(((Not That Crown, Maybe)))

Mon centre cède, ma droite recule, situation excellente, j'attaque.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

I don't know or care about the particulars, but I like the idea of an existing fund maintained by the federal government to pay those screwed over by the incompetents and hacks who work for it.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

This is likely news to a lot of people but my favorite part by far is a reminder that Biden was an idiot and an egomaniac before senility robbed him of any remaining executive function but self-regard.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

Hunter Biden is on X challenging people to show when he and his father were ever engaged in corruption. Good for him, that's got to be a much easier grift than painting, especially now that nobody wants to buy his paintings because his father is out of office.

Here's something to remind people just how long the Biden Crime Family had been at it.

In 1996 Joe Biden sold his house to an executive from credit card company MBNA for 1.2 million. Middle Class Joe made out very well. It was the only house in the neighborhood to sell for full asking price. MBNA actually reimbursed the executive who bought Biden's house for some of the cost. Very shady stuff.

MBNA became Biden's top campaign contributor by far. A few weeks after Biden won re-election in 1996, MBNA hired Hunter Biden. After working at MBNA for a few years, Hunter left the company but remained on the payroll as a "consultant" for about five years. What a gig.

What did MBNA get in return? MBNA was a predatory lender and at the time, bankruptcies were soaring. MBNA wanted legislation passed to remove the tools people had to protect their assets from credit card companies. Joe Biden spearheaded the legislation on behalf of the credit card companies and against the American people.

In 2008 Tom Brokaw actually did some journalism and asked Biden about it.

[Sabrdance @sabrdance]

OK, this content shows up in my feed twice in two days, and I don't want to fold laundry. So: how cool is the drop procedure Heinlein describes?

He actually thought it out really well. The core problem is that orbital velocities are bad for paratroopers because it scatters them.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

Every academic press and journal needs a clear ban on AI writing.

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

It’s the worst of all possible worlds. I can buy the argument that the free trade regime of the 90s and 2000s went too far too fast or putting a pause on further reductions. This just hurts consumers without really bringing things back.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

@smithpatrick08 NOW TO ADD SOME PARISH SCHOOLS

[Boo @IzaBooboo]

It is so easy to tell which of these tools employ troll farms.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I do continue to crack up at this idea that Democrat politician moral fiber was so high at some point. When I started working, the Senate Democratic caucus was home to Sen. Killed That Girl in Chappaquiddick, Sen. Waitress Sandwich, and Sen. Klan Member

[Josue Sierra @jmsierra]

This is what happens when adult desires become the organizing principle of family law. ⬇️

First, marriage is redefined. Then parenthood is redefined. Then mothers and fathers become “gestating�� and “non-gestating” parents. The child’s right to be known and loved by both mother and father is pushed further out of view.

New York is the warning. Pennsylvania should not follow.

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

The chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital has tendered his resignation and plans to move to Atlanta in September, citing rising antisemitism in Montreal and worsening problems with the province’s health-care system. https://t.co/1wtSJBpVWT

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

It should be pretty telling when one of the leading advisors of the Democratic Party is completely crashing out over changes at what is supposed to be an independent news network.

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

Because parents treat the Sacraments of Initiation as cultural moments of great cultural importance and not as holy inductions into the Body of Christ, let alone pray with their kids enough to give them an idea that any of this matters.

[Patrick Neve @catholicpat]

Why do the Confirmation kids keep leaving?
https://t.co/2zurpyJYGd

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Impotent foot stomping obviously but you kids don’t remember that these guys used to be able to do this! The Twitter Mean Girls had real actual clout! Some low rent socialist would do a mean tweet about you and then Gawker would run a series of articles entitled “UMMM … Like What Is Wrong With ____’s Face??” and the whole article would just be an ultra close up picture of the villain’s face and then bam you couldn’t get a job.

[Claire Lehmann @clairlemon]

The insight here from @Romy_Holland is that the window for finding your spouse is shorter than the window for establishing your career. This is undeniably true--especially for women--and denial of this basic fact can lead to chronic hardship https://t.co/zRWXOmz5kp

[jeremysenderowicz @senderowiczj]

A good piece by Cillizza. And I hope he or another friend can do an intervention with Jonathan V. Last:

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

Bobby Fischer was, by 1975 if not before, obviously mad and a danger to himself. It is obscene to take a literal madman's rantings and use them as anything other than a reminder to a duty of pity and care for those so afflicted.

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

My basic thesis is that the Jews are a criminal people, and the Jews completely control the United States, and the Jews are using the United States as a vehicle to take over the world.

– Bobby Fischer

[(((Not That Crown, Maybe))) @CrownMaybe]

People are begging for sports to stay politics free but I think politicians interacting with sporting events as if they're normal people and not messaging robots captured and sent to view alien proceedings is a good thing for America.

[Josh Kraushaar @JoshKraushaar]

"As Democratic politicians scramble to seem in touch and ensure that their faces appear on our phones as much as possible, they are neglecting the free real estate offered by sports talk" (cc @stevesolomon)
https://t.co/Hd1xhtJK9F

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Every day there’s a new article advising dems on how they can trick people into thinking they are normal