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“And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer. — Plutarch — Hans Gruber

[David Santa Carla 🦇 @TheOnlyDSC]

Democrats searching for Platner’s replacement…

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

Going forward, every reference to The Bulwark should state, "The Bulwark, who had a columnist who argued Graham Platner should be the Democratic nominee in 2028..."

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.

Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.

Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

@redsteeze It’s like dogs trying to figure out how a door knob works

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHAT HAPPENED? IN MAY, THE BULWARK WAS SAYING PLATNER SHOULD RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028!!!"

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

One of the richest men in all of America signed the Declaration of Independence knowing it could cost him everything. Then he left home to serve, died far away in a borrowed town, and never came back. Meet Philip Livingston.

This guy was not a scrappy underdog. Just the opposite. He was born in 1716 into the Livingston family, one of the wealthiest, most powerful dynasties in colonial New York. Manor lands, a Yale education, and a shipping empire he built into one of the biggest merchant fortunes in New York City. He had everything the British system was designed to reward.

And he spent that fortune building things that still exist. He helped found King's College, which you know today as Columbia University. He helped start the New York Society Library. He helped create the New York Chamber of Commerce. The man was basically constructing the civic backbone of New York with his own money and time.

Here's the thing though. He was not some hothead revolutionary. He actually feared independence. He worried it would bring chaos and disorder, and he was cautious about the whole idea for a long time. This wasn't a man itching to burn it all down.

But when New York finally gave its delegates the go-ahead, Livingston signed. He put the name of one of the great fortunes in America onto a document the crown treated as treason. A rich man betting his wealth against the empire that made him rich.

And the war came straight for him. When the British took New York, they seized and used his properties. He started selling off his holdings to help fund the fight, watching the empire he'd defied pick apart the life he'd built.

Then comes the ending that gets me. His health was failing, and he knew it. Congress had been driven out of Philadelphia and was meeting in the small town of York, Pennsylvania. Livingston could have gone home to rest. Instead he told his family he probably wouldn't see them again, and he went to York to keep serving anyway.

He died there in June 1778, in the middle of a session of Congress, far from home. He's buried in York, Pennsylvania to this day. He never made it back to the New York he spent his whole life building.

A man who had every reason to stay comfortable and loyal, who gave his fortune and his final months to a country he wasn't even sure would work.

Philip Livingston. He died at his post, a long way from home.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Is this what was meant by the warmth of collectivism?

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

Will Democrats continue to defend Crazypants or pretend “oh, I wasn’t really paying attention”?

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

This is one of the most petty and disgraceful examples of politics I think I’ve ever seen.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Imagine if, in the aftermath of 9/11, someone told you within 25 years someone like this would be getting elected in NYC — would you have believed it?

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They're not freezing your rent, they're freezing your housing providers' income, while their expenses keep increasing.

The point isn't to make your housing affordable, it's to make providing housing financially inviable, so government(s) can seize the unmanageable properties.

Our lack of financial literacy is going to destroy us.
https://t.co/Eix9fVp1BK

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Give Mandami credit. He is doing exactly what he said he would do when elected. He is turning New York into a socialist/communist anti American city by getting “politicians” like Darializa Avila Chevalier elected. Here is just a sampling of things Chevalier has said, tweeted or done. (This is not an onion article. These are all facts)

Founded a group at Columbia with the express goal of overthrowing western society

Called all white women ugly colonizers while criticizing interracial relationships

Wishes she could wipe her ass with a the American flag

Waved a Hamas flag the day after October 7th attacks

Wants no borders

Wants to abolish the police

Wants to abolish prisons

Against all deportations. Clarified that even if a non citizen murders or rapes somebody deportation is immoral

Said all of the United States is on stolen Native American land

Things she has not done in her career. Had a job.

On the brightside though at least she never said America deserved 9/11. (At least that we are aware of yet) Unfortunately the other candidate Mamdani endorsed Aber Kawas did say that. And got elected. In NYC. What a world

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Marco Rubio on Israel:

"Israel's wealth lay not under the ground, but in its people, the Jewish people, who made the desert bloom into a high-tech superpower."

God bless you, @SecRubio 🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱

[David Marcus @BlueBoxDave]

In 1999, after Rosie O’Donell criticized Rudy Giuliani for police harassing the homeless, John Tierny pulled of an incredible act of journalism by posing as a homeless man outside her tony Connecticut home and being arrested after her private security asked him to leave.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

I don’t get why people are impressed by a guy who is good at reading other people’s speeches. He’s a professional actor. People slobbering all over Mandami. I get that politicians always try to make sports about them and use it to their advantage so I guess you can’t blame Mandami for hogging the spotlight. But dude couldn’t name 1 player besides Brunson when asked during a debate last year. Now he’s a super fan? I think it speaks to how inauthentic he is and how dumb people are who slurp it up. That’s just me though

[The Uri @uricohenisrael]

Mamdani crowd: “This championship is thanks to our Mayor! Socialism wins!”

Knicks’ Jalen Brunson, the actual hero of the day: “I love Texas. I miss Texas’ taxes”

[pghscott @pghscott8]

@jelinaangelll @FilmCrickit @JerrySeinfeld The genocide, like “Palestine”, does not exist. Have a nice day.

[pghscott @pghscott8]

@cmsub @whca This you?

[Marc Feder מרדכי אריה @nomadicmarc]

We love you @JerrySeinfeld