L. Jen Shaffer

32,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked from Joint Base Andrews. Maryland wasn’t told for months. Four separate safeguards failed. 22,000 gallons reached soil and water. No one knows the full damage. The system didn’t just break—it never showed up. And just like the Potomac Interceptor, @GovWesMoore has been completely silent. mdbaynews.com/2026/05/06/joi…

If you’ve ever read to a young child, most anything other than contemporary slop (Mrs piggle wiggle, E Nesbit, Narnia, even frog and toad) you will find they encounter words and ideas on nearly every page that they are unfamiliar with. They will deduce some of it, they will ask you to explain much too, and in this way they acquire a deep and rich vocabulary and language that they would not come by through simple verbal communication. But we can watch the opposite happen in real time too; children who are never read to, adults who also do not read, are lacking this depth, not just of language, but of thought. It is a death, a death of something vital that I think links to our souls, to the very essence of what makes us human.

🚨 HOLY CRAP, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary CONFIRMED the FDA purposefully lied to the people for nearly 2 decades against dietary fats to help Big Pharma People avoided fat and ate MORE SUGAR, so Pharma could sell them more drugs RFK Jr. just declared open WAR on added sugar “They suppressed the data for 16 years…Those in the low-fat group had higher rates of heart attacks!” “We created a generation of children with low protein, high carbohydrates, sugar addiction, and burdened with ultra-processed foods, and what did we do as a medical field? Drugged them at scale!” “Those days are OVER. We are telling people the truth about food.” MAHA WILL WIN!

Normalize being a tomboy again without needing to become a boy:

@HedgieMarkets Both pistachios and almonds need bee pollination. So not just water issues. Bringing North American bees together in CA to get the pollinating done also exposes the bees to contagious disease and killer mites that they take back home.

🦔California farmers are destroying 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte's bankruptcy earlier this year. The successor company that bought Del Monte is purchasing 50,000 fewer tons of peaches from the region, and canned peach demand has been declining for over a decade as consumers shifted to fresh and frozen alternatives. The fruit is still edible, but the trees were planted specifically for canning and the cultivars do not store or transport well enough to compete on grocery shelves against varieties bred for that market. Total revenue loss to the region is estimated at $550 million, and growers are expected to replant with pistachios and almonds. My Take There is a real Grapes of Wrath instinct that kicks in when you read a headline about hundreds of thousands of fruit trees being torn out, and I understand it. A canning peach picked for the Del Monte line is not going to survive the journey to a Kroger produce section looking like something a shopper would pay for, which is why farmers grow different cultivars for fresh sale. The real loss is a regional economy built around a category of shelf-stable food Americans stopped buying, along with the workers, processors, and trucking routes that depended on it. The replanting decision is where this gets harder to feel good about for me. California is shifting toward pistachios and almonds, both of which use considerably more water than peach trees, in a state that has spent the last decade in cycles of severe drought and groundwater depletion. SGMA regulations are tightening, Central Valley aquifers are dropping fast enough to cause land subsidence and well failures in farming communities, and growers are still being pushed toward higher-margin tree nuts because that is where the money is right now. My concern is that the bankruptcy made the news but the replanting choice will produce a much bigger problem in five to ten years, and almost nobody is covering that part. Hedgie🤗

@ProtesterLone @RodeoProfessor As long as he doesn't go in winter or stay too long in autumn everything is good. 😂

@RodeoProfessor @jin_verde You're actually Napoleon, are you?😂

Americans might not know that many European languages lack a word to describe what we understand as “capital W wilderness.” American Wilderness is the first statutory system to intentionally set aside public land in its pre-human settlement state. We have 110 million acres of it in 44 states and there’s no roads, motors, bikes, extraction etc allowed. We were the first to recognize the intrinsic value of Wilderness and set it aside for its own sake. Italian, French, Spanish, and many Slavic languages lack a single word to encapsulate what Americans mean by Wilderness as a legal/cultural concept. Feel free and remind Europeans about this but they might block you and lock replies!

@RodeoProfessor You could take a train via Paris. But the real adventure would be taking the Trans-Siberian Rail trip (5772 miles) across Russia - with hop on & off options and sidetrips to Yakutsk and Lake Baikal. Bucket list. 🙂

@jin_verde That’s it?! Damn I should really drive from Madrid to Moscow.

@David_wthebeard Um no. There is no other way to interpret John 14:6. Jesus could not have been more clear and transparent.

“Jesus isn’t the way the truth or the life exclusively. There are many ways to inherit eternal life.” –Satan himself

This may be the most articulate response I’ve ever heard to this question.

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

While ‘We the People’ have been sleepwalking, Muslim leaders in Texas have been executing a clear, long-term plan and vision. Texas American Muslim University (TexAM) in Richardson, TX, just opened Spring 2026 admissions. It’s being promoted as the first university in the USA to offer STEM degree programs (AI, cybersecurity, health informatics, etc.) with 30% mandatory Islamic Studies embedded throughout. The goal? Integrate modern technology and innovation with Islamic principles — training the next generation in Islamic finance, digital services, and faith-based leadership. This isn’t random. This is strategic institution-building. Meanwhile, too many Americans have been complacent. Time to wake up. Priorities matter. What kind of future are we building in Texas? #TexAMUniversity #WakeUpAmerica #STEMwithIslamicStudies #TexasMuslimUniversity #AmericanPriorities

JOIN US: Fire in the Forest Festival May 30th starting at 9:00 a.m. Furnace Town Museu, Snow Hlll The Fire in the Forest Festival is a FREE, day-long event on Maryland’s Eastern Shore highlighting how controlled burns support healthy forests and wildlife. The festival focuses on restoring fire-dependent habitats in places like Pocomoke State Forest. Through prescribed fire, forests are returning to a more natural state, creating landscapes that better support native plants, improve wildlife habitat, and reduce wildfire risk. From quail to rare butterflies, many species depend on these burns to thrive. The festival offers hands-on learning to show how fire helps maintain resilient ecosystems for the future.

🎓 Where academia went wrong, in under 60 seconds. Vanderbilt Chancellor Daniel Diermeier keynote address set the tone at HxA's recent conference:

@60Minutes Sow doubt in government? Did we forget about East Palestine Ohio that got poisoned during the train derailment/burning off of chemicals that fema refused to help parts of because they were white Republicans? Lmao. Fuck you.

@60Minutes I didn't have 60 minutes claiming the Amish are white supremacist on my 2026 bingo card.. x.com/i/status/20513…

Yes, certain skills you will learn on the job. It is nice to have a rich ethical & intellectual life, but for the vast (95%) majority of anth grads, that isn't going to pay the bills. I emphasize skills, software, & translating this learning into job site needs in my courses.

Out of every disgusting, dishonest piece of filth the mainstream media has produced about Hurricane Helene... This is the worst. 60 Minutes has NEVER done a story on the families FEMA denied. They NEVER mentioned the Amish, who are STILL in the mountains rebuilding homes 550 days later. They NEVER mentioned Jake Jarvis, who has worked 550 days STRAIGHT FOR FREE for Hurricane Helene victims. Instead, they dug up some fringe conspiracy angle to smear the people who actually showed up as White Nationalists. I'm so angry. Let me tell you what 60 Minutes will NEVER report on I was there. I lived it. I am still here. I shared every story I could find. Me, my wife, hundreds of volunteers delivered RVs to mothers holding babies who were sleeping in TOOL SHEDS AND TENTS in the freezing cold, in the mountains. Because their homes had been ripped off the side of a mountain and washed down the French Broad. So tell me 60 Minutes... WHERE WAS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? Tell me, WHY did all these volunteers NEED to show up? Any thoughts on that?!!!!! Any investigation AT ALL into the federal or state government's response to Hurricane Helene? Please tell me... if the federal government was doing such a GREAT JOB, why did we need to put victims in RVs... ...A MONTH AFTER THE HURRICANE?!!!!!!! Literally every single victim you talk to in Western North Carolina has a horror story about dealing with FEMA... ...and guess who they will all say actually cam through for them? Neighbors. Church groups. The Amish. The Cajun Navy. Shawn Hendricks. Samaritan's Purse. MercuryOne. The Mission Mules hauling insulin up washed-out roads, ONLY ACCESSIBLE by mules. Greg Biffle burning his own fuel in helicopters. Veterans like Adam Smith who organized helicopter rescues with other veterans BY HIMSELF and then was demonized by the media for it. Volunteers like Jake Jarvis working TO THIS DAY, 550 days later without ANY PAY AT ALL. THOSE ARE THE STORIES FROM HURRICANE HELENE WORTH TELLING. But 60 Minutes won't tell ANY OF THEM. Because the truth makes the federal government the villain and the "deplorables" are actually the heroes in this story and they can NEVER admit that. So instead they smeared the rescuers as white nationalists. This is unforgivable. I was there. I saw it with my own eyes. And I will BE DAMNED if I let CBS rewrite the history of what happened to my mountains.

@lykan_hypers THIS IS A GOOD BOY! Deserving of many pets, belly rubs and treats. I hope he has a peaceful and loving retirement.

Él es K9 Valor, salvó la vida de 47 soldados, sobrevivió a un primer terrorista suicida y mató a 3 más, diente contra cuchillo, luego se posicionó entre una explosión y su controlador. La mitad de su cara quedó destrozada, perdió su ojo y oreja izquierda. Lo llevaron a Alemania donde parcialmente le reconstruyeron la mandíbula. El Pentágono le otorgó La medalla de honor del congreso y un aplauso y ovación de más de 8 minutos. Un verdadero héroe.

An indoctrinated child asks a racially charged question. Astronaut respectfully and intellectually explains that race has nothing to do with it.