James Stockmal

@stockmalj

25+ year veteran consultant to government agencies, non-profits, and commercial organizations.

Washington, DC

Joined February 2011

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Cap’tain Bob

@BobTharin

about 14 hours ago

Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl et Tom Morello réunis sur « Rockin’ in the Free World » de Neil Young. 🔥🎸 Power to the People Festival — Columbia, Maryland, 3 octobre 2026.

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Cap’tain Bob

@BobTharin

24 days ago

September 11, 2021. At the 9/11 Memorial in New York, Bruce Springsteen performed I’ll See You in My Dreams. Just his voice, a guitar, and a song for those we lost — and those who still carry their memory. I’ll see you in my dreams. 🕊️

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The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

about 1 month ago

From @WSJopinion: We should launch a new campaign to halve child poverty again by applying the lessons of Bill Clinton’s successful approach and rejecting both parties’ biases, writes @RahmEmanuel https://t.co/KFQj2XHh8v

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Music History on X 🎶 @MusicHistoryOnX

about 1 month ago

B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Albert Collins & Buddy Guy in Apollo Theater 1993 Part 2

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Who to follow

ERS publications

@ERSpublications

European Respiratory Journal, European Respiratory Review, ERJ Open Research, Breathe, the ERS Monograph and ERS Handbooks, and European Lung White Book

Behav. Brain. Sci.

@BBSJournal

Behavioral & Brain Sciences (est 1978). Publisher = @CambridgeUP, ed. @paulbloomatyale & @neuro425. RT/like =|= editorial endorsement. Tweets by @joseph_fridman

Rajesh Tamret

@RajeshTamret

पराधीन सुपनें सुख नाहीं। श्रीहरि,शिव,कृष्ण भक्त,भारद्वाज संतति,शक्ति आराधक,,ঠাকুর রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহং, পথপ্রদর্শক। हरीॐतत्सत् !ॐनम:शिवाय:॥राम।। ब्राम्हण।

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Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

3 months ago

Nestled at the base of Mount Sahand in Iran, Kandovan is a 700-year-old village renowned for its extraordinary inhabited homes known as karaan. These multi-level cave dwellings are carved straight into natural volcanic tuff cones, resembling beehives.

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Seeds of the Soul @softhesoul136

3 months ago

🥰Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata like you've never heard it before. 🌙🎻 😍LoLa and HAUSER transform this timeless masterpiece into a breathtaking piano-and-cello duet—haunting, intimate, and deeply moving.

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Jim Acosta

@Acosta

3 months ago

Update from the reflecting pool! The pool has been drained, and there are no signs of the giant gash that Donald Trump has been lying about. No indications of major vandalism. Just a bad paint job. The only thing that’s been exposed is that Trump has been lying about this.

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Camsiyo

@Camsiyonna1

3 months ago

The final scene that defined an entire generation. One crane kick. Pure 80s magic. The Karate Kid (1984) will never not be legendary.

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Buzz Patterson

@BuzzPatterson

3 months ago

Erling Haaland’s sister mocks him. 🤣🇳🇴❤️ https://t.co/4Q0ePL9ZCG

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Gianl1974

@Gianl1974

3 months ago

BREAKING: YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS UP! Thousands of Trump supporters in D.C. are forced to shelter inside the African American Museum — known as the "Blacksonian" — after a massive storm washed out their gathering. There's a blunt metaphor for you... The very same MAGA buffoons who continue to prop up our racist President while ranting about DEI are happy to flee inside a "woke" facility the moment that they need it. If they had it their way, the National Museum of African American History and Culture would have been shuttered for good when Trump was ripping up monuments and plaques about America's racist past all over the country. Fate has a funny sense of humor. Please ❤️ and share!

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Millie Marconi

@MillieMarconnni

3 months ago

A 33-year-old woman at MIT wrote the code that ran inside the Apollo 11 lunar lander, and 20 seconds before Neil Armstrong touched the moon, her program made a decision the astronauts didn't know was happening that was the only reason the mission didn't crash. Her name was Margaret Hamilton. She led the team writing every line of code that would fly humans to the moon and back. The part almost nobody knows is that she had to fight to be allowed to do the work at all. Code in 1965 was not treated as real work. Rockets were serious. Circuits were serious. Writing code was something the men at NASA thought secretaries could do on the side. Hamilton was told this to her face more than once. So she started calling what her team did "software engineering." She used the phrase on purpose. In meetings. In memos. To force people to treat it as a discipline instead of a chore. Colleagues laughed at her the first few times she said it out loud. That phrase is now the name of the biggest engineering profession on earth. The story of what her code did on July 20, 1969 is the one every kid should be taught. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 3 minutes from touching down when the computer inside the lunar module started flashing an alarm. 1202. Then again. Then 1201. Five alarms in four minutes. The computer was telling the astronauts it could not finish everything it had been asked to do. The computer they were flying with had less memory than a modern microwave. Someone on the checklist had left a switch in the wrong position, and a radar the astronauts did not even need right then was flooding the computer with data. It was eating around 13% of the machine's brain at the exact moment every second mattered. In almost any other system, that overload would have frozen the machine. A frozen machine 30,000 feet above the moon means a crash. It means two dead astronauts and a third one orbiting alone above them, waiting for a signal that would never come. Hamilton's code did something else. She had built the software with a rule almost nobody in her field was using at the time. When the machine ran out of room, it would not treat every task as equally important. It would look at the list of jobs it had been asked to do, throw out the ones that could wait, and keep running only the ones keeping the crew alive. The radar was the low priority job. The landing was the highest. So the computer did what she had told it to do. It dumped the radar. It kept flying. The alarm was not a failure. It was the machine reporting that it was handling the overload exactly the way she had designed it to. Down in Houston, a 24-year-old engineer named Jack Garman recognized the alarm from a test his team had run months earlier. He shouted "Go" to the flight controller. The controller shouted it up to the crew. The landing kept going. Armstrong touched the surface with 25 seconds of fuel left. The part that gets lost in every retelling is why Hamilton had built that safety net in the first place. NASA had not asked for it. She had added it on her own, years earlier, because her 4-year-old daughter Lauren had once crashed the simulator by pressing a button during a test. The button was one the astronauts had been told they would never press. Hamilton wanted the code to survive that button press anyway. Her bosses told her it was a waste of time. Astronauts do not make mistakes. She insisted. The safety net went in. Two years later, on the way to the moon, an astronaut left a switch in the wrong position. The exact class of mistake she had been told would never happen. There is a photograph of her from that period. She is standing next to a stack of paper as tall as she is. Every page in that stack is the code her team wrote for the mission. She is smiling at the camera like she knows something the rest of the aerospace industry has not figured out yet. In 2016, Barack Obama put the Presidential Medal of Freedom around her neck and said the astronauts did not have much time, but thankfully, they had Margaret Hamilton. Every autopilot in every plane you have ever flown on uses a version of what she invented. Every pacemaker. Every self driving car. Every satellite in orbit. The idea that a machine should know which job matters most and drop the rest when it runs out of room is now the foundation of almost every safety system on the planet. She wrote it because a 4 year old crashed a simulator and nobody else thought it was worth fixing. The men in the room laughed at her for calling it engineering. Then her code was the only thing in the sky that did not fail.

MillieMarconnni's tweet photo. A 33-year-old woman at MIT wrote the code that ran inside the Apollo 11 lunar lander, and 20 seconds before Neil Armstrong touched the moon, her program made a decision the astronauts didn't know was happening that was the only reason the mission didn't crash.

Her name was Margaret Hamilton.

She led the team writing every line of code that would fly humans to the moon and back. The part almost nobody knows is that she had to fight to be allowed to do the work at all.

Code in 1965 was not treated as real work.

Rockets were serious. Circuits were serious. Writing code was something the men at NASA thought secretaries could do on the side. Hamilton was told this to her face more than once.

So she started calling what her team did "software engineering."

She used the phrase on purpose. In meetings. In memos. To force people to treat it as a discipline instead of a chore. Colleagues laughed at her the first few times she said it out loud.

That phrase is now the name of the biggest engineering profession on earth.

The story of what her code did on July 20, 1969 is the one every kid should be taught.

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were 3 minutes from touching down when the computer inside the lunar module started flashing an alarm.

1202.

Then again. Then 1201. Five alarms in four minutes. The computer was telling the astronauts it could not finish everything it had been asked to do.

The computer they were flying with had less memory than a modern microwave.

Someone on the checklist had left a switch in the wrong position, and a radar the astronauts did not even need right then was flooding the computer with data. It was eating around 13% of the machine's brain at the exact moment every second mattered.

In almost any other system, that overload would have frozen the machine.

A frozen machine 30,000 feet above the moon means a crash. It means two dead astronauts and a third one orbiting alone above them, waiting for a signal that would never come.

Hamilton's code did something else.

She had built the software with a rule almost nobody in her field was using at the time. When the machine ran out of room, it would not treat every task as equally important. It would look at the list of jobs it had been asked to do, throw out the ones that could wait, and keep running only the ones keeping the crew alive.

The radar was the low priority job.

The landing was the highest.

So the computer did what she had told it to do. It dumped the radar. It kept flying. The alarm was not a failure. It was the machine reporting that it was handling the overload exactly the way she had designed it to.

Down in Houston, a 24-year-old engineer named Jack Garman recognized the alarm from a test his team had run months earlier. He shouted "Go" to the flight controller. The controller shouted it up to the crew. The landing kept going.

Armstrong touched the surface with 25 seconds of fuel left.

The part that gets lost in every retelling is why Hamilton had built that safety net in the first place.

NASA had not asked for it.

She had added it on her own, years earlier, because her 4-year-old daughter Lauren had once crashed the simulator by pressing a button during a test. The button was one the astronauts had been told they would never press.

Hamilton wanted the code to survive that button press anyway.

Her bosses told her it was a waste of time. Astronauts do not make mistakes.

She insisted. The safety net went in.

Two years later, on the way to the moon, an astronaut left a switch in the wrong position. The exact class of mistake she had been told would never happen.

There is a photograph of her from that period.

She is standing next to a stack of paper as tall as she is. Every page in that stack is the code her team wrote for the mission. She is smiling at the camera like she knows something the rest of the aerospace industry has not figured out yet.

In 2016, Barack Obama put the Presidential Medal of Freedom around her neck and said the astronauts did not have much time, but thankfully, they had Margaret Hamilton.

Every autopilot in every plane you have ever flown on uses a version of what she invented. Every pacemaker. Every self driving car. Every satellite in orbit.

The idea that a machine should know which job matters most and drop the rest when it runs out of room is now the foundation of almost every safety system on the planet.

She wrote it because a 4 year old crashed a simulator and nobody else thought it was worth fixing.

The men in the room laughed at her for calling it engineering.

Then her code was the only thing in the sky that did not fail.

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Freyja Kristensen 🇪🇺🇩🇰🇬🇱🇫🇴🇪🇦🇩🇪🇺🇦

@Germania_Freyja

3 months ago

The Good Ol' Boys of MAGA get reel with their new musical release, MAGA USA. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😜

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History Dame

@history_dame

3 months ago

America at 250. July 2 is one of my favorite dates because of John Adams. July 2, 1786, the delegates are exhausted, the debates have dragged on for weeks, and the weight of history presses down like the summer humidity. On this very day, July 2, 1776, Adams and his allies push the Continental Congress to vote for independence from Great Britain. The resolution passes. The colonies are no longer subjects; they are free, or at least determined to become so. Adams writes to his beloved Abigail that day: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America… It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.” He was off by two days. July 4 would get the glory when the Declaration was formally adopted, but he nailed the spirit. As we race toward America 250 in 2026, this moment feels electric. Two hundred fifty years ago, a group of imperfect but courageous people bet everything on the radical idea that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. They chose hope over fear, unity over division, and liberty over submission. Today is all about John Adams!

history_dame's tweet photo. America at 250.

July 2 is one of my favorite dates because of John Adams.

July 2, 1786, the delegates are exhausted, the debates have dragged on for weeks, and the weight of history presses down like the summer humidity.

On this very day, July 2, 1776, Adams and his allies push the Continental Congress to vote for independence from Great Britain. The resolution passes. The colonies are no longer subjects; they are free, or at least determined to become so.

Adams writes to his beloved Abigail that day: “The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America… It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.”

He was off by two days. July 4 would get the glory when the Declaration was formally adopted, but he nailed the spirit.

As we race toward America 250 in 2026, this moment feels electric. Two hundred fifty years ago, a group of imperfect but courageous people bet everything on the radical idea that governments derive their power from the consent of the governed. They chose hope over fear, unity over division, and liberty over submission.

Today is all about John Adams!

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Echoes of War

@EchoesofWarYT

3 months ago

On this day in 1776, the United States was actually born. Not July 4. July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to break from Britain, and John Adams was so certain of it that he predicted July 2 would be the great American holiday forever. He nailed everything except the date. The vote came down to the wire, and one man had to ride through the night to save it. Delaware's delegation was split, one for independence, one against, which meant the colony's vote canceled itself out. The tie-breaker, Caesar Rodney, was 80 miles away in Delaware. He got word that he was needed and rode all night through a summer thunderstorm, sick and in pain, boots and spurs still on, and made it into Philadelphia just in time to cast Delaware's vote for independence. The other holdouts fell into place too. In Pennsylvania, the men most opposed, including John Dickinson, deliberately stayed away from the chamber so their colony could swing to yes. South Carolina came around for the sake of a united front. When the roll was called, twelve colonies voted for independence and not a single one voted against. New York simply abstained, waiting on permission from home. And so, on July 2, 1776, it was done. The colonies had legally, officially declared themselves free. The next day Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that this day "will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival," with "pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations." Fireworks and all. He was describing the Fourth of July two days early. So why do we celebrate the 4th? Because that's the day Congress approved the final wording of the document explaining the decision, the Declaration of Independence. The vote to be free happened on the 2nd. The paperwork got finished on the 4th, and history remembered the paperwork. The country was actually born in a rainstorm and a roll call on July 2, thanks in part to one sick man who refused to let a tie decide the fate of a nation.

EchoesofWarYT's tweet photo. On this day in 1776, the United States was actually born. Not July 4. July 2. That's the day the Continental Congress voted to break from Britain, and John Adams was so certain of it that he predicted July 2 would be the great American holiday forever. He nailed everything except the date.

The vote came down to the wire, and one man had to ride through the night to save it. Delaware's delegation was split, one for independence, one against, which meant the colony's vote canceled itself out. The tie-breaker, Caesar Rodney, was 80 miles away in Delaware. He got word that he was needed and rode all night through a summer thunderstorm, sick and in pain, boots and spurs still on, and made it into Philadelphia just in time to cast Delaware's vote for independence.

The other holdouts fell into place too. In Pennsylvania, the men most opposed, including John Dickinson, deliberately stayed away from the chamber so their colony could swing to yes. South Carolina came around for the sake of a united front. When the roll was called, twelve colonies voted for independence and not a single one voted against. New York simply abstained, waiting on permission from home.

And so, on July 2, 1776, it was done. The colonies had legally, officially declared themselves free. The next day Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that this day "will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival," with "pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations." Fireworks and all. He was describing the Fourth of July two days early.

So why do we celebrate the 4th? Because that's the day Congress approved the final wording of the document explaining the decision, the Declaration of Independence. The vote to be free happened on the 2nd. The paperwork got finished on the 4th, and history remembered the paperwork.

The country was actually born in a rainstorm and a roll call on July 2, thanks in part to one sick man who refused to let a tie decide the fate of a nation.

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Ishika Rawat

@Ishh_021

3 months ago

STEVE JOBS GOT FIRED FROM APPLE… Then he walked straight into MIT and dropped the most raw, unfiltered 60-minute business masterclass ever recorded. Zero PR bullshit. Zero image to protect. Just pure, brutal honesty from the man who built Apple once and was about to rebuild it even bigger. Stop scrolling. Watch this tonight instead of Netflix. Bookmark it. Come back to it. This is how legends think. 🔥

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Gene Trevino

@GenoVeno73

3 months ago

SOUND UP The description of this video/song reads: "'Obama Did It Better' is a fact‑driven political satire parody of 'Nobody Does It Better,' comparing Donald Trump and Barack Obama on leadership, policy, and basic competence with a darkly cinematic Bond‑style twist." "From jobs and healthcare to allies, norms, and democratic guardrails, this track leans into receipts over vibes—turning real‑world data and public record into a smooth, biting musical takedown of the Trump era." "Sung in a lush, orchestral pop style, the song contrasts Obama’s measured, briefing‑driven governance with Trump’s chaos‑driven spectacle, midnight posts, and norm‑shattering theatrics." "If you care about democracy, institutions, and the difference between leadership and branding, this is your new political anthem." 👇👇👇👇

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Robert J Ellingsworth 🆓 @BY1959

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Occupy Democrats

@OccupyDemocrats

3 months ago

BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu humiliates MAGA U.S. Attorney Judge Jeanine for threatening to charge the nonexistent “vandals” dumping imaginary chemicals into the Reflecting Pool. This is EXACTLY how you handle these lying lunatics… “I guarantee that @JudgeJeanine will not charge anyone for dumping chemicals into the reflecting pool. Because if they had any evidence they would be parading it around 24/7,” Lieu wrote on X in response to a clip of Pirro ranting on Fox News. “The reality is Trump screwed up the reflecting pool by overpaying on a no bid contract to an amateur,” he added. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a defining debacle for the Trump administration in recent weeks. The President boasted that he was going to beautify the pool while slamming Obama for failing to do so. Trump poured $14.7 million of your tax dollars into the project, only for the algae to bloom more vividly than ever before. The entire pool turned a sickly green color, at which point Trump’s minions began dumping hydrogen peroxide into the water, exacerbating the discoloration. Soon after, strips of blue lining began to flake and dislodge from the pool’s lining. Rather than admit that he made a mistake by handing the renovation contracts to shady, incompetent firms — including one operated by a convicted felon — Trump has begun insisting that "sick" and "deranged" vandals are to blame. Pirro has eagerly embraced the insane narrative. "Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing or attempting to vandalize will face the criminal justice system in D.C.," she said. “Look, the president has made it a priority to make D.C. not only safe, but beautiful.” Obviously, nobody is vandalizing the pool. Trump and Pirro know that, but they also know that the Republican base is gullible enough to believe anything that Trump says. They bought his lies about the 2020 election without a shred of evidence and now they’re eagerly gobbling up this Reflecting Pool propaganda. Our best recourse is do what Congressman Lieu is doing: call them out at every turn. Republicans won’t listen to us, but the Independents who decide elections will! Please ❤️ and share if you’re loving this Reflecting Pool saga!

OccupyDemocrats's tweet photo. BREAKING: Rep. Ted Lieu humiliates MAGA U.S. Attorney Judge Jeanine for threatening to charge the nonexistent “vandals” dumping imaginary chemicals into the Reflecting Pool.

This is EXACTLY how you handle these lying lunatics…

“I guarantee that @JudgeJeanine will not charge anyone for dumping chemicals into the reflecting pool. Because if they had any evidence they would be parading it around 24/7,” Lieu wrote on X in response to a clip of Pirro ranting on Fox News.

“The reality is Trump screwed up the reflecting pool by overpaying on a no bid contract to an amateur,” he added.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a defining debacle for the Trump administration in recent weeks. The President boasted that he was going to beautify the pool while slamming Obama for failing to do so. Trump poured $14.7 million of your tax dollars into the project, only for the algae to bloom more vividly than ever before. The entire pool turned a sickly green color, at which point Trump’s minions began dumping hydrogen peroxide into the water, exacerbating the discoloration. Soon after, strips of blue lining began to flake and dislodge from the pool’s lining.

Rather than admit that he made a mistake by handing the renovation contracts to shady, incompetent firms — including one operated by a convicted felon — Trump has begun insisting that "sick" and "deranged" vandals are to blame. Pirro has eagerly embraced the insane narrative.

"Anyone who is in a position of vandalizing or attempting to vandalize will face the criminal justice system in D.C.," she said. “Look, the president has made it a priority to make D.C. not only safe, but beautiful.”

Obviously, nobody is vandalizing the pool. Trump and Pirro know that, but they also know that the Republican base is gullible enough to believe anything that Trump says. They bought his lies about the 2020 election without a shred of evidence and now they’re eagerly gobbling up this Reflecting Pool propaganda.

Our best recourse is do what Congressman Lieu is doing: call them out at every turn. Republicans won’t listen to us, but the Independents who decide elections will!

Please ❤️ and share if you’re loving this Reflecting Pool saga!

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Paulina Guzik

@Guzik_Paulina

4 months ago

I just play it on repeat since yesterday: "Hello Pope Leo XIV, I'm Renzo, I'm six years old. I'd like to ask you a few questions." Renzo, a little a boy from the poor neighborhood of Barcelona, stole the show yesterday at St. Augustine's parish, a place where Pope Leo admitted he "feels at home." Renzo in the sweetest way ever asked those questions to the pope: Do you like soccer? When you were little, did you want to be Pope? Why are my mom and dad worried? Why does my dad have so many jobs? Why do bad things happen to some people and not to others? Whose fault is it? Why are there so many people living on the streets? Does no one see them? Does no one help them? How can we help if the world is so big? Does God want there to be poor and rich? Why are there so many lonely grandparents, if they are so important? And one last question ... Must we always forgive? What pope Leo answered the boy was really moving. "Regarding whether I like football, I confess that I play tennis and I enjoy it very much, but I also appreciate football; in fact, during my years as bishop in Peru, I liked to follow how some local teams were doing; and now, as Pope, I have also received football clubs and sports groups," the pope said, adding that "sport is important because it helps us grow up healthy in body and mind." He said that as World Cup unfolds, "many will be watching the matches. Football reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off alone, but a path we learn to travel together." "Whoever doesn't know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, hasn't yet understood the game. And whoever doesn't know how to live with others and for others hasn't yet understood life." Answering whether he wanted to be Pope when he was little, the pope said: "Well, Renzo, I don't think so. I don't think I ever thought about it." "But I can tell you something: from a young age, I felt the desire to dedicate my life to God. I didn't yet know exactly how or where the Lord would lead me. Over time, I discovered that Jesus was calling me to follow him as a priest, and that this path led through the Order of Saint Augustine." "But this isn't just true for me," he said. "Every child is a dream of God. You are too. God desires the happiness of all and wants us, from childhood and throughout our lives, to have a heart like that of children (cf. Mt 18:3): capable of trusting, full of kindness; he wants us to be his friends and not turn away from him. Therefore, more important than asking oneself whether one will be a priest, doctor, teacher, parent, or anything else, is asking oneself whether one wants to be a friend of Jesus. Because friendship with Jesus gives us joy, sets us free, and helps us to see, step by step, the vocation and the path that God has planned for each of us." Answering the point on injustices in the world, Pope Leo told the boy that "through the life of Jesus Christ, God shows us that, although there is suffering, he never abandons any of his children, because he has prepared for us an eternal joy where there will be no more sadness or pain. Let us have confidence, Jesus is with us, he helps us and accompanies us, and gives us strength to go through the difficult moments we may encounter in life." Stressing that grandparents play a crucial role in families, the pope said: "Let us not allow loneliness and abandonment to become normalized in the lives of older adults. That is a very sad thing. Let's have our hearts open to all of them." On forgiveness, he told Renzo and those gathered: "It does not mean forgetting by force, as if nothing had happened. Forgiveness means not letting hatred become the master of our hearts ... our willingness to forgive is a condition for the forgiveness we receive from God." Video: Vatican Media

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Capital Weather

@capitalweather

4 months ago

Official today: Capital Weather is independent once again. Twenty-two years after launching Capital Weather as an independent weather website for the DC area — and 18 years after first partnering with The Washington Post and becoming the Capital Weather Gang — we are independent again. Today, we’re officially launching a new chapter at https://t.co/r3dKxepf5m and on our new mobile app. We are committed to making our core forecasts and updates free and accessible to everyone. Your support will make this possible. Here is what we’ve built and how you can support us. What we’ve built: ☀️ Around-the-clock forecasts and live updates 📧 Expanded newsletters 📱 A new Capital Weather app 🌦️ Interactive weather and climate tools 💬 A stronger community experience 🎙️ We will continue to provide forecasts on WAMU 88.5 How you can boost and sustain our independent launch: • Support our work at https://t.co/jh1PQK6W7Q • Download the Capital Weather app on iOS or Android • Make Capital Weather your everyday weather source • Share this post with friends and family across the DMV Some of you have already joined our community and we could not be more grateful. Since pioneering digital local weather coverage in 2004, we’ve believed weather is something we all experience together. Your questions, storm reports, photos, and conversations have helped shape Capital Weather into one of the nation’s leading regional weather communities. Our mission remains the same as always: to be the most trusted everyday source for DC-area weather forecasts, breaking updates, and in-depth weather and climate news. From sunny days to stormy days — and from Snowmageddon (2010) to Snowcrete (2026) — it’s been an incredible ride. Thank you for being part of this community. We’re incredibly excited for what’s ahead.

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