Shatner/Ben Johnson 2028

Now if I die I’ll go to Twitter heaven.

There were five murderers in Fairfax County this year. Three were illegal immigrants and one was a Democrat lieutenant governor VA Democrats are now trying to arrest ICE and ban guns, while exempting legislators from the gun laws.

Subtweet of the year.

Hey while you’re there honoring the people who violently drove Catholics from the country, if you find the time in between that and condemning us for killing genocidal Islamist leaders, could you swing by and lecture the people currently massacring Christians in Africa?

Charles Schwab ran the largest steel company in the world. He had access to every consultant, every system, every productivity tool available in 1918. He said a 15-minute conversation with a man named Ivy Lee was the most valuable business advice he ever received. He paid him $25,000 for it. The advice fit on an index card. Ivy Lee was not famous. He was not a philosopher or a scientist or a professor at a prestigious institution. He was a productivity consultant who had spent years watching extremely capable people fail to do their most important work, and he had developed a precise theory about why. The theory was not complicated. It was uncomfortable. The reason most people never do their most important work is not that they lack time. It is that they never decide what their most important work actually is. They arrive each morning at a pile of tasks with roughly equal claim on their attention, choose based on whatever feels most urgent or easiest in that moment, and spend the day moving through a list that was never designed to move them forward. They are busy in a way that feels productive and accomplishes far less than it should. Lee asked Schwab for 15 minutes with his executive team. Schwab agreed. Lee walked them through six steps. He asked them to try it for three months and pay him whatever they thought it was worth. Here is the system. At the end of every workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Not ten. Not twenty. Six. If you cannot decide what matters enough to make that list, you have already identified the real problem. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance. Not urgency. Not ease. Importance. The thing that will matter most three months from now goes first, regardless of how uncomfortable it is to start. When you arrive the next morning, begin immediately on item one. Work on it until it is finished. Do not touch item two until item one is complete. Do not check email. Do not attend to whatever walked through the door. Item one, until it is done. Move through the list in order. If you reach the end of the day and items four, five, and six remain untouched, move them to the next day's list without guilt. They were not the most important things. The most important things got done. Repeat this process every day for the rest of your working life. That is the entire system. Six steps. Four minutes the night before. No app required. No morning ritual. No tracking software. An index card and a pen. What Lee understood that most productivity systems miss entirely is that the bottleneck in human performance is almost never capacity. It is prioritization. The average knowledge worker has more than enough hours in the day to accomplish something significant. What they do not have is a forcing function that makes them decide, the night before, in a calm moment free from the noise of the incoming day, what significant actually means for them tomorrow. The morning is the worst possible time to make this decision. The morning brings email and notifications and other people's priorities and the accumulated urgency of everything that did not get done yesterday. By the time most people have decided what to work on, an hour is gone and the decision was made by their inbox rather than by them. Lee's method moves the decision to the evening, when the day's noise has settled and the mind can assess without distraction. The prioritization is done before the chaos begins. Which means the next morning, there is no decision to make. There is only execution. The second insight embedded in the system is the single-tasking constraint. Item one, until it is finished. Not item one until something more urgent appears. Not item one until you have checked in on items two through six. Item one, finished, before anything else receives your attention. This runs against every instinct that modern work has trained into people. The entire infrastructure of the contemporary workplace is designed to fragment attention. Email expects a response within hours. Slack expects a response within minutes. The open office assumes that any question is more important than whatever the person being asked is currently doing. The result is a workforce that is in constant motion and making almost no progress on anything that actually matters. Lee's method is a direct refusal of this dynamic. It does not negotiate with urgency. It does not make exceptions for whoever shouts loudest. It asks you to decide, once, what matters most, and then protect that decision from everything that will try to override it the next morning. Charles Schwab ran Bethlehem Steel. He had seven hundred employees. He had more operational complexity, more competing demands, more legitimate urgency than most people reading this will ever face. He tried the system for three months. Then he sent Ivy Lee a check for $25,000 and a note saying it was the most valuable business advice he had ever received. The system has not changed. The morning has not gotten less chaotic. The inbox has not gotten smaller. The only variable that was ever under your control was what you decided the night before. Six things. In order. Starting with the first. The most valuable productivity advice in history is still free. Most people will read it, find it obvious, and go back to checking email.

@CatholicSmark Really, you were ok with Biden’s surgeon general? And Biden’s horrible pro-trans, anti-religious liberty judges?

Look at me, being at peace never voting for Trump

@jarvis_best @ericswalwell @BillMelugin_ youtu.be/DHLE7yKQofo?si…

@tunabomber13579 @VaticanNewsPL I don’t speak any Latin. We read the prayers in the missal the night before and can follow along with the missal during mass if we choose. It’s the modern mass that makes things hard by boring everyone to tears.

@VaticanNewsPL serio? widac niektorzy lubia miec pod gorke..bo ja jak sluchalam Trydencjany to malo co rozumialam, a lacine dobrze znam

Francja: biskupi reagują na apel Papieża ws. tradycjonalistów Biskupi szukają sposobu na pogodzenie w Kościele różnych wrażliwości liturgicznych. Msza trydencka przyciąga młodych, a dla niektórych neofitów stała się wręcz okazją do odkrycia wiary. ➡️ shorturl.at/19gYK

5 years ago, my little girl was secretly being groomed and transitioned at her public school. 4 years ago, she was still lost in a dark cloud, suicidal, identifying as a “boy” named Toby. Last night, she went to her first prom with her boyfriend — glowing with confidence and grace. Thank you, Jesus, for saving her. 🙏🏼 What the enemy meant for evil, God is turning into good. If you’re a parent fighting for your child right now and it feels hopeless, please hold on. There is light on the other side. I won’t stop fighting for your horror story to have a happy ending, too.

This is absolutely incredible! I'll use this thread to post anything cool I find in the archives.

From early Nirvana to Phish, a Chicago fan’s secret recordings of 10,000 shows are now online. blockclubchi.co/4t6zW7R

@whignewtons Thanks! The Age of Innocence (anything by Wharton) and Cyrano are favorites of mine.

@mostly_tedious Recommend: Middlemarch. A waste: Catch-22 (not bc it isn’t a great book but bc it teaches all the wrong life lessons!!)

At my parents house the bookshelf is like a time capsule for 13-21 year old Sarah pre law school. Here’s the bottom shelf to give you an idea:

Which Patriots power couple did it best?

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One may wonder: Why was there so much public animosity and a lack of pastoral care towards the laity who struggled to accept the liturgical changes between '64-'68? Why did things transition so quickly from “we must have patience” to “you must obey”? 🔗handmissalhistory.com/newmass1964par…

Heartbreaking.

"The result is I'm a 23-year old gay man who's never had an orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in." Jonni Skinner tells the California legislature's judiciary committee how he was puberty blocked, dosed with estrogen and rendered anorgasmic as a minor by gender clinicians that never inquired into the source of his gender confusion as a child and instead put him on a pipeline to a lifetime of medicalization. Full text of his comments below: "When I was young, I was a feminine child, and I discovered trans influencers online. They said: 'Change your body and your life gets better. Don't and it gets worse.' Or, as my doctors told my mom, I would commit suicide. The medical and mental health providers didn't bother to ask why I felt the way I did. They poisoned my body with blockers and hormones, arresting my puberty and messing with my development. The result is I'm a 23 year old gay man who's never had an orgasm and may never experience one. Let that sink in. I was rendered anorgasmic because once you say you could be trans, that's a full stop -- no exploration as to why is allowed, even if you are struggling. The former president of WPATH, Dr Marcy Bowers, the California surgeon who had performed the surgery for Jazz Jennings at 17, admitted on video that puberty blockers, followed by cross sex hormones, results in no orgasms and stunted genitals. SB, 934 guarantees that more people will end up like me, the walking but wounded. I could have been spared all of this, if any of my therapists would have explored why I felt dysphoric. But they never did. They only led me to hate my body more. The Supreme Court just ruled in a rare bipartisan decision that laws like this are unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. This bill is an attempted workaround that will be used to silence therapists who could have helped me avoid the irreversible harms to my body and the loss of my sexual function as is the same for many others. So today, I ask you to extend some empathy to survivors like me and vote no for this bill."

@AdeleScalia In a better works she would starred in many more movies.

Alexandra Daddario is actually difficult to look at because she is so beautiful. I genuinely find it hard to look at her without looking away from the screen every so often.

@AndrewOlding @bethanyshondark @AnnCoulter One similarity is that both Germany and Hamas could have stopped the destruction by surrendering. But neither Hitler nor Hamas cared about civilian deaths - Hamas actually wants civilian deaths for propaganda purposes.

@bethanyshondark @AnnCoulter Not exactly the same thing. Germany had a military.

Not good.

@AlexParkerDC Most of the listings aren’t posted until Wednesday, although we’ve become used to big movies being posted earlier.

Apparently, I missed the window to see Project Hail Mary in theaters? Virtually no listings at all in DC for this weekend.