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With the White House Correspondents Association declaring Donald Trump an “honoree” at tonight’s dinner, I declined an organization’s invitation to attend. The sane washing of Trump and his war on the press is dangerous. And the WHCA is an absolute disgrace. #WHCD

@BlueBoxDave Exactly

“Heather Heyer, 32, was murdered that day in Charlottesville when a bigot drove his car into a counterprotest. Today, we must ask whether she could still be alive if the SPLC not been funding her killer’s organization.”

@amyspitalnick You were duped lady!

I led the nonprofit that successfully sued the neo-Nazis responsible for the Charlottesville violence. A jury found them liable for a conspiracy to commit violence, a verdict that courts have upheld. It was not a hoax. This is abhorrent, even if it’s not surprising.

@kylenabecker @amyspitalnick Exactly!

We're not saying that Charlottesville itself is a "hoax." We are saying the SPLC allegedly *HELPED* to engineer the conditions for it happening, and then materially aided-and-abetted a Unite the Right organizer and thereby promoted a clash between protesters and counter-protesters. Then the SPLC fundraised off it, successfully, and the Democrats weaponized it to push a bogus narrative in the 2020 election. So the SPLC benefited financially and the Democrats benefited politically. That is why the Biden administration shut down an investigation into the SPLC after banks flagged its suspect activities. I don't know why you leftists continue to pretend that we're all stupid. It's a tired act. When you flail with these vapid counter-arguments, it just makes you look like a huckster, in addition to a race grifter.

@VigilantFox @WildZLoy Spoiler: Yes our government is really this incompetent and corrupt. And it’s probably much worse than we think. They don’t deserve our tax money. If we got to keep more of our money, we could help the poor in our local communities ourselves.

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes. “Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.” “And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” “The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.” “The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” “How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?” “Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

In 1947, a 57-year-old Miami journalist published a book that saved the Everglades from destruction. Marjory Stoneman Douglas spent five years researching The Everglades: River of Grass. Before she wrote it, the conventional view held that the Everglades were a worthless swamp to be drained for development. After she wrote it, the conventional view was that the Everglades were a one-of-a-kind ecosystem worth protecting. The book was published the same year Everglades National Park was established. She didn't stop there. She founded Friends of the Everglades at 79 and lobbied for protection laws into her nineties. She was still fighting development projects when she turned 100. She was functionally blind in her last decade and still giving speeches, still writing, still driving the Florida legislature insane. She lived to 108, outlasting most of the developers she fought. Her book's opening line became the foundational sentence of American wetland conservation: "There are no other Everglades in the world." She wasn't a scientist. She was a reporter who looked at something and realized nobody was telling the truth about it.

@DastDn @poornerves Except the side that is struggling against peace and prosperity is not the one he thought.

Francis Fukuyama is a fucking genius and a prophet.

Florida might need to start having another hunt like the python one.

@Mr_Husky1 Omg please tell me this is real 🥹

Security footage from an animal shelter captured a frightened dog, which is then comforted with a large Saint Bernard. 😍 The video goes viral on social media.

@suzy_redd lol Hope you’re feeling better soon!

I had hip replacement on Monday. I took one narcotic pain pill that night and haven't touched the bottle since. Last night I told my husband I'm bored and tired of sleeping on my back. It was literally the only time I've complained this week. He told me to "toughen up."

@JHWeissmann The emotional blackmail won’t work on us anymore. The people responsible for the cuts are the people who stole our tax money and used it for nefarious purposes, not the ones critical of that system.

It's true: When the United States still spent money preventing children in Africa from dying due to painful, preventable illnesses, a lot more Americans were able to work in that industry. Good that we got rid of those fake jobs.

As I was saying…

@jmasseypoet Springtime! How lovely

The pear trees are flowering all around town.

@RossBarkan Ok byeee

Florida "worked" because it was cheap. But if it's not cheap, and you're not somewhere like Miami or Sarasota (great cities, no hate), it's just not worth it for a lot of people. Very rough summers, hurricanes, and only getting worse.

@BlueBoxDave What a bunch of nonsense. He’s projecting his own hang-ups onto other people.

I’d be interested to know specific examples of when El-Sayed faced Islamophobia during road games in college.

I ❤️ Florida

@Cernovich @geoljills 270k/year would change so many Americans lives.

Media people are living in a bubble. They don't think that $270,000 is a high salary. These articles and "hot takes" on how NGO people are such sad cases, as if they weren't overpaid, are wild. 270K for one person is SO MUCH MONEY.

@stephenfhayes @GiancarloSopo You must live in a blue state?

When we lived in Spain, we let our relatively young children (13, 11, 8) roam around our neighborhood with scarcely a thought about their safety. They'd walk several blocks to a corner market for fresh-squeezed OJ on their own, hit a popular novelty shop (Ale Hop) even further away. We'd leave them playing in the grassy fields of Retiro Park while we had cafe con leches well out of eyesight. It all felt safe -- it all was safe. That's not the case here in the US and we spend a lot of time thinking about why. In this terrific essay linked below, Stephanie Murray gets at the explanation.

🚨Governor DeSantis says his TOP PRIORITY when he leaves office is to see through two constitutional amendments to impose TERM LIMITS on members of Congress and a Balanced Budget Amendment.