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[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

@iboster52 @aakashgupta Four WC championships and several Olympic medals, still a strong team that might win again - they’re not fading OR letting off - there’s a wide gap to fill.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

@MatchGamePM @aakashgupta Haha, funny.

Like Carli Lloyd, who was the #1 player in the world for a couple years at her peak and is now pregnant?

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Some dogs just have that sense and know what to do. Animals work on levels humans don’t really understand.

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

This happened last Thursday at Denver International Airport.
Lucas, 6, autistic and minimally verbal, was having a sensory meltdown at the security checkpoint — too much noise, too many people, bright lights. He sat on the floor rocking and hitting his head with his fists. His dad, Brian, knelt beside him, but nothing was working. Security tried to help and made it worse. Travelers stopped and stared; some took photos.
Then Sharon, 61, rolled toward Lucas in her wheelchair with her four-year-old Golden Retriever PTSD service dog, Bear. She stopped a few feet away and unclipped his leash.
Bear walked to Lucas on his own, lay down beside him, and pressed his body against his side. Lucas stopped hitting his head immediately, gripping Bear's fur, his rocking slowing until he leaned into the dog and stayed there. Sharon held back, letting Bear work.
After several minutes, Lucas calmed enough to stand. Brian turned to Sharon, tears in his eyes: "How did you know to do that?"
"Bear is my PTSD service dog," Sharon said. "He's not trained for autism. But he recognized Lucas needed help and pulled toward him. I trusted his instincts. He's done this before — approached people in distress without being asked. He just knows."
"Lucas was in complete meltdown. I couldn't reach him. Security couldn't help," Brian told reporters. "Then this stranger let her service dog help my son. Bear did what I couldn't."
Airport staff gave the family priority boarding and commended Sharon. "Bear helps me every day," she said. "But sometimes he knows others need help too. I always trust when he tells me someone needs him."
Sometimes a service dog's greatest gift is recognizing pain in someone who isn't even their handler.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Nope, no election issues here.

SHUT IT DOWN! Then in a few months when the situation cools off a bit, someone asks if there’s any evidence and the answer is no.

[Lori Gallagher @Lorionafarm]

🚨Tally Texas News

Tarrant County Officials panicked live —OMG “They are hacking the machines!” → CIO: “SHUT IT DOWN!”

In January 2024, Tarrant County EA invited the public to try to hack its Hart County Wide Polling place voting system.

They did. Easily.

Officials panicked live —"OMG They are hacking the machines!”

June 23, 2026 Sworn Senate testimony just dropped from an insider standing right behind them.

This should be front-page news. It’s not. #txlege🧵

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

NYPD officers abandoned and outnumbered as Mamdani scraps plan for 580 new hires and delays pay amid brutal shifts

New York’s finest are stretched to the breaking point — fewer than 4 cops per 1,000 residents — working mandatory 12+ hour shifts in extreme heat during one of the busiest holiday weekends of the year.

While they risk everything to protect the city, Mayor Zohran Mamdani reversed course on adding 580 new officers, delayed their paychecks, left them with zero backup, and treats the department like the enemy.

This isn’t leadership. It’s a direct betrayal of the men and women who keep New York safe.

Spread the word far and wide so more New Yorkers see how their police are being treated and demand real support for the Thin Blue Line.
Think about those numbers
How safe would you feel in New York?

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

@SenMarkKelly I will never understand the idea that anyone going to a poll to vote legally can be intimidated by security. It is just illogical.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

💯

[Jim Hanson @JimHansonDC]

All former FIFA-certified referees raise your hands.
🙋
That's right I used to both play & ref soccer. Now I mostly just mock it. Until they mess w/ Team USA.

This picture of the collision between Balogun & the B&H player looks awful, but it's complete garbage.
Wrong angle to see what really happened.

Balogun was closer to the ball and the B&H player came from his right AND behind initiating the contact. He caused his own suffering.

The ref got it right initially as a no call. They were both playing the ball. Even in a sport known for pitifully lame flopping sometimes two dudes just crash into each other and do some actual damage. Doesn't mean there was a foul.

The replay guy then saw an opportunity to take the Americans down a notch and the ref bought in and made an egregious red card ejection.

If any call was made it should have been against the B&H player who came from behind and out of the sight line of Balogun.

The outrage now is "How dare the Americans get this absurd attempt to weaken them overturned".

Taking a player out of a once in a lifetime game and tournament should be an exceedingly high bar. This was not.

The people pretending to care about the rules are really mad the Americans aren't getting screwed over. It's a common sentiment and all around the world hating Americans for being the Biggest, Baddest and Best is as much a national sport as Soccer Ball.

I've lived overseas for six years and traveled to several dozen countries. Furriners love to hate on us. I'm not saying it's all underserved, I'm just saying it's not new and it's everywhere.

I can't blame them, we're barely 250 years old and we have accomplished more than any country in history. We have invented more amazing things, freed more people from tyranny and lifted more people from poverty and that stings, especially for the Euros who think they own our history.

They do, the part that we left and left behind. The part we are making now they can only watch and be chafed about. Because they can't even come close.

So they were salivating at knocking a US star out of play on a BS call. Sorry Jacques Belgique, you're going to have to take on a full US squad. Good luck, I hope we make you cry some more in the game tonight.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

@gas_over_hoes @aakashgupta Sooooooo?

It’s four world cups over many years, what starts first doesn’t always end first. They have been continuously successful, even as the world has become better.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Hmmmmmmm.

[Jon Levine @LevineJonathan]

"That's my kinda man"

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Just another example of government trying to do good while killing the golden goose.

I really believe they mean well, it just isn’t easy to be successful. It takes a lot of hard work for a long time.

[Kenneth Schrupp @kennethschrupp]

Santa Monica's city manager is right in that the city's decline started in 2016—crime skyrocketed when LA Metro completed the Expo Line train that delivers mentally ill drug addicts from Los Angeles's Skid Row right to the heart of Santa Monica.

Santa Monica responded not with enforcement, but by passing a 5.6% property transfer tax (higher than LA's "mansion" tax) to service more homeless and build more "supportive" and "affordable" housing, which attracted more homeless.

This tax cut off most real estate investment, which precipitated a commercial real estate collapse.

Rents have been in freefall as declining public safety and growing red tape drive everyone from businesses to families and young professionals out of the city.

Yes, the World Cup provided a temporary economic respite. Yes, the city is trying to make it easier to build more homes, and its latest $909M budget increased public safety spending 7.6% (which translates to a relatively paltry $9M safety spending increase).

Still, the fundamentals remain unchanged. The city doubles down on the low-wage tourism industry at the expense of building a durable local economy centered on attracting high-wage companies and entrepreneurs.

If the Santa Monica's business and safety climate matched its natural beauty and physical climate, it would be the crown jewel of Los Angeles.

But that can't happen until Santa Monica City Hall stops blaming Washington D.C. for its own failures.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Everything that went wrong, all wrapped in one play. Reminds me of a saying from when I was a kid - “stumble, fart and fall” used as an analogy for a complete mess-up.

[Star Spangled Ballers @SpangledBallers]

Not only is this a totally unforgivable play by Freese, but the utter lack of athleticism by Ream here is astonishing.

This might be THE most embarrassing sequence in US Soccer history.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Sad but true - the statistics don’t lie. Would be great if somebody somewhere could build something that balances the two, but you can’t give enough to make everyone happy.

[Handre @Handre]

Two countries split from the same colonial body in 1965. One picked economic freedom. The other picked handouts and racial spoils. You already know how this ended.

Singapore had no oil, no farmland, no hinterland. Just a swamp and a port. Lee Kuan Yew looked at that and trusted trade, low taxes, and hard money. Central planners hate what he did.

Malaysia went the other way. In 1971 Kuala Lumpur launched the New Economic Policy, a state program handing quotas, contracts, and university seats to ethnic Malays. Politicians decided who got what. A commissar fantasy dressed in liberal language.

Now let's look at the numbers. In 1965 both places sat around $500 per capita. Today Singapore clears $84,000. Malaysia sits near $13,000. Same climate, same starting line, one sixth the result.

The Singapore dollar holds its value because the Monetary Authority of Singapore manages it against a currency basket and refuses to print its way out of trouble. The ringgit has lost roughly two thirds of its value against the Singapore dollar since 1981.

You cannot subsidize your way to wealth. You cannot redistribute what you never let people produce. Every ringgit funneled through a quota is a ringgit some bureaucrat spent on his own vision instead of a customer's.

Malaysia bet on planners deciding outcomes. Singapore bet on people deciding for themselves. The gap between $84,000 and $13,000 is your answer.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

@krassenstein Very telling - any chance to root against the US and you jump at it , using your special type of logic (TDS) to rationalize it.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Marriage certificate?

Assuming if she lost the BC, she has other documents to get a passport, or maybe she’s never left the country?

Kinda weak.

[Anti Left Memes @AntiLeftMemes]

What is your response to Joe Scarborough?

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Maybe that’s why the US is the greatest.

We are descendants of those who left Europe (UK) over injustices, we are constantly battling to get them fixed. We don’t settle, we fix issues. That’s who we are.

Perfect, no, but always trying to improve.

[Ellen Carmichael @ellencarmichael]

The most interesting part of the red card saga isn't the ruling. It's how differently Americans and Europeans process the idea that they might have been wronged.

Europeans are fundamentally different from Americans in one particular way: they expect life to be aggravating and at times unfair. It's just a fact of moving through the world. I joke that in Europe, the customer is always wrong. You didn't read the fine print. The only pharmacy in town is closed every other Tuesday for three hours, and even if the times weren't posted, that's still your problem. Too bad if you want the bill, because the waiter's on his union-mandated half-hour smoke break, and you're just going to have to wait.

To quote the great Mark Knopfler: sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. There's something freeing in that. Things are less in your control, so there's less angst in managing your expectations.

In America, things couldn't be more different. We simply can't accept a wrong left unrighted.

The flight attendant sneezed handing you a drink on your one-hour flight? 15,000 frequent flyer miles. Didn't like your appetizer? A replacement is on the way, and the whole course comes off the bill. There's a reason our interstates are lined with trial lawyer billboards.

Europeans have turned complaining into a continental pastime with no expectation that the universe owes them a remedy for their grief. You gripe about the train being late, your friends nod solemnly and everyone goes back to their apéro. In America, we launch a full-blown investigation of the train system, sue the government (and its contractors) that allowed for the tardiness and hold a Congressional hearing on the state of national infrastructure.

So to an objective observer, the red card shouldn't have happened, and VAR was a travesty. To Americans, our star player shouldn't be unfairly banned from a match we couldn't afford to lose for a card he so obviously didn't deserve.

Who cares that FIFA used a little-used reversal to fix it. Who cares that other people are mad about it. We. Were. Wronged. It was unjust. It must be corrected. We would accept nothing less.

Europeans waxing poetic about the sanctity of the game are, of course, talking about a governing body whose last tournament host was decided via confirmed cash bribes — one that imposed dress codes on women, shrugged off widespread allegations of modern slavery and reconfigured the entire tournament calendar to suit the host country. Which is exactly the point. If you've made peace with all of that, at least enough to watch the tournament four years later, a probationary suspension isn't actually a scandal.

Maybe that's the real divide. Over millennia, Europeans have made peace with being the bug. Americans have never once considered it, and apparently, we're not about to start now.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Inconvenient truth

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers warned in early 2021 that Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus, passed as the economy was reopening, risked unleashing inflation unlike anything America had seen in a generation. He was right. By June 2022, inflation hit 9.1%, the worst 12-month increase in 40 years.

21.5% cumulative inflation over Biden’s term that permanently increased the cost of living by $14,300 PER YEAR.

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

Agree 💯. The most powerful part of this statement is the why.

He fixes problems that the establishment doesn’t want fixed - they’re making billions off the problems he keeps solving. He is a threat to their money, their power.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Cathie Wood just explained why the establishment will never stop coming for Elon Musk.

And the reason is worse than they think.

Wood: “Tesla was an environmental move, which I think a lot of people attacking his cars… they’ve forgotten.”

They didn’t forget. You don’t forget thirty years of marching and petitioning and begging for the machine that saves the planet.

Someone built it. Forced every automaker on Earth to follow.

Then they turned on him the moment he delivered exactly what they asked for.

Not because he failed them. Because he made them unnecessary.

A solved problem is an existential threat to every institution built to solve it. Kills the funding. Kills the committee. Kills every career that exists to manage the crisis rather than end it.

Wood: “I think he’s the Thomas Edison of our age… he wants to do the right thing to transform the lot of most of humanity.”

Edison was hated too. By the people who sold candles. Every revolution looks like an attack to the people it makes obsolete.

Wood: “What we learn about material science and technologies… is going to help us here on Earth as well.”

SpaceX is not an escape. It is a forge. Build under the most brutal conditions in the solar system and every breakthrough comes home.

Most people at his level stop building and start protecting what they have.

Musk picks the hardest unsolved problem on Earth and runs straight at it.

That is not what terrifies them. What terrifies them is he does it without their funding, without their approval, without a single thing they can hold over his head.

A man you cannot buy is a man you cannot control. And a man you cannot control who keeps solving the problems you profit from is the most dangerous human alive.

They will spend their careers trying to tear him down.

Their grandchildren will live in the world he built anyway.

[Val Katayev @ValKatayev]

I came to America at 11 years old, not speaking the language, with parents who left everything behind for a shot at something better.

By 12, I was working in a jewelry store after school. Sweeping floors, polishing cases, learning how a business actually runs. I didn’t know it then, but that store was my first classroom in the only subject that mattered: opportunity.

At 17, I started a business from my parents’ basement. No connections, no capital, no fancy degree. Just a kid with an internet connection in a country that didn’t ask where I came from, only what I could build.

That’s the thing about America that people who were born here sometimes forget. In most of the world, your ceiling is set the day you’re born. Here, the ceiling is a suggestion.

Every company I’ve built, every job I’ve created, every risk I’ve been able to take exists because this country made one simple bet: give people freedom and get out of their way.

I’ve been paying that bet back ever since. Gladly.

Happy 4th of July. To the country that took in an 11-year-old immigrant kid and asked for nothing but effort in return.

🇺🇸

[TCE Constructors @TCEConstructors]

FACTOID: they were eliminated by the national soccer team of the first country to officially acknowledge the United States.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Canadians booed the USA flag prior to their first World Cup match...

On America’s 250th birthday, they were eliminated 🙌🏼