Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator

Amplifying smart policy that improves peoples' lives. Market appreciator and social safety net enjoyer. Free movement of goods, ideas, and people. Oof, marone!

[Duncan S. Campbell @duncancampbell]

Here’s a chart you almost never see in electricity circles: inflation adjusted average cost of electricity from the very beginning.

We’ve been flat for 56 years since 1970. Utter failure.

We must unlock cheaper electricity.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Anti-Americanism has become the normal, consensus view among partisan Democrats in America, and this is very bad. We need to turn this around, and "just elect Democrats to the White House" is not a permanent solution to the problem.

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@elonmusk @spencerpratt Fuck your "loyalty". We are loyal to our Constitution and the Republic, not any man or woman. Go back to South Africa if you want to exile people for "disloyalty", you un-American freak.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, President Obama’s message could not ring more true: There is not a red America or a blue America. There is only the United States of America.

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

Happy 250th!!!

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[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

[Dmitri Alperovitch @DAlperovitch]

“Three key missions at the heart of any cross-strait campaign have never been successfully executed under modern threat conditions: an amphibious landing against a credible coastal anti-ship missile threat, a large-scale airborne drop against modern air defenses, and a large, opposed air assault at extended range.”

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[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@manojit_ms @DrSamuelBHume Must be drivers, I don't see CKDN2A/B there either

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Just think, 250 years on, what the founders would see if they visited us today.

But wait, they would see that slavery had been abolished. They would see that Americans without land, and then women, and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights.

They would see that our science and discovery propelled human knowledge to unimaginable heights and that those thirteen colonies had grown into a superpower that defeated the Nazis and Communism.

They'd see a pluralist democracy, people of all colors descended from every point on Earth, stitched together out of many nations into one.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

1 year ago today, Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law.

It includes $1,000,000,000,000 in tax cuts for the top 1%, while slashing SNAP and Medicaid budget by $1,100,000,000,000.

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@pegobry_en Aren’t you French? Fuck off 🇺🇸

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

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[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

p53 is the most mutated gene in cancer, but we have no therapies to target it - creativity needed!

What about this? Patients' T cells were CRISPR-edited to recognise and target the most common p53 mutation (R175H).

The best responses were in pancreatic cancer: 71.4% objective response rate in a small group of patients with heavily pre-treated disease:

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@mattyglesias @KarthikForTexas On the flip side, you do not need to do M4A to make a bold progressive agenda for healthcare that appeals to everyone. You could just do an ACA public option and get rid of the rule that prevents people with employer insurance from accessing ACA marketplaces (ESI firewall)

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@SalzigeKane I think we should adopt a GOAL and be flexible as to how we achieve it. In all honesty, when campaigning, the more vague the policy specifics, the better!

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@KyleRS48710471 Yeah, I agree with you! The M4A version advocated for by Bernie is beautiful and wildly unrealistic, and a perfect encapsulation of what you're talking about. And then when you have the gall to point it out, they sneer at "liberals" and equate you to a Republican

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@SalzigeKane @CrankyLa_Russa There would be SIGNIFICANTLY fewer headaches involved with the above plan than M4A. You could incrementally fold each of these reforms into the current system over time; they're not contingent on each other. M4A requires ripping the current system root & branch.

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@CrankyLa_Russa @SalzigeKane Don't forget getting rid of the ESI firewall so everyone can choose between their employer plan and the ACA marketplace at their leisure!!! Otherwise re-f'ing-tweet

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@SalzigeKane of different solutions to a problem we agree is important, I might humbly suggest that I am not the one who is the problem. The perfect must not be the enemy of the good. The goal is to get people covered, not to enact one specific system or another.

[Abraham Lincoln 🇺🇸🫡🌐 Appreciator @pastamarone]

@SalzigeKane everyone gets the care they need when they need it irrespective of their ability to pay, and it is affordable at the point of service - without a lot of that headache. If you're going to accuse me of "kneecapping change" for honestly assessing the benefits/drawbacks