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Remembering both of these guys today. Two best friends that did everything together. Both took their lives about a year apart from each other after coming back from deployment. Many of the wounds of war are unseen.

New details emerging on the difficulties in U.S.–Iran negotiations: As of now, Iran is only willing to commit to not developing nuclear weapons, while the U.S. is pushing for concrete steps to reduce enriched uranium—either by selling it, transferring it abroad, or diluting it. A major sticking point is the Strait of Hormuz: Iran wants it under its management, while the U.S. insists on full freedom of navigation. There’s also no agreement on financial relief. Qatar has stepped in with a proposal to provide Iran a $12B humanitarian loan. Notably, Lebanon is now part of the broader framework under discussion.

Mark Levin runs straight to the Israeli media and demands that the United States government start a full-scale civil war in Iran to destroy the entire country. Levin says he has three demands: 1. He wants the United States military to continue dropping more bombs on Iran. 2. He wants the United States government to destroy the entire economy of Iran by using the Strait of Hormuz. 3. Levin wants American taxpayer money to be used to give weapons to Iranian civilians to start a civil war in Iran. Levin wants the new Iran to follow a similar path to Israel when it was declared a country. “I served in the Reagan administration when we armed the Mujahideen.”

In 1868, a bankrupt Louisiana banker with a ruined plantation and no income took some pepper seeds of unknown origin, mixed the mash with salt mined from underneath his own property, aged it in barrels, and bottled it in cologne bottles because manufacturing specialty glass after the Civil War was impossible. That bottle shape has not changed in 156 years... Edmund McIlhenny had lost almost everything in the Civil War. His banking career was gone. The Avery Island plantation he had married into was destroyed. When his family returned in 1865 they found the fields in ruin and allegedly a few volunteer chile plants still surviving in the wreckage. Nobody knows exactly how McIlhenny obtained the Capsicum frutescens pepper seeds that became the foundation of his sauce. What is documented is that he crushed the ripened peppers into a mash with rock salt mined from the natural salt dome underneath Avery Island, aged the mash in barrels, blended it with French white wine vinegar, strained it through cloth and bottled it in small cologne-type bottles with sprinkler fitments, sealed in green wax. Workers on the plantation used small red sticks called le petit bâton rouge to identify peppers at exactly the right stage of ripeness. In 1869 he sent exactly 658 bottles to grocers along the Gulf Coast at one dollar apiece. He secured a patent in 1870, and the sauce sold out immediately. Manufacturing specialised glass was essentially impossible in the post-Civil War South so McIlhenny used what was available. The sprinkler fitment on a cologne bottle turned out to be the perfect delivery mechanism for a concentrated pepper sauce best applied in dashes rather than poured. That practical wartime improvisation became one of the most recognisable pieces of packaging in the world. The original recipe, Tabasco peppers, Avery Island salt and vinegar, has not changed in 156 years. The salt still comes from underneath the same island. Every pepper seed used in production worldwide still originates from Avery Island. A bankrupt banker's post-Civil War improvisation, bottled in repurposed cologne bottles, became one of the most globally distributed food products in history. © Eats History

Massie really did sleep with Lauren Boebert. Laura Loomer released text messages from Thomas Massie on his “boner phone” of a conversation where he talks about whether his “pinecone” the name he’s given his penis, could fit inside Lauren Boebert because she’s so petite. Now it makes sense why she’s out campaigning for him. He also was laughing about being fondled by a male TSA member after his “pinecone” set off the metal detectors. That sounds very gay.

🚨 "An Agreement has been largely negotiated, subject to finalization between the United States of America, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various other Countries, as listed..." - President Donald J. Trump

We talked to Birmingham’s civil rights foot soldiers in the days following the Supreme Court decision, and they shared the stories behind the movement that eventually led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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