ThePoz @TheLastOC

@evanwch F that , Cheesecake is the La Croix of chain restaurants.

@IamEliRacks KISS (Keep it simple stupid) method; one read, two read, run your tush off. Also he's gotta be weary of staring down his WR's with that ball hawking defense lurking.

@clarenceTerre Cleveland from Family Guy, all of Bebe’s kids - underrated animated comedy from the 90’s with Tone Loc.

@mercedescourla6 @grablekelly05 @ElissaSlotkin @cardon_brian She’s trying to run for President and in order to be on the ballot , you have to scream Trump 100 times in one interview. I swear if you made a drinking game out of it, everyone would get alcohol poisoning.

@CYoungpark12 Aren’t you a bundle of joy at the dinner table.

@HutchSackedYou That’s a really good offer. Henry often gets beast mode late in seasons. Check playoff matchups if you think you’re bound. Likely will outperform Trey McBride rest of season, if healthy.

@BrandonFalco121 What they meant to say was power house salad.

I’m starting to understand your game…all these media appearances aren’t designed to damage control with what you actually said. You are aspirational, and are trying to position yourself as the most vocal bulwark to Trump when you ultimately announce running for President. But your misstep is that Trump isn’t on the ballot in 2028.

Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin

3 days ago

Trump officials who commit crimes should face accountability, and when I said that out loud, the Trump administration and his allies took it personally. That should tell you something.

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Believe you’re overthinking it. Giants will play a slew of good defenses coming up. Rather than have the Jameis piñata experience, see If McCarthy balls out. If we somehow sneak into the playoffs, then McCarthy’s trade value would well exceed Winston’s . Also, unrelated but JW wants to be a back-up, IMO. He’s a competitor, but also wants to make smart business decisions for the next stage of his career.

@RepKMR @SenatorSlotkin Why is every accusation from your cohort ALWAYS a projection?

@grablekelly05 @ElissaSlotkin @cardon_brian She actually could have taken it back, apologized, tried to clarify, and reassure - but instead her hubris just keeps plowing forward with what she wanted people to hear. Hope the humiliation continues to grow with her as she doubles and triples down.

@SenatorSlotkin You are not a victim. I get the incentive structure of your apparatus rewards that mentality. Maybe you should apologize for being an oppressor.

Two days ago I wrote about the trap this generation keeps falling into. 1.5M of you read it. The most common reply: "OK, but who builds the trap?" Fair question. Here's my answer. And let me be clear from the start: there is no secret room. No puppet master. What exists is far more banal and far more durable: a machine of incentives, where every person in the chain is paid to keep the same story alive. Nobody has to coordinate. The money does it for them. Let's start at the bottom of the machine, with the person nobody ever looks at. PART ONE: THE MACHINE, LINK BY LINK A. The NGO bureaucrat. His salary depends on the problem existing. He isn't paid to solve it. He's paid to document it, denounce it and campaign about it. An NGO that actually solved housing would have to lay itself off. So the incentive is never "fix." It's "mobilize." And nothing mobilizes like a villain. B. The program officer. The person who decides which NGO gets funded. He has to show "impact" to his board, and impact means reports, campaigns, reach, people in the street. A group that quietly builds 200 homes produces a boring report. A group that fills a square produces a great one. C. The fiscal sponsor. The plumbing. Many activist groups have no legal structure of their own, so their money flows through an umbrella nonprofit that receives and redistributes it. This is legal and common, and it makes the money nearly impossible to trace from donor to banner. D. The university administrator. Subsidized tuition didn't buy better teaching. It bought administration: entire offices whose job is to read every interaction between students as a power relation. Remove the lens and the office has no reason to exist. E. The academic. Careers run on grants and peer committees. Publish inside the dominant frame and you rise. Publish outside it and you're "problematic." Nobody has to forbid anything, because everyone can read the incentives. F. The subsidized artist. Film, theater and festivals are funded by committees that reward the "right" themes. The capitalist villain isn't a creative choice. It's a funding criterion nobody writes down. G. The public broadcaster. Paid by the taxpayer, never by the viewer. It never has to win you over. It has to please the people who renew its budget. Guess which villain it will never investigate. H. The teacher. Usually sincere, usually underpaid, trained in the same universities as everyone else. He passes on the lens he received, in good faith. That's what makes it so effective: the people transmitting it believe it. I. The international institution. Agencies and programs built around permanent crises. When a crisis ends, so does a budget. The narrative of eternal oppression becomes, quite literally, a business model. J. The politician. The last link, the one who cashes in. The machine produces anger. The politician harvests it and sells, as the cure, more of what caused the disease. Ten links, and not one of them needs to be evil. Each one just follows its interest. That's what makes the machine so hard to stop: you can't arrest an incentive. PART TWO: NOW THE REAL NAMES The European Commission. Between 2021 and 2023, more than €7.4 billion of EU money went to NGOs, in internal policy areas alone. In 2025 the EU's own Court of Auditors concluded that nobody, not even Brussels, has a reliable overview of where it all goes. When MEPs looked into the LIFE environmental program, the Commission itself admitted that some NGO work programmes it had funded contained "undue lobbying activities." In plain terms, public money paid activists to lobby the institutions that pay them. The auditors found nothing illegal, and that's exactly the point. It's all legal: the state paying people to ask the state for more state. Open Society Foundations. Less a puppet master than a patron. By its own records, it gave Jewish Voice for Peace $875,000 between 2017 and 2022, a group active in the Columbia protests, and it has funded the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. Does it pay kids to pitch tents? There's no evidence of that. It does something more powerful. Year after year, it funds the organizations that produce the frames, the slogans, the trainings and the talking points. You don't need to pay the protester when you pay for the lens. The fiscal sponsorship networks. The money doesn't have to go to the group on the poster. It goes to an umbrella, which passes it on. That's how fact-checkers can honestly say "no direct grant to the student group" while the ecosystem around it is funded. Both statements are true. That's the design. The French state. €1,714 billion of public spending in 2025, 57.3% of GDP, the highest in Europe. Public debt hit €3,595 billion at the end of June, 119% of GDP, a record since INSEE started measuring. Interest alone runs around €79 billion this year. On top of the bill sit public universities, public broadcasting, a centralized curriculum and culture funded by committees. In France the machine isn't an ecosystem. It's an administration. New York City. In June, a Rent Guidelines Board with six of its nine members appointed by the mayor voted to freeze rents on about a million stabilized apartments. That included the first two-year freeze in the city's history. One board member resigned, saying the board had been rebuilt to deliver the freeze. The first leases under it took effect on October 1st. Watch what happens to maintenance, to new construction, to the vacancy rate. Every city that has run this experiment got the same result. And when it fails, the machine will already have its culprit ready: the landlord. THE LOOP Now put it together. The state funds demand and blocks supply, so prices explode. The young suffer. The state then funds the NGOs, universities, culture and media that explain to them why they suffer. Those institutions point at the market. The young vote for more state. More state funds more NGOs, and the loop closes. The flag on those kids' shoulders the other morning wasn't the start of anything. It was the output, the last screen of a machine that runs all day, every day, on your taxes. You can't arrest an incentive. But you can cut its funding, and you can teach people to see it. That's what this account is for.

Brivael Le Pogam @brivael

a week ago

On my way to the office this morning, I passed a group of young people protesting, a Palestinian flag draped over their shoulders. And I asked myself a question I can't shake: why does this generation always fall into the same trap? No matter the history. No matter the context.

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I love how Elissa Slotkin is epically crashing out because a group of right wing college kids completely exposed her illegal, Bolshevik plans to politically target conservatives. She thought leftist UChicago was a “safe space” to divulge her authoritarian dreams and got totally owned by @ThinkerChicago

Greg Price @greg_price11

5 days ago

Elissa Slotkin claims that the only reason that she's being attacked for threatening lawfare against young conservatives for serving in the Trump administration is because she's a woman. 🙄

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Independent counts.

@JezziiB I hope you one day are subject to face the same scrutiny of ideological conformity you have bestowed upon those who don't pass your purity tests.

@adampatrickNFL What a refreshingly boring tweet. Your lack of unnecessary hyperbole in reporting the stat line earns a follow 👍

@cartierfamilyZ Sorry both these dudes sucked and could use an infusion of some listening skills so it actually felt like there was a conversation going on.

The Today show kept pushing Michael Che to trash Shane Gillis on live TV, and he played dumb so well they walked away with nothing. He knew exactly what he was doing, too. His own Netflix special had dropped two days earlier, and it opens with six straight minutes about Charlie Kirk's death. Think about what happens if he says yeah, Shane's joke about women's gym shorts went too far. That's the headline by lunch. Then every reporter he talks to for the rest of his press tour gets to pull up one of his bits and ask whether it passes the test he just set on national TV. By Che's own description on Instagram, there's plenty in that special to pull from: the president, dating "loose women," gay dudes, God being a bad dad. He'd have spent his whole launch week defending his own hour against his own rule. So look at what he actually did with the anchor, Laura Jarrett. "That's comedy." She asked if he laughed, and he said he was back at the cue cards thinking about which of his own lines were going to make people mad. She pushed again. He sat there for a long beat, said he honestly didn't think about it, and then called himself bad at his job. Every single answer was him making fun of himself. Good luck turning that into a headline. Che does have opinions about Shane's kind of comedy, by the way. Back in May, after the Kevin Hart roast where Shane was on the dais, Che went on his Instagram and clowned how white comics roast. He's fine saying stuff like that on his own account, in his own voice, where it reads as a bit. Live morning TV is where one sentence gets clipped and quoted back at you for a year. Later he basically said it out loud. With a special like his, he posted, he's in no position to look down on anybody else's attempt at humor. Comedians who publicly condemn another comic's joke end up writing the rules for their own next special. Che's got a brand-new one sitting on Netflix right now. No way he was writing those rules on the Today show.

Def Noodles @defnoodlesreal

a week ago

Shane Gillis’s joke gym shorts struck such a nerve with the feminist journalist class that now they’re pressing other SNL cast members to condemn it. Watch this interviewer push Michael Che to take a stand over a joke. Insane!

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USPS Employee Ethan Pease: "I'm not a Trump supporter. I'm not a Biden supporter either, but something profoundly wrong occurred in Wisconsin during the Presidential election and the American people have a right to know about it!"