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they were parading elmo's head around on a pike last night

Two things I have loved my whole life: Soccer and the USA. Go US Soccer!!!! #NHpolitics

All Americans can get behind a cute pup! My dog, Winston, stealing the spotlight. #nhpolitics credit: @Lane603

Spike Lee was paraded through Fort Greene in Brooklyn like he was the pope.

Why did no one tell me ranch sauce is like crack? EUROPE WE NEED RANCH ASAP

"If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it." foxnews.com/lifestyle/world-…

These Scottish lads doing the full American experience at Fenway

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather. "Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully. "Honey, that's what it looks like." The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it." I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it. I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent. "Well?" the waitress asked. "I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed." "Everybody does, hon." Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it. Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating. I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden. It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths. Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents. I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself. This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated. I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?" "Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way." "But the store loses." "Yep. On purpose." On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands. In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one. A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir." It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow. I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious. Some prices are not prices. They are promises. I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back. The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars. Long may it spin.

Lives were changed.

DUDE LMAO THIS IS A GAS STATION😭😭😭

Someone sent this to me. 😊 @SenJohnKennedy

Let me be the first to congratulate Senator Chandley

Jealous / the funniest man in all of Congress. I wish I had gone to see him at Politics & Eggs @SenJohnKennedy

Fun time supporting @SununuSenator with this patriot

Elon Musk walking into Jeff Bezos’s home:

AG Formella: Honored to help kick off the 103rd Laconia Motorcycle Week! Welcome to all riders and visitors! NH law enforcement will be highly visible to help keep everyone safe. Please ride responsibly and look out for one another. #LaconiaMCWeek #NewHampshire #NHPolitics

Sen. Kennedy on how nice both @SenatorShaheen and @SenSusanCollins: "Jeanne and Susan think WTF stands for, 'Well that’s fantastic.'" #nhpolitics

Never hurts to bring a cute dog along for a 18-mile jaunt. #nhpolitcs