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@StephenM dude, that's messed up.

A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.

@MehekCooke does it count if he's the one who got it closed in the first place?

Every foreign policy genius who spent a decade collecting paychecks to tell us Iran was untouchable just watched a real estate developer from Queens reopen the waterway that moves a third of the world's oil. The credential class should be embarrassed into silence.

@RepMikeTurner bigly copium

No one is willing to trade lower gas prices for Iran becoming a nuclear state.

@TLPN_Official very cool.

Condensed the 25 minute #NASA #Artemis1 #Orion reentry video down to just 60 seconds! What a ride! #NASA #SLS #Moon #WeAreGoing #Artemis

Incredible raw real time POV of #NASA #Orion spacecraft returning to #Earth completing the #Artemis1 mission! In the next 12-24 months the #Artemis2 astronauts will see this same view! #NASA #SLS #Moon #WeAreGoing #Artemis

@JohnKiriakou @unfiltered__sam this was evident weeks ago.

Agreed. If you are not following @unfiltered__sam I strongly recommend you do so.

After months, I was finally able to combine both my hurricane landfall and return period datasets for the U.S. into one massive infographic. I absolutely love this. What an insane map to look at!

@EricLDaugh this has zero to do with NATO obligations

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Spain BANNED the US Air Force refueling tankers involved in the Iran war from flying through Spain airspace Spain is a NATO "ally" What a freaking disgrace. Pull out of NATO!

@StephenM Praise be to Allah!

Wishing all Americans a blessed and wonderful Easter.

@LindseyGrahamSC it's 'choose," Mr. Disney Tough Guy

As I have been saying for the last several days, President Trump is intent on restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. He is deadly serious when it comes to his ultimatum to Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face a massive military response against vital infrastructure. It is still my hope Strait of Hormuz can be reopened and the enriched uranium can be secured through diplomacy. That would be the best outcome for the region and the world. To say the window on diplomacy is closing would be an understatement. To Iran, chose wisely and chose quickly.

@MargoGontar yeah, fuck that. not happy.

To me as a Ukrainian this looks disgusting

@SecScottBessent @FT y'all really need to hire a good PR agency.

By publishing this explicitly false story, the @FT has officially become tabloid trash for market participants. Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea that Chancellor-Bank of England statute serving as a prototype for a Treasury-Federal Reserve relationship, FT journalists manufactured a story with the headline, “Scott Bessent praised Bank of England as model for tighter oversight of the Federal Reserve.” These pathetic journalists have clearly fabricated a story to give the impression that both I and the Trump Administration are setting “about restructuring the relationship… at a time when President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on the world’s most important central bank.” Their mendacious assertion is based on vague statements from unnamed “financial industry executives familiar with the matter.” In short, FT has literally manufactured an entirely fake policy position for me and the Administration. Other than furthering a maliciously false narrative of dysfunction and divisiveness, it baffles the mind as to why they would shred their already diminished journalistic credibility. Over the past 10 years, I have written more than 20,000 words opining on the Federal Reserve decisions, personnel, structure, and modifications. Nowhere have I ever mentioned this ridiculous notion. The Governor’s letters to the Chancellor have proven to be a useless and perfunctory device. There is much to be said about the storied Bank of England, but any recreation of its operating framework on this side of the Atlantic has never been contemplated. The shameful journalists and editors at the FT are shocking in their meretriciousness, lack of standards, and general intellectual libertinism. It is the worst tradition of Fleet Street to manufacture news rather than report on it. They have brought irredeemable shame to their parent organization, Nikkei Inc., with whom I had previously held excellent relations. In 2025, I laid out a comprehensive 6,000+ word review of each and every policy reform that I believe should be adopted by the Federal Reserve. Read my actual, real thoughts on and proposals for Federal Reserve reform at the International Economy: international-economy.com/TIE_Sp25_Besse…

@Acyn what a toadie

FCC Chair: Trump is winning. Look at the results—PBS and NPR defunded. Joy Reid, Sleepy-Eyed Chuck Todd, Jim Acosta, John Dickerson are gone. Colbert is leaving. CBS is under new ownership, and soon enough CNN will have new ownership as well.

I don’t think anyone in any position of power has wrapped their head around what’s coming for the Colorado River basin in the next few months

@StateDept yeah, that's kind of embarrassing for us all.

SECRETARY RUBIO: The U.S. is constantly asked to help in wars and we have. But when we had a need, it didn’t get positive responses from NATO. A couple leaders said that Iran was not Europe’s war. Well, Ukraine isn’t our war, yet we’ve contributed more to that fight than anyone.

@NancyMace lame

When I'm Governor, neither the Muslim Brotherhood nor radical Islam will flourish in South Carolina. Not in Rock Hill. Not in any town in our state. Sharia law will have no home here. South Carolina STRONG.

@netanyahu I think you need to sit down.

Iran has proven again in the last 48 hours that it is the enemy of civilization and a danger to the free world: targeting children, families, and the elderly with terror missiles, threatening Jerusalem’s holy sites, launching long-range missiles, and trying to blackmail the world through the Strait of Hormuz. I ask the leaders of the free world: what are you waiting for? Israel is fighting not only for itself, but for all of you

@RepLuna what an embarassment

I am deeply upset at the lack of respect for life Senator Lindsey Graham is displaying when talking about our troops. He is acting as if they are expendable cattle. This is unacceptable and dark. There were over 26,000 American casualties at Iwo Jima.

I’m growing a bit more concerned following this upcoming heatwave in the West. Ensemble model support, although in the long-range, is generally giving subtle clues that more ridging in the West is possible. Trends will need to be watched.