There are no black jurors in the Karmelo Anthony trial because the prospective black jurors told prosecutors they would not vote to convict Anthony because he is black.

Just now watching Project Hail Mary. About 40 minutes in. Haven’t seen a forward pass yet.

Progressive urbanists are tragicomic because they’re eternally bumping into problems they are ideologically barred from understanding. “Why won’t people ride the trains? Why do they choose suburbs? It’s a mystery, let’s commission a study.”

This is ridiculous. Absurd.

If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high: 1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated. 2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. The IRGC Aerospace Force commander who ran the missile enterprise dead. 3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity. 4. Full economic warfare. Not just OFAC sanctions anymore, but military pressure layered on top: naval blockade, near-zero oil exports, choked imports, wrecked steel and petrochemical sectors, triple-digit inflation, and a currency that is effectively worthless. 5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. Mojtaba Khamenei inheriting a hollowed-out regime with no supreme authority and a gutted command structure. 6. The region turning on Tehran. Gulf states shutting down the sanctions-busting, money-laundering, and financial escape routes the regime has relied on for years. No Arab capital willing to throw Iran a lifeline. China and Russia providing limited support. 7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes. The “Axis of Resistance” and “ring of fire” are now more slogans than real threats. 8. Syrian corridor severed. Assad is gone. The new government in Damascus is actively blocking Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah: arresting smugglers and publicly declaring Syria will no longer serve as a transit corridor for Tehran’s terrorists. The land bridge to the Mediterranean that took decades to build is effectively closed. 9. Lebanon pivoting west. With Hezbollah battered and resupply choked, Israel and Lebanon have opened direct peace talks for the first time since 1983, aimed at a permanent agreement and Hezbollah’s disarmament. Beirut now asserting that the Lebanese armed forces alone are responsible for national defense. This is a direct repudiation of Hezbollah’s “resistance” claim. TBD. 10. Deterrence exposed as a bluff. Four direct attacks on Israel — April 2024, October 2024, June 2025, March 2026 — failed to impose strategic cost and instead triggered heavy retaliation. Iran couldn’t even use Syria as a launchpad. 11.Economy hollowed out from within. Power shortages, water crises, factory shutdowns, pension unrest, and mass protests. Nationwide demonstrations erupted in December 2025 after a year of economic freefall, with bazaaris, oil workers, and truckers, the regime’s traditional support base, joining strikes across all 31 provinces. Running out of oil storage space. Fuel shortages. The worst crisis since 1979. 12. Scientific and technical brain drain. Beyond the nuclear experts, Iran has lost a generation of irreplaceable expertise in missile design, centrifuge engineering, and weapons development. The survivors are harder to recruit and easier to deter. 13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz. And against all of this: the regime forced to play its Hormuz card at its weakest possible moment when the U.S. has options instead of when we didn’t: namely, Tehran with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions of dollars to harden its economy. That’s the strategic picture. It’s extraordinary. Much more to do but I can’t comprehend how much has been achieved.

They just locked replies. Another bold commitment to open discourse.

As an Iranian who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to wholeheartedly confirm what President Trump just said: "The Iranian people want to be free. They have lived in a world that you know NOTHING about." For 47 years, my people have endured systematic torture, rape, murder, humiliation, anxiety, suppression, and grief under the Islamic Republic. It’s been a long, grinding suffering — punctuated by brutal spikes like the January protests, mass executions, and now war. The world has no idea of the scale or depth of these horrors. Only when this evil regime finally falls will the full truth pour out — in quality and quantity that will shock humanity. We have now reached a point where almost no cost is too great if it rids us of this regime. Because the cost of it staying in power is infinitely higher. If you’re reading this and you can’t understand how any Iranian could feel relief at their own country losing a war and getting bombed… I envy you. You have never lived what we have lived. You have never watched your people, friends, family, and loved ones get tortured, raped, or killed almost daily and over half a century. You have never seen an entire nation slowly but brutally suffocated like this. We tried every alternative imaginable: massive protests, dissent, peaceful reform, negotiations — everything. None of it worked. The regime’s answer has always been bullets, gallows, and more terror. Now, less than 24 hours before Trump’s deadline, I write this with a heavy heart from inside Iran: Whatever happens next — if there is still an Iran left to save and this regime is gone — the Iranian people will be happy with the result. No matter the cost. Because the cost of the regime remaining is higher, and for many of us, death itself is preferable to another day under this nightmare. This is the true sentiment of the majority of Iranians — the voice of a people who often have no internet, no platform, and no way to be heard. The world will soon understand why we say: Anything to be free. Anything to end this evil. #IranMassacre‌ #IranRevolution2026‌

Go to Tokyo and I guarantee you won't stop talking or thinking about it for a month after you come back.

Getting really excited about Mirage being launched soon. @EthanLipnik has me excited about his new product.

Day 19 in Europe. Still no @HEB. I can’t even find tortillas, much less jalapeno brisket queso with lime cilantro salsa. All the carts are small, they sell ice by the cup, and no one is friendly. Send help, please.

Who has the priority? I would imagine it would be either elderly the injured, but that’s largely based on the age and severity of the injured, and the age of the elderly. I think the kid on the lap is dead last and frankly, based on the pictograph, that kid looks to be 10 years old. What’s also funny is they had to add a dress on the pregnant person so folks wouldn’t think obese people. I’m still laughing about that one.

no parking spot is illegal on stolen land

You wanted people to turn in their neighbors for having one too many people over for Thanksgiving dinner or not masking while gardening.

AppleScript has been waiting 33 years for this moment

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Sec. Scott Bessent is calling out Europe to their faces, on their own turf in Davos "Just to be clear, Europe is STILL buying Russian oil!" "Still. Still! 4 years later." "They are financing the war against THEMSELVES." 💯

When the government "provides" healthcare, what we get is rising prices and massive fraud.

The situation in Iran proves that the Left’s outrage is selective. Why isn’t the Persian flag in all of their bios right now? Because they were not instructed to do so. The sheep only care about what they are told to care about. They don’t have any individual thoughts.

Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, the IRGC are among the most evil people in the world. I know I am not telling you anything that you don’t already know. I remind you that they have attempted to assassinate you more than once. I would strongly encourage you not to negotiate with them as leaving them in power continues their ability to inflict evil on the world. And their word means nothing. As I write, they are indiscriminately shooting young and old women and girls in the face and in the back just for protesting on the streets. You have made a public commitment to rescue and help the anti-regime protesters which has motivated tens of thousands of additional protesters to go to the streets, and tragically thousands more have died as a result of their doing so. You have kept your word with all of your public statements which has returned the U.S. to being a superpower and made you into one of the greatest presidents in our 250-year history. And importantly America’s word now means something again and the world is much safer as a result. If America walks away from the Iranian people, it will be an even more catastrophic blood bath and a massive missed opportunity for the U.S. and the world. I am not Iranian and I don’t have any ties to Iran, but I care enormously about humanity. This is an incredible opportunity to bring an enduring peace to the world and to shut down one of the most evil and powerful regimes with the support of the Iranian and American people and hundreds of millions and perhaps even billions of other people around the world. God bless Mr. President. The world’s future is in your hands.

BREAKING🔴 MILEI FULLY REPAYS CURRENCY SWAP TO THE U.S. In a major economic achievement for President Milei, Argentina has fully and rapidly repaid the US$ 2.5 billion drawdown from a US$ 20 billion currency swap facility with the United States Treasury. Announced by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the repayment — completed in December 2025 — clears all outstanding pesos from the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF). The swap, established in October 2025, provided urgent liquidity to stabilize Argentina's exchange rate and financial markets right before Argentina's midterm elections—which Milei later won by a landslide. Bessent praised Milei's "visionary leadership" and Economy Minister Luis Caputo's efforts, noting the country's strengthened financial position, renewed market access, and positive momentum in monetary and fiscal reforms. Bessent underscored U.S. support for a stable Argentina as a key ally in the Western Hemisphere, while the international community, including the IMF, backs President Milei's prudent strategy. The quick repayment highlights the success of President Milei's pro-market and libertarian agenda by turning crisis into confidence. @JMilei @LuisCaputoAR @SecScottBessent

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