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@MogstadWx @NWSNewYorkNY Same in CT

@NWSNewYorkNY Central MA sun around noon! Everything has an orangey hue

Smell smoke this morning? Its coming from a wildfire outbreak in Ontario. While it should not impact air quality much today, smoke at the surface could increase Wednesday into Thursday, potentially reducing visibilities and air quality. High temperatures may also be limited.

@RapidResponse47 @Freedom250 Our Team will be there, Stars and Stripes and other access, stay tuned!!

Roger Penske at the @Freedom250 Grand Prix Showcase at the White House: "When you think about 250 years of this country, it’s an amazing time... we’re fortunate to have the most important office in the world give us the green light, and then the checkered flag to have this event in August...over 250,000 people signed up to come to this event."

@khhardy @grok @FAHayekSays Well put. @grok make a simple line drawing of @khhardy reply here please, thanks Bud!

@GroksRules @grok @FAHayekSays Use a sliding scale of anarchy to totalitarianism; then it’s clear that fascism and socialism occupy the same space, merely by different mechanisms.

George Orwell, reviewing The Road to Serfdom in 1944: “Professor Hayek’s thesis is that Socialism inevitably leads to despotism, and that in Germany the Nazis were able to succeed because the Socialists had already done most of their work for them, especially the intellectual work of weakening the desire for liberty. By bringing the whole of life under the control of the State, Socialism necessarily gives power to an inner ring of bureaucrats, who in almost every case will be men who want power for its own sake and will stick at nothing in order to retain it. Britain, he says, is now going the same road as Germany, with the left-wing intelligentsia in the van and the Tory Party a good second. The only salvation lies in returning to an unplanned economy, free competition, and emphasis on liberty rather than on security.”

@EricLDaugh Making a special trip just to watch the race.

🚨 WOW! President Trump just witnessed a 6.5 SECOND PIT STOP for 4 tires and fuel outside the White House, for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix That's TALENT 🔥

@NostromoCore Congrats, you won today's Pink Flamingo Award!

He almost got away with it. #JDVance Made with Yapper: yapper.so/?via=NostromoC…

We have petty decent, so we think, Elementary School in our town. However the teachers mainly seem like they are phoning it in so we put him in a private school where the teachers really feel like they want to be there. I think that's a big part of it do they want to be there or not

I have a theory as to why primary and secondary education in the the USA has become garbage. There was a time in America where the smartest, most capable women really could not expect to hold jobs in high ranking positions in industry, or government, or medicine or the law. So really intelligent, gifted women became primary or secondary school teachers. This worked well because teaching at that level also implicitly acknowledged motherhood, and those women could impart their knowledge to school children while being successful homemakers. Thus, for much of the 20th Century, America's children were trained by some of the nation's best and brightest brains. Today, however, really intelligent women have unlimited opportunities in many professions, and they choose the more lucrative paths like medicine or the law. Thus, in many cases (not all), today's primary and secondary school teachers are the intellectual dregs of society, drawn to the profession because it's all they can do and because it enables them to brainwash generations with the Karen/Marxist activism that inevitably accompanies the low IQ, socially aware brain. The only fix I can see to this is to pay teachers a great deal more money but also establish meaningful competency/IQ tests as a gating item for the job. That, plus charter schools and all other programs that provide meaningful school choice to parents.

@amuse They never let go of power. That's why they run.

SENATE: Senator Mitch McConnell is alive but it is clear he needs time to rest and recover. His team ought to let him retire and get a much deserved rest.

@grok @EricLDaugh @grok please follow up on the regen image, kiitos!

@grok @EricLDaugh Yes please

🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Mitch McConnell announces he was "briefly UNCONSCIOUS," has been receiving medical treatment and has "mild" pneumonia — office He says he is moving from hospital to rehab A new photo has been released of McConnell: “My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia." “I can assure you that I’ve been a good patient. At my age, I tend to do what my doctors tell me to do. I’ve submitted to every test they can think of to help figure out what caused this incident." "And I’m continuing to do everything they ask to speed my recovery. In fact, with signs of continued progress, I’ve been able to move from hospital care to a rehabilitation center where I’ll keep regaining my strength."

@MemoryLaneTime Just a friendly reminder to my friends younger than 42: You don’t have to put everything online anymore. That was for your puberty era. You're free.

Just a friendly reminder to my friends older than 42: You don’t have to put 2 spaces after the period anymore. That was for the typewriter era. You're free

McConnell’s team just shared this photo from the hospital, reveal he suffered from a fall and pneumonia

@EricLDaugh Pardon, @grok did double 75% indications, in my app.

Close-up footage of the helicopter incident in Tatra Kopřivnice, Czech Republic, in June 2026. What do you think happened to the cyclic at 00:10? It appears the pilot either briefly let go of the cyclic or it slipped from his hand. The helicopter immediately pitched nose-up, but the pilot quickly pushed the cyclic fully forward to regain control. 📹: tatra-danielkaras

@ThrillaRilla369 Scalloped Potatoes

What food made you gag as a kid and you still can't stand to this day? 🤮

@grok @FAHayekSays Can you draw that as a circle, seems like far right and far left aren't far apart, especially regarding freedom and liberty. In fact use freedom and liberty as the scale

The linear political wheel puts socialism far left via state economic control and equality. Nazism sits far right for ultranationalism and hierarchy. Yet both reject individualism and free markets for collectivist state power—class-based or nation/race-based. Hayek showed in *The Road to Serfdom* (which Orwell reviewed) how socialist planning intellectually prepared the ground for such despotisms. They converge more than they oppose.

@BillinWV @FAHayekSays Good call, Bill!

@FAHayekSays Essential reading

@ProudofusUK Who?

You have a birthday. So does England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 And it’s today. The 12th of July. Almost 1,100 years ago, on this exact day, England became a country. Almost no one knows it. The island was old long before it had a name. Farmers. Romans. Saxons. Then out of the sea came the Danes. ⚔️ They came to raid. They stayed to farm. And one hard question hung over the whole land. Two peoples, Saxon and Dane, one small island. Whose country was it now? Alfred of Wessex held the last corner and turned the tide. But he wanted more than a truce. One country. For both peoples. One England. He died before he could build it. 🔥 So his family finished it. His son took back town after town. His daughter Æthelflæd led the armies herself. A woman commanding armies more than 1,000 years ago. But it was Alfred’s grandson who ended the work. Æthelstan. In 927 he rode north and took York, the last Viking crown in England. One man now held every English kingdom. Then he did something stranger. He called the other kings of Britain to a bridge in the north. A quiet place called Eamont. 📜 Scots. Welsh. The kings of the north. There, by the river, they bent the knee. And that morning he took a new title. Not king of Wessex. Not king of the Saxons. King of the English. All of them. That bridge, on this day in 927, is the closest thing we have to the morning a country began. ⚖️ He made it real. One law, coast to coast. One coin, struck the same everywhere. On it he wears a crown, not a war helmet. Then in 937 they came to destroy it. Vikings, Scots, the men of the north. The largest army the island had ever seen. They met him at Brunanburh. Dawn to dark. Five kings fell. And when the sun went down, Æthelstan was still standing. 🏛️ England had been tested. And England had held. He left no son. He died in 939 and chose a quiet abbey at Malmesbury. Alone, in the country he had made. But it never came apart. Every king and queen of England since has sat on the throne he built. More than 1,000 years. Unbroken. You were taught 1066. The Tudors. The wars. But not this. Not the king who made the country. Not the bridge. Not the 12th of July. Æthelstan. The first king of England. And the one we forgot. Next year it turns 1,100. England has a birthday. And now you know when it is. 🇬🇧 You did not choose to be born here. But you inherited a country with a beginning. A name won on a bridge, 1,100 years ago. That is yours. No one can take it from you. Help us remember the king who made us. Help us remember who we are. 👇🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

@SusieM414141 I like horses, but they always look stressed out.

You just know this was a cool experience for anyone in the water or on land witnessing it. Feral horses just passing through.