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@TimothyDooner Yes!

We’ve heard good things about this one. Will advise

Gm

@unusual_whales V emotional dude

Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."

@GlenSturtevant Good one!

Bring them home and make them get real jobs

@SandyBoynton @_samantha_joy Moo Baa Lalala is one of the most memorable books of my life circa 1986; so I disagree with the OP

@_samantha_joy Babies are wired for language, and respond to the cadence of their mother's voice before they're born. They are not "pre-verbal". And reading to them—and with them—even before birth makes a difference the the child and to the parents.

I'm open to being convinced I'm wrong, but I feel dubious about the value of 'baby books' and don't plan to buy/use them. And I'm someone who is so bullish on the value of reading/literature, I'll be using Montessori to start phonics at ~2.5yo. But 'baby books' seem like they fit in the category of "looks educational to adults, but not all that valuable from a child's perspective". At least for a child under ~12-18 months. If the goal is building vocabulary, it's far more effective (and easy) to let your baby engage with real objects in the world and provide the names that way. If the goal is the child regularly hearing rich language, it's far easier and more effective to just talk to your baby and narrate everything you're doing. You can also just read *real* books and poetry and get the added benefit of providing varied prosody. I see a lot of parents stressing out, like "my baby won't sit still while I read to him/her" or "my baby just wants to rip/turn the pages or throw the book" and idk, my response is just ... what are we even doing here? for whom? again, I'm open to arguments, but I highly doubt handling board books at 8 months old really makes that much of a difference in whether a child eventually loves reading, especially if you're going to invest heavily in them loving to read once they're a toddler.

@BillAckman I used to think of you as a reasonable person

@SecVetAffairs Do you manage a large organization? Would it be good if this organization trusts you and feels supported?

We can confirm Alex Pretti was a nurse at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. As President Trump has said, nobody wants to see chaos and death in American cities, and we send our condolences to the Pretti family. Such tragedies are unfortunately happening in Minnesota because of state and local officials’ refusal to cooperate with the federal government to enforce the law and deport dangerous illegal criminals.

@ChristianHeiens Holy Gish Gallop!

Here's what Virginia Democrats have introduced so far. This list is truly insane: >Bans future attempts to clean up voter rolls (HB111) >Makes it illegal for state agencies distributing federal dollars to NGOs to investigate whether they're engaged in fraud (HB1369) >Makes it illegal to hand-count ballots (HB968) >Allows mail-in ballots to be counted one week after election day (HB773) >Allows for absentee ballots to be received and counted for three days after election day (HB82) >Gerrymanders the state with a 10-1 or 9-2 Democrat Congressional map (HJ4) >Creates a state-level equivalent of the VRA (HB967) >Eliminates the requirement that large last-minute campaign contributions have to be publicly reported at least 24 hours before election day (HB1348) >Removes the State Board of Elections' ability to dispatch law enforcement officers to collect vote tallies from a locality that refuses to publish them (HB1321) >Joins the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact for allocating Virginia's electoral college votes in presidential elections (HB965) >Automatic restoration of voting rights for felons after they're released from prison and the mentally handicapped (HB964, HB963, & HB1014) >Allows for votes to be cast "electronically through the internet" (HB493) >Public funding of political campaigns at the local level (HB162) >Abolishes all mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies (HB863) >Makes it harder for judges to deny bail, even in the case of things like aggravated assault, armed robbery, and drug trafficking (HB357) >Gives convicted murderers, rapists, and terrorists a chance to get out of prison early (HB853) >Drastically reduces the criminal penalty for robbery (HB244) >Bars prosecutors from mentioning a criminal's prior convictions during the guilt phase of a trial, even if it's for the same crime (HB1070) >Transfers the Department of Juvenile Justice from the Secretary of Public Safety's purview to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (SB21) >Reduces the amount of time that the Commonwealth can compel a convicted criminal to pay court fees from 60 years to 10 (SB180) >Taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries (HB1245) >Bans most discretionary state contracting under $100K from going to businesses owned by White men and allows state agencies to award contracts to women or minority-owned firms that are 5% more expensive than a bid from a business owned by a White man (HB61) >Punishes VMI for adopting an anti-DEI stance (HB1374 & HB22) >Abolishes all Confederate-themed license plates (HB1344) >Eliminates the tax-exempt status for all Confederate history groups (HB167) >Renames Columbus Day to "Indigenous Peoples Day." (HB858) >Makes it illegal to approach within 8ft of somebody within 40 feet of an abortion clinic (SB137) >Enshrines a Leftist narrative about January 6 and teaches it in public schools (HB333) >Allows localities to adopt rent control measures (HB1177) >Increases the sales tax in Northern Virginia, adds an additional sales tax for home deliveries, raises the car tax for electric vehicles, and imposes new sales taxes for streaming services, concerts, gym memberships, nail salons, barber shops, tanning beds, tatoo parlors, dry cleaners, shoe repairs, carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, and housekeeping work for homes, swimming pool maintenance, travel agencies, and shipping services (SB730, HB1179, HB900 & HB978) >Creates a new tourism tax on event entrance fees (HB550) >Raises the hotel tax in Arlington (HB524) >Imposes a new 7.75% tax on incomes over $1 Million (HB1074) >Creates two new tax brackets, one over $600K at 8% and another over $1 Million at 10% (HB979) >Imposes a 3.8% investment tax on top of state income taxes (HB378) >Allows every locality to raise the state sales tax by 1% (HB334 & SB66) >Raises the sales tax for Stafford County (HB1000) >Rounds up all state and local taxes by the nearest 5-cent increment (HB954) >Allows localities to outlaw gas-powered leaf blowers (HB881) >Imposes a new personal property tax on electric-powered lawn equipment (HB557) >Limits the ability to use self-driving or autonomous vehicles (HB1124) >Allows state and local government to implement traffic and speed cameras (HB1330 & HB994) >Puts speed cameras on state highways (HB1220) >Requiring a license to buy a firearm (HB1359) >"Assault weapons" ban (HB217) >Strips gun rights from anyone convicted of a misdemeanor "hate crime" (HB1015) >Making it illegal to shoot a firearm on lot sizes less than 5 acres (HB926) >Expands "gun-free zones" (HB626) >Shrinks concealed-carry reciprocity with other states (HB24) >Holds firearm manufacturers liable for gun deaths (HB21 & SB27) >Imposes an 11% sales tax on all firearms and ammunition (HB1094) >Imposes a $500 sales tax on firearm suppressors (HB207) >Drastically raises the physical requirements to operate a firearms store (HB907) >Makes it harder to obtain a concealed carry permit (HB916) >Creates a new taxpayer-funded state propaganda "center" for the sole purpose of promoting gun control (HB969) >Ends qualified immunity for police (HB 1314) >Targets ICE by banning the use of facial coverings by law enforcement officers (HB7) >Makes ICE agents liable for civil lawsuits filed by illegal aliens (HB1314) >Prohibits ICE from arresting illegal migrants outside of courthouses (HB1265) >Establishes a state propaganda commission to publicize the supposed negative impacts of ICE raids in Virginia (HB1264) >Creates a state-mandated playbook for how schools must respond to ICE showing up on their campus and bans school employees from assisting ICE (HB1260) >Unionizes government employees and gives them collective bargaining rights (HB1263) >Unlimited taxpayer-funded home purchases for government employees (HB164) >Preferential hiring in State government for Federal employees laid off by DOGE (HB494) >Defers property taxes for Federal employees during shutdowns (HB915) >Hikes Minimum Wage to $15/Hour (HB1) >Eliminates the minimum wage exemption for farm workers (HB20) >Mandates the hiring of a new bureaucratic position ("Career Coach") in every single public school (HB138) >Mandates "mental health screenings" for all public school students between 6th and 12th grade (HB355) >Drastically curtails home school and private school independence from the Virginia Department of Education (HB359) >Raises the salaries of school board chairs and vice-chairs (HB382) >Free public school education for illegal aliens (HB912) >Allows out-of-state Indian tribe members to receive in-state tuition (HB287) >Lets students graduate high school despite failing grades (SB147) >Eliminates nearly all academic benchmarks for college students to continue receiving financial aid (SB167) >Somali daycare fraud pilot program (HB259) >Expands the eminent domain powers of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (HB446) >Reclassifies Solar farms as an "agricultural operation", thus granting it protections under the Right to Farm law (HB1091) >More than triples financial penalties from the Department of Environmental Quality to comply with environmental regulations (HB1350) >Mandates all localities adopt an "environmental justice plan" (HB256) >Allocates $100 million in taxpayer funding for the production of "sustainable aviation fuel" (HB1230) >Eliminates the ability of a health insurance provider to charge a premium for smokers (HB220) >Adds a new insurance mandate to cover over-the-counter condoms (HB1182) >Mandates "unconscious racial bias" trainings for nurses to retain their license (SB22)

@dominos go back to the old crust, I can't eat this again

@DougAMacgregor This is a very good thing no? Guns are always the answer, and Americans have the right to keep and bear arms

BREAKING: Anti-ICE protesters seen with semi-automatic weapons in Minneapolis.

@Molson_Hart @Birdyword Just anecdote of me, this mirrors my personal trwmd...I've slowly transitioning time spent from X/twitter to majority threads. Three reasons: a lot of friends left Twitter, X algo serves up a lot more garbage than previously making it less fun, and Threads has steadily improved

@Birdyword The blue line is explained by thre@ds being embedded in other facebook apps, but how about the orange line? Why are X daily active users in decline?

This is an amazing chart. Hundreds of millions of people out there using Threads every day. But I've never in my life had a conversation with someone about using Threads, posting on Threads, mentioning something they saw on Threads. It has almost zero public salience.

@RobWittman I am a voter in your district, I am outraged at your weakness in the face of clearly doing the wrong thing. Why do we need you if what you do is rubber stamp and affirm Trump's desires?

Drug trafficking at the hands of violent cartels, with the aid and abetment of the Maduro regime, has devastated countless American families. I commend the administration for taking decisive action in Venezuela to protect our national security, and I look forward to in-depth briefings from our partners in the administration to ensure this operation brings stability and security to the region. We must also thank the brave men and women of the U.S. military who carried out this mission with bravery, courage, and steadfast professionalism.

If someone like Apple made an e-reader that was actually good, and had an interface that made it easy to borrow and buy books I would dump our 7 Amazon Kindles immediately. Amazon hardware and ecosystems are 🗑️

@RobWittman You can make a straw man argument and rationalize anything that you want

@albert9x19 It's not the degree that makes the money it's the application of the knowledge to solve problems, especially hard/expensive problems

as an engineer, "engineers make good money" was such a lie. yeah they make good money and Harbor Freght makes quality tools. I have come to terms with the fact that i'm just gonna be poor the rest of my life.

@SUBWAY new app is a huge step back, behaves like a poorly rendered webpage

@DesireToSee AI generated 🥱

This is a wonderful transformation of a backyard and home.

@SaiKate108 I didn't realize ophthalmologists had medical expertise in pediatrics and vaccines

Senator Rand Paul says the priority now should be to stop the Hep B shot for newborns. We are winning the public debate and scientific debate. There is no reason to give it if the mum doesn’t have Hepatitis.

@ABC Conservatives, you are now pro-IVF again!

President Trump announces a deal with a prescription fertility drug company to reduce the cost of specific IVF medication. "We want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children and start the families they always dreamed about." abcnews.link/0nqx3JM

@FoxNews @FBIDirectorKash Americans need training in spotting fallacious arguments

'HEIGHT OF HYPOCRISY': @FBIDirectorKash slams Democrats in Illinois who have spoken out against National Guard troops arriving in Chicago to crack down on illegal immigration and violent crime. "They were screaming for the National Guard on January 6th and now all of a sudden reject it when their city is literally under siege."

@EITMonline not assigning work would be considered retaliation which is very bad for whoever is the management of this person