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@JosephEToomey Would you be as vocal if an MLB player wrote a passage from the Koran on their cap?

The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Craig H. Missakian should open a grand jury investigation against the SF Giants and Major League Baseball for violating the 1st Amendment civil rights of players who wore Bible verses in lieu of gay flags of their jerseys.

@AlexanderPayton If you want to petition @MLB about their policy not to write stuff of caps, go ahead. Would you be as vocal if a MLB player wrote a passage from the Koran?

100% of the recent backslide in support for gay rights is because of things like this, by the way. This is vile, totalitarian, vicious extremism. There is no possible justification for this. There is no natural end point here. Gay organizations urgently need to return to the principles of freedom of religion and association. This totalitarian impulse to crush anything short of complete submission is revolting.

@RobSchneider @MLB Why would anyone take an organization seriously who's been persecuting the LBGTQ community for 1000 years and won't let them have 3 hours on a random summer evening?

I will pay the fines for any @MLB Christian player who wears a Bible verse on their uniform. @MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN

@nateelgin @BSpilner2f2f @MLB There's 1000 years of documented persecution against the LGBTQ community the Christian hierarchy.

@ecq023 @BSpilner2f2f @MLB Respectfully, no one’s being persecuted here. Certainly not Christians, and I would argue, neither is the LGBTQ community. Players wrote a Bible verse on their hats, there’s pushback against it, theres pushback against the pushback, and no one is being persecuted.

If @MLB had a Christianity night and all players were required to wear crosses, people would lose their minds and want to opt out. Why can't Christians opt out of pride nights?

@nateelgin @BSpilner2f2f @MLB I find it interesting that a religion which was highly persecuted for its beliefs now believes that persecuting others for their own lifestyles is absolutely fine instead of letting them live their own lives they way they want.

@BSpilner2f2f @MLB Love doesn’t mean approval. I love my children more than anything, but I don’t approve of all they do. I don’t approve of all my friends do, but I still love them. If love is love, and love means approval, these Christians wouldn’t be getting cooked for religious beliefs.

@nateelgin @MLB They aren't required to wear Pride-marked gear. They just can't add their own modifications.

@BigJakeCLE What it tells me is that three people don't have the grace to let their employer celebrate a segment of the population publicly for one night out of 81 without making a scene out of it, creating a virtual martyrdom where none needed to exist. That's not effective evangelism.

Nothing says “tolerance” quite like warning players for displaying Bible verses. The MLB wants everyone to celebrate one message, but if a player expresses his Christian faith, suddenly there’s a problem. Either support free expression or don’t.

@bonchieredstate MLB slapped down the writing of the verses on the caps, too.

I’m sorry they didn’t observe your state-sanctioned religion.

@Handre McDonald's have been using kiosks since at least 2019. Where have you been that you haven't noticed?

McDonald's announced they're replacing cashiers with kiosks in California just after the $20 minimum wage kicked in. Shocking to absolutely no one who understands basic economics. When you artificially price labor above its market value, employers find substitutes. Machines, automation, or they simply eliminate positions entirely. The teenagers who desperately need that first job experience? Gone. The single mother trying to re-enter the workforce after years away? Priced out by someone with more skills. You've just created a legal barrier that prevents the least skilled workers from competing on the one thing they had going for them: willingness to work for less while they build experience. Politicians pat themselves on the back for "helping workers" while unemployment among young minorities hits double digits. The workers who keep their jobs benefit (temporarily), but the invisible victims, those who never get hired in the first place, don't make headlines. Economics doesn't care about your good intentions.

@Save_theUnion @TheRabbitHole Considering that liberals have been calling out said loopholes since the Reagan administration -- yeah, they're annoying as hell and provide advantages to superrich people that people with incomes under $100K can't take advantage of.

@ecq023 @TheRabbitHole You are missing the point. Using the term “loophole” makes it sound evil and nefarious to the minions, which is what the left wants, when in reality it is merely an element of current law. Whether that portion of the code is good or bad is a different discussion.

“Tax the rich” We already do. “Make the rich pay their fair share.” They already do. These slogans are catchy but inaccurate. They reveal that someone is misinformed on taxation in the United States.

@Save_theUnion @TheRabbitHole I mean, you can feel that way. Tax loopholes are in the tax code. That's why they can use said loopholes. Have XXX amount of money in offshore accounts where they can't be touched? Sounds good. Use 100 LLCs to make tax returns so complicated that the IRS gives up? Sure.

@ecq023 @TheRabbitHole There is no such thing as a “tax loophole”. It’s the tax code. Don’t like it, get it changed.

@TheRabbitHole The graphic is misleading at best precisely because of the volume issue. Of course the rich provide more tax revenue. It's volume. The issue is that because of the volume they have tax shelters available that make significant amounts unable to be taxed. They could pay even more.

@TheRabbitHole Or more that very rich people can use tax loopholes that are basically useless for families making, say, under $100K, because you need actual volume to get the tax benefits. The idea is to limit the loopholes, making it more equitable across the board.

@TheRabbitHole "Tax the rich" = "Get rid of the ways superrich people can hide their money."

The Kansas City metro is about 2.2 million and there's virtually no chance any of the squads (England, Argentina, and The Netherlands) are going to organically run into each other on the street. share.google/6kmMVcJl3HALtb…

The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s reputation and has gotten millions of people to tune in. Jeffrey Brown and our colleagues at Maine Public went to experience this in Portland for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

@FFT1776 @mangum_mic1774 @VP @SenateGOP You misunderstand the Constitution and how the Majority Leader works. Vance is not an elected member of the Senate. The Majority Leader is chosen by the current elected members of the majority party.

I always fact check my posts. This may help you. The Constitution is crystal clear … JD Vance IS the President of the Senate. He can walk in, take the chair, and actually preside like the Founders intended instead of letting the Senate play games. Mike Lee confirmed it. This isn’t some wild theory it’s the Constitution.

🚨JD VANCE Must TAKE THE CHAIR from Thune🔥 Sen. Mike Lee confirmed that as VP, JD Vance is the constitutional President of the Senate. He can walk into the chamber anytime, take the Presiding Officer’s chair, and get to work. PRESIDE over the SENATE, JD. THE TIME IS NOW 💯🦅 What do you all think? Will Vance do it?

Scientists have captured the world’s first detailed brain scans of people under the influence of LSD, offering unprecedented insight into how the psychedelic dramatically alters brain function. In a landmark 2016 study led by researchers at Imperial College London in collaboration with the Beckley Foundation, 20 healthy volunteers received 75 micrograms of LSD and underwent advanced brain imaging using fMRI and magnetoencephalography (MEG). The scans showed that LSD disrupts the brain’s normal modular organization, breaking down rigid boundaries between networks and creating a more unified, integrated state of connectivity. This increased global integration appears to underlie the profound changes in consciousness, sense of self, and emotional intensity commonly reported during psychedelic experiences. A striking finding was that participants experienced vivid, dream-like visual hallucinations even with their eyes closed, driven by increased communication between the visual cortex and memory-related regions such as the parahippocampus. These effects were further amplified when music was played. By temporarily dissolving entrenched neural patterns, LSD may help “reset” the brain, opening new therapeutic possibilities for conditions like treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, and addiction. [Carhart-Harris, R. L., Muthukumaraswamy, S., Roseman, L., Kaelen, M., Droog, W., Murphy, K., Tagliazucchi, E., Schenberg, E. E., Nest, T., Orban, C., Leech, R., Williams, L. T., Williams, T. M., Bolstridge, M., Sessa, B., McGonigle, J., Sereno, M. I., Nichols, D., Hellyer, P. J., Hobden, P., Evans, J., Singh, K. D., Wise, R. G., Curran, H. V., Feilding, A., & Nutt, D. J. (2016). Neural correlates of the LSD experience revealed by multimodal neuroimaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(17), 4853–4858. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1518377113]

@whoismrzero @KenGardner11 @TylerBoliver The USPS is basically making that policy themselves with a change they enacted last December stating that the postmark is now on the day of processing instead of the day of drop-off. A bunch of ballots everywhere have gotten disqualified by that.

@KenGardner11 @TylerBoliver If you cast a mail in ballot you should have to mail it back no later than one week prior to Election Day!

It should be illegal for any state to "count" ballots the way California does. It seems as crooked as a 3 dollar bill. Texas and Florida get their ballots counted by midnight on Election Day. What is California's excuse?

My wife and I are staying at a @HiltonHotels property this weekend in downtown Kansas City. It's a historic hotel within walking distance of the P&L district. But there are so many little things wrong that it feels like a mid-tier hotel and all you get is the name. Disappointing.