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@KobeissiLetter Is that because Iran said they will accept toll payments in Bitcoin?

BREAKING: Bitcoin surges toward $77,000 after President Trump says he will be announcing a deal with Iran shortly.

@khodorkovsky_en Pinochet says hello. He stepped down peacefully after he lost the plebiscite election in the late 1980s

I've been asked, more than once, when we'll get rid of Putin. The honest answer: dictatorships only change by armed means. Either through violence or the threat of it. The Russian democratic opposition is mostly the educated urban class. The regime knows it and has shown it will kill its own citizens to stay in power — a threshold most people, in any country, would struggle to meet in numbers large enough to matter. So we don't set ourselves the task of an immediate regime change. We set ourselves a different task: be ready for the day after, have a vision, and make the most of that short window of opportunity so no Putin 2.0 happens.

@jacobin Mayor Mamdani isn't mocking President Reagan. He is arguing against Reagan's statement, a statement that denigrates the commitment and effectiveness of our public servants.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”

@mdrn_cnservativ @latayprime @DemzDeliver You obviously have never walked into one. They are full of people using all kind of resources available. There are more than just books in a library.

@latayprime @DemzDeliver It’s generally homeless people and weird cat ladies Everyone else uses the internet or kindle

🚨 NEW: Zohran Mamdani to permanently fund NYC libraries and parks. Libraries will no longer have to plead for funding each year.

@Xbadxbadgerx @Acyn They were Dixiecrat Democrats. They were conservatives who could never be in the party of Lincoln because Lincoln freed the slaves. They supported Jim Crow laws and objected to civil rights initiatives in the Dem Party. Today that Dixiecrat would be a Republican.

@Acyn The Jim Crow segregationists were Democrats by the way. #america

AOC: I do not appreciate the wholesale fictionalization of American history—the idea that the filibuster is a grand compromise intentionally put in our system. It was created by a clerical error and Jim Crow segregationists realized they could use this error as a loophole delaying the enfranchisement of Black Americans for decades.

@MallMaga @Drax_Neel Record high inflation during the Biden administration? So the ~15% inflation of 1978-80 didn't occur? What else are you exaggerating?

@Drax_Neel In 45 seconds, there are 7 cuts. This senile old criminal can't speak coherently for 45 seconds straight. Your post, like all your posts, are total BS. Here's reality, woke moron.

JAKE TAPPER, YOU LIED ABOUT JOE BIDEN BEING SENILE TO MAKE A PROFIT FROM YOUR STUPID ASS BOOK. THIS WAS JOE SATURDAY WITH STAGE 4 PROSTATE CANCER. BIDEN WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE BEST PRESIDENTS EVER.

@C_Morrissette It's disappointing that UCLA's crosstown rival won't play a spring game.

Cori Close leads the White Team out for the second half of UCLA’s spring game.

@Mr_Husky1 @LarrySabato One thing is fishy about this otherwise beautiful story: there were no Iphones back when this story occurred. How did the Ohio couple show the gas station man a photo of Ike that same day? Polaroid camera? Maybe, but ...

"On a peaceful Sunday afternoon in June 1961, just months after leaving the presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower was tending his vegetable garden at his Gettysburg farm when he noticed a young couple had gotten their car stuck in the mud on the rural road bordering his property, and without hesitation, this 70-year-old former Supreme Commander grabbed a rope from his barn, trudged through the muck in his overalls, and spent forty-five minutes helping them push their beat-up Chevy back onto solid ground. What makes this moment so beautifully human is that the couple—newlyweds Tom and Susan from Ohio driving cross-country on their honeymoon—had absolutely no idea they were being rescued by the man who'd led the Allied forces to victory and served two terms as President, and Eisenhower never mentioned it, just introduced himself as 'Ike, the farmer next door' and asked about their travels while hauling on the rope with mud splattered all over his work clothes. When they finally got the car free, Eisenhower's wife Mamie appeared with a thermos of lemonade and homemade cookies, inviting this bewildered young couple to sit on their porch and rest, and for an hour they chatted about marriage advice, good fishing spots in Pennsylvania, and the best route to California, with Ike telling stories about his own road trips with Mamie decades earlier. It wasn't until Tom and Susan stopped for gas twenty miles down the road and showed the attendant a photo they'd taken with 'the nice farmer who helped us' that someone gasped and said, 'That's President Eisenhower!'—and the couple nearly fainted realizing they'd just shared lemonade and marriage tips with one of history's greatest leaders who'd treated them like old friends rather than starstruck strangers. Tom later wrote Eisenhower a letter thanking him for the kindness, and Ike responded with a handwritten note: 'The pleasure was all ours—Mamie and I love meeting young people starting their adventures together. Remember: a good marriage is like farming, it takes patience, hard work, and the wisdom to know some days you're just going to get muddy. Stay happy. Your friend, Ike.' What absolutely destroys you is understanding that Eisenhower could've enjoyed celebrity retirement, could've had staff handle every inconvenience, but instead he chose to be simply *Ike*—a neighbor who helped strangers, a farmer who got his hands dirty, a man who measured his worth not by past glory but by present kindness, proving that true greatness is what you do when nobody's watching and nobody knows your name.

@JoelKlattShow @joelklatt USC's QB Mailava will be picked before Manning.

Who has your attention ahead of the 2027 NFL Draft? 👀 @joelklatt breaks down his way-too-early Top 5 Prospects.

@Alkhalas_Hadee @MarioNawfal Turns out they are not related to each other according to Grok.

@MarioNawfal Zionists are planning to establish a third Jewish state in Argentina, allegedly with the support of the current president, Javier Milei, whose full surname is Mileikowsky and who is related to Benjamin Netanyahu (born Benjamin Mileikowsky). 1/2

🇮🇱🇦🇷 Direct flights between Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires announced during Milei’s visit to Israel. Argentina is home to ~200,000 Jews, the largest Jewish community in Latin America and one of the biggest in the world (around 6th globally).

@Gaijin_Markus @nycDSA @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani Democratic socialists don't seem to make a mess of the economies of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, France, and Germany. Despite higher taxes, their citizens enjoy a higher standard of living than those in the US.

@nycDSA @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani The actual statement is “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them.”

“I have thought often of the Margaret Thatcher’s quote, ‘The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.’ If anything, my friends, it seems that you eventually need a socialist to clean up the mess.” – Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani

@OriginalRichSC One of William Shatner's earliest film roles is playing Captain Harrison Byers in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Blockbuster movie featuring film legends Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark and others. Film is highly apropos given what's happening in the USA today.

Happy 95th birthday to the great William Shatner. This is one resilient dude. After STAR TREK ended, lived out of his truck, driving across the country doing local theater (no residuals back then for TV actors). Watched the Apollo 11 moon landing from his truck (more)

@TeamKatiePorter Affordable housing is a demand-not supply-issue. Stop hedge funds, foreign buying of homes. Create a legal "local mkt" where only locals can buy homes set at affordable prices atune to local wages. Building more homes won't help. Investors, w/more $ than locals, will buy them.

We need more homes, we need them now, and we need them for the next generation.

61 years ago today, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of people on a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama.

@jonfavs You wrote: "... and will open itself anyway...". Really? You think Trump can TACO this war away? Iran will not allow Trump that option. This war has a way to go. You're being fooled by your belief in our military might despite war failures in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

He’s winding down the war and looking for an off-ramp but will blow up all their power plants unless they open the Strait which we don’t need and will open itself anyway which is why he might send ground troops to the country he already blew off the map.

@sheilatebra @IAmPoliticsGirl What's the name of the small pizza shop? Where is it located? Thx.

Anonymous I run a small pizza shop. Deliveries mostly. Late nights. Got a call at 10 PM. Woman’s voice shaking. “Can you deliver to Sunset Motel?” “Yes ma’am. What would you like?” Long pause. “What can I get for six dollars? I have three kids.” Six dollars wouldn’t cover one pizza. “We have a special tonight. Family meal. Three pizzas, breadsticks, drinks. Six dollars.” No such special. She started crying. “Really?” Made the pizzas myself. Added wings. Cookies. Juice boxes. Drove it over. She opened the door. Bruises on her neck. Three little kids behind her. Terrified. Quiet. “Thank you. You don’t understand.” I did understand. Started happening weekly. She’d call. I’d have a special ready. Month three she didn’t call anymore. Worried me. Two months later she walked in. Different person. Confident. Had a job. Apartment. Kids looked healthy. Happy. Handed me three hundred dollars. “For all the specials that weren’t real. I knew.” Tried to refuse. “Please. Let me pay forward.” That money started a fund. When someone calls from a shelter or motel desperate, we use it. Six years now. Over a thousand meals delivered. She’s a paralegal. Refers families to us constantly. Works with domestic violence survivors. Her oldest is in high school. Works at my shop weekends. “Because you fed us when we were running. Now I want to feed others.” Last Saturday she delivered to a family at that same motel. Came back crying. “That was us five years ago. Now I get to be you.”

@AZ_Brittney @donwinslow The -40 margin means 70% against, 30% for. Who are the 30% PA Democrats who support Fettermen? Pro-Putin, Pro-Israel Democrats?

John Fetterman is as popular as the titanic among Pennsylvania Democrats with an approval rating of -4O PTS Yikes! Do you approve of the job he is doing? ✋

@CapAmD9 @kyledcheney Because there are no legal consequences to their illegal acts, this will continue. Katie won--most of those 1000 fired employees won't be coming back.

@kyledcheney Almost everything the Trump administration does is illegal, wrong, evil, stupid or cruel... but as a bonus they're also counterproductive.

JUST IN: Judge Lamberth orders a wholesale reversal of Kari Lake’s dismantling of Voice of America, including restoring 1,000 employees put on leave a year ago. He says Kari Lake “thumbed her nose” at legal requirements set by Congress. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…

@FurkanGozukara More to the point, Trump sold them out because Israel (and Russia) are blackmailing Trump with the Epstein files.

The Gulf states are furious because Trump completely betrayed them. They warned him for years that backing Netanyahu's genocide would ignite a regional war. Now their economies are at risk and they realize Trump sold them out for Israel's interests.

@reedgalen @kurtbardella There are much better ads to run than this. Run it 25,000 times? It's frustrating being an FDR Democrat when so many in the Dem party are clueless on how to win elections.

Hello, Democrats: start running this ad 25,000 times.