maurice cheeks

Yo, yo dog, what's the difference between a 4.0 and a 4.6?" Like 30 to 40 grand, beat it

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

Her name is HIND RAJAB💐🌷
🤞🏾🪶♾❤️

And She was more brave than every single one of you at ESPN

[bball bruv 🧐🤨 @HoopsTalkBurner]

AGAIN I SAY: BRING BACK THE PLAYBOY OWNERS THAT FUCK HOES. ENOUGH OF THESE PRIVATE EQUITY DWEEBS

[Mandy @rabbimandyx]

Hey @grok, does Israel have an AI system named “The Gospel” that an Israeli officer admitted mostly kills women and children?

Be concise. No spin.

[Jerry Ferrara @jerryferrara]

This is well
Done.

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

Everyone is talking about how it’s $10,000 to get into MSG for the NBA Finals. Not enough people are talking about how the Knicks publicly traded stock has outperformed pretty much everything outside of AI over the last year.

[Jack Freeman @jackfreeman]

See? And now the world is reminded that you got 7 kids by 6 women. And got sued by your cousin for raping her starting at the age of 6, and didn’t have enough respect for yourself to show up to court and had to pay her $25 million dollars. And that because of this your own high school snatched your name off the stadium.

You see how all your shit is public record? You see how shutting the fuck up and minding your business could’ve prevented all this?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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[💎🍾 @TheRocSupremacy]

Imaginary Players x JAY-Z

The Lore: JAY-Z was rich before music. This song is about rappers who pretend to be rich. Specifically rappers who took shots at Jay, most notably, Ma$e. This was Jay’s response.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Let’s get 500 retweets as soon as possible on Colin Allred absolutely humiliating Ted Cruz

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

Atheism explained in a nutshell

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

WOW you must see this.

At today’s roundtable on American Health & Nutrition, Jason Karp showed the difference between Canada's Fruit Loop Cereal and America's. They're literally poisoning our children and this is exactly what RFK Jr. is talking about.

MAHA!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I get the same royalties whether you read them or burn them. Enjoy your marshmallows! 😘

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

I live in a "swing state," the only place where any votes seem to count according to people who defend the electoral college.

My daughter is a county clerk; she is in charge of handling elections for a large county in Michigan.

The FBI came in and told her to shut down all her social media, and if she couldn’t, to remove all references to family and change her name.

No one in her office is allowed to open any mail without gloves and a mask. They have armed security when they enter and leave the city building. They receive 2-3 letters a day filled with white powder (so far, flour or powdered sugar).

Please don’t think we’ve got this under control. There is LITERALLY a war going on, quietly, waged by domestic terrorists, to take away your right to have your voice heard.

This woman, who I can’t name because her life is in danger, goes into combat every single day to try to protect your right to have your voice heard!

Don’t let her down.

[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

This one hurts.

[Innocence Project @innocence]

#MarcellusWilliams is only THREE days away from being executed for a crime he didn’t commit. We need you to use your platform to stop this cruel, irreversible mistake before it’s too late. ⁠
Though the governor's office is closed today, you can tweet and e-mail Gov. Parson now (https://t.co/sAwrXjul6a) and urge him to stop the execution. You can also use this social media toolkit to create your own post or video about Marcellus: https://t.co/MVst5funYF

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

An innocent man is being executed Monday

— No DNA from him at crime scene, but DNA from 2 others on murder weapon

— Jury did NOT know about the DNA

— Prosecutors now agree he’s innocent

MO Gov. Mike Parson should do the RIGHT thing — pardon Marcellus Williams

Please RT this!

[D ♱ @_diana_salam]

a Caucasian boy somewhere: ‘Drake is a culture vulture’ 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

meanwhile Drake’s dad: