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Christ is King

[David @ActiveTake]

They found Noah’s ark before the Epstein client list

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@TheCamboy This show looks like ass

[MLB @MLB]

Dr. Jesse McGuire was performing the national anthem on his trumpet when suddenly his instrument malfunctioned 😳

After one attempt to fix it, McGuire instead grabbed the mic and amazingly sang the rest of the anthem 🤩

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Hear me out... Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, the 6th Day - During an NFL game, star QB suffers catastrophic injury. The team quietly euthanizes him in the ambulance and immediately replaced with an exact clone so he can play in next week's game
Just sayin...

[Annie Agar @AnnieAgar]

geez guys caleb williams is getting absolutely worked on the timeline this morning, thoughts?

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@SportsSturm Anyone else see the linebacker throw up a couple times later in the game, surprised they never said anything or replayed it

[Billie Webb @billiewebbb]

👏👏👏👏👏👏

A standing ovation for @TuckerCarlson who FINALLY condemned TPUSA for acting in ways Charlie Kirk would have “vehemently disagree with”
…. And he DIRECTLY called out @BlakeSNeff in this 5 minute segment from his show tonight

[Weaver Whiteheart 🇻🇦 @WeaverRising2]

Just filled up my car.

I'm okay with Iran having a nuclear weapon.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

STOP IT 🤣

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The cost of a home build has pretty much doubled over the last 6 years, so any claim that is made it's going to cost so much more to do the repair work. Ultimately it comes down to everything being more expensive because our money is worth so much less. Interest rates are too high, but actually not high enough to account for our inflation. Inflation is high because of our deficit spending. Thank every politician who has approved a budget the last 20 years. Thank our leaders for getting into a war that nobody wanted, thank our leaders for supplying the weapons for another war nobody cares about it.

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

GENUINELY NEED SOMEONE TO WALK ME THROUGH THIS

My homeowners insurance jumped from $1,850 a year to $2,290.

That's a 24% increase.

Zero claims filed. Not one, in six years with the same company.

Called to ask why.

Rep pulled up my account, confirmed clean history, then said the increase reflects regional risk trends tied to storm activity and rebuilding costs across the state, not anything specific to my policy.

So I asked directly. Did anything happen to my house.

She said no.

I'm paying $440 more a year for events that happened to other people's houses, in other parts of the state, that I have no connection to and never filed a claim over.

That's not really insurance based on my behavior at that point.

That's a regional tax with my name quietly attached to the bill.

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@unusual_whales I don't understand the naysayers when it comes to the potential dangers of ai
If you understand it in the slightest you should be more than worried the world leaders are not coming together to put stopgaps in place
Instead we're all just racing forward as fast as possible

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@emeriticus It's literally white, h2o ain't white

[AF Post @AFpost]

Rev. Babs Miller, James Talarico’s minister, says he is misleading voters for political gain and will revert to his anti-White, anti-Christian, and pro-trans politics once the election is over.

Follow: @AFpost

[Sean Strickland @SStricklandMMA]

The entire offroad/truck community

"We want simple trucks with less technology and more power"

The industry

"Best I can do is a V4 turbo and a giant touch screen"

[Yan @YanPeronn]

In case you didn’t follow sports today:

>🏈Travis Kelce named victim in $35M Ponzi scheme run by investment adviser

>🏈Kei’trel Clark was fined $6,651 for writing “Glory Be 2 God” on his eyeblack vs Chargers

>⚽️Lionel Messi won the 49th trophy of his career — Campeones Cup with Inter Miami

>🏈Azeez Al-Shaair was fined $11,492 for writing the name of a Palestinian girl who was killed on his eye black vs Bills
-Kyrie Irving says he’ll pay the fine

>⚽️United lost a 2-0 lead to Brighton & got eliminated from EFL Cup

>⚽️After winning the Campeones Cup, A clip of Messi appearing pissed off at the MLS Commissioner went viral (video in replies)

>⚽️AFA announced Messi will have one last game for Argentine in Buenos Aires on Oct. 6 vs Benin

>🏈Nico Collins is having tests done to see how bad his hamstring injury is
-Nico replied to an fan upset he gets hurt every year with “watch ya mouth my n—- hell u talk bout”

>🏈FBS Oversight Committee admitted the Western Michigan should have won the Michigan game but that there is nothing they can do about it now

>🏈A fan snuck into Falcons practice & participated in QB drills (vid in replies)

>🏈Macklemore pledged his full $1M tour pay to six Palestinian-aid groups and dared Robert Kraft to match it.
-Hours later, Kraft says Ed Sheeran already asked him to put up $2M to match Sheeran’s own donation “to aid in the region,”

>🏈Colin Kaepernick said Robert Kraft colluded with other NFL owners and organized against him, like he did to Macklemore

>⚽️Barcelona won 7-2 vs. Racing Santander & stay top of La Liga — Raphinha scored a hatrick

>⚽️JJ Gabriel wasn't in United's squad as rumors continue about his possible exit

>⚽️Christian Pulisic was left off USMNT for intl break

>⚽️Saudi club, Al Taawoun will play next 2 league matches behind closed doors after fans were sanctioned over chants about Diogo Jota

>⚾️Commentator went viral for saying “a billion dollars worth of Mets in left field and none of them could catch that ball” after Lindor, Bichette & Soto all stood around watching a pop fly land in between them (vid in replies)

>🏈Joe Buck agreed to 6-year $108M deal to continue commentating MNF for ESPN

>🏈Seattle ruled Sam Darnold out for week 2 with ass injury

>🏈Travis Kelce admitted to getting away with a hold on Patrick Mahomes’ TD run on MNF

>🏈Deshaun Watson went off at the media for expecting him to put up 400 yards and 5 TDs per game

>🏈Joe Burrow said he’s dealing with “back tightness” but expects to play week 2

>🏈Vikings put RB Jordan Mason on IR

>🏒The Jets suspended Connor Hellebuyck for not reporting to camp (he very publicly requested a trade las month)

>🏀Kawhi Leonard called the Raptors Scottie Barnes’ team

>⚽️The Lewis family put another £120 million of capital into Tottenham

>⚽️Spains Euro & World Cup winning manager, Luis de la Fuente signed new contract with NT through July 2032 (2 more euros & 1 more WC)

>⚽️Bologna name Raffaele Palladino (ex Fiorentina, Atalanta) as new head coach

>⚽️João Pedro pulls out of Brazil squad for the upcoming intl games due to injury

>🏈Josh Allen got scared of a spider during press conference and left as soon as he could (video in replies)

>🏈Just realized the Falcons player I thought snuck into QB practice was just their starting QB, Cooper Rush

>Let me know what I missed

If you love sports but don't have time to endlessly scroll twitter all day — I do it for you, do my best to find the biggest stories, and post one of these recaps every day. Follow me pookie

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I want want to rewind back to the coming "Golden Age" the coming cheap energy and cheap gasoline/Diesel the focus on lowering cost and inflation... Instead we have whatever this is smh

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

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@KTeaMe7 @Sarahjdublin I believe the issue is a "billionaire" dictated what an artist could say in the statium he kinda owns
So the action taken is to say okay I'm not going to be a part of this and now a deeper conversation has started.
5 years ago the average person would not have cared, times change

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@JohnCornyn You genuinely suck and what's wrong with politics, so glad you lost your primary

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@RobSchneider Genuinely surprised by this take, just look at the numbers man