Go Birds

Husband, Father, Live music supporter I'm fond of the Phish from Vermont Often foggy, rather groggy If you're causin' no harm then you're alright with me

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

Dumbest people on the planet. Sure kids will be at school in the dark for an hour, but sunset makes it to barely 6:00. Wtf does that even add to someone’s day?

[Stephen Eckhardt 🇺🇸 @seckhardt]

Look at those January sunset times 😃

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

@ShaggleRock I’ll say it now and I’ll say it again

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Americans realizing they can go to jail for smoking weed but Trump gets a $200 fine for insider trading

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

Knows so much about sports (and business) that’s he pretty much responsible for the demise of the USFL in the mid 80s. Go snort yourself to another alternate reality dipshit

[Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr]

Anyone who knows my father knows he probably knows more about Sports than just about any human being not in the business. Kathy’s failed soundbite ain’t gonna land well… just like her policies.

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

Trump literally thought the KC Chiefs play in Kansas but go on

[Dan Weldon for FL-64 @TampaDan]

It's a huge problem for the Democrat Party that you take one look at the men they run for elected office and just know that they couldn't name a single obscure wide receiver from the early 2000s.

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

Lololololololololo

Art of the deal!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute humiliation for the White House. 60 Minutes confirms Iran is brilliantly bypassing the US blockade, exporting 100,000 MORE barrels of oil daily than before the war.

While Trump crashes the Western economy, Tehran freely sells to China. Total strategic collapse!

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

Hey @grok does the Trump family have any financial ties to any prediction market companies?

[ABC News @ABC]

The federal government is suing Minnesota after state legislators passed a bill that would ban prediction market companies from operating in the state. https://t.co/rUHV0khZHk

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

May be a decade before I really spend time watching the Sixers again. Trading Jared McCain for literally no reason at all this season was the last straw

[Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 @JoshEberley]

If Embiid faked the face shot here, can you imagine?

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

@MeghanMcCain Sit down chubby

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

“The top 1% pay 40% of the taxes” — the statement so misleading, it might as well be false.

@raymadoff explains.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money.

We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.

It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Go Birds @jonhentz]

Where are your Republican colleagues?
On their knees looking like they’ve been gorging on Cheetos

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

A mind-blowing-but-true fact about Trump's stock trading.

Trump traded up to ~$700 million in stock in Q1 of 2026.

The 535 Members of Congress made ~$635 million in trades in 2025.

Trump bought and sold more stock in 3 months than all of Congress put together did in a year.

[Brent Terhune in Little Rock 7.30-8.1 @BrentTerhune]

I almost remembered the war in Iran, gas prices, the Epstein files, the economy, tariffs and ICE for a second.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency https://t.co/iIdiB9lAgl

[Merlijn The Trader @MerlijnTrader]

MASSIVE:

🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying.

A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements.
Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts.

We tracked a whale for weeks.
0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate.

You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin.
They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets.

Now the BBC has the receipts.
Nobody will be investigated.
Nobody will be charged.

The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

Oh thank god

I was worried Trump thought of himself as Jesus but it turns out hes just retarded

was worried for a second