Wayne Boerger

@CPSUK Pathetic.

Prosecutors have been issued new legal guidance on the use of offensive banners, slogans, chants or symbols to recognise the changing context and increase in increase in hate crime attacks ahead of significant planned protests in London this weekend. orlo.uk/z2Tcn

@TheBabylonBee A Winnie the Pooh walrus.

Xi Happily Drops All Tariffs After Trump Shows Him How To Use Chopsticks To Become A Walrus buff.ly/f3lNfzd

@SamaHoole Wait, honest question: you're telling me that when they cite this water number, they derived it from calculating how much the grass consumed in order to grow?

Activist: "Beef uses an obscene amount of water. Fifteen thousand litres per kilo." Farmer: "Where did the water come from?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The fifteen thousand litres. Where was it before it was on the bill." Activist: "I don't know. A river?" Farmer: "The sky. About ninety-four percent of that figure is rain that fell on the field and got drunk by the grass. The cow ate the grass. The rain was on its way down whether the cow was here or not." Activist: "But it still counts as water used." Farmer: "By the grass. Which would have used it whether I farmed or moved to Spain. The cow isn't commissioning the rainfall. The rain isn't on the cow's payroll." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The rain still falls. The grass still drinks it. The water cycles back into the air anyway, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's rain, grass, cow, river. Or it's rain, grass, rot, river. Same circle, fewer dinners. Meanwhile every almond in your milk took a gallon of pumped aquifer water in California to grow. That one you might want to worry about. The rain in Wales is doing fine without your concern."

@Keir_Starmer What a ratio. Dude has no shame whatsoever.

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

@BrickCenter_ At 0:16, what that Harden playing DEFENSE? (Not "move your feet defense" of course, but at least "I tried" defense)

THE PISTONS CHOKED IN OVERTIME

@BrickCenter_ Rule should be: if you're shooting a 3, your feet must land outside the line to get a foul call like that. He went forward 2 full feet. Embarrassing

James Harden KICKS Tobias Harris and gets 3 free throws 🤔

@calvinrobinson Thought that first one was Don Lemon at first!

We have got to do something about this Ozempic craze. “Body positivity” made obesity fashionable. Now, celebrities are back to promoting unhealthy skinny & eating disorders with new drugs. This GLP-1 content is a bad influence on the young/vulnerable. Just eat well & exercise

@causmanaut @fortworthchris I live here man. The north side is not Wayzata, Woodbury, or Lakeville, but there's nothing preventing growth to the north. And I'd argue Mpls itself is not so civilized any longer, but that's another topic.

@WBoerger @fortworthchris Not true that is the frozen tundra if you have never been to Minnesota. Civilization ends at Minneapolis.

There is only one city in the United States that doesn't grow north - Minneapolis-St. Paul, restricted by geography. Every other city in the country grows north. That's the framework Rex Glendenning has been using for 40 years to position himself in front of growth. People in Celina laughed at him 30 years ago for buying dirt in the boondocks. He plowed every dollar after taxes and overhead back into 40 and 50-acre tracts anyway. In this clip from this week's episode - the rule of thumb Rex says should be on the first page of every real estate book.

@0xr3dd0g @FletchMatlock I don't think it's Pratt making them; just other people who want to see Bass shown the door. There's no credit at the end.

@FletchMatlock I’m not a lefty, but I don’t think you should be able to use someone’s realistic likeness in a political ad like this without their permission.

“Almost none of the needles in this children’s playground have AIDS on them” My. God. He nuked her from orbit 💀

@realEstateTrent @JBMason Yep, was my first thought. He envisions a future utopia where his kids seamlessly own and manage an asset that they may or may not care about. Many such cases.

2 things: 1) People HATE taxes beyond belief. 2) Then what do the kids do as forced partners? What if one wants to sell and the others don't? What if they need a new roof, and two of the kids don't have the 30k to fork over? I am not going to tell him this, and I respect his answer, but give your kids the gift of financial independence. I have seen far too many families break up because they're fighting over jointly-owned assets.

This morning I asked someone if they'd be open to selling me their strip center. Here was their response:

@bruce_barrett Just call the cops. 0% chance they're going to take it to the dump.

Canadian refuses to watch his country turn into New India. This is how it’s done. 👍

@RyanHoliday This couldn't be more ironic.

Elon Musk as a Cautionary Tale of Empathy

@mattvanswol Matt, they only know the scripture that they can twist and use to their own agenda. All the rest....well, they just won't talk about that, will they?

I could use some help... I came back to church after years away and I'm still figuring a lot of it out... but what is going on with the "Christian Leftists"???? These are people who know Scripture better than I do... but the SAME PEOPLE turn around and tell me a kid in elementary school can know 100% that they were born in the wrong body. That puberty blockers are healthcare. That get flustered and extremely angry at any reasonable question I throw at them about it. That actually to question any of it is a form of sin in someway? These people will literally say the church is too White. As if whiteness itself is a big problem or a sin and that we need to repent of being white, and fix it in a room full of people who showed up to worship Jesus. Can someone explain this to me? How on earth does this make any sense from someone who is supposed to be a Christian? How did these Christians get to this place? How did a faith built on the goodness of creation, the dignity of the body, the truth that every person bears the image of God regardless of skin, end up getting SO sucked into these Leftist slogans? What I notice is that every position the Christian left holds happens to track PERFECTLY aligns with the cultural arguments of the Leftist political movement. Every single one. Trans kids. Race. Sexuality. Borders. Guns. Climate. And they'll use the Bible, in genuinely bizarre fashion and slogans to uphold these political beliefs. Like "love thy neighbor" for example, to say that illegal immigrants didn't do anything wrong. "The least of these" somehow means trans kids or something? "Turn the other cheek" somehow means that criminals should never be held accountable for crimes. It seems, and I could be wrong, that a LOT of Christians are using politics to shape their faith. Not the other way around Maybe I'm missing something. I'm willing to be wrong. But from where I'm sitting it looks FAR LESS like Christians are wrestling with hard questions and more like a version of Christianity that has agreed to push forward every argument the culture wants it to... What's going on with the Christian church??????

@micsolana Do they really want to be educated though? I have my doubts based on who they consistently vote for to lord over them. I hope you're right!

I want spencer pratt to win. then, I want him to apply his communication skills to explaining how LA government works, who specifically holds every relevant lever of power, and why everything is broken. we will never achieve sane local government until the voters are educated.

@BasedMikeLee @FLManStan @grok @william_f_cody It baffles me that Thune can be "beloved by colleagues and very popular within the conference" when he cannot discharge his duties in a way that accomplishes what the voters have sent them there to do.

Your question suggests five senators could oust him in the middle of his term as leader. That’s not true. In the House of Representatives, a tiny number of lawmakers can oust the speaker—at any time. That feature is unique to the House. In the Senate GOP we don’t even have a rule or procedure for replacing a leader in the middle of a two-year term. It is true that under our rules, any five senators can call for a meeting of the entire conference at any time. But in practice, that kind of meeting tends not to materialize unless a solid majority of the conference wants it to happen. Even if such a meeting were called and even if it actually materialized, it still wouldn’t end as you seem to assume. To pursue the outcome you’re suggesting, one would have to use that meeting to propose a new procedure for a mid-term leadership swap, and that—at a minimum—would require a majority of the conference to support it. For a whole host of reasons—including the fact that Senator Thune is beloved by colleagues and very popular within the conference—the odds of that happening are literally 0 in 100,000.

I’m tired of the Senate’s evergreen excuse for inaction: “We don’t have 60 votes.” There are ways around the 60-vote cloture standard. It’s time to start using them. And stop disingenuously characterizing any refusal to do so as virtuous or conservative. Share if you agree.

@BarackObama Yeah, 'cause no gerrymandering was happening today, right?

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

@johnkonrad Sure they were senators, but they at least give the impression that they're the most likely to have the guts to actually attempt to tear down the administrative state. Maybe I'm too optimistic, but *someone* needs BOTH the guts and the authority. Thune clearly doesn't.

@WBoerger Maybe but where does JD Vance come from? Where does Rubio come from? Why do you think Rubio has been so successful in this administration?

John Thune has become a punching bag for good reason but there is a more insidious force at play nobody can talk about. Let me explain… The staffers in Thune’s office have been asking Trump Naval and Maritime appointees questions about me before confirmation hearings. I doubt John Thune knows who I am. His staff absolutely does. They track me. They hate me. And they will quietly bleed pushing out any appointee I’m friends with. Someone close to PPO told me a Trump staffer commented that “Konrad should be a HBS case study on someone every in the administration respects but has zero chance of any appointment.” It’s probably because I’ve called out congressional staffers numerous times before. This is how Congress actually works. It’s always the staffers. When we first floated the SHIPS Act, Mike Johnson’s hometown delegation were strong supporters. The minute he became Speaker, his hometown people got bulldozed by the Speaker of the House staff he inherited. Same man, different staff, different priorities. Why do you think they wanted Mitch McConnell propped up after the freezing episodes? It wasn’t McConnell. It was the cartel of people on his staff who needed his chair filled by someone they already controlled. Members can’t read their own bills anymore. Thirty years of capped staff, frozen pay, and brain drain to K Street has left rank and file senators functionally illiterate on the legislation they vote on. Leadership staff fill the vacuum. They are not entrenched because they are corrupt. They are entrenched because nobody else in the building can move a 1,500-page must-pass bill through conference. That is the cartel. And it has rules. If you want anything in the NDAA, the omnibus, the CR, or any vehicle that actually moves, you do not piss them off. You do not name them. Break either rule and you do not get a second omnibus. I’m not even willing to name individual staff. John Phelan is the case study nobody is reading correctly. Phelan was not fired because he was a bad secretary. Phelan was fired because his chief of staff Jon Harrison had deep knowledge of the pentagon that Phelan lacked. Without him, Phelan was walking around the Pentagon naked and he knew it. He pulled back from media events and became too cautious. Then there is Susie Wiles. I don’t know her. Never met her. From everything I can piece together she is doing a great job. The point is not Susie. The point is the Vanity Fair article. It’s not even the article itself, that article contained a lot of BS, it was the reaction that came after. Every single republican & a few democrats stood behind her. Now contrast that with the flood of negative articles about Mike Waltz, Kristi Noem or Pam Bondi. When a politician is the subject of a hut piece is dragged over the coals, the system shrugs. But when it’s a senior staffer, the system closes rank. It is safer to trash Trump in print than to be perceived as trashing Susie. Trump is used to it. Susie controls the schedule, the access, and the door. Multiply Susie by every leadership chief of staff, every NDAA conference staffer, & you have the machine. It is not partisan. Schumer’s staff & Thune’s staff protect each other from outside critics more reliably than they protect their own bosses from each other. Leaders come and go but leadership staff is entrenched. Congress is broken because leadership staff on both sides want it to remain broken. A Congress that can only legislate through 2,000-page must-pass bill is a Congress where the staff who draft the bill run the country. Regular order is their extinction event. They will never let it come back voluntarily. You can call out politicians all day. They are used to it. Call out the staff and you don’t get frozen out of one bill. You get frozen out of every bill, by every office, on both sides, for as long as the cartel decides to remember your name. They remember mine. Now you know why.​​​​​​​​​​​​​ even Luna can’t vall them out.

@RepBrandonGill Yeah, remember all those Somalis that did this?

If Somalis “built the economy,” why are 80% still on welfare after 10 years?