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Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
In the north of Iceland a farmer once walked out to his sheep house on a clear evening, found that one ewe had come in off the hill on her own and would not be moved, and went back inside and told his family to prepare for a storm.
Her name was Kraga. She was a leader ewe, one of the strain of Icelandic sheep bred for a thousand years to walk at the front and read the sky, and the farmer's account of her survives in the book of leader-sheep stories a sheep breeder collected in the 1950s because the old men who remembered them were dying.
The flock was out on the winter grazing, as flocks were then, and the evening gave no sign of anything. Kraga had left them and come home. She stood in the sheep house and refused the open door. The farmer had learned what that meant and did not argue. The next morning he woke to the roar of the sea and a blizzard that had come in off the Arctic in the night, the kind that killed sheep by the hundred on the open hill and men with them. His flock was in the barn, because he had gone out and fetched them in on the word of a ewe.
The pattern turns up in story after story. The leader that will not go out on a fine morning. The leader that comes in from the hill at noon with no apparent reason and stands by the door. The farmers did not understand how the animal knew, and did not need to. They wrote down the date, the weather that came, and the name of the sheep, and bred from her.
A few years ago Norwegian scientists ran a proper test. Flocks with a leader sheep in them, faced with a mock predator, behaved differently from flocks without one: calmer, more cohesive, less likely to scatter and die. The animal the farmers had been describing for ten centuries turned out to exist on a spreadsheet.
A ewe knew the weather before the barometer did, and a hungry country bet its winter on her and won.
The sheep is the animal this country uses as a byword for stupidity. In Iceland they let one decide when the flock went out.
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
Wait—this is *tonight*?! He’s still talking about Husted’s ass? Like right now?
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
Dr. Amy Acton:
Growing up in Youngstown, my brother Phil and I endured abuse, hunger, and neglect — even spending one winter homeless living in a tent. We were often kept in a dark basement, were frequent-fliers with child protective services, and lived in fear of our birth mother’s violent and erratic temper. Between the ages of 10 and 12, I was sexually abused by her husband, while my birth mother did nothing to protect me. I’ve always known that she was deeply sick and unwell, and it’s sad to see Vivek Ramaswamy exploit her all for his own political gain.
Eventually, I confided in my father and stepmother, and we were removed from that situation. My birth mother’s husband was arrested, charged with rape, and indicted by a grand jury. At 12 years old, I testified in court. I haven't seen my birth mother since that day in 1978. She and her husband fled the state and he was declared a fugitive.
I know what it feels like to be a child who is hungry, frightened, and uncertain of what tomorrow will bring. I know what it means to feel powerless and to depend on the courage and compassion of others to find a way forward.
Those experiences shaped my values, my compassion, and my belief that every person deserves to be safe, to be heard, and to have a fair chance at a better life. They are part of what led me to become a doctor, to dedicate my life to public service, and to fight for people who too often feel forgotten or left behind.
And they are why I will never stop fighting for Ohio's most vulnerable — especially the children and families who deserve the safety, dignity, opportunity, and hope that every Ohioan should have. No one in Ohio will ever be invisible to me
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
I am beyond exhausted.
I've spent the entire day reaching out to anyone and everyone I can, trying to find support for our soldiers and the civilians still living here in Donetsk Oblast.
We are on the verge of a humanitarian crisis.
Curfew is expected to increase to 19 hours a day. Businesses are packing up and leaving. The situation is getting worse, and the people who remain are going to need more help than ever.
And somehow, at the worst possible time, my Facebook account has been restricted following what I believe was a mass-reporting attack, and my Instagram has been deactivated.
I've started a LinkedIn account, and I'll be putting more effort into my other platforms while I try to resolve this mess with Meta.
linkedin.com/in/april-hugget…
It's incredibly disappointing. Especially when social media is one of the most important tools I have to reach people willing to help.
I feel like the #US government has turned its back on us, and every day it becomes harder to find the support we desperately need.
But tomorrow I'll get up and keep working, because my soldiers still need equipment, civilians still need assistance, and none of this stops just because I'm exhausted.
If you can help, or connect me with someone who can, please reach out.
We need people now more than ever.
#SupportUkraine
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
BREAKING - Flavio Bolsonaro has said he will REFUSE to take part in the last debate on Friday against Lula if live fact checking is used.
Because it will constantly say he is lying.
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
Dan Rather is spot-fucking-on.
Since Trump measures everything through the lens of ratings, I'm sure he'll be very proud when his livestreamed treason trial breaks the internet.
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
Look at the post below.
Yesterday, we reported that Europe’s four biggest mobile operators 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇬🇧are exploring a joint bid to take on Starlink: phones connected straight to satellites, no tower needed.
The replies came on cue: “Europe can’t launch. Europe has no satellites. Europe has no money. SpaceX has no competition. Period.”
We hear this every time Europe talks about tech independence. But are they right? 👇
❌ “Europe can’t launch.”
✅ True, SpaceX launches far more: 165 Falcon 9 flights in 2025. That gap is real.
But even Amazon booked 24 launches on Europe’s Ariane 6 for its own Starlink rival.
Ariane 6 has already put 100 of its satellites in orbit.
In September, @isaraerospace, a German 🇩🇪 startup, reached orbit. At the same time, Europe’s first reusable rocket prototype is on its pad in Sweden 🇸🇪.
And the @esa has put €900M+ behind a new generation of rockets. That’s more than twice the ~$400M NASA gave SpaceX to develop Falcon 9 and its Dragon capsule.
What will happen to American launchers once these are operational?
❌ “Europe doesn’t build satellites.”
✅ Galileo, Europe’s GPS, is the most precise satellite navigation system in the world. Over 4.5 billion devices use it. Probably yours too.
Finland’s 🇫🇮 @iceye_global runs the world’s largest fleet of radar satellites, which see through clouds and at night.
@Thales_Alenia_S, in Turin, Italy 🇮🇹, built over half of the International Space Station’s living space. It also built the current satellites of Iridium, the American satellite-phone network.
@AirbusSpace, @ThalesAerospace and @LDO_Space are merging their space businesses into one 25,000-strong champion. And IRIS², the EU’s own 348-satellite network, is moving to full deployment of its governments and defence infrastructure.
If Europe has “nothing”, why are NASA’s astronauts living in it and your phone navigating with it?
❌ “Europe doesn’t have the money.”
✅ EU households keep €12 trillion in cash and bank deposits. That’s more than Nvidia and Apple, the world’s two most valuable companies, combined. Enough to buy SpaceX five times over.
On top of that, Europeans hold $8 trillion in US stocks and bonds. For now.
Because something has changed. Every year, €300bn of European savings leaves the EU. Europe is done watching it go: it has started building a single market for savings and investment, so that European money grows European companies.
Some, like Danish 🇩🇰 pension funds, have already started dumping US government bonds.
What will happen the day Europe offers a real alternative to American financial markets?
❌ “Europe is years behind on innovation.”
✅ 3 of the last 4 Nobel laureates in physics were born in Europe 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪. All three did their prize-winning work at American universities.
The world’s first microprocessor, the chip that became the brain of every computer, was designed at Intel by an Italian 🇮🇹: Federico Faggin. Google’s AI lab, DeepMind, was born in London 🇬🇧. OpenAI was co-founded by scientists born in Poland 🇵🇱 and Slovakia 🇸🇰.
Now Washington is cutting research funding, and applications from US-based scientists to the European Research Council have more than doubled. The EU has proposed doubling its budget too.
Europe’s red tape can be cut with a vote.
Can America win back the trust it has destroyed by threatening, humiliating and insulting its allies?
❌ “Europe needs America more than America needs Europe.”
✅ Look closer.
In April, NASA flew astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.
The module that powered their spacecraft, pushed it to the Moon and kept them alive was European, assembled in Bremen, Germany 🇩🇪.
NASA’s Webb telescope launched on a European Ariane 5, so precisely that its fuel should last about 20 years instead of 10.
And the world’s most advanced AI chips can only be made with machines from one company: ASML, in the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
We’ve seen this film before.
In 1970, American planemakers ruled the skies. Europeans pooled their strengths and built Airbus. Airbus has out-delivered Boeing every year since 2019.
The US just turned 250.
The University of Bologna, in Italy, was founded in 1088, 938 years ago. Europe has been written off many times.
Those trying to convince Europeans we can’t stand on our own forget who gave the world the Renaissance, the scientific revolution, the welfare state and the World Wide Web, born at CERN in Geneva 🇨🇭.
Betting against Europe isn’t analysis - it’s hubris.
And that arrogance is pushing European public opinion towards one conclusion: we’re done with America.
One day, those repeating “weak, dependent Europe” will wake up to a Europe running on its own rockets, satellites, capital and talent.
That day is closer than they think. 🇪🇺
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
Wow, the US truly has the most incompetent president in history.
Just listening to how clueless this man is, it’s no wonder we have been humiliated in Iran.
Trump: “The Russians had a thousand tanks riding up a concrete highway. They would have been in Ukraine in four hours, going maximum tank speed, which is 48 miles an hour, to be exact. Nothing to stop them. The war would have been over in one day. And this very stupid general - I have no idea who he is. I doubt he’s still with us. I doubt he’s still living. He decided to hang a right onto the farmland and then take a left and go up to Kyiv, rather than staying on the highway - the concrete highway, perfectly good highway - where they were doing very nicely. It would have been three and a half, four hours, and the whole war would have ended. He ended up getting stuck in the mud.”
Does he understand that Ukrainian troops destroyed all the bridges and cut off the retreat points, so the only option left was to go off the highway? I mean, if you have the IQ of a 10-year-old child, you should be able to get it.
I am honestly shocked at the basic level of ignorance. And this is the man who is in charge of the US Army.
Jean C ⎊ ⍟ ✪ ⧗ ۞ retweeted
Trump: I have the highest Christian vote in history. I know more than anyone. I am going to lead Christians into the greatest time of Christianity than no one else can do.
I am shocked that after watching this so many Christians still support this man. This is the closest we have ever got to the anti-Christ.
