Andy Davies

Just a man livin' the dream.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Over 900 years of military experience has been lost due to Pete Hegseth's purge of 25 senior military officers.

"Collectively, they represent over nine centuries of tactical, operational, and institutional experience across every domain of warfare." - Mike Schmitt

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[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh

[Midwest vs. The Rest @midwestern_ope]

Reminder that 95° and humid is better than 10° and a wind chill

[Matt Derrick @mattderrick]

Given what Kansas City pays for concessions at matches and the fan fest, kudos to Arthur Blank for telling FIFA to shove their prices where the sun doesn’t shine.

Other NFL owners should follow his concession pricing philosophy.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Trump is having the US government literally own shares of private companies.

He is the most communist president we’ve ever had, Comrade Laura.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

One of the dumbest arguments out there is the insistence that the two parties are the same today as they were in the mid-19th century.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Seen in Cleveland...

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

Good morning to everyone enjoying their police dept, fire dept, library, military and their grade school.

Let’s all enjoy some socialism today!

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

And there goes the administrative state, and with it, modern governance in America.

We shall likely return to some version of Gilded Age patronage-driven US government, which Trump has basically already launched.

Might be better. Might be worse. This is what MAGA voted for.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

A characteristic of fascist governance

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Since we’re not doing separation of church and state anymore, when can we expect the churches to start paying income taxes?

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed.

He got a list.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Public corruption, utterly obscene, at a scale we’ve never seen. Why do they do it? Bcuz they don’t believe their supporters give a damn about it, and they know the Republican-led Congress won’t do a damn thing about it.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The Johns Hopkins Agora Institute embedded researchers in super-red counties in Wyoming, Michigan, and South Carolina for an ethnographic study of Trump voters. Fourteen of 21 participants had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy. The reasons they gave were consistent.

These voters do not believe they are a silent majority. They believe they are a minority under threat from a wicked cultural majority. They do not want majority rule. They want minority rule - specifically, the ability for their group to exercise power over a majority they find morally repugnant.

Patricia, 50s, South Carolina: "Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding who's for dinner." Kyle, mid-20s, Wyoming, a delivery driver: "Every single small town would be outvoted by every single city. We wouldn't be able to feed people cows. We'd all be eating seaweed." Clint, 70s, Michigan: "If we do have a democracy, it'll be a problem."

JVL is scrupulous about the limits of a 21-person sample. He notes Sarah Longwell's counter-thesis - that millions of Trump voters are genuinely motivated by affordability and economic hardship - is also correct. But the study documents something specific: a coherent worldview in which democratic processes are only legitimate when they produce outcomes the participant approves. That is not a misunderstanding of democracy. It is a rejection of it.

[nick wright @getnickwright]

Best sports town in America. Whatever the big event, whether KC is represented or not, my hometown is absolutely dialed in.

[Jared Koller @JaredKollerKC]

What a time to be alive when people in Atlanta, market size #7, are complaining about Kansas City, market size #33, getting too much coverage.

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

Algeria fans made a "Thank You Lawrence" banner for their last group game.

Rock Chalk Algeria

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فرحة سكان مدينة كانساس سيتي لحظة تسجيل المنتخب الوطني لهدف التعادل، في مشهد يعكس الأجواء الاستثنائية والدعم الكبير الذي حظي به "الخضر" خ��ال مشاركتهم في كأس العالم 🇩🇿♥️🇺🇲

#الجزائر
#ALGAUT

[The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @MsEntropy]

Algeria-Kansas forever ❤️🇩🇿💚🌻⚽️