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@JulianKlymochko yeah maybe we didn’t want your shitty tar sands crossing our aquifers

Joe Biden cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline may go down as one of the biggest policy blunders in history.

@wolfejosh @marcorubio amazing? yeah we seen enough of this neo con stupidity

Amazing. And Presidential. @marcorubio

@DavidSacks all the accomplishments? clueless

After all the accomplishments in our first year, President Trump has even bigger priorities for 2026. The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is hitting the ground running to deliver more wins for America. foxbusiness.com/politics/trump…

@bp22 yet you continue to vote for the GOP who blow up budgets

Federal spending per year has increased by 3.5 trillion. Not one thing in the "we could pay for" has been addressed. It never will. I wouldn't give my worst enemy's money to the goverment, nevermind productive citizens.

@0neal_Delancy @pcbb1917 Friar

Blessed to receive an offer from Providence College🖤🤍

Wednesday Wisdom claytons-newsletter-291983.beehiiv.com/p/wednesday-wi… When Logic Fails: How Nicias Lost Syracuse

@AriDavidPaul @jeffspross @interfluidity Ari- do you think in a two state solution is still a possibility?

Agreed. Friendly reminder that Israel and the world recognized Palestinian statehood in 1947. Arab league voted no and launched their genocidal war and nakba. Rinse and repeat every 30 years as an oversimplification. Israel never choose to occupy Palestine…they embraced Palestinian statehood and then reluctantly occupied after ongoing attacks.

If you conquer territory in war, you should give citizenship to the folks living in that territory. If you refuse because they’re the wrong ethnic group, you should cede control of the territory. If you refuse to do either, there’s a word for the resulting political situation!

@RealPitino rooting for for you and the Johnies

Doesn’t get any better than celebrating the win with my grandkids!

@PeterLBrandt breath taking corruption

Trump plays the futures market like a professional fiddler

@endless_frank you’re not a serious person- sorry

I’m really sick of this shit. I’m a total Trump supporter. Never voted against him. For 6 months now, markets get fucking destroyed on every attempt to rally 1%. I understand that Iran was and is a threat and we need to do what’s right for humanity by neutralizing that threat, but I’m sick of this insider shit. Some large cohort of insiders knew for 6 months what was coming and sold every single fucking rally since. This is not a market, it’s a 3rd world casino and I’m really fucking tired of it. My vote will not EVER be for a democrat. I don’t believe in open borders to criminals, I don’t believe in shoving the LGBTQ flag and transgender’ism in anyone’s faces and I don’t believe in crooked politicians that enrich themselves through fraud LLC’s and NGO’s, but I also don’t believe in is this bullshit that I’m witnessing in markets. Everything is a complete fucking fraud and maybe @TuckerCarlson has a point. The American way has lost itself. There are frauds literally everywhere on both sides of the isle and it’s destroying this country inside out.

@jayRecher football is the ruin for most programs

Are you sick & tired of #USF being a stepping stone? Because I sure am. The ONLY saving grace is that CEO of Athletics Rob Higgins is #TampaBay through & through. I truly believe he’ll get this right & they’ll build statues of him one day because of it. #GoBulls #HornsUp

@PeterLBrandt even Portnoy knows your a tool

The last known occupant of the White House to have rigged the commodity markets was Hillary Clinton whose Cattle broker bucketed trades for her back in the 1970s. The Clintons were crooks then and they are crooks now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_C…

@Microinteracti1 @mitchellvii sorry, while the first part of your text is mostly correct the last part is so Monday morning QB- you willingly or unintentionally didn’t include WW1 and US participation and to minimize all the men who stormed Omaha et al is just as incorrect as to minimize the European loss

Let’s be honest about the résumé here. The United States has not won a war since 1945. Korea: stalemate. Vietnam: fled. Iraq: created ISIS. Afghanistan: handed the keys back to the Taliban after twenty years and a few trillion dollars. That is not a winning streak. That is a participation trophy collection of weaknesses. Oh, and 1945? They needed a formal invitation. Germany declared war on America. Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The US did not ride in on principle – it got dragged in because refusing would have looked embarrassing. Three years of sitting it out while Britain bled, Canada crossed oceans, and the rest of the Allies held the line. By the time American boots hit Normandy, the back of the Wehrmacht had already been broken on the Eastern Front by the Soviets at a cost of twenty million lives. The US arrived at a table that others had set, ate well, then spent the next eighty years telling everyone they won the dinner. So yes. Keep the lectures about European dependency coming. Just maybe check the scorecard first.

Europe is always "Yankee go home!," until the enemy tanks roll into town.

@Microinteracti1 sadly- you are correct in your reading of the state of thw nation

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@rusticcaldwell @RHiggins_USF @USFMBB NIL resources got to football - new reality

@RHiggins_USF @USFMBB I love honesty and transparency; no other AD does it like this. But the honest and genuine question: how do you stop making USF a destination school? There is absolutely 0 reason for a coach to leave after 1 successful season.

We were informed by Coach Hodgson that he will be leaving to become the new head men’s basketball coach at Providence. Congratulations and thank you to Coach Hodgson, Jordan and Jett! We had an incredible season, including our second regular season championship in the last three years and our first conference tournament title in the last 36 years. This year’s team earned not one, but two championship banners for the Yuengling Center rafters, and we’re forever grateful to our student-athletes, Coach Hodgson, his family and his staff. Coach said he would come and win championships and he delivered on that promise by leading the most successful season in the history of our program. Rest assured, we did everything within reason to try and retain Coach for the long term. We will always be proactive and aggressive in working to retain high performing coaches, but equally as important, we will also always be the ultimate stewards of our department’s financial resources. Through candid conversations throughout this process, we have been preparing for this possibility in recent weeks. This includes working diligently to put our program in prime position to land the perfect leader to not only build on this special season, but to also help take us to even greater heights in seasons to come. Bulls Nation, I am naturally biased, but we believe the short- and long-term opportunity of leading our men’s basketball program is second to none. The interest associated with this position has already been unprecedented in advance of it officially opening, which speaks to how far our program has come in recent seasons, how well it’s competitively resourced, and where we're going. In short, we could not be more excited about the future of USF Men’s Basketball and can’t wait to keep building together with every one of you! All Gas. No Brakes!!! Go Bulls!!!🤘🏻😤

@PatrickMcHenry @SenMullin demeanor is questionable

My friend @SenMullin is a great choice by President Trump to lead DHS. Congratulations to Markwayne on his bipartisan committee vote, as our nation looks forward to his leadership at the Department.

@FriarsHockey congratulations coach

A Hockey East Regular Season title, his 300th win at Providence and 14-consecutive winning seasons. #GoFriars

@jamiejoneshim you must be loving Civ

Love you Kim ❤️ wish it coulda worked out

@JaylinSellers congratulations on your season, should have been first team- your future is bright

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