@_JessConnell

Adventurer. Learner. Wife. Mom. Writer. Teacher. Christian. Political observer. Long-form book reviewer. Texan for liberty, free markets, & limited gov't.

Texas, USA
Joined July 2013
"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes." C. S. Lewis
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We had one guy named Paul in our town who stood at the crossroad of the highway doing a Nazi salute in army fatigues. All the kids knew to avoid that intersection. And we’d occasionally have a batty relative we’d encounter once a year. 👇🏻 But this is largely true. 👇🏻
I know the younger generation doesn’t know this but before social media, we did not have to hear or see crazy people. Like at all.
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Replying to @thehill
If these polls were accurate Beto would hold both Texas Senate seats and also be governor
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👇🏻 Truth 👇🏻
The left: Men need to open up about their feelings & communicate more Men: I'm worried about immigration. Stressed about finding a job. I would like a wife who's nurturing and wants to be a mom. I — The left:
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For sure have seen this shift over my nearly 25 years of active parenting. New mothers are subject to such vitriol and intensity about relatively minor childhood issues. When every decision feels monumental it’s no wonder motherhood feels heavy instead of joyful and lifegiving.
Maybe people aren’t having fewer kids because they suddenly stopped wanting families. Maybe we made parenting completely insane. Perfect pregnancy. Perfect diet. Perfect school. Perfect activities. Perfect house. Perfect career. Never yell. Never use screens. Never make a mistake. Then we wonder why young adults look at parenthood and say, “No thanks.” Kids don’t need perfect parents. They need present ones. Maybe fixing the birth-rate crisis starts with making normal parenting normal again.
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The ‘Mossad killed JFK’ theory is still racking up hundreds of thousands of likes on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. The algorithm does not know truth from lies, it only pushes what gets engagement. And the danger is that an audience that knows no history will believe it. If anyone tells you they think the Jews killed JFK, send them this clip where I explain to Ben Shapiro why it is baseless.
Funny how it always ends the same way. No matter the conspiracy — JFK included — it eventually circles back to “the Jews did it.” As I told Ben Shapiro it's a classic antisemitic conspiracy theory of first resort and last resort, just wearing a fresh coat of paint 👇
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The absolute worst thing about opening this app is spotting a banger tweet for 0.2 seconds before the feed auto-refreshes and sends it straight into the void. Gone forever.
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“For young blacks” For young everyones! Raising the minimum wage makes it where teens can’t take a 1st job because no one can hire them for a low starter wage. Society & families suffers as teens don’t learn customer service & can’t save for vehicles. Minimum wage harms us.
"Liberals try to show their concern for the poor by raising the level of minimum wage laws. Yet they show no interest in hard evidence that minimum wage laws create disastrous levels of unemployment among young blacks in this country." — Thomas Sowell
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Good observation— It “can only be pulled once.”
The generation that ate the seed corn and called it progress.
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😂 he’s not wrong. But also. I rewatched it this summer with our sons. Truly a masterpiece worth savoring.
Rewatched the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008). Fabulous miniseries. Hard to believe Hollywood would produce something like this. Sure would today. It’d be all gay stuff and America hating and George Washington would be told off by girlbosses.
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Obama turned out to be a dope.
I asked President Trump what he thought of former President Barack Obama’s claim that putting women in charge of every government for two years would make things better. Here’s the president’s response. @townhallcom
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I do believe this, this is the model that’s worked best in the U.S. Both parties have abandoned it, though.
Replying to @mtaibbi
We need this kind of free speech… "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire
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Two text-deleting maniacs, now with their texts in THIRTY-FOUR hard bound books that she (who was constantly coaching him about how to do full deletes) is having to READ THEM ALOUD in court. Seriously a horrific warning: Your sins will find you out.
This Caleb Flynn case is craaaaaaaaazy. Two hypocrites — guarding their fake reputation at all costs — Now having their reputations torn down and sordid details shared for all to see. I can’t think of a more vivid warning against “secret sin” in recent memory.
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This Caleb Flynn case is craaaaaaaaazy. Two hypocrites — guarding their fake reputation at all costs — Now having their reputations torn down and sordid details shared for all to see. I can’t think of a more vivid warning against “secret sin” in recent memory.
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Tim Keller was truly a gift to the world.
If you live long enough or accomplish something that leads some people to regard you as a 'great man' or 'great woman'--you will laugh and laugh at the ludicrousness of it. Or I should say I hope you will laugh at it. Otherwise it will eat you alive.
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“The human race began in poverty, so there’s no mysterious explanation as to why some people are poor. The question is why have some people gotten prosperous.” - Thomas Sowell
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Jess Connell retweeted
He opposes billionaires, you guys.
I wish my wXfe looked at me the way Zohran Mamdani and Alex Soros look at each other 🥰🇵🇸
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Thank God his grasp of me is not dependent on my grasp of him.
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"Be very careful, then, how you live — not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil." -- Ephesians 5:15-16
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When child mortality was higher, parents did not become indifferent to their children.
Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it
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