Jamie Workman

Slavery was legal. People who freed slaves were criminals. Segregation was legal. People who stood up for equality were criminals. I heard this story once about a teacher who took a fish out of its bowl and left a classroom of children as it flopped around.. telling them that if anyone left their seat, they would be expelled. All of the children sat and watched as this fish flopped gasping for air, not wanting to get up in order to avoid getting in trouble. Finally, a girl sprang up from her seat and ran to the fish, placing it back in the bowl. Ultimately, she was the only one who refused to watch the fish die. When the teacher returned he told the class that this was a lesson. That the fear of getting in trouble should never stop you from doing what's right. That sometimes.. you may have to oppose authority and group think, simply because it's the right thing to do. Never use legality as a guide to morality.

20% of Sequoia trees were destroyed by wildfires in just 2 years. This week, @RepVinceFong + @RepScottPerry's bipartisan bill to save the world's largest trees passed UNANIMOUSLY. The bill accelerates forest restoration, forest management, and fire prevention. WONDERFUL news🇺🇸

@owocki Crazy truth. Felt so damn good I wrote a whole book about how to experience it offshore. a.co/d/02Ayr9CH

sure sex is great, but have you ever aligned incentives so self-interest converges on cooperation

The greatest environmental success story you've never heard about, unfolding offshore. Waterside Chat with Author/Advocate Jamie Workman youtu.be/ScyXvK-NV9E?si… via @YouTube

This is the most complete and balanced obituary on Paul Ehrlich’s legacy , on The Bet legal-planet.org/2026/03/19/pau…

@Badie912 @JasonBassler1 I hope they all had the good sense to build their bunkers below sea level.

@JasonBassler1 Miami isn't exactly an ideal place to hideout. Many other better places.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp has bought a $46M "Billionaire Bunker" in Indian Creek, Miami which has it's own private police and guarded bridge. He's now neighbors with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, & Jared Kushner. Total surveillance for you. Total security for them.

The American West Is Drying Up. Can the Market Help? newrepublic.com/article/207217… via @newrepublic

19 years ago, a high school basketball coach put his team manager into a game for the final four minutes. The kid had never played a single minute of competitive basketball in his life. He scored 20 points. Jason McElwain was diagnosed with severe autism at age two. He didn’t speak until he was five. He couldn’t chew solid food until he was six. He wore a nappy for most of his early childhood. As a baby, he was rigid, wouldn’t make eye contact, and hid in corners away from other children. He tried out for his school basketball team every year and got cut every time. Too small. Too slight. Barely 5’6 and about 54 kilograms. But he loved the game so much that his mum called the school and asked if there was any way he could be involved. The coach created a team manager role for him. For three years, McElwain showed up to every practice and every game. He wore a shirt and tie on match days. He ran drills, handed out water, kept stats, and cheered every basket like he’d scored it himself. On 15 February 2006, the last home game of his final school year, the coach let him suit up in a proper jersey and sit on the bench. With four minutes left and a comfortable lead, the coach sent him in. His first shot missed. His second missed. Then something shifted. He hit a three-pointer. Then another. Then another. His teammates stopped shooting entirely and just kept passing him the ball. He hit six three-pointers and a two-pointer. 20 points in four minutes. The highest scorer in the game. When the final buzzer went, the entire crowd rushed the court and lifted him onto their shoulders. His mum tapped the coach on the shoulder, in tears. “This is the nicest gift you could have ever given my son.” McElwain won the ESPY Award for Best Moment in Sports that year, beating out some of the biggest names in professional sport. He’s 36 now. He works at a local supermarket, coaches basketball, has run 17 marathons including five Boston Marathons, and travels the country speaking about never giving up. When asked about that night, his coach still gets emotional. “For him to come in and seize the moment like he did was certainly more than I ever expected. I was an emotional wreck.”

His predictions weren't "premature." They were just wrong. They didn't happen, and they never will.

@EdwardGLuce @LauraLoomer Just wait til she discovers the Alhambra in Christian Spain

@LauraLoomer Oh you mean the Muslim monument?

I had a magnificent day at the Taj Mahal. 🇮🇳 It is the most incredible monument I have ever seen in my life. A monument of love built with perfect symmetry and detail. India is one of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever had the pleasure of traveling to. Highly recommend!

@Milbank Bravo Dana. I look forward to reading you there!

I am leaving the Washington Post to join a new journalistic venture backed by Politico founder Robert Allbritton that will be both the hometown publication the D.C. region sorely needs and a scrappy and fearless national news organization. I hope you'll join us.

🌿 It turns out plants have been talking to each other for roughly 400 million years, and nobody thought to mention it to us. Here is what happens. A caterpillar lands on a leaf and starts eating. The plant, which has no brain, no mouth, and no real options, does the only thing available to it: releases a cocktail of chemicals into the air. A signal. An alarm. A tiny molecular cry of distress drifting across the garden. The plant next door picks it up. And this is the part that stops you mid-biscuit. That neighboring plant, which has been attacked by nothing, threatened by nothing, bothered by absolutely nothing this Saturday afternoon, quietly begins producing toxins. Just in case. Because the neighbor said so. No language. No sound. No evolutionary reason to trust anyone. And yet there it is. A conversation so old it was already ancient when the dinosaurs showed up and ruined everything. We built cities. We invented Wi-Fi. We wrote symphonies. The begonias have been doing this since before we had thumbs. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@JoshPhillipsPhD Reflection of my vote. But… Here’s the problem: Twitter X readers: 85% male. Novel readers: 85% female.

The winner of Poll 1 v. the winner of Poll 2 The Greatest American novel

@cryptofergani Hmmmm

I am back as promised :) Time to start the $50 —> $10,000 challenge Last time it took me about 7 days, will try doing it faster this time If you want to follow want to follow along, comment below and I’ll send you an invite to the call group Gonna lock comments in 24 hours

@DTAPCAP Hmmm. Did Iran ask for their aid? Doesn’t seem to need outside help defending itself. Meanwhile, USA asked Ukraine to come to its aid. Did Zelensky ever say “you’re welcome.”?

Is the most important thing about the Iran war that Russia and China did not come to Iran's aid? Unipoloar world confirmed. Global map gets redrawn. Cuba friendly takeover soon. The rogue government era around world is over. What could be more bullish for US?

In the state of Wyoming in the USA lies a real hydrological oddity. It's a small stream (creek) that is thought to be the only one of very few examples in the world. It is placed so precariously and perfectly that it's hard to believe it is able to exist. 1/n

Stop what you are doing and watch this

@JoshPhillipsPhD All the Kings Men, Robert Penn Warren

Help me settle something. Greatest American Novel (post alternatives in the replies)

Trillions in funding, the world's top technical minds, massive data centers, racing to build all-seeing, all-knowing surveillance systems. It seems terrifyingly dystopian. But this is not the future. It's the final phase of the old order. Big AI will bring about its own demise. By 2030, businesses, communities, and individuals will own and control their own AIs. It's the only way forward.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58