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@RadioFreeTom I’m just glad Trump wasn’t prez during WWII—the Nazis wouldn’t have had a difficult time guessing which beaches in Normandy to mount their defenses against a 2/3/4/5/6-times threatened invasion force sometime (wink,wink) in June ‘44.

So, the UAE somehow knew it was tomorrow, and asked him not to, and he's announcing it anyway that he was *going* to, or... maybe it wasn't and he's just completely making up stuff. Either way, totally normal behavior and very reassuring that we have a steady hand on the wheel

@whignewtons If only the Board of Trustees could recruit like Matt Painter….

Northwestern poached Purdue's university president. Husband of the pod hardest hit. Go cats. hammerandrails.com/post/Ftxsbl4H_…

@JohnCornyn @NewReaganCaucus Not so sure about that. I think all we got was the closure of a previously open waterway.

The number one state sponsor of terrorism without a nuclear weapon. Pretty good deal.

@DavidAFrench Another great article by David French. We can’t abandon all of our principles to defeat an unprincipled and authoritarian leader.

"I don’t want politicians to be 'authentic.' I want them to be decent. I want them to be honest. I want them to be competent. And if they fail those tests, they don’t redeem themselves by opposing Donald Trump." nytimes.com/2026/05/10/opi…

@AdamKinzinger Buying Trump bitcoin?

The brilliance of this president is just unmatched

@trof26 @RepLuna It’s never been a concern of these “Republicans.” Why start now?

@RepLuna Just wondering if the national debt is a concern to you at all

This week I will be introducing a bill in the House to suspend the federal gas tax in light of Trump’s recent remarks. American families need this relief on gas prices. My office will be working directly with President Trump to ensure we deliver this win for the American people.

@JonahDispatch Hobsons choice: higher gas prices for the midterms or admit that the war failed to prevent the Iranians from their nuclear weapons aspirations.

Are they also increasingly worried that bears are using our national forests as toilets? Is their anxiety about the Pope being Catholic getting to them?

@whignewtons Just got my copy and like what I’ve read so far. Can hear the voice of the AO podcaster in the prose.

Publishing a book isn’t kinda like having a baby, it’s EXACTLY like having a baby. There’s a fun part (writing), a grueling part (editing), the final push, then they hand you the finished product and it’s beautiful but now there’s weeks of irregular eating and sleeping!

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up. He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour. Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself. Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it. Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows. Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result. Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing. The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

1. When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison. 2. To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it. 3. Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight. 4. It's the start of a brand new day, and I'm off like a herd of turtles. 5. The older I get, the earlier it gets late. 6. When I say, "The other day," I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 15 years ago. 7. I remember being able to get up without making sound effects. 8. I had my patience tested. I'm negative. 9. Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer, it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn't fit any of your containers. 10. If you're sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say, "Did you bring the money?" 11. When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say "nothing," it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing. 12. I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever. 13. I run like the winded. 14. I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don't know whose side I'm on. 15. When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, "Why, what did you hear?" 16. When you do squats, are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery? 17. I don't mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited. 18. When I ask for directions, please don't use words like "east." 19. Don't bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That'll freak you right out. 20. Sometimes, someone unexpected comes into your life out of nowhere, makes your heart race, and changes you forever. We call those people cops. 21. My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb! 🤣🤣🤣

@DavidAFrench @Oceanbreeze473 I never had the upper body strength nor coordination to do it….

@Oceanbreeze473 100 percent yes. I did it in middle school. We all had to.

Did they really make grade school kids climb 30’ ropes off a tile floor in street clothes?

@RaphealDavis3 Agree that Purdue will still be top half of the rankings at some point next year. Lots of talent ready to be molded by Coach Paint.

CJ Cox and Omer Mayer make up one of the best back courts in the conference. Omer is one of those Hoopers that just needs the ball in his hands to really let his game flourish. And CJ is going to be one of the best two-way players in the country. Front court needs to round out.

@RadioFreeTom Quietly?

So petty. So embarrassing. Next president - no matter who - should quietly chisel that stuff off the buildings and remove the Walmart Liberace decorations in the White House.

@NewReaganCaucus The Republicans don’t want a balanced budget amendment any more than the Democrats cuz in order to balance the budget, they would need to raise revenue (i.e. taxes). Can’t do it simply by cutting or eliminating Medicare, Medicare, food stamps or even the entire Defense budget.

Based DeSantis.

@JonahDispatch The first step of many to sharply curtail the abuses of power by the Executive Branch and to strengthen our democratic norms. Well stated.

We need to amend the Constitution to remove or sharply curtail the president’s pardon power. The best time to have done it would be a quarter century ago. The second best time would be now. But it almost certainly won’t happen under Trump. So when I say this again under the next president, likely a Democrat, please don’t come at me with “Oh but you were fine with Trump having unrestricted pardon power?” No. I wasn’t. Trump’s abuse of the pardon is appalling. Worse than Biden’s, which was also appalling. And it’s going to get worse.

@bennyjohnson Obviously the cognitive test Trump aced didn’t have any math questions.

President Trump says “if the story is properly told”, Republicans should win the midterms in RECORD NUMBERS. “I AM THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT!”

@bennyjohnson don’t tell me, we’ll see it in two weeks, correct?

NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel delivers nightmare fuel for James Comey, Says action is coming in the next few days. “Stay tuned for right after Thanksgiving. You'll see responses.” “We have numerous options to proceed and we're executing on all.”

@GameDayGabi Boilers have-so-many-weapons.

Boys on one tonight man 🔥

@GuntherEagleman It starts at the top!

You want to stop the corruption, put a guilty one in prison for life. You want to stop rogue judges, remove one. You want to stop mortgage fraud, arrest one. If we don't, NOTHING CHANGES.