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[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

It’s also notable that the school doesn’t even try the security concerns excuse because everyone knows conservatives don’t form violent mobs to shut down speakers.

[vae victis @austin__rs]

This has been a "fool me once, fool me for 20 years" kind of relationship, but I'm having trouble not getting excited about CSU football again this season. And yes, I bought season tickets again lol #CSURams

[Colorado State Football @CSUFootball]

Rams carry different vibe as fall camp begins

📝 https://t.co/FIF5RwBUUM

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

Tehran is betting on Democrats.

Not because the mullahs admire their speeches about “diplomacy.” They admire the results.

Iran’s rulers know exactly how this game works. Survive Trump. Absorb the strikes. Make enough noise about humanitarian concerns to activate the usual media panic. Then wait for Washington’s professional appeasers to return and begin offering pallets of cash, sanctions relief, waivers, side deals, and another historically important piece of paper Iran can violate before the ink dries.

The regime does not need to defeat America. It just needs to outlast one election cycle.

That is the wager.

The IRGC watches our politics more carefully than half the people voting in them. It knows Republicans may demand consequences, while Democrats will eventually arrive carrying translators, concessions, and a strongly worded promise that this time the mullahs are definitely serious.

Apparently, decades of terrorism, hostage-taking, proxy wars, shipping attacks, nuclear deception, and chants of “Death to America” were all just cries for better diplomatic outreach.

Perhaps another seminar will fix it.

Iran stalls because stalling works. It negotiates because negotiation buys time. It asks for pauses because pauses let it rebuild. And it hopes American voters will eventually replace resolve with another administration desperate to announce “peace” before Tehran resumes the same behavior.

That is why half-measures are dangerous.

Every unfinished strike becomes another campaign promise to the mullahs: hold on long enough, and the Democrats will come back to save you from the consequences.
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[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Every young American with a W-2 job who has been a taxpayer should be entitled to all of these foreigners’ homes and bank accounts as they are all deported.

[Ron Rule @ronrule]

If the federal government took 100% of Elon’s wealth, it would only fund the government for 52 days.

Then it’s gone, and there’s nothing left to take.

The problem isn’t trillionaires.

[vae victis @austin__rs]

No wonder this referee wasn't selected for the world cup

[vae victis @austin__rs]

@colin_gladman Who uses a vertical scorecard?! Haha

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Arsenal: 2025/26 Premier League champions.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

what the fuck is happening in the UK?!

an 18yo kid was stabbed four times by a fellow british* man "Vikrum Digwa" who was openly carrying an 8 inch blade in public (which is illegal in the UK, but under the new racial laws only one ethnic group is allowed to do) chased down when he tried to escape, stabbed again, but since the gentleman claimed henry did one of the worst crimes one can commit in the west, doing a racism, the police put the bleeding kid in handcuffs and let him die on the pavement

what the fuck?!

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Absolutely horrific, and even worse than we already knew, which I didn’t think possible. Including clear evidence of appalling sex crimes by Hamas which their deluded defenders have always denied.

[vae victis @austin__rs]

@swampveteran @peacock @NBCSports Lol I thought the same thing

[vae victis @austin__rs]

@dreiling44 @evanrawal A+ reply here 🤣🤣 well done

[vae victis @austin__rs]

@SydneyLWatson I had a zio monitor put on. The office charged $1,500 for a tech to remove some sticky pads & put it on my chest, I was there for 10 mins & didn't speak to a doctor. Insurance paid just $250 and of course they didn't mention that there's a "home application" option that costs $0

[Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth]

@GovWhitmer You literally had a thing behind you that directly called for assassinating the President.

You caused this.

[vae victis @austin__rs]

@ConorMcGahey with the caddyshack reference what a treasure 🤣

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

I feel terrible for anyone who loses their job. I’m not trying to kick anyone while they’re down.

But these USAID and NGO workers are the least sympathetic unemployed people I’ve ever seen.

EVERY person in this story was making well into six figures:

USAID employee: $175,000
USAID contractor: $127,000
USAID-funded NGO employee: $272,000(!)
USAID advisor at the DOD: $195,000
USAID contractor: $200,000

There were 16,000 employees at USAID, and the New York Times was only able to interview one making less than $175k. Worldwide, there were an estimated 280,000 contractors.

ALL of these people were getting paid from our tax dollars. Many were making 2-4x the wage of the average American taxpayer ($65-70k per year).

Yes, USAID did some good work, especially during the Cold War. And, yes, many of the agency’s employees were hard-working Americans, with good intentions and love for their country. Again, we should take no joy in seeing thousands of people lose their livelihoods—this is not a case of justifiable schadenfreude.

But it’s not sustainable for an agency with so little accountability to manage tens of billions of dollars per year, enriching tens of thousands of NGO-industrial-complex managers living in the DC/Maryland/Virginia metroplex in the process. Even the NYT acknowledges that “there was bloat and waste in the agency and a need for reform. Much of the $35 billion [USAID] managed in 2024 went to Washington-based contractors, not directly to people in need overseas. The success of many projects was hard to measure.”

Every last dollar that went to these highly paid employees was funded by an American taxpayer, the vast majority of whom make far less money than the people laid off from USAID. We have the right to demand accountability, and we have the right to expect that these funds will be spent in our interest, not theirs.

USAID and its thousands of employees, contractors, and NGO beneficiaries ignored that principle, and they eventually paid the price with their careers. I wish them all nothing but the best, but I won’t mourn that they will no longer be making $200k per year on the backs of American workers.

[Jesse Montano @jessemontano]

“Are they going to continue to win scoring just 2 goals?”

- Kings Coach DJ Smith

[vae victis @austin__rs]

Away at The Etihad is a scheduled loss which is fine, but losing to Bournemouth at home and drawing at Wolves is where the campaign is lost. The team's form in the last month has been completely unacceptable. Not surprised by the calls for #ArtetaOut #Arsenal

[vae victis @austin__rs]

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[𝗗𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗔𝗗 🇺🇸 💵 @CSUDonald]

EVERY MAN IN BOULDER LOOKS LIKE THEY WOKE UP AND THOUGHT HMMM I BETTER WEAR MY WIFES CLOTHES TODAY

[vae victis @austin__rs]

@colin_gladman @JustinRose99 https://t.co/k6qcmFr20j same!!

[vae victis @austin__rs]

I'm rooting so hard for JRose this week #masters