CNBC.

Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya says the media lied to millions of Americans about President Trump, and that after going back to the original source material, he realized he had been completely misled about Trump’s character.

PALIHAPITIYA: “The reality is that most of us were lied to by the media about President Trump.”

“And if you just go back to the source material, you should take away two things.”

“One, he didn’t say half the things he said, and two, why did these other people just fabricate what they wanted to say so that they could essentially assassinate his character?”

“I think that that second thing is completely unacceptable in America, and there’s still been no repercussions, really.”

“I took the time to learn about it. I admitted where…you know, the way that I met him was, I admitted on the pod, which, you know, has millions of viewers.”

“And I said, I got it totally wrong because I went and I watched Charlottesville.”

“And, you know, the first person to call me? President Trump.”

“And I got to know him and I put the phone down, I called my wife, and I said, we got it TOTALLY, totally wrong. We were lied to.”

“And then I got to know him and he is fantastic!”

[LIZZ KABAT @LizzKabat]

@catturd2 Fiddles of the Panhandle of Florida

[LIZZ KABAT @LizzKabat]

@BelindaGai19238 @catturd2 Happy and Cozy in the Panhandle of Florida

[Music over time🎻 @Peal8888]

No Regrets: When Édith Piaf Turned Letting Go into a Manifesto of an Unyielding Soul

On a darkened stage, a single spotlight falls on a small woman in a black dress. Édith Piaf begins to sing. There is no dancing, no glamorous costume—only her distinctive, gravelly voice, full of power, and a resolute declaration: “Non, je ne regrette rien” – No, I regret nothing.

The song was composed by Charles Dumont with lyrics by Michel Vaucaire in 1956, yet it only truly came to life in 1960 when it reached Piaf. At the time, she was in the most fragile period of her health. Still, upon hearing the melody for the first time, she recognized it instantly: “This is me.” The song quickly became a phenomenon, dominating the French charts for weeks and establishing itself as one of the greatest icons of French chanson.

The entire lyric is the inner monologue of someone who has decided to sweep the past clean. “Neither the good that was done to me, nor the bad—it’s all the same to me.” Then comes the most powerful image: “With my memories, I lit the fire. My sorrows, my pleasures—I no longer need them.” It ends unexpectedly with hope: “For my life, for my joys, today it begins with you.”

What makes the song extraordinary is not the solemn marching rhythm or the string orchestra, but the way Piaf lived every line. In the black-and-white footage, her face shifts constantly—fierce, pained, then overflowing with strength. Her voice does not merely tell a story; it wages war against everything that once nearly destroyed her: poverty, loss, illness.

Amid countless love songs that cling to the past, “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” chooses the opposite path. It voices a deeply human longing: to reset one’s life, to be free from the weight of memory. That is why, more than six decades later, the song still resonates in cinema, in historic moments, and in the hearts of listeners.

To me, this is more than a song. It is the battle cry of a small woman against a life that had tried to crush her. She did not deny the past—she burned it to create light. The image of “lighting a fire with memories” is the most powerful metaphor of all: only when we dare to incinerate what has gone before can we truly be free.

The greatest lesson is perhaps this: regret is not a weakness, but a burden. Sometimes the strongest act is daring to say “No” to the past—so that we may softly say “Yes” to today. The stage lights may go out, yet Édith Piaf’s declaration remains, echoing like an immortal manifesto for every soul that has ever burned with all its might.

[LIZZ KABAT @LizzKabat]

@catturd2 Great Florida Morning from Fiddles

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

Freedom plus some of the most powerful technological tools ever to fall into the hands of the public is a formula for a future of almost unimaginable expressiveness.

That's why the ideologues are making their move.

Their strict political machines can't survive that future.

[LIZZ KABAT @LizzKabat]

God Bless the USA…..! and God Bless this courageous warrior 🇺🇸

[David Senra @davidsenra]

.@danawhite says one of the keys to longevity is to block out all negativity:

“It never even crosses my mind that something's not going to work. I just keep going until it does work.”

“There's this Bruce Lee quote where he says, ‘Never say negative things about yourself or what you're working on even if you're joking, because your body doesn't know the difference.’”

“I never take in any negativity.”

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

In case you think philosophers were a myth of history, we actually have one of the greatest ever in our midst:

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is how an economy actually works

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. https://t.co/yfhmXPTYWt

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗪𝗘 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝟵𝟬 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦

Victor Davis Hanson just put the Trump era in its proper historical context — and the scale of what he's describing should stop you cold.

The last time America saw a president attempt to fundamentally restructure the nature of government was Franklin Roosevelt from the left during the New Deal in the 1930s. What Trump is doing from the right is that consequential. Not a policy adjustment. Not a pendulum swing. A structural counterrevolution.

The border is closed. DEI is being dismantled and Trump is winning the argument publicly. Iran no longer poses a nuclear threat for the foreseeable future. Universities are competing with each other to cut deals with the administration rather than defy it. The institutions that enforced left-wing ideological dominance for decades are retreating on multiple fronts simultaneously.

But Hanson's most important insight is the one about power. The left exercises power even when they control nothing — no White House, no Congress, no governorship. They do it through universities, through media, through HR departments, through accreditation bodies, through regulatory agencies, through the permanent bureaucracy. They impose an agenda that the majority of Americans oppose — on immigration, on DEI, on gender ideology, on crime — because they captured the institutions that don't require winning elections.

What Trump is doing is attacking those institutions directly. And that's why the reaction is so unhinged. This isn't Democrats upset about losing an election. This is an ideological class watching the infrastructure of their unelected power be dismantled in real time.

Hanson's warning is worth heeding: brace yourself. The resistance coming will be frantic and fierce precisely because the stakes are existential for the left's ability to govern from the shadows. They know if this counterrevolution succeeds, they'll have to actually win elections to impose their agenda.

And they know they can't.