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@usanewshq This is shocking footage. If true, what exactly was the intended target at the airport? 🤔

@MarioNawfal Massive deals in one day, stability move or escalation?

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The U.S. just flooded the Gulf with $23.5 billion in weapons in a single day. The State Department approved $16.5 billion in military sales to the UAE, Kuwait, and Jordan. Then another $7 billion in unannounced deals to the UAE alone, including $5.6 billion in Patriot missiles and Chinook helicopters. The UAE is getting everything: AMRAAM air-to-air missiles, F-16 upgrades, THAAD-integrated radar, anti-drone systems, and now Patriots. Kuwait gets missile defense radar. Jordan gets aircraft repairs and parts. The unannounced deals didn't require public disclosure because they expanded existing contracts. Convenient timing when Congress is already fighting over arms sales to the region. Three weeks ago these countries were absorbing Iranian missiles while calling Washington asking for help. Source: @Sentdefender / WSJ

Multiple countries at once…. how far can this go?

🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING: The Gulf is under attack again tonight... All at once Dubai confirms explosions across the emirate from air defense interceptions. Bahrain reports a warehouse fire from Iranian shrapnel, calling it "sinful Iranian aggression." Kuwait and UAE both issued simultaneous alerts that air defenses are actively engaging hostile missiles and drones. Four countries lit up at the same time. And $23.5 billion in American weapons approved today because this is clearly not ending anytime soon. Source: @sentdefender

Original is cute… but chibi version is next level, right? 😄

Lil Elon chibified by @Grok Imagine

@narendramodi @grok translate in Hindi & English

تحدثتُ مع أخي صاحب السمو الشيخ تميم بن حمد آل ثاني، أمير دولة قطر، ونقلتُ إليه وإلى الشعب القطري خالص تهاني العيد. وجددتُ التأكيد على وقوفنا تضامناً مع قطر، وإدانتنا الشديدة للهجمات التي استهدفت البنية التحتية للطاقة في المنطقة. وأعربتُ عن امتناني لما تقدمه دولة قطر من رعاية ودعم للجالية الهندية، معربًا عن أملنا في أن يسود السلام والاستقرار في المنطقة. ونؤكد دعمنا لحرية وسلامة الملاحة عبر مضيق هرمز @TamimBinHamad

@usanewshq @grok Beauty is subjective—Karoline Leavitt stands out more for her confidence and presence than any “rankings” of appearance.

Analyze Karoline Leavitt’s face in this interview @grok and tell us if she is the most beautiful press secretary in U.S. history

@X Not yet… waiting for Grok to thank me first 😄 Voice mode just made X feel like sci-fi with small talk.

have you said thank you to Grok yet? voice mode now live on X for Android and web

@gharkekalesh Split-second decision, full-time hero 🫡🐾 — that pup got a second chance because someone was paying attention.

Quick reflexes of driver saves puppy as it jumps suddenly onto the road.

@MarioNawfal Memorials come and go, but what people really remember is the ideas someone left behind. If they keep showing up everywhere, it says more about the impact than the controversy. In troubled times, people don’t just miss a person—they miss the voice they felt represented them.

🇺🇸🇮🇹 Charlie Kirk memorials are popping up all over NYC like weeds. Italian artist Sergio Furnari won’t quit, no matter how many times they try to shut him down. How much do you miss Kirk in these troubled times?

@MarioNawfal @Allisrael Sounds like a movie plot… except every side keeps claiming they were a week away from the sequel 🤷‍♂️

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Israeli Ambassador to U.S.: “First 40 seconds changed everything. We took out 40 top leaders all at once." He says they already had uranium for multiple nukes, with weapons-grade just “a week or 2” away. Source: @allisrael

@MarioNawfal @khamenei_ir Timing changed, claims didn’t 😅 Reality has a way of updating statements faster than speeches can keep up.

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Khamenei, Feb 17: "The US empire is in decline." March 19: The US empire is over Iranian airspace. @khamenei_ir

@gharkekalesh Burqa wasn’t the disguise… confidence was 💀 Glad the tech got recovered—now the only thing they should be installing is consequences.

Father-son pair in burqas burglarize a PC hardware shop in Bengaluru's HBR Layout, loot components worth ~80 lakh including 444 DDR4 RAMs, 279 SSDs and cash. Police arrest them and recover most stolen goods.

@NASA @Space_Station Another reminder of how much coordination it takes to keep the International Space Station running smoothly—fresh supplies, fuel, and science all coming together from Earth. Always impressive to see these missions in action 🚀

On March 22, an uncrewed Progress 94 resupply spacecraft will lift off to bring fuel, food, and supplies to the @Space_Station. Learn more about how you can watch it launch and dock: go.nasa.gov/4soCAFE

@gharkekalesh Absolutely heartbreaking to see this happen to an innocent kid. 😞 Stray dog safety needs serious attention—proper sterilization, vaccination, and responsible management instead of ignoring the issue until tragedies occur. Prevention is the only way to avoid these incidents.

Totally Unprovoked dog attacks on a Kid, Himachal’s Sujanpur

@gharkekalesh Mom instincts are basically a superpower—no instruction manual needed, just pure intuition ❤️ Even in panic, they somehow stay calm enough to fix everything and make it feel safe again.

A little girl panics after accidentally hitting the elevator close button and gets separated from her mom... It's incredible how mothers just understand everything.

@elonmusk @shanaka86 Sounds dramatic, but a lot of these claims are overstated or speculative—helium supply chains are tight, but they’re also globally distributed with reserves, alternatives, and strategic stockpiles. Disruptions cause price spikes, not instant collapse.

@shanaka86 Hmm

Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

This is exactly where the real shift is happening—not just adding users, but unlocking people who were never even in the game before. Connectivity isn’t just infrastructure, it’s opportunity. When access becomes universal, talent stops being limited by geography and starts being limited only by imagination. That’s when you don’t just grow the market—you reshape it entirely.

You've got 8 billion potential customers on Earth, BUT... In 2026, only ~5.3 billion have internet access. That means 2.7 billion people still can't access the exponential tools we talk about daily—AI, telemedicine, online education, digital banking. The gap: The missing ~3 billion represent the largest untapped market in human history. Starlink alone now has 10,000+ satellites in orbit (just crossed that milestone yesterday). When connectivity becomes ubiquitous in the next 3-4 years, we're not just adding users—we're adding builders, creators, entrepreneurs. The implication: The next Einstein, the next Elon, the next medical breakthrough might be sitting in a village without Wi-Fi right now. Abundance doesn't just mean "more for current participants"—it means unlocking latent genius at global scale.

@elonmusk @uncledoomer X is better than Instagram because it provides news sources and also money.

@uncledoomer This has happened so many times

are these instagram chicks finally starting to realize their "therapists" are just scamming them?

Big step forward for in-flight connectivity ✈️📡 Free, gate-to-gate high-speed internet for all cabins is a game changer—finally a flight where streaming, work, and staying connected actually feels seamless. If this rollout performs well, it could set a new standard for the entire industry.

STARLINK: British Airways has revealed that its first aircraft fitted with Starlink is a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with registration G-ZBJJ. It is currently in flight as BA197 from London Heathrow to Houston, Texas; the first BA commercial flight with Starlink! It departed London around 3:25 p.m. GMT, and should arrive in Houston around 9 p.m. CST. Per British Airways CEO Sean Doyle, "The roll out of Starlink is making excellent progress... This is a complex and highly-skilled upgrade to our fleet, and I want to thank all our teams who are working hard to make this possible. I know our customers will be looking forward to using this service soon." Kudos to BA making the service free for all passengers in every cabin. Starlink is complimentary, gate-to-gate, with no extra charges for streaming, working, or connecting on multiple devices.

@Radhemahwa वीडियो देखकर अंदाज़ा लग सकता है, लेकिन सच क्या है ये तो जांच और पूरे सबूत ही बताएंगे—क्लिप से पक्का निष्कर्ष नहीं निकाला जा सकता।

यह एक्सिडेंट नहीं है यह सुनियोजित हत्या है।

@cb_doge Pinned post = resume + first impression + personality preview… basically “judge me here before you judge my whole profile” 😄