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Looking through the (almost) blooming cherry blossoms at sunset across the tidal basin in DC across from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. #sunsetphotography #tidalbasin #dcphotography #thomasjeffersonmemorial #cherryblossoms #hdrphotography #waterphotography

@YourAnonNews @WhiteHouse You misspelled illegal?

@WhiteHouse Fixed it for you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. #Anonymous

Happy Cinco de Mayo to all who celebrate!

The Democrats said high gas prices were temporary and worth it to defeat Russia. Now Republican leadership is saying high gas prices are temporary and worth it to defeat Iran. The reality is the only thing "temporary" about gas prices is when they dip to affordable levels.

@Botanicalsrock @VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin You are a disgrace to the world.

@VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin The Founding Fathers anticipated a man who sold his seat on the Supreme Court Bench would be impeached. Thomas is a disgrace to Bench & Bar.

US Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, receives a standing ovation as he takes the podium to deliver a special lecture in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. @cbsaustin

@amresendez @VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin Diversity's problem, not ours.

@VinnyMartorano @cbsaustin Those don’t look like UT students….and not seeing a lot of diversity either….

@tatthang And how is Xs customer support? Non-existent. NOPE!

Not a single fintech CEO slept well last night. X just shipped a full financial stack in 48 hours. And most people didn't even notice. Here's the sequence: - Tuesday: Smart Cashtags go live. Any ticker, any contract address native price chart, right in the timeline. No redirect. No third-party app. - Already in beta: X Money. Fiat wallet with 6% APY, metal Visa debit card with 3% cashback, P2P payments, direct deposit. FDIC-insured through Cross River Bank, the same bank behind Coinbase and Stripe. - Already live: Brokerage routing via Wealthsimple. One tap from a post to a placed trade. Three products. All shipped. All pointing the same direction: Discovery → Chart → Trade → Pay. Inside one timeline scroll. Here's what that looks like for you and me: Someone posts a $AAPL cashtag. I tap it. Chart loads. I see the conversation around it. I buy. Never left the app. I send $50 to a friend. On X. I earn 6% on what's left. My debit card gives me 3% back on coffee. Why would I open Robinhood? Why would I open Venmo? Why would I open CoinGecko? And here's why they can't compete: X has 550M monthly users. Robinhood has 24M funded accounts. Venmo has ~90M accounts. CoinGecko has ~30M monthly visits. X doesn't need the best product. It needs a good-enough product inside the app people already live in. Now zoom out. X was an ad revenue company. ~$4.4B in 2023, almost all advertising. The new revenue stack: > Visa interchange on every card swipe > Brokerage referral fees on every routed trade > APY spread on held deposits > Trading behavior data from 550M users X didn't add a feature. X changed its entire business model. "Is this good for X?" Wrong question. X just stopped being a social media company. It's now a financial infrastructure company that happens to have 550 million users already scrolling. Everyone else is competing against a distribution gap they can never close. I wrote about this yesterday before any of it was announced. The sequence played out exactly as mapped. The only piece left: which chain gets the default crypto trading slot. That answer will move markets.

@DavidMMcintosh Source please...

Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024. The total number of homicides in the US in 2024 was 20,162. That's 64% of all murders.

@DavidJHarrisJr You are giving this demagogue far too much credit.

@conservmillen You are giving this demagogue far too much credit.

I do believe that he didn’t think of this as a depiction of Jesus when posting. Still, there has to be more care and discernment here.

@ronditorro @FurkanGozukara Flying a commie flag eh?

@FurkanGozukara Military coup the government now. Arrest war criminals. If saner heads don't prevail soon, the risk of a nuclear exchange and mass death is far too high. Both parties are utterly worthless, un-democratic, and loyal to a foreign government. Time for a major reset.

A prominent retired US General drops a truth bomb on MS Now. Mark Hertling confirms military commanders are actively preparing to defy Donald Trump. They are bound by the Constitution to disobey unlawful orders to bomb Iranian civilians. A military revolt is brewing.

@MaxNordau @TuckerCarlson Name a single thing he said in this monologue that is wrong.

@TuckerCarlson It’s over, Tucker. Your dishonest attacks on Protestants, Jews, Mormons, and the Trump Administration are desperate and pathetic.

Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war. Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us. 0:00 Monologue 43:23 Paula White’s Strange Easter Sunday Service 51:17 Who Really Is Paula White? 57:24 How Did Paula Become Trump’s Spiritual Advisor? 1:00:03 The Exposed Megachurch Documents 1:09:52 Why Is Corruption So Prevalent in American Protestant Churches? 1:13:10 The Scam That’s Taken Over the Nonprofit Industry 1:27:14 The Mormon Church’s Investments in Weapons Manufacturing 1:28:52 How Much Money Does Franklin Graham’s Nonprofit Have? 1:33:11 How Do Megachurch Pastors Justify Owning Private Jets? 1:39:30 Graham's Bizarre Alaskan Hideout 1:52:42 The Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil 1:54:27 What Is Dispensationalism? 2:07:15 The Attempts to Usher in the Antichrist 2:13:00 Finding Contentment and Fulfillment in Christ 2:16:36 The Spiritual War Happening in the White House

@RADrebel43 @Jon_golder @shanaka86 And neither does the OP.

@Jon_golder @shanaka86 You have no idea what's going on.

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one. A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it. The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link. General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.” Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon. Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to. The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone. Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@shanaka86 Any proof of any of this?

@grok @axitavnish @silvertrade Wtf, when did you start having to pay for Grok to answer questions?

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🚨UKRAINE DESTORYS RUSSIA'S LARGEST OIL EXPORT TERMINAL IN PORT UST-LUGA: 700,000 BARRELS/DAY OFFLINE⚠️ In other news, Ukraine has destroyed Russia's largest oil terminal. The port of Ust-Luga & its 700,000 barrels/day of crude oil is burning. x.com/FinanceLancelo…

@sweetcoloosh @TonyaMichelle65 @CedarPosts 95% of those that fought in the civil war and that lived in the South didn't own slaves idiot.

@TonyaMichelle65 @CedarPosts Wild how your children have more sense than you. Can you explain how them proudly flying the symbol of a treasonous, illegal entity that rebelled against the United States--all because they wanted to preserve the right to OWN people like you--a symbol of how far we've come?

Last week liberals had a melt down over a Confederate Flag flying proudly in the wind on Lake Norman and visible from I-77. A couple of libs even called NC SHP and 911 to report the flag, then expressed outrage that the cops wouldn’t do anything. I realize this is a shock to Yankee transplants and West Coasters. But if you get off the interstates and drive across the Carolinas on secondary roads you’ll quickly realize these flags are pretty darn common. Trust me no one’s going to steal your children or burn a cross in your front yard. In the South people continue to fly the Confederate flag primarily as a symbol of Southern heritage, local pride, and regional identity, often honoring ancestors who fought in the Civil War. Others use it to represent rebellion, cherished rural lifestyle, or a desire for limited government. But be warned it is also a flashing reminder that FA/FO applies big time in rural Carolinas. Y’all come back now ya hear!

@vampireshoshi @MyToastisNot @TonyaMichelle65 @CedarPosts Traditionally? Only a fool not from the South thinks such nonsense.

@MyToastisNot @TonyaMichelle65 @CedarPosts >Racists use a symbol that is traditionally associated with racism “HOW DARE YOU CALL OUR SYMBOL RACIST”

@HadiHtt Another fake story

Revising the footage of the attack on our dear colleagues and friends Steve and Ali: The strike was carried out by an american made GBU-38, carrying a MK-82 500 pounds warhead with 200 pounds of explosives and a 300 pounds of forged steel warhead that was made in purpose to be transformed to thousands of shrapnels upon impact. What save both of them was a combination of good luck, fast reaction from Steve as an experienced war reporter wearing body armor (should have been wearing his helmet), and the fact that the bomb missed the concrete by some 50 cm and went inside the previous hole and exploded under the bridge, which saved the journalists from the shrapnels and the direct shock wave.

@Dede_Watson @SecDuffy @SenSchumer @SquawkCNBC We're not stupid, your radical marxists are filibustering AGAIN.

@SecDuffy @SenSchumer @SquawkCNBC DEMOCRATS have offered to fund TSA in a standalone bill. You have the majority. This is on REPUBLICANS!

The AIRPORT LINES you’re seeing now are CHILD’S PLAY compared to what you will see next week if TSA misses another PAYCHECK! @SenSchumer and the DEMS’ DHS Shutdown could cause a GRINDING HALT for travelers✋ 📺 My discussion with @SquawkCNBC ⬇️

@flyrogo @SecDuffy @SenSchumer @SquawkCNBC There is one. @LPNational

@SecDuffy @SenSchumer @SquawkCNBC God, how are people not sick of both the Democrats and Republicans at this point? It's so evident that NEITHER party actually cares about people's interest. We need a third party to finally break this monopoly up.

@marklevinshow They're not trashing America, they're trashing blood thirsty #israelfirst psychopaths such as you that have fallen from grace. We stand with Tucker and Megyn!

In this fiery clip from Liberty’s Voice, I call out what I believe is a growing problem inside conservative media—grifters, provocateurs, and personalities who trash America while claiming to represent the movement. I respond directly to figures like Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon, Megyn Kelly, and Candace Owens, arguing that the conservative movement must stand for Americanism, truth, and constitutional principles, not outrage-driven podcast culture. This is about protecting the future of the MAGA movement, the conservative movement, and the values that define the United States—from those who exploit politics for clicks, money, and attention. Watch the entire episode; Rumble: rumble.com/v7770uc-ep013-… YouTube: youtu.be/QVzxOwp0Gm0