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I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives, and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I think Teddy Roosevelt is looking at me funny.
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All it took was the most right wing government in modern American history for Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to finally achieve the international legitimization its leaders have always coveted.
Vera Bergengruen@VeraMBergen
👀 Venezuelan interim president Delcy Rodriguez is on the schedule to address the Saudi-backed FII Priority summit in Miami. Trump is speaking there on Friday.
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she’s striving for scott bessent levels of messiness and it will be fun to see how the secretary (or lindsey graham) manages to top it
Will Sommer@willsommer
FBI director Kash Patel’s girlfriend says Michael Flynn, Tucker Carlson, Joe Kent and Candace Owens are all tied to a foreign influence operation.
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“netanyahu is worried about a ceasefire that would obligate him to cease firing” is the most bibi thing that ever bibi’d
Barak Ravid@BarakRavid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned Trump might strike a deal that falls well short of Israel's objectives, includes significant concessions and limits Israel's ability to conduct strikes against Iran, two Israeli sources say
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@yashar since Trump confirmed on follow up that the “present” was related to the Strait of Hormuz, it seems like it’s this: ft.com/content/71c329…
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President Trump says that the regime has been changed in Iran and that the leaders in charge now are very different from the ones who were causing problems before.
Trump added, “Let’s see how they turn out,” referring to the current crop of leaders in Iran.
The president also said that the war has been won and that the only people who want to keep it going are “the fake news.”
Finally, he said the current regime in Iran “gave us a present,” adding that it was related to oil and gas.
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quiet you. i’ll be frugal and do it for $490,000
Olivier Knox@OKnox
ok fine I'll accept the "live on the Upper West Side for $500,000/year" challenge
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Ah…
Iran: “vessels linked to the US and Israel, as well as ‘other participants in the aggression, do not qualify for innocent or non-hostile passage’”.
so this appears to be a response to reports some GCC nations are considering direct military action
ft.com/content/71c329…
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@morninggloria @TVietor08 seems like it could be this
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
IRAN SAYS ‘NON-HOSTILE’ SHIPS CAN TRANSIT STRAIT OF HORMUZ
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Anyone know wtf this is this about?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump on Iranian leaders: "They're gonna make a deal. They did something yesterday that was amazing actually. They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I'm not gonna tell you what that present is but it was very significant prize."
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‼️ so it seems this was the gift
*Walter Bloomberg@DeItaone
IRAN SAYS ‘NON-HOSTILE’ SHIPS CAN TRANSIT STRAIT OF HORMUZ
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full quote from trump on new diplomatic developments….again, does it endanger that diplomacy to blurt this out when counterparties on the iranian side might want to keep these moves from hardliners in the irgc and regime until a deal more fully takes shape?
Acyn@Acyn
Trump on Iran: They gave us a present today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money and I'm not going to tell you what that present is but it was a very significant prize. It said to me that we are dealing with the right people.
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colin jost and james austin johnson should just save the writers some time and do this one straight from the transcript for a cold open
Kathryn Watson@kathrynw5
"We negotiate with bombs," Hegseth says in the Oval
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did the president of the united states literally just complain that someone took his toys and made him work?
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In all seriousness, one risk not being discussed enough is that Trump, in his Truth post yesterday and with this, might be outing preliminary diplomatic moves at a time when Iran would rather them
not be public yet for internal political reasons, jeopardizing the talks he touts.
@DukeStJournal@DukeStJournal
“a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money” “a significant gift”
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“a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money”
“a significant gift”
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susie wiles is somewhere wanting to punch a wall right now
Josh Wingrove@josh_wingrove
Trump, on talks to fund DHS and end the TSA lines: "I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it."
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We spent hours talking to Greg Bovino in his final days as a Border Patrol official.
He mocked Tom Homan. Criticized the current CBP chief. Acknowledged clashes with ICE and the National Guard.
Lots more here: nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/…
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ooof. definitely an off day for trump. got a softball in which the questioner blamed dems for the tsa impasse, and instead of spiking it, he rambled about dems voting together but “tom massie” being “rand paul jr” even though he calls trump one of the greatest presidents ever
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“Today’s 2 yr auction was terrible:” @pboockvar The bid-to-cover ratio was the weakest since May 2024 and dealers got stuck with the largest amount since October 2022. Traders are having a hard time pricing Fed policy as oil prices swing higher.
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