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Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.? Because we gave them that L in 1776.

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On this July 3rd, my local @AMCTheatres has SIX theaters showing the new Minions movie and only one theater showing “Young Washington”. Of course it’s sold out. 🙄 Terrible planning. Do better, AMC 🇺🇸

"There is a phrase in the Catholic Church for a certain kind of believer: the cradle Catholic. It means the one who was born into the faith, baptized before he could speak, raised inside the rituals so completely that he never had to choose them. He did not convert. He did not study his way in or have a come-to-Jesus moment that brought him to the church door as a grown man. The cradle Catholic was simply always there. And the church has a quiet worry about him, an insecurity, because the thing you are handed in the cradle is the thing you are most likely to take for granted. The convert had to earn the faith and so he knows exactly what it is. The cradle Catholic risks practicing out of habit a thing he has never once had to defend. "I have come to think there is such a thing as a cradle American, and that many of us now are one. We were born into freedom the way the cradle Catholic was born into the faith. We did not convert to freedom. Most of us under seventy did not serve in the armed forces or march for it or risk our families. We were born into this land where the rights were already written down and the laws made. And like the cradle Catholic, we are in danger of losing the greatest thing we have ever been given, because a freedom you have never had to defend is a freedom you do not know how to defend." Link below.

@BFordLancer Put down the Beaver Nuggets! 🤣

@MaxieJaxn @FixingEducation Would love to know that company if you’d DM it to me, please.

@FixingEducation I work for a major retirement administrator. We love hiring ex-teachers. We can lose up to 50% of new hires due to failing the FINRA exams but ex-teachers tend do do pretty well. Also they are good with explaining things to clients.

Teachers who left the classroom but are still working… What do you do now? I’m curious how many former teachers found careers they enjoy more. Share your new job below.

@camolNFT @FreddyLA7 This happened recently to my spouse. We begun to wonder if these a-holes are just bots created to destroy morale in America.

Elon Musk just lost the biggest success story on X. @FreddyLA7 deactivated his account. Freddy became a national icon almost overnight. He was visiting the US for the World Cup and sharing everything he discovered along the way. Basically, everyone in the country knew about it and was watching along. A lot of his trip was in the south, which is traditionally underrepresented in tourism media and showcased a lot of America that people missed. As his account grew, he received a ton of opportunities. Free private jets, cars, and more but declined most of them. He just wanted to watch soccer with his buddies and experience America, and what he got to see was the true American dream. But, leave it to random bozos on X to engagement farm and bully him off the platform. More and more posts were dedicated to hating on him and trying to get him 'cancelled.' Reasonably, he decided to deactivate his account. He never showed his face, and honestly the amount of hate for a dude that just happened to go viral was absurd. Instead of being X's greatest success story, it is a lesson in how toxic the internet can get. Honestly, it's sad.

@Blazed0utGaming @frankenstein897 And you’re writing like a 20 year old who plays video games in their parents’ basement. Bro, it’s not that deep. Go touch grass.

Just got back from DC and the Great American State Fair. A few observations: - the city felt very safe, lots of military and police around. We even walked around the city at night. - people were happy and friendly - the state fair was actually pretty cool with the caveat for the states that didn’t participate, it was obvious and sad. Especially Alaska, they could have had an awesome display. - Florida and Arizona won for the best displays in my opinion - Guam won best territory in my opinion - SpaceX had an awesome exhibit -NASA’s was also very cool, right next to SpaceX - the reflection pool is still green. But you can’t tell when you are a ways away and it still reflects. And it looks fine. I don’t get the drama with the pool. - it was the busiest I have seen DC in the 4-5 times I have gone over the last 10 years. Yet everyone was very nice and friendly. And it didn’t feel over crowded. Next weekend will be different I am sure. - they still honk their horns but it is much less now then in years past. :) Maybe something to do with people being happier? - lots of people wearing red white and blue, nearly everyone at the fair - the city is much cleaner than in years past - it was obvious they are setting up a lot of stages and tents for next weekend, you can tell it’s going to be huge - I didn’t see very many people protesting. I saw one guy at the Lincoln memorial protesting. - the Smithsonian museums that we went to were nice and up to date. - the Holocaust Museum was very good but sad Overall it’s been a great experience. The only annoying thing was all of the fencing and stages and stuff being setup for next weekend but it didn’t hamper us much. Again. It was nice. You can feel the American pride.

@TheCrusaderGal Ours didn’t. I had family members at three of the Masses (including the vigil) and all received homilies by the celebrant.

Every Diocesan Mass in the Charlotte Diocese skipped the regular homily today and substituted a video presentation of a homily by the bishop. I don't believe this is permissible and it certainly shouldn't be. Further, the laity should have a reasonable expectation of the Mass.

@SteveLovesAmmo My parents owned a restaurant. I was working as soon as I could reach things. 🤣 All four of my sons have also worked before they were of driving age as well.

Who here worked their first job before they had a drivers license? ✋

@NJGOP Cape May County stepped up on a big way! It was wonderful to see and this NC resident has added them to her bucket list! 🏖️

Kudos to Cape May County for stepping up to represent New Jersey at the Great American State Fair! When NJ put partisan politics in the way of celebrating America’s birthday, Cape May is showing the whole country the majesty of our state! wpgtalkradio.com/new-jersey-sai…

80% of Americans want a vote on the Prevent Government Shutdowns Act. 81% want Congress locked in D.C. until the budget is done. The people have spoken. Congress should act.

@RepBaumgartner Washington AND Oregon missing was so sad! I’m traveling to both in July and was really disappointed!

It’s really bugging me that Idaho (w a less than 3% unemployment rate and $1 cheaper gas) has a so much better booth than the sad and empty Washington (+5% unemployment and biz leaving) because our Democrat Governor choose not to participate in celebrating America! WA is a wonderful state! We should be celebrating and putting our best foot forward to attract biz and innovators. Not only are Gov Ferguson’s actions petty and unpatriotic, they are foolish and dumb for a state that is quickly growing a reputation as one of the worst in the country for small business friendliness due to left-wing socialist views of state and local policy makers. It’s not too late for Gov Ferguson to do the right thing - he should drop the partisan nonsense and personally come out to The Great American State Fair in DC on the 4th of July and man the Washington booth to celebrate our great country and our state. 🇺🇸

@ZitoSalena Good to hear! Now let’s get Alaska and Hawaii to show up! If Guam can be there, why the heck can’t they??

McCormick & Fetterman stepped up & saved the day; Pennsylvania will be there. In a span of a handful of hours secured they secured the funding & sponsorships. It was humiliating to think the state where the Declaration was signed almost wasn't represented wesanews.org/politics-gover…

@ErinPugh6780 @Brett_Jensen @NC_Governor Arizona had the longest line—or maybe a tie with Florida. They were only letting a few in at a time to see their very cool and immersive display.

@Brett_Jensen @NC_Governor Arizona? Can you please share other States? Have a great day 🇺🇸

This is where @NC_Governor Stein refused to display NC in a booth in DC on the National Mall. You get a free “passport” & state/territory stamps from the 56 booths you enter. Doing it most are excited teens. Outside volunteers stepped up & Childress Racing is in NC’s. *My video

@Brett_Jensen @NC_Governor Um…excited middle aged people like getting their passports stamped too…not just teens. 🤣

@SassySouthern2U It was a video of the history of the state and the pic was snapped at that frame. 🙄

Well butter my biscuit, @joshsteinnc… A DC-born carpetbagger with those fancy Harvard credentials thinks he can school real Tar Heels on our Confederate flag? Bless your ignorant little heart, honey. You couldn’t understand our Southern heritage if it hit you with a jug of sweet tea. That flag flew for NC boys who fought for this land — it’s our history, not your “divisive” feelings project. But you’ll happily proclaim Ramadan for the whole state while your spox demands we stop “dishonoring the flag of North Carolina” over this? (Straight from the coverage here: newsweek.com/gov-blasts-gre…) Selective much? Denounce our heritage one minute, roll out the welcome mat for another the next. Hypocrisy smells worse than day-old collards. This exhibit is EXACTLY the North Carolina we love — proud, gritty, and unapologetic about our full history. Not your watered-down, feelings-first fantasy. America 250 is about truth, not erasing the parts that make you clutch your pearls. #NCStrong #SouthernHeritage #HeritageNotHate #SteinHypocrisy

@tweetmobb Time blindness! 🙄

This huge trend of gaslighting and guilt tripping others because we don’t want to improve ourselves and work on our relationships is so bad for us

@heynavtoor I had an 8th grader accused of using AI by a visiting instructor. I defended her writing because I knew her abilities. If we are going to remove the uncertainty of whether or not their writing is their own, we have to get sample writings—by hand—at the beginning of class.

A student submitted an essay she wrote by hand. Her university ran it through an AI detector. The detector said she cheated. She is autistic. Her name is Moira Olmsted. Adelphi University. February 2026. Turnitin flagged her essay as 100% AI-generated. She was disciplined. Two other AI detectors classified the same essay as human-written. She sued. She won. The court called the school's decision "arbitrary and capricious." She is not the only one. In May 2026, a high school student in Palo Alto was expelled after an AI detector flagged his work. He faced visa revocation. He filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. A researcher at Griffith University just proved mathematically why this keeps happening. The paper is on arXiv. The finding is one sentence. AI text detectors have a structural flaw that no amount of better engineering can fix. Here is what the math says. If a university wants its detector to catch 80% of cheaters, at least 750 out of every 10,000 innocent students will be wrongly accused. That is not a software problem. It is a theorem. If the university tries to limit false accusations to 1%, detection power collapses to 6%. It catches 6 out of every 100 AI-written papers. The other 94 get through. There is no setting where the detector is both fair and effective. The reason is diversity. Every student writes differently. Non-native English speakers use simpler vocabulary. Shorter sentences. Clearer structures. So does AI. A Stanford study found that 61.3% of TOEFL essays written by non-native English speakers were misclassified as AI-generated. A separate analysis tested 14 commercial detection tools. Zero out of 14 reached 80% accuracy. The students most likely to be wrongly accused are non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and anyone who writes with clarity and precision. The qualities that make their writing effective are the same qualities the detector mistakes for a machine. Vanderbilt University understood this. They disabled Turnitin's AI detection in 2023 after calculating that even a 1% error rate across 75,000 submissions would produce 750 wrongful accusations per year. 750 students accused of cheating for writing like themselves. The paper's conclusion is not that we need better detectors. It is that the diversity of human writing itself makes accurate detection mathematically impossible. The same thing that makes your writing yours is the thing that gets you accused. arxiv.org/abs/2603.20254

@spencerpratt Don’t stop fighting this. 💪🏻 🙏🏻

"A net swing of more than 43,000 votes since Tuesday.." 43,000, huh? Where have I seen that number before...? Probably nothing. 🤷