Mark Condit

Ashland High School Social Studies Teacher

[Mark Condit @mcondit]

What would you do if "La Marseillaise" was played?

[Bobby Burack @burackbobby_]

New “face of the NBA” Victor Wembanyama kept his arms crossed during the entire National Anthem ahead of the NBA Finals.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Josh doesn't even mention the worst part of Fetterman's irresponsibility. Because he won't wear a suit, he's *literally not allowed on the Senate floor*. That's where negotiations happen. He just doesn't go. He sits in the hall and signals thumbs up/down through the doorway.

The Senate is very much built on bargains and personal back-and-forth. Fetterman just sits all of it out. He plops himself on a chair in the hallway, alone, scrolling his phone, until an aide taps his shoulder to tell him it's time to peek his head in and vote.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

They idea that this stuff is just how "ordinary" people are is an insult to ordinary Americans everywhere who show up for work, follow medical advice, honor their commitments to their spouses and wear respectful attire.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Tom Steyer keeps running around saying that it’s unfair that billionaires like him can buy our democracy, then spending hundreds of millions dollars to do just that, then failing to get elected, and then repeating all the same lines the next time around. It’s extremely funny.

[Mark Condit @mcondit]

All of these sound like campaign talking points. Actual voters don’t speak this way.

[Matt Berg @mattberg33]

New: More than a dozen Maine voters told me that their support for Graham Platner isn't wavering after his latest scandal.

“I want a senator, not a saint. I want policy action, not gossip,” one voter said.

🧵🧵🧵 of their reactions:

[Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs]

It's interesting that in the midst of a spiraling news cycle around his sexting that this is what the Platner campaign sees as their safe harbor to rally supporters online

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

If you think Susan Collins is “one of the most evil people in public life,” you might be in the grip of politically motivated reasoning.

[Mark Condit @mcondit]

@KeithTalentless 1200-1400 more Brits die due to heat annually than gun deaths in New Orleans. The UK actually has a higher number of deaths due to lack of medical care and wait times than the US despite having only a fraction of the population. In 2023, 120,000 died while waiting for NHS care.

[Mark Condit @mcondit]

This would be quite the zinger except 1,300 people die every year in the UK due to heat. Nobody dies in New Orleans due to snow.

[Keith Talentless @KeithTalentless]

For christ's sake, Americans. British homes don't have air con for the same reason New Orleans doesn't have a fleet of snow ploughs.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

"she now owes MORE than she originally borrowed" yeah that's how loans work, champ

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

THIS, ON REPEAT. 🥹

[Mark Condit @mcondit]

But a nurse in Queens earning $75K/yr isn't in the bottom half of income earners. The nurse nearly earns the median household income for Queens (~$86K) by herself. This is a person who'd have to pay more in taxes if we eliminated those on lower earners.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”

“So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!”

“Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?”

“That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”

“And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.”

“We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.”

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.”

Exactly!

[Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial]

IT’S EUROPA LEAGUE FINAL MATCHDAY ✊

[Mark Condit @mcondit]

There wasn’t a single dissent at the federal level. Not Kagan, Sotomayor, or even Brown-Jackson.

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

The Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to nullify an election and the votes of more than three million Virginians.

These Virginians made their voices heard — casting their ballots in good faith to push back against a President who said he’s “entitled” to more seats in Congress before voters go to the polls.

As Governor, I will make sure voters know when and how to cast their votes this year. Because our votes are how we choose the representation we deserve.

[Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians]

Where were you in 2016?

We won the Pennant.

#GuardsBall

[The okayest poster there is @ok_post_guy]

I simply would not publish an article where I make clear I have no idea what a presidential library is

[Mark Condit @mcondit]

Our son turned five yesterday and asked this afternoon, “Daddy, can you take me to that government thing you were talking to mom about?” is how I ended up with two toddlers at the polling place today. Top tier Dad/American moment.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This myth just won't die. In 2024 alone, it's estimated Jeff Bezos paid almost $3 billion in taxes. Painting rich people as tax avoiders plays great on social media, but it's not reality. The U.S. has the most progressive tax system in the developed world.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

@bonchieredstate Incorrect.