Nick Chanas 👀

@KellyLMcCarty @RepThomasMassie @dbongino @Ceil425941 Bongino is a clown. No one would take him seriously.

@RepThomasMassie @dbongino @Ceil425941 I highly doubt Dan knew about the failed polygraph. There’s no way he would finance defamation cases on her behalf with that information. No one would take that risk. Was Bongino played? Seems like the logical conclusion.

Tom, You’re a sitting US Representative, please try to preserve a sliver of dignity. There is an ongoing criminal trial in this case and the individual in this case is a US citizen entitled to due process. Your relentless bloviating and absurd public commentary on an ongoing, very serious, criminal matter, which you know little to nothing about (by choice), is beneath the office you hold. It’s bizarre that you continue to claim to be a supporter of liberty and the Constitution, while acting like a Soviet era communist.

@corndog__1776 @atrupar Not really. But morons like you certainly do.

@atrupar We really need to start unwinding and overturning discrimination laws like the 14th amendment. They do nothing but drag our country down.

Ron Johnson: "I was disappointed in the Supreme Court justices. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Maybe their ruling will be on the law and Constitution, but you have to look at the bigger picture here."

@lachlan @MarcACaputo US citizens living abroad?

This is an amazing thing to put in an official statement. 1% of 2024 cycle ActBlue contributions was $38 million!

@SenateGOP No, you are.

Birthright citizenship for illegal aliens is a national security risk.

@luke_judges @WKahneman Woot Woot 🎉

Did I see XRPL?

@JollyRogX @PlumberWesley @unusual_whales If your question is about politicians in general, they sure do, but more subtly. The scale at which Trump does is quite remarkable and outstanding from any politician, of any political inclination. There is objectively no comparison.

@Nick_Chanas @PlumberWesley @unusual_whales I agree he lies. Are you willing to admit the Democrats do the same?

Trump has said: Iran has asked the US for a ceasefire

@JollyRogX @PlumberWesley @unusual_whales Why are you deflecting to Biden. Stick to the topic. Trump is a liar and you know it.

@PlumberWesley @unusual_whales Yes, because the Biden regime, that built a fake white house to parade around a Biden like Weekend At Bernies, was the picture of honesty. LOL

@MashalBaloch007 @BRICSinfo Yeah, see what happens to you when you crack a joke about its leaders in public. Next thing you know, you 'll wake up in the desert with a blindfold in front of a firing squad. Seems like a place many immigrants want to flee to... 🤷‍♂️

@BRICSinfo Yemen is a great muslim country, sacrificing their lives for the religion of Islam. While on the other and Saudi is protecting Zionism

JUST IN: 🇾🇪 Yemeni Houthis say they are considering closing Bab El Mandeb Strait. 12% of the world's trade passes through it.

@whysopepe @skibidiquasar @Simao_rda @WhiteHouse Why would you want to download it? It's literally a tracking tool.

@skibidiquasar @Simao_rda @WhiteHouse I got it in Singapore

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@USA_Polling This can't be bad for Talarico.

Texas - GOP Senate Polling: 🔴 Paxton: 49% 🔴 Cornyn: 41% Quantus / March 22, 2026

@DarioCpx Not really, no. x.com/Nick_Chanas/st…

“Iran is - remarkably - proving to be an entirely different beast: when others [Afganistan, Iraq, Vietnam,…] were merely surviving a giant, Iran appears to be able to compete with one.”

@RnaudBertrand Also, there’s a huge difference between "escalation dominance" and a "strategic veto." Iran has successfully held the global economy hostage by closing the Strait, but denial isn't a "pole of power" if you can’t protect your own skies or leadership. They aren't peers, clearly...

@RnaudBertrand Mistaking a tactical pause for a retreat is an error IMO. Trump’s 5day extension isn't a retreat, it’s a logistics window opening. The USS Boxer and Tripoli are moving toward the Gulf. Repositioning =/= backing down.

I don't think people realize just how extraordinary what we're witnessing with Iran is. I was arguing with a dear journalist friend of mine yesterday who was telling me that Iran was winning, yes, but only on the strategic level, not tactically. The type of thing a skinny kid getting stuffed in lockers in highschool tells himself to make himself feel better: "These people will BEG to work for me in ten years. Everyone knows jocks peak in highschool. They'll literally beg." 😏 I think that's precisely wrong, and that's what makes the Iran war different. As of now, Iran is in fact holding its own tactically too. Think about other U.S. wars of aggression these past few decades. Take Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long). The pattern was roughly always the same with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These wars were, by and large, imperial: the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance. And that is when they actually had the will to resist: some - like Libya - barely even bothered, just resigning themselves to their fate (despite being, at the time, the richest country in Africa). As spectators of these wars, if you had any moral sense, the dominant emotion was a kind of helpless disgust: you were watching a giant stomp through someone else's house. Sure, the U.S. actually lost many - if not most - of these wars, famously replacing the Taliban with the Taliban or being expelled with their tail between their legs from Vietnam, but the power differential was no less real for it. It's just that power doesn't always guarantee victory: sometimes the giant can't kill everyone, and eventually tires of trying. But the “victories” won this way were always pyrrhic at best: the people endured, yes, but what they were left with was a country in ashes that takes decades to rebuild. Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of things, the giant walked away with little more than a bruised ego. Iran is - remarkably - proving to be an entirely different beast: when others were merely surviving a giant, Iran appears to be able to compete with one. What just happened over the past 48 hours is the best illustration of this. You had the President of the United States issue a formal ultimatum: reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or we "obliterate" your power grid. Iran's response was essentially: we dare you, if you do this we'll make all your Gulf allies uninhabitable within a week. And, as we saw, Trump backed down: pretexting non-existent "VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS" with Iran, he said his ultimatum no-longer applied (or, rather, became 5 days). Adding he now envisaged the Strait of Hormuz being “jointly controlled by me and the Ayatollah.” To the amusement of Iran’s diplomacy (x.com/IraninSA/statu…). That, folks, is a textbook tactical victory. It is, remarkably, Iran demonstrating in this instance that it had escalation dominance over the United States of America. That is, the ability to credibly threaten consequences so severe that the US - for perhaps the first time since the Cold War - found it preferable to stand down. That's no skinny kid being locked in a locker dreaming of revenge fantasies. That's the kid grabbing the bully's wrist mid-shove and watching his face change. And it's not the only tactical victory in this war so far. Take the episode over the Israeli attack on Iran's South Pars gas facility. Iran had warned that if that happened U.S. allies in the region - including Israel - would face a symmetrical response. And they delivered: famously devastating Qatar's Ras Laffan facility - which produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply - and leading, according to Qatar themselves, to a $20 billion loss of annual revenue for the next 5 years (oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-…). Not only that but they also managed to hit Israel's Haifa refinery (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19…), one of the country's most strategic and protected sites. The result was Trump distancing himself from the South Pars attack, saying that Israel had "violently lashed out" unilaterally and that "NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field." Israel then said it wouldn't strike Iran energy sites anymore (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…). From where I stand, that's another tactical victory. It is, at least, Iran demonstrating that is can fight back **symmetrically** against the U.S. and its allies. Not through asymmetric resistance with IEDs hidden in the roadside or traps hidden in the jungle, but eye for eye, and against some of the most heavily protected sites on the U.S.'s side. That's qualitatively different from any other adversaries the U.S. has directly fought in recent wars. There's plenty more, such as the pretty relevant fact that Iran has gained control of the single most strategic energy chokepoint on earth and the U.S. is finding it impossible to break that control. To the point where Trump has been reduced to publicly begging China - of all countries - for help, which given Trump's ego mustn't have been easy to do. Only to be told no. By China. And by everyone else he asked. This is the topic of my latest article: how this is, in fact, the first genuine "multipolar war." First, in the narrow sense: because Iran is revealing itself to be a genuine pole of power - not a superpower, but an actor that cannot be submitted, which is all multipolarity is. And second, because the war itself is accelerating multipolarity everywhere else: the U.S. has never been more isolated, never looked weaker and its security guarantees have never been more hollow. In my article I lay out the full scoreboard - military, economic, political - and explain why this war has already changed the world, regardless of how it ends. Enjoy the read here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

@SneakyObtuse @washingtonpost You've never been. How would you know?

@washingtonpost London is going to hell in a handbasket thanks to their stupid mayor.

Ambulances were set ablaze overnight in north London, police said, inflicting serious damage but causing no injuries. Police said they were investigating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime and had stepped up local patrols. wapo.st/4t3ji8K

@vertinski @DoingFedTime @juhakall @eksosedron Not really, no.

@DoingFedTime @juhakall @eksosedron member when we could smoke on planes? good times

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert after community outrage. Unpaid compliance simp. Link below...

@Angelina738738 @BradEBonham @mccurry_li90015 What fraud exectly? Illegal immigration is by definition not a burden on gov expenses. What are you on about? Think a little harder about it.

@BradEBonham @mccurry_li90015 Both fraud and illegal immigration brought to you by the Democratic Party. No wonder they are wetting their pants over the SAVE Act!

I’m 100% convinced that our national debt sits largely in two buckets: Fraud Illegal immigration That’s it—solve those two things and we have a balanced budget.

@jeremykauffman The right has nothing better to sell. Left, right, it's all junk. We need pragmatism, not ideologies.

The American right had a once in a generation moment to crush the left and squandered it.

@ride_the_ripple @galgitron Could it mean becoming human again, and not being a slave to a paycheck? Interesting proposition for many, indeed.

@galgitron The end game being people don’t need to work anymore, living a life of leisure paid for by the welfare state. I’d say the majority of people would be happy with this.

They said, 'AI can't do this..' x.com/i/status/20347…

@meridiansignal_ @CoinDesk Yes!

@CoinDesk The key signal isn’t the $4B. It’s the speed at which the market is forming. The size is still small.

DATA: Tokenized equities surged from under $100M to over $4B since the start of 2025.