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music. people. places. stomper / happiness monger / American

[Leg Before Teebo @dmesg]

I grew up in a town where you could buy beer but not hard liquor (but the beer had to be room temperature at the store) in a county where you could buy liquor but not beer. So when the sheriff broke up your party out in the woods you had to pour out the beer but not (1/)

[Chef Joe Gera 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇮🇹 @redhotnerd]

Ok, I didn’t expect a story time on Saturday, but here we go. What I’m about to write is TRUE. It is insane, stupid, and very dumb, but it is true. Earlier today Donald J Trump, the p[resident of the United States, posted that he had offered the job of Press Secretary to Dana White. Well, it was the wrong Dana White… 🧵

[Brett Taylor @Brett_A_Taylor]

You think you're about to read some idiot who believes he could come off the couch and compete against the best in the world.

Instead, you read something brilliant:

[Vlad @VladTheInflator]

Boomers better learn their fucking place.

[Carl Eller @CarlEller81]

Gophers take on UCLA today, and this matchup takes me back to the 1962 Rose Bowl, when we beat the Bruins 21-3 in Pasadena.

Proud to call the @GopherFootball my alma mater. Ski-U-Mah!

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

A thread 🧵If you wanted to watch seven hours of Fox News personalities losing their ever-loving minds on election night but don't want to waste seven hours of your life I've condensed it for you. Hour 1 - DENIAL - They had no idea what was coming 1/7

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AYO. 🥹🐺

[2027 💍 @homiesloveryan]

This is what we call generational

[BalloftheWild (The Artist fka /r/Timberwolves) @BalloftheWild]

Blue tsunami continued in Texas tonight

[nik ⚧︎ (^_^) birthday!!!!!! @kurom3owz]

this is genuinely the funniest thing i’ve ever seen i can’t believe this is real

[Union @yumtapwater]

One thing I wished people understood better was that the resistance to ICE in MN was not just that one enormous freezing march, though that did absolutely rule.

It was a relentless and 24/7 campaign of both shrewd civil disobedience and mass volunteering

[*️⃣*️⃣ @doubleasterisk]

@Gaardsy 🐺 > 🚀

[*️⃣*️⃣ @doubleasterisk]

Dear @hakeemjeffries -

I want us to get more than even.
I don’t want aisle hand shakes and data centers next to residential neighborhoods.

Serve subpoenas
Serve justice
Healthcare for ALL

Please step aside.
Your time has passed. ⌛️

[Clipping Wings @ClippingWings]

Hakeem Jeffries on Morning Joe: The American people don't want us to get even. They want us to get things done on their behalf because life is way too expensive.

We ran on affordability, we won on affordability, and now it's our job to govern on affordability.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Katherine Clark: "There is one image that has stuck with me. It's the video of the memorial to Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It is covered with 'I Voted' stickers. Hundreds and hundreds of people went to that memorial and put that sticker there. Each one placed by an American who cast their ballot in the ultimate act of hope."

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.

Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.

"What do you miss?"

She expects hamburgers.

She almost never gets hamburgers.

And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.

"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)

"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)

"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)

"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)

"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)

"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)

"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)

"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)

"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)

Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.

Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.

"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.

She was wrong.

In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.

It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.

"Saw the storm. You home safe?"

Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.

"Home safe."

Her host mom wrote back one line.

"Good. That's all I needed."

My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.

They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.

So, America. You think you've lost something.

You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.

You don't remember doing any of it.

A kid in Tokyo will never forget.

[Leila Charles Leigh 🌹 - Purity Tester @leilacleigh]

Democrats this is a MANDATE to get the fuck rid of Schumer and Jeffries

DO SOMETHING

[Tyler Dinucci!! @TylerDinucci]

Credit where credit is due — Christie absolutely unloading on JD standing behind what Vivek did. This feels cathartic.

[Daniel Lippman @dlippman]

SCOOP: Jennifer Hegseth, the wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and a former longtime Fox producer, last year was paid by the top Trump-connected DC consulting firm Watchtower Strategy that also did work on behalf of Lockheed Martin the same year (!). https://t.co/ploJQ6d0l8

[Three Year Letterman @3YearLetterman]

Missing my friend tonight

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Enough is enough.

Hakeem Jeffries actively opposes Medicare for All because he and most of his party takes bribes from big insurance companies.

Join the more than 300,000 people who have signed the petition below to Stop Jeffries from becoming Speaker!

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*EXIT STAGE LEFT*

**START THE WALK OFF MUSIC.

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

Speaker Hakeem Jeffries.