tom

I know for a fact... I think.... mostly about politics, tech, Flyers, and music

[tom @Tom_Flys]

280 characters now? nice.

[tom @Tom_Flys]

My general rule of thumb is that I don’t tip when I’m standing up (unless someone did something above and beyond, which never happens).

Waiters get 20%, that drops to 10–15% if the service is bad. The only time I don’t tip is if the they are actually like rude and hostile

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: International World Cup fans say “tipping fatigue has set in” in the U.S., complaining the country’s tip culture is confusing and expensive.

[tom @Tom_Flys]

I live for stats like this

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ largest metropolitan areas sit on the 41° latitude line.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[tom @Tom_Flys]

POV: you start paying attention to politics year 4… maybe year 6

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Stephen A. Smith admits he can’t wrap his head around “how the hell” the Clintons and Obamas left office worth upwards of $100,000,000 after “serving” the American people.

“Clinton was a lawyer in Arkansas, grew up poor, relatively broke. How the hell he and the Clinton Foundation are worth hundreds of millions of dollars beats me.”

“Barack Obama was a community organizer who became the President of the United States. And last time I checked, that salary ain’t over $450,000.”

“How the hell you depart from office, [together] you worth over $200 million?”

Clintons’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Clintons’ net worth today: ~$120,000,000

Obamas’ net worth before office: ~$1,300,000
Obamas’ net worth today: ~$70,000,000

[tom @Tom_Flys]

It’s all so tiresome

[The Seattle Times @seattletimes]

Some Seattle soccer fans have mixed feelings about patriotically backing the U.S. team during the FIFA Men's World Cup, given the actions of President Donald Trump. https://t.co/XooQ8rPjSQ

[tom @Tom_Flys]

Imagine not being American, how embarrassing would that be?

[Aaron Levine @AaronLevine_]

The National Anthem just hits harder. Wow. #USA 🇺🇸

[tom @Tom_Flys]

lol: see my last tweet please

[RT @RT_com]

Man faces 2 years in prison for cleaning up a river

Paul Powlesland and a group of volunteers removed 200 bags of rubbish from London's River Roding

The Environment Agency is prosecuting him for not having a permit

[tom @Tom_Flys]

Every headline from the UK is either this or a woman was arrested and sentenced to 15 months in prison for having a nail file that was a little too pointy and a touch too abrasive.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Man arrested after toddler ended up in crocodile enclosure 'not fit for interview' and released

https://t.co/eBomHyjDvC

[tom @Tom_Flys]

It’s all so silly and fake

[NRM84 @Mappy6984]

What world do these people come from

[Mindset for Money @Mindset4Money_X]

Goldman Sachs after dumping this on retail at 110x revenue:

[Vik von Lustig 🇺🇸 @realcountlustig]

“Half of Americans don’t have passports!”

[tom @Tom_Flys]

“The legalization of marijuana and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race”

[Koalapuffslive @koalapuffslive]

Stoner couples who sesh together:

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

I don’t want to hear about my carbon footprint ever again. https://t.co/cs8t9619dx

[tom @Tom_Flys]

Dead Internet is here now. Literally everything you see will be AI slop from now on

[Fastlane @UseFastlane]

🚨BREAKING: ChatGPT for marketing is here.

In one prompt, Fastlane can deploy hundreds of social media accounts, create viral content, and post it all automatically.

This is insane.

[tom @Tom_Flys]

We must disenfranchise Boomers

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

KY-04 GOP Primary: Results by Age Group

🟣 Age 17-25: Massie +25
🟣 Age 26-35: Massie +56
🟣 Age 36-45: Massie +38
🟣 Age 46-55: Massie +17
——
🔴 Age 56-65: Gallrein +18
🔴 Age 66-75: Gallrein +35
🔴 Age 76+: Gallrein +33

@QuantusInsights | 5/11-12 | 908 LV

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

AOC is right that there are important differences between her and @mtgreenee:

1) AOC emphatically condemns policies only when Trump and the GOP do them, gets muted and deferential when Dems do. By contrast, MTG criticizes policies with equal fervor regardless of which party does them.

2) MTG condemns GOP leaders when they betray their purported values, even risking her political career to do so. By contrast, AOC lies to protect Dems who betray their supposed values (Kamala "is working tirelessly for a ceasefire" in Gaza!), and has supreme devotion to partisan advancement and self-interest above all.

3) MTG introduced a bill to cut all US financing of Israel's military. AOC voted NO, arguing Americans should pay for Israel's "defensive weapons." Big substantive difference.

4) MTG scorns the AIPAC/ADL tactic of accusing Israel critics of being racist and "anti-Semitic." AOC embraces and fortifies that accusatory smear campaign to justify why only liberal critics like her are compassionate and legitimate and everyone else is just racist.

5) MTG only cares about results and outcomes, and will thus work with anyone (left or right) to stop a policy she considers evil and wrong. AOC only cares about posturing and her political branding -- not outcomes -- and will thus reject the opportunity to form majorities to stop stop some policy evil if it means admitting that not only Dems have good ideas and can be good people.

AOC is the embodiment of privilege: having no real urgency about stopping things that don't personally affect her (like Israeli wars and US financing of them). That's why she has harsher words for GOP critics of Israel than she does for Dem supporters of Israel.

This, and more, is why MTG was pushed out of her own party, while AOC has fully morphed into Nancy Pelosi Jr. and is one of the Democratic Party's most valuable partisan tools, and why she's beloved by Dems as such.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

MTG sacrificed her political career to stand against genocide, against Trump, against the Epstein Class, and to defend the survivors of Epstein’s trafficking. If that doesn’t earn credibility I don’t know what possibly could.

[tom @Tom_Flys]

It’s all so silly

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: MAGA evangelical leaders gather in Mar-a-Lago to bless and dedicate a gold statue dedicate to Donald Trump.

[tom @Tom_Flys]

If this guy’s podcast has more than 12 listeners we deserve whatever we get

[RealAF Patriot @RealAF_Patriot]

DAN BONGINO TO BARACK OBAMA 👀

“I know things too.”

“I’m not letting you get away with this.”

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

I really don’t care about the UFO files.

I just don’t.

I’m so sick of the “look at the shiny object” propaganda while they wage foreign wars, let rapist and pedophiles run free, and ruin the value of our dollar.

Unless they roll out live aliens and test demo UFOs or actually admit what we know this really is then I have way better things to do on this Friday.

[tom @Tom_Flys]

No other religion though… the aliens will say Christianity is incorrect then zoooommmm off back to space. They’ll maybe also say Iran for sure has a nuclear weapon.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

🚨 Pastors claim Donald Trump’s rumored alien files could challenge Christian beliefs, urging churches to prepare.