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@strappyshoe @DRoskopp @indietronicaone @atrupar So does the fucking orangutan in office and his lies actually impact the lives of other people. Just STFU, inbred.

@DRoskopp @indietronicaone @atrupar Gawd, you people are effing dense. The point is Platner tells lie after lie, and not only does Platner lie, but his lies are sooo obvious.

MIKA: Given your sexting, can you call for the release of the Epstein files and not be conflicted in any way? PLATNER: Yes, of course. I engaged in consensual romantic activities with adults at an earlier part of my life. That seems like a fairly normal thing most people do. Going to an island with billionaires to possibly assault children is a vastly, vastly different thing.

@smallgovlizard @SaraForTexLege Illinois has had multiple Republican governors. Republican governors were in office from 1977-2003 and from 2015-2019. Maybe you should educate yourself before spouting off.

@SaraForTexLege So you dont actually care about 1 party rule and are just posturing. Thanks for clearing that up.

The sins of our past are coming home to roost. 30 years of one party rule means 10 years of playing nice and 20 of squeezing every cent of dirty money that could be had from our state - and the citizens who live here. Schools are closing. Roads are crumbling. Water is drying up rapidly. Power has been centralized in one city under one man. And a lot of people you’ve never heard of have made MILLIONS. While Greg Abbott brags about how Texas is the best state for business, 1 in 5 Texans are a diagnosis away from bankruptcy. 1 in 4 children in this state don’t know where their next meal is coming from and Greg Abbott has personally orchestrated the defunding of public education to appease out of state donors who want to profit off of our children. When he says that Texas is the best state for business, what he means is that his reign of corruption has been the best thing ever for his bank account. End. It. Now. @GinaHinojosaTX for Governor @VikkiGoodwinTX for Lt. Governor @SarahEckhardtTX for Comptroller @Jon_RosenthalTX for Railroad Commissioner @ClaytonTuckerTX for Agriculture Commissioner.

@CollegeHoopsTIk McCollum didn't win shit. His team shot lights out and still only had a 4 point lead. You're an average fan desperately trying to gain followers with terrible takes. Just own that.

@11ratamian You’re a special kind of moron. Ben McCollum won the first half. Brad won the second. This shouldn’t hurt your feelings.

Ben McCollum handily won the first half against Brad Underwood, despite the talent deficit. What’s noticeable in the first half is how timid Illinois’ freshman looked, leaving tons of points on the table. If Iowa comes out in 2H the same as 1H, they’re Final Four bound.

@CollegeHoopsTIk That's your entire account. Say dumb shit and then tell people to chill when they call you out on your terrible takes.

@11ratamian Chill bro. It’s not that serious. Lmao Illinois won

@nddafella @BradRogersIns @Wanysgdh @ryanhammer09 x.com/i/status/20373…

@BradRogersIns @Wanysgdh @ryanhammer09 Nah. They’re playing the exact same. One team is just getting calls and one isn’t. Just watched two clear and 1’s go unnoticed. Illinois hasn’t driven the ball much either.

This is rough way to go out for Houston, they’re coughing up the ball, can’t a shot. Illinois been playing well defensively but feels like they’re beating themselves

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok CBS CNN HBO Discovery Channel BET Cartoon Network Comedy Central DC Studios Fandango Miramax MTV Nickelodeon Paramount PlutoTV Showtime TBS The CW TNT Warner Bros. And more This is oligarchy.

@MS_Illini_Cubs @TiredIllinoisan @ALionEye You can't even have a reasonable discussion with someone who thinks this is our floor.

@TiredIllinoisan @ALionEye This is the floor?!?!

Help me out with "I've never understood this thinking." I drove 5.5 hours round trip from St. Louis for more than 100 mostly meaningless basketball games in the 2010s & you don't "understand" why I'm celebrating having the most Big Ten wins this decade? What's hard to understand? In that long tweet I was very specific about referencing fan emotions as the calendar turns to March. We can talk about the end of March if you want (once we reach a decade) but help me understand what you don't understand.

@tchil81 @suzygra @RightWingCope Your lack of intelligence.

@suzygra @RightWingCope Source?

homeschooling and charter schools should be illegal

@imPULSEivity @Jumsy81 @EvanMiya Illinois won't play in Chicago but they will likely be in St. Louis in the first two rounds. Those two weekend locations aren't tied together.

@Jumsy81 @EvanMiya That likely won’t be possible no matter what because Michigan will take the 1 seed in that region and teams 2-3-4 in a conference have to be seeded in separate regions

Interesting scenario: 7-seed St. Louis would be allowed to play in St. Louis in the first weekend because they aren't the host school and haven't played 3 games in that site's arena. So hypothetically, the 2 seed in that region would have to play SLU in the 2nd round there.

@CollegeHoopsTIk @jordanrulesTSP @jeffborzello A win from 3 months ago should not hold that much weight. UConn hasn't beaten a top 25 KP team since December 9th and just dropped a borderline Q3 game at home. The entire resume matters.

@jordanrulesTSP @jeffborzello They have wins over a healthy BYU, an unhealthy Kansas, Florida, and Illinois. The resumes are close enough that the 13-point win, which frankly wasn’t even that close, over Illinois should be the determinant

The media selection committee just finished seeding the top 20 teams:

@USEagleEye @stephen_richer @MikeJohnson There absolutely is a reason. The f'n US postal service is unrealiable. The only date that should matter is the postmark date.

I think as long as there is mail in voting being tabulated and allowed to come in days after election days you will always have people questioning the integrity of the outcomes. There is no reason not to say at minimum mail in votes need to arrive by a few days before election day.

Hi Speaker @MikeJohnson! If you tell me which 3, I'm happy to explain how ballot reporting works in that state and how it can sometimes lead to a red mirage. In Arizona, we have the opposite (blue mirage). For example, in the November 2020 election, Democrats were winning big in all the state and countywide elections. That's because in Arizona, we pre-process and pre-tabulate all mail ballots that are returned before Election Day. Those ballots came disproportionately from Democrats. That meant that the first results released at 8:00 PM were wayyyyy bluer than the final results. When Election Day in-person votes, and Election Day dropoff votes, are aggregated into the county later in the evening and over the next 48 hours, the races got redder and redder. I was a Republican candidate in Maricopa County in November 2020. I was down 90,000 votes to the Democratic candidate with the first results. I eventually came back and won. My Democratic opponent understood how it worked, did not cry foul, and conceded the race. Again, here to help! Let me know which 3.

@JamieBonkiewicz That driver should be dead if we're playing by MAGA rules.

A student taking part in a protest against ICE at Fremont High School in Fremont, Nebraska was injured after being struck by a vehicle displaying a Trump flag, and the driver left the scene.

@stoolini_ @kirk_denz @TheIlliniFN Oh shit, you're one of those really fucking stupid people who doesn't know it. GFY.

@kirk_denz @TheIlliniFN Oh brother… Don’t even get me started on NATO…

It is absolutely ridiculous this kind of demonstration even has to happen. If any country and/or governing territory says "no" to joining ANY other country, it should be the end of the story. And even implying use-of-force crosses the line.

@Garbagestyleman @UrbanCourtyard No, they do not. Young people have been to European cities at a much higher rate than previous generations and realize how much better and healthier city living is.

@UrbanCourtyard What makes you think young adults don't want to own homes in amenity-poor, drive-everywhere suburbs? They have basically the same preferences as older people. Americans fucking hate walking, interacting with strangers, walls that touch, etc.

Today being married and owning a home generally means moving to an amenity-poor, drive-everywhere suburb because homes in amenity-rich, walkable urban neighborhoods are unattainably expensive. And increasingly few young adults want to own homes in amenity-poor, drive-everywhere suburbs.

Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews "My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it" "In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people" (via @vulture)

RFK Jr. went on national TV and spouted egregious, dangerous falsehoods about vaccines. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. @FoxNews might not fact-check him, but I will. I've reviewed the trials. I've catalogued them. I have receipts. 🧵

America never had free speech. It had selective speech. You could say fuck the government, as long as it wasn’t your government. You could protest, as long as it didn’t make anyone uncomfortable. You could speak truth, unless it hit someone’s wallet or ego. Putin saw that. He knew Americans didn’t really understand what freedom is. They just like saying the word. So he started pumping them full of chaos. Troll farms. Fake news. Conspiracies. And he watched them eat it up, smiling. The land of the free, melting from the inside. Trump? Not a mastermind. Just a balloon full of ego, drifting wherever praise and power blow. They didn’t recruit him. They just played him. Put a few young girls near a hotel camera, whisper some flattery, push his face on Russian state TV. Boom. Useful idiot. But Elon? That’s something else. Elon’s not dumb. He’s dangerous. He bought Twitter to finish the job. Not for speech. For control. He knows what he’s doing. And it’s working. MAGA screams free speech while banning books silencing teachers jailing protesters banning history crying about drag queens and begging for dictatorship because it makes them feel safe. That’s the free speech hyparadox. They love freedom until it’s used against their feelings. They scream truth while choking it. And most Americans still don’t get it. Because the real weapon wasn’t lies it was ego wrapped in a flag sold as liberty and executed with a damn retweet

MAGA right now is like local drunk clowns at a global party🤡➡️🎪➡️🇺🇸 For a brief moment, the whole world is staring at them, not because they’re powerful, not because they’re respected, but because they’re so loud, so ridiculous, so historically embarrassing that you can’t look away. They should enjoy it while it lasts. Because once Trump is gone, and he will be gone, -The world will move on. -The spotlight will shift. -America will clean itself up, or collapse trying. -And MAGA will be left rotting in history, like discarded circus tents after the show leaves town. They won’t be remembered as warriors. They’ll be remembered the way we remember people who used to scream about flat earth. Curious. Sad. Forgotten. You can’t clown your way into respect. You can’t shout “Let’s Go Brandon” into history books and expect honor. They branded themselves already, not as patriots, but as America’s global embarrassment. And no election, no meme, no rally will wash it off. Generations will laugh at them. Until one day, they’ll be nothing more than a punchline in textbooks next to “Prohibition” and “Duck and Cover drills.” Enjoy the attention, clowns. The next chapter doesn’t have your name in it. “MAGA is like a dying fireworks show — loud, messy, burning everything around it — but forgotten before the smoke even clears.”

@Guydeinc0gnit0 @DKThomp Lol that you think that's all true.

@DKThomp ^This is all true but it’s not a great argument for the actual actions of the admin afaict

Gutting scientific funding and scaring away talented immigrants while raising the cost of manufacturing stuff in America is, genuinely, like something we’d be forced to do after losing a war to a geopolitical adversary that deviously sought to hamstring US technological power for generation.