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Imagine stepping outside on a breezy spring morning: your front steps burst with bright pink tulips and sunny yellow daffodils that never need deadheading. Friends stop by and do a double-take, asking how you keep everything looking so fresh. You just smile and say it's effortless—no green thumb required....

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Big Brain Business

14,247 views • 3 months ago

But Trump didn’t stop at celebration of alliances. He took direct aim at the foreign policy elites who failed the region for decades. As he praised Saudi Arabia’s historic transformation, he issued a scathing rebuke of the interventionist mindset that defined U.S. policy for years. 🔥 The heat was scorching. “It is crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from western interventionalists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.” He laid bare the legacy of failure. “No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, were not created by the so-called nation builders, Neocons or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, Baghdad, so many other cities.” Instead, Trump credited the people who live there—who built their countries without lectures or occupation. “...the people that are right here. The people that have lived here all their lives developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way.” He made sure no one missed the lesson. “In the end the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they didn't understand themselves. They told you how to do it but they had no idea how to do it themselves.” And the key to real progress? “Peace, prosperity and progress came not from a radical rejection of your heritage but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.” In the crowd, Crown Prince MBS and Elon Musk applauded—signaling a shared understanding of what it took to rebuild the region on their own terms.
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But Trump didn’t stop at celebration of alliances. He took direct aim at the foreign policy elites who failed the region for decades. As he praised Saudi Arabia’s historic transformation, he issued a scathing rebuke of the interventionist mindset that defined U.S. policy for years. 🔥 The heat was scorching. “It is crucial for the wider world to know this great transformation has not come from western interventionalists or flying people in beautiful planes giving you lectures on how to live and how to govern your own affairs.” He laid bare the legacy of failure. “No, the gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, were not created by the so-called nation builders, Neocons or liberal nonprofits like those who spent trillions and trillions of dollars failing to develop Kabul, Baghdad, so many other cities.” Instead, Trump credited the people who live there—who built their countries without lectures or occupation. “...the people that are right here. The people that have lived here all their lives developing your own sovereign countries, pursuing your own unique visions and charting your own destinies in your own way.” He made sure no one missed the lesson. “In the end the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they didn't understand themselves. They told you how to do it but they had no idea how to do it themselves.” And the key to real progress? “Peace, prosperity and progress came not from a radical rejection of your heritage but rather from embracing your national traditions and embracing that same heritage that you love so dearly.” In the crowd, Crown Prince MBS and Elon Musk applauded—signaling a shared understanding of what it took to rebuild the region on their own terms.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

794,688 views • 1 year ago

I can't stop thinking about this scene from Yellowstone... It begins with a simple question: "So why do you do it?" The lesson in the exchange that follows is powerful: Jimmy's initial answer ("I like the lights, I like the crowd...") is representative of many of your surface level motivations in life. You're in it for the external. You do the thing because you like the applause. The recognition. The rewards. The pats on the back. The scoreboard. The spotlight. But Travis' challenge ("What about the horses? Do you like them?") cuts straight to the truth: The only way to achieve real, lasting, meaningful success is through a grounding in the internal. The work itself. The craft. The partnership. The service to those who you're in the trenches with. Because the harsh reality is that the higher you climb, the lonelier it gets. It may look like bright lights and cheering crowds, but it'll feel like fewer real friends and true supporters. As the saying goes, "It's lonely at the top." So if you don't love the horse—the elemental, unglamorous, boring work—you'll never find a way to thrive. Real greatness isn't found in the lights or the crowd. That's ego. Real greatness is found in the quiet service. Between you and your craft. You and your people. You and your mission. It's you and your horse, doing a job, trying like hell to not let the other down. And whether the lights are bright or dim, whether the crowd is cheering your name or trying to run you out of town... If you focus on the horse, you'll always find a way to win.
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I can't stop thinking about this scene from Yellowstone... It begins with a simple question: "So why do you do it?" The lesson in the exchange that follows is powerful: Jimmy's initial answer ("I like the lights, I like the crowd...") is representative of many of your surface level motivations in life. You're in it for the external. You do the thing because you like the applause. The recognition. The rewards. The pats on the back. The scoreboard. The spotlight. But Travis' challenge ("What about the horses? Do you like them?") cuts straight to the truth: The only way to achieve real, lasting, meaningful success is through a grounding in the internal. The work itself. The craft. The partnership. The service to those who you're in the trenches with. Because the harsh reality is that the higher you climb, the lonelier it gets. It may look like bright lights and cheering crowds, but it'll feel like fewer real friends and true supporters. As the saying goes, "It's lonely at the top." So if you don't love the horse—the elemental, unglamorous, boring work—you'll never find a way to thrive. Real greatness isn't found in the lights or the crowd. That's ego. Real greatness is found in the quiet service. Between you and your craft. You and your people. You and your mission. It's you and your horse, doing a job, trying like hell to not let the other down. And whether the lights are bright or dim, whether the crowd is cheering your name or trying to run you out of town... If you focus on the horse, you'll always find a way to win.

Sahil Bloom

78,987 views • 8 months ago

5 Emmy Award Winning Journalist Sharyl Attkisson reporting on cloud seeding taking place nationwide in America Our skies are being sprayed with chemicals and “no permits needed” in many states “A 1972 federal weather modification law runs on an honor system. Just paperwork, no verification. In most states, no permits, no audits, no limits. Most anyone can control the weather for profit, altering other people's rainfall or snow without ever asking permission. No one's denying that the technology exists and that it's even being used, but it's who is using it and for what purposes — And then the dimming of the sun, I mean there's a huge effort to protect the earth from the effects of the sun and to think that maybe we know better with how to make our planet a more sustainable place to live. And I mean, I don't agree with that and maybe your neighbor does or doesn't. However, is this something that we should trust other men with to influence the landscape that we get to raise our kids in”
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5 Emmy Award Winning Journalist Sharyl Attkisson reporting on cloud seeding taking place nationwide in America Our skies are being sprayed with chemicals and “no permits needed” in many states “A 1972 federal weather modification law runs on an honor system. Just paperwork, no verification. In most states, no permits, no audits, no limits. Most anyone can control the weather for profit, altering other people's rainfall or snow without ever asking permission. No one's denying that the technology exists and that it's even being used, but it's who is using it and for what purposes — And then the dimming of the sun, I mean there's a huge effort to protect the earth from the effects of the sun and to think that maybe we know better with how to make our planet a more sustainable place to live. And I mean, I don't agree with that and maybe your neighbor does or doesn't. However, is this something that we should trust other men with to influence the landscape that we get to raise our kids in”

Wall Street Apes

49,324 views • 6 months ago

While the sanctuary enjoys a peaceful Saturday, the need for your support remains constant. Your involvement—whether through donations, or sharing and spreading awareness,—helps us to ensure that the sanctuary can continue to provide a safe haven for animals in need. Support for people and their animals who still have - Nothing. Who are recovering from years of bombing, war and destruction and no real thought for animal welfare. With your support, the fight for survival means that House of cats Ernestos does not stand alone. It becomes a shared journey of hope and healing. Our mission is to improve their lives. Your aid is our only weapon against illness, cruelty and neglect. We still need you, more than ever - and so do the animals.
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While the sanctuary enjoys a peaceful Saturday, the need for your support remains constant. Your involvement—whether through donations, or sharing and spreading awareness,—helps us to ensure that the sanctuary can continue to provide a safe haven for animals in need. Support for people and their animals who still have - Nothing. Who are recovering from years of bombing, war and destruction and no real thought for animal welfare. With your support, the fight for survival means that House of cats Ernestos does not stand alone. It becomes a shared journey of hope and healing. Our mission is to improve their lives. Your aid is our only weapon against illness, cruelty and neglect. We still need you, more than ever - and so do the animals.

Ernesto’s Sanctuary for Syrian Cats

16,451 views • 11 months ago

AOC: We get to these extremes through these small erosions and steps. When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves or do not feel like as though they answer to the American people at all. That is dangerous. It does not go without saying that the people that they went after first are some of the most vulnerable activists in the United States, which is to say, pro-palestinian organizers and young people, especially those who who are on green cards or visas… And the idea that we would allow our freedom of speech to be violated and create exceptions to that for people who are advocating for the lives of Palestinians, it erodes at the very core of American identity, too, because this is a land of the free, but only as long as we defend it and make it so
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AOC: We get to these extremes through these small erosions and steps. When everyone says makes an exception here or makes an exception there, and then before you know it, you have masked agents roaming the streets of this country that do not feel entitled to identify themselves or do not feel like as though they answer to the American people at all. That is dangerous. It does not go without saying that the people that they went after first are some of the most vulnerable activists in the United States, which is to say, pro-palestinian organizers and young people, especially those who who are on green cards or visas… And the idea that we would allow our freedom of speech to be violated and create exceptions to that for people who are advocating for the lives of Palestinians, it erodes at the very core of American identity, too, because this is a land of the free, but only as long as we defend it and make it so

Acyn

37,566 views • 10 months ago

Ariel Helwani: I am very proud to be a journalist and I take that title, that diploma, I have great respect for it and it's an honor. And, I think that it's very important to conduct yourself in a certain way when you are a journalist. Not some dude on twitter who sits at home trying to anoint themselves some de facto watchdog over journalists. Like, that to me is hilarious. Those are the funniest people. The de facto watchdog journalists, who have never done anything in the history of journalism or in their "journalism" careers. And now all of a sudden they're the watchdog is the best. That's the funniest. Never done anything. No one wants to work with them. They've not succeeded in any way, shape or form and yet they're the de facto watchdog. And who made them the watchdog? They made themselves the watchdog. Tremendous. #HelwaniShow
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Ariel Helwani: I am very proud to be a journalist and I take that title, that diploma, I have great respect for it and it's an honor. And, I think that it's very important to conduct yourself in a certain way when you are a journalist. Not some dude on twitter who sits at home trying to anoint themselves some de facto watchdog over journalists. Like, that to me is hilarious. Those are the funniest people. The de facto watchdog journalists, who have never done anything in the history of journalism or in their "journalism" careers. And now all of a sudden they're the watchdog is the best. That's the funniest. Never done anything. No one wants to work with them. They've not succeeded in any way, shape or form and yet they're the de facto watchdog. And who made them the watchdog? They made themselves the watchdog. Tremendous. #HelwaniShow

Jed I. Goodman ©

77,916 views • 4 months ago