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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.

Outstanding. Got her out before she dropped the anchor baby. This is how it’s supposed to work. An avalanche of disincentives. If we debank all illegals we’ll make WAY more progress.

Domestically the USA is not in good shape. It is indebted, it is awash in illegal aliens, cities are littered with homeless drug addicts - our infrastructure sucks. The best thing for the USA is to focus on rebuilding itself, and leaving the rest of the world alone.

@KILLTOPARTY Ages ago I had a 25yo virgin gf, pretty but with intimacy and self-image problems. Not fun. She never laughed. Mohammad must have so loved Jews and non-followers that any muslim who dared to harm them would be cursed by Allah with 72 neurotic virgins, sexless misery forever.

Men want virgins and there isn’t anything wrong with that, but I don’t think these guys realize what they’re getting. A modern virgin is either going to be a) weird, b) very religious, or c) both (most likely). This is the real madonna-whore complex.

@LizzyStarrrdust In my early 30s my gf was a 25 year old virgin. Intimacy was a problem and I slowly uncovered the family trauma that may have led to it. Do not recommend. 0/5 stars.

Unless someone is still pretty young, and even if very religious, still pretty young, seeking a virgin is most likely selecting for a woman who is not interested in sex, awkward, neurotic, and unpleasant. I think particularly with women, after a certain age, it's often an indication of traits that are difficult to partner with.

A lot of my life has just been relearning things I knew were true when I was 5

@redheadranting It is horrifying that the Brady Bunch Movie was released 31 years ago in 1995, only 21 years after the original Brady Bunch series was cancelled in 1974. But yes, it was a funny parody with an excellent cast.

I am GenX and have never seen this movie. I grew up watching the original show every day after school, I couldn't understand why a remake would be worth my time. Is it?

@LizzyStarrrdust Classic mistake. Be sure to add butter, basil, and parmesan with the garlic next time. Serve with heirloom cherry tomatoes.

So uhh... I must have had some garlic in my pocket. I just pulled my clothes out of the dryer and they all smell like garlic.

NO! Permanent DST cost CHILDREN'S LIVES when last tried in 1974. In the winter, we need Standard Time's morning sunlight for health and safety. Ditch DST, Save Standard Time!

@MAGAVoice We can end clock change a healthier way by ditching DST and making Standard Time permanent! And we should, Standard Time is in alignment with our natural circadian rhythm!

@p8stie That's the spirit

I’ve never ever moved on from anything or anyone or gotten over anything that’s ever happened to me. I could cry about all of it today and it’s all been very serious. All of it

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are builders. The Left doesn’t build anything. They destroy. They steal. They redistribute. It’s one of the many reason the Left hates them. Building is against everything they believe in.

RadioShack was the last store where being confused felt useful. You’d walk in for batteries and end up standing in front of tiny drawers full of parts you didn’t understand yet. Resistors. Switches. Speaker wire. Fuses. Project kits. Adapters for problems so specific they sounded made up until somebody behind the counter nodded immediately and disappeared into aisle six. People remember the batteries. They forget the feeling. RadioShack made technology feel close enough to touch. You could buy a soldering iron, a police scanner, a bag of LEDs, a replacement remote part, a weird cable, a battery club card, or one tiny component that somehow brought the whole thing back to life. Kids built crystal radios. People repaired RC cars. Teens stripped speaker wire in garages. Some employee who looked like he had worked there since 1987 could translate your terrible explanation into exactly the part you needed. That kind of place teaches a different relationship with the world. Machines had backs and screws and wires. Things failed for reasons. You could open them. You could make mistakes. You could learn enough to stop being intimidated. Then the world changed. Screens replaced screws. Batteries got glued in. Devices got sealed. Parts disappeared. Stores stopped assuming people wanted to understand anything below the surface. People call that convenience. But there’s a reason people remember RadioShack harder than they should. It was one of the last places that made technology feel unfinished. Like normal people still had permission to participate. Now most of us carry objects more powerful than anything in that store ever sold and most of us would not even know where to begin if one stopped working.

@MoundLore As a kid I read the Radio Shack catalog in bed. I bought the kits, radios, and computers, and repaired things with the parts. During the closing sales, wow nine years ago, I cleaned out some local stores at 97% off prices. I still live in a world of repairing and building things.

A lot of Americans remember Sears as a dying store in a half-empty mall. That’s not what Sears was. Sears was how American factories entered ordinary houses. Kenmore in the kitchen. Craftsman in the garage. DieHard under the hood. Coldspot humming in the corner. Lawn tractors in sheds. Socket sets in drawers that nobody was allowed to lose. It was basements, workbenches, catalogs, part numbers, repairmen, delivery trucks, credit accounts, and old men who could hear a washer struggling before it finally quit. A kid could flip through the Wish Book and learn what adulthood looked like. Tools. Appliances. Work boots. School clothes. A bicycle. Sometimes even a whole house ordered by mail and built piece by piece after the materials came in by rail. That was the part Sears understood. America was full of people trying to build stable lives with practical things. Then the practical world got replaced by a disposable one. The catalogs vanished. The stores hollowed out. Manufacturing moved overseas. Repair got expensive. Replacement got cheap. The people who knew how everything worked got older, retired, or died, and a lot of what they knew went with them. People call it the death of a department store. I don’t. Sears was one of the last national systems that still assumed ordinary Americans should know how to maintain the world around them instead of just replacing it. That’s the strange poverty nobody talks about now. Not having fewer things. Having more than ever and understanding almost none of them.

@LuckyMcGee Rush The Moody Blues Yes Genesis Pink Floyd Renaissance Steely Dan Roger Waters Styx Kansas Peter Frampton U2 I saw Tim McGraw and Faith Hill once.

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@johnondrasik Rush The Moody Blues Yes Genesis Pink Floyd Renaissance Steely Dan Styx Kansas U2

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Billy Elton Queen Journey Page & Plant The Who Tori Amos Earth Wind & Fire Prince Paul The Cars

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I am getting a lot of hate from some long time friends, real life friends, too, for celebrating Massie’s primary loss. It’s sad to see. I have always been a Massie supporter, up until the past few months, and I still don’t disagree with him on much at all. But it’s time to turn the page if we are going to get anything done for the next 2 1/2 years. Status quo will have us accomplishing nothing, and essentially making Trump 2.0 a lame-duck presidency. That’s NOT what we voted for. I implore you disheartened Massie supporters to read the article below. 🙏🏼

@KathleenWinche3 What the AI hell is this? I'm trying to figure out if I'm from Allerstem or Kase Sismel, Massachusetts.

The Four Massachusetts Towns That Disappeared Under the Quabbin Reservoir Quabbin Reservoir history, lost towns of Massachusetts, Dana Enfield Greenwich Prescott Massachusetts, Quabbin Reservoir 1930s project, Massachusetts eminent domain history, Boston water supply history, abandoned towns Massachusetts, New England infrastructure history, Quabbin During the 1930s, Massachusetts created the Quabbin Reservoir to provide a reliable drinking water supply for Boston and surrounding communities. To build the reservoir, four towns in central Massachusetts, Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, were disincorporated and their residents relocated. Homes, churches, schools, and businesses were removed before the valley was flooded to form one of the largest man made reservoirs in the United States. Today the Quabbin Reservoir remains a protected watershed that supplies drinking water to millions of residents in eastern Massachusetts. The history of the displaced towns remains an important chapter in New England infrastructure and community history.