Dexter Harrell

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Chris Marler @Vern_Funquist]

Denver deserved to lose.

Imagine having 2 Auburn QBs in your roster.

Even Auburn barely has 2 Auburn QBs on their roster.

[18x National Champions 🐘 @_Tide18Tymes]

I am NOT a cocomelon parent. you gonna sit down and watch Jalston Fowler highlights

[NBAGotNews @OKCowboysBraves]

Steve Nash and Chris Paul, must see TV

[Dexter Harrell @d_harrell22]

@ed_harrell @Mollyploofkins I think it's pretty clear the comment was about the fact it was for Putin and not the literal action of taping the carpet

[Dexter Harrell @d_harrell22]

@ed_harrell @Mollyploofkins Did they roll out a red carpet for Zelensky?

[Dexter Harrell @d_harrell22]

@ed_harrell @Mollyploofkins Didn't realize you were okay with literally rolling out the red carpet for Putin

[ProPublica @propublica]

ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said.

He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
https://t.co/lkFtAuOVwF

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

What a tribute to Dale by Alabama tonight

[Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff]

[hegseth] Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.

[friend who once got a text from hegseth where he accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

[The Crimson White @TheCrimsonWhite]

BREAKING | A UA student was reportedly detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning.
Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from Iran studying mechanical engineering, was reportedly arrested by ICE officers at around 5 a.m. at his home on Tuesday.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

🚨Trump’s post calls for 20-year prison sentences for individuals he described as “terrorist thugs” for actions against Tesla, suggesting they could serve these sentences in El Salvador’s notoriously harsh prisons, without distinguishing between U.S. citizens and non-citizens.

The statement raises serious constitutional concerns.

The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee due process, yet prescribing punishment without legal proceedings undermines these protections.

The suggestion to send individuals to foreign prisons without legal process raises additional constitutional issues.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, and transferring individuals to a foreign prison system known for human rights abuses would likely violate that protection.

Labeling alleged vandals as “terrorists” also has First Amendment implications. This framing can be used to chill protest and dissent, rights that are constitutionally protected.

While no policy has been enacted, the post reflects an ongoing erosion of constitutional norms.

It signals a disregard for judicial independence and the rule of law, and if acted upon, would mark a dangerous shift toward unchecked executive power.

In effect, no one is safe.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

I'm old enough to remember when Trump and Elon cut children's cancer research funding (last week) and Republicans were silent.

[John Layfield @JCLayfield]

I’ve been trying to tell you…..

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

So glad free speech is back

[Dexter Harrell @d_harrell22]

Pretty ironic coming from a guy who keeps pushing for Canada to become the 51st state

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reality of war

[Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @RepJasmine]

Trump and Vance are an EMBARRASSMENT and DISGRACE. It was absolutely shameful to watch them berate the President of another country. Let alone one of our allies!

Trump saying, “You’re either gonna make a deal or we’re out “is beyond disrespectful.

That’s not leadership—this is a power play with no regard for what’s really happening in the world.

President Zelensky, is literally fighting for his country’s survival!
https://t.co/qdmvPBRzhu