@amandacarpenter Exactly, he’s keeping his militia on retainer for the second insurrection!
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Alecia Pynn
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Don’t call it a slush fund.
It’s a Riot Reward Program.
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@Timodc @benshapiro Plus to keep his militia on retainer for the next insurrection.
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Obama expressed empathy for Trayvon Martin and @benshapiro had a decade long tantrum. Imagine if instead he had stolen $1.8 bil from taxpayers and had BLM dole it out to whoever they wanted. Because that's what Trump is doing but for insurrectionist whites instead.
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@MarcoFoster_ @cthagod Not only to compensate but to keep them on retainer for the next go around.
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Charlamagne tha God on Trump: “Our taxpayer dollars going to this weaponization fund to compensate his allies should piss you off. You should be outraged. Not only is it corrupt, it is a blatant slap in the face to the economic hardships folks are facing. Trump told you he don’t care what you’re going through financially. He’s not even detached from people’s economic struggles, he just doesn’t care”
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@thejaybee Aren’t the rotisserie ones usually cheaper than the plain ones that aren’t cooked?
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@clharrington024 20+ years at NCAA schools, it’s compliance issue esp back then, to make sure they weren’t getting extra benefits. Been through an ice cream audit too. So annoying but there are so many ways to bend rules they scrutinize it. I used to say, “if it makes sense, we’re not doing it.”
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My husband worked in D1 athletics when we were first married and one of the most insane stories of bureaucracy run amok is as follows:
My husband was in charge of booking the rooms and meals on away trips for the MBB team. The team would use the hotel ballroom to watch film the night before the game and they would pay for “snacks” at night for the team. Often this would be charged as $25-30 per person for an ice cream sundae bar or similar.
Well, the university tells everyone to find ways to save money. So my husband determines an easy way is to stop buying the ice cream sundae package and instead just buy some ice cream from the local grocery store. He does this on a few trips.
A few weeks later he gets called into accounting and grilled because the receipts for the grocery store ice cream don’t itemize per ice cream bar. “How do we know how many they are getting?” My husband was baffled, who freaking cares how many ice cream bars they are getting, we are saving money. Nope. The accounting dept just wanted clean line items - one charge per person.
My husband went back to charging the university for the ice cream bar at the hotel and no one ever complained or questioned.
And this is why universities are broke and why I never donate any money.
KC NoDak Brim 🇺🇸@brim006
What radicalized you? For me, it happened back in my freshman year of high school in the early 2000s. The head coach of our hockey team believed in getting the team home to our own beds after road games no matter what instead of staying in hotels. Hotels were a distraction. With no hotel costs, he wanted to use the money to upgrade our road meals. Nothing fancy, just basic meat and potatoes type places like Cracker Barrel or Perkins instead of cold Little Caesars on a dark January bus ride home across rural North Dakota. The athletic director and superintendent shut the idea down and basically just absorbed the savings from his no hotel policy into the athletics budget. So after that our coach, the other assistants, the parents, and us players started fundraising in the off‑season in hopes to get better meals on the road. The first year went great. We raised a ton and were easily able to have nicer sit down meals on every single trip. We all sat together at big tables, had actual food choices, ate healthier and built even more camaraderie. It was fantastic all around. But then other sports teams and parents caught wind. It was seen as unfair. The AD, principal, and superintendent demanded we stop, in order to keep things “equal” across all sports at our public school. They even tried to force our coach to hand over the privately raised money so it could be redistributed. Thankfully, our coach was an old‑school Canadian ex‑pro hockey player who didn’t take shit from anyone, and told them to F off, and we continued with our meatloaf road meals as planned. The principal and AD eventually backed off, but the superintendent had a vendetta against our team and probably mostly just our coach so he never stopped. He even went as low as instructing bus drivers not to take us to the restaurants we’d planned for on the road. Our coach always overrode it, once even driving the bus himself since he had the license from coaching cross‑country. Over the next few years we continued the fundraising for better meals. Some of the other teams, and other parents continued to badger the supt., our coach and even sometime us players about it instead of just joining us in fundraising. Watching peers and especially some of our own “leaders” work so hard to sabotage a positive thing for us was eye opening and really stuck with us. It gave us an early look at how petty and nefarious and systems and people can be, even at the local level. And honestly, in the end, all it did was radicalize about 30 teenage hockey players for the rest of their lives who walked away believing “equality” was the dirtiest word in the English language. 😂
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@Lillybelli I rescued two bonded brothers and they’re amazingly close. It’s the sweetest, true brothers 💕💕
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I went to the shelter that Saturday with a clear plan already in place. I had picked out my dog online — a strong, handsome Pitbull mix with gentle, expressive eyes. I’d even started calling him Bruno before meeting him.
In my mind, it all seemed simple. The kennel door would open, he’d come straight to me with his tail wagging, and we’d head home together. I was already picturing hikes and having a loyal companion by my side.
But when the volunteer opened the gate, nothing went the way I imagined. Bruno didn’t move. No wagging tail, no excitement. He just stood there on the concrete, let out a quiet, uncertain sound, and lowered his head.
Confused, I stepped closer. “Come on, buddy,” I said softly, holding out the leash. He glanced at me for a moment, then looked past me. When I followed his gaze, I saw a tiny mixed-breed puppy tucked into the corner, trying to make himself invisible.
The little pup, maybe eight weeks old, was shaking. His eyes were locked on Bruno — and Bruno was watching him just as intently.
That’s when it clicked. They weren’t just sharing a space. They were each other’s comfort. In a loud, overwhelming shelter full of barking dogs, they had found a sense of peace in one another.
Bruno wasn’t being stubborn. He just didn’t want to leave his friend behind. Without a single sound, he made it clear — he wasn’t going anywhere alone.
At that point, it didn’t feel like a choice anymore. It felt like the only thing to do.
I turned to the staff, took a breath, and asked, “Is it possible to adopt both of them?” The volunteer smiled and said they had been hoping someone would. The two of them slept curled up together every night.
After the paperwork was done and everything was finalized, they walked out of the shelter side by side, staying close, just like they were always meant to.
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In the nick of time. Judge Leon enters an order of blocking construction of Trump’s monstrosity Xanadu, the east wing, two days before his hand-picked commission was due to approve it. Talk about irrevocable harm! It will be a major test of the legal system to see if Trump gets blocked here.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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Alecia Pynn retweetledi
Joakim Noah’s Florida Gators were the last of a dying breed 🫡
They paid to run it back . No NIL. Just brotherhood
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47 had a conversation with 45.
Leading Report@LeadingReport
BREAKING: President Trump says he spoke to a US President who he said privately wishes he did what Trump is doing to Iran.
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integrity on and off the court
Congratulations to Coach Konkol on being named a finalist for the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award!
#ReignCane
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@RedditCFB @ScriptsByJames Or a 5th grader. My daughter’s classmates hack through the county restrictions to play stupid stuff on class projections all the time.
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There is a 99.9% chance a college student is going to hack this in the middle of a game.
Mick Shaffer@mickshaffer
A different court is just the tap of an iPad away.
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Alecia Pynn retweetledi
THE WOMEN OF TEAM USA DOMINATED THE PODIUM 😤
They finished with more gold medals and total medals than the men for a SIXTH straight Olympics 🥇🇺🇸
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My statement:
“Today, the U.S. Supreme Court stood up for the rule of law and Americans everywhere. Its message was simple: Presidents are powerful, but our Constitution is more powerful still. In America, only Congress can impose taxes on the American people.
The US Supreme Court gave us everything we asked for in our legal case. Everything.
I’m grateful for the leadership of the Liberty Justice Center, and in particular for the brilliant advocacy by its chair, Sara Albrecht, who led the fight when others wouldn’t and was dauntless in its defense of our constitutional order. I'm also grateful to the five small business owners who stood up against these unjust, unconstitutional taxes. By taking a stand, they have delivered crucial relief to tens of thousands of businesses and millions of consumers across the country.
Finally, I lack the words to properly thank my brilliant Milbank team, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak and Sami Ilagan, who worked with me day and night for many months to craft the winning argument.
This case has always been about the presidency, not any one president. It has always been about separation of powers, and not the politics of the moment. I'm gratified to see our Supreme Court, which has been the bedrock of our government for 250 years, protect our most fundamental values.
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@samstein I can’t get enough of the windmills or magnet rants tbh
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@JT_Till7 @PrettyGirlCaty Aww prayers to you and your family. I worked with him to do the Gator Football alumni BBQ and he was the nicest man. What a legend! 🫶
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Last night, my grandfather, Sonny Tillman, passed away peacefully surrounded by family.
Most people knew him for his legendary BBQ and his deep love for Florida Gator Athletics, but I was blessed to know him for so much more.
He was my “Pop,” my example, and my mentor. Pop, I love you forever—give my grandmother and my father a hug for me 🫶🏼🙏🏼
#SonnyTillman #SonnysBBQ
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That feeling when you walk into the airport bookstore and see a whole row of your book!
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Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million.
In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million.
A massive percentage came from foreigners.
It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics.
But few even care.
reuters.com/investigations…
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Florida Gators Football Press Conference 10-27-25 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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“I am still ok my love”
“a little while longer yet”
“till we died of old age”
“grab my unseen”
“a bit over a week”
“squad car”
“circle back”
“vehicle”
Every time I read it sounds like a 45 year who watches “gilded age”. Sounds like Mirian wrote this.
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