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@putxiwhipped5 @KweenInYellow @MarkA79275 @AOC You sound like you hate the majority of non-Trump voters or are maybe just jealous she has more power than you

@jmelgrenkc @KweenInYellow @MarkA79275 @AOC She has no leverage with anyone except DSA flunkees who hang on her every worthless word.

Rep. Sara Jacobs reveals that the Biden administration could have forced the UAE to end the genocide in Sudan, but the US and Israel needed the Emiratis' cooperation in order to continue doing the genocide in Gaza.

@putxiwhipped5 @KweenInYellow @MarkA79275 @AOC She's a politician... she tried to influence him and had some success in some areas and failed on others. She has no leverage with trump and everything has only got worse with him.

@KweenInYellow @MarkA79275 Reminder that while @aoc attacks “white nationalists” she campaigns with and lies for those who openly support genocide of brown people.

@RepDerekSchmidt Sending troops in harms way for a meaningless war that kills innocent people and wrecks our economy is abhorrent and disrespectful to those in the armed forces. If you care oppose this worthless president and the disaster he's unleashed.

On this #ArmedForcesDay, we honor the brave men and women who wear the uniform and defend our nation with courage, sacrifice, and unwavering commitment. Their service protects our freedoms and keeps America strong. Thank you to all who serve, and to the military families who serve alongside them. We are forever grateful.

@RogerMarshallMD Sending troops in harms way for a meaningless war that kills innocent people and wrecks our economy is disrespectful to those in the armed forces. If you care stand up to the president and the disaster he's unleashed.

Freedom isn’t free, and we should never take that for granted. Today on Armed Forces Day, we honor the men and women who put on that uniform — the people who make this the greatest country. Praying for all of those who answer that call and their families who make sacrifices alongside them.

@JerryMoran @USTradeRep @FoxNews @MikeEmanuelFox How can you possibly not address our president saying he doesn't think or care about American's financial situations. How do you expect us to believe you and your party has any legitimacy when you shrug off such incompetence and indifference?

For Kansans, it’s hugely important to have access to export markets for our aircraft, soybeans and especially grain sorghum - something I emphasized to @USTradeRep while he was in China this week. Joined @FoxNews’ @MikeEmanuelFox today to discuss key takeaways from the President’s trade talks in China and my trip there ahead of his visit.

@Fullcourtpass @JakeLFischer The lottery should just be numbers between 25 and 75. Whatever number is drawn, the inverse of the league standings through that many games should be the draft order. That way losing games at the end of the season would have little to no affect on draft order.

If the new "3-2-1" draft lottery format is approved the NBA will very much consider holding that drawing live on television, per @JakeLFischer “There would be 37 Ping Pong balls total for the 16 teams that participate in the lottery all adorned with a team logo. This would replace the current system that features 14 numbered Ping Pong balls with 1,001 possible combinations divided up amongst the 14 lottery teams” (marcstein.substack.com/p/behind-close…)

@AlexKepfer @JoshZ2012 @JamesSurowiecki What part of the IRA do you think is bad?

@JoshZ2012 @JamesSurowiecki Especially if it is bad legislation..... like the "inflation reduction act".

As I said back in 2017, Trump is unusual because he's both a terrible person and a terrible president. Most presidents over the past 60 years have been basically good guys or good presidents: LBJ terrible person, pretty good prez; H.W. Bush and Carter good people, bad presidents, and so on. (Depending on your politics, the two presidents who were both are Reagan and Obama.) But Trump is both awful as a person and totally unprepared for and bad at being president. Great combination.

@jimmypennell @ChrisVanHollen How do you see funding the UAE as 'helping others' but USAID and NGOs is not?

@ChrisVanHollen Americans want to help others. You’re just upset it’s not being funneled through USAID and NGOs.

Today, Sec Bessent revealed that the Trump Admin plans to send BILLIONS of dollars to help other countries keep their economies afloat while ignoring needs here at home. Once again, the 'America First' president is focused everywhere except the wallets of working Americans.

@DKThomp I kinda love this about the NBA. I can follow the standings in the regular season but really don't need to watch any team play more than once if I don't have time. Then I can devote more quality time to the best matchups in May.

I think one way to get at the NBA's problem is to start w the question: What would it look like for a professional sport's regular season to be the equivalent of a pre-season exhibition period—that is, something that genuinely, truly does not matter at all? 1. For starters, seeding wouldn't matter ... bc home court advantage would barely exist, in which case the best teams could win the championship as an 8th seed just as easily as they could win as the 1st seed. 2. The playoff series would be long enough that (a) the best teams had ample opportunity to prove their superiority [unlike in March Madness, or the NFL playoffs, where 20 bad minutes can end the best team's season] and (b) you're giving casual fans a LOT of basketball to watch so they don't feel bad about skipping most of the regular season. 3. Also, you'd let the vast majority of the teams make the playoffs -- maybe by adding a "play-in" that extends potential playoff qualification to, like, 2/3rds of the league. 4. You'd have several teams that recognize (and practically celebrate!) the futility of the regular season by spending much of this period *actively and flagrantly trying to lose* bc the draft is so much more valuable than the outcome of any particular week, or month, of regular-season competition. In fact, you'd have fans actively rooting for about 1/3rd of the league to throw away most of the regular season bc they only really care about getting a high draft pick. 5. Finally, you'd have a sport where it was basically impossible to win a championship without a top 10 (or, really, top 5!?) player, in which case many franchises are rationally fixated on throwing away regular seasons to maximize their chance to draft or trade for a top 10 guy. ... okay, I think you get my point :) I love listening to basketball podcasts in the autumn and winter, and I love watching playoff basketball in the spring. But I think there are very deep structural reasons why the NBA regular season, for many casual fans, feels like a prolonged preview of an actual sport that begins in April.

@JerryMoran @Airbus Impeach Trump

Great to welcome Robin Hayes, Chairman & CEO of @Airbus North America, to Kansas. Wichita - the Air Capital of the World - is home to one of Airbus' two engineering facilities & 12 local Airbus suppliers. As Airbus continues to innovate & grow, Kansans are ready to support their needs & the broader aerospace ecosystem.

@RuiXuKS An independent could have a better chance statewide in Kansas than a Dem. See Dan Osborn in Nebraska. He outperformed Dems in red states in the last election.

I have a lot of respect for Reverend Hamilton but running as an Independent benefits basically nobody but the Republican candidate and the campaign consultants you’re hiring #ksleg

@ilovechrissia @ryangrim #1 She should have said 'strategic ambiguity?' What? #2 She's a congresswoman and we're 2 years away from any prez primary, so relax

@ryangrim 1. if her position *is* strategic ambiguity, then she should have said that. 2. if the default American position on Taiwan is incoherent babble, and she simply meant to repeat it, it's not exactly a good thing that she's simply maintaining that status quo.

I had different problems with AOC’s Munich talks but the Taiwan criticism is kind of silly, because she’s being knocked for babbling incoherently about what the U.S. response should be, when babbling incoherently is quite specifically the actual policy of the U.S. Except we call it “strategic ambiguity.”

@quasicoh @rough__sea What is incorrect about the concern over water usage?

@rough__sea It's not just that, but that the position is based on incorrect arguments (water usage, "stochastic parrots", not useful, etc)

I dislike that the default left/liberal position is anti AI now. wildly shortsighted for an inevitable technology shift.

@SimpletonWill @south_23rd @samswey It's not bad to have a budget deficit. Sure it would be good to cut our fat war spending but if we don't spend appropriately on health and human services this leads to health, crime, and financial duress for the country.

@south_23rd @samswey Don't change the subject. Is Congress creating the problem, yes or no?

The fact that the top 1% of Americans alone (households with $13,000,000 or more) currently have substantially more wealth than the entire national debt is a clarifying fact. It means this country really doesn’t need to be in debt. That the wealthiest Americans could just pay off the nation’s debt at any time and *still* remain millionaires - if only our government made them pay their fair share.

@adamjohnsonCHI @JStein_WaPo I think you're discounting how much US-Israel imperialism is driven by oligarchy. She is a good politician trying to move the needle and expand the tent, which is good.

@JStein_WaPo The primary criticism is she is embracing an ‘authoritarian vs democracy’ framing that is, at best, unhelpful and stale. It signals Samantha Powerism 2.0 with decent class stuff thrown in. A “global oligarchy” isn’t about to attack Iran, US-Israel is and this needs to be centered

I get the right being mad at AOC but some of the left critiques are confusing to me. She literally said guys let’s do global class war

@jasonhickel What is incorrect? Aoc agrees with everything you just said.

This is not correct. US foreign policy has never been organized around preventing authoritarianism or ensuring international law and global security. It has always been organized around ensuring the conditions for Western capital accumulation. This is true for Trump and it was true for Biden. It is a bipartisan position. Toward this end, one of their primary objectives is preventing socialist or other national liberation movements from coming to power in the global South, and preventing sovereign development outside of Western-dominated supply chains, because this would cut off their access to cheap labour and resources. To achieve this objective, they are quite happy to invade and destabilize sovereign countries, violate international law, depose democratically elected leaders and install dictators in their place, prop up authoritarian proxy regimes, interfere in foreign political processes and, yes, commit genocide. The liberal narrative that the US promotes democracy against authoritarianism has always just been PR cover. Trump has to some extent dispensed with this ruse, to the dismay of liberals, but other than that there is no substantial break. He is a gangster for capitalism just like the rest of them. US foreign policy, under liberals and conservatives alike, is a long litany of violent violations of human rights, democracy and sovereignty.

@The_Old_Taylor @PeterSchiff @grok You root for tax fraud in addition to higher healthcare and children dying from preventable diseases. Sad!

@jmelgrenkc @PeterSchiff @grok Oh good less theft.

Trump correctly pointed out that our nation was its richest in the 1880s and 1890s, but he is incorrect to attribute that wealth to tariffs. The reason we were so rich back then is that government was so tiny that we could afford to pay for it with tariffs. Back then, total federal spending was only about 2% of GDP. Today it’s over 23%. I'm with the president: let's eliminate 90% of the Federal Government, so we could pay for what's left with tariffs. Let's also eliminate the the Federal Reserve and go back to a gold standard, just like the 1890s. Let's get rid of income and Social Security taxes. Let's eliminate all the government departments created since 1890, like Commerce, Labor, Health, Education, Housing, Transportation, Energy, and Education. Let's get rid of the government agencies that didn't exist back then, like the SEC, FDIC, NCUA, CFTC, CFPB, FCC, EPA, OSHA, PBGC, FBI, CIA, TSA, and FEMA. If we repeal Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, Unemployment Insurance, SNAP, Welfare, Student loans, FHA/VA loans, SBA programs, and farm supports, to name a few. We should also repeal almost every federal law that has been passed since 1900. If we do all of that, then we can have tariffs and be rich again like we were in the 1880s and 1890s.

@JeffreyHarmon @The_Old_Taylor @PeterSchiff @grok It was a good thing for the very wealthy yes and for everyone later that they ditched DOGE. Not for the 9 million people across the globe who die as a result or the vast majority of US citizens whose healthcare and other costs went up. Plus it increases interest on US debt.

@jmelgrenkc @The_Old_Taylor @PeterSchiff @grok That sounds like a good thing… not waste

@Strakyo @rcbregman What is the pain point

@rcbregman This is such a strong example of why AI is a real unlock for non technical creators. You saw a clear pain point and shipped a working tool in minutes instead of waiting for a developer.

For people who are still underwhelmed by AI: I was about to buy a $100 teleprompter app, but decided to vibe-code one in 2 prompts. Asked Claude to make a website for it as well. (For context: I'm a historian, never coded a line in my whole life)

@The_Old_Taylor @PeterSchiff @grok Listen to the June 13 episode of The Daily "Why I Joined Doge" which explains the last part. And yes reported broadly that the IRS cuts alone cost the US more revenue than all the real cuts combined.

@jmelgrenkc @PeterSchiff @grok is this true