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The Jim Riley
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Professionally sufficient at bass guitar and singing. Instagram: thejimriley
Katılım Ocak 2009
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Damn — that’s what i purchase my stuff with!
Hedgeye@Hedgeye
The U.S. Dollar has lost 30% of its purchasing power over the last six years
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⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear.
It migrated inward.
Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space.
That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons.
So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public.
The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it.
The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open.
The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility.
That is the trade.
A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation.
This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question.
The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults.
It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation.
The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.
Grant Bailey@grantjbailey
Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀
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What Biden and Powell pulled off with the soft landing was genuinely insane and no one but policy nerds will ever give them credit for it
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
INFLATION NOW OUTPACING PAYCHECKS Inflation is once again rising faster than wages, putting Americans under growing financial pressure for the first time in about three years. Consumer prices climbed 3.8% over the past year, while wages rose just 3.6%, meaning many workers are losing purchasing power.
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Idk how anyone can still act like the Supreme Court majority has any credibility now
Jen Rice@jen_rice_
Supreme Court today: We'll allow Alabama Republicans to change the congressional map in the primary election even though absentee voting has literally already started Supreme Court last December: November's too late to strike down the GOP's map in TX's March primary election!!
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If you grew up in the '90s or '00s you were constantly hearing about it since grade school. They had us sit in assemblies in middle & high school telling us we all needed to go to college and corralling us to apply, or else we'd never find work. This is insane revisionism:
BoiltOwl@nealjclark1
College is expensive because every millenial INSISTED they get to go. The boomers spent a ton so they could go. This was not the case in the boomers day. They understood natural hierarchy and sorted themselves appropriately. Their big sin was liking their children too much.
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This is what the Texas Congressional map looks like, *right now*.
Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke
I do not think people outside politics fully understand how insane what Virginia Democrats did actually was. They redrew the map so that five congressional districts effectively originate in Fairfax, which is packed with left wing government workers, and then stretch outward across the state like tentacles.
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Saying "this is not a golden calf" as you put up a golden calf doesn't cancel that fact out.
Pastor Mark Burns@pastormarkburns
Today at Trump National Doral Miami, we witnessed an unforgettable moment with the dedication of the 22-foot statue honoring President Donald J. Trump. Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America. It also stands as a reminder of the hand of God and His protection over President Trump’s life. Time and time again, when his life was threatened, God’s mercy prevailed. Today was not just a ribbon cutting. It was the public display of a powerful movement that has spread across America and around the world. I was deeply honored to serve as President Trump’s main point of contact throughout this process, and I do not take that assignment lightly. I want to personally thank Ash, Dustin Stockton, Brock Pierce, Hershey Friedman, Yaakov Filitchkin, Sam, Jack, and the 6,000+ Patriots who donated, believed, sacrificed, and made this historic moment possible. Thank you to the entire Trump Doral team for your incredible hospitality and excellence. And thank you, President Donald J. Trump, for calling me today and speaking to the crowd. We are forever grateful. God bless President Trump. God bless every Patriot. And God bless the United States of America. 🇺🇸 #PresidentTrump #SpiritualDiplomats #TrumpDoral #TrumpStatueDedication #AmericaFirst #PatriotMovement #FaithFreedomPatriotism
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Reds played like it was an inconsequential game and the refs treated it like one too.
TopCee@UtdTopCee
How is that is not a RED for Nilson Angulo? Hits Bruno in the face intentionally!😭 NO FOUL. NO RED CARD 😅
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Past GOP state supreme court packing:
AZ (2016): 5→7, locked in conservative majority
GA (2016): 7→9, flipped Dem majority to GOP
UT (2026): 5→7 after redistricting case loss
They also killed nonpartisan elections in OH and NC, are killing a nominating commission in KS, etc.
Geiger Capital@Geiger_Capital
"The court didn’t rule in my favor so we must destroy it, pack it, or replace the judges" - Guy who calls Trump a threat to democracy
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Throwing away 40,000 ballots is fascism.
PBS News@NewsHour
Louisiana's secretary of state has said that the votes for U.S. House races on around 40,000 mail ballots that have already been accepted will not be counted, after Gov. Landry suspended House primaries so new districts could be set. to.pbs.org/4ngXX9S
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Of course, in Virginia voters specifically said they wanted the redrawn maps, while Florida voters specifically said they didn't, so the courts will overrule the voters in both states because judicial activism is very bad unless it benefits Republicans.
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To achieve this map they have to distribute Nashville and Memphis into multiple districts. I hope J*hn R*berts stubs his toe so hard he loses the nail.
VoteHub@VoteHub
BREAKING — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed the new 9-0 congressional map into law. 🔴 +1 GOP 🔵 -1 DEM
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Iowa has one of the fairest maps in the country.
They got it through a truly exceptional set of unique rules:
(1) Countries cannot be split.
(2) A completely non-partisan agency draws maps.
(3) This agency cannot look at most demographic data (including the partisan makeup of an area) or the addresses of incumbents.
(4) State senate districts must follow the boundaries of Congressional districts.
(5) Each state senate district contains two house districts that are fully contained within its boundaries.
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Sign of a good neighborhood:
Almost everyone has a dog and walks them in public.
Those that don’t like dogs, are typically gonna be a net negative to your community.
Dogs are the best.
Be leery of anyone who doesn’t like dogs.
There is likely something wrong with them.
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Couldn’t love him more if I tried.
Chris Motionless@ChrisMotionless
Playing God. Tomorrow 10am EST.
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Respectfully. Go home. Enjoy your family. Let someone that isn’t collecting social security decide the future of the country. End the gerontocracy.
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein
Here's 73-year-old Senator Susan Collins vibrating like an electric toothbrush in her re-election campaign announcement 😬
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