Quarterly reminder that James Garfield’s (President #20) great great grandson, Richard Garfield, invented Magic: The Gathering

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

Trump: "Re-gilding of the massive Arts of War sculptures, located between The Lincoln Memorial and site of The Triumphal Arch, rapidly continues. The sculptures will be fully regilded by July 3rd. The photos below were taken yesterday. The Gilders’ Studio has flown in Gilders from around the Country to perform this work!"

Paxton siding with the interests of Tech against the direct interests of Baylor, TCU, and UH and against the indirect interests of UT, A&M, and SMU is maybe not the wisest read of how to navigate Texas politics

Weird, I was told he would usher in Sharia law.

New photo of Trump's $60 million White House UFC arena

I'm sorry to be that guy, but on some level you all know these World Cup German tourists are pretending to find America super awesome for the clicks, right? Like, I just saw one of them pretending she just experienced plane wi fi for the first time....

DUDE LMAO THIS IS A GAS STATION😭😭😭

This is the most “The European mind can’t comprehend this” moment of my life. One of my friends said, “Punch me five times tomorrow and I’ll still think this isn’t real.”

A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. newsmax.com/platinum/screwwo…

There would have been a Chernobyl-level meltdown in the media if Biden or Obama was at a freaking basketball game while an American military helicopter was shot down during a war they started.

New Texas A&M Bush School / Siena Research #txsen poll 🔵Talarico: 47% 🔴Paxton: 44% White: Paxton 10 Black: Talarico 57 Latino: Talarico 10 Talarico favorable: 6 Paxton favorable: -20 Trump approval: 44% Generic House ballot: 49% R 43% D 6/1-6/4, n=807, MOE = -4%

A challenge for internet historians: Identify an internet post by someone born in the 1800s. E.g. an early USENET post by an 85-year-old, or an early Listserv post by a 90-year-old

Both Platner AND Mills now running behind a generic Democrat against Collins.

#TX15 news: GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz told supporters last month that she was leading Bobby Pulido by "only one point," per her internal polling “And I said, ‘oh, sweet Lord Jesus, right. That's not good,’” De La Cruz recounted. Check out the audio>>> youtube.com/watch?v=ze4TIAgZ…

Let's assume, for argument's sake, that Nithya Raman really did, unlikely as it seems, got to second place in the LA mayoral race. The problem is that many, many, MANY of us simply cannot believe it. It seems for all the world like fraud. This matters, & is going to matter more.

RAJU: But what evidence is there to prove the California election is rigged? MIKE JOHNSON: Look, some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream it's impossible to prove. But I think everybody knows instinctively that something is wrong here.

In the 1950s and 60's, screwworm was devastating in Texas, costing billions ( adjusted for inflation) annually. In 1935, 180K livestock were lost to the fly. 50% of deer fawns died, and the fly decimated deer populations. We have to get on top of this urgently.

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.