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@MOSSADil Seems more like the wizard of oz script scenario with "something" behind the curtain assuring Dorothy it is in charge!

🚨 POWER FLIP IN IRAN’S REGIME Senior Iran analyst Dror Balazada reports that Mojtaba Khamenei — “Khamenei Junior” — is now effectively running the show and giving orders directly to the IRGC. According to Balazada, the IRGC is now subject to the will of Mojtaba Khamenei, ruling Iran just like his tyrannical, fanatic father. Channel 14 previously reported that Iran’s so-called “Supreme Leader” remains conscious with full cognitive function and is giving his blessing to IRGC orders.

@WakeUpPatriott My response is if "that's BAD" is the best that Trump can come up with to Thune giving 80% of the US voters the middle finger over the SAVE Act all this chest thumping about MAGA defeating the swamp is laughable!

🚨BREAKING: President Trump is coming out SWINGING against John Thune this morning “I mean, how can you NOT get voter ID approved?! Proof of citizenship! That's ALL we're asking!” “He doesn't think he can do it. And that's BAD!” What's your response to this......??👀 Do you firmly support passing the SAVE America Act? A. Huge Yes B. No IF Yes, Give me a THUMBS-UP👍!! MAKE THIS GO VIRAL ON 𝕏. LET’S GO 👏

@glennbeck totally agree.

I don't feel good about President Trump going to China tomorrow. I pray everything goes well, but I wish I trusted the Secret Service. Who has more to lose in the world right now than China? Trump has systematically blocked China everywhere. And Xi would sacrifice anything to win, even his own citizens. I trust the President. But right now, I’m worried for him.

Has anyone seen a count? Has any vote recorded count been formally taken in the Senate? NO, what we have is a Thune says! We the people want to fully understand on the record how our US Senators stand on the passage of the Save America Act! Thune and others clearly want to avoid that open governance approach at all costs.

Leader Thune says there's nothing more he can do to pass the Save America Act: "We don't have the votes to get rid of the filibuster. We had a very spirited debate. I made more speeches on the floor in support of the SAVE Act than any other senator."

@warDaniel47 There is a reason here that is not being shared with the voting public and given this level of resistance it is likely at the heart of a major monetary irregularly that they want to remain hidden!

🚨 NOW: Rep. Tim Burchett sounds the alarm that Senate GOP leadership might be PURPOSEFULLY SLOW-WALKING the SAVE America Act — waiting to pass it, or vote on it, when it can't be implemented in time "Something like 80% approval. And yet you can't even get it to a vote in the Senate. I just don't buy it, folks." "I've got a sneaking suspicion that they'll probably attempt to pass it or pass it so late in the dadgum game that it can't get implemented." "And then they can go home and say, oh look, we passed it and everybody will be celebrating patting them on the back." "Then it just cannot get implemented at the state and local level in time for it to have any effect in these elections." "And ultimately, I think that's what you've got. And I'm afraid in the Senate leadership, they have such a hatred of Trump and the conservative movement." "They want things to go back to the status quo, which is them being called from the golf course by the Democrats when it's time to make a vote!" LET'S KEEP FIGHTING.

How to make a replaceable heat shield component that can snap on to a recovered starship? How about a sealant approach (like the current "crunch wrap") with a liquid, quick-setting material that can be robotically over-sprayed for on-the-spot damage repair. This would directly tackle the "laborious inspection/refurb" bottleneck Elon Musk keeps calling out while leveraging into AI/robotics for post-landing fixes, A liquid quick set spray approach wouldn't replace the crunch wrap but provide an excellent repair overlay for when damage still occurs. It could accelerate turnaround dramatically if paired with AI detection and robotic application. This could get closer to a land/refill/relaunch same day vision. SpaceX is already deep into robotics for tile installation so extending that to spray repairs is a natural evolution. You could adopt it if crunch wrap + better tiles don't fully eliminate the need for recovery fixes.

Elon Musk says one heat shield problem could kill Starship's reusability for years. Starship is the most complicated machine humans have ever built. The hardest part isn't the engines. It isn't the steel. It isn't even the explosion margin on liftoff. Musk named the one remaining bottleneck. "It's having the heat shield be reusable. No one's ever made a reusable orbital heat shield." The shield does two impossible jobs. "It's gotta make it through the ascent phase without shucking a bunch of tiles, and then it's gotta come back in and also not lose a bunch of tiles or overheat the main airframe." 40,000 tiles per ship. Musk reframed the consumable problem through brake pads: "Your brake pads in your car are also consumable, but they last a very long time." The shield must consume slowly. It must not require inspection between launches. Musk on the current state: "We have brought the ship back and had it do a soft landing in the ocean. But it lost a lot of tiles." A soft landing is not reusability. The bar is daily launches. One ship. Many flights. Musk, on the gap that's left: "You can't do this laborious inspection of 40,000 tiles type of thing." The first reusable heat shield in history is the last gate to Mars. If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. — Elon Musk ( @elonmusk ), CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, on Dwarkesh Patel's ( @dwarkesh_sp ) podcast

@TheBritLad Your ship is leaking from damage and taking water but your captain's solution to the problem is not to turn to assistance that might help save it but instead blow a few more holes in the infrastructure if you are not allowed to remain at the helm!

🚨BREAKING: Rumours circulating in left-wing circles claim Keir Starmer has issued a warning to Labour MPs: “I wont stand down, I just won’t and if this drama continues, I’ll call a snap election” Would he really stoop that low?

@ImtiazMadmood Maybe but the IRGC and Artesh remaining leadership will not be the lever for that possibility it will be how the rank and file junior officer and NCO rank look to the future.

Eventually an armed conflict between IRGC and Artesh (Iranian regular army or national army) is going to take place. It's inevitable.

@EricLDaugh Who is Spanberger's next appeal when the Supreme Court refuses to hear her AG's request. The UN World Court or maybe China's Supreme People's Court?

🚨 JUST IN: Democrats have just appealed to the US SUPREME COURT in a last-minute bid to REINSTATE Virginia's 10D-1R gerrymander, which was struck down by the State Supreme Court This is STATE CONSTITUTION, yet Democrats want to usurp their own laws! It was never about democracy. They will do anything for power. Strike it DOWN, SCOTUS! Embarrass Temu Obama and Scamburger 🔥

@MOSSADil For Iran re-enriching to weapons grade downblended uranium is significantly easier (in terms of time, energy, and separative work) than starting from scratch with natural uranium (0.7% U-235). It's not trivial but Iran has the knowledge and skills to do it.

☢️NEW—Iran is reportedly prepared to downblend its highly enriched uranium stockpile to 3.7% and 20% levels, but refuses to transfer the material outside the country. According to an Iranian source cited by Al Jazeera, Tehran also rejected U.S. demands for access to its 60%-enriched uranium and a 20-year halt to enrichment, while insisting enrichment continue under IAEA supervision. The source added Washington rejected a proposal to pay fines to Iran for war losses. (Iran International)

To judge a person and their life you can't just select one aspect that you might admire and simply dismiss the rest as President Eisenhower did here. General Lee and Lee's family was deeply embedded in Virginia's slaveholding elite. His mother’s Carter lineage and his wife Mary Custis (descended from Martha Washington) both owned enslaved people for generations. Arlington House itself was built and run with slave labor. States Rights excuses can't wash away this moral stain.

On August 1, 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower received a letter from a frustrated citizen named Leon Scott. Mr. Scott asked Eisenhower why he had a picture of Robert E. Lee in his office. This was Eisenhower's response to Mr. Scott: "Dear Dr. Scott, Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War between the States, the issue of secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing, and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted. General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unswervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which, until 1865, was still an arguable question in America; he was a poised and inspiring leader, true to the high trust reposed in him by millions of his fellow citizens; he was thoughtful yet demanding of his officers and men, forbearing with captured enemies but ingenious, unrelenting, and personally courageous in battle, and never disheartened by a reverse or obstacle. Through all his many trials, he remained selfless almost to a fault and unfailing in his faith in God. Taken altogether, he was noble as a leader and as a man, and unsullied as read the pages of our history. From deep conviction, I simply say this: a nation of men of Lee's calibre would be unconquerable in spirit and soul. Indeed, to the degree that present-day American youth will strive to emulate his rare qualities, including his devotion to this land as revealed in his painstaking efforts to help heal the Nation's wounds once the bitter struggle was over, we, in our own time of danger in a divided world, will be strengthened and our love of freedom sustained. Such are the reasons that I proudly display the picture of this great American on my office wall. Sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower"

@nicksortor Around May 7-8, 2026,Iran launched multiple missiles, drones, and small boats at three US Navy guided-missile destroyers (USS Truxtun, USS Rafael Peralta, and USS Mason) transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The 111-at-one-carrier detail is Trump's characteristic hyperbole.

🚨 WOW! President Trump reveals Iran launched 111 MISSILES at one of our ships in a short period of time, and our military successfully intercepted ALL of them. "Out of 111 missiles going at 3,000 miles an hour, all 111 missiles were knocked down into the ocean long prior to arriving at the target." "They got like about 13 seconds to make a decision. They make a wrong calculation, you lose a LOT of men, and a lot of billion dollar ships."

@IngrahamAngle So the belt road comes to America. Very, very bad idea!

!! “Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the U.S. largely to build factories on American soil.” Trump on verge of making massive error — against aides' advice: report rawstory.com/trump-trade-de…

@PrivateReports Carney often reminds me of Bernie Madoff the American financier, con artist except of course Canadian (or British take your pick)!

🚨Canadian PM Mark Carney just declared: 'The international order will be rebuilt out of Europe' — because Trump supposedly destroyed America's leadership of the 'free world.' Lmao. Europe — the same continent that's been freeloading off American taxpayers for decades, can't control its borders, and begs for U.S. protection every time a real threat shows up — thinks it's taking over? Good luck with that. Trump is putting America First, ending the era of the U.S. as the world's ATM and endless-war sponsor. The globalists are melting down because their grift is over. Europe wants to lead? Let them pay their own bills and defend themselves for once. America is back — stronger, richer, and done being suckered. 🇺🇸

@warDaniel47 This is like going to the DMV and standing in line for what seems like forever to only hear the bureaucrats tell you how effective the state is in handling volume traffic. Yea, it's all stacked up in line waiting!

🚨 WOW! SecWar Pete Hegseth reveals HUNDREDS of ships from nations around the world are "lining up" for President Trump's Project Freedom in the Strait It's working 🇺🇸 "We know the Iranians are EMBARRASSED by this fact. They said they control the Strait, they do not. So, American ships led the way, commercial and military, shouldering the initial risk from the front, as Americans always do." "Two U.S. commercial ships, along with American destroyers, have already safely transited the straight, showing the lane is clear." "And right now, hundreds more ships from nations around the world are lining up to transit. CENTCOM, along with partner nations, is in active communication with hundreds of ships, shipping companies and insurers. All of these ships from all around the world want to get out of the Iranian trap that they have been stuck inside."

@NEWSMAX Might be a good question to ask Xi given China's re-arming attempts to Iran why this Taiwan weapons package approval should not go forward?

Days before President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit mainland China, a group of mostly Democratic senators reportedly is urging the president to move ahead with a long-delayed $14 billion weapons package for Taiwan. bit.ly/49ozx8M

@LangmanVince First year freshman university architecture design project that motivated student after the professor's feedback to change majors!

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you see the Obama Presidential Center building?

Depends on the classification level of the information and the security level granted the individual. There has been a long history of non enforcement of security information released by serving elected officials. Sadly this is not all that unique of an event. The question is do we want to make an example out of him for this release?

TREASON: Imagine a sitting Senator and former military officer receives an alarming classified briefing that shows we are almost out of missiles. Now imagine we’re on the brink of a negotiated peace deal with our enemy. Now imagine that Senator goes on TV and tells the world we’re out of ammo - do you think our enemies might scuttle the peace deal and just wait us out? That’s exactly what Senator Mark Kelly did yesterday.

It's load capacity is tremendous, it is reusable and structurally it is well suited to provide building components for critical LEO platform construction (e.g re-fueling stations). It has the potential to be the 21st century B52 airframe (in this case orbital) of the early space era.

Starship’s cargo bay delivers 1,000+ cubic meters of usable volume The entire International Space Station has a pressurized volume of 1,005 m³ It took 42 assembly flights and over $150 billion across 13+ years to build Starship can deliver more volume than the entire ISS in a single flight For context, a single payload bay can hold: → The interior volume of a massive 5-bedroom house → The volume of 20+ standard shipping containers → Entire space station modules (fully assembled) → Over two dozen Cybertrucks → Multiple Boeing 737 fuselage sections → 100+ large satellites with room to spare And it is 18 meters tall....meaning you can stack an entire 5-story building inside it And it is fully reusable. Launch the next massive telescope. Or an entire space station. Or the next Mars habitat All possible in a single flight This is why Starship is pure engineering magic

@EricLDaugh It's called being strung out and after your years in the New York real estate business you know exactly what is going on!

🚨 REPORTER: You're saying Iran agreed to remove all enriched uranium? PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yeah. They did 2 DAYS AGO. We were gonna go with them. But they changed their mind! They didn't put it in the paper. "They agree with us, then they take it back!" "So when they sent us this document that we waited four days for, they should have taken ten minutes to do. Look, it's very simple. We get that, they guarantee no nuclear weapons for a very long period of time." "And a couple of other minor things, but they just can't get there. So they agree with us and then they take it back. But they said to us that it was so badly obliterated."