Monica Sawyer ❤️

21 years ago, I sat in a prison cell and learned I was pregnant. Every sign pointed toward abortion. Every circumstance said this baby would never have a chance. But I chose life. I saw value in my daughter before anyone else could. What I didn’t know was that her birth would help change laws in America. Fifteen years after I gave birth while chained to a hospital bed with a sheriff standing watch, that story reached the highest levels of government. And @POTUS granted me a full and unconditional pardon and signed legislation ending the shackling of women during childbirth in federal prisons. Today, that same baby walked across the stage as a graduate of MIT. From a prison birth to one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Never let your circumstances determine someone’s worth. There is value in life. There is purpose in every child. Go, baby. The world is yours. ❤️🎓 #MIT #Graduation #ChooseLife #Redemption #SecondChances #ValueInLife

@JaxonX_1 Because they DO - and birds at the landfill

Does anyone else still snip the plastic rings from six packs with scissors before throwing them away because in 1984 you heard that turtles and fish get their heads stuck in them?

@HistoryBoutique @data_republican Yes!!! This!!!

To the PRODUCERS of the 250 show at the White House… music is the ultimate unifier. Take this more seriously. Some suggestions. -Belmont University Orchestra - Luke Combs - Billy Strings - Forrest Frank with the children’s choir Or people that no one has ever heard of, but happened to be incredible performers. People want creativity and authenticity.

@Sassafrass_84 It’s interesting, the feedback she’s getting. X is tearing her apart. Insta is propping her up.

I didn’t have Martina McBride crashing out on my bingo card for May. She should be humbled and honored to be asked to help celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary. I’ve supported her since I was a child, but I can’t continue backing people who fold under pressure. Our nation is deeply divided right now because of the Democrats’ hatred. It should have been country over party.

@MattWalshBlog @octal PLENTY of great artists out there!

If I was in charge of the America 250 concert I would do something radical and simply go out and find artists who play great music and hire them even if they aren’t famous. Prioritize artistic quality over name recognition. A novel approach for conservatives but worth a try.

@culturaltutor @MartyBent Ooooh we are just starting restoration of a 1929 atmospheric theatre in Corpus Christi, Texas, with Spanish renaissance and art deco influences if you need any content 🤩 ccritz.com

I’m making a show about buildings. The concept is simple: do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. But, when I pitched the idea, the answer was that nobody would watch it. So I released a pilot episode on YouTube. It’s got 5.4 million views, 379k likes, and 23k comments. People are interested, and now it’s time to make the full show. Six episodes, filming in the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the USA, and releasing on a streaming service like HBO, Netflix, or Prime. Why does this show matter? First: we’re surrounded by buildings all the time. Look around yourself, right now… what do you see? Buildings are the logical conclusion of everything a society believes in. That’s the real focus of this show: not the buildings themselves, but what they say about us. Second: there’s global dissatisfaction with modern architecture. This feeling gets written about online, but nobody’s given a voice to it on film or TV. That’s what this show will be. But this isn’t just about criticising modernity. That’s easy. This is about learning from the past in order to understand and improve the present, for everybody. Third: there’s a drought of high-quality culture shows. When I spoke to film executives they said that only documentaries about sports, music, or true crime get funded. That’s a colossal missed opportunity. Galleries are always full, content about architecture goes viral online all the time, and people spend their precious holidays visiting beautiful cities. Why no shows about architecture, then? Tourists flock in their millions to see (for example) the buildings of Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona. But, if you asked those same people if they’re interested in “architecture”, they’d probably say no. To put that another way: not many people want to watch “a show about architecture”, but lots of people want to watch a show that illuminates the real world they’re living in, each and every day. What will the show be like? Six episodes, going chronologically through history and arriving at the present, each focussing on the architecture and design of a specific period: 1. Middle Ages 2. Renaissance 3. Enlightenment 4. The Nineteenth Century 5. Art Nouveau & Art Deco 6. Present Day But, in each case, the point isn’t just to learn about that era; the point is to learn about our modern world through those eras and what they’ve left behind. If you watch the pilot episode (included below) you’ll see what I mean. So the show’s not really “about” the past; it’s about the twenty-first century. That’s why it’s called The Modern World. When you think of a typical history show there are loads of interviews, stock footage, archive photos, historical recreations, and graphics. We’re doing none of that. Everything will be filmed on location, because we’re telling our story only through the real world that exists right now. And, rather than going to the most obvious places, we’ll focus on buildings that aren’t well-known but should be more famous. But that’s all big picture; what will it be like on screen? Buildings used to look different in every country, and now they look the same. Why? Because the weather is different everywhere, and buildings were always a way of dealing with that weather, using local materials. Now we have air conditioning and we ship concrete around the world, so we don’t need to design our buildings with regard to local weather or rely on local materials. Look at really old clocks and you’ll notice something: they don’t have a second hand… because it was only invented 300 years ago! Then you look at the present and you realise we’re surrounded by timers, by seconds ticking down and ticking up relentlessly. If we’re looking for a cause of our anxiety-inducing culture, that might be it. When you spend time with the sun-softened bricks and time-warped timbers of old cities you notice that synthetic materials like plastic have taken over. When we’re surrounded by things that feel temporary, how do you think it makes us feel? It’s only by seeing 19th century train stations, designed like cathedrals, that you realise tradition and technology aren’t enemies. New things don’t have to look boring: if the Victorians had designed AI data centres, they’d look like Medieval castles. In the 1920s, at the zenith of Art Deco, people believed technology would uplift humanity. That’s why they decorated their buildings with statues inspired by electricity. Only by seeing their enthusiasm can we realise our own cynicism, and perhaps begin to fix it. All of that… and much, much more. But, above all else, this show is about a way of seeing. If you want to understand any society then you need to look at what it creates, not what it says about itself. There’s a worldview in every single object; our skyscrapers are designed the same way as our phones. Learn to look at this world, to notice its details, and everything else starts to make sense. What now? I’ve been quiet online recently because I’ve been researching and working on scripts for six full-length episodes. Production begins when we’ve raised the funding. The Modern World is coming.

🚨BREAKING: Tesla has been authorized by the State of Texas to operate driverless vehicles commercially under the new law that took effect today, May 28th, 2026. Tesla has officially self-certified the software running on its robotaxis as Level 4. $TSLA

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CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share. “Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count. First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you. Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would. Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands. Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick. Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you. The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

@babyfeverbabe And do a little more makeup than you’d normally do with a bold lip.

@babyfeverbabe Does the invite say formal? If not you are golden. If so, and you don’t have an alternative, pair it with a black wrap. It’ll be fine. Formal means so many things. If it’s outdoor, then especially fine. Plus you get a pass for everything being preggers.

What do we think of this dress for a formal, evening, upstate NY wedding?

In Alberta news, some crazy fucker breaks a world record driving off our local waterfall. Shout out to Dusty Friesen and his boat named Dent.

@BowTiedBroke 811

Okay screw it. Closest guess gets a free weekend stay with a guest at one of my new build cabins once they are done. One guess per person. If multiple guesses hit same number, spinning dart board throw will pick the winner. (Just like the Husqvarna contest).

the funniest part of replacing receptionists with AI will be realizing nobody actually documented half the things jessica the front desk person just magically handled every day.

@crunchycorvid Or opals. A teardrop type of necklace would look great.

@crunchycorvid Omg that is perfect. You can definitely pull this off. Heels. Pearls. Hair half up with tasteful pearl side accent on one side. Done.

Ladies with better fashion sense than I please weigh in: I’ve coveted the Juliette dress from Wild Rose and Sparrow forever, finally felt I could justify $300 if it was for my wedding rehearsal/dinner, and only found out yesterday the dinner is semi-formal when I was expecting it to be more casual like the others I’ve been to. How can I zhuzh this up to not look out of place? It’s too late to find another dress and I’m kind of married to it anyway, it fits perfectly and the embroidery is so gorgeous

@ThrillaRilla369 My class went outside to watch it happen in the freaking sky. The therapy was watching the news play it on repeat on the tv’s after 🤦‍♀️

If you wonder why Gen X is the way we are, just remember that our teachers all hyped up a shuttle launch and then it blew up in front of us on TV. No counseling. No hugs. No explanation. They just wheeled the TV out of class and went back to teaching English class.

@ParisJackson ❤️

marketing asked for a tiktok dance and this was the best i could do. teenage drama out now on all platforms

You could paint a headboard on the wall in one of the darker colors. Use the gold to paint the accent edge or fake posts. Do another dark framing around the dresser with photos mounted inside that darker framed area. Use the colors to frame the sections of the room. OR do a mural with those colors if you are wanting to use all the colors in paint. Great palette!

How do I reasonably get all these colors in the girl's room?