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[Jay Kim @luckymong1]

LeBron and Jaylen Brown to the 76ers. #Philadelphia #Naruto

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

LEBRON IS COMING TO PHILLY.

By the power vested in me as the Governor of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a die-hard Sixers fan... I hereby proclaim today to be LEBRON JAMES DAY.

Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love, @KingJames.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Louisiana a friend took me to Raising Cane's.

I asked the cashier, a young woman named Kayla, for the menu.

She pointed at the board. It was short. Suspiciously short.

"Chicken fingers," she said.

I waited for the rest.

There was no rest.

I asked about beef.

"Chicken fingers."

I asked about pork.

"Still chicken fingers."

I asked whether this was a translation problem.

She said, "No, baby. We do one thing."

A short menu is not poverty.
A short menu is a vow you can taste.

I have ordered from menus with one hundred choices and felt no fear. This board knocked me down with five words.

I asked what she recommended.

"Chicken fingers."

So I did what any reasonable man would do when a path has three names.

I ordered all three.

The Box. The 3 Finger. The Caniac.

Kayla paused. "You want all three?"

"If the menu has three names," I said, "I will meet all three. A warrior does not sample honor. He answers all of it."

They arrived. They were all chicken fingers. Different counts. Same destiny. The Caniac was not a separate creature. It was simply more of the creature.

Kayla set down the sauce without ceremony.

I tasted it.

This sauce is not a side.
This sauce is the law the chicken agreed to live under.

I later learned the restaurant is named after a dog. A yellow dog. The founder wanted a place that sold only chicken fingers. Banks said no. A professor failed the plan. He opened anyway, in 1996, near a college gate in Baton Rouge.

Thirty years.

Same board.

Same five things.

I came back the next day. Kayla saw me and spoke first.

"Chicken fingers?"

I bowed. I ordered The Box. I did not ask for the rest of the menu. There is no rest of the menu. There never was.

They told him one idea was too small for America.

He kept the one idea anyway.

And America did not walk past it.
America did not ask for a second idea.
America formed a line, handed over its money, and knelt to chicken fingers like a nation recognizing its own king.

I finished every finger in that box.
I licked the salt from my thumb like a man sealing a treaty.
I looked at that short board the way my grandfather looked at a sword that had never failed him.

Raise the banner for the dog.
Raise the banner for the man who refused to add a second thought.
Raise the banner for the shortest menu in the empire.

I am not visiting anymore.

I am reporting for duty.

[Adey ※ @adey_sama]

LMFAOFA "man go get these fools man" got me in tearsssss 😭

[uStunned @uStunned]

@BLUMPKlNLOVER Keep your head up champ

[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.

[Josh Hart @joshhart]

What a dumbass.

[ٰ @4PFiShaq]

07’ Bron storyline on a team with a whole lineup of t5 draft picks

[Kyle Goon @kylegoon]

Jalen Brunson is absolutely incredible but I’m happiest for KAT because he achieved the impossible

he forced Shaq and Charles to admit on national TV that he is tough

[𝓑ᥫ᭡ @quesadaaa_]

The year Michael Jackson wrote that song about Palestine is the same year the first accusation came out.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[uStunned @uStunned]

@MicDubTV @Broba_Fett2 @EskayOW How is SGA not flashy? The brother looks like silk out there when he’s playing. Thats why it’s so frustrating to see the entire team coached to flop and foul bait. They are too good to be using cheap gimmicks. People hated this with harden and OKC is an entire team doing it!

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

ignore that it's four minutes long and know that it's going to feel like a healing to your neurodivergent soul to hear every single thing he lists NOW LOCK IN

[kylei 🧶 @ruledbymercuryy]

found my mom’s grocery receipt from 2006, and I just fell to my knees omg…🧎🏾‍♀️

[uStunned @uStunned]

@KOSHvsEVERYBODY What do yall even like on Janice stfu