Dan Patrick on WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert cancelling her appearance on the show:
"If you want to be treated as a serious league, this is what happens! These are tough questions, but this is a fair outlet for you – a fair platform. I will treat you with respect."
PALANTIR CTO:
“FOR $10 BILLION, ELON MUSK PUT 300 ROCKETS IN ORBIT.”
“FOR $11 BILLION, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA HAS BUILT 1,600 FEET OF ELEVATED RAIL...
WITH NO RAIL.”
Happy Fourth of July—all the way from Taiwan! 🇺🇸🇹🇼
Today, we join Americans across the nation in celebrating 250 years of the United States.
The friendship between Taiwan and the United States is built on our shared democratic values, innovation, and the strong ties between our people.
Here’s to many more years of friendship and cooperation. 🎇🤝🎊
#HappyFourth #Freedom250
Mount Rushmore Fireworks Display:
2020: Fireworks Allowed
2021: Blocked
2022: Blocked
2023: Blocked
2024: Blocked
2025: Fireworks Allowed
2026: Fireworks Allowed
Republicans love and celebrate America. Democrats hates America and everything we stand for
America burned Japan's first gift of cherry trees. All 2,000 of them, on President Taft's direct order.
The 1910 shipment arrived in DC crawling with insects and nematodes. Agriculture inspectors condemned the lot, Taft signed off on the bonfire, and the State Department braced for a diplomatic disaster. Tokyo's mayor, Yukio Ozaki, responded by sending 3,020 more, grafted from the famous grove along the Arakawa River.
Those trees have spent a century paying the friendship back.
Four days after Pearl Harbor, vandals chopped down four of them. Park officials renamed the survivors "Oriental" cherry trees for the rest of the war to protect them from axes.
Then came the twist. By 1952 the original Arakawa grove in Tokyo, the parent stock, had nearly died from wartime neglect. Japan asked Washington for help. The Park Service shipped budwood from DC's trees back across the Pacific and restored the grove that created them. When a flood wiped out more Japanese trees in 1982, horticulturists took 800 fresh cuttings from the Tidal Basin.
These 250 new trees solve a real problem too. The Tidal Basin is sinking, and a $133 million seawall rebuild forced crews to rip out roughly 150 trees. Japan offered replacements before anyone asked, timed to America's 250th birthday.
So the genetics run in a loop. Tokyo's grove seeded Washington's. Washington's saved Tokyo's. The saplings going in this spring descend from both.
114 years of diplomacy, running on grafted branches.
Happy 250th birthday to the best country on earth! I was reading a book the other day and was struck by this paragraph. I don’t know who the author was but I thought it was brilliant and perfectly said…🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🇯🇵🇺🇸 Happy Independence Day to our friends in the United States!
This song is very popular here in Japan and many artists often cover it. I particularly love this one.