Joy

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

UK is a police state

[Mack @kenzietuff]

An entire stadium of Germans singing Country Roads during NFL games in Munich is one of my favorite things.

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

This is how my 911 call went yesterday, it was INSANE:

Dispatch: “911 what is your emergency?”

Me: “I need an officer to take a report. I was attacked and robbed of at least $1,500 worth of property at Delaney Hall.”

Dispatch: “sir who robbed you?”

Me: “the masked chaos agents that are apparently allowed to run our streets while officers are nowhere to be seen.”

Dispatch: “sir, are you saying ICE robbed you?”

Me: “are you stupid? No I’m not saying ICE robbed me. I’m talking about the protestors who attack people every single night outside of Delaney Hall.”

Dispatch: “Sir, they are simply peacefully protesting.”

Me: “did you miss the part where they robbed and attacked me? You can keep your braindead opinions to yourself - you’re a 911 dispatcher and I was robbed. I need an officer not your stupid input.”

I will be filing a FOIA for this 911 call with a Newark dispatcher. The first dispatcher straight up hung up on me.

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

Last night, I made a simple request on X. I asked if anybody visiting Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day would stop by Alan’s grave and leave a photo for our family.

What happened next honestly caught me off guard.

By this afternoon, dozens of Americans from all walks of life had made the walk to Section 60 to visit SSG Alan W. Shaw. Veterans. Families. Complete strangers. People who had never met Alan, but chose to honor him anyway.

For one day on social media, people put aside the constant noise and negativity and came together for something bigger than themselves. My notifications filled with photos, kind messages, prayers, and stories from people honoring not just Alan, but so many of our fallen heroes.

I don’t think people fully understand what moments like this mean to Gold Star families. The fear is never just losing them. It’s losing them slowly over time as the world moves on and fewer people remember their name.

But today showed me that Alan will never be forgotten.

After years of watching social media reward some of the worst parts of humanity, today gave me a reminder that the good is still out there too.

Thank you to every single person who stopped by to visit Alan today, said his name, shared his story, or took a moment to honor the fallen.

This right here is the America Alan knew and loved enough to fight and die for.

And today, y’all showed us all that it’s still here and it’s still worth fighting for. 🇺🇸

[Politi_Rican 🇵🇷 𝕏 🇺🇸 @TheRicanMemes]

Rubio when the UFO files drop 😂

[Leon @TrpstrLeonOG]

The maximum annual Social Security payroll tax contribution is currently $10,453.20.

If you paid that full amount every year from age 18 until retirement, your maximum Social Security benefit would be about $4,873 per month.

By contrast, if you had invested that same amount annually in a low-cost S&P 500 index fund instead, you could expect roughly $32,583 per month in retirement income.

Social Security is a scam.

[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT ✊🇺🇸

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

Congress watching soldiers get arrested for insider trading

[Joy @JoyM_global]

@awnihannun 🤣🤣🤣

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life.

I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5.

Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm.

Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation.

Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%.

Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

[Grummz @Grummz]

This is better than the Lego Movie.😂

Iran pilot rescue.

[Jebus @Jebus]

American culture is pretty well summed up by going to get that guy

Ya, it’s expensive and you may not like the war and it’s risky

But you go get the guy

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Walmart is robbing you

American saw the videos of potatoes not weighing their marked weight

He grabs multiple 5 pound bags of potatoes right off the shelf and puts them on the scale

Each bag is only roughly 3.5 pounds

This is blatantly fraud

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

💯

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today.

Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Rubio: If Europe won’t allow us to use the bases we man and fund for their defense when we need them we ought to close them down and remove our troops from Europe. If they get attacked by Russia we can discuss whether or not we have the time to help.

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 UNITED PASSENGER CATCHES INSANE NASA ROCKET LAUNCH FROM PLANE WINDOW — FLIGHT ATTENDANT LOSES IT MID-AIR

A United flight just turned into a front-row seat to history.

A woman captures the exact moment NASA’s Artemis II rocket launches… straight from her window at 30,000 feet.

And then you hear the flight attendant:

“15 years of flying… I’ve been praying to see something like this.”

• Rocket blasting through the clouds
• Crew calling it a “once in a lifetime” moment

He said he flew to Florida multiple times just to see a launch…

Canceled. Every time.

And then this happens midair.

What are the chances you randomly look out your window… and see history taking off?

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Alabama airman and father of 3, Major Alex Klinner, identified as one of the six Americans who was killed when a KC-135 crashed in Iraq.

Klinner was a father to a two-and-a-half-year-old and seven-month-old twins.

His wife, Libby, posted the following on Instagram:

“On March 12, our world shattered. Alex and his crew were on the plane that crashed in Iraq. I'm devastated to lose the best person I know, the person that made everything more fun, my best friend.

But even more so, my heart is broken for our three kids who will grow up not knowing him. They won't get to see firsthand the way he would jump up to help in any way he could.

They won't see how goofy and funny he was. They won't witness his selflessness, the way he thought about everyone else before himself. They won't get to feel the deep love he had for them. He was an incredible person and husband, but he was the best dad.

It still doesn't feel real. I keep thinking that I'll get a text from him saying 'Sorry honey! Didn't mean to scare you' and everything will be alright. Because Alex always made everything alright. We just moved to a new home and we had so many exciting plans in the next few years. Now we are left to navigate the void left in our hearts.

Thank you to everyone who has reached out. Your words mean more than you know.
These are some of the last photos we have together before he deployed. He was crushed that he had to leave us. I'Il forever remember this heartbreaking goodbye.”

I am linking the GoFundMe below that was launched by Klinner’s sister-in-law, Sarah Rose Harrill.

Heartbreaking.

Videos: libbyklinnerteaching / ig.

[Cabot Phillips @cabot_phillips]

Hundreds of strangers have shown up for the funeral of a Tennessee veteran who died with no known relatives.

This is America.

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

British people watching America liberate Iran from radical Islam