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Andy Curliss retweeted
The bill does not only ban force-fed livers. It bans force-feeding of birds in the district and then separately bans any ‘fattened liver product’ which would includes products of birds ‘fattened through any method or practice.’ That’s literally any industrially raised chicken. teapawt.net/joshjacobsondc/status/…
PHX, PHL, RDU post election analysis events
1/4 With Election Day still weeks away, we cannot say for sure what American voters will do in the 2026 midterms. Dozens of key federal, state, and local races remain too close to call. Still, Democrats appear likely to take the U.S. House as well as several state governorships and legislative chambers. Republican control of the U.S. Senate is also endangered.
Among the hundreds of signatories to the Freedom Conservatism Statement of Principles are campaign professionals, political activists, and former elected officials — including mayors, school-board members, state and federal lawmakers, governors, and even a former vice president. Most have a rooting interest in partisan politics. Some remain personally involved in campaigns.
But the @FreeConTalk project itself is nonpartisan. Our goals extend far beyond one election cycle or the fate of any particular candidate.
We believe that unless there is a healthy, vibrant American Right committed to individual liberty, federalism, free enterprise, free speech, free trade, civic virtue, equal opportunity, and the rule of law, any hard-won electoral victories will prove fleeting. And if our movement tolerates cranks, bigots, and other reactionaries, fewer such victories will occur in the first place.
Unless conservatives offer real solutions to the problems voters care about most — such as affordability, fiscal responsibility, family formation, and broad access to the American Dream — voters will seek them elsewhere. That voters are destined to be disappointed by populists, progressives, and socialists is true but beside the point. You can’t beat something with nothing.
And American greatness is impossible without American freedom.
That will be one of the themes explored at three post-election events in battleground states: FreeCon Phoenix on November 16, FreeCon Philadelphia on November 17, and FreeCon Raleigh on November 18. At each summit, #FreeCon signatories and allies will discuss the lessons of the midterms, the challenges and opportunities we will face in 2027 and beyond, and how a rejuvenated American Right can meet those challenges and seize those opportunities.
Please join us! RSVP links to follow in the thread.
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Andy Curliss retweeted
1/4 With Election Day still weeks away, we cannot say for sure what American voters will do in the 2026 midterms. Dozens of key federal, state, and local races remain too close to call. Still, Democrats appear likely to take the U.S. House as well as several state governorships and legislative chambers. Republican control of the U.S. Senate is also endangered.
Among the hundreds of signatories to the Freedom Conservatism Statement of Principles are campaign professionals, political activists, and former elected officials — including mayors, school-board members, state and federal lawmakers, governors, and even a former vice president. Most have a rooting interest in partisan politics. Some remain personally involved in campaigns.
But the @FreeConTalk project itself is nonpartisan. Our goals extend far beyond one election cycle or the fate of any particular candidate.
We believe that unless there is a healthy, vibrant American Right committed to individual liberty, federalism, free enterprise, free speech, free trade, civic virtue, equal opportunity, and the rule of law, any hard-won electoral victories will prove fleeting. And if our movement tolerates cranks, bigots, and other reactionaries, fewer such victories will occur in the first place.
Unless conservatives offer real solutions to the problems voters care about most — such as affordability, fiscal responsibility, family formation, and broad access to the American Dream — voters will seek them elsewhere. That voters are destined to be disappointed by populists, progressives, and socialists is true but beside the point. You can’t beat something with nothing.
And American greatness is impossible without American freedom.
That will be one of the themes explored at three post-election events in battleground states: FreeCon Phoenix on November 16, FreeCon Philadelphia on November 17, and FreeCon Raleigh on November 18. At each summit, #FreeCon signatories and allies will discuss the lessons of the midterms, the challenges and opportunities we will face in 2027 and beyond, and how a rejuvenated American Right can meet those challenges and seize those opportunities.
Please join us! RSVP links to follow in the thread.
19 people in Wake County, NC, wrote in #Dolly Parton for US President in 2024, #ncpol. s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/w…
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There are more than 150,000 people in this photo of Columbia, SC. But no real farms that can feed them all, every day. Farm families elsewhere get that done.
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This is a slice of Detroit, pop. 650,000. Farm families far from here keep Detroit fed, 24/7/365, so Detroit can do other great things for 🇺🇸
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Andy Curliss retweeted
I can't stop listening to this song. Best thing that came out of the World cup being in the United States this year. 🇺🇸
Watching this compilation of fans from all over the world at the 2026 World Cup in America is so heartwarming.
USA USA USA 🇺🇸
Andy Curliss retweeted
The moment the @Canes became the 2026 #StanleyCup champions! 😆
Andy Curliss retweeted
The most spectacular economic miracle of the last 500 years occurred as food consumption dropped from 80% of income to 3%. Your ancestors spent virtually every waking hour and every earned dollar feeding their families. Today you casually toss organic blueberries into your cart without checking the price.
This transformation didn't happen because governments subsidized agriculture or bureaucrats planned better crop rotations. It happened because private property rights allowed farmers to capture the full value of their innovations, spurring relentless productivity gains.
Consider what free markets accomplished: wheat yields per acre increased 10-fold since 1800. Corn production exploded 6-fold per acre since 1930. The price of basic foodstuffs, adjusted for wages, fell by 90% over two centuries. Each breakthrough, from the steel plow to hybrid seeds to GPS-guided tractors, emerged from entrepreneurs risking their own capital to solve real problems.
The profit motive drove farmers to maximize output while minimizing inputs. No central planner could coordinate the millions of decisions required: which seeds to plant, when to harvest, how to transport goods, where to build storage facilities. Market prices transmitted this information instantly across the globe, connecting Iowa corn farmers to Tokyo consumers without a single bureaucrat involved.
Politicians love claiming credit for "feeding America" through agricultural subsidies and price supports. Yet these interventions consistently reward inefficiency and punish innovation. The real heroes remain the anonymous farmers and inventors who transformed scarcity into abundance by following price signals rather than political directives.
Andy Curliss retweeted
We have 10,000 years of experience with organic farming & 50 years of food security in the west because of scientific advances in agriculture👇🏽
When Belief Replaces Evidence, Consumers and Farmers Pay the Price — Carver Center for Agriculture & Nutrition carverfood.org/essays/when-b…
Andy Curliss retweeted
Lock in, we’re Moonbound.
Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to their destination, and preparations for lunar flyby are underway. During their trip around the far side of the Moon, they will capture imagery to share with scientists (and you, too!).
ALT Astronaut Christina Koch is nestled into a corner of the Orion crew capsule, reading. The rest of the capsule is dark, but her face it lit by the glow from her tablet. Two of her other crew members can dimly be seen looking out the window and floating in the foreground. Credit: NASA
ALT The Moon in the distance seen from the Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA
ALT Crescent Earth seen from the Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA
Andy Curliss retweeted
1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II
ALT Photograph of Earth captured by the Apollo 17 crew on December 7, 1972. Earth takes up most of the image. Dark blue ocean water and swirling white clouds are visible. Africa is a large brown landmass from the center to the upper left, stretching from about 9 to 12 o'clock. Clouds cover most of the 6 o'clock. Credit: NASA
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
Andy Curliss retweeted
Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA.
Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team.
After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator.
In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets.
Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record."
Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.
Some believe "the food system" is failing our children's health. The data tell a more complicated story. Op-ed in @agripulse here👇and full, in-depth Carver report at: carverfood.org/research/chro…
The data on children's health is more complicated than the headlines suggest.
In @AgriPulse, @carver_food Chairman Andy Curliss examines what the numbers actually show — and what it means for the farm bill debate. [agri-pulse.com/articles/2444…]
#FarmBill #ChildrensHealth
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Andy Curliss retweeted
The data on children's health is more complicated than the headlines suggest.
In @AgriPulse, @carver_food Chairman Andy Curliss examines what the numbers actually show — and what it means for the farm bill debate. [agri-pulse.com/articles/2444…]
#FarmBill #ChildrensHealth