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Nick Fuentes will never be invited to Yale. He will never be at Vanity Fair parties. He will never sit down and have casual conversations about killing and stealing with someone from the Times. He won’t be defended by Ezra Klein. Hasan runs in the most elite circles. Wake up.

"MOSTRÁ LA ESPALDA" Periodistas internacionales le pedían a Antonela Rocuzzo que gire para unas fotos, y ella cumplió 👑🇦🇷

Hans Niemann explains why it’s so hard to pass Magnus Carlsen as world number one in Chess “Magnus Carlsen plays like 10-20 games a year. In chess, there’s no minimum activity requirement to not decay in your ranking” “Guys like Magnus can play 10 games a year for 10 years and it’s very hard for anyone to surpass him because he’s not gonna compete against people chasing him” “He avoids me pretty well, if he’s playing in a tournament he’ll make sure I’m not invited. He’s playing in a tournament in Sweden this may, I won it in 2022 and they never invited me back…”

Erika Kirk pulled out of her event last minute with Vice President Vance, citing “threats”. This is PR horseshit, obviously. He is now doing the event alone at the University of Georgia. What do we think is the real reason she pulled out?

Pope Leo says he has "no fear of the Trump administration" after he was asked about President Trump's Truth Social post calling the pontiff "weak on crime, and terrible for foreign policy." "We are not politicians, we don't deal with foreign policy with the same perspective he might understand it, but I do believe in the message of the Gospel, blessed are the peacemakers."

So what happens when a Chinese ship is trying to exit the Strait? The US is going to block it? The Chinese will allow that to happen?

The big risk to the US here is the collapse of the global sanctions-based order through attrition. What happens if the rest of the world starts violating sanctions out of sheer necessity? I wonder how much of Trump's recent threats w/r/t Europe are really motivated by this, rather than some fanciful idea of European ships opening the strait on their own.

At times, since Trump came into office in 2017, I’ve had serious reservations about his willingness to follow through on Iran. I was proven wrong. Are we underrating Trump on Iran yet again? At each key moment, many have assumed he would blink, and at each key moment he has escalated. He withdrew from the JCPOA, killed Suleimani, imposed massive sanctions pressure — and then restored the pressure that Biden had lifted — struck Iran in the 12-Day War in June, and then sustained a 40-day campaign in this war. In over four years, he has tried repeatedly to make a deal with Iran. They’ve rebuffed him and paid a severe price. Now he takes a two-week pause, lays down 15 demands, and warns that if there is no acceptable deal, including on Hormuz, military action resumes. Perhaps he is not blinking. Perhaps it’s not TACO. Perhaps it is coercive diplomacy backed by force. Perhaps he will return to major military operations with even more force if diplomacy fails. And, on Hormuz, are we writing the ending before the story is finished? CENTCOM has not stumbled blindly into this. With strong support from the IDF, it has been moving methodically through the Iranian battle-space with astounding results against the regime’s war-making and repression capabilities. Perhaps CENTCOM is preparing for the next stages of military operations including in Hormuz. Perhaps it won’t happen and won’t work. But perhaps the Battle of Hormuz is just entering the next stages. Given how often many of us, including me, have predicted Trump would cave to the regime in Iran and been wrong, why are we so certain this time he won’t follow through?