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🚨 BREAKING: Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi in a TV interview: ▪️ Anchor: “For how long can Iran close the Strait of Hormuz?” ▪️ Marandi: “Forever.” ▪️ Anchor: “But that would also harm your economy.” ▪️ Marandi: “For us, it is a struggle for survival. For you, it is a battle to keep the Epstein class in power.”

Market manipulation. The timing of Trump threats (usually Friday nights) then backing down (usually early Monday mornings) on war and tariffs tell you all you need to know.

NEW: 🚨 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 The USS Gerald Ford is expected to be out of service for at least 14 months but likely 2 years. That was some “laundry room fire”…

WOW! "The regime has made it clear it has no interest in protecting the vote or safeguarding our elections. So two families of former presidents decided they would. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and The Carter Center announced a partnership to send nonpartisan election observers across Michigan for the November 3 elections, where there is a competitive Senate race, governor’s race, and a history of election controversy. The Ford-Carter Election Observation Network will train residents to monitor polling locations and document whether election laws are followed. It’s the same way the Carter Center has monitored elections for decades in countries where democracy is under threat. Michael Ford—son of former President Gerald Ford—said the partnership supports the belief that “a democratic system of government reflects citizen interest and engagement and also reinforces confidence in our electoral systems.” Jason Carter—grandson of former President Jimmy Carter—said the initiative builds on “a longstanding legacy of collaboration between my grandfather and President Ford, who ran against each other in 1976, but went on to cultivate a genuine friendship and collaborate on many bipartisan initiatives to benefit the American people.” Two families of former presidents didn’t wait—they looked at what Trump was doing and decided: not here, not on our watch." Trump Can’t Stop Any Of It: Beaten Bad By Judges, Journalists, Farmers, and Two Dead Presidents’ Families open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/p/…

In 56 minutes this morning, a single Trump tweet added $2 trillion to the S&P 500. Then Iran said the tweet was fiction. $1 trillion gone. Net swing: $3 trillion. This is why the world prefers a president who is stable and not impulsive. It really shouldn’t surprise anyone at this point. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

I hope the airport food courts are ready for ICE

They keep blaming Biden for all their own shortcomings! Cowards! Republicans cannot govern. .

Anonymous I teach piano out of my living room. Small studio. Mostly kids. This boy showed up for a trial lesson. Nine years old. Foster kid. Social worker brought him. “He’s obsessed with piano but the family can’t afford lessons. Can you help?” Looked at his face. Pure hope in his eyes. “Let’s see what you’ve got.” Kid was gifted. Natural talent. Took him on. Told the social worker I had a scholarship fund. Didn’t. Was teaching him free. Taught him twice a week for three years. Never charged a dime. He progressed fast. Really fast. Then he got moved. New foster home. Different town. Forty minutes away. Tuesday he didn’t show up. Called the social worker. “He’s too far now. No way to get him there.” Started driving to him instead. Every Tuesday and Thursday. Eighty-minute round trip. His new foster mom was shocked. “You’re doing this for free and driving here?” “He’s got a gift. I’m just helping him find it.” Two years later he got a full scholarship to a music conservatory. At his acceptance ceremony he played a piece he’d written. Called it “Tuesday.” Dedicated it to me. “For the teacher who drove forty minutes each way because she believed in me.” He’s nineteen now. Teaches piano to foster kids every weekend. Fourteen students. All free. Came to visit last month. Brought one of his students. Shy girl. Eight years old. “This is Mrs. Anderson. She taught me that talent matters more than money.” The girl sat at my piano. Played a scale. Perfect. Sometimes Tuesday nights change everything....

As Trump sends ICE to airports in America today, and as he pushes to force women to show marriage certificates to get a voter ID when they change their names, let’s remember that this happened in an Episode of The Handmaids Tale. ICE stopped Emily, her wife and child at the airport, telling her that her marriage certificate is not valid before separating the family.

I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t care. I don’t want to read your AI scraped slop. You can argue with me until the cows come home about its benefits and how it’s ’the future of writing’. I don’t care. Give me Bronte, Stoker, Tolkien, Shelley, Plath, and Wilde. Give me the thousands and thousands of fantastic contemporary authors there are out there today, writing across all fiction genres and non fiction. Give me flawed, but brilliant, passionate prose and poetry not your bland and soulless drivel. I don’t care.

Ice is at airports and we’ve already had a plane crash and now this as well…👇👇

DEVELOPING: A ground stop was in place on Monday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport, where an air traffic control tower was evacuated due to reports of smoke, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. abcnews.link/nCzUm76

@conorsen Half of Wall Street runs on made up narratives and insider games.

@conorsen Definetly guy is a serial liar, he was saying he killed every leader in Iran and there is no one to negotiate with so who is he talking to

💥 Russia: Massive Ukrainian drone strikes blew up vast areas of the Port of Primorsk, Russia's largest oil export terminal that processes 1.0-1.5 million barrels/day - 100 million tons of oil & oil products per year. 1,000km from Ukraine.

THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY. THEY. TORTURED. A. ONE. YEAR. OLD. BABY.

Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but these guys don't belong in airports doing "security."

Yeah, but have you heard about our ballroom??