Sam Q

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Morblius @Morblius]

Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.

[fonesy @_fonesy_]

Minnesota has been unraveling for years in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with its cities prioritizing late-stage capitalism after a global pandemic.

TUNE IN.
An Insecure State

[📚pedagogy in black✊🏾 @RenyTure]

Dude was…anti-Black, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-abortion rights, anti-civil rights, etc etc, but he was pro-gun.

[Paperboy Prince for NY❤️😍❤️ @PaperboyPrince]

Charlie Kirk was taunting Trans ppl and having lighthearted conversations about Mass shootings literally seconds before he was shot in the neck. The irony is incredible, violence is never the answer. But when you are on a hate tour… this happens https://t.co/tZib340aM7

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

I do think it’s worth noting that few people in this country contributed to the culture of political violence quite as much as Charlie Kirk.

[Sam Q @sans_qualms]

@VivekGRamaswamy I'll take "things that never happened" for $100, Alex

[Sam Q @sans_qualms]

@Persona4Lewds @myusernamesuccs @isLucario Yeah I didn't even notice vibe cat the first time

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

Loved ones of Aaron Bushnell, 25, reached out to me and gave me consent to post a blurred version of Bushnell’s protest today against genocide in Palestine.

“Aaron is the kindest, gentlest, silliest little kid in the Air Force,” said Errico, who met Bushnell in 2022.

[Sam Q @sans_qualms]

@keithpille hole yesterday

[Jesse McLaren @McJesse]

I made it look like the car's moving and it's 100x better.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

@DayKarmajpd If I deliver pizzas and I go on strike and the pizzas get cold, do I have a right to strike, according to you?

Cause, according to the Republicans, I don't.

[chef033.bsky.social @chef033]

FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

When you were raised in survival mode, you see the world differently.

You have different traits and skills that other people might not like:

[Derwood @DamnNoWay]

@rlac17 @StrikeDebt Anubis will weigh your soul and find it lacking

[Michael Ballaban @Ballaban]

Elon Musk’s father, Errol, says that Elon had to be hospitalized after he mocked the suicide of a schoolmate’s father and he pushed Musk down a flight of stairs

[Griffin @sensortld]

Alex stopped to help save a gunshot victim from bleeding out, he was then given Saint Paul Police Chiefs Award for Valor. He then gave this small speech.

(video from @/onsitepublicmedia ig)

[Mira Gonzalez @miragonz]

the funniest part of all of this to me is that phillip has been in a "royal vault" (fancy refrigerator) all this time because he can't be buried until the queen is lol