Cudgel Fight

fighting in an empty field

[SFGiants @SFGiants]

Statement from Giants Broadcaster Mike Krukow

[County Highway @countyhwy]

By destroying the high-trust commons that gave us free quality education, safe streets to play in, and functioning neighborhoods, new generations are now forced to buy these things piecemeal at high prices — which explains why they feel broke.

The economy is fine. Our policy choices have been disastrous.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

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@shagbark_hick What mg zyn were you using?

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@AbdullahOblong2 @Alexfeinberg No, the courts kept overturning the voters.

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@DavidPollackUSA I mean the ideas that mail in ballots consistently favor democrats and democrats use mail in ballots to cheat aren’t mutually exclusive.

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@JustineBateman Are you watching Widow’s Bay? Best show I’ve seen in a while.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

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@OVTweetmarck Do comments help? I don’t know how any of this works.

[Otto Von Tweetmarck @OVTweetmarck]

If you want to pitch in for the Tweetman family car fund (we’re fine but if you want) just retweet this and like it so I get ad revenue

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@BruceBartlett What are you possibly talking about

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@GoodStephV 🙏

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I almost hesitate to promote this, because it wasn't really intended to be a piece. I just sort of sat down and it came out. Maybe someone else out there has the same type of day today, and it'll speak to them.
https://t.co/xSMUDOrHcC

[Cudgel Fight @CudgelFight]

One of these things is not like the others. (From The Atlantic, May 17 2026.)

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Long after I’m gone… remember, people — you can’t get in a fight with a robot ump.

This is American exceptionalism.

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@murphreads Read it this year - possibly the best written characters in any novel I’ve read. Gus and Call in particular.

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@roddreher It’s the “we’re even allowed to arrest criminals now. With handcuffs and everything” followed by a little chuckle that just absolutely sells this for me.