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@TVietor08 I see why the Pope postponed his trip for America’s 250th. PS Trump posted this blasphemous pic earlier. 🤦🏼‍♂️

He’s truly lost it

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law.

#YouthVote #MidTerms2026 yahoo.com/news/articles/…

@DschlopesIsBack @theblackvault “I will do whatever I want” makes you sound like a petulant teenager, but I shouldn’t insult teenagers by comparing them to you. 😏

@theblackvault I will do whatever what I want. Thanks for the advice though. 👍

BREAKING: Former United States President Joe Biden has passed away at the age of 83

Rev250 resource of the day — The John Carter Brown Library hosts a discussion about “Visualizing the Age of Revolutions” with curators Gwendolyn Collaço, Karin Wulf, and José Montelongo on Friday, March 20, 4pm, in person and online: jcblibrary.org/events/visuali…

@Scaramucci Only Dred Scott was a worse decision by the Supremes. Then Heller is third worst. #SupremeCourt

Something has to be done about Citizens United. Since January 2010 we’ve had unlimited money go to politicians. Campaign donations are up eight times since then and 36% of all that money is coming from the top 0.1% of the population. You think those people are donating out of patriotism? They are buying protection. Corporate tax cuts. No antitrust enforcement. No breakups. No accountability. And it is working perfectly. We used to bust monopolies in this country. Teddy Roosevelt made it a centerpiece of American democracy. The idea was simple — concentrated power in the hands of a few is a threat to everyone else. We don’t do that anymore. Not because the monopolies got more virtuous. Because the monopolies got better at buying the people who would have stopped them. This is not a left issue or a right issue. This is a math issue. When 36 cents of every dollar in politics comes from a fraction of a fraction of the population — those are the only people getting served. The rest of us are just paying for the system that ignores us. Reform Citizens United. Bring back antitrust enforcement. Or watch it get worse. Loved my time on @RealTimers @billmaher

@C_Michael_C @TheRickWilson Wow

Brother, I've got bad news.

Fox: A record number of people tapped into their 401ks early last year. About 4.5 million people took out hardship withdrawals. The number is concerning.

@TheRickWilson @pete_potus2024 After he apologizes to Zelenskyy. @JDVance was so rude to him. 😔

If Trump wants Zelenskyy’s help against drones, I think JD Vance to have to fly to Kiev, and sit in the Ukrainian equivalent of the Oval Office and say, “Thank you.”

BREAKING: Bahrain just got hit. Not a base. Not a military installation. The refinery. The Bahrain Petroleum Company, BAPCO, is burning. Iranian missiles and drones reached the facility on March 5 despite Bahraini air defenses intercepting 75 missiles and 123 drones in the same wave. The intercept count is the highest single-day figure for any Gulf state in this war. The fires are confirmed by video. The fires are real. Understand what BAPCO is. It is not an abstraction. It is the refinery that processes virtually all of Bahrain’s domestic petroleum output, sitting on an island of 800 square kilometers that also hosts Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the headquarters of the United States Fifth Fleet. The Fifth Fleet commands all US naval operations across the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. The commanding officer of the Fifth Fleet wakes up every morning approximately twelve kilometers from the refinery that Iran just struck. If you wanted to design a single target that communicates simultaneously to the global energy market, the US Navy, and every Gulf monarchy watching this war, you would design BAPCO. Iran did not need to destroy the facility to win the targeting decision. The mechanism of the strike is verification cost inversion applied to oil infrastructure rather than shipping insurance. An oil refinery that has been struck once by Iranian missiles in an active war is a refinery that no insurance underwriter, no shipping counterparty, and no downstream buyer can treat as a reliable facility without repricing every contract that touches it. The fires that Al Jazeera is broadcasting tonight are doing more work in the oil derivatives market than in the actual refinery. The facility will be repaired. The actuarial fact of its vulnerability cannot be unrepaired. Bahrain has absorbed attacks since February 28. The kingdom hosts the only US naval headquarters in the Gulf theater. It is a country of 1.5 million people on an island that cannot be defended in depth because it has no depth. Its air defense systems are among the most capable in the region and they intercepted nearly 200 incoming projectiles in a single day. Six of those projectiles reached the refinery anyway. The interceptors cost orders of magnitude more per round than the drones they are stopping. The attrition arithmetic that has governed every Gulf state’s position in this war has now been demonstrated at the petroleum infrastructure level. Iran does not need to shut BAPCO down. It needs to establish that BAPCO can be reached whenever Iran chooses to reach it. That threshold was crossed on March 5. Bahrain now knows it. The Fifth Fleet headquarters twelve kilometers away knows it. Every energy trading desk that has been pricing Gulf risk since February 28 is repricing it again tonight. The fires at BAPCO are the visible part. The invisible part is the number that moved in the oil options market in the thirty minutes after the first video was posted. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

BIG NEWS! We're projecting cherry blossom Peak Bloom to arrive between March 29 – April 1 this year. Extraordinary warm or cool temperatures have resulted in Peak Bloom as early as March 15 (1990) and as late as April 18 (1958). 🌸🌸🌸 #CherryBlossom #BloomWatch

For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.

Breaking: President Trump’s global tariffs are illegal, the Supreme Court ruled, in a stinging repudiation of a signature White House initiative on.wsj.com/4rLZ0jX

Sounds about right. At @HamiltonCollege we’ve been sporting the Buff and Blue since our inception in 1793. And in @HamiltonMusical since Opening Night in 2015. @HamCollSports @Lin_Manuel #GoBlue wapo.st/4qLgKKC

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@jackunheard Wrong. But thanks for playing. 😆 The @NFL is on a mission to internationalize this game. Bad Bunny is a Global phenom. I don’t speak a word of Spanish, but the joy of that performance translated beautifully. 🇵🇷🇺🇸

Someone captured the exact moment NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell realized picking Bad Bunny was a huge mistake. He knows they messed up and might have seriously hurt the league.

Simply amazing. @YouthService

@Tiana_Celine_23 Brilliant. Who are they?

Bee Gee would be very proud of them 🥰💯

@RealCandaceO @RuksyLaser Actually, we don’t have a national language. I don’t speak a word of Spanish, but you have to admit there was a language of joy that everybody understood! 💪🏻🇵🇷🇺🇸

@RuksyLaser I did not say it was a national crisis. I said I would like to hear a show in our national language.

I am sorry but I hate both options. On The one hand, we have a half-time show presented without a word of English spoken. On the other hand we have an organization that scammed its views by paying platform advertisers, followed by influencers to pretend they broke records. The left vs. right grift is actually boring now. What exactly are we doing here, America?

@ricky_martin @sanbenito @ladygaga @NFL @RocNation @AppleMusic Amazing half-time show. The joy needed no translation! 💪🏻🇵🇷🇺🇸

Me tienen que dar varias horas para dejarme entender el tsunami de emociones que estoy sintiendo. Gracias @sanbenito, gracias @ladygaga thank you @NFL, @RocNation and @AppleMusic