Shane LaRue

[👑 ♤ Lake Ontario  @LakeOntario16]

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

RFK Jr even told Shapiro “it would be better if we went back to natural measles”. The governor recalled Jr telling a Pennsylvania audience that measles were best cure by “chicken soup and Vitamin A”. How long, Republicans? How long to you endorse this madness?

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump is unique among malignant narcissists in being of below average intelligence, inarticulate, and poorly read. We almost never see this.
Even malignant narcissists who didn't hold political office (like Ted Bundy) had high IQ's. And "cult of personality" malignant narcissists (like Jim Jones and David Koresh), are especially literate, charismatic, and sharp. The pervasiveness and persuasiveness of cult leaders is almost always enhanced by intelligence, articulacy, clever repartee, and even wit.
Yet Trump is such a loud, boorish, and obvious con, that his political rise speaks as much to our celebrity culture, our consuming of media in echo chambers, his craven enablers, and our aggrieved society. This convergence has created a phenomenon that's made too much of our electorate ... well ... I'll just be nice and call them "susceptible."
At this point, he's so flawed, so owned by his disorders, and so enfeebled, he can't even navigate the very chaos he inflicts - he can't pivot, and can't be contrite, so he gets in deeper. He's become too old, too desperate, too fearful and too unable to process his own mortification. He never had strategic thought nor an ability to play from behind. And he's a lame duck.
All he has now are his cravings, a fantastical desire to reclaim grandiosity, a panicked fear of humiliation, and layers of toxicity. He's unable to satiate from incoming narcissistic nutrition, no matter how often they give him the North Korea treatment; and now Natalie has been tainted.
He is flailing. He keeps making mistakes and keeps screwing up - everything, everywhere, all at once.
His decline is unmistakable. His demise will be spectacular.

[Ray Yelle @ryelle62]

We're sliding backwards, because people who already had vaccines decided there was political gain in convincing other people not to get them

And now people are dying from easily preventable diseases

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

The President of the United States said that de-transitioning surgeries are being done on his personal orders and no one has paused for a moment to wonder if any rational person would say something so completely and feverishly crazy - because it's just part of the new normal.

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Imagine if Kamala Harris became the first female president of the United States and then tore down the East wing, obsessed about a ballroom, started a losing war with Iran, took away health care and food from children, raked in billions, fired everyone to put her friends in their positions, fell asleep on camera consistently, mouthed off on social media, openly prosecuted people she didn’t like without real cause, started a slush fund to fund domestic terrorists, and generally lied every second of the day. She wasn’t even allowed to laugh.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Spanish Olympic skateboarder Danny León timed his jump with the total solar eclipse, calling it “the trick of my life.”

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Your doctors went through 10+ years of medical school. Trump and RFKjr went through illicit drugs and their family’s money. Vaccines are safe. Stop listening to the anti-science crowd.

[Trish Gunby @TrishForMO]

Missouri voters, there's a shortcut to voting down Republican priorities like Amendments 4 and 5.
Just don't vote for Republicans in the first place.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

The strangest thing about the MAGA freakout over Fauci is that Trump was his boss - and ran the government - during the entire period they are so mad about.

[Dream for America @DreamAmerica_]

THOMAS MASSIE: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, & the White House -- and we're yelling 'election fraud'? We won all the damn elections.

What are we doing with that? We’re bankrupting the country. We’re starting new wars. We’re violating the Constitution. We’re not cracking down on the fraud. The problem is not the elections. We won the damn elections. The problem is that we’re wasting the opportunity voters gave us."

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Every hour Graham Platner refuses to take his name off the ballot is one day less to coalesce around a candidate and try to stop Donald Trump from doing generational damage to America. It’s the most selfish and unpatriotic act one could imagine.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🇳🇴 Norway manager Stale Solbakken with a strong response to Folarin Balogun's red card being suspended:

🗣️ Solbakken: "It is a big mistake by FIFA. It is not a great conclusion. He got a red card and the VAR concluded that it was a red card. That means you are suspended for one game.

I think what is really bad about that situation is, if the USA beat Belgium, they will always have that extra thing about it.

The Belgians will be furious. What about the next red card? What happens there? Will some committee take it away? It’s a bad, bad, bad, bad decision that will hurt the World Cup and the United States."

[I'MYOURHUCKLEBERRY @PLSgetserious]

Someone is leaking the SCOTUS decisions to the WH before they're released to the public.

There's a reason we have the Postmaster General suddenly talking about post marks and how mail might be delayed before it's post marked.

You mark my words. We are going to see mail held up and not post marked, until after the election in key races. They have already worked out how to cheat this decision.

Do not drop your vote in a pickup box. Take it into the post office wait in line and make them post mark it in front of you.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[That Guy Rocked @ThatGuyRockedU]

Montee Ball

That guy rocked.

[TIME @TIME]

Trump says ‘I love the inflation’ https://t.co/patJEObDMw

[Casual Big Ten @casualbigten]

Wisconsin has had some crazy good backs 🔥

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

If you think I’m trashing MAGA (whatever that is now) I really am sorry. I know for certain there are millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump that love this country and love their neighbors and love their families and struggle and succeed and fail just like me and you and everyone. And I don’t begrudge them their political affiliation in any way. I just abhor the hate. The meanness for the sake of being mean. No matter where it’s coming from. I’m not your enemy man. I’m really not. They’re trying to get us to fight among ourselves while they pick our pockets and piss on our legs and tell us it’s raining. I’m not doing that to you and I sure as hell know you’re not doing that to me. What could we possibly gain by hating each other as they walk off with all the food on the table. We can disagree with each other without hating each other. We just all need to break the algorithm man. It’s so much more fun finding a reason to love someone than it is finding a reason to hate them.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.