Nuke the Lab🏁

Most days I get home and find that my dog is the very best thing that happened to me all day.

I'd been looking at PAC contributions when I should have been looking at the people who actually have daily access to the Capitol - the media. The true lobbyists. Punchbowl News represents a whole lot of powerful industries and they are unflinching admirers of Senate Majority Leader John Thune. John Thune is the "paid influencer ecosystem." 𝕏 merely exposed how that machinery works in the Senate. Just look at the posts of @AndrewDesiderio , their senior Senate "correspondent." Almost every single one is about defeating the SAVE America Act and praising Thune. Punchbowl isn't shy about where their money comes from. Founder Jack Sherman himself admitted that 90% of Punchbowl's revenue is from "corporate sponsorships." They made 10 million dollars in revenue their first year... what kind of "journalist" company pulls that off? The podcast featuring them outright describes their business model as getting their money from "sponsorships bought by trade groups and companies looking to get their public affairs messaging in front of those making and influencing policy." Punchbowl got in ethical hot water when they treated a whole bunch of lobbyists to luxury box seats at a NFL game. If you want to know why SAVE America Act is being slow-walked... Start with @PunchbowlNews .

Happy birthday, @AlexPalou 🎂

@GadSaad Wow--That's spectacular!

My daughter got a 94% on her physics test!

🇺🇸 5 life friends, 106 wins, 5 Indy 500’s and 11 championships. #s_harner, #barrywanser , #scottdixon9 and #dario_franchitti. • 🇧🇷 5 amigos para a vida, 106 vitórias, 5 Indy 500 e 11 títulos. #s_harner, #barrywanser, #scottdixon9 e #dario_franchitti.

It’s time to slay the zombie filibuster Share if you agree

Only 8️⃣ weeks until “The Greatest Spectacle In Racing”. 🏁 Tom Sneva aka “Gas Man” - 1977. 5/24/26 - Indy 500

The best in the business 💼👏

@ArrowMcLaren Those folks are amazing!

The AMR Safety Team. That’s the tweet. 👏 We’re happy to hear McLaughlin is out of the car safely. The session remains on hold while the track repairs the soft barrier.

Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to. Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats. Let's be precise about what you did: 1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer. 2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM. 3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding. The precedent you set: You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins. But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered: • Voice vote to avoid accountability • Empty chamber to avoid debate • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny • Immediate recess to avoid questions You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one. What you've actually accomplished: Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded. Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded. And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning. The question you should answer: Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM? Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record? You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like. Here's my message: We saw it anyway. Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome. Own it.

@data_republican @JeremyTate41 I would never have thought of that, but it's perfect!

@JeremyTate41 Good time to bring back the asylums.

The rapidly shrinking Department of Education is abandoning its headquarters, widely regarded as the ugliest building in DC. What should the building be used for now?

@terryschappert I had this lunch box. 😬

I had this lunch box.

@DaleStarkA10 These are beautiful!

Send out the first batch today. Feels good man. 🇺🇸

@SHUNCK @IMS @IndyCar @VisitIndy Ordered--thanks for the heads up!

Hot off the presses - An actual PRINTED book on the Indianapolis 500 that just came out - see attached information, please!!! Great stuff - it'll get you ready for May. Well done by author Rick Shaffer & Foreward by A.J. Foyt #Indy500 #IndyCar @IMS @IndyCar @VisitIndy

@JackCarrUSA @chucknorris Wonderful sentiments and great writing (as always)!

There are martial artists. There are actors. There are movie stars. And there are legends. Find my tribute to the legendary Chuck Norris here: officialjackcarr.com/god-bless-chuc…

Once, after a 24-hour delay at an airport, we boarded the plane and were "18th in line for takeoff." The poor very pregnant woman behind us with an 18-month old started to panic when her 18-month old started crying. A man from farther back in the plane came up, sat down beside her and offered to hold her baby. When he took her, the baby instantly got quiet and focused on him. All of us looked because we'd been listening to the baby cry in the airport and on the plane. He looked up at everyone who was wondering how he managed this feat of magic and just said, "I have 6 kids." Nice guy with appropriate skills impactfully applied.

I was in a nice restaurant in Paris and my 9 month old baby girl started crying. An older woman, the owner, power walked up to me with her arms stretched out, speaking French, and grabbed my baby and held her against her cheek. So sweet, in broken english, she demanded I sit down and enjoy my meal and that she would take care of her new little princess. They both looked so happy after a few minutes of pacing, and I swear the chef prepared a comically large, full chicken and mashed potatoes for my bay girl of which she had half of all over her face within minutes. This was not the only time on my trip that an older woman stopped what she was doing to help us. I walked into a bar, midday, asking to use their bathroom changing table. They laughed and said that was not a thing in Paris. They moved everything off of the bar and insisted I change her diaper right there. Gross right? Nobody in the bar was phased!! They looked happy to be helpful! It was embarrassing to accept help at first until I realized that it was truly their pleasure and their culture. (Now that a couple of my kids are looking more like adults than babies, I get it. You miss having those babies around.) I LOVE helping women with their babies. I do not claim to know any more than them, but sometimes it just takes someone who is “not mama” to distract them. And for the parents, this empathy means the absolute world. I rarely experience family friendly moments like this, even in the South. Asheville restaurants have turned away my very well dressed family, and even said comments like “we’re not that family friendly. You should try the pizza place down the street.” We went to Kiawah Island every summer for years, but after multiple experiences of being turned away after them seeing we have a toddler with us, I am done. It’s really sad because it’s not just the restaurants fault, it’s our culture that is allowing this to happen. If people were excited to see children in public, their restaurants would follow their lead. I would love to get back to traditional southern culture, where children and babies are welcomed members of society. Where it is not just OK to bring them out of the home, it is encouraged. I would love to get back to a culture of community.

Happy birthday, @SchumacherMick 🎉

@miles_commodore And we ate these. I thought both were awful.

Did you drink this as a kid?

Happy birthday, Kenny Brack 🇸🇪

FOX INDYCAR continues its blistering start, with the first three races of the 2026 season averaging more than 1 MILLION viewers for the first time in the post-merger era (2008-present) 🏁

@Charinindy @IndyCarOnFOX @Arlington_GP Always.

@IndyCarOnFOX @Arlington_GP Alex Palou is a absolute class act

After a P2 finish, Alex Palou praised Kyle Kirkwood's pass for the lead.