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[znoodle @znoodle]

@mishtal @pk12631961

[CluckyMcCluckerson @BockBockBucock]

HOT TAKE: The real battle that's coming will not be North vs. South. It will be Urban vs. Rural.

New York city is hated by the rest of the state.

North Carolina doesn't have a crime problem, Charlotte has a crime problem.

Texas isn't a hotbed of liberalism. Austin is a hotbed of liberalism.

The Urban experience is too different from the rural experience to reconcile. If you live in the trash covered, smog-polluted confines of a city, you may think the world is in danger of man-made climate change. If you live rurally, you see the world is just fine.

If you live in a city, crime and violence are a way of life and guns contribute to that problem. In to country, guns SOLVE that problem.

If you live where homes are stacked on top of homes, you may think the world is overpopulated, and childlessness is a civic duty. In the country, children are a blessing.

If someone can tell me why I should prefer Atlanta city folk over country folk from upstate New York, Id like to hear the reasoning.

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Ketanji Brown Jackson has had to recuse herself from the proceedings

[znoodle @znoodle]

@__0HOUR1_ @WNBA nopEnes Kanter

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines,
I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect.

If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.

My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027.

I know my presence on the court will stir up strong opinions.
I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices.
I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for.
My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception, and I look forward to the #WNBA honoring its stated principles.

See you at training camp.

https://t.co/zlwWpVF0Ou

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

RFK Jr. sat on CNN and said something that should not have been controversial. He said the government’s first duty in any future pandemic is to protect constitutional rights. Not balance them against expert opinion. Not temporarily suspend them. Protect them.

Dana Bash reacted as if he had just committed a category error. She told him she did not want to “allow” him to say things that were not entirely true. Allow. That is the word she chose. Not “challenge.” Not “disagree.” Allow.

Watch that moment carefully and the entire posture becomes clear. This is not a journalist testing a claim. This is a gatekeeper deciding which premises are permitted on air. The substance of Kennedy’s argument ... that the last response got almost everything wrong ... barely registered. What registered was the unacceptable suggestion that rights might rank above the public-health machinery.

That is the scandal that never ended. A large part of the media and the expert class still treats constitutional rights as optional equipment that can be powered down whenever the right people declare an emergency. They do not say it in those words. They simply act as if the Bill of Rights is a set of guidelines that apply only when the experts find them convenient.

Bash’s performance was not an outlier. It was a clean demonstration of the surviving mindset. The lockdowns are over. The mandates are gone. The emergency declarations have expired. But the assumption that experts outrank rights never left the building. It just learned to speak more politely until someone like Kennedy forced the issue back into the open.

The Constitution was not written as a suggestion for calm weather. It was written to restrain power precisely when fear is highest and the people in charge are most certain they know better.
(article below)

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Bash: "Covid was a scary time."

RFK: "You were scaring people."

Bash: "Why are you saying that?"

RFK: "Because that was the job of CNN. To put the chyrons up on how many people are dying to get people to believe a lie."

[Boxy @Boxy_FT]

The leftoid position is now, without exaggeration: "diversity is our strength and there's nothing wrong with Muslim migrants, but Israel is using them to punish us"

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

True

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

Read this Fauci diary entry closely. Officials would not admit the vaccine was not stopping spread because it might weaken the legal case for mandates. That is not science. That is a cover-up to justify coercion.

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

The US has one of the most progressive tax schemes ever devised in human history.

The top 1% pay for 46% of ALL taxes collected.

The bottom 50% pay only 2%.

When socialists complain about our tax system, they are either stupid, lying, or both.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

DEI is a variant of Marxism.

DEI was designed to polarize Americans, destroy American national unity and ultimately unravel the Constitution by pitting us all against each other along racial/ethnic/gender lines.

Do not let the evil proponents of DEI succeed. They are the greatest threat to our national union since the Civil War.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

This is what was happening at America's borders under Joe Biden. This is what Democrats support and defend.

Never forget what they did, and what President Trump fixed on DAY ONE.

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

The images of illegal third-world migrants storming over the borders of Spain, while their leftist government does nothing about it, are completely insane.

Oh, wait-- this was America's southern border the last time the Democrat Party was in power.

[znoodle @znoodle]

@1776Carolina3 @harryjsisson People need to wake up everyday trying to improve their own lives.

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

Down 45,090 students and up 9736 staff.

That’s a 12.48% decrease in students while staff increased 26.41%.

This is an abuse of taxpayers. No other organization operates this way. The school system is not a jobs program for adults.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

This isn't from Spain. This was only one administration ago, right here at home.

And it could happen again.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

James Monroe wanted free black people out of the United States and settled in Africa.
As President in 1819, he signed legislation that put money and government agents on the African coast. That effort produced a permanent settlement, which would become Liberia. They named the capital Monrovia after him.
Monroe did not believe free black people and white Americans could share the same country without permanent friction. He accepted the idea of gradual emancipation with the obligation that the freed population left. He applied the same logic to the eastern Indian tribes and pressed for their removal west of the Mississippi.
Plenty of men from that generation held the same view. Jefferson, Madison, and Clay all supported remigration in different degrees.
We should support remigration of the cheap labor trafficked here over the last 15 years

[Miles Commodore @miles_commodore]

I had no business watching this as a little kid.

[znoodle @znoodle]

@carlitosdespana Even if he’s not famous, that’s a douchey concert goer