Calliope

In the time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Maybe you don't follow baseball, but there is a big controversy now because it was "Pride Night" in San Francisco the other night, the SF Giants' players were supposed to wear caps where the "SF" logo (normally in orange) was instead in rainbow colors, and several of the pitchers wrote Biblical verses on their hats next to the rainbow "SF."

Predictably, the SF crowd is apoplectic, labeling these players "bigots" and "homophobes."

Query: when your employer forces you to wear imagery that is abhorrent to your deeply-held, long-established religious beliefs, who is the "bigot"?

(And don't tell me "Well then they shouldn't be in MLB," because you are saying you must abandon your religion to work.)

It's the complaining LGBTQ+ crowd who are the "bigots" in this case.

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

They literally rented out the Lincoln Bedroom and don’t forget Bill’s activity in the Oval Office. The vandalism that went on when you left was also well documented.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨BREAKING: President Trump announces that the U.S. and Iran have reached a Peace Deal

[Calliope @HRZN555]

@RichardGrenell It's beyond unAmerican, it lack's common sense, critical thinking, and comes from an insane thought process that's also juvenile.

[Calliope @HRZN555]

@Amy_Siskind I think this is the largest ratio I've ever seen on X,how embarrassing for you 😬

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

. . . like bring home stranded astronauts?

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Happy Anniversary to our lovely Second Lady. 12 years and almost 4 kids later, and we're still going strong. Love you Usha!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Happy Birthday to the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. A relentless patriot who fights every day for the country he loves, the people he serves, and the American Dream. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[OutspokenSamantha @Outspoken_Sam]

Elon Musk is not stealing from you.

Gavin Newsom is stealing from you.
Karen Bass is stealing from you.
Tim Walz is stealing from you.
Elizabeth Warren is stealing from you.
AOC is stealing from you.

Becoming wealthy does not make you evil.

The people who take from you, promising to fix problems and then enriching themselves while trying to get you to hate those they're taking the money from... are evil.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In 1981, a premature baby named Chris Trokey entered the world weighing just 3.2 pounds.

His chances of survival were uncertain, but pediatrician Dr. Michael Shannon dedicated himself to the infant's care, helping him overcome the critical first days of his life.

Chris survived, grew up, and eventually became a firefighter-paramedic in Orange County, California.

For nearly three decades, the two went their separate ways, unaware that their lives would cross again in an extraordinary way.

On March 29, 2011, Dr. Shannon was involved in a devastating highway crash when a semi-truck slammed into his SUV.

The vehicle became severely damaged and caught fire, leaving him trapped inside. Emergency crews rushed to the scene, and among the first responders was firefighter-paramedic Chris Trokey.

Working alongside his fellow rescuers, Trokey helped pull the injured doctor from the wreckage and get him to safety.

It was only later, at the hospital, that he discovered the patient he had helped save was the very same doctor who had helped save his life as a newborn nearly 30 years earlier.

What began as a doctor's commitment to a fragile premature infant came full circle decades later, when that infant returned the favor in the most unexpected way.

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

“There is a sickness in black subculture in contemporary America, and the sickness is this: Too many young black males are immersed in a socio-racial ideology that glorifies violence, preaches that only the meanest dog on the block wins, and dictates that any perceived threat from anyone who “steps up to me” must be countered with a wildly disproportionate, overwhelming response.”

I concur. What are we going to do about it? #KarmeloAnthony #blackcrime

[Geert Vanden Bossche @GVDBossche]

https://t.co/bGxVEVWJT5
Well, Hi-Vi-Cron will likely solve the reported shortcomings of currently co-circulating variants (low ACE2-binding capability or suboptimal immune evasion) by enabling viral trans infection and trans fusion of infected host cells while side-lining vaccine-primed immunity.

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

Portland, Maine - which was a thriving, vibrant city just 20 years ago - now has nearly half of its storefronts boarded up. Our only department store closed 6 months ago because they were losing too much money from shoplifting. We lost the downtown grocery and hardware stores before that.

There is one place left in all of downtown where you can buy a Father's Day card: the CVS drugstore. It's open until 10 pm on Saturdays. I got there at 5:15 to a sign on the door: "We closed early at 5 pm. Sorry for the inconvenience."

That happens constantly in the businesses that are left. Even the post office just randomly closes early.

I had to walk through a homeless encampment scattered with needles that has taken over the sidewalk on Spring Street to get to the movie theater the other day. On Congress Street, there are addicts overdosing in the bus shelters.

It's unbelievable how fast this city went downhill. It was a cool place to live two decades ago.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

This isn’t true.

You got your wealth from @Qualcomm family connections.

Let’s audit Qualcomm executives and see if your own family is paying what you ask others to pay.

It starts with you!
How did you get your money?

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

Every dollar Elon Musk has made is traceable. Every product sold, every service rendered, every government contract awarded, every share of stock bought or sold. It’s all on the record.

You, on the other hand, haven’t built a company, invented a product, or created anything people willingly pay for. You’ve spent the last 14 years collecting a $174,000 Senate salary.

Yet somehow you managed to buy a luxury D.C. condo, a $4 million Victorian mansion in Cambridge, and saw your net worth balloon by 150% to $12 million. Everyone knows where Musk’s money came from. The same can’t be said for yours.

[✞🎀TrumpGirlOnFire 🔥 @TrumpGirlOnFire]

The media doesn’t care about catching child rapists. They’d rather hijack a press conference about 58 predators to ask about some unrelated highway case. Sheriff Billy Woods wasn’t having it: 'This is solely for those pieces of sh*t right there!' These parasites prioritize gotchas over dead kids. Disgusting.

Woods is a hero.

[GENO™️ @WeldrSkeltr]

🚨 STOP buying disappointing watermelons that taste like watered-down disappointment! 😩🍉
This one simple trick from the watermelon whisperer will change our summer forever.
Flip it over and hunt for the tiny star (that little dark blossom scar) on the bottom.
Why does the small star matter? The tinier it is, the longer the melon stayed on the vine soaking up sweetness. Big star = picked too early and bland. Small star = juicy, candy-like perfection every single time.
Watch this and never guess again 👇 Your next watermelon is about to slap harder than ever.
Who else is trying this at the store today? Drop a 🍉 if you’re team small star!”

[ConfirmBias @Fulcrumbs44]

@RoKhanna @ChukkyRekka @BernieSanders Elon is the left's worst nightmare.

He exposed them.

And made a fortune.

Effing legend.

Thank you Elon!

[danpallotta @danpallotta]

Elon Musk did not today take $1 trillion from anyone. He created $2.3 trillion in value that did not exist prior to him creating SpaceX. New inventions create new value in the world. They don’t transfer existing value. If you do not understand this, please, take a basic economics course, or remain on the sidelines.