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Ro Khanna canโt stop bashing Elon Muskโฆ until itโs time to trade Tesla stock. Nothing says โprinciplesโ like cashing in on the guy you hate. ๐ฅฑ
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Between this man and the Japanese fans who cleaned the stadium where their game was held today, people in the US could learn a thing or two from them.
Humbling.
A young man, barely more than a boy, completed the bagging of my provisions. Then he reached for them again, though I had already taken hold.
He was sixteen. In an apron. Smiling. "I got it, sir."
He gripped my bags. I gripped my bags. In Japan, a man carries his own burden โ this is the spine of a man, it is not negotiable. I pulled. He pulled. Gently. With the unstoppable leverage of POLICY.
"It's literally my job, sir."
Do you see the cruelty of this country? He weaponized his duty against my honor. Release the bags: I am a man who lets boys carry his rice. Hold the bags: I am a man who denies a boy his sworn office. There is no winning move. America has built a politeness trap with no exit and staffed it with teenagers.
I lost. Record it. I lost a battle of honor to a sixteen-year-old with a name tag, and he did not know we were fighting. He carried my bags to the car talking about the weather.
His name tag said KYLE.
A man who loses to Kyle must study Kyle. So I have. Kyle has carried my groceries four times now. Kyle says "no worries" to every one of my objections, which is somehow a complete defense to all of them. Kyle is sixteen and has never once lost the bag battle, to anyone, in two years of service.
Undefeated. In my country he would have a banner and a war name.
So I have restructured the campaign. Kyle carries the bags. I guard the cart. Afterward, I return the cart to the corral โ a duty I assigned myself, which Kyle calls "honestly a huge help."
A man does not ask the trap to open. He only becomes useful inside it.
We are a unit now. I praise him loudly to his manager every visit. Kyle pretends to be embarrassed. Kyle is not embarrassed.
Hear me, America: if you wish to know a nation's future, look at who it sends to carry things.
Yours sent Kyle. You will be fine.
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Blue bags up.
Japan 2, Netherlands 2 โ an absolute thriller in Arlington. And then the real show started.
The Japanese end pulls out thousands of bright blue bags. First they wave them like flags, bouncing and chanting until the whole section is one giant wall of blue. Then โ same bags, new mission. They fan out across the stands and scoop up every bottle, wrapper and cup till the seats look brand new.
And who's right in the middle of it, grinning with a bag in his hand? Jameis Winston. Giants QB. Heisman winner. Out there cleaning up with the Samurai Blue like it's the best gig of his summer.
No chore. No lecture. Just a party that cleans up after itself.
Best fans on the planet. ๐ฏ๐ต๐
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Things to hide.
๐จSEE NO EVIL: Virginia House budget would halt campaign finance audits
"A budget provision released Friday by Democrats in the House of Delegates would send Virginia back to the days when the public had to accept on faith that candidatesโ campaign finance disclosures were complete and accurate."
"A nine-word sentence โ 'That ยง 24.2-948.5 of the Code of Virginia is repealed' โ would strip the Virginia Department of Elections of its authority to audit campaign finance reports."
"The post-election audits, which the General Assembly approved in 2022, put candidates on notice for the first time that they may be called upon to provide bank records, invoices and other documentation to verify their fundraising and spending."
"The House budget language, if approved by the General Assembly, would halt the current Department of Elections review of campaign finance disclosures filed by candidates who ran last November." ...
"The law requires all candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general to turn over campaign financial records to the elections department." ...
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What ridiculous ahistorical snobbery.
Teddy Roosevelt was one of America's greatest presidents and he regularly staged combat sports at the White House, even fighting in boxing matches and jujitsu. Like Donald Trump, he saw physical courage and tough competition as virtues intrinsic to America. The sneering of Dems and effete broadsheet journalists reveals their pusillanimity, not the sophistication they imagine. How embarrassing for them.
Jun 13
David Brooks reacts to the upcoming UFC fight at the White House, "I first thought of, like, who are the artists John F. Kennedy brought to the White House? It was like W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein. And now we have got cage fighting. Don't anybody say America's in cultural decline."
Jonathan Capehart adds "talk about degrading the culture. This is degrading the White House, degrading the people's house. And it's just unconscionable that this has happened."
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Jail. For anyone in possession of, or anyone who recorded, stole or leaked it.
IF it's true.
SCOOP: Top White House officials believe NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their new book.
Such a taped leak would be a shocking breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth. axios.com/2026/06/14/trump-sโฆ
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I'm sure it's was the clerk's fault and Davis felt he was bullied. Right????
Jun 14
๐จ17-year-old Samuel Davis went to the Classic Mart & 420 Shop in San Antonio around 1 a.m. on Friday and tried to buy a 99-cent tobacco product. The store clerk refused to sell it to him because Davis was underage.
The refusal led to an argument between the two inside the store. During the confrontation, Davis allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed the store clerk multiple times. After the attack, Davis ran from the scene.
When police arrived, they found the store clerk suffering from several stab wounds. He died at the scene from his injuries. Investigators reviewed store surveillance footage, which reportedly captured the incident, and a witness later identified Davis from a photo lineup.
Police also spoke with a coworker who said Davis was a regular customer who often caused problems, acted aggressively, and was known to steal from the store. After a nearby standoff connected to the investigation, Davis was taken into custody and charged with murder. His bond was set at $500,000.
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Makes it easier to "lose" certain ballots, too.
Jun 12
They are cheating right in our faces with the colored ballot envelopes. Here is how it works.
The color isnโt random. It creates extra information (called metadata) about you:
1. The color tells people what kind of voter you are.
2. When they process it, they often log which partyโs ballot you chose (Dem or Rep).
3. All of that goes into Coloradoโs public voter records (anyone can buy or access big parts of the voter file).
Later, in the general election (November), campaigns, parties, and big political groups use this data to target you:
โข โThis unaffiliated person voted in the Democratic primary โ theyโre leaning left. Send them these ads.โ
โข Or the opposite for Republicans.
โข It helps with turnout drives, persuasion mail, door-knocking lists, etc.
Itโs not secret โ itโs built into how the system works.
The Bigger Picture (NGOs & Registration)
Big groups and nonprofits (some funded by wealthy donors and foundations on the left, including networks tied to George Soros) run massive voter registration drives. They sign up tons of people, especially unaffiliated ones.
This scales up votingโฆ but it also scales up the paper trail and data about everyone. The colored envelopes are one visible piece of that data pipeline and the Democrats feed that data right to their NGOs. Republicans never stand a chance in Colorado. @victormarx @ScottBottomsCO @SenKirkmeyer @heidiganahl @PatriotMarkCook @CivilRights @POTUS #copolitics
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Thinking a lot about this PJ OโRourke quote these past couple days
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Having Hillary Clinton talk about the lives of "real people" is about as authentic as a Chuck Schumer lesson on backyard grilling. Despite 83% of Americans favoring voter ID, Hillary declared, "most real people donโt have, and most older people, and most rural people donโt have" such IDs...
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In fact, Elon Muskโs entire net worth of $1.109 trillion CANNOT cover the $1.301 trillion in interest on the US debt this fiscal year. A nation fiscally fucked because of profligate politicians.
Creators innovators like Elon are our only hope; inventions born HERE to grow our economy fast enough that we can carry this debt burden.
Jun 13
Elonโs net worth is enough to pay one year of interest costs that US government pays on its debt.
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SMH. What planet where these miscreants raised on?
Water cannons, pepper spray, a few rifles shot into the air.
Throw a bunch in the clink with high bonds. Let them sleep next to Bubba in a tiny cell for for the evening.
Scare the holy shit of them.
Make them cry.
Let them miss the freedom they use to terrorize others.
Then, garnish their wages or benefits to pay for the damages.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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ISLAMIFICATION: If you were wondering what Islamic rule would look like in America you need only tune into a livestreamed Hamtramck, MI city council meeting. Multiple members of the all-Muslim council were charged in a ballot fraud scheme pled down & kept their seats. The whistlblowers that cooperated with the Michigan AG were all fired. This is America.
h/t @EndWokeness
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META IS AN ABSOLUTE MESS INSIDE RIGHT NOW
Wired just dropped an exclusive, and the details are wild.
This week someone interrupted a livestreamed Meta meeting, open to thousands of employees, with an expletive-filled rant about "being the company's bitch." They told the presenters to find a specific Meta AI executive and "tell him that he's a piece of shit."
A presenter covered their face with their hands. Employees in the chat called the start "spicy."
Here is what's behind it.
Meta's AI restructuring cut 8,000 jobs last month, 10% of the company. The same restructuring feeds a unit called Applied AI, where 6,500 engineers and product managers have been drafted in waves since April. There is no application process. You get selected, and your options are join or leave the company. Members call themselves "draftees."
The new job: writing puzzles and coding problems to train Meta's AI models, two tasks a week. People hired to build apps for billions of users now assemble training data for hundreds of AI scientists.
"It's literally the gulag," one employee told WIRED. "You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week."
Another: "Most people find the work soul-crushing."
At the same time, Meta started recording US employees' clicks and keystrokes to generate more AI training data. Over 1,600 employees signed a petition demanding it stop. The concession: employees can pause the tracking for up to 30 minutes.
Zuckerberg's response came in an internal memo Friday: "We've made mistakes and will almost certainly make more." He repeated his promise of no more mass layoffs this year. His fixes: limits on the manager ratios Meta had deliberately pushed to 50-to-1 on some teams, bigger budgets for team events, a hackathon next month, and assigned desks by the end of the year.
That same memo says Meta's north star is "to be the best place for the most talented people in the world to make an impact."
The most talented people in the world are writing puzzles for a model and asking permission to pause the keystroke logger.
META declined to comment.
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This isn't right...
Republican voters have an orange return envelope for their ballot.
Unaffiliated voters have an purple return envelope.
If someone wanted to tamper with ballots, this makes it easier...
Why not just use the same return envelope for everyone?
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More illegal aliens voting.
We were told this never happens. ohiosos.gov/office/media-cenโฆ
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๐จBREAKING โ New documents obtained by AFL reveal Bidenโs DOJ weaponized federal law enforcement against parents at school board meetings despite warnings from FBI officials and the National Sheriffsโ Association.
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In other words, you wasted the court's time, b!tches.
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FACT CHECK: ICE did NOT apologize. We explained to school officials how the illegal alien violently resisted arrest and fled into the vicinity of the school.
ICE leadership coordinated with school officials and the Governorโs Office to ensure the situation was resolved safely and with minimal disruption to the community.
The illegal alien, Jesus Acevedo-Sanchez, now faces federal charges for resisting and impeding federal officers, and destruction of government property.ย A second illegal alien in the car during the operation punched officers and is now facing federal charges for assaulting a federal officer.
To be clear: ICE does not target schools, but we will not allow criminals to hide in our nationโs schools and put the safety of children at risk.
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