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[Ben Cohen @YoBenCohen]

What if we invested in Americans the way we invest in war?

Me and Sully break down something every American deserves to understand: where our tax dollars go and what else they could accomplish.

Using Oreo cookies, we show what a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget looks like and what investing just a fraction of that money could mean for affordable housing, tuition-free public college, ending homelessness, childcare, healthcare, and better teacher salaries.

This isn’t about weakening our military. It’s about questioning our priorities.

We can have a strong national defense AND invest in the American people.

The question isn’t whether we have the money. It’s what we choose to do with it.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@LonJohnson48226 Deeply out of touch and full on racist.

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

This is an amazing video. We should be learning from our history and each other. Worth a listen!

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@realdefender45 Yes! Huzzah to the common good! Feck personal needs and attention! Feck point of privilege! Feck individuality! Socialism LFG!

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's pretty impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC:

-- 229,000 pothole repairs (up 27% from last year)
-- speedbump installations up 25%
-- tree planting up 61% (55,000 total)
-- bus lanes installation more than doubled (5.5 miles to 12 miles)
-- residential curbside collection met its annual target for the first time in 21 years (with three months to spare)
-- affordable housing completions up 20%
-- financed 2,546 supportive housing units and 4,742 affordable homes for formerly homeless New Yorkers, the most in a fiscal year in NYC history
-- job placements through the city's human resources agency are up 33%
-- youth job placements through city admin up 26%
-- wait times for primary care appointments down 31% for adults and 24% for children
-- families receiving child welfare services up 16%
-- rec center membership up 13% (total membership highest in 15 years)
-- young adult attendance at rec centers up 50%
-- murder rate is down 20%
-- burglaries down 9%, robberies down 9%, auto thefts down 7%

All in fewer than nine months. Extraordinary.

Read the full stats here: https://t.co/0hWZeeaavq

[Office of the Public Advocate Jumaane D. Williams @nycpa]

Some leaders need to hear this:

If you say the mayor who lied about poison in NYC after 9/11 should attend the memorial ceremony, but the mayor who revealed those lies shouldn’t—you’re not supporting survivors, honoring victims, or being patriotic.

You’re probably just a bigot.

[Evan Roth Smith @TheRealERS]

I am appalled and aghast at the unfair and bigoted vitriol being directed at Mayor Mamdani around 9/11. He was one of a million kids in New York who spent that day terrified, and who carries that experience with him today. I know because I was with him, and we were terrified together. None of the attacks on the Mayor or others like Ramzi Kassem survive even the slightest scrutiny beyond dredging the bottom of the barrel of anti-Muslim slander.

I disagree with the Mayor on many things, and have made those disagreements known publicly and privately. But there is absolutely no room for accusing a New Yorker who lived through those attacks of sympathy with the people who perpetrated them. End of story.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers.

As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other. Let us remember the extraordinary compassion, resilience and bravery that carried our city through its darkest
day.

Today, New York remembers. We will Never Forget.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@NYCMayor @mehdirhasan ❤️♥️💙💜🙏🏼

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Decades from now the FBI, if it still exist, will release documents showing Trump was in fact a Russian - Israeli spy, and a human / drug / rape trafficking, money laundering, child rapist, and that they all knew it all along but for "national security" reasons kept it hidden.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

Mitt Romney’s former campaign manager.
#VoteBlue 🌊

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. House will be in session only 4 full days from July 24th to November 8th.

That’s 100 paid days off versus 4 full workings days plus 4 travel (half) days.

Meanwhile TRUMP says YOU have too many holidays.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@jdsamson urite

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

I spoke to my old friend Lindsey Graham this morning, the senior Senator from South Carolina. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the William Henry Harrison Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@Kasparov63 Clarify your position on Mamdani now.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@BillAckman You chose this. Consciously.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[ArKtype @ArKtype]

@raisoman @HunterBiden @Suzierizzo1 What are you thinking? Look at what the employees are paid versus CEOs - surely you’re not serious about pay rates for blue collar workers.