Michael Phillips (18.2%)

sometimes a fan account for my plants. I like the jags

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. There is a beast that lives beneath the American sink. It is always hungry. I have chosen to honor it.

The young man showing me the apartment said it casually, as if it were nothing. "Oh, and there's a disposal." He flipped a switch, and the drain ROARED — a grinding, growling thunder, hungry and alive — and then, at another flick, fell silent. Waiting.

I did not flinch. But I understood at once what I was dealing with.

For it is written that the oldest houses keep a guardian at the threshold of fire and water: a spirit of the hearth, fed in exchange for protection. Here, that spirit lives beneath the sink. It does not ask for prayers. It asks for scraps. And in return it devours what would rot, and keeps the whole house clean and sweet.

So I fed it, with respect. The rind of an onion. A bow. The switch. The roar of a grateful god. I thanked it each time. I named it. I began to leave it the best scraps, not the worst — for a guardian deserves the finest tribute a kitchen can give.

And here my heart rose, and I declared the thing a calmer man would not:

"I will feed this hungry spirit so faithfully, and so well, that on the day misfortune finally comes for this house, it will rise from the drain in a column of righteous thunder and devour my every enemy whole — and I will stand calmly beside the sink and say, 'this one has been with me from the beginning.'"

My landlord, doing the final walkthrough, heard the disposal roaring at midnight and knocked, concerned.

"Everything okay in here?"

"We are well," I said, gesturing to the sink. "He and I."

He did not understand. But he nodded slowly, and left us to it.

The drain has never clogged. The kitchen has never smelled of anything but morning. We have an understanding now, the beast and I.

So tell me, America.

You call it a garbage disposal. An appliance. A switch you flip without a thought.

I call it the loyal hearth-beast of every house —

fed in scraps, paid in thunder,

asking nothing but to be remembered at supper.

[Matt Mackowiak @MattMackowiak]

NEWS: @SaveAustinNow has submitted the EXTERNAL AUDIT CHARTER AMENDMENT petitions to be on the Nov. 2026 ballot!

Details here: https://t.co/poqh7Enrbi.

Austin WILL have an external, performance audit REGULARLY conducted of the ENTIRE City of Austin budget -- if voters approve the Charter Amendment in November.

Please support our efforts: https://t.co/JSXB9Iu6ho.

#ATXcouncil

[Natania Marshall ✞ @NataniaMarshall]

Congress just voted to fuse the U.S. military with Israel and buried it on page 847, so you wouldn’t notice.

Section 224 of the $1.15 trillion NDAA makes Israel apart of the pentagon forever.

This should scare you!

[vídeos fofos @videosfofosof]

o ensaio fotográfico mais lindo que já vi 🥹🥹😍😍

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

Texas this state 😂😂

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

Spurs about to dunk on Knicks like Texas has been dunking on New York.

Go Spurs Go 🔥👽

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

Dog posing with a pipe, in the 1800s

[Degen CPA @DrewVento]

We make your tax rate your body fat percentage

[Monte Warden @MonteWarden1]

Hey @HEB Austin! Why are you still selling bags? The 'bag ban' was overturned in 2018! Its a TAX on the the workin' man, the single mom, and the family on a budget. This ain't abt bein' green, cuz @CentralMarket Austin gives away bags, its about The Green. And it sure aint Texan.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I ordered one pancake in America. The waitress wrote it down and said, "one short stack."

Short. I am a small and humble man. A short stack sounded perfect for me. I waited with a calm heart.

She returned carrying three pancakes, each the size of my face, stacked into a tower, with a block of butter on top sliding down the sides like slow lava.

This was the short one. I did not dare ask what the tall one looked like. Some knowledge a man is not ready for.

I ate for forty minutes. I was not full. I was afraid. The tower did not shrink. I am fairly sure it was growing back faster than I could eat it.

I had to surrender. I left half. In Japan, leaving food is a deep shame. So I leaned in close and apologized to the pancakes directly, in a low voice, one by one.

The waitress asked if I wanted a box. I did not know food could be taken into custody. I declined. I did not want it following me home.
In America, is the short stack truly the small one?
I need time to prepare my spirit before I ever face the tall one.

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

I’m going to say something brave. Wegmans > HEB

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

I’m so ready for football season

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

@AutismCapital @Polymarket

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

Has this guy done a podcast? I need to hear that story

[Crazy Clips @crazyclips_]

At 10 years old this Norwegian man was left alone by his parents in Mumbai

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

@BowTiedBroke 847 ft

[The Angel 🖤 @Angel_150913]

In Alberta news, some crazy fucker breaks a world record driving off our local waterfall. Shout out to Dusty Friesen and his boat named Dent.

[Kayla @KaylaDavis2000]

Adam Hoffman raped his son’s best friend for 3 years

First-degree felony. Life without parole.

Ken Paxton’s office gutted it to 60 days. He walked free after 30.

No sex offender registration. His record scrubbed clean.
Texas protects predators with power!

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

What’s going on at town lake across from Oracle building? There’s 6 fire trucks all stopped on the hike/bike trail

[Michael Phillips (18.2%) @TheMPhillips]

@data_atx What am I going to throw my old shoes on if we did that?

[Adam Loewy @LoewyLawFirm]

The single biggest grift in the entire history of Austin.

Lighting taxpayer money on fire daily.

#txlege