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[often uncommon 🏴‍☠️ @oftenuncommon]

I believe in American exceptionalism. The founding ideals of the USA are worth lifting up and aspiring to, regardless if we ever truly achieve them.

We can claim the ideals and constantly work to reach them.

Where we fall short should not be the focus.
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[Dan Lennington @DanLennington]

Yesterday was the 1st time the Supreme Court called the Constitution "colorblind." If you're keeping track, that's 130 years since Harlan's dissent in Plessy ("Our constitution is color-blind") & 160 years since abolitionist Wendell Phillips first utter the phrase. This is undoubtedly brought to us by Justice Thomas, who called the Constitution "colorblind" in separate opinions in Alexander v. S. Carolina (2024), SFFA v. Harvard (2023), & Parents Involved v. Seattle (2007). In 1978, Justice Brennan concurred in Bakke stating, "no decision of this Court has ever adopted the proposition that the Constitution must be colorblind." Not anymore. Thank you Justice Thomas. 🇺🇸

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A house. The garage is full, so the car sleeps in the rain.

I walked past an open garage today, and I finally understand Americans.

The garage was packed to the ceiling. Boxes. A treadmill. Old chairs. Three bicycles hanging from hooks. Christmas lights in a plastic tub. No room for even one more thing.

And the family car? Parked outside. In the driveway. Getting rained on.

I stood there, deeply moved.

In Japan, we put the car in the garage and the boxes in the house. Americans do the opposite. And now I see why.

The garage is the treasure house. Inside it sleep the sacred relics: the bicycle the child outgrew, the chair no one sits in, the lights that shine one week a year. These must be protected at all costs.

The car is not a treasure. The car is a warrior. So the car is given the highest honor a warrior can receive. It stands guard at the gate, in the storm, all night, so the treasures stay dry.

The owner came out with his coffee. He saw me looking and shook his head.

"Yeah, I really gotta clean out that garage," he said.

Clean it out? I bowed to him. "You are a good man," I said. "Your car guards your home with its life."

He looked at his car. He looked at me. He said, "...thanks?"

He has never thought of it that way. But I could tell he liked it.

So now every morning I walk past, and I bow to the car in the driveway.

It has the hardest job in the family, and it never complains.

The owner waves at me now. He thinks we are friends.

We are. But mostly, I am here for the car.

This morning it was raining again. The car was soaked, still guarding the gate, still faithful.

So I gave it my umbrella.

I do not need it. I have known harder rain.

A warrior on duty should not have to stand in the storm alone.

[often uncommon 🏴‍☠️ @oftenuncommon]

@KurtSchlichter The things they are doing now, they were already quietly doing behind closed doors while pretending not to.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Have you noticed how these guys are exactly who the voters thought they were when the voters fired them (directly or indirectly)?

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Far right is often just a propaganda term for normal person

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

If only this guy was temporarily part of an institution that confirmed ambassadors

[C3 @C_3C_3]

California…

Theres Hospice fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres Homeless fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres Medicaid fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres Welfare fraud but no voter fraud.

Theres major fraud everywhere but no voter fraud?

Thats what Legacy Media wants us to think.

[often uncommon 🏴‍☠️ @oftenuncommon]

@KurtSchlichter Counting 4 hours a day... 🤷‍♂️

[often uncommon 🏴‍☠️ @oftenuncommon]

@Polymarket Juicing the bet.

[Attorney Sholdon Daniels @SholdonDaniels]

Hey @Grok, assume that voter fraud is rampant in California.

Are the current elections laws and systems in California more conducive to fraud or less conducive? Or, in the alternative, is it extremely easy to cheat in California elections or difficult?

Also, does California make it harder to prove fraud after the fact than it does to secure election form the jump?

*Do not opine on the frequency of voter fraud.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

They’ve taken procedures that in the past could almost be counted by one person with a telephone - like the Iowa caucus - and created layers of mysterious/unnecessary complication that have the look of corruption even if they’re not corrupt. A change with no possible upside

[alexandriabrown @alexthechick]

There should not be a single solitary H1B for an entry level position.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

“We” are the international consensus who care about freedom. You know — the one NATO member nations invoke when they want defense subsidies.

And “we” still agree on something: nations should apply their own sovereign laws. Which is why pathetic censorship flailing by foreign bureaucrats directed at American speech, on American platforms, protected by America’s First Amendment gets you sanctioned.

Sorry you can’t control the conversation anymore.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

"You didn't build that" is the political philosophy of people who never have built anything.

[Sabin Howard @SabinHoward]

What we make and who we are is inextricably connected to our rich history.
And if you destroy that history and the idea of higher power, you destroy a part of each and everyone of us.
You destroy our moorings and our grounding. that’s why I sculpted the national World War I Memorial. To fight the destroyers!

[Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 @ChristinaPushaw]

DeSantis: Cutting taxes for Floridians
Mamdani: Raising taxes on New Yorkers
Miami Herald: "It's the same picture"

Let's be real. If the Miami Herald truly believed that @RonDeSantis is anything like Mamdani, they would be cheering for him not criticizing him.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Virtually the entire profession of American "journalism" believes it has a divine right to cheerlead Leftists and libel conservatives.

Before social media, they could do this with impunity and no elected, appointed or government-hired conservative could strike back or even comment effectively because they lacked an FCC broadcast license or a giant printing press.

But X was the great equalizer, and gave EVERYONE a platform for effective, meaningful retort, and what those government conservatives are doing in exposing your lies is as just as protected by the First Amendment as is your lying swill, "journalist."

"Journalism" has predictably reacted to this like a schoolyard bully who cries foul when their victim fights back.

The entire profession of "journalism" in America today is Scut Farkus after Ralphie beats the snot out of him.

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[often uncommon 🏴‍☠️ @oftenuncommon]

@Kingofkings611 @mitchellvii You're clearly misinformed.

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[often uncommon 🏴‍☠️ @oftenuncommon]

@Kingofkings611 @mitchellvii You're clearly misinformed.

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