Barkleysdad

wiping personal info from this in a half-hearted attempt to stick it to the Musk

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.

The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.

When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.

That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.

It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Hanif Abdurraqib on basketball follies, rooting for a hopeless and hapless team, and awaiting the season that the Minnesota Timberwolves go 82–0: https://t.co/7gtKEIwMrf

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

@ZachLowe_NBA It’s such a good book

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

@skippertonfs1 real ball knowers go to Podlasie Club in the background

[Steve Dagostino @DagsBasketball]

Damn this is good

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

@EvinKnowsBall As a lifetime nonprofit employee this is an awful question

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

@jon_greenberg This is the hard hitting coverage we pay for on free agent signing day

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

Is it worse to go to the UN with a BS Yellow Cake story or just bypass them all together with no story at all?

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

The year is 2001, you are a American citizen and cannot believe the dumbest man in the world is taking you to war in the Middle East.

The year is 2026, you are a US citizen and cannot believe you were wrong; there is in fact a dumber man.

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

@DylanEveryday @BWWings Disagreeing with a judge’s legal ruling. Couldn’t get into Michigan, huh

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

The only Captain you acknowledge is Morgan

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

This will be immediately appealed.

Sedition is sedition, “Captain.”

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

It’s impossible to get more racist than this

[𝕏erias @xerias_x]

President Trump: King of the Jungle 🦁

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

This is quite an exchange with @DavidAFrench about whether we are witnessing the emergence of a "dual state."

[Ronnie Evans @RonnieAEvans]

I’m sorry. I try not to post political stuff.

But I just watched a video of ICE officers attack a man who was helping a woman up, pin him on the ground, take his (legally owned) gun he NEVER attempted to holster, and then 6 officers shot him to death.

He was white (not important to me but def to MAGA assholes).

He was a citizen.

He was simply helping another citizen get up.

And he was pinned to the ground, disarmed and THEN ecexuted by masked agents working for Donald Trump’s gestapo.

Fuck you if you support this.

[ashton kutcher @aplusk]

A win would’ve been nice, but it was still the greatest night of my football life. It’s the moment that I will always remember when the real reason for football clicked in. Football isn’t just a game played with a ball on a field. It’s not just 3-D chess with men colliding. It’s human connection. It’s family genetics. It’s an allegiance passed from generation to generation. I witnessed my son standing in the same place that I stand, screaming at a black square with color pixels for an orange and blue team as if somehow his cries could affect the outcome of the game. Last night was the night that I knew I had done my real job as a Bears fan. I pass the game to the next generation. I shared a forever loyalty. He is fully on his way on a life time journey or highs and lows, love and loss, passion and grit, strategy and might, joy and disappointment. And when the day comes where my son and I are at an impasse. We can always talk about the Bears.

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

Kings of the North 👑

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.

https://t.co/ljMNYqzheX

[Barkleysdad @KF1NN]

I think our love of the Founding Fathers severely underestimates how drunk they were all of the time

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The bar tab of a 1787 farewell party for George Washington is still intact. The Founding Fathers drank 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, 8 bottles of whiskey, 22 bottles of porter, 8 bottles of hard cider, 12 of beer, and 7 bowls of alcoholic punch. There were only 55 attendees.

In September 1787, just before the signing of the U.S. Constitution, George Washington attended a farewell gathering in Philadelphia with fellow delegates of the Constitutional Convention. What makes this night memorable is not just its historical significance, but the surviving bar tab that documents the staggering volume of alcohol consumed.

With only 55 men in attendance, the tally reveals a feast of indulgence: dozens of bottles of fortified Madeira wine and claret, substantial amounts of whiskey, porter, and cider, along with large bowls of communal punch. By today’s standards, the sheer quantity seems almost unbelievable, averaging more than a bottle per man before considering the punch and beer.

This extravagant send-off was not unusual for the era. Alcohol was a central feature of 18th-century social and political life, often consumed at levels that would astonish modern observers. Taverns and banquets were places where ideas were debated, alliances forged, and trust built, fueling not only camaraderie but the revolutionary spirit itself.

The farewell party’s surviving record gives us a rare glimpse into the daily lives of the Founding Fathers, reminding us that these men, though monumental in history, were also human, fond of celebration, fellowship, and raising a glass to their new nation.

Madeira wine was George Washington’s personal favorite, and he often ordered it by the cask.

© Historyfeels

#archaeohistories

[Chicago Bears @ChicagoBears]

We're IN 🐻⬇️

[angry buni 🤬 @theangriestbuni]

THIS!