Kevin Crystal

@Cornered_Cat I use my tactical flashlight all the time! For totally untactical tasks. Old eyes don’t see as well without strong light.

@PhilaBOR And you can get a crappy two dollar keychain flashlight anywhere, not for tactical use but just for "I lost my phone" or "I need to find my socks in the dark so I don't wake up my spouse" types of situations. There's really no excuse.

🚨 Attaching a flashlight to a gun does not make the gun a flashlight. Now you know.

@WCCO You mean boys pretending to be girls.

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Monday alleging Minnesota violates Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete in girls sports, putting billions in federal funding at risk. cbsnews.com/minnesota/news…

@MichaelARothman 🤮🤮🤮

What about kiwi, lemon, banana, and watermelon on pizza?

@AlphaNews If people choose private over public schools, they should be defunded.

WATCH: A Minnesota teacher testifies against a bill that would incentivize donations to private and public schools In a stunning moment, she says the bill should be rejected because "donations to private schools would decrease tuition, making private school more affordable to more middle-class families, decreasing enrollment at public schools, further defunding them."

@gunpolicy Will SCOTUS take a hardware case? This year? This decade?

FPC LEGAL UPDATE: Attorneys for George Peterson have filed a cert petition with the Supreme Court in a FPC-backed challenge to the federal government’s unconstitutional NFA tax and registration requirements for suppressors. You can read it here: firearmspolicy.org/peterson

@TheTomKnighton I thought a monster made out of dirt was a Jewish thing: Golem.

Big talk from a country that doesn't have a navy or an air force anymore.

@GHHILL1911 Good luck! May you get the job and it be a good job.

Just got the Call... I made it to the Final Round of Interviews with the Company President himself. Even if nothing comes of this... Getting this far is a huge boost to my self-esteem. Interview on Wednesday. Prayers requested. I want this job.

@BradRTorgersen @GHHILL1911 You have my sympathy. My offspring is on the left side of the spectrum, but we still have good relationships.

@PhilaBOR @GHHILL1911 Absolute agony for my wife and I. Nothing has ever hurt us worse. We bleed on this thing daily. 😔😫

I feel for him. I know this story has been repeated countless times. Some of my friends are going through this, and I see their pain and share it. The Woke Mind Virus is real and it can shred Families. But don't despair. The Lord has a merciful plan for these broken vessels. churchofjesuschrist.org/media/video/20…

@DesireeAmerica4 The Japanese are very oriented towards order in their society. I think I heard it has roots in an era where Samauri could kill a peasant for the slightest offense.

Japan is living in a different reality when it comes to crime. ​Look at this: Instead of a violent struggle, the police just pull out a green "burrito" blanket, wrap the suspect up like a package, and load him into the car. ​They maintain a 99% conviction rate. If the police pick you up in Japan, the system is designed so you almost never walk away. They don’t prioritize the "rights" of the suspect over the absolute peace of the street. ​Efficiency or Overreach?

@Jringo1508 Great song! CP rocks.

That is... extraordinary. I want to go jump out of an airplane now... AND I HATED JUMPING! (Found out years later, 9/10 airborne hate jumping. We do it to be airborne.)

Great song put together with the aid of AI. Song about Airborne soldier on a drop. Thank you CP.

@CynicalPublius That's great! Thank you.

OK, I swear I'll stop after this one, I swear. All you Army vets will get it. I tried to pull the most incongruous sound and lyrics and well... it's beautiful. Airborne. ATW.

@ProfBernardPaz @nealasher I think one of the founders said that a republic where voters elect people who promise free stuff is doomed. or something to that effect.

@nealasher @PhilaBOR No representation without taxation is an increasingly tempting idea.

Y'know, one thing that science fiction hasn't examined enough is: how do you build and expand a civilisation into something numinous, somewhere much higher on the Kardashev scale, while also dealing with those voting for and advocating this kind of fuckwittery? 👇

@TheTomKnighton She has been wildly successful with her hateful marxism. It seems to keep her getting elected in Massatwoshits. Why would she change?

Question: Is there literally any industry you won't try to "rein in?" Don't worry, we all know the answer is "no."

@DesireeAmerica4 People who complain about corporate greed are willfully ignorant about competitive markets and the forces of the stock market on corporate valuation and executive job security.

We complain about corporate greed, but we completely refuse to give up our instant gratification. ​McDonald's just reported a massive $26.9 BILLION in revenue for last year. Their profits are actually going UP. They aren't struggling, they are printing money because we keep proving we are completely addicted to their junk, no matter what they charge. ​We all want prices to drop, but as a society, we have completely lost the discipline to draw a line in the sand and walk away. ​Why would these corporations ever lower their prices when we keep willingly handing them our money?

@CNN Bye! Don't let the border crossing hit you in the ass on your way out.

Since criteria for citizenship expanded with the passage of Bill C-3 of Canada's Citizenship Act, millions of Americans have become eligible to claim Canadian citizenship. The amendment reverses a "first-generation" limit imposed by Canada's Conservative government in 2009. cnn.it/3PE5aUW

@SarahAHoyt Movies often have a pseudo ending. The villain seems to be dead, everyone relaxes, only to spring back to life once or more. Terminator, Fatal Attraction, etc. Don't know if that's the same thing as you're talking about.

yeah. I think books should have at least a pseudo-ending. I just couldn't do it with NML without twisting it all out of existence. I'm trying to figure out if there's anywhere I can print it as a single volume and sell it on shoppify. Particularly since Orphans of the Stars is as long, I think. (Still working, in between having sudden weird health things because I caught the bug that never ends. (Healthy young people go 6 weeks, so it will another few for me.))

@MichaelARothman First you get flares, then you get 20mm Vulcan cannon.

𝐅-𝟏𝟔𝐬 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐘 𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐑-𝐀-𝐋𝐀𝐆𝐎 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐆𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐓 NORAD scrambled F-16 fighter jets after a private aircraft entered restricted airspace near Mar-a-Lago around 1:15 PM today while President Trump was on the ground. The pilot 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 — so the F-16s did what F-16s do: they pulled alongside and 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 to get attention. It worked. The pilot reestablished contact with the tower and immediately exited the restricted zone. Secret Service confirmed 𝐧𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐎𝐧𝐞, which was parked at Palm Beach International. Earlier in the day, a viral video showed a Delta pilot telling passengers that drones had been spotted near the president’s plane. That was 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 — Secret Service clarified it had nothing to do with drones and everything to do with this private aircraft breach. These TFR violations aren’t new. But the escalation from radio silence to 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 tells you exactly how seriously NORAD is treating airspace around this president. After the 2024 assassination attempts, nobody is assuming benign intent when a plane goes dark near Trump. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞.