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wowww Paul McCartney just returned to the Ed Sullivan theater as Stephen Colbert's final guest on The Late Show...62 years after his first appearance with the Beatles in 1964. he surprised Stephen with a signed photo from that performance Stephen: "To Stephen: you're better than the Beatles." Paul: "No, it doesn't say that!" Stephen: "When my editors are done, that's what it's gonna say, Paul"

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

@highbrow_nobrow Ending not vaccines alone they mean but elimination of science, research and humanity.

Florida Surgeon General says the state will end vaccine requirements for kids in school and wants to end ALL mandates: “Who am I to tell you what to put in your body? It’s a gift from God.” Fact-check: Vaccines have saved millions of lives. (2026)

@atrupar Insanity! Their words will come back to haunt them soon.

Pastor Robert Jeffress: "It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than the Pope"

@Chris5thAv @RepHageman @POTUS Oh no the quinn is beck.

@RepHageman @POTUS Look at who’s back to contriving stinking fascist and racist Trump Cult lies.

The Charlottesville rally was not a right-wing protest. It was an SPLC operation. They funded, organized, and then blamed @POTUS for it.

@GettrAppendix @RepHageman @45LVNancy @POTUS @LeaderJohnThune It’s astonishing to see how insane the Republicans under the Trump cult is disintegrating the USA before our eyes in front of the world.

@RepHageman @45LVNancy @POTUS DEMOCRATS have lied DEMOCRATS have terrorized DEMOCRATS ripped us off PASS the Save America Act @LeaderJohnThune (just little ole' me about to go to sleep - worrying for my country, my kids and other peoples kids!)

Absolute disaster for the Pentagon. CNN confirms Iran brilliantly targeted and destroyed a US Boeing E-3 Sentry worth nearly $500,000,000 They also wiped out vital communications equipment and critical radar systems. Washington's air defense is completely collapsing.

@SteveGuest @benfergusonshow Ben Ferguson is seen as an aide to the fall of the USA for sure.

After CNN’a Abby Phillip says “President Trump is the most powerful megaphone, not to mention person in this country…” @benfergusonshow fires back with a quote from Hakeem Jeffries: “‘Maximum warfare everywhere all the time.’ That was said before and after the last person that just tried to kill Donald Trump. We're going to have more people try to kill Donald Trump…”

@RpsAgainstTrump Yes he is and the world agrees.

Lara Trump: These people absolutely need to come out and unequivocally say that Donald Trump isn’t a tyrant or a dictator

@RpsAgainstTrump Sick

Pete Hegseth: "The one institution that should win the Nobel Peace Prize every single year is the United States military."

@jimg358 @JasonJournoDC @teammagakim The world is witnessing the failure of the USA experiment and the Trump cult is choosing that.

@JasonJournoDC @teammagakim He didn’t answer the question. Why was Obama sending cash to Iran ?

💥NEW: Maria Bartiromo: "10 presidents before President Trump all said the same thing: 'Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.'" Ro Khanna: "And one president delivered! And that was Barack Obama!" Maria Bartiromo: "No, that's not true ... Congressman, you're talking fantasy! Obama did NOTHING about it! ... other than send money to the Iranians!"

@BrilynHollyhand That’s accountability albeit an ugly tactic started by the Republican side.

I never want to hear another Democrat say how against gerrymandering they are when they literally just all rallied together to gerrymander Republicans out of Virginia.

@RpsAgainstTrump @Sjacobs2020 But simply apologizing is just a fraction of accountability.

Tucker Carlson: I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And I want to say that I’m sorry for misleading people

@atrupar @MeidasTouch Warsh simply means “Don’t trust a liar like me.”

WARREN: That's not my question. Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein? KEVIN WARSH: Those assets will be sold if I'm confirmed

@MeghanMcCain Means to vote YES. Thanks. Btw, please restudy the word “communist”.

If you live in Virginia, remember to vote NO on the communist takeover of elections today.

@jimg358 @JasonJournoDC @teammagakim The world is witnessing the failure of the USA experiment and the Trump cult is choosing that.

The Strait of Hormuz is not closed. It is sorted. Iran has built a three-tier access system for the most important waterway on earth. Tier one: allies transit free. Malaysia cleared seven vessels through diplomacy at zero cost. India negotiated zero-fee passage. Pakistan secured clearance for 20 ships. Iraq transits without charge. These countries proved geopolitical alignment and the IRGC waved them through the Larak corridor without collecting a rial. Tier two: compliant neutrals pay. At least two tankers, likely Chinese-linked, paid up to two million dollars each in yuan through Kunlun Bank intermediaries. COSCO container ships attempted the corridor, were turned back on first approach when documentation was incomplete, then succeeded days later with revised paperwork. These are the vessels that prove the system works. They submit IMO numbers, ownership chains, cargo manifests, and crew lists to the IRGC’s Hormozgan Command. They receive clearance codes. They are escorted by pilot boats through the five-nautical-mile channel between Qeshm and Larak. They pay in a currency that does not route through SWIFT. Every successful yuan transit is a live proof-of-concept for non-dollar energy settlement. Tier three: adversaries are denied entirely. The committee plan bans American vessels, Israeli vessels, and vessels from any country participating in sanctions against Iran. These ships do not get vetting. They do not get codes. They do not get escorts. They get the AL SALMI, burning off Dubai, as illustration of what the corridor looks like without permission. But the toll is not the real cost. War-risk insurance is. Premiums have surged from $40,000 per VLCC transit before the war to $600,000 to $1.2 million today, a 30-fold increase, now running five to ten percent of hull value. A VLCC carrying $50 million in crude oil can absorb a combined $3 million in toll and insurance as a fraction of cargo value. A container ship carrying $5 million in manufactured goods cannot. The insurance premium alone exceeds the profit margin on non-oil cargo. The strait has become an oil-only VIP lane. Crude flows selectively for those who can pay the combined cost. Everything else waits, reroutes around the Cape of Good Hope, or does not move at all. And the US Navy is not inside the strait. The Abraham Lincoln strike group operates from standoff in the Arabian Sea. Three Littoral Combat Ships sit in the Persian Gulf. Marine expeditionary units are positioned for contingency. But zero American warships have transited the strait or escorted commercial traffic since the war began. The Navy told the shipping industry it has “no availability” for Hormuz escorts. The world’s most powerful fleet keeps respectful distance from a waterway controlled by a country whose navy is 92 percent destroyed because the mines, drones, and shore missiles that remain make close-in presence prohibitively risky. The result is a geopolitical sorting algorithm operating at the molecular level. One hundred and eighty-one vessels transited in all of March. Pre-war traffic was 138 per day. Of those 181, roughly 70 percent were Iranian-affiliated. The remaining 30 percent were vetted allies or yuan-paying neutrals. The 20 percent of global oil that once flowed freely through this strait now flows selectively, conditionally, and in currencies chosen by Tehran. Iran lost its air force. It lost its navy. It lost two thirds of its production capacity. It retained the only thing that matters: 39 kilometres of coastline on both sides of the narrowest point. The US Navy will not enter. Chinese tankers will. And the sorting algorithm processes another vessel, collects another yuan payment, and demonstrates once more that geography is the one military asset that cannot be degraded by precision strikes. The strait is not closed. It is under new management. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…