Justin W. Partlow CFP®️

@nicksortor @mattvanswol *en* (And the only correct pronunciation is ohn)

@mattvanswol Hegseth in route to WH now as well. General Caine spotted arriving. Just saw another motorcade racing through central DC towards the White House as well.

🚨 BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance has made an UNPLANNED RETURN to Washington, DC, and his motorcade is racing to the White House President Trump has summoned his whole national security team to a meeting on Iran. POTUS is also scheduled to hold a conference call at 1pm ET with the leaders of several Arab nations.

@0bservationism @hellohimate America could aesthetically absorb Hyperborea in this division.

@hellohimate My humble proposal maintains aesthetics.

this should not be allowed purely on aesthetic grounds

@EricM_Katz That’s incredible transparency, letting every government employee text their boss!

“A button on the app gives users the option to ‘text President Trump,’ which, when clicked, opens a text message draft on the user’s phone made out to a pre-selected number with the default text ‘Greatest President Ever!’”

@dilanesper Why

this is terrible policy

@jdcmedlock So you praised Trump for negotiating 70-80% price reductions for them on Trump Rx, right?

We need single payer GLP-1s

@jlockett02 Did you even watch the last five seconds of the movie??!

I feel like resurrecting a character that was so clearly dead at the end of the first film is asking too much of the audience.

@RioVeradonir I agree. Make him King ASAP so he doesn’t leave.

My most conservative opinion: Trump is the strongest argument yet against democracy.

@bigmonkeong Because he’s white.

jeez i wonder why all the people crying about the odyssey castings have no problem with a white jesus 🤔

@joe_rigney Alternatively, the Catholic Church refusing to call themselves a denomination has been silly and petty since the Peace of Westfalia.

NB: Vance refers to the Roman Catholic Church as "the largest Christian denomination." This is a Protestant way of describing the Roman Catholic Church (akin to C.S. Lewis giving the papists a room in the Christian house in Mere Christianity). Further evidence that American Catholics are Protestants because they're American.

@brim006 *McKinley

Sure, Everest is the highest mountain in the world by elevation, but it barely cracks the top 10 for actual height from base to peak. In that category, the USA wears yet another global crown thanks to Denali. 🇺🇸 And if we include underwater mountains, USA of course takes that crown too thanks to Mauna Kea. 🇺🇸 It has always been odd and surprising to me how rarely this gets mentioned. So just remember, the USA is the global king of everything, even mountains. Tallest Mountains by Base-to-Peak Rise: 1. Denali (Alaska, USA) — ~18,000 ft (5,500 m)
Rises from a 2,000-ft plateau — the largest vertical relief on land anywhere. 2. Mount St. Elias (Alaska/Yukon) — ~18,000 ft (5,486 m)
Soars almost entirely from near sea level (coastal tidewater) to its icy summit. 3. Rakaposhi (Karakoram, Pakistan) — ~17,060 ft (5,200 m) rises in a mere 7 miles. 4. Nanga Parbat (Himalayas, Pakistan) — ~15,090 ft (4,600 m)
Home to the massive Rupal Face, one of the largest continuous walls of rock and ice on Earth. 5. Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) — ~15,100 ft (4,600 m)
The world’s tallest free-standing mountain, rising dramatically from the surrounding plains. 6. Mount Fairweather (Alaska/B.C.) — ~15,000 ft (4,570 m)
Abruptly rises from the maritime lowlands of Glacier Bay. 7. Pico de Orizaba (Mexico) — ~14,500 ft (4,420 m)
A massive volcanic cone towering over high surrounding valleys. 8. Mount Gongga (Minya Konka, Sichuan, China) — ~13,500 ft (4,115 m)
Framed by deep river gorges plunging into the Dadu River valley. 9. Mount Everest (Nepal/Tibet) — ~12,000 ft (3,650 m)
Highest point on Earth, but its base sits on the elevated Tibetan Plateau. 10. Mount Rainier (Washington, USA) — ~11,400 ft (3,475 m)
Largest localized vertical relief in the contiguous United States.

@danae_hudlow I think taco bowls fit this pretty well, especially if you buy the veggies pre -chopped. Could get beef, lettuce, tomato, chips, taco sauce, sour cream, shredded cheese for like $3-4/serving.

When it comes to home-cooked dinner, you have three desirable outcomes for your meal: 1) healthy 2) fast 3) yummy And you can ONLY PICK TWO. (I don't make the rules, I'm just exasperated by them)

@hicharliecotton It’s just Brussels on the stalk.

@hicharliecotton What would you call this?

Real question: Why do we call this ‘corn on the cob’ when that’s the way it naturally comes? Surely this is just ‘corn’ and the alternative is ‘corn off the cob’. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

@martianwyrdlord 🇺🇸

Wow a $230,000 home, you say? Please tell us where those even exist.

@dilanesper What an excellent and thoughtful thread. Thank you!

Here's what will actually happen with court packing. President AOC gets elected with a Democratic Congress in 2028 and she makes abolishing the filibuster and packing the Court a priority. She adds and appoints 4 more Justices.

I missed the debate because my tech betrayed me last night. But I will link to it below. I should share my thoughts on court packing, for what they are worth. Court packing will make things worse, not better.

@lsanger @Andrewnsnyder That is good. But if you understood his contribution and weighed it fairly, you may not smear everyone who does as a cult, another word which has a meaning.

@partlowjustin @Andrewnsnyder Good thing I wasn’t talking about Heiser’s contribution then, eh?

“I don’t claim to know what Heiser believed, but I know exactly what people who talk about his work believe.” That’s a strange position to take. There is plenty of room for someone to criticize Heiser, but most people who do so have no idea what they are criticizing.

@lsanger @Andrewnsnyder I read your piece, and it seems that you dispute the semantics of the word god vs “god” vs created spiritual being. But Heiser’s contribution is more about illuminating historical Biblical narrative for the various spiritual powers over time, than it is about naming.

@partlowjustin @Andrewnsnyder Well, you're wrong. You didn't make an attempt to understand what I actually did, and I won't bother explaining that that is, either.

@lsanger @Andrewnsnyder Let me rephrase: on a day when many are debating whether Heiser’s scholarship was helpful or heretical, offering a piece on how someone described his ideas to you (rather than the text itself) seems intentionally misleading or a cheap shot, rather than contributing to the debate.

@partlowjustin @Andrewnsnyder Oh no whatever will I do

@lsanger @Andrewnsnyder This is an admission of nut-picking and straw man incineration in your article, which I won’t read—until you read Heiser.

@Andrewnsnyder I didn’t criticize Heiser. I criticized some of his followers. There is a big difference. If I wanted to criticize Heiser, I would definitely make sure I read him.

@RevivedThoughts Yes you should.

Should I read the Unseen Realm by Heiser?