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@CallaghanPeter So am I.

@WolfOpitz I m ok with that

Paul Allen didn t want a renovated Kingdome because he thought football should be played outside. New Seahawks owners could well demand to play indoors. What’s Behind All the Domed NFL Stadiums Being Built? wsj.com/sports/footbal…

@CallaghanPeter The unsuccessful effort to build a new hockey and basketball arena near T-Mobile and Lumen Field would have done exactly that so there’s some slim hope that future attempts would do the same.

@WolfOpitz That should be the entire ask then. Or hell, enjoy a stadium that was just praised as best World Cup venue. Public/private partnerships usually mean public risk and private profit. Maybe Allen Foundation will thank Washington taxpayers and share the profits from sale.

Enough revenue in the sport to put $9 billion into a purchase. So do pro owners really still need tax dollars for stadiums? Why sale of Seahawks to Khosla family group is 'win all around' seattletimes.com/sports/seahawk…

@CallaghanPeter All true…ideally, they wouldn’t need the longer term financing schedules but their financial models fail unless they can amortize the debt over 30 years instead of 10.

@WolfOpitz still not sure why it is public or why federal taxpayers subsidize. Calling them public starting decades ago was a means to getting public support. But there is little about them anymore that makes them public, especially when managed by private entities.

@CallaghanPeter Technically it’s still a “public facility” because a “public facility district/authority” or similar will need to be formed to sell the municipal bonds. And - the facility itself could be pledged as a security against the debt.

@WolfOpitz Sounds like a private facility to me.

@JoyceWhiteVance Tolerate? Trump encourages, enables, supports, and rewards this behavior.

Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real news here is that Trump is willing to tolerate this.

@TaraSetmayer Socialism is the fire department putting out your house fire. Capitalism is your insurance company denying your claim.

UPDATE: Yesterday, my mom discovered the family property has now been vandalized. Another by product of State Farm’s bad faith handling of our claim for over a year. Thank you to everyone who has supported so far. To help: gofund.me/10fdddeab

@RadioFreeTom @TheAtlantic We live in Tacoma WA where AC is not yet the norm. We added it to our home in 2014 as overnight low temps had made normal life uncomfortable. Technically we could probably get away without it, but are glad to have it for the growing number of days per year where it’s needed.

Two views in @TheAtlantic on this air conditioning issue. /3x theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/… and theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/…

I don't get it. Love Europe, but there's almost a kind of stubbornness about a/c that just doesn't make sense (and never did). And it's not limited to Europe. New England, for years, was full of no-a/c stores and restaurants. "Oh, we don't need it here." Yes, you do. /1

@Scarletkoito111 A landfill

@atrupar Classic Trump: 1) create a problem, 2) make it bigger, 3) blow things up and kill people, 4) fail to solve it, 5) blame others for the failure, 6) act like you solved it anyway, 7) insult everyone, 8) move on like nothing happened.

JD Vance: "Fundamentally, what Jared and the Qataris and the entire team here in Bürgenstock accomplished is to me a classic Trump deal"

@JonahDispatch @JohnJHarwood @johnhawkinsrwn USAID and similar programs are less about generosity and much more an enlightened self interest for the US to be a positive reliable force in the world. We cede that role to there at our peril while killing innocent civilians in the process.

@johnhawkinsrwn I don’t see it that way. If desperately poor people develop a reliance interest on you to feed them or provide life saving medicine, pulling the plug overnight is killing them. Fine to argue programs should stop or be reformed. Doing it overnight is deliberately cruel.

Dismantling USAID Hasn't Killed Anyone According to liberals, we have a MORAL DUTY to go into debt to give money to people in need all over the Earth, and if we don’t, we’re RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEATHS. But, we are not the only country in the world, so if they need medicine in Kenya or food in Haiti and people are dying because they don’t have it, why isn’t someone else doing it? How about the people that live there? What about their governments? How about China or Russia? What about the EU? What does the United Nations do? How about NGOs? Billionaires? If liberals are so upset about it, why doesn’t someone like Bernie Sanders or AOC encourage donors to chip into fund that can be used for this? Why is the United States EXPECTED TO GO INTO FURTHER DEBT to pay for this? Oh, that’s right. The Left really cares about USAID because it was used to fund liberal NGOs, act as a jobs program for the Left, promote socialist values and get taxpayer dollars cycled back into Democratic political organizations. So, they blame us for deaths halfway around the world that have nothing to do with us to scam more money out of the American people to use to fill their coffers. What it all comes down to is that our country is $39 trillion in debt, and doling out money to charity is something only countries running in the black should be doing if there’s no benefit to it. Could you make a case for it after some rare, particularly heart-rending disaster? Sure, maybe. But it makes no sense to borrow money to give away to other nations in return for nothing, year after year. We should have stopped doing that decades ago.

@TiffanyMSmiley Just like MAGA daddy Trump, now you’re taking credit for the great experience visitors are having in the blue cities run by Dems that you’ve spent years denigrating.

World Cup tourists are showing Democrats just how amazing America is. I'm sick and tired of AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the Democrat Party telling us how terrible our country is.

@washingtonweek @JeffreyGoldberg @jonkarl Trump should have watched the old Peter Sellers movie “The Mouse that Roared” as part of his briefings before starting something with Iran, Greenland, and ultimately Cuba.

"Iran didn't win the military conflict. They got set back significantly, their missile program got set back significantly, ... the nuclear program, clearly set back. But they won the peace negotiation," @jonkarl tells @JeffreyGoldberg.

@Melindago @PaulMarcoe Take Hwy 20 from east to west for the best views of the mountains. West to east keeps the mountains behind you.

@PaulMarcoe Nothing beats the North Cascades Highway (hwy 20) if you get a chance. But first, Chuckanut Drive.

US-2 to Leavenworth or 90?

@gtconway3d Drop by the Menger Hotel for a drink - you’ve seen as much of the Alamo as you need from outside…the Menger is packed full of history. TR recruited the Rough Riders there.

we had hoped to spend a nice quiet evening touring the Alamo but it closed at 5:30 so does anyone have any suggestions for something fun to do around here tonight

@jimiuorio What’s yet stranger is how unwilling the questioners are to listen to the explanations and actual facts. Could it be that the questioners have less than noble motives?

The strangest part of the LA election isn’t the outcome. The strangest part is the amount of people who think that we aren’t supposed to constantly question and scrutinize the election process..

@RadioFreeTom Ds making this solely about Pulte’s lack of qualifications instead of his bad intent sets up Trump to nominate Mike Flynn who on paper is highly qualified but has bad intentions make Pulte look like a Boy Scout.

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@SecMullinDHS @GovSherrillNJ Markwayne “Potemkin”?

I’m not surprised you would say something like this, @GovSherrillNJ. On June 8th, I personally granted you access to the facility as an act of good faith— despite you having exactly ZERO federal oversight authority. Of course, you’re still trying to turn Delaney Hall into a political football for the radical left. You were told BEFORE you went in you would not have the ability to speak to detainees. This is a federal facility, Governor. You are NOT federally elected. I suggest you and your health inspectors spend more time at your New Jersey state detention facilities. Delaney Hall has 2x more medical personnel per detainee than NJ state prison, and at least 2x as much square footage. Detainees are also 2x more likely to die in NJ state custody. ⬇️

@ChrisCillizza She repeatedly and shamelessly rubber stamps everything that Trump (a fascist) wants so what does that make her?

Do you really believe Susan Collins is a fascist? Like, come on.