We joke about winning the life lottery, because we were born in the USA, but it’s not far from the truth. These visitors here for the World Cup are getting to experience what we often take for granted. I live in Alabama. I can start in Mobile and drive north for 5 hours, and still be in Alabama. My state has beautiful sandy beaches, and also has the foothills of the Appalachians. In between, we have a super speedway that pushes the limits of American muscle. Talladega. NASA is here. The Army’s rotary wing flight school is here. We have a festival every year to celebrate peanuts. We celebrate the harvest of a crop with funnel cakes and music. 2 teams from my state are currently in the College World Series, and that isn’t even our most popular sport. Don’t even get me started on football Saturdays in the fall. It’s something else entirely. My state is just 1 of 50 states that are all equally wonderful. This country is awesome, and I do love it so. 🇺🇸

I swear the Europeans love our country more than many here do. Can we swap those who don't like it for these folks instead? Starting with Ilhan Omar?

アメリカ式シャワーの出し方わからなさすぎて、出るまで5分くらいかかった😅

Europeans love America! This trend of watching them getting excited for things we all experience will never get old. Seriously I've followed a couple of accounts now.

Me browsing X after the World Cup is over and all the Europeans have gone home

I do this drive every year, and it is worth the trip. DK is right, it is an incredible drive for sure.

roadtripowl.com/where-ive-be… I've also been to six countries. (Canada, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Czechia, and Poland).

We cannot forget about Governor Healey’s ex-Deputy Director LaMar Cook. She hired him. She appointed him. He trafficked 21 kilos of cocaine through her state office, had fentanyl and heroin in his desk, and could have put 50,000 doses on the streets of Massachusetts. Governor Healey was adamant that he passed his background check and refused to release it until she had absolutely no choice. When she did it revealed he had a prior gun arrest. She “accidentally” paid him $31,000 on the way out. And she has said almost nothing. That is not incompetence. That is corruption at its finest.

My name is Micah Jones and I’m running for Congress. I’m a veteran, attorney, husband, and father - running for Congress because I love this country, Massachusetts, and the greater North Shore communities that my family and I call home. micahqjones.com

Read this. Twice. Also take a moment out of the day to say a prayer for those who've made the ultimate sacrifice.

No wonder there are so many people who do not understand economics — you were an ECON PROFESSOR and you do not understand basic economics. I'm glad to see you're not letting education get in the way of your ignorance, Senator. Let me help you out a little bit. That 47-second video is a textbook False Dilemma — Ignoratio Elenchi wrapped in a bow. That is the logical fallacy where you present two completely unrelated options as though they are the ONLY two choices that exist, hoping nobody in the audience runs the actual numbers. A yacht or school lunches. Elon's jet or healthcare. As if one has ANYTHING to do with the other. As if your government — the same government that spent $44,000 per student in New York City and still produced a 72% functional illiteracy rate in 8th grade — is the efficient conduit you are advertising it to be. Here is what Jeff Bezos actually does for the working class, since your brain seems to be on energy-saving mode on this topic: He employs ONE AND A HALF MILLION people. Entry-level. No degree required. $23/hour on day ONE with full healthcare — the same plan the executives are on. His $4 billion rural investment is tripling delivery infrastructure, creating 100,000 jobs, and bringing groceries to food deserts where your policies left nothing but empty shelves and broken promises. In Ohio ALONE, Amazon has contributed $42.7 BILLION to the state economy. And that $500 million yacht you waved around like a prop? That yacht — which does more for the working class than your entire Senate career — employs 36-40 crew members full time, generated thousands of skilled-trade construction jobs during the build, and pumps millions annually into every port economy it visits. Shipbuilders. Electricians. Mechanics. Plumbers. Chefs. People without Harvard Law degrees who needed WORK, not a campaign video. Now. About that "fair share" rhetoric. Senator Warren, you are worth approximately $15-20 million. You know EVERY tax loophole personally — because people like you WRITE THEM into law and USE THEM. I keep seeing Democrats screaming "Tax the Rich" when THEY ARE the rich. Until you file with nothing but the standard deduction and voluntarily pay DOUBLE what the IRS says you owe, I do not want to hear a single syllable about anyone else's fair share. You are a snollygoster of the highest order — a shrewd, unprincipled politician who campaigns on envy and governs on exemptions. Quinn's Law #25: Liberals are great at giving away other people's money. Quinn's Law #27: Liberals have never seen a tax they didn't like — until it applied to them. Jeff Bezos himself said it on CNBC this week: "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens." He is correct. The top 1% already pay 40% of ALL federal taxes. The bottom 50% pay 3%. This is not a revenue problem. It is a SPENDING problem — and you have voted for every dollar of it. As for "$1 billion a day on war with Iran" — you mean the military operation that eliminated a state sponsor of terrorism, took out Khamenei, and protected American lives? Strange how Democrats discovered fiscal restraint right when the military started winning. Curious timing. Truly. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — tell me what you think Jeff Bezos's yacht has done more for the working class than Sen. Warren in her Senate career. Tell me. And if you want MORE — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who actually reads economic data instead of using poor families as props for a 47-second campaign video. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

L.O.D.D. in Boston. Always tough to hear of a brother killed on duty. Prayers to his family in this very difficult time. #RFB

I am against all daylight savings time. Whole heartedly. I love how they're fine with crushing taxes, poorly regulated healthcare. That's not important. But "having an hour of daylight in the evening when we're home" is far more important. Such a loser congress.

Let’s see if a random fork can break 6.74M views.

Hey Tim, congratulations on retirement! Looks like you’re still bitter that Tom and I shut the door on the billions that were going to your “Learing” centers!!

You know what a burn pit smells like. If you were there -- if you served in Iraq or Afghanistan -- you already know. That thick, chemical, wrong smell that never fully left the back of your throat. Plastics. Chemicals. Medical waste. Ordnance. Burning. All day. Every day. Right next to where you slept, where you ate, where you ran PT in the morning. Nobody told you what it would do to your lungs. His name was Richard Star. Army combat engineer from Ohio -- right near Cleveland. He cleared IED-laden roads so other soldiers could drive on them without dying. Desert Shield. Desert Storm. Iraq. Afghanistan. Kuwait. He went back. He kept raising his hand. He breathed those burn pits for years -- the same smoke, the same chemical air, the same carcinogens that had no business being in a human lung. In 2018, that smoke caught up with him. Stage 4 metastatic lung cancer. The VA rated it 100% service-connected. His own government certified in writing that the United States of America's burn pits gave Richard Star terminal cancer. He was medically retired before hitting 20 years. Not because he quit. Because there was nothing left to give. And then the Army sent him a letter. The letter showed two numbers. The first number was what Richard Star had EARNED in military retirement -- what the United States government had promised him when he raised his right hand and swore an oath and then spent decades keeping it. The second number -- what he would ACTUALLY receive -- was zero. Zero dollars. Zero cents. His 100% VA disability rating for the cancer eating his lungs wiped out his entire retirement check through the concurrent receipt offset. Dollar for dollar. Every single penny of retirement pay he had earned, gone. A man dying of cancer he got in uniform, holding a piece of paper from his own government that said his retirement was worth nothing. If you have buried someone from burn pit exposure, I need you to sit with that image. Your brother. Your battle buddy. Your soldier. Sitting at a kitchen table. Oxygen tank next to the chair. Chemo running through his veins. Holding a government letter that says zero. That is what happened to Richard Star. His wife Tonya quit her career to become his full-time caregiver. While she sat next to him through every treatment, while their household ran on whatever the VA disability check provided, while the retirement check the Army told him he'd earned sat at zero -- Tonya was also fighting. Calling. Writing. Testifying. Standing in congressional hearing rooms telling her husband's story to the people who had the power to fix it. Richard never stopped either. He traveled on oxygen tanks to advocate for this bill. He could barely stand. He fought for the 50,000 veterans behind him who were carrying the same injustice, because that is what that kind of man does -- he thinks about the ones behind him even when he is the one dying. He died February 13, 2021. He was 51 years old. Tonya kept going. She kept his name alive in every room she could reach, because she loved him and because she refused to let what happened to Richard happen to the next family. Tonya passed away on August 12, 2024. She was also 51 years old. Both of them gone at 51. Both of them fighting until they could not. The bill still not law. Right now -- today, this month, this year -- there are 50,000 veterans receiving that same letter Richard received. Two numbers. What they earned. What they actually get. And for too many of them, the second number is devastating. Some of them are already sick. Some of them already have the diagnosis. Some of them are sitting at kitchen tables with oxygen tanks next to the chair, opening mail from the government that sent them to those burn pits, wondering if this country is going to keep its promise before they run out of time. Sgt. Lyle Allen. 14 years. Multiple deployments to Iraq. His vehicle hit an IED. He does not remember much after that -- just the medics' faces above him. The VA certified his TBI as 100% permanently and totally disabling -- it will never improve. The offset wiped out his retirement. He calls himself "retired without retirement." He says the country is "turning their backs" on him. A Marine. 17 years. Three combat tours. An IED in Afghanistan took both of his legs. THREE YEARS from the 20-year mark. Three years. The government took his legs in the service of this nation and then took his retirement check on top of it because of a calendar. These are not abstractions. These are the men who were standing next to you downrange. The ones who smelled what you smelled. The ones who drove those roads. The bill to fix this is the MAJOR RICHARD STAR ACT. Current 119th Congress: H.R. 2102 in the House, sponsored by Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) with Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA), introduced March 14, 2025. S. 1032 in the Senate, sponsored by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) with bipartisan co-sponsors including Mike Crapo, Elizabeth Warren, and Rick Scott. Previous Congress: H.R. 1282 in the House and S. 344 in the Senate -- died without a floor vote. Current co-sponsors: 322 in the House. Nearly 80 in the Senate. The Wounded Warrior Project, MOAA, VFW, IAVA -- virtually every major veterans organization in this country -- stands behind this bill. The votes exist. The will to schedule them does not. On March 3, 2026, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin blocked this bill on the Senate floor. Twice. Once on unanimous consent. Then again when a compromise was offered for a simple recorded roll call. He did not want the bill to pass. He did not want to go on record opposing it either. His reason: cost. Richard Star got a letter that said zero. Senator Johnson found that affordable. I need you to make a phone call. Right now. While this is still in your chest where it belongs. SENATE SWITCHBOARD: (202) 224-3121. Tell them: "I am calling to demand my senator support S. 1032, the Major Richard Star Act, and force a floor vote. Combat-wounded veterans are dying while this sits in committee." HOUSE SWITCHBOARD: (202) 225-3121. Tell them: "I am calling to ask my representative to co-sponsor H.R. 2102 and demand leadership schedule a floor vote." Then share this post. Every share puts Richard Star's name in front of someone who has not heard it yet. Every share might reach a veteran who does not know they are owed this money right now. Every share might reach the family member who makes the call that changes the vote. Richard Star traveled on oxygen tanks to fight for veterans he would never meet. The least we can do is make a phone call. @MajorStarAct @StarActEnemies @SenRonJohnson @SenatorWicker IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to the people who need to read it. SHARE this -- for Richard. For Tonya. For the veteran you know who is sick right now and does not know this fight exists. COMMENT below -- have you called yet? Tell me right here. Hold yourself accountable out loud. And if you want MORE of this -- the data, the history, the science, the stories -- JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know -- I am only a medically retired Army combat medic who breathed that same air, who served alongside men who came home carrying things that would kill them slowly, and who has spent years watching a government that sends people to war find every possible excuse not to keep its promises when they come back broken. #MAGA #Veterans #Trump #majorstaract

Dear Senator Sanders, Oh, this is RICH. This is so perfectly, exquisitely, weapons-grade rich that I had to put down my anatomy exams and just... appreciate it for a moment. The man who got thrown out of a SOCIALIST HIPPIE COMMUNE in Vermont in 1971 — after THREE DAYS — for refusing to do any actual work while everyone else planted, harvested, and hauled water, is out here telling me the OLIGARCHS want to control everything. Three. Days. The communists gave you a longer trial period than most employers give to someone who steals from the register. Here is what Jim Quinn's Law Number Two says, and I want every single person reading this to tattoo it somewhere useful: "If you want to know what liberals are up to, pay attention to what they accuse conservatives of doing." Senator, you OWN THREE HOMES. A Burlington residence. A D.C. townhouse. A $575,000 vacation lake house in North Hero, Vermont — purchased in 2016, the same year you were touring the country telling college students the system is rigged. Your net worth sits somewhere between $2.5 and $3 million. You have pocketed over $2.5 MILLION in book royalties since 2011. That elevator is clearly not stuck between floors for you, is it. And then — THEN — during your "Fighting Oligarchy Tour" with AOC, you spent over $550,000 in CAMPAIGN FUNDS on PRIVATE JET TRAVEL. Half a million dollars on luxury jets to lecture working Americans about the dangers of wealth. When Fox News caught you boarding a Bombardier Challenger 604 — a jet that runs up to $15,000 PER HOUR — you did not apologize. You did not even blink. You looked directly into the camera and said, and I am quoting this verbatim because it is the most accidentally honest thing you have ever said: "You think I'm gonna be sitting on a waiting line at United?" Senator. THAT IS OLIGARCHIC THINKING. That is TEXTBOOK "the rules apply to you people, not to me." That is the elevator music of every single billionaire you have spent 35 years pretending to oppose. In a battle of wits with your own stated beliefs, you showed up completely unarmed. Thirty-five years in Congress. You know what your personal legislative output looks like? Eight bills passed. EIGHT. In three and a half DECADES. That works out to 0.23 bills per year. I have produced more graded anatomy exams in a single semester. Your two greatest solo legislative achievements — the ones with your name on top, the thing YOU actually DID — are the naming of a post office in Danville, Vermont, and the naming of a post office in Fair Haven, Vermont. You named. Two. Post offices. You are as useful as a screen door on a submarine when it comes to actually passing legislation, but you want me to believe you are the vanguard of the working class. That sounds like a YOU problem. Quinn's Law #25: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money." You have been living PROOF of that law for 35 years. You give away everyone else's money — from a vacation home on a lake — while spending half a million on jets because you are far too important to wait in line with the taxpayers funding your lifestyle. You want to talk about oligarchs controlling the media? You have been IN the media for four decades. You just finished a $75 million documentary. You have a book deal. You have a podcast. You HAVE the megaphone and you are using it to tell people that other people have the megaphone. The gene pool really needed a lifeguard for THAT particular reasoning. I am a high school science teacher in Northeast Ohio. I support a family of six on a teacher's salary. I am not particularly impressed by a man with three houses, $550,000 in jet receipts, and 0.23 bills per year telling me he stands with the working class. More famous than wise, Senator. More famous than wise. The hippie commune knew it in 72 hours. How long is it going to take everyone else? IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — do YOU think a man with three homes and a half-million dollar private jet habit speaks for working Americans? Tell me. And if you want MORE of this — the data, the history, the science, the stories — JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who can actually do math, a retired Army combat medic who knows what genuine sacrifice looks like, and apparently one of the few people left who finds it suspicious that the most vocal enemy of oligarchy just cannot bring himself to wait in line at the airport with the rest of us. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump

in honor of cinco de mayo, let's revisit eazy-e wearing a hat under his sombrero

Time for her to go...