Emily Booth

[just josh Pray 😥 @_joshpray]

Dolly Parton somehow stayed 25 for 55 years, built an empire in rhinestones, loved God without weaponizing it, welcomed everybody, gave back endlessly and made being kind look powerful. ❤️

Ultra feminine. Business savvy. Inclusive. Faithful. Funny. Generous. Completely Dolly.

There will NEVER be another one. Rest beautifully, Dolly. 🕊️💎

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

How excellent! Dolly Parton gets a royal send off. Loved all over the world.

[Brady Holmer @Brady_H]

Running on a treadmill sucks because it is biomechanically different from running outside.

Indoor cycling is awesome because riding a bike indoors is mechanically the same as riding a bike outside.

[Brady Holmer @Brady_H]

😄😄😄

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

True

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@Roadman_Podcast Seven. That’s the number.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I’ve always found people who bristle at “American exceptionalism” kind of… weird. Not because I lack self-awareness — I’ve spent my career cataloging every way this country fails to live up to its own rules. But that’s exactly why I love it so damn much. We built a system designed to be shamed by its own founding documents, and it still delivered one of the most spectacular, world-altering runs in human history. A genuine force for human flourishing.

I also found the argument against American exceptionalism to be historically illiterate. Here’s a sample of what we were first at:

• The first large-scale democratic republic in human history — not a city-state, not a monarchy with a parliament bolted on, but a bold continental experiment in self-rule, popular sovereignty, and ordered liberty.

• A written Constitution (1789) with separation of powers and checks & balances — still the oldest national constitution in force anywhere.

• The Bill of Rights (1791): the first time a nation wrote “the government cannot touch these” into supreme law and actually meant it. A dare the world copied — from later rights charters to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Public land-grant universities and mass higher education (Morrill Act), opening college to ordinary people no aristocracy would have let near the gates. (but don’t get me started about what happened after we started. Massively federally funding it.)

• Kitty Hawk, 1903 — first controlled powered flight.

• The Moon, 1969 — still the only ones who’ve been there.

• The world’s largest economy since ~1890, powering unprecedented prosperity through grit and genius.

• The assembly line, skyscraper, transistor, personal computer, ARPANET — the backbone of the modern world.

• Telephone, phonograph, GPS — connecting and powering daily life.

• Surgical anesthesia, polio vaccine — saving and transforming millions of lives.

• Jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll — brand new American art forms that conquered the globe.

• Hollywood’s dreams, blue jeans, bourbon, and a culture so open a kid like me could devour sushi, burritos, stuffed cabbage, and tabouli in the same week and rightfully think of it all as American.

That’s the part that fills me with genuine love and pride: not just the power or the wins, but the appetite for freedom, creativity, and reinvention. The audacity to say “We the People” and keep trying to live up to it.

What do you love most about this truly exceptional country? 🇺🇸

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@BridgetPhetasy Like so many others in the comments, I feel seen. And less alone. Thank you!

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@walterkirn

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@CynicalPublius Thank you for this.

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@JenniferSey How can I help? I’m a local, fired up, female athlete ready to get off the sidelines.

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@StephenSeiler Somewhere in between. I typically defer to feeling.

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@KonstantinKisin Yes.

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@walterkirn Fantastic essay (as always). Thank you for reposting here, as it was published before I had a paid subscription to the FP.
My only subscriptions are to Racket, the FP, and the 2%. I may be crazy, but at least I’m not alone.

[iRunFar @iRunFar]

Tenth place man at mile 56.6, Ouray, is Bryan Williams +251 mins. He changed his shirt and had a hot drink. #HR100

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

Check out this Meetup with DRAFT - Colorado! https://t.co/c3dVhOvzbh

[iRunFar @iRunFar]

Bryan William finishes 6th in 28:41:21 #HR100!

[iRunFar @iRunFar]

Bryan Williams is 9th overall through Bear Creek Trail, mile 47. He's 144 minutes back. #HR100

[Emily Booth @Mpower262]

@imcahill @Mpower262 oh no. What did I do now. I saw white and gold.

[New Balance Running @NBRunning]

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