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She sat in a hospital bed, hooked up to an IV, doing calculus homework. Not because anyone made her. Not because a grade depended on it in that moment. But because 18-year-old Aya Osman from Orange Park, Florida had a dream — and cancer wasn't going to take it from her. At 16, Aya was diagnosed. Two years of treatment. Hospital stays. Medications. The kind of exhaustion most of us will never understand. While other kids her age were worrying about Friday night plans, Aya was fighting for her life and completing her International Baccalaureate coursework from a hospital bed. Let that sink in for a second. She didn't just survive. She thrived. This year, Aya Osman graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ridgeview High School with a 4.77 GPA — and walked across that stage cancer-free. When asked how she kept going through the darkest days, Aya didn't talk about willpower or heroics. She said simply, "It helped to distract yourself... It helps put your mind at ease and keeps you focused about something else." Homework. Piano music. One day at a time. That's it. That's her secret. She had a dream of becoming a neurologist since she was 12 years old — a little girl who looked at the human brain and thought, I want to understand that. Cancer tried to rewrite that story. Aya had other plans. And now? She's heading to New York University on a full scholarship. The same hands that gripped IV lines are going to hold a medical degree someday. The same mind that solved equations through nausea and fear is going to help heal others. Aya didn't go viral for a stunt. She didn't ask for attention. She just quietly, stubbornly, beautifully refused to give up — carried by family, fueled by purpose, and anchored by a piano and a pile of textbooks on a hospital tray. This is what courage actually looks like. Not loud. Not flashy. Just a girl doing her calculus homework when the world gave her every reason not to. Congratulations, Aya. You didn't just beat cancer — you showed all of us what's possible. 🎓 Share this if Aya's story gave you chills. Someone out there needs to see this today. 📸Courtesy of Aya Osman / Clay Today

@NikkiBarnes <waves hello>

Where are my DEMOCRATIC & LEFT LEANING FLORIDIANS?!?? I want to follow you back. We’ve got work to do and I have the plan. Fuck these HEAUXS!!! It’s time to turn up…Florida style!

@MeghanMcCarthy_ @TheWapplehouse @daveweigel his terminal whiteness?

@TheWapplehouse @daveweigel Who told him to just walk back and forth the whole time

“What did you say?” My wife asks me “Oh nothing,” I respond “All my haters woke all my haters woke” I whisper to myself

Dan Bilzerian has been trolling 'Israel First' Republican Randy Fine as hard as Gavin Newsom trolls Trump. 😂🤣👇

@nlanard This is such a thorough take-down of a stolen valor clown that should be in jail, let alone expelled from Congress. Great writing, meticulously detailed.

As calls to expel Cory Mills from Congress increase, check out this profile we published of Mills based on interviews with 18 people who've known him. As one man who served with Mills in the Army told me: "I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.”

@TheJFreakinC Following her own logic and factoring in her treason, incompetence,culpability, and ties to foreign governments, she should be stripped of her citizenship and sent packing.

🚨BREAKING: Pam Bondi just said…“Being a citizen in our country is a privilege, not a right.” Citizenship is a right, guaranteed by the Constitution… not something granted based on opinion, loyalty, or who they like. This is authoritarian rhetoric.

@emilyetaylor23 @3YearLetterman

@3YearLetterman Just like your romantic life.

Just me holding a baby Sabrina Ionescu.

NYPD just got caught blatantly lying and trying to frame an innocent black kid.

@JesslovesMJK @shanaka86

@shanaka86 What is coming?

At 10:24 this morning, Friday February 27, the United States Ambassador to Israel emailed his own staff and told them to leave the country today. Not next week. Not when convenient. Today. Mike Huckabee, the man Donald Trump personally appointed to represent America in Israel, sent an email to every embassy employee in Jerusalem telling them that anyone wishing to depart should book “any available flight” and leave Israeli soil before the day ends. The embassy has shifted to “authorized departure” status, meaning the US government will pay for nonessential personnel and their families to evacuate. The New York Times obtained the email. The timestamp is 10:24 AM local time. The language says “no need to panic.” The action says panic. When an ambassador tells his own people to leave the country he is assigned to, he is not managing risk. He is clearing the blast radius. Authorized departure is the second-to-last step on the State Department’s crisis escalation ladder. The only step above it is ordered departure, which is mandatory evacuation. The United States has not reached ordered departure. But at 10:24 this morning it reached the step directly below it, and the ambassador personally urged speed. Now hold this against what happened in the last 72 hours. Wednesday, Geneva. Six and a half hours of talks. Araghchi called it the most serious session yet. The Wall Street Journal reported the US and Iran remain far apart on every core issue. Iran refused permanent zero enrichment. America refused anything less. Thursday, 37 advanced combat aircraft landed at RAF Lakenheath in a single day. 12 F-35As. 14 F-15E Strike Eagles. Additional F-22s. The staging base that funneled the first wave of Raptors to Israel is now reloading with strike aircraft carrying 23,000 pounds of ordnance each. Friday morning, the ambassador tells his people to leave. Wednesday you negotiate. Thursday you reload. Friday you evacuate your own embassy. That is not a sequence of unrelated events. That is a countdown visible to anyone reading the timestamps. Huckabee’s email went out five hours ago. Tomorrow, Saturday February 28, Oman’s Foreign Minister meets Vice President Vance in Washington carrying Tehran’s response to Geneva. Technical talks are nominally scheduled for Vienna next week. But you do not tell your embassy staff to leave today if you believe next week’s talks will happen in a world that looks like this one. The email says “make plans sooner rather than later.” Ambassadors are trained to communicate in precise diplomatic language where every word is calibrated. “Sooner rather than later” from a political appointee who does not speak in euphemism means the window for safe commercial departure is closing and he knows approximately when it closes. India told its citizens to leave Iran. Germany told citizens in Israel to prepare for airspace closures. Beirut’s US embassy began evacuating. And now America’s own ambassador in Jerusalem is telling his own staff to get out of the country he represents. Everyone with classified briefing access is moving in the same direction. Toward the exit. Today. Not Monday. Not after Vienna. Today, Friday February 27. The people who know what is coming are not waiting to find out. They are already on planes. The only people still debating whether this is real are the ones without the clearance to read what Huckabee read before he typed that email at 10:24 am this morning.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@PeteHegseth Appeal deez nutz, major. When you see captain Kelly make sure you snap a good salute, you fucking loser.

This will be immediately appealed. Sedition is sedition, “Captain.”

@ByronDonalds @Olympics Yeah! Olympics have never been political. I am sure you would have given them crap too in 68. Loser.

YOU chose to wear our flag. YOU chose to represent our country. YOU chose to compete at the @Olympics. If that’s too hard for you, then GO HOME. Some things are bigger than politics. You just don’t get it.

@ImBreckWorsham @POTUS @AGPamBondi @dbongino @FBIDirectorKash Why is that redacted?

Its time to burn this fucking government to the ground. Fuck you. @POTUS, @AGPamBondi, @dbongino and @FBIDirectorKash . I hope you rot in Hell.

@FTFonFS1 @getnickwright Legendary take. Props to Nick Wright, which is something that I would have believed I would only write with a gun to my head in the past. 🤣

“I would not trade Darius Garland for James Harden under any circumstances. You know why?… All this guy does is quit on teams and fold in the playoffs.” @getnickwright sounds off about James Harden:

Who invented Super Bowl 'Radio Row?'

@PressSec I know where a 34-count convicted felon is pretty much every single day. Start there Mrs. Goebbels.

Democrats want to protect violent criminals. President Trump wants to lock up violent criminals.

@realmitchlittle Harvard educated fuckstick doesn't understand the differences between these two unrelated examples.

The same people who hysterically fought the mere appearance of the Ten Commandments in the classroom are content to march your children to the Capitol with “F**K ICE” signs. We see you. Nothing is hidden.

“And Art, since you have me blocked on here, I want you to know that you should have fucking killed me if you didn’t want me to talk!” On January 21st she was drugged by this man —his name is ART SANTANA and he lives in Portland, Oregon PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! — menopausemilitia 🙏🏼😡

@NFL_DovKleiman @DMRussini What does it say about society when a person is given this much shit for being a decent father and partner? If you have any children, did you take any time off to be present or are you such a hard-o for the tweeting that you just couldn't be bothered? This is bullshit.

Yikes: Former Vikings’ GM Kwesi Adofo Mensah took two weeks of paternity leave in 2023 after the birth of his first son, per @DMRussini “In an NFL culture where many players, coaches, and executives proudly acknowledge missing the births of their children, taking time away to care for a newborn and support a partner remains uncommon. Among some rival executives and coaches, it was met with disbelief.” 😬😬😬

@brithume Only you morons on the right seem to think that this is a partisan play. Nope, most of us want justice and criminals tried, convicted and jailed.

Democrats thought the Jeffrey Epstein files would prove a magic bullet against Donald Trump. But look who, among other Democratic luminaries, the bullet has hit: she was Obama's WH counsel and is now chief counsel at Goldman Sachs.

@transientexist @inthistown1 In the interest in being fair, Chuck Schumer did a good thing today by all accounts. It's nice to see that he isn't doing the self-own every single day.

@transientexist @inthistown1 Live look at Chucklehead Schumer.

No fucking clue what they’re doing JFC