Matt Brisley 🇺🇸🚒🌶🖤💛

President Trump is leaving no doubt that he is the one responsible for the lack of funding for TSA and the long airport lines.

We remember and honor the following firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty on March 23. We also recognize their sacrifice and that of their families. Search for the Roll of Honor profiles of these firefighters on our website. #FireHero

@gotti2323 I’ll complain as I sip my black coffee from my mug that I brewed from the coffee pot along with the Thomas’s bagel 🥯 and store brand cream cheese I brought from home.

Complaining about high gas prices and buying an $8 latte every day from Starbucks is wild.

@constantino Thanks Tony. I knew you would come through for me.

President Trump has the right to express his honest opinion of a corrupt man who tried to destroy his life and many others. I commend him for being honest. Honesty is sorely lacking in politics and those complaining about Trump's honesty are also the same people who condoned millions of Democrats celebrating the vicious murder of Charlie Kirk even though Kirk never harmed them. Robert Muller tried to hurt President Trump and the United States of America.

@CBS6Albany I wonder what bot this so called news station uses. I don’t recall you reporting how several proposals were brought by the Dems to fund FEMA and TSA minus ICE but they keep getting rejected. Do your jobs. What billionaire orders you around?

Elon Musk offered to fund the salaries of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers as they remain unpaid amid the partial government shutdown. cbs6albany.com/news/nation-wo…

@Microinteracti1 I wish I would see something from some of my local representatives or prospective reps, expressing some sort of disappointment in his comments. @RepStefanik @SmullenNewYork @constantino @PeterforNY19 @RepRileyNY

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Bartenders when you ask them to change the channel from a replay of yesterday’s horse races to the very popular college basketball tournament

@CBS6Albany Donny is a damn fool. Filthy human.

President Donald Trump didn't mince words when he found out former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III died. cbs6albany.com/news/nation-wo…

Berne-Knox-Westerlo 100, North Salem 66 (Final)

@Notwokenow @HBO @ICEgov Snowflake

Hey @HBO, FUCK YOU. SHAME ON YOU for demonizing the brave men and women of @ICEgov. I am thoroughly disgusted. And am cancelling my subscription NOW. Boycott HBO!!!

Favorites went 16-0 yesterday. This year's first round had 13 of 32 games decided by 20+ points. High Point only true mid-major still alive, and its NIL is probably most of any team in 1-bid league. I hate to admit it, but due to NIL & transfer portal, Cinderellas may be dead.

0.00196% of NCAA athletes are transgender. 0.0000001% of votes come from undocumented immigrants. This is what MAGA obsesses over.

@tracegallagher As long as it’s well known and widely advertised why not.

NIGHTCAP QUESTION: Ruth's Chris Steak House is now enforcing its business casual dress code, warning diners in baseball caps, gym wear, tank tops, and revealing clothing they may be banished to the bar. Do you support the clothing crackdown?

@MikeBales We used to get that once or twice a year when we were on a cruise too back in the 80’s and 90’s.

As most of you know, my son is a Sailor. He sent a picture of his lunch yesterday from the galley. I’m thankful that we are finally taking care of our men and women in uniform. 🙏🏻🇺🇸

@StevenEsquire That’s more of a Dodge Ram thing my friend. Do your research 😂🫡

The number of dudes on Pittsburgh roads driving around in their Ford F-150s and Chevy Silverados aggressively overcompensating for their micropenises is absolutely off the charts.

@AOC I’m sick of sports betting. I’m okay with casinos and lottery but can’t get on board with sports.

This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽‍♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.

@1ssve Nope 👎

Dear Apple, create a safety feature in iMessage that doesn’t allow people to screenshot text messages unless both parties have given permission.

Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump called him on the House floor after he pushed to release the Epstein files. Trump told him three times: "I'm coming at you like you've never seen in your life." This video was deleted from twitter yesterday, you know what to do ‼️‼️

@TheMaineWonk @DerrickEvans4WV I do have to agree. This guy is up towards the top of the most ignorant of them all. He’d fit right in with most of the people where I live. #honyauck

This is Jan 6 insurrectionist and former member of the West Virginia House @DerrickEvans4WV asking the tough questions. We live in the dumbest fucking timeline in human history brought on by the dumbest fucking people in our society.

I know a girl like her