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I was happy to wake up today and have as many civilizations in existence as there was before I went to bed last night. This is crazy.

I couldn't believe my senses on Easter when I heard what the POTUS said in his Iran warning for Tuesday. Realizing it was real, my 1st thought was he isn't well or under the influence of something, surely? No denials. Perplexed and deeply saddened by it. Yikes, Trump.

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

No matter what happens, I am more convinced than ever that what each human REALLY yearns for, is truth, love and hope. In an absolute sort of way and meaning.

The Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED youtu.be/CDs2d3dJtYk?si… via @YouTube

@NASAUniverse Just amazing and beautiful. Astounding, those towers and stars.

There are thousands of newborn stars in the stellar nursery known as the Eagle Nebula. As its gas and dust come together to form stars, those very stars are also eroding away these towers. #MondayMotivation

@NASAHubble This is so beautiful.

The cloudy starscape seen in this week's #HubbleFriday view resides within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. This is N11, the galaxy’s second-largest star-forming region: go.nasa.gov/42uVi3h

If there is an intelligent, all-powerful mind that is outside of space and time as we know it, aka a god/God, would you want to know that being if you could? #cause #eternalmind #eternalpower #God

Let us all be careful to not just believe everything that is told to us. Let us be careful to not ever just take sides with people automatically, that we think we agree with. The level of untruths and tactics running amuck is out of control. Lets not be so easily controlled.

Ideas. We believe things. Let us be really convinced of what we believe. Truly convinced. #ideas #belief #faith #lies #truth #reality

Fun night watching the replay of Billy Joel’s 100th consecutive concert at Madison Square Gardens with the fam tonight 😁😍😊💕

Correction.* "If there were to be an uncaused entity outside of space and time, which turns out to be the origin of all we know of & shed light on the rest, would you want to know such an entity?"

Question for all: if there is a non-causal entity outside of space and time, responsible for ALL we know of, would you want to know of it?

Untrue ideas (things) often have to be contorted and twisted for people to believe. (Or sold.) True ideas (things) by their very nature, don't have that same "problem." And not because anyone says so. This is an amazing thing to know of and behold. It is testable. #life #lie

Life is such an amazing gift.  We don't bestow (alive) life to ourselves or others, something else does that.

Reality, morality & truth can be our friend. (Are we) is the world getting tired yet of how it's all playing out? Or does society need to suffer a lot more to admit what we know in our core? It's getting bad anyway. Can we adopt the painful side of embracing the good yet? No?Ok.

@tbhw0 @RealCandaceO If you don't like Ben, or if you don't like Israel, I only know that you say you don't like them. You know if you are what you are asking about. Curious, why do you ask these things?

@PollyB7 @RealCandaceO If I say I don't like Israel. Am I anti semitic?

I’m not sure why I’m trending again (frankly, I’m sick of it after this week) but as I am about to embark on maternity leave, there are perhaps a few things I would like to say: After a little over a year of producing my podcast, I would like to clarify who I am, and who I am not— the former of which I thought would have been obvious by now. I started my career being maimed and attacked as being “anti-black” and “self-hating” for challenging the Black Lives Matter narrative and the lockstep commitment that corporations, politicians, Hollywood and media had in fostering a hysterical illusion that the no one had the right to challenge the movement because “slavery”. I didn’t do this by telling the other side to shut up. In fact, I hosted the other side (BLM chapter leaders, and protesters) on my various platforms. I flew out to Atlanta and stood on stage with T.I and was disrespected for my unique stance at a hip-hop conference. I was similarly disrespected on the world stage by Dave Chapelle during a stand up he delivered following the death of George Floyd. I took all of this on the chin and was willing to become a punching bag and a laughing stock to many because reputation means little to me in the pursuit of truth. I’m not here to make friends or be well-liked. Life is not a popularity contest. I’m here to differentiate between truth and fiction so that my kids can grow up in a more honest world. Black Lives Matter, both as an organization and an ideology has been fundamentally exposed and is now recognized as fraudulent. This process took years plus more than a few good men that were willing to stand up to its lies—but it no longer holds any political significance. Frankly, because it never should have. Because BLM destroyed lives—chief among them BLACK lives and black neighborhoods. It is stunning to me that people who applauded me as I stood up and had conversations and rightfully critiqued (and continue to critique) the flaws in my own community, do not think that I should or would muster up the same courage to ask simple questions or make basic observations about theirs. There is no two-tier system in my mind. Your specific race, color, or creed does not make you above reproach. If you watch my podcast regularly you know how very true this is. I love and hate all of you with equal measure. Some people are wondering why I had the nerve to sit down with Norman Finkelstein today on my podcast— Norman is an accomplished academic, whose parents both survived the Holocaust who has made a name for himself defending Palestine. Lately, everything I tweet, say or don’t say has been under a microscope so rather then let people who think they are wizards and can magically “read between lines” invent something out of their own paranoid neuroses, let me clearly spell out the reason why for everyone here now: Because last week I had a pro-Israel Jewish man, Ami Kozak on my podcast. And he was amazing and he was respectful and we had a great dialogue that everyone in the comment section applauded and loved. Because it is important that in the pursuit of truth we hear ALL sides so that we can learn and independently conduct our own research. It really is that simple. So go listen to my podcast with Ami and go listen to my podcast with Norman and make an effort to make up your own mind. Here is what I have learned in politics. Never, ever trust anyone who only presents to you one side. Never trust anyone who yells at you for wanting to hear both sides. Never trust people who call you stupid and put you down for admitting that you don’t know everything. These people are authoritarians, not experts or respectable journalists. As just one example: the experts didn’t want to debate about Covid and vaccination for a reason. That’s because they were liars and frauds. I want everyone to know that a willingness to listen, research and learn is enough. It will always bring you closer to truth (Continued) …

@BasedCLC @JeremyDBoreing @realDailyWire Does anyone else feel like they missed something? What is going on? Let them hash it out. They’re right or wrong. Right? Gotta love the freedoms we have! thankful for all, voicing thoughts & concerns. Let’s all rest in what we know to be absolutely true at the end of a day.

@JeremyDBoreing @realDailyWire Why was Ben encouraging her to quit?

I am currently on a leave of absence from my executive duties @realdailywire while overseas producing #thependragoncycle. In my current capacity, I cannot fire Candace Owens. That’s something Ben and I have in common since he is also not an executive in the company and cannot hire or fire people. But even if we could, we would not fire Candace because of another thing we have in common - a desire not to regulate the speech of our hosts, even when we disagree with them. Candace is paid to give her opinion, not mine or Ben’s. Unless those opinions run afoul of the law or she violates the terms of her contract in some way, her job is secure and she is welcome at Daily Wire.

@RealCandaceO Is someone disagreeing with you, that the world needs more speech, and not less? I would stand tall and proud of things you are proud of! Keep hungering for more conversation! It's awesome you have earned people's trust! It is honest to admit, that we don't know everything.

My entire career I have been publicly put down and called stupid names. I have been caricatured as anti-vax, an Uncle Tom, a disgrace to my own black community, a Putin-Puppet, a transphobe, a homophobe, an inspiration to a New Zealand terrorist, a Zionist shill, an antisemite, a sell-out, an internalized misogynist. If you name it, I can probably produce the article in which I’ve been called it. My entire career I’ve been told my 15 minutes would be up soon. Needless to say, it’s been a long 15 minutes. Because people can see past these attempts to shut down conversation. I’ve kept the hunger but more importantly I have earned people’s trust. I refuse to go “establishment” despite the very real truth that pressure surmounts the higher you climb. I haven’t turned my back on friends along way, although I’ve gotten much clarity on the ones who were pretending to be my friends in order to manipulate my voice. I still do not claim to know everything, but I do know that the world needs more speech, not less. It really is that simple.