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@MamaDoneToldU @StateDept @Grok, What proportion of Americans are born as described in this reply?

@StateDept Biologically no. You can have a person born with female genitalia but a Y chromosome or two X’s and male. Here’s the simplified explanation in layman’s terms for those who need to broaden their horizons.

The Trump Administration affirms that there are two sexes: male and female. The State Department will operate on this objective basis for consistency, privacy, and safety in shared spaces. Thank you for your attention in this matter. 🇺🇸

@romanhelmetguy Make having kids cool again (it always has been and will be a great blessing)

I’m convinced that all these guys who come up with proposals to “fix the fertility rate” have never talked to a woman. They treat it like an economics problem they can optimize, or even worse they just tell women to have kids to “save civilization.” If you actually spend time with women who aren’t having kids, you’ll find they almost all fall into one of five buckets: 1. Dating problems. They were in some 5+ year relationship (or a series of relationships) that stole their youth and left them so jaded that they’ve given up on finding a man who could be a good father. 2. Family problems. They come from such a dysfunctional home that their own childhood holds few happy memories, and they’re terrified of recreating those conditions with their own children. 3. Health problems. A ton more women than you think have conditions like endometriosis or PCOS or other health complications that can affect fertility and make having kids more dangerous or harder to do. 4. Career goals. They’re convinced that they have something huge and unique to contribute to the world either professionally or creatively, whereas “every woman can have a kid,” and so to them, having children sounds like a waste of their potential, like giving up. 5. Lifestyle goals. They’re really into traveling and being independent and getting into “adventures,” they want to explore the world and experience everything, and the idea of giving all that up to sit at home and raise kids makes them want to die. If you really want to fix the fertility rate, and you’re not addressing at least a few of these, your solution is useless.

@johnkonrad I don't let them. They already, but doing it as a matter of passage is a principle dangerous to liberty.

An I the only person left who asks TSA not to take a digital photo of me?

@Geiger_Capital Unethical wording against voter integrity

This is insane… The Virginia redistricting amendment on the ballot today is framed as a vote to "restore fairness in the upcoming elections." In reality, it turns a state that Kamala barely won by 5 pts from 6D-5R to 10D-1R.

@CJHandmer @TerraformIndies A safety review without relying on 100 PowerPoint slides, risk identification, and mitigation plans??? What a revolutionary approach to rely on hardware! 🤣

@IPostAndGhost @johnkonrad Convince Elon that building battle ships is somehow the best path to creating a multi planetary species. Then he'll start something like ship-x to make it happen.

@johnkonrad How could we significantly cut the price tag on building things like this?

Some sticker shock but still a tiny fraction of the money the last administration spent on fraud. Hell yeah!

@johnkonrad Mean and fast ships are needed to secure global choke points, that's why a battle ship makes sense. It makes less sense in open water but Iran has showed us we need more bite in closed waters.

@IfindRetards Public firing squad

Varley & his partner John are accused of se#ually assaulting 14 month old baby who they were in the process of formally adopting. Jamie Varley, a teacher! Then filmed as the baby lay dying on the bed. He had over 40 injuries What should be the punishment for these monsters?

We build dams even though we know that the water will flood the lands beneath the land if it were ever let loose. A corporation is like the water in this analogy. And I'm not saying go log Yosemite Valley. There are hundreds of square miles literally untouched. In addition to that, there are plenty of forests that should actually be cut down and then replanted with wood species more suitable to its climate. Previous reforesting efforts actually contribute to some of the fires because it was done without recognition of the very delicate balance between species. All of this is to say know your enemy and use your enemy.

The healthy interactions between corporate interests and national parks can increase the accessibility of public land for American people if agreements to such effect are Included in initial discussions. Look at the strong majority of roads around the Sequoias - those were built by loggers. So rather making yourself an enemy to corporations, use them as an opportunity to improve public access.

You can't mine at Yosemite. You can't mine at Yellowstone. You shouldn't be allowed to mine in the Boundary Waters. Republicans are trying to sell out our most pristine waters to a foreign mining corporation. NO.

@bryan_johnson I quit by replacing a beer with a "no-beer," ie spindrift seltzer. It didn't matter if I drank 5 per day, as long as I wasn't drinking beer, it was ok. Then I tapered off the spindrifts after the drinking urge was gone.

Friends, stop drinking alcohol. Not cut back. Eliminate. > alcohol increases cortisol > disrupts REM sleep > accelerates epigenetic aging > shrinks hippocampal volume > elevates resting heart rate > raises inflammatory markers > impairs glucose metabolism for 16 hrs One drink does that.

@wcdispatch @grok did the US Navy actually close the straight of hormuz? Also, did they close the straight to sweep for mines because Iran cannot confirm the location of the mines they placed?

I tried to explain this before. The Strait of Hormuz being closed is actually in America’s interest. President Trump is now making that explicit. Check, China—your move. ♟️

@NYCMayor Yep!

If corporations allow you to sign up with one click, you should be able to cancel with one click too. Subscription traps, whether from an app or gym membership, are just another way corporations take advantage of working people.  We've already put hundreds of companies on notice. This week, we proposed a rule that would make NYC a national leader in cracking down on abusive practices that nickel-and-dime New Yorkers.

@GovPressOffice You should have gone on a walk with Nick Shirley then. Instead of making him out as a pedo. It's not too late to make amends, go in his show and invite him to go on yours.

The Governor never denied fraud was happening, he repeatedly said if there is fraud he would partner to fight it. Last month: x.com/GovPressOffice… Two months ago: x.com/GovPressOffice… And three months ago: x.com/GovPressOffice… Fighting fraud has been something the Governor has taken seriously for years, people can see the results here: StopFraud.CA.Gov What the Governor won’t entertain is people making baseless claims with no data or evidence and misleading people for the sole purpose of pushing a political agenda. Is lying and pushing made up numbers a form of fraud?

@nypost Death penalty

Crazed homeless man accused of slaughtering Iryna Zarutska on train found incompetent to stand trial trib.al/GsJMZC8

Rovers are going to be operating way more frequently on a permanent base, than on the Apollo missions. Thus, it makes sense to have more broken down landers. What I see here is a director setting the tone for the inevitable so that NASA engineers can take risk without the perception that a broken lander represents a failed program.

@TheFP @rookisaacman Makes you wonder why we should accept broken down rovers and landers littering our landing sites when we did not have one broken down rover or landers during Apollo, over 50 years ago. I believe NASA needs to set its sights higher and not lower. Like accepting more risk!

The initial moon base “might look like a junkyard, because there are going to be broken-down rovers and landers everywhere. And that’s OK,” says NASA Administrator @RookIsaacman. Progress takes time, says Isaacman. Starting small—like Alan Shepard’s brief, ten-minute spaceflight—led to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin reaching the Moon just eight years later.

@johnkonrad When people are so surprised about me voting for Trump, my argument is basically the same

Look, I get it, Dems. You think buying Greenland is dumb. You think trash-talking NATO is dumb. You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb. You think bombing Iran is dumb. Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it. But that’s not the point. Every administration in American history has done dumb things. Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy. LBJ had Vietnam. Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1. W. had “Mission Accomplished.” Obama had…. where do I even begin? Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions. What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for. That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for. A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency. That’s the new threshold, Democrats. That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible. Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland. But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care. Zero F’s given by me.

@CuriosityonX Kapton tape like that is just tacky, looking cool doesn't add "that" much weight if you're creative.

NEWS 🚨: Artemis II astronauts are now reporting a horrible smell coming from their toilet.

@SenWarren There's way more than 7 billion in fraud. Take care of that before you go influencing stock liquidity

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@bryan_johnson Its even crazier when you realize we have put chopped up tires on kid's playgrounds.

Guys, I’m an idiot. All this time I’ve spent trying not to die, I had toxic turf in my backyard. Artificial turf contains crumb rubber infill made from recycled tires, which leaches chemicals including PFAS, heavy metals, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These compounds are linked to hormone disruption, carcinogenicity, and systemic inflammation. I don’t know how I missed it. It makes me question my basic competence in life. What gets me is that I try so hard to survey the world of potential idiocy. Then I find out there’s a monument to idiocy sitting right in front of my face that I was blind to. I’m removing the turf, yet I’m still stuck with this seemingly unsolvable problem of how to not be an idiot.