Yegs

“The advance of knowledge requires the collision of ideas.”

[Yegs @Yegs]

@mickshaffer “What did YOU do for your bachelor party?”

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

A question I think we need an answer to: If we only targeted Iran's military and military targets, why do they need a $300 billion reconstruction fund? What will they reconstruct?

[Clara-Sophia Daly @clarasophiadaly]

The pilot says the reason given for the shutdown is that there is going to be some kind of military jet air show above the White House

[Clara-Sophia Daly @clarasophiadaly]

Boarded my flight at DCA National airport. Come to find out, the president of the United States has paused ALL flights because of the UFC fight at the White House.

The air traffic controllers were not warned, nor were the airport staff or travelers.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I honestly have no idea how anyone reads this stuff and doesn't see a complete and utter embarrassment for U.S. power. We are in a weaker position now. Whole thing reeks of us begging for a deal we can't get. Empty threats from us daily. It's just wild.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

This is Noah Shannon, model citizen, slated to be Hawkeye senior defensive captain 2023. He had guilt pangs for having bet $10 on the Iowa Women's Basketball team in the 2023 NCAA tournament. The only bet he ever made. He turned himself in to coaches for the transgression who forwarded it to the NCAA.

They ruled him inelligible for the entire season, effectively ending his career. If the NCAA allows someone else to play after making thousands of bets, including many on his own team, I am going to fucking riot

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

“A mythomaniac is a clinical and literary term for an extreme pathological liar. It describes someone whose lies are grand, deeply embedded in their identity, and told with complete, unbenched confidence.”

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is unhinged. If a family member behaved this way, you'd worry about them. If a CEO behaved like this, the board would meet. He's living in an alternate reality and furious when a person won't indulge his fantasies.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

"And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day."

--- Henry V, Act IV, Scene III

Dave's Car ID Service remembers D-Day on its 82nd anniversary today. A bit of a melancholy remembrance, as the sun continues to set on those Greatest Generation men who fought it. It's estimated that only 45,000 American WWII veterans remain, perhaps fewer than 100 D-Day veterans. Their numbers relentlessly decrease. And one day, in the not distant future, there will be none.

That's inevitable. But what isn't inevitable is forgetting what they did. It's our societal obligation, even among those born in this century, to keep that flame of their memory alive so that it persists 100, 500, 1000 years into the future.

These silly car ID threads I host have that as a serious goal: they're sort of a rage against the dying of memory. And there's no memory more worthy of preservation than the Americans, Canadians, Brits, and others who fought on the beaches of Normandy that early morning, June 6 1944. I have a reverence for those men, and am grateful to have known a dozen or two who were there. And you can bet your ass that I hold my manhood cheap when I think about what they did that day.

Over my stint as an online car identifier, I am honored to have received several photos of D-Day veterans with their mystery cars. And those IDs I approach with a special reverence. As a thread starter today I'm going to rerun a few.

Below is @minhagim's grandfather. He was a helped plan out the D-Day invasion as a mapper in Army intelligence. How he even got to that point was a miracle. Per his grandson's note:

"Grandfather maimed or killed two Gestapo officers when they came for his parents (he was an amateur boxer). Took his parents and two siblings and immediately left. Made it to France. Fought with the French resistance. Mid-war emigrated to USA."

In #3 he's postwar in his civvies with his new bride and a 1946-48 Chrysler.

Incidentally, Grandpa's brother landed on Omaha beach that day and survived, later working in the CIA.

https://t.co/2L4cPEV2Mp

https://t.co/z0u0HxFLY5

[Ned Price @nedprice]

The biggest news isn't that Trump is appointing someone without a national security background to a position that, by law, requires "extensive" experience. It's that Pulte earned Trump's trust by using **mortgage** records to pursue perceived political enemies. Now this top henchman will have access to some of our most sensitive intelligence and exquisite capabilities. That's why this is so noteworthy -- and concerning.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

And another thing ... when establishment Republicans shrug their shoulders and campaign for corrupt politicians immediately after calling them out for their corruption, they demonstrate how few principles they have. If corruption is only a dealbreaker in the primary, then it's no dealbreaker at all.

[Jason Hanna @JasonHannaphoto]

Foreshadowing.
The shadow of downtown KC casts on to high level clouds above the K. One of the coolest pictures I think I’ve gotten lucky enough to take at the K. Especially with where we will be moving to. So cool.

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

This is hundred times worse than anything Biden did.

And Biden was corrupt as well.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Trump looting almost $2 billion from the government coffers to pay his supporters is one of the largest scandals in US history.

But our press is so beaten down and the public has become so fatigued by his constant criminality that it's barely a news story.

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

Trump simply showing that he's the most corrupt President ever.

Nothing else comes even close.

[Zak Blair @coachzblair10]

Look at this guy and the on deck hitter. Not enough juice! You can't be pimpin' a ball that will have yellow on it as it goes over. Take a seat! 😂

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist”

Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that”

NYT: *plays clip of him saying that*

[Brian Chovanec @Brian_Chovanec]

At this point Ben Sasse’s Twitter feed is a must follow no matter your political persuasion or even if you have none.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

*opens up TurboTax*

5 minutes later:

[Matt Rice @matt____rice]

Andrew Harnik has been awarded the White House Correspondents’ Association award for excellence in presidential news coverage by visual journalists for the following photo: