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[Jonathan Turley @Real_Turley]

Thune is again using pro-forma sessions to make pretend the Senate is still in session, to block Trumps recess appts

Join me in calling on Trump to use the power vested in him, under (Art- II- Sec,3) to call the Senate back into session... until they Pass the Save America Act

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@BuzzPatterson @marcorubio @SecRubio should be the one leading these negotiations.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@BrendanCarrFCC They are not even close to a news program.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@spencerpratt Not only that but this pollution spreads through the county by wind. But it is a lot worse the closer you are for sure.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@FoxNews Take away MLB, NFL, NBA, etc. Antitrust exemptions.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@annamlulis Amen 🙏 🙏 🙏

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

The hardware store closes at 6PM.. It's 5:58 when a kid walks in. The kid can't be more than sixteen. Soaking wet and shaking from the rain...

"We're closing." Tom says.

"Please. I just need a lock. For a door."

Something in the kid's voice. Terror. Desperation.

"What kind of lock?"

"I don't know. Just one that keeps people out."

The kid's got a black eye. Fresh. The kind that's still swelling.

Tom doesn't ask. Just walks to aisle seven. Shows him the locks. The kid reaches for the cheapest one, $8.99.

"That one's garbage," Tom says, "Won't stop anyone determined."

He hands him a deadbolt. Heavy duty. $34.99.

The kid's face crumbles. "I only have twelve dollars."

They stand there. Store empty except for them.

Tom takes the deadbolt to the register. Rings it up. "Twelve dollars."

"But,"

"Sale price. Today only."

The kid knows there's no sale. Knows this old man is lying. Tries not to cry and fails.

Tom bags it. Adds a screwdriver. Free.

"You know how to install it?"

The kid shakes his head...

They drive in Tom's truck. Don't talk. The kid directs him to a rundown duplex on the east side.

Upstairs apartment. Door frame cracked. Old lock broken, hanging loose.

Tom installs the deadbolt. Takes him fifteen minutes. Tests it. Solid.

Hands the kid both keys.

"Someone tries to get in, you call 911. You hear me?"

The kid nods.

Tom's halfway to his truck when he hears it, "Why?"

He turns around. The kid's standing in the doorway, backlit, holding those keys like they're made of gold.

"Why did you help me?"

Tom thinks about his own son. Twenty years ago. Different city. Same desperate eyes. Didn't make it.

"Because you asked," Tom says simply.

He drives home. Doesn't tell his wife. Doesn't think much about it.

Three weeks pass.

A woman comes into the store. Tired eyes but smiling. "Are you Tom?"

"Yes, Ma'am."

"My son told me about you. The lock you sold him." She's crying now. "His father, my ex-husband, he's not a good man. That lock kept us safe until I could get the restraining order. Until we could breathe."

She hands Tom an envelope. "It's not much. But it's the thirty dollars we owed you, plus a little more."

Tom tries to refuse. She won't let him.

"You didn't just sell him a lock," she says. "You saw him. You saw us. When we were invisible."

After she leaves, Tom opens the envelope. Sixty dollars. And a note from the kid:

"Installed three more locks for neighbors who needed them. Taught myself how...

"Going to trade school next year. Maybe I'll work in a hardware store someday. Be someone like you. -Marcus"

Tom's manager notices him crying by the register.

"You okay?"

"Yeah," Tom says. "Just... yeah."

That night, Tom stayed two minutes past closing. Then five. Then ten.

In case someone walks in at 5:58PM. Soaking wet. Desperate. Needing more than just a lock.

Tom learned something.

The last customer of the day may be the most important one we ever serve.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@Commonsensepre2 @JesseBWatters @BuyItAllElon Ì won't believe it then until the conditions are met.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@Ask_Spectrum There appears to be yet another TV outage on many of our subscribed channels today after a lot of buffering issues on many channels yesterday. This is on top of internet issues as well. I am in zip code 91750. What is going on?

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@TimbotheBimbo2 @ZavalaA We should have a bipartisan election integrity commission.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@ChadNJensen I tend to agree with you, Chad!

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@SpencerDevino @BuzzPatterson What is Ratcliffe doing to stop his agents from doing this?

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

Interesting. 🤔

When Republicans redraw districts, Democrats call it:
“an attack on democracy.”

But when Democrats openly coordinate “battle plans” for redistricting wars, suddenly it becomes strategic brilliance and political necessity.

Americans are exhausted by the double standard.

Both parties play political hardball.
But only one side pretends it is morally pure while doing it.

And here’s the deeper issue many people are finally noticing:

District maps increasingly look less about representing communities…
and more about engineering permanent political power.

Slice neighborhoods.
Pack demographics.
Dilute opposition.
Manufacture safe seats.

Then the same politicians lecture Americans about “saving democracy.”

Real representation should not require political cartography so extreme it resembles abstract art.

If ideas are strong…
if policies work…
if leadership produces results…

then politicians should not need to engineer districts like a laboratory experiment to survive elections.

Americans want transparent elections.
Fair standards applied equally.
And less hypocrisy from media outlets that suddenly discover outrage only when the opposing side benefits.

#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@lippyent Larry Wilcox as John Baker

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@lippyent CHiPs

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@lippyent Emergency! But the cast is not in front of Station 51 or Rampart.

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@_King_Beast_ @HollyBaylorMLB Has the original post been Community noted?

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@lippyent Edward Scissorhands

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@lippyent Forrest Gump

[David Wilder @dwild303]

@MileHighHuddle Patriots