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@ShabbosK @willchamberlain Shabbos: quick reminder that we have a 1st amendment that guarantees Americans the right to lobby and donate money to any cause they want.

Great debunking Anna Kasparian's deranged conspiracies straight to her face. She's now blocked me on X. Thomas Massie took money from billionaires, Iranians, and PACs while implying Trump was a pedophile. As usual, she had no response other than to yell, interrupt, and insult.

@USJewishDems @CoreyWriting What’s the difference between Trump and a Jewish Democrat? Answer: Trump has Jewish grandchildren.

Only 24% of Jewish voters hold a favorable view of Donald Trump. A majority of Jewish voters believe Trump is antisemitic. The newest poll of Jewish voters is clear: We reject Donald Trump’s extremism, and we can and will make the difference for Democrats in the midterms. haaretz.com/us-news/2026-0…

@cenkuygur @EYakoby

@EYakoby Israel is always in the room with us. They never leave us alone. And if you're a government official, they are very likely literally in the room with you. They have Israeli assets and listening devices everywhere. That's how they stole our nuclear secrets, triggers and uranium.

Congrats to Israel, they killed another peace deal. We were at 95% done. After Puppet Trump talked to Netanyahu, he came out with new completely unrealistic demands: 1. Israel doesn't have to abide by the peace deal and can keep attacking Lebanon. So, only a ceasefire for one side. 2. We have to take out all the enriched uranium on day one, not in the second stage. 3. All Middle Eastern countries have to betray the Palestinians and sign Abraham Accords to normalize relations with Israel without ending the occupation. These are purposely impossible, so that the war continues. And Israel is bombing Lebanon heavily now to try to reignite the war. They are not our allies, Israel is a terrorist government which has captured our government and media. They're using it to drive permanent war that Americans are forced to pay for.

@GiancarloSopo “Why not?” Peckinpah used the same phrase at a key moment in The Getaway.

First time seeing The Wild Bunch on the big screen — 35mm. One of the greatest action films ever made. Nobody choreographed gunfights like Peckinpah.

@MayorFrey Oh wait, do you mean George Floyd the drug-addicted loser who engaged in armed robbery and passed counterfeit money?

Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.   That moment changed our city forever.

@BrianManzo20 @skaushik100 Respectfully beg to differ. Spent some time near North Park Blocks recently and it was fucking disgusting. Didn't even want to walk the dog there. Shit, needles. garbage, etc. It is cleaned overnight, then the addicts arrive, take a bench, and the circle of trash widens.

@skaushik100 I visit Portland a couple of times per month, and for all the bad press it receives, and much of it rightly so, I truly believe it is in better shape than Seattle currently is. One small example, their parks are clean & beautiful, not filled with used needles and homeless tents.

No one has written more evocatively and insightfully about what went wrong with Portland, OR than Nancy Rommelmann. She's charted the city's transformation from a pretty but poor and provincial Tonya Harding town of NW metalheads and rednecks to the fun and self-consciously off-beat bougie emo twee city of the Portlandia era, and then to a city defined by an increasingly militant and oppressively conformist form of cultural progressivism that exploded into the destructive - and deeply self-destructive - protests of 2020. So @hyded and I asked @NancyRomm to join us on the latest BCB (link to follow) to talk about how and why Portland traumatized itself, what the hell the 2020 protests were really about, what the city's experience says about the devolution of cultural progressivism in the 2010s, and also, more recently, about the false narratives the Trumpist right has tried to impose onto the city over the ICE protests. I don't think there's any city in America that has had such a sharp up then down trajectory as Portland (where I lived during my college years back in the '80s), and I thought this was a really fun and insightful conversation.

@CattardSlim @MalcolmNance Hey anus, why don’t you get your ass off X and 1) build electric cars, 2) launch the majority of satellites into space, 3) dig tunnels, 4) provide the best satellite communications system, and 5) run the social media network your sweaty hands are typing messages on right now.

These chuds couldn't rig up a fishing pole, set up a canvas tent, or change a dirt bike tire between them. Yet they're Magas top alphas. That's all you need to know about Maga. 😂

@Partisan_12 He’s a loser who got kicked out of UCLA for harassing women like a fucking lowlife. dailybruin.com/2020/08/03/pos…

🇮🇱A former IDF intel officer, Shaiel Ben-ephraim says that Tucker Carlson is target number one on Mossad's assassination list..

@WallStreetApes Is there WiFi?

The RVs parked for miles in Abilene, Texas seem to never end I shared earlier footage of this, but this shows they are expanding and building 2,300 more spaces They are used for temporary housing for thousands of construction workers building massive AI data centers The city has approved large-scale RV parks specifically for data center workers, including a nearly 1,000-space park on Elmdale Road and plans for up to 2,300+ spaces total across new developments Abilene is in the middle of a huge AI data center boom, projects include OpenAI, Oracle, Crusoe, Microsoft, and more. These are multibillion dollar campuses, some valued at more than $26 billion+ The power needs for these data centers in this area will exceed 1 million average homes They’ll use about 8 million gallons of water Each major project can have as many as 6,000 workers on site each day

@RepThomasMassie Put your apron on and make me my cafe latte.

I lost my election on the six month anniversary of the Epstein Files Transparency Act becoming law. Those buggers don’t waste any time.

@mahmoudkhalel @OmarSShakir Pack your bags and get out.

We're now seeking Supreme Court review of my case after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear it in a 6-5 split. This fight is about whether the government can detain and deport people for their speech. It can't end here. nytimes.com/2026/05/22/nyr…

@pmarca And that is only for phase 1, which consists of a DEI plan, a study of affected squirrels, and a plaque stating the land originally belonged to the Cahuilla tribe.

Do I hear $300 billion? $500 billion? $1 trillion?

@sashakots Мотивация

Кадры боев за Шестеровку Подразделения группировки войск «Север» взяли под контроль Шестеровку в Харьковской области. Как мы писали ранее, село брали штурмовики 82-го мотострелкового полка 69-й мотострелковой дивизии 6-й армии. Полный текст в МАХ: max.ru/kots/AZ5Ka1z-f…

@AnBrux У твоих глупых братьев дела обстоят хуже.

Вот так выглядит Россия в 2026 году. И я живу здесь. Нет бомжей, нет наркоманов. Можно гулять ночью ничего не боясь. На парковке у магазина можно оставить велосипед без замков и цепей

@Perimetr123 Его избили палкой его офицеры?

Сын вернулся домой спустя полтора года… Мама не смогла сдержать слёз, увидев своего бойца на пороге. После долгой разлуки — наконец объятия, родной дом и самые важные слова. Именно ради таких моментов наши парни проходят через тяжёлые испытания, держатся и идут вперёд. Пусть каждый защитник обязательно вернётся домой живым и здоровым🙏

@mironov_ru Вместо того чтобы нападать на украинцев, ваши тупые офицеры нападают на задницы ваших тупых солдат. Именно поэтому Украина выиграет эту войну. x.com/markito0171/st…

СВО? КТО! Пора! Бандеровскую гниду Зеленского и всю его шайку надо уничтожить. Эти мрази совсем озверели. Убивают наших мирных жителей. Сколько ещё терпеть? Также известно, кто им поставляет дроны. У нас что, нет координат заводов? Есть. Надо бить. И бить первыми. Давить гадину!

@LarrySabato Trump? I live in Oregon, a cesspool of creative district-drawing. Our representation both in Salem and the US Congress has been engineered toward Dems for decades, long before Trump.

All over the nation, the Redistricting Wars will resume in the next election cycle. No ceasefire and certainly no peace treaty. What hath Trump wrought? Another endless war.

@DavidSamuelMay You say in the 1st para there is plenty of room to criticize IDF’s war against Hamas, but in the 3rd you imply they did a good job under the circumstances. Don’t waffle. Israel has done a great job against Hamas, and I really don’t care that their supporters are living in tents.

Comments like this prove my point. The narrative is distorted from reality to cast Israel as a cosmic evil. Wars are violent, and that is why we should avoid them whenever possible. And there is plenty of room to criticize how Israel prosecuted the war against Hamas. But there is a vast difference between Israel killing civilians in a campaign to defeat a genocidal enemy and the accusation that Israel is massacring civilians in a genocide. For many, however, Israel's guilt is a foregone conclusion, and anyone pushing back is a genocide denier. I'll repeat: Hamas's figure of around 70k Gaza deaths INCLUDES Hamas fighters. We don't have exact numbers of killed fighters, but they are in the tens of thousands. So, in dense urban fighting, Israel achieved a remarkably low civilian-to-combatant casualty rate. Israel achieved this through advance warning, calling off strikes, and facilitating the entry of humanitarian aid even when Hamas stole it, and despite the many measures Hamas took to increase civilian casualties (building tunnels underneath civilian areas, using civilian areas as command centers, not allowing civilians to flee combat zones, etc.). But many will skip past 10/7, the brutal fighting, and the human shields and claim that based on the death and destruction, the Gaza war was a genocide. There are two general camps of people who make this claim. 1. The people who actively support the resistance and see the value in advancing the claim that Israel is committing genocide. 2. The well-intentioned people who are duped by the pictures and the sad stories. The first group is beyond reach, but the second group should be reachable. Anyone given a cartoonish story of good and evil would support the side presented as innocent victims. But this camp should understand that their well-intentioned support for a people that is suffering tremendously (the Palestinians) is energizing antisemitism. Jews are being scapegoated as genocide supporters, thereby justifying attacks on them even though Israel is fighting a war against genocidal enemies. There are real consequences for the false genocide claim, but I doubt the well-intentioned people claiming that Gaza is a genocide will have the introspection to realize the damage they are causing.

@ZubyMusic You are going at the right time. Come August, the city starts to smell like urine.

Heading to Washington DC to talk to some people. 🇺🇸

@BBCWorld Why not state the obvious - that this is a backward culture.

Selling children to survive: Afghan fathers forced to make impossible choices bbc.in/49UQzLU