Children are anxious. Parents are stressed. Birthrates are at record lows.
The problem is our family unfriendly culture. Parenting culture is too intense. Mating & Dating culture is dysfunctional. And our values are too individualistic.
So I wrote a book.
If coronavirus and 9/11 are the two biggest events of our life, what is the third? (If you don't recall 9/11 or do recall Nixon resigning, you're not the target demo for this Q.)
I feel like almost all of my closest professional friends are pro-vax, anti-vax-mandate, mask-skeptical, anti-school closure. (My governor is, too.) This set of positions should have a name.
Everyone's talking about "stimulus." I want something simpler. I want existing small businesses not to have to close thanks to the virus and lockdowns.
President Trump's crazed Twitter rant on Joe Scarborough was vile and unworthy of his office. Some will undoubtedly shrug it off as Trump being Trump, but one could hardly be blamed for reading it and doubting his fitness to lead.
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Sandman was the perfect villain for the major media: White student at an all-boys' Catholic school, at a pro-life march, wearing a MAGA hat.
That's why they all decided instantly he was the villain. That's why they wanted to punch him. That's why they didn't care about the facts
I worry for Shaun King's mental health. Seriously. You don't call for widespread desecration and vandalization of churches unless something is deeply deeply wrong.
I'll be on
@TuckerCarlson
at 8:40pm on how a school system apparently hid a bathroom rape by a skirt-wearing male, arrested the victim's father, who was likened to a domestic terrorist, & left the suspect in school, where he was arrested for a new classroom sex assault last week.
Pres. Biden raised threats to global democracy last night -- pointing to Italy.
“You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election. You’re seeing what’s happening around the world. The reason I bother to say that is you can’t be sanguine about what’s happening here either”
Texts from Biden campaign are basically “Hi, my name is Haley, and I’m a senior at Iowa State. I’m just writing to ask...”
Texts from Trump are like: “Have you SERIOUSLY not donated? Why do HATE AMERICA! Are you on the side of PELOSI????”
I find it very suspicious the Yankees’ team average was .267 last season.
That would imply hitters are getting partial hits, down to the thousandths, which would be odd.
Interesting that ActBlue raised an average donation of $30.38.
This would imply people are donating in uneven numbers, including pennies, which would be odd. OR it would indicate untraceable foreign donations and an exchange rate translation, which would be illegal.
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Intervening in Libya without congressional authorization was illegal, and imprudent. The disastrous results were predictable, especially after Iraq. The number one advocate for this invasion was Susan Rice.
Holding an outdoor funeral for your mother, with 30 attendees, would be illegal in Philadelphia today, on the grounds that it would be an impermissible danger of spreading COVID.
This is Philadelphia. This is not a moment. This is a movement to end the era of police brutality and white supremacist capitalism and begin the era of racial and economic justice in America.
#BlackLivesMattters
Pence never answered the Roe question, but thank God he proudly declared his pro-life position and explained that Kamala and Biden are for taxpayer-funded abortions.
Is the virus dangerous enough that we should vaccinate people with a vaccine that might possibly (but probably not) have a 1-in-7 million chance of a deadly blood clot?
If the virus is not that dangerous, how can we justify continued closures of schools, main streets, etc?
Why did Ted Lieu’s campaign donate $50,000 to Stanford before his son applied to Stanford?And why did Twitter yesterday suspend the account that pointed this out?
I have no appetite for conservative snark on this. This is a personal disaster for these journalists, and shrinking newspapers is bad for America—and good for crooked or inept politicians.
LATimes confirms 115 journalists laid off, or about 23 percent; newsroom will be at approx 385.
NOTE: Taken in combination with last year's layoffs, the Los Angeles Times has laid off about one third of its newsroom in less than a year.
200 days ago, Hamas massacred this family in their home. They shot parents, Johnny and Tamar, and burned their three young children to death.
Do not for one moment forget how this war began.
I love mocking limousine liberals as much as anyone, but when an airline upgrades a frequent flyer, and the flyer, who is old and traveling constantly, takes the more comfortable seat--while flying commercial--0 people should give him crap for it.
"He's an illegitimate president."
Hillary Clinton
"We didn't lose."
Stacey Abrams
"Russia hacked the election."
-Every single democrat and liberal talking head
"No Democratic candidate is talking about what has become standard fare among Republicans: simply not accepting defeat when you lose an election."
@kerryeleveld
on the fundamental asymmetry of our politics.
Guy interrupts Biden rally. “My wife left me”. Asks for how to get her back. Biden says he’ll talk afterwards.
When guy won’t sit down, Biden says “I’m beginning to see why your wife left you.”
The popular implication that Americans avoid teaching schoolkids about slavery is laughably wrong in my experience. What gets left out, in my experience, is how much worse things got after reconstruction....
Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away. In CO, we don’t meddle in affairs of companies like
@Disney
or
@Twitter
. Hey
@Disney
we’re ready for Mountain Disneyland and
@twitter
we’re ready for Twitter HQ2, whoever your owners are
Trump has made Trump voters out of independents and Democrats and Democratic voters out of independent voters and Republicans, and the net effect is a massive surge for Democrats since Trump's election.
I "violated" CDC guidelines today by eating leftover chicken I hadn't reheated. You see, health authorities will always be single-minded and err on the side of caution, and a free people ought to weigh the official guidance against other considerations.
CHUCK TODD: “Why does a vaccinated person have to wear a mask?"
DR. FAUCI: "You dramatically diminish" possible Covid infection with a vaccine, but vaccinated people could still carry infection.”
What’s more aptly called a “book ban”?
When a middle school library removes a book with porn in it?
When the White House pressures the world’s largest bookseller to hide books whose content the WH dislikes?
THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling pressure from the White House”
Internal docs subpoenaed by
@JudiciaryGOP
&
@Weaponization
indicate that
@amazon
bowed down to Biden White House pressure to censor BOOKS.
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It's one thing when they just abandon the rules instantly. It's another when they try to reinstate them immediately again--all along pretending, at every step, that they weren't saying the opposite thing 10 seconds ago.
Things you should tell people in person
1) You want to marry them
2) You are dying of cancer
3) They are dying of cancer
4) They are fired
5) They are promoted
....
1,217,978) You have an infectious disease that is spread by airborne droplets.
Obviously the media dismissed the lab leak theory because it was something that people like Tom Cotton, Redfield, and Pompeo put out, and most editors and reporters begin from the assumption that those sorts of people are wrong while folks like Cuomo & Fauci are right.
The headlines about teachers dying from COVID all suggest they got sick while teaching this school year. Every one of them got sick while NOT teaching, over summer vacation.
I am forcing a vote tonight to adjourn the Senate until after the November election.
The GOP in the middle of a national election is using an illegitimate process to jam through a Supreme Court nominee to rip away health care from millions.
Democrats are fighting to stop it.
Klobuchar dropped out without media encomia.
Gabbard remains in the race.
The reason for the torrent of "Warren's failed candidacy is an indictment of the electorate" pieces is obvious: Warren was the favored candidate of a vast majority of the news media.
🚨🚨BREAKING: This evening, the county board of canvassers in Wayne County, MI refused to certify the election results. If the state board follows suit, the Republican state legislator will select the electors. Huge win for
@realDonaldTrump
The president is calling out the American military against American citizens.
He used the military to push out a peaceful protest so he could have a photo op at a church.
It's all just a reality TV show for this president.
Shameful.
It's true that people shouldn't treat themselves with horse dewormer paste from Tractor Supply.
It's terribly misleading, though, to claim that "Ivermectin is a horse medicine." It's regularly prescribed to humans. Persisting in your condescending snark makes you untrustworthy.
Republican presidential hopeful and right-wing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has agreed to finally meet California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on the debate stage. Fox News host Sean Hannity will moderate the live debate.
Hunter graduated law school in May 1996, and within a few months, he landed a job at MBNA. Less than two years after graduating law school, by age 28, Hunter was a senior vice president at MBNA, which was his father’s largest donor.
From CNN (blanket statement, no source/quote): "It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth."
This tweet literally proves everything every conservative has been saying about the media. It's like an over-the-top movie reveal scene where the bad guy just comes out and admits their evil plot.
Get this: The priest AOC attacked as a colonizer, Fr. Damien, was--for his sacrificial work on behalf of the unfortunate Hawaiian natives--bestowed with the highest honors by the very Queen AOC said was dishonored by Fr. Damien's statue.
BREAKING: Pfizer says its experimental COVID-19 pill cut hospitalization and death by 90% and will seek authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and international regulators.
She officiated a maskless indoor wedding AFTER her mask mandate went into effect.
It’s not that she keeps slipping up and breaking her own rules: She created her own rules with no intention to follow them.
She knows that vaxxed masking is pointless.
When encountered by the Washington Examiner, Mayor Bowser confirmed that she officiated the maskless, indoor wedding, but when asked why she was violating her own mask mandate, her security retinue quickly escorted her away.
This is another incoherent tweet. Nobody is “finding” new ballots. They are counting them. As expected, the mail-in ballots are disproportionately Dem, because (a) Trump discouraged vote by mail (b) Dems more fearful of public places amid Covid
This will literally never end until everyone decides to ignore the orders. They’re going to use flu season as an excuse to continue mask mandates and other restrictions.
The DOJ is totally uninterested in the destruction and vandalism of Catholic churches, but it is ferociously prosecuting every pro-lifer it can find, holding them to standards that no other protestor is held to.
Soledad is the type of person I block, because she's clearly full of hate and anger, and she uses her massive following to sic mobs on people. I don't want to be near that.
Subsidizing child care makes no sense. If you're gonna spend money on parents, why not give them money and let them decide whether to spend it on daycare or working less?