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@barstoolsports It would be nice if NJ had first-world country infrastructure.

Argentina fans are crossing the highway to get to MetLife

@PpollingNumbers Would love to see this crosstabbed with “I have the mind of a f’ing toddler”

Whom do you trust on the economy 🔴 Republicans 39% 🔵 Democrats 35% IPSOS #C - RV - 7/13

@PollTracker2024 Just out of curiosity, when’s the last time this useless mf’er confronted a republican about anything?

CNN: Hakeem Jeffries confronted Senator Bernie Sanders against meddling in House primaries, particularly one involving a Black Democrat. “He seemed to not care,” Rep. Greg Meeks of New York, a Jeffries ally who was also on the call, said of Sanders, recalling the previously unreported phone call. cnn.com/2026/07/19/pol…

@BasedMikeLee Something tells me these shitheads might suddenly find a reason.

There is no legitimate argument against the SAVE America Act Not even one

“I don’t understand how all the chocolate keeps disappearing because my smudgy-faced 5 year old continues to reiterate he’s not eating it”

@liamcsc In related news, you will also never celebrate banging sydney sweeney.

Say what you want about Scotland, but we will never celebrate finishing 3rd at a World Cup. Absolutely pathetic mentality.

@markandthetrack 100%. Every year I watched them monetize the fuck out of that place. It’s just not enjoyable any more. Haven’t been there in over 10 years. I miss what it was, but not what it is.

I grew up going to Saratoga Race Course many times a week and picnicking at the top of the stretch. This was the tradition for many families. Today it has been replaced with corporate boxes and not accessible. NYRA greed has destroyed the Spa.The mystique is no longer.NYRA GREED.

@electionsjoe Given what was already going on in June, most people would’ve connected the basic dots.

Imagine showing someone this in June

@big_pedestrian No one asked you to pay gas, utilities and maintenance on grandma’s home, but please, entertain us with more extremely stupid analogies.

I’ve had the same car for 15 years. Paid cash. Insurance, gas and maintenance the year I bought it was ~$650. This year it’s $1,600. I’m on a fixed income and don’t want to lose my car. I wonder if there is a way to pass these costs on to young people who don’t have a car.

@margozensky Solid read 👍 I’m probably a lot more pessimistic than you are though. The gambling side of the sport seems irreparably broken (CAWs) and there are just way too many other options for people’s gambling dollars that are a better value and seem fairer.

Celebrating Haskell Day with an article about betting....oh boy. ;) open.substack.com/pub/margozensk…

@racing_dudes He beat the horses everyone figured he needed to beat. You can’t account for a 28-1 shot running that good of a race.

Did Paco Lopez cost Napoleon Solo the Haskell? He stayed wide throughout and seemed determined to keep Further Ado floated out whenever possible, leaving the rail wide open. Maybe those were the instructions, but it was an interesting ride.

@0liviajulianna You might even say she’s growing on you 🙄

She finally cracked the code on how to harness the hatred from her haters into momentum and I fear there’s nothing that’s gonna be able to stop that now. I liked McMorrow but I think Stevens winning is inevitable at this point. Abdul sure did make her work for it though.

@hecubian_devil By playing the second half the same way they’re playing this second half

@KFILE Is that because they’re actually upsizing or because they’re locked into homes they can’t afford to sell? Not going to create an account to read an article.

Fascinating WSJ story showing that many Booomers are not only not downsizing their homes, they're instead upsizing and getting large ones. Empty-nest baby boomers own 28% of U.S. homes with three bedrooms compared with 16% for millennials with children. wsj.com/economy/housin…

@JamesTate121 Seems pretty clearly to be a fake photo, but where did anyone from McConnell’s office release this photo?

Mitch McConnell’s team released yet another hospital photo, and apparently they forgot that some of us grew up doing the “What’s Wrong With This Picture?” puzzles in Highlights magazine. Because I have questions. A LOT of questions. First, why does the sign above the door appear to say Room 411 while the sign beside the exact same door says Room 412? And why are the room numbers apparently INSIDE the room? Then there’s what appears to be a paper chart hanging from the bed. Yes, I know some hospitals still use paper for certain things, but plenty of nurses are going to look at that setup and immediately question it. Charts aren’t beside beds anymore and haven’t been in years. If a place does use paper charts, they’re kept at the nurses station. Now look at the IV. The bag appears full and doesn’t appear to be connected to Mitch. And what appears to be an Alaris IV pump setup looks like it has two channels but no control module—the “brain” needed to operate it. Then I started looking around the room. Why are there multiple hand sanitizer dispensers? Why is one positioned where it is? Why are an otoscope and ophthalmoscope mounted on the wall right beside the patient bed? Why does the angle and perspective of the bed itself look strange? Now look at the glasses. The reflections caught my attention because what appears to be reflected in them doesn’t seem to correspond clearly with what’s around or behind the photographer. The apparent overhead lighting reflected in the glasses also doesn’t seem consistent with the way the room itself is lit. Then there’s Mitch himself. Zoom in and parts of his face—particularly around his mouth and glasses—look strange to me. That could absolutely be compression from repeatedly uploading, downloading and screenshotting an image, but I’m looking at the entire picture, not one isolated pixel. And after reportedly being hospitalized for weeks, he’s standing there, dressed in jeans and that familiar red checkered shirt, looking remarkably camera-ready. Any one of these things might have a perfectly reasonable explanation. Maybe all of them do. But when you release a photograph specifically to reassure the public that everything is fine, and I spend the next twenty minutes playing the nurse’s edition of Highlights magazine trying to figure out what the hell I’m looking at, your reassurance campaign may need a little work. I’m not declaring the photo AI. I’m not declaring it Photoshopped. I’m pointing at the things I can see with my own two eyes and asking questions. Because at this point, I don’t need another carefully staged photograph. I need some answers. It's more AI slop with the same shirt on. VIA Momma Dawn

@VanJones68 Yeah, if I were inventing made-up shit and pretending DSA supported it, I’d be stressed too 🙄

I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas. I'm a strong Democrat, with a winning bipartisan track record. I'm rooted in progressive ideals and policies: criminal justice reform, Green New Deal, Medicare for All, free education, clean air and water. These are ideas I have fought for my entire adult life. But some people in groups like the DSA are pushing an agenda FAR outside those ideals. Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE. If there were no police or prisons, if anyone in your neighborhood could do whatever they wanted, while politicians cheered on terror groups — would that represent PROGRESS to you? No, that would be a step back. Those are REGRESSIVE ideas. On the other hand, if everybody could see a doctor when they got sick, get a good, free education and breathe clean air — would that represent progress? Yes. Those are PROGRESSIVE ideas. They are NOT the same thing. And the difference matters. Some defend the far left by claiming they only want Nordic-style social democracy. If that were true, I might applaud them. I want those policies, too! But what does universal healthcare have to do with Hamas? With abolishing all law enforcement? With erasing all borders? With treating every wealthy person as a villain? Ideas matter. And these are terrible ideas. Right now, extremists are trying to sneak backwards proposals into our party, hoping mainstream Democrats are too frustrated with MAGA and the Democratic Party establishment to notice. But we see you. Yes, we want our Democratic Party to be a big tent. But we don’t need "party poopers. So STOP pooping in the punch bowl — and telling us the turds are ice cubes. They aren't. And we are smart enough to know the difference. 💩

@keithdorejel … and do i still get paid if I add, “like a fungus?”

If I say “she’s growing on me” will someone send me a check or is it more direct deposit?

@washghost1 But somehow every other business has figured out how to implement waivers and terms and conditions to avoid that sort of thing.

Places don’t give the food away because people ruined it by filing lawsuits so they’re not going to take the risk

@MattBruenig Is this parody? Who tf knows. It’s indistinguishable from the real thing.

State owned amusement park in Westchester County. Mamdani creeping east.

@SarahHuckabee Nobody ever asked you to, but sure keep throwing red meat at your racist constituents to distract them that your state is at the bottom of every meaningful quality of life metric.

In our state, you cannot replace Arkansas law with Sharia law. We will not allow it. Period.