@NicoPerrino @DavidAFrench @stephenfhayes @JonahDispatch I believe that this is the type of story that @whignewtons intended for not worth your time(?)
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Open minded to the point of confusion. Politically somewhere in middle. Father, Husband. Not trying to be a smartass.
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Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran:
“I do not know why the Americans and the Israelis still have not understood this point.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a strong political structure with established political, economic, and social institutions.
The presence or absence of a single individual does not affect this structure.
Of course, individuals are influential, and each person plays their role, some better, some worse, some less.
But what matters is that the political system in Iran is a very solid structure.
We have not had anyone more important than the leader himself, and even the leader was martyred.
Yet the system continued to work and immediately provided a replacement.
If anyone else is martyred, it will be the same.”
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I just listened to @CurtMills try to debate @elilake on WHYY radio and it was like listening to a chihuahua yapping while a grownup spoke.
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@SenMikeLee @asymmetricinfo Now I feel like this whole war was a @scottlincicome ploy to repeal the Jones Act.
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I introduced the Open America’s Waters Act last year to repeal the Jones Act, which raises the cost of energy and goods on consumers.
Chucking this outdated policy would be a great step to alleviate fuel prices for American families.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
*TRUMP WEIGHS EASING JONES ACT REQUIREMENTS OVER OIL PRICE: RTRS
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bluesky is funny because it was made to escape all the horrible people and it turns out they were the horrible people all along
Bluesky@bluesky
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It’s eight years today since I became a U.S. citizen. What an unbelievable honor.
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@jaketapper @JonahDispatch Yeah but Roger Ailes used to tell them to smile too, so obviously it can't be sexist.
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She was asking the president about how his Justice Department is upsetting survivors of a horrific child rape trafficking ring by failing to redact identifying information about them.
FactPost@factpostnews
Vance: There was a moment in the Oval Office, I wasn't even in there, but Trump was talking to Kaitlan Collins. Trump says, 'Why don't you ever smile?' And it's actually, like, so perceptive. Have some fun.
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@glukianoff @JonahDispatch Yup, remember how @rickygervais called out celebs for voicing their political opinions at the golden gloves and no one watching understood what he was talking about?
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Yes, celebrities are famously shy with their political opinions.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost
Politics are often treated like radioactive material on Grammy night, writes Post pop music critic Chris Richards. But on Sunday, something changed. The world outside had finally become too loud to ignore. wapo.st/3Zx2QRv
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@asymmetricinfo I have no problem with people who are not parents sharing their opinions on parenting. After all, you had parents and you likely learned many parenting lessons when you were growing up.
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I am not a parent and I haven't spent much time around little kids but I have a strong opinion that many parents spend too much time beating themselves up about small choices that probably don't matter much, and everyone would be happier if they relaxed a bit.
Timothy B. Lee@binarybits
I've gotta say "I'm not a parent and haven't spent much time around little kids but here are my strong opinions about what parents are doing wrong" is not my favorite kind of tweet.
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@EVKontorovich @grok if the US government seems to be backing the current VP of Venezuela, does that undermine the argument that we're coming on the invitation of the previously recognized leadership?
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THE MADURO ABDUCTION & INTERNATIONAL LAW. Most of the international legal establishment is having a meltdown over the Maduro abduction. Law professor groups are lamenting Trump's "undermining" and "abandoning" of international law. I'd say academic opinion is 98% against legality.
Indeed, at first glance, the invasion and abduction of Maduro does seem to be a "use of force...against the ...political independence of any state," in the language of the UN Charter Art. 2(4), or in plainer terms, a violation of Venezuela's sovereignty.
However, this is true when the attacked state's government objects (as is typically the case). If the attacked state's government consents, there is no violation of sovereignty, and this is the common case of invited interventions and military assistance. Obviously Maduro and his vice president strongly object - but the United States "does not recognize Nicolás Maduro as the president of Venezuela," in the words of then-Secretary of State Blinken, so that's irrelevant from Washington's perspective.
Instead, since the Biden Administration, the U.S. has recognized Gonzalez, the winner of the 2024 elections, as the legitimate head of the government. Gonzalez has certainly not opposed the operation, and his sole public response, the X post below, could be as an endorsement. Alternatively, Venezuela could have no recognized government, which technically means no one can consent to foreign intervention, though this is a fairly harsh and formalist implication of doctrine, as in practice such countries are ones quite likely to create harmful externalities for third-countries, who in this view have no recourse.
Given the bipartisan U.S. view that Maduro is not actually president, and that his regime control was heavily supported by foreign troops (Cuban guards were apparently the only ones to fight for him; Hezbollah has reportedly been welcomed as well), the action to remove him would not be against the "political independence" of Venezuela, and thus not implicate 2(4) at all. It would be odd to read 2(4) as allowing foreign powers to use troops to prop up an illegitimate, unelected dictator, but not to remove him.
Edmundo González@EdmundoGU
Venezolanos, son horas decisivas, sepan que estamos listos para la gran operación de la reconstrucción de nuestra nación.
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@CliffordAsness Your right to do it doesn't mean you're right to do it.
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I have not seen one person say Tucker Carlson shouldn’t be ALLOWED to interview that Nazi frog. If I’ve missed someone saying that then I agree they’re wrong.
That Carlson choses to, and makes it an ass kissing non-questioning love-fest is, still wrong.
What you have the RIGHT to do and what you SHOULD do are not the same.
This isn’t complicated and yet the amount of the woke right disingenuously or stupidly screaming “free speech” is staggering.
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Trump on Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes "you can't tell him who to interview... if he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don't know much about him, but if he wants to do it, get the word out, let him... ultimately, people have to decide."
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Cruz has distinguished himself throughout this fight and deserves recognition for it
Noah Rothman@NoahCRothman
Well done, @tedcruz
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A note for friends. nationalreview.com/corner/a-note-…
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Why is there so much eye-bothering dust in the air at this airport cafe, somebody fix it please
Yael Bar tur@yaelbt
Hostage Bar Kuperstein has a huge surprise waiting for him at home. His father, who had been paralyzed and nonverbal due to an accident, has learned to walk and speak again over the last 2 years, so that he’d be ready to hug his son and tell him he missed him. 📹@roniaviram
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You left out the murderer of two employees of the Israel embassy outside a Jewish event in DC, and the firebombing, including murder, of several elderly Jewish women in Denver protesting on behalf of the Israeli hostages in Gaza. I hope these were just oversights on your part.
Ezra Klein@ezraklein
In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife - Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson - The assassination of Charlie Kirk Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all. The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.
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I'm not sure I've ever been so heartbroken about someone I wasn't really a personal friend or fan of.
A personal tragedy, but a national nightmare.
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like there's stolen racism valor and then there's pretending to think you care a lot about the Treaty of Versailles and the rump of Czechoslovakia to own the normies
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1.) these are the dumbest people alive.
2.) these are the dumbest people alive, who are worshipping one of the dumbest people to ever live, whose speeches WERE NOT GOOD. This was a fact people noted at the time! that Hitler's written speeches were mid at best and it was his spoken voice that made them "effective."
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@jpodhoretz @JillianLederman @TheFP Would you ever consider interviewing him for a special episode of the podcast?
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My dad on his long, wonderful, complicated life. Thank you, @JillianLederman of @TheFP, for putting together this story of his 95=year journey.
thefp.com/p/norman-podho…
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