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[Dr Charlie Ward @DrcharlieWardQ]

HOLY CRAP 🚨: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will force the clerk to read the ENTIRE 940 page long One Big Beautiful Bill on the Senate floor which is estimated to take around 12 hours further DELAYING a vote on President Trump’s massive piece of legislation.

Republicans and Democrats will then each receive 10 hours (20 hours total) to debate the One Big Beautiful Bill before the vote-a-rama begins. During the vote-a-rama, Senators can propose unlimited amendments, with each voted on consecutively.

Chuck Schumer wrote on 𝕏: “BREAKING: I will object to Republicans moving forward on their Big, Ugly Bill without reading it on the Senate floor

Republicans won’t tell America what’s in the bill

So Democrats are forcing it to be read start to finish on the floor

We will be here all night if that’s what it takes to read it”

[TBC @TBC_on_X]

I can’t believe they made a Graham Platner biopic where he’s a sexting nazi rapist graham cracker…

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@RickD_GK On take off during sterile cockpit. Doubtful

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@USMiniTru @streiffredstate Sounds about right

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@Abomination81 Clearly you’ve never owned property in California

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@baharkarakrt 1

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@BernardoFariaJJ I was rolling with a white belt who thought it was funny to stick his fingers in my mouth. Guess who I will never roll with again.

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@JiujitsuOtter Learned more from danahers teaching than any other guru I’ve followed

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@diegohead_ Tweaking

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@ChoochSkookum Definately higher quality

[Glenn Reib @GlennReib]

Dear Sophie Cunningham,
You absolute chaotic saint, thank you. While the rest of the WNBA was busy doing boring things like dribbling and scoring, you ascended Mount Petty and delivered the single greatest athletic achievement of the 21st century: the 22-second Point Heard ‘Round the World. DeWanna rolled up with big emotions; you just hit her with the slow, unblinking finger of doom like a disappointed Victorian ghost who’d had enough of everyone’s nonsense. No words. No touching. Just pure, concentrated shade channeled through one perfectly extended index finger.

I haven’t been this proud since the invention of sarcasm itself. And now, right on schedule, I’m on the edge of my seat waiting for the left to have a full meltdown. Any second now some blue-check PhD in Grievance Studies will publish the groundbreaking essay “The Racialized Finger: How Sophie Cunningham’s Point Perpetuates White Supremacy in Women’s Sports.” They’ll claim your gesture was a “microaggression with macro consequences,” demand sensitivity training for all index fingers, and probably launch a https://t.co/hORTWK0zHN petition to ban pointing unless it’s been pre-approved by a DEI consultant and performed only in the approved “non-threatening” direction. “This isn’t just a point,” they’ll sob on MSNBC, “this is violence. This is erasure. This finger is literally the new burning cross.” Bonus points if they somehow tie it to climate change or student loan debt.

You turned a basketball game into performance art so powerful it broke the internet, launched a thousand memes, and made grown adults point at each other in grocery stores like it’s the new national greeting. The arena laughed until they cried. Your teammates looked like they wanted to give you a standing ovation. And somewhere right now a group of very serious people are writing strongly worded letters about how your finger is problematic, triggering, and needs to be canceled immediately for the good of democracy. Never change, Sophie. Keep wielding that lethal weapon of silent judgment. Keep protecting your squad with the world’s most elegant non-contact foul. And when the inevitable congressional hearing on “Toxic Pointing” begins, just walk in, look every senator dead in the eye, and give them the treatment they so richly deserve. We’re all out here practicing in the mirror like idiots, rewatching the clip on loop, and loving every glorious second of the mayhem you unleashed. This point didn’t just go viral, it went legendary. With breathless, slightly unhinged admiration and oceans of affectionate sarcasm.

[Alain Gagne @HeathenKing67]

This is valid

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

THE WORLD CUP HAS BECOME THE GREATEST FREE MARKETING CAMPAIGN AMERICA NEVER PAID FOR

One of the most fascinating things I've noticed during this World Cup isn't what's happening on the field.

It's what's happening off it.

Social media is flooded with videos of visitors reacting to America, and what's interesting is that many of these videos aren't coming from people in developing countries.

They're coming from people in the UK, Germany, Australia, Scandinavia, and other developed nations.
Just like this Aussie in the video below.

And many of them are blown away.

They're talking about the size of the highways.

The scale of the cities.

The variety in the supermarkets.

The friendliness of strangers.

The convenience of everyday life.

The restaurants.

The sports culture.

The massive pickup trucks.

The air-conditioned stadiums.

The fact that almost everything seems bigger.

Things that millions of Americans barely notice anymore.

For years, much of the world has been told that America is declining.

Then people actually arrive.

They drive the roads.

They eat in the restaurants.

They shop in the stores.

They travel between cities.

They experience America for themselves.

And suddenly the reality doesn't always match the narrative.

As someone from Papua New Guinea, I can tell you that many Americans have no idea how fortunate they are.

I've seen what life looks like in developing countries.

I've seen roads fall apart.

I've seen unreliable utilities.

I've seen limited opportunities.

I've seen corruption become a normal part of daily life.

I've seen people travel hours to access services that Americans often have within minutes.

And I'm still here writing about politics and geopolitics in general with expensive internet data bundles that would expire in the next hour, quite literally.

America has problems.

Every country does.

But millions around the world would trade places tomorrow for the opportunities, freedoms, infrastructure, security, and standard of living that Americans often take for granted.

That's why these World Cup reaction videos are so fascinating.

They're not government advertisements.

They're not Hollywood movies.

They're ordinary people showing what they see with their own eyes.

And what many of them are seeing is still the most powerful, prosperous, and influential nation on earth.

But none of this happened by accident.

The prosperity visitors see today was built over generations through economic strength, innovation, security, and smart foreign policy that protected American interests around the world.

The truth is that America's position in the world helps make America's way of life possible at home.

That's one of the reasons I wrote Foreign Policy Is Survival.

Because understanding what happens beyond America's borders helps explain why America became the nation it is today - and what it will take to keep it that way.

If you'd like to understand the world through a strategic lens rather than media headlines, check out the link in my bio and grab a copy.

🇺🇸 Sometimes it takes millions of visitors looking at America with fresh eyes to remind Americans what they already have.

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@JiujitsuOtter Yeah, bad manners.

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@BernardoFariaJJ You're the first high level practitioner who has said this. Makes total sense. Been telling my training partners the same thing for years.

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I thought it was curious today that Mark Levine was promoting "Gods Prophetic Clock" by pastor Hagee on his radio show. @IsraelAnderson

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@heyitsmeCarolyn That guys a fake Brit Brit’s live in flats.

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@amelia_tweetz Buy a dog. That will take care of the extra

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So cool

[Championship Rounds @ChampRDS]

We got a BALD EAGLE at the UFC White House ceremonial weigh ins

WTF is going on 😭

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@ChampRDS 👍👍👍👍👍👍