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#ttp. Phillies, flyera, sixers, and da Bears! -/-Altruist, but I understand if you don't feel the same way. #lickface

[x - Jay Money @insiderJmoney]

Flyers Development Path

Draft Samu Tuomaala in the 2nd Round

Trade Him for Christian Kyrou

Don’t give him a Qualifying Offer

Great job guys.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Today, I introduced a resolution to honor the crew of the USS Liberty. 59 years ago, Israel attacked the ship, killing 34 Americans and wounding 174.

The President should declassify and publicly release all files related to Israel’s unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Nasty Knuckles @NastyKnuckles]

16 years ago today - The Shift

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The fact that Trump made so sure to silence Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie makes me more convinced than ever that there's something really incriminating in the Epstein files.

[Kentucky Statesman @ky_statesman]

I've lived in KY-04 my entire life and closely follow the election results here. There is no way that the turnout legitimately doubled. This was election fraud carried out by the highest levels of our state & federal governments.

[Hawkeye Enjoyer (IOWA FIRST) 🐤 @HawkGuyEnjoyer]

Someone who nobody has ever heard of, declined 8 debates, and took $20 million in donations from Israel “won” a primary from an 8 year constituent.

We’re cooked.

[Remember That Dude? @RememberThtDude]

Remember this dude?

Mike Richards, C

Philadelphia Flyers 2005-2011
LA Kings 2011-2015
Washington Capitals 2015-2016

#IgniteTheOrange

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"The "Philadelphia Inquirer" found dangerous chemicals in the astroturf of the now-demolished Veterans Stadium.
Six Phillies who played on that turf, Tug McGraw, Darren Daulton, John Vukovich, John Oates, Ken Brett, and David West have died of a rare and aggressive brain cancer. The six players all died in their 40's or 50's, roughly three times the rate of the average adult population.
Even more alarming was their mutual diagnosis of glioblastoma.
The Phillies sold pieces of turf in sealed 4 x 4" bags.
The Inquirer purchased four of those on eBay.
Samples analyzed by two separate labs found 16 types of dangerous chemicals in the turf.
They are referred to as, “Forever chemicals” because they don’t break down and can last in the human body for years.
The US federal government estimates that 12,000 artificial turf fields containing PFAS or “forever chemicals” exist in USA.
"We know that the liver is affected.
We know that the kidneys are affected.
We know the testicles are affected.
But nobody’s ever done the study to see if the brain is affected, because glioblastoma is such a rare disease."
Graham Peaslee, University of Notre Dame.
Darren 'Dutch' Daulton.
And still no updates on this story!!!

[R.Сам 🦋🐏 @Logo_Daedalus]

People have no idea that all of this is available on archive dot org for free, like every other old children’s show which isn’t a funnel for developing a gambling addiction. You can just watch all of these 90s Beatrix Potter adaptations right here: https://t.co/OklEKfHHNo

[katya schwenk @ktyschwnk]

After an obscure defense vendor won a $12 million no-bid contract w/ ICE, I noticed something odd on its website: The firm was using a (still watermarked!) stock photo for the chief of its “development team.”

Things only got more bizarre from there…

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“It will happen to all of us, that at some point you get tapped on the shoulder and told, not just that the party is over, but slightly worse: the party’s going on and you have to leave.”

— Christopher Hitchens

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

fit check tippet part 3

marker + color pencils on cold pressed watercolor

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

who the heck is that

[PhillyVoice @thephillyvoice]

Phillies superfan and writer John Foley's new venture, which opens Sunday, also will become a retail spot for signed memorabilia. https://t.co/Vij4VIoAit

[Bella @BellaBaddie__]

Does anyone else spend the entire modern movie turning the volume up and down because there is zero sound consistency in movies anymore?

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.

An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:

They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.

His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.

When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.

The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.

He accepted.

Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.

He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.

Instead, he resigned on day 16.

He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.

Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.

He died poor. On his farm.

2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.

King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.

The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.

Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.

Most people who live there have no idea why.