Things that triggered the left this week:
- a clean reflecting pool
- a name on a building
- a murderer getting convicted of murder
- a sporting event at the White House
- a successful IPO
- welders and janitors becoming millionaires
The 2026 World Cup had a major challenge with grass: FIFA retrofit 16 stadiums in Canada, Mexico and US to keep fields consistent for 48 teams and 104 matches.
It asked grass scientists at U of Tennessee and to design solution:
▫️they made a modular hybrid turf (95% grass / 5% synthetic fiber) that is easily rollable, transportable and installable
▫️each field has 20 million synenthic fibers sewn into dirt (grassroots intertwine with fibers to prevent field from tearing)
▫️all 11 stadiums in US host NFL teams…7 of those had to do special conversion of astroturf fields (Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, LA, NY, Seattle)
▫️5 stadiums have a dome (eg. BC Place in Vancouver) and scientists developed special UV grow light machines to help maintain grass in those structures
▫️grass in Southern US and two Mexico locations (Monterrey, Guadalajara) need grass species for warm and humid temperatures (“Bermuda grass”)
▫️Northern US/Canada and Mexico City need grass for cooler climates (“Kentucky bluegrass”)
▫️scientists built special machines to test player foot impact and ball bouncing effect (reduce injuries and make sure ball movement consistent)
▫️grass sods we’re grown on plastic so they spread horizontally, making it easier to roll and transport
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Interview with U Tennessee grass science expert Dr. John Sorochan (via PBS): https://t.co/FohkCQK39m
A lot of Panicans in Florida are worried that if Homestead property taxes are reduced or eliminated, they will have to find an alternative way to steal taxpayer revenue.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just ended his White House press briefing with a legendary one-line dunk on Gavin Newsom.
REPORTER: “Governor Gavin Newsom has floated this idea of a 100% state tax on Californians who receive money from President Trump’s anti-weaponization fund. Your response to the governor’s call 100% tax?”
BESSENT: “There’s no cure for stupid.”
“Okay, thank you all!”
The Federal Gov't collected $5.26 Trillion in taxes last year. Congress spent all of it. They borrowed another $1.75 Trillion so they could keep spending.
They are like teenagers with dad's credit card.
Best way to take the Credit Card away is a Balanced Budget amendment!
#1 NFL Draft pick Fernando Mendoza & fellow Raiders QB Kirk Cousins did a Step Brothers impression for the team’s schedule release 😂
One of the best releases I’ve seen so far
@JoyceWhiteVance
Oh, I am so glad you brought up Black voters and their electoral power. Please allow me to add something you somehow left out.
Tennessee's 9th Congressional District in Memphis is a MAJORITY-BLACK district. The voting-age population is predominantly Black. Those Black constituents went to the polls -- you know, that sacred act you constantly champion -- and they ELECTED their representative. Democracy in action, right?
Except the Congressional Black Caucus -- the caucus that exists specifically to advocate for Black constituents -- REFUSED to let their representative join. Denied membership. Turned away at the door.
Why?
Because the person those Black voters CHOSE to elect... is white. Democrat Steve Cohen. White man. Majority-Black district. Black constituents. Denied representation by the very caucus that claims to speak FOR Black America.
Read that again slowly.
An entire Black constituency is being ignored by the Congressional Black Caucus -- not because their issues do not matter, not because their votes did not count -- but because they had the AUDACITY to elect a white man. The CBC decided those Black voters made the WRONG choice and punished them for it.
You want to talk about disenfranchising Black voters? THERE IT IS. Not a Republican in sight.
This is not a glitch. This is the Democratic Party telling Black voters exactly what it has always told them: your vote matters, as long as you vote the way WE approve. Step outside that line? We will pretend your entire constituency does not exist.
Quinn's Second Law, ladies and gentlemen. What they accuse others of is PRECISELY what they are doing -- every single time.
But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher who apparently pays more attention to how the Democrats actually treat Black voters than the people claiming to be their loudest defenders.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES… Obamacare’s fraud hole is worse than anyone thought.
Speaker Johnson is furious after investigators exposed what looks like a taxpayer-funded fraud pipeline hiding in plain sight.
Not just sloppy paperwork.
A system that reportedly sent $94 MILLION to dead people while duplicate Social Security numbers were used to grab coverage.
And it gets crazier…
Investigators submitted fake applications with no SSNs, no citizenship documents, and no income records.
23 out of 24 still got approved.
Eighteen were still receiving coverage as of September.
So who verified this?
The exchange didn’t.
The insurers didn’t.
But the taxpayer money kept flowing.
GAO found:
• 29,000 duplicate SSN cases in 2023
• 68,000 in 2024
Multiple people using the same numbers to secure more than a year of insurance coverage.
That’s not a glitch.
That’s a fraud machine.
And Democrats want to extend the same broken system without forcing real fixes?
Absolutely pathetic.
Can we just start a class action lawsuit against the US government? US Citizens v United States. Gross negligence in handling taxpayer funds would be a good start. Who’s in?
✅ DHS employees unpaid.
✅ 1000+ TSA agents quit.
✅ Zero ICE reforms.
✅ Nation less safe.
As the only Democrat who wanted commonsense ICE reforms but always refused to shut the agency down—this was unnecessary and a failure of Congress.
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
All states without any Republican House of Representatives. 21 seats.
I don’t want to hear any complaints from the Democrats about redistricting in the South.
Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.
"I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes."
This would be a great time for Democrats to admit Trump is not actually a pedophile, rapist or traitor. Just telling the truth would go a long way to reducing the insanity.