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Moved from CA to the cold Upper Midwest, but I'm now warming to those zero degree temps

[Sources Say🐿️ @warmingtozero]

A close adviser states, experts believe, an insider reveals, professionals confirm, officials privately disclose...

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

No, they haven’t.

Let me guess, your source is someone anonymous but familiar with the situation, right?

[Sources Say🐿️ @warmingtozero]

@Stickelliott Me too. The '70s were great that way.

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@AbPow @SeanTrende I missed the age there. You are right.

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

God bless America!

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

Halfway across the Atlantic, a main beam on the Mayflower bowed and cracked.

That beam was structural. If it let go, the ship was finished. And everyone aboard with it.

The pilgrims asked the question nobody wants to ask mid-ocean: should we turn back?

The hull below the waterline was still sound. The problem was the beam, and there was no shipyard within two thousand miles.

Then somebody remembered the cargo. The passengers had brought a great iron screw out of Holland, heavy equipment meant for the life they intended to build on the other side. They hauled it up, set it under the buckled beam, and cranked the beam back into place.

The carpenter drove a post underneath, set it firm into the lower deck, lashed it fast, and said it would hold.

It held.

They made Cape Cod in November.

[Sources Say🐿️ @warmingtozero]

@sherry2474 @VividProwess Ignore it. They will ignore it, and mainstream news sources will bury it.

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Many years ago now, our daughter's dearest lambie was left behind at an Econo Lodge several states away before we discovered it was missing. Tragedy. We called and they actually sent it in the mail. I was forever grateful for the staff there!

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

I know everyone has a story like this, but my little sister had a beloved stuffed dinosaur (Doobie) that was lost on a family vacation in eastern Washington. My parents called the hotel, called every restaurant, and couldn't track Doobie down. I remember my mom actually crying she felt so badly for my sister. It was such a disaster that the whole neighborhood knew about it, and everyone was bereft at the loss of Doobie.

A few months later, we pulled into our driveway... and there was Doobie, sitting on the fence.

My parents told my sister he had walked all the way back to Seattle from Lake Chelan. I learned 20 years later that our neighbors saw a new Doobie at Costco, bought him, and made him look a little beat up to give the story credibility. But this is how normal people behave: When a child's most beloved stuffed animal is left, you move heaven and earth to get it back.

[Sources Say🐿️ @warmingtozero]

HR, take notes.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A SpaceX recruiter once described what happens when Elon Musk personally interviews a candidate. And it explains why SpaceX has the lowest acceptance rate of any company in aerospace, lower than NASA, lower than Boeing, lower than any defense contractor on earth.

She said the interview doesn't feel like an interview. There's no behavioral questions. No "tell me about a time when." No competency framework. Elon sits across from the candidate and starts asking technical questions at the boundary of the candidate's expertise. Then he pushes past the boundary.

He's not testing whether you know the answer. He's testing what happens when you don't. Does the candidate panic and make something up? Do they freeze? Or do they say "I don't know but here's how I would figure it out" and then reason through it in real time?

She said the candidates who get hired are almost never the ones with the most impressive resumes. They're the ones who reached the edge of their knowledge and kept thinking out loud instead of shutting down. The willingness to sit in not knowingn and work through it publicly is the signal Elon selects for.

She said he rejected a PhD from MIT and hired a self-taught engineer from a state school in the same week. The PhD froze at the edge of his knowledge. The self taught engineer said "I've never solved that specific problem but here's how I'd approach it" and then spent ten minutes reasoning through it while Elon listened.

SpaceX doesn't hire credentials. It hires problem solvers. And the only way to identify a real problem solver is to push them past what they know and watch what happens in the space between knowledge and uncertainty. That space is where rockets get built.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

An under-discussed set of studies.

"A Child’s Brain

When a child reads a physical book with an adult, important brain regions fire up. Screen-based stories have the opposite effect."

As reported in the @WSJ piece on the YouTube takeover of American schools.

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@VERBAL_CHANCLA

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@0Beanie05923291 I've never read Slaughterhouse Five. Always meant to. I've read Charlotte's Web but so long ago that I didn't recognize this and feared this was how Slaughterhouse Five might have started. That's what comes of staying too long on X.

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@BamaSaltyMarine Absolutely! And soldiers, honorable as they are, also do not give us rights. They protect rights we already have, God bless them.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

This piece on YouTube in schools may turn out to be the most influence on K-12 perspectives this year.

The stats in the piece come up all the time in conversation.

'Amy Warren’s "mom siren” went off when her seventh-grader in Wichita, Kan., seemed to know too much about Fortnite, a battling-and-shooting videogame he is barred from playing...

When Warren signed into his school Google account, she was aghast: Her son Ben had accessed more than 13,000 YouTube videos during school hours from December 2024 through February 2025, according to viewing data she provided the Journal.

His feed was rife with inappropriate content. Videos glorifying gun culture, asking about silencers on Nerf guns, “head shots” where children realistically portray being killed, a video with sexually explicit jokes about neighbors sleeping together.

YouTube during snack time, dismissal and indoor recess. YouTube to teach drawing to first-graders. YouTube to read a book to class. YouTube under the covers at night, watching hamster videos on school-issued Chromebooks. A survey touted by YouTube executives shows that 94% of teachers have used YouTube in their roles.

Granular data provided by parents highlight the scale: A second-grader in New York watched more than 700 videos in two months during school hours, including one featuring pole dancing. A tenth-grader in Oregon scrolled through more than 200 between 9 and 11:40 a.m. on March 6...

YouTube is a top-viewed website on school devices, sometimes accounting for half of student traffic, according to administrators and web-filtering companies...

When his middle-schooler began falling behind late last year, Massachusetts data scientist Jason Merkin sought her usage from her school district. They declined. He resorted to screenshotting her daily Chrome history and analyzing it with AI.

He discovered his daughter spent some 40% of her computer time on noneducational sites at school, including accessing more than 1,000 YouTube videos in about 50 days.

Watertown Public Schools said Merkin’s and others’ feedback—as well as a realization that YouTube’s filters “increasingly proved ineffective”—led to a districtwide block by January...

Stan Winborne, superintendent of Granville County Public Schools in North Carolina, blanched to find YouTube was a top-accessed site in an audit he commissioned. His district calculated that “distracted” screen time was costing students up to 31 instructional days per year.'

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@CLE_Lauren One day I was wistful about my little ones growing up, and my mother-in-law said the best was yet to come when they became teens, and she was right. I miss my teen kids now that they all all grown up. More fun with them than at any other time.

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@LaboratoryMan6 I was going to follow, but then I saw that I already am.

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

This morning Boy George has been banned from Bandcamp where his song fighting Jew hatred was available for download.

Last week, my friend Alyssa Rosenheck had her book launch cancelled because her book is about fighting Jew hate.

Did you hear about the kosher restaurant that was burned to the ground in Montreal this weekend?

And yet, silence. Silence. Silence. Silence. Silence. Silence. Silence. Silence. Silence.

[Amram Leifer @amramleifer]

The @BoyGeorge story is becoming more important than he himself probably realizes. This comes from the fact that he puts at the center of the debate something that no one else had: simple human decency.

His song is not, contrary to commentators, a pro-Israel song. In fact, the word "Israel" does not appear at all in the song: it is the Jews that George stands for. This is the reaction of a man who sees a group of innocent people being unjustly scapegoated, and who decides that he will not let this pass.

This is incredibly brave. Here is a man who became world famous at nineteen years old, had a life of creativity and great fun, is reasonably wealthy - and yet, is ready to risk it all as old age starts to creep in. And I mean all: he has the supreme elegance of not mentioning it, but we all know that he has made himself a target.

And why? To be loyal to his friends.

Others who have the same opinions, like Paul McCartney or Ringo Starr, could have done it. They did not, and no one will blame them. But Boy George did, and that immediately sets him apart as a high quality human.

It also has a contagious effect. For the first time since October 7, simple voices of human decency are rising from everywhere, overwhelming by their numbers the hate troll factories of the antisemites. The huge, silent mass of decent people - most of them Gentiles - has found a voice, because a single man had the guts to stand up.

The children of Jacob salute you, sir. You are a man with convictions, and you will never be forgotten.

[Eve Barlow @Eve_Barlow]

Boy George is an iconic British superstar.

This week he put out a song to show solidarity with the Jewish people post October 7. It is called We Will Dance Again.

As a result, he has been libelled by almost all British media as “pro genocide”.

He has had to withdraw from his West End role in Jesus Christ Superstar.

He has lost his label manager.

You think Jews are all controlling and protected by institutional power?
This is what has happened to a British ICON in a matter of DAYS.

You don’t know what bravery is until you fight Jew hate and antizionism.

[Sources Say🐿️ @warmingtozero]

@larissaphillip My son had three friends. He called them Garbage, Garbage and Mischief.

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Democrats Lawfared Themselves Into a Supreme Court Showdown Over Mail Ballots https://t.co/GYUdiNLb0c