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[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

Clinic. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

Our Chris Richards.

He completed all 83 passes he attempted for the @USMNT against Paraguay. The most passes with a 100% accuracy rate by any player in a @FIFAWorldCup match since 1966.

@OptaJack 📊

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Poetry in slow-motion

Gio Reyna ended the night off perfectly

[Jon @JonGraeser]

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[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

RAISE THE JOLLY ROGER

Bryan Reynolds says GOOD NIGHT

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.

[Jon @JonGraeser]

@JuliaBurdelski @TribSports 320,000 people. That is incredible. Much friendlier than an actual @nfl game.

[Chase Senior @Chase_Senior]

Pittsburgh is one of the most underrated cities in the United States. I'm glad it'll be on display for the nation to see the next three days for the NFL Draft.

Highly recommend going, especially in the summer.

- Get a Primanti Bros sandwich
- Check out a Pirates game at PNC Field, one of the most beautiful ballparks in MLB
- Drink an Iron City beer
- Spend some time at "The Point" where the three rivers connect
- Go to Mount Washington to get a stunning view of the Pittsburgh skyline

#NFLDraft

[Jon @JonGraeser]

@ByEricPratt @MLB @MLBNetwork

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Ketanji Brown Jackson is unfit for the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court is supposed to be the one institution in America that isn't a stage.

Nine people. Lifetime appointments. No elections. No donors. No campaigns. Just the Constitution.

Yesterday the Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado's ban on talk therapy violated the First Amendment. Six conservatives agreed. Both liberal justices agreed.

Except Jackson.

She wrote a 35-page dissent. Eight justices needed fewer pages to explain the law than she needed to explain why they were all wrong.

And read it aloud from the bench. Turning the court into a spectacle.

Then Kagan, Obama's appointee, publicly corrected her. Called the case "textbook" viewpoint discrimination. Accused Jackson of "reimagining and collapsing well-settled legal distinctions."

Jackson fired back in a footnote. Accused Kagan and Sotomayor of being dupes for the conservative majority.

A Supreme Court justice calling her own colleagues political pawns. In a legal opinion. From the bench that exists to be above politics.

Every time she loses, she turns on whatever allies she has left.

Three separate 8-1 rulings across three years. Lone dissenter every time.

Barrett wrote that Jackson "decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."

She has two liberal allies sitting right next to her. They looked at her reasoning and chose the law over her activism.

Last term, every justice on the Court agreed with the majority more often than she did. Dead last of nine.

In contested cases: 51%. Kagan, same team: 70%.

One builds coalitions. One writes 35-page letters to nobody.

Majority opinions: 5. Fewest on the Court.

Dissents: 10. Most on the Court.

Words per oral argument: 1,350. Next closest justice: 900.

She talks the most. Writes the longest. Wins the least.

Before the Supreme Court she spent eight years on the DC District Court. More of her rulings were overturned than nearly two-thirds of her peers.

Reversed unanimously for exceeding her jurisdiction.

Tried to overrule Congress on immigration. The court above her said she had no authority.

And that court leaned left. Six of ten judges appointed by Democrats. Even they thought she went too far.

A judge is supposed to be consistent.

States can't ban gender procedures for minors. States have ABSOLUTE power to ban talk therapy for minors.

Same justice. Same year. The only variable is which side of the culture war the regulation falls on.

A judge is supposed to be honest.

Told law students in 2015 that critical race theory informs sentencing. Told the Senate in 2022 that CRT doesn't come up in her work as a judge. One of those was under oath.

Can't define the word "woman" in front of the Senate. Celebrates being "the first Black woman" on the Supreme Court on The View. Under oath she's not a biologist. On daytime TV she's making history.

A judge is supposed to protect the vulnerable.

Federal sentencing guidelines called for 10 years in a child pornography case. She gave 3 months. Her sentencing averaged 57% below national for possession. 47% below for distribution. Every. Single. Case. Below guidelines.

A judge is supposed to defend the Constitution. Not treat it as a document to be corrected.

She praised the 1619 Project, which argues America's true founding wasn't liberty in 1776 but slavery in 1619.

She wrote from the bench that "Our country has never been colorblind." Rejecting the plain meaning of the Equal Protection Clause.

She accused the Court itself of enabling "our collective demise."

"Let-them-eat-cake obliviousness." "Five-alarm fire." "Moneyed interests."

These aren't legal opinions. These are campaign speeches from a chair that's supposed to be above campaigns.

Harvard Law. A Supreme Court clerkship. Eight years on the federal bench. She told the Senate she doesn't have "a judicial philosophy per se."

But she told the country she's "not afraid to use her voice."

She's an activist. Weakest judge of the highest court.

Biden had judges with more cases argued before the Court and bipartisan support. He passed over them for the nominee endorsed by Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and Demand Justice.

She doesn't want to be a justice. She wants to be a politician.

She just skipped the election.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild.

A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute.

Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home.

So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room.

The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely.

The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running.

Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

[NWS Pittsburgh @NWSPittsburgh]

One of our employees, Jared Rackley, caught this morning's meteor on camera from the Pittsburgh area.

[Jon @JonGraeser]

@libsoftiktok The state is the start up

[Jon @JonGraeser]

@Ikennect The state is the start-up

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The real story is the $25 million per mile price tag they’re betting on.

Nashville’s own 2018 light rail plan priced at $200 million per mile. New York’s East Side Access cost $3.5 billion per mile. The LA Metro expansion is running $1 billion per mile. The Boring Company says it can build 13 miles of twin tunnels through Nashville for $240-300 million total.

That’s a 95% cost reduction from the industry average. If the number holds, it rewrites the economics of every transit project in America. If it doesn’t, a few hundred million in private capital evaporates and taxpayers lose nothing. That risk asymmetry explains why Tennessee said yes when LA, Chicago, Baltimore, and DC all said no.

The engineering gamble is wild. 12-foot diameter tunnels instead of 28-foot. Fully electric Prufrock machines that mine continuously instead of stopping every 5 feet to install lining segments. Zero people in the tunnel during operations. A machine that “porpoises” into the ground from a truck instead of requiring million-dollar launch pits and cranes.

Every one of those innovations has worked in Las Vegas sand. None have been tested in karst limestone, the geology that creates sinkholes, caves, and underground streams. Their own CEO said at the unveiling that Nashville would not be their choice if they were optimizing for easiest places to tunnel.

This tells you everything about what The Boring Company is actually trying to prove. Nashville is where the thesis meets the hardest possible geology. 50 inches of annual rainfall versus Vegas’s 4. Rock that creates underground caves and streams. They just signed a construction contract in Dubai too, meaning they need Nashville to work before the next project launches.

The internal memo from the governor’s office estimates 1 mile per month. The Boring Company’s website claims 1 mile per week. That 4x gap between political planning and corporate marketing will determine whether this finishes in 2027 or 2030.

Week 7, when Prufrock-MB2 arrives, is when this gets real. Two machines boring simultaneously through Tennessee limestone will answer the question the entire tunneling industry has been debating for a decade: whether a startup can actually outrun the physics that made infrastructure the slowest-moving sector in construction.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

To fund this insane budget he is:

1. Raising property taxes by 10%
2. Raiding the cities emergency fund

Absolutely incredible.

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Zohran Mamdani just proposed a preliminary budget of $127 Billion for NYC…

The entire state of Florida is $117 Billion.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

With Zuck’s move to Florida, California’s total taxable wealth from billionaires has plummeted to well under $1T from over $2T just a few weeks ago.

The loss of this tax revenue was totally avoidable but is now forever. All because Gavin Newsom stood motionless as this stupidly written bill, from a fringe union and a handful of socialist academics with an axe to grind, meandered its way into the public conversation without any action from him and freaked everyone out.

These were all people that were paying 13%+ in state income tax every year WITH NO COMPLAINTS UNTIL A FEW WEEKS AGO.

And now, for the rest of time, the lost tax revenues from these folks will have to be paid for by the middle class because they are the only group left in California large enough that you can tax to fill the hole.

He’s forsaken the middle class instead of managing the budget, managing the deficit, eliminating even a portion of California’s gargantuan waste and abuse. He could have done any of these things at any point over the past 7+ years.

But he was silent.

And now California’s budget will implode and he wants to run for President.

Insane.