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@RandPaul @NancyMace And yet nothing will happen with this Do Nothing Senate either the lowest output of any Senate in the past 50 years.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Hollywood: We must make Odyssey represent America which is why we need black Helen, trans Achilles, brown Athena, no Greeks, and questionable white men in a 2,500-year-old Greek myth.

Also Hollywood: We must have an all-Polynesian cast to honor the story we made up 5 years ago.

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@JCNSeverino Theater kid on the Court has to perform. The only appreciative audience is probably limited to her chambers.

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Thank you for this today Bishop. It always hits so real to be reminded that since His birth evil tried to destroy His human nature, e.g. Massacre of the Innocents, rejection at Nazareth, the near stoning, and more. Yet, He willingly went to His Passion on His time. It is so impacting to ruminate.

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@mitchellvii As a Texan, this is great. The less MSNBC followers that come here make Texas even greater. Would say the same for every other state in the list. Keep going MSNBC.

[Dan The Zionist! @DanTheZionist]

Ro Khanna’s driver intentionally triggered a Security First Response Team.

Israeli Gedaliah Blum explains the tricks that Ro Khanna used to stage a performance.

Ro Khanna was traveling in Judea and Samaria, which are also known as the West Bank. The Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria have experienced many terrorist attacks. So, there are First Response Teams of community guards who monitor for suspicious activity. These teams are governed by laws and work with safety measures, and they coordinate with the Israeli army.

Shabbat is Saturday. On Shabbat, people living in Jewish communities do not drive. On Shabbat, Ro Khanna’s team drove off the road, which was already very suspicious. The strange activity of Ro Khanna’s vehicle triggered the First Response Team. So, the team checked the vehicles.

Ro Khanna did not tell anyone he was going to be in the area. He was not traveling in a way that identified him as a congressman, he was not in a government marked vehicle. The First Responder Team checked for his identity. Specifically, because Ro Khanna did not tell anyone he would be in the area, it took about ninety minutes to confirm his identity with the Israeli army.

After he was safely identified, he was allowed to continue on his way. Afterwards, Ro Khanna described this security check as being held hostage by wild settlers, which is total nonsense.

Ro Khanna is a liar.

@GedaliahBlum

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

FLASHBACK: During the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Lindsey Graham stood up against the witch hunt:

"You've got nothing to apologize for. When you see Sotomayor and Kagan, tell them that Lindsey said, oh, because l voted for them. —I would never do to them what you've done to this guy. This is the most unethical sham since I've been in politics."

"I cannot imagine what you and your family have gone through. Boy, y'all want power. God, I hope you never get it. I hope the American people can see through this sham"

"To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics—And I hope that the American people will see through this charade."

This is without a doubt one of Lindsey Graham’s defining moments

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@LayoffAI Stuxnet wishes it were so easy to deliver a malicious payload.

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@RepBrandonGill Now do H1B visas and how they affect housing prices in North Texas.

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@JDVance Yet another his year the Administration approved more H1B visas than any other administration before it. Americans lose jobs. H1B takes.

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@ScottJenningsKY @BretBaier Great to hear. The silence was deafening.

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Why do the hypocrites at Universities have admission requirements? Shouldn’t universities be open to anyone who wants to attend? If the student cannot support him or herself, shouldn’t the university provide free food and housing to the student and the family? At least be consistent in applying principles.

[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.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.

Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.

No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.

And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.

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Anyone who ever had to do a group project with 5 or more people has experienced socialism. One or two doing the great majority of the work (the John Galt producers), the two that do nothing or close to nothing but get the same grade, and the few in the middle that do just enough to say they tried but would never, ever contribute more than the minimum.

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@sfliberty Anyone who ever had to do a group project in class has experienced socialism.

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@stew_hosk @BuzzPatterson He knowingly violated UCMJ in public, with press invited. Maybe even a higher charge woulld stick given the “knowing” and “willingly” with inviting the press. Prosecute to the fullest extent.

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And the Do Nothing Senate has not done one meaningful thing after. Not even codified one single EO. Gavels in sessions to prevent Executive Appointments. When the base doesn’t show up for the midterms, you have no one to blame but yourselves. A majority of your Senate colleagues will be in for a primary challenge and rightly so.

[Alex Feinberg @Alexfeinberg]

Birthright citizenship means A LOT of people are living abroad, as US citizens, and almost certainly not filing their legally required tax returns with the IRS

If we can’t stop birthright citizenship, we can make sure they’re getting harassed by the IRS like real Americans

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Best thing to do immediately is to get IRS agents on it. Another poster (I wish I had tagged it to give credit) pointed out something extremely effective. If you are a US citizen you are required to file a tax return every year regardless of where in the world you live and pay income tax on worldwide income (less deductions). Or, you have to renounce your US citizenship. Send the IRS on them and watch how quickly the denouncements begin.