Seth Daniels @jsethd

Seems like a lot for a movie about a minivan

The Cinéprism @TheCineprism

14 hours ago

Only 40 cinemas on EARTH could show what NOLAN actually filmed.

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I left Alabama. I am in Georgia now. At 3 a.m. I saw a yellow sign glowing beside the highway. Waffle House. I went in. The parking lot was full. At 3 a.m. I asked the waitress when they close. She looked at me the way you look at a child who has asked when gravity ends. She said, "We don't close, baby." Two things happened in that sentence. One: I learned Waffle House has never closed. Not at night. Not on Christmas. Not during hurricanes. Two: she called me "baby." I am a grown man. I have a mortgage. It repaired something in me I did not know was broken. I ordered hash browns. She said, "Scattered, smothered, covered, chunked, diced, peppered, capped, or topped?" I did not understand a single word in that sentence. I said, "Yes." She nodded and wrote it down. Apparently that was a correct answer. Then I learned something, and I need you to know I did not invent this. The United States government measures the strength of hurricanes by whether the Waffle House is open. Open: the storm is fine. Limited menu: the storm is serious. Closed: evacuate. It is over. This is called the Waffle House Index. FEMA uses it. FEMA. The disaster agency. Japan built earthquake satellites. America watches a diner. Both systems work. At 3 a.m., the Waffle House contained: two truck drivers. A nurse still in scrubs. Four teenagers in prom clothes. One man who had clearly made several mistakes that evening. And one Japanese man with a notebook. Nobody asked anybody why they were there. At Waffle House, being there is the answer. Then a man at the counter noticed my Alabama shirt. It was a gift. Long story. He did not speak. He pointed at the shirt and shook his head slowly, the way you correct someone in church. Then he said, quietly: "Go Dawgs." I panicked and used the only word I own. "Roll Tide." Every fork in the building stopped. The cook looked up from the eggs. The waitress said, "Baby, no." I understand now. Every state here has its own word. My word is from one state ago. The man bought my waffle anyway. He said, and I am quoting him exactly: "You didn't know. Bless your heart." I have been told that phrase has two meanings. I believe I received the gentle one. I believe.

NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga

a day ago

In Alabama a man said "Roll Tide" to me as a greeting. Later that same day, the same man said "Roll Tide" as a goodbye. I asked a woman at the store what it means. She said, "Roll Tide." I asked what it means. She said, "It means Roll Tide, sugar." So I began collecting

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@FlanaganOnFaith Congratulations! Hooah

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…

Maybe one of the reasons our government is an entrenched gerontocracy is because a lot of you people make public service hell on earth for anyone with a family

Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan

11 hours ago

Justice Amy Coney Barrett describes how her children have been required to "think about and see things that children should not think about and see." That includes swatting and "threatening, anonymous deliveries designed to intimidate and harass us."

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It will be a short investigation

philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_

14 hours ago

Federal and state health officials are reportedly investigating whether Taco Bell restaurants played a role in one of the largest U.S. outbreaks of an illness that causes explosive diarrhea washingtonpost.com/health/2026/07…

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Is "banned books" the genre? Half of these books are part of the standard high school curriculum

John J. Miller @heymiller

a day ago

Will someone please ban my books so that they will be put on prominent display in bookstores?

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@DC_Reporter

@PolitlcsUK And if they don't beat Argentina, will he still resign Monday?

@3YearLetterman Poor form, coach

Hello again. We’re currently in Clemson, South Carolina. I’ve decided to come back here to document the final part of our road trip. The main reason I deactivated my account two weeks ago was that things became increasingly toxic. For some people, it’s unfortunately unfathomable that a good story can exist without some kind of hidden agenda behind it. There was even a Reddit group going through my entire account trying to find anything they could use to reveal my identity. I know this was only a small percentage of people, but after a while it became exhausting. During the last two weeks, I received so many kind messages on Instagram, and they really made me realize how many people genuinely enjoyed following the trip. Some people even told me that their grandparents regularly ask them, “What are the Germans up to today?” I think that’s really cool. I decided to continue because I realized that the overwhelming majority of people loved following along. A small group of very loud people shouldn’t be able to ruin something that brought so many others joy. I also want to clear something up, as people who follow me on Instagram already know. I’ve been to the United States before. This is not my first visit, and I’ve never claimed that it was. The last time I was here was in January 2022, when I visited New York and Philadelphia. A lot of people shared my Raising Cane’s post from November 2025 to make it look like I was secretly American. That post wasn’t from the United States, it was from my trip to Saudi Arabia. This is my first time back in the U.S. in more than four years, and apart from Boston, I’d never visited any of the places we’ve been to on this trip before. That’s probably why many people assumed it was our first time in America, because for all of these places, it actually was. And let me tell you, Ohio and Alabama are very different from New York City or Los Angeles. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Thanks for reading.

SPECIAL REPORT: When Florida police act like they’re working in California. Travis E. Smith and a friend spent Sunday, July 5th shooting at his grandma’s rural property in Southwest Florida, about an hour north of his home in Pinellas Park. It was a good day, he thought. The pair set up their own targets and shot Smith’s two Glocks, a 12-gauge shotgun, a SAR USA 9mm pistol, a Ruger .22 pistol, an AR-10 Smith had built himself, and what he believed was a Springfield AR pistol. After dropping his friend off, Smith said he was nearing his home around midnight when he was stopped by a Pinellas Park police officer. Smith pulled into a restaurant’s parking lot. The officer told Smith he stopped him because he had a “dim tag light.” Smith didn’t say anything to the officer at the time, but he strongly disagrees. His station wagon is nearly 40 years old and uses a bulb as its tag light instead of a modern LED, which are much brighter. Smith’s buddy, who has a valid Florida medical marijuana card, had left an empty marijuana container on the back seat, which the officer saw. He told Smith the container was his “probable cause,” and that he was going to search the vehicle with or without Smith’s consent. Smith, 28, was ordered out of the vehicle and told to take a seat on the curb. “He began to search and I was sitting there for nearly three hours,” Smith said. “I wasn’t worried. I had nothing to hide.” The officer called for backup. Over the next several hours, nearly a dozen more officers arrived. Most wore uniforms except for one who wore civilian clothes, a face mask and a ballcap. They ran the serial number of every weapon through their dispatcher to make sure none were stolen. None were. Things changed when the officers found Smith’s AR pistol. They measured the weapon and the barrel with a tape measure. They opened it up, which Smith believes was to make sure it had not been converted to full-auto. It hadn’t. After the officers had talked for hours, one walked over, handcuffed Smith and placed him in the back of a squad car. “They read me Miranda and asked me a bunch of questions about the AR pistol,” Smith said. “I answered some. I didn’t know what the problem was.” Smith had owned the AR pistol for nearly seven years. He found it on a website and had it shipped to his local gun dealer. He had mounted a red-dot sight and what he thought was an aftermarket brace. “I was under the impression it was totally compliant,” Smith said. “The brace was actually smaller than the one it came with. I thought it was a brace, not a buttstock.” An officer then told Smith he was under arrest for possessing an unlicensed short-barreled rifle, or SBR, as the other officers loaded up all of Smith’s remaining weapons. “They took them all,” he said. “And all the ammo too.” Before he was hauled away to jail, Smith said one of the officers told him: “Man, these are nice guns.” At the county jail, Smith was stripped, searched, given a towel, a thin sleeping mat and sent to a cell. While in jail, Smith said he heard from four other inmates who said they too were stopped for either a “dim tag light” or window tint that officers claimed was too dark. The next day, he was represented by a public defender at his first court hearing. Smith was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana for his friend’s empty container, and possession of an unlicensed SBR—a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He also received two traffic tickets, one for not wearing a seatbelt and the other for “no tag light.” All of the charges are for violating Florida state law. None were federal charges. Before the hearing, Smith had no criminal history only a traffic ticket. “I have never been in trouble with the law,” he said. “I’m a Christian. I believe in Jesus. I wasn’t rude to the officers. I was ‘yessir,’ ‘yessir’ the whole time.” No comment Pinellas Park Police Chief Adam Geissenberger was not willing to be interviewed for this story. Chief Geisenberger tried to pass multiple interview requests to his Public Information Officer, Lt. John Shea, but a lieutenant is not responsible for the overall conduct of the department’s officers, which ultimately, is the responsibility of the chief-of-police. “I have passed this along to Chief Geissenberger, and he has no statement on the incident,” Lt. Shea said in an email. Brace or stock? Chris Brooks is a longtime gunsmith and firearm expert who has held nearly every job in the retail firearm industry. Smith works for one of Brooks’ friends, who texted him soon after Smith’s arrest. “They reached out to me because they thought the cop was mistaken, that this was just a brace. They believed that Smith was in compliance. I may have burst their bubble, unfortunately,” Brooks said. “I can understand why they thought it was a brace, but it has some things that make it a stock. However, it’s a very grey area.” Brooks classifies firearms and firearm parts for a major online retailer, but even he isn’t 100% sure that Smith had an SBR and not a pistol with a legal brace. “I am not convinced that stock is a stock. It has an angle that makes it unique, brace-like. The portion that makes contact with your shoulder isn’t any larger than other braces. I am not convinced it could function like a stock. It’s more like a pistol brace,” Brooks said. “This arrest was not fair. It’s unusual. It seems like something that an officer would resort to if his intention was to make an arrest. I have never even heard of this. This gun was not altered in any way. It just has a different piece of plastic on back that can be removed without tools. I’ve probably sold more than 30,000 braced pistols over the years and this has never even come up.” Brooks also took issue with the state charges. “I wasn’t even aware of the Florida SBR statute until after all of this happened. The intent of the Florida law was likely to canonize the federal statute into state law, but they are a good three or four iterations behind federal law,” he said. Reaction Sarasota County (Florida) Sheriff Kurt Hoffman is also an attorney who served as general counsel for the department from 2005 until he became sheriff in 2021. Hoffman believes that regardless of whether Smith had a legal AR pistol or an unlicensed SBR, the issue is whether his encounter with Pinellas Park police should have ended in arrest. “When you have a citizen with no criminal history, who is not using firearms in an unlawful manner and you find what could be perhaps a technical violation, and it takes you three hours to determine whether you have a crime or not, perhaps the best thing to do is to take the offensive firearm part off the gun and then send the non-criminal on his way,” Sheriff Hoffman said. “I would like to think that law enforcement, when encountering someone who is not acting in a nefarious capacity, that we should not be going to the extreme. Certainly, the other firearms there were not illegal, so I don’t know what the intent was to seize them. Sometimes we’re our own worst enemy.” Alan M. Gottlieb founded the Second Amendment Foundation more than 50 years ago and serves as its executive vice president. Said Gottlieb: “This young man’s life as he knows it may be over. Even if he doesn’t serve a full 15 years in prison, he will become a convicted felon and unable to legally possess firearms, which he very clearly enjoys shooting. I was extremely surprised when I learned that this happened in Florida and not California, New York or New Jersey. Law enforcement needs to understand the harm that can come when they act so overzealously. By charging this young man with a second-degree felony they have ruined his life. That is the real crime here. I certainly hope there is a judge in Florida who sees it this way.” The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project wouldn’t be possible without you. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories like this.

"You know what Reagan and O'Neill did? They sat down and actually got to know each other. They had a drink. If I get to be president we're going to open up a bar in the White House. We're going to get liquored up and solve problems." -- Lindsey Graham Dec. 10, 2015

Candidate C (me): Send thieves AND cyclists to the gulag.

Grant Slatton @GrantSlatton

2 days ago

being a cyclist kinda sucks politically because your options are always Candidate A: loves bike infrastructure, but refuses to jail bike thieves Candidate B: wants to send bike thieves to the gulag, but hates cyclists anyway my bike was stolen last week, RIP

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Nobody is pulling her back in

Nancy Mace @NancyMace

3 days ago

“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in…”

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At least they used a good photo of me. Judge me by my enemies.

Open Source Intel @Osint613

a week ago

At Khamenei's funeral in Tehran, signs displayed Trump, Ben Shapiro, Laura Loomer, Miriam Adelson, Lindsey Graham and others with red targets over their faces. The text read: "In the end, your heads will be severed."

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Regardless of anyone's feelings about Lindsey Graham, this will still be one of the funniest photos in recent history.

The dating apps break young adults’ brains in many ways.

Jake Kozloski 🇺🇸 @jakozloski

3 days ago

Researchers showed people a stream of dating profiles. The more they saw the pickier they got. Across 3 studies, the odds of saying yes to a profile declined by 27% from the first to the last. Nothing about the quality of the profiles changed. Only the number they'd already

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