For those claiming this is appeasement, let’s get serious. Operation Midnight Hammer wasn’t appeasement. Destroying Iran’s military capabilities wasn’t appeasement. Crippling Iran’s nuclear ambitions wasn’t appeasement. Restoring freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz wasn’t appeasement. Appeasement is paying off aggressors and hoping for the best. President Trump did the opposite. He demonstrated strength, imposed consequences, and then secured a deal from a position of overwhelming leverage. And let’s not forget: this outcome wasn’t built overnight. It was years in the making. This is the same President who delivered the Abraham Accords, moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, and squeezed the Iranian regime so hard they struggled to fund their terror network. The goal was never endless war. We could have dropped bombs for weeks, months, or years. The goal was PEACE. But peace only lasts when our enemies know America is strong, our allies know America is reliable, and the world knows our President is willing to act.

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ALERT: US Coast Guard jumps onto a runaway boat and safely stops it in Maryland. Authorities say the man operating the vessel suddenly fell overboard, and the Coast Guard had to intercept and stop the boat. The incident has raised awareness among boat operators to wear their engine shut-off clip lanyards, which are required by federal law on most boats under 26 feet.

The article is totally false btw. You can add up every government incentive my companies have ever received and they amount to less than 2% of the value of SpaceX and Tesla! And many of these incentives actually helped our competitors disproportionately to Tesla or SpaceX. For example, when President Trump removed the $7500 tax credit for electric vehicles, Tesla sales actually INCREASED, because more buyers shifted from other EV makers to Tesla.

Hey Jasmine… Black pilot here. I think you missed the plot. Then again, that’s becoming a pattern. I graduated from West Point. I went through Army flight school. I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache. I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad. Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color. Nobody lowered the standards for me. Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.” That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand. Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting. I didn’t want a different standard. I wanted the same standard. And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is. They care whether the pilot is qualified. Merit isn’t racist. Excellence isn’t discriminatory. And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

There are only 236 of them left on Earth. Every single one has a name. The kākāpō is the world's heaviest parrot - a mossy green, owl-faced bird the size of a small dog that cannot fly, may live to 90 years, and only breeds every 2 to 4 years when New Zealand's rimu trees produce enough fruit to trigger the urge. Rats. Cats. Stoats. Humans clearing forests. The kākāpō never evolved to outrun any of them. By 1995, 51 birds remained. Scientists, rangers, and Ngāi Tahu - the Māori people who have always known this bird as taonga, a treasure—evacuated every last one to predator-free islands. Each bird got a transmitter. Each nest watched around the clock. This past February 14th, the first kākāpō chick in four years hatched. They named her Tīwhiri. By spring, 59 chicks had been born. 236 birds. Every name known. Every nest watched. Who's counting down the days until the rimu trees fruit again? 🦜 #DemsUnited #Nature

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His name was Roddie Edmonds. Most people had never heard of him. A quiet Methodist from Knoxville, Tennessee. A husband. A father. A churchgoing man who came home from World War II, raised his family, and never once bragged about what he had done. The world almost lost his story completely. December 1944. The Battle of the Bulge. Roddie Edmonds had been on the Western Front less than a week when his unit was surrounded by German forces. Thousands of American soldiers were captured during Hitler’s final major offensive. Edmonds became one of them. What followed was brutal. A forced march through freezing snow. Men collapsing from exhaustion. Packed into rail cars with almost no food or water. Days of starvation and cold before arriving at Stalag IX-A, a German prison camp. As the highest-ranking American noncommissioned officer there, Edmonds was responsible for 1,292 prisoners. Then came the order. All Jewish soldiers were to report separately the next morning. Everyone understood what that meant. Separation was not administration. It was a death sentence. That night, Edmonds gathered his men and gave a simple instruction: “All of you. Every American. Outside in formation tomorrow morning.” The next day, the German commandant arrived expecting a small group. Instead, he found 1,292 American prisoners standing shoulder to shoulder. Furious, he shouted: “They cannot all be Jews!” Roddie Edmonds answered with four words that would echo across history: “We are all Jews here.” The commandant pulled out a pistol and pressed it against Edmonds’s forehead. He threatened to shoot him if he did not identify the Jewish soldiers immediately. Edmonds never moved. Instead, he calmly reminded the officer that under the Geneva Convention, prisoners only had to give their name, rank, and serial number. Then he said this: “If you shoot, you’ll have to shoot all of us. And when this war is over — which it nearly is — you’ll be tried as a war criminal.” The commandant lowered the gun. Turned around. And walked away. About 200 Jewish-American soldiers were saved that morning because one man refused to divide his men into categories worth protecting and categories worth surrendering. But Edmonds wasn’t finished. Weeks later, the Germans ordered the prisoners onto another forced march through the snow. Edmonds knew many would die. So he secretly told his men to make themselves appear too sick to travel — eat dirt, grass, whatever it took. When the Germans came, the Americans stayed behind. Nearly all the prisoners forced onto the march died. Edmonds’s men survived to be liberated by General Patton’s forces in March 1945. And then? Roddie Edmonds came home and said almost nothing about it. No speeches. No interviews. No book deals. He worked. Went to church. Raised his children. He died in 1985. His family knew he had been a POW. They had no idea he had saved hundreds of lives. The truth only resurfaced decades later after his son discovered his wartime diary and began contacting survivors whose names were written inside. Again and again, they told the same story. The same frozen morning. The same pistol. The same four words. “We are all Jews here.” In 2015, Yad Vashem recognized Roddie Edmonds as “Righteous Among the Nations” — the first American soldier ever to receive the honor. And in 2026, more than 80 years after that moment in the prison yard, his son accepted the Medal of Honor on his behalf. No battlefield charge. No dramatic explosion. Just moral courage. A man staring down a loaded gun and refusing to hand over his soldiers. One survivor later said: “That such people can exist gives you hope for humanity.” They do exist. Roddie Edmonds was one of them.

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Tonight, as I do every year at this time, I’ll be raising a glass to a scared young man, who 82 years ago was preparing to go ashore on the beaches of Normandy as part of an event code-named Operation Overlord. D-Day. I can’t imagine what was going through his mind. I’d be scared to death and I’m sure he was too. But in that first wave was a 21-year-old Private First Class from Henry County, VA by the name of Allen Homer Sink. Fortunately, he would survive that initial wave, participate in battle until it ended in August, then come home to marry and raise a family of four, including two daughters after the war ended. He would also become my father-in-law until his death in 2006. His nickname for some reason was “Hank” and when I asked him how he got it, he said some guy in the Army said he “looked like a Hank.” From the time I first met him, he was a salt-of-the-earth man who was never afraid of anything. He was a carpenter by trade, and he’d stand up on the tallest roofs, grab bumblebees with his bare hands when they tried to persuade him to move elsewhere, and never be bothered by anything. His hands were tough and leathery, but he was a softie. He spoiled his children, complained when my mother-in-law would gripe about something involving one of his alleged misdeeds, and always thought he was fooling everybody when he snuck around the back of the house and lit a cigarette, a habit everyone opposed but he could never part himself from. He could talk your ear off for hours at a time, and I always suggested he become a greeter at Wal-Mart when he retired because then he could talk all day to strangers and none of them would – like his wife and daughters often did – tell him to be quiet for a few moments. Yet for all his love of talking, there was one subject he just wouldn’t discuss. June 6, 1944. Omaha Beach. In 1998, when he was 76 years old, the subject came up again. The movie “Saving Private Ryan” came out and the beginning was gruesome. Reviews said it was incredibly realistic to what really happened that day. I asked Hank if he wanted to go see it. “No,” he shook his head. “I don’t ever want to see any of that again.” He did offer that he remembered the night before when troops were loaded into the boats for the amphibious assault. He said it was raining and that once everyone was in place, they gave everybody ice cream and told them to try to get some sleep. Then the next thing he knew, they were waking everybody up telling them to stay low and head for the beach. No, that doesn’t sound like somebody drugged the ice cream. Not at all. That’s all he would say about the subject, and he never said another word about it until the final months of his life. Alzheimer’s would gradually rob him of his mind, and as his condition deteriorated, memories of the past would briefly spill out. One evening he thought I was his commanding officer and he was back at Normandy. It is the only time I ever saw him where he appeared to be scared. Ever. It reminds me every day of something I had unknowingly taken for granted. The greatest generation did fight in and win World War II, then did incredible things over the next 50 to 60 years after the war. But many carried unspeakable memories from the War, ones they would never talk about and carry inside them to their graves. Those veterans lost a piece of themselves in battle they would never, ever, get back. I mean, how can you at the tender age of 21 storm a beach, see friends die only a few feet from you, wonder each night if you will wake up alive the next morning and then return home a year later and try to pick up on the same normal life you had before you left? I told him once that after seeing “Saving Private Ryan”, I understood why he was never afraid of anything; after you’ve made it through something like that, everything else pales in comparison. So tonight, I raise a glass to Hank and the 150,000-plus men, who like my father-in-law, were very young, very scared, and still charged that beach, paying a price that even for the survivors would last the rest of their days. Rest In Peace...

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💥 KABOOM 💥🚨 Marco Rubio just said something that’s blowing up online. He pointed to Americans who worked their entire lives, only to retire on $800–$1,000 a month in Social Security. Then compared it to claims that some new arrivals receive higher monthly benefits. Read that again. Worked your whole life… Less support. Just arrived… More support? 🇺🇸🔥 This is why the debate over benefits, fairness, and government priorities is EXPLODING right now. People are asking: Who comes first? America First — that’s the message. Watch closely.

It’s just performative theater for their campaign ads and tik toks. I wish we could quit wasting valuable people’s time on them. How much could @SecRubio have accomplished today if he hadn’t wasted it listening to endless people grandstanding?