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[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

[A Queen Of Magic @aqueenofmagic]

Fans of the iconic rock group Queen were recently delighted when it was revealed that the band's bassist, John Deacon, 73, had reunited with surviving members, guitarist Brian May, 78, and drummer Roger Taylor, 76, for the first time in 30 years. While it wasn't for a return to a public stage, it was simply an autograph session. The trio signed a copy of the album *A Night At The Opera*, which will be part of a silent auction at Freddie Mercury's annual birthday celebration in Montreux. However, it was enough to generate excitement when it was confirmed that it was a fresh, new autograph signed for a good cause. The event is a fundraiser for the charity established in Freddie's name after his death. The Mercury Phoenix Trust confirmed that John had recently agreed to sign the record despite having lived out of the public eye for decades.

Although he still has an interest in the band and has to approve business decisions, he stepped away from music shortly after the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in November 1991 at the age of 45. His last public appearance with the band was almost 30 years ago, on January 17, 1997, at the opening of the Béjart Ballet in Paris, where they performed "The Show Must Go On" with Elton John. Roger Taylor recalled in an interview: "That was John's last performance, and I could see he wasn't happy because he was chain-smoking and very, very nervous, and he'd been seriously traumatized by the loss of Freddie."

Brian added: "Deacy, our dear friend John, I think he didn't reach the same places we did... John is really very uncomfortable with all of this. You can see how his whole body reacts against it. And in the end, he says, 'I can't do this again. I can't do it.' And it was true; that was the last time John played with us in public."

Brian and Roger have continued touring as Queen with former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert, but John has never joined them on stage.

So what has the elusive bassist—the youngest and always most reserved member of the band—been up to for the past three decades? The answer is, not much rock and roll, as the star has been living a quiet family life with his wife and six children—Luke, Laura, Cameron, Robert, Michael, and Joshua—in London.

Since he still retains a stake in Queen Productions Ltd., the music legend, who penned several of the group's best-known hits, such as "I Want To Break Free," continues to generate income from the band without the need for grueling world tours. In an interview with Mojo earlier this year, Brian confirmed John's ongoing contribution to the band. "John still has a say. We're told he's happy with what we're doing, but he doesn't want the stress of being creatively involved, and we respect that," he said.

He didn't even attend the premiere of the band's biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, in which Joe Mazzello played him, nor did he participate in any promotional activities for the Oscar-winning film. However, it was reported that his son, Luke, had instructed Joseph on his father's mannerisms.

Public sightings of John have been rare, although his address is common knowledge among fans who sometimes gather at his home. In September 2023, one of them knocked on his door and gave him a painting. While, according to social media posts, their interaction with him was positive, many other fans were outraged by this perceived invasion of his privacy.

When John is seen, he seems a world away from his rock star days and is most likely to be found in jeans and a sweater, often smoking a cigarette. His luxuriant curls are gone, and he looks about 73 years old. A fan on Reddit who claims to have met him wrote: “Upon seeing him, I knew it would be extremely awkward and strange to approach him. Not because he’s rude or anything, but because he just looks like any other elderly gentleman living in southwest London. He and his family are very down-to-earth and quite polite… I get the feeling that this whole Queen circus is rather irritating, considering he’s more focused on family life and retirement.”

While this latest contribution to the group is unlikely to lead to anything further, it has given some fans a glimmer of hope that he is finally coming to terms with his legacy.

#JohnDeacon #Queen

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am visiting China this week in a personal capacity as a supportive son.

Normal people visit their mothers in a personal capacity. Normal people attend funerals in a personal capacity. I do it beside sixteen CEOs, five billionaires worth $870 billion, and a 500-aircraft Boeing order being finalized with Beijing during the trip. Goldman Sachs. Citigroup. Mastercard. Visa. Tim Cook. Larry Fink. Stephen Schwarzman.

In a personal capacity.

I am also the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. My qualifications for this role include mowing lawns on my father's golf courses, laying tile at his properties, and serving as a boardroom judge on The Apprentice from 2010 to 2015. I have no documented experience in cryptocurrency, blockchain, or Bitcoin mining. My stake in American Bitcoin alone was worth $548 million by September 2025 — eight months into my father's second term.

We purchased 16,000 Bitmain mining rigs for $314 million. Bitmain is Chinese. Bitmain is headquartered in Beijing. Beijing is where I am visiting in a personal capacity. In March we bought 11,298 more. The terms were "unusual" — hundreds of millions in equipment for "future considerations." I'm not sure what "future considerations" means in this context, especially when your father sets the tariff rate on your supplier's home country. I can tell you it is not a "conflict of interest." It is a "supply chain relationship."

On May 12, the day I boarded this plane, my father announced a trade agreement with China. Tariffs on Chinese goods dropped from 145 percent to 30 percent. That is a 115-point reduction on the country that manufactures my equipment, announced the same day I flew there. I did not know. I did not ask. I did not need to ask.

My family owns 60 percent of World Liberty Financial. We receive 75 percent of every token sold. The New Yorker's running total is $4.2 billion. Politico documented $12.9 billion in trading volume. Let me tell you about our team.

My brother Barron is our "DeFi visionary." He was eighteen years old. His prior experience is being tall.

My brother Don is "Web3 Ambassador." His prior experience is selling condos and shooting elephants.

I handle "strategic planning." My prior experience is tile.

My brother-in-law Jared received $2 billion from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund six months after leaving the White House. The fund's own advisory panel flagged his "lack of private equity experience" and called the due diligence results "unsatisfactory." They gave him the money anyway.

My sister Ivanka received Chinese government approval for 16 trademarks during my father's first term. The categories included handbags, sunglasses, perfume, baby blankets, and voting machines. Voting machines. From China. While her father was president. That is not "corruption." That is "brand diversification."

My father spent four years on Hunter Biden. Four years. The charge: Hunter sat on the board of Burisma for $83,000 a month with no energy experience. My father called it the greatest corruption in American political history. He withheld $391 million in military aid to Ukraine to pressure an investigation. He was impeached for it. He did it again. A special counsel was appointed. Total cost to taxpayers: millions. Total Hunter earnings: $11 million over five years.

Let me do the math my father never did.

Hunter Biden made $6,027 per day. My family makes $8.75 million per day. That is 1,451 times Hunter's rate. We earn his entire five-year scandal every thirty hours.

Hunter had no energy experience. I have no crypto experience. Hunter sat on one board. I run the operation. Hunter met one banker for a coffee. I sit on Air Force One beside $870 billion negotiating with the country that manufactures my equipment.

But here is the part that makes me proud.

We launched a cryptocurrency in my father's name. It peaked at $73. It trades today at $2.43. Retail investors lost 95 percent of their money. We collected $400 million in transaction fees regardless of price. We hosted a dinner — the top 220 holders gained entry by holding enough of my father's coin. The top 29 received a champagne toast with the President of the United States. Price of admission: approximately $3.28 million in tokens. A public school teacher earns $3.28 million in 47 years. We call that "community engagement." Not "selling access." Access is what Hunter Biden sold for a cup of coffee.

Three days before I boarded this plane to Beijing, our team moved $12 million in memecoin assets to custody platforms. Routine. Unrelated. Everything is unrelated to everything.

In a personal capacity.

On January 24, 2025 — four days after the inauguration — my father fired seventeen inspectors general in a single night. Without explanation. Without notice to Congress. Seventeen. The people whose job is to look. He removed them all at once and no one replaced them. There is no inspector general for a son's "personal capacity." There is no disclosure form for love. There is no ethics office for a champagne toast priced at $3.28 million. He didn't bend the guardrails. He fired the people who hold them.

He built that. I fly in on it. $4.2 billion at cruising altitude. Every thirty hours, another Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden got a special counsel for a cup of coffee and a board seat that paid less per month than one champagne toast with my father costs per million.

I am the Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization. I am the Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin. I am the Web3 strategic planner at World Liberty Financial. I am visiting the country that manufactures my mining rigs, approved my sister's trademarks, and funds my brother-in-law's private equity firm, on a plane beside $870 billion and a president who spent four years calling $11 million treason.

In a personal capacity. As a supportive son.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Our billionaire Treasury Secretary called Denmark “irrelevant.” Hmm.

Unlike the US, in Denmark, health care & college are free, the starting wage is $22 an hour, paid parental leave is 1 year, paid vacation is 6 weeks & all workers get pensions.

That seems very relevant to me.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Sellers: You all gave Obama hell because wore a brown suit. But yet and still this man comes on stage in front of the world and he rambles and he misspeaks… he could have said that we solved the war between wakanda and namor. And the Republicans would have been like, oh, yeah, I'm glad we stopped that African country.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Jack Smith about his criminal probe Trump:

"Donald Trump suggested one witness should be put to death"

[SEC Network @SECNetwork]

.@Lane_Kiffin wanted to congratulate a successful proposal during the game ❤️

@OleMissFB

[woodeye2u @woodeye2u]

@RonFilipkowski This photo isn't going away. Write this day down in your diary, the 2026 mid-term elections have just been decided.
And on another note, we're really gonna need to see those Epstein files.
Thank you for this photo @andyharnik

[Jeannette Webber 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈🟧 @roses4jrw]

@RonFilipkowski @Acyn He did just wake up!

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

When the attention and headline at a Trump press conference becomes about someone other than Trump.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

And Jesus said, thou shall not feed the poor and the hungry from your bounty because you must build ballrooms with lots of gold to honor the Lord while remaining liquid in case Argentina needs another bailout. - Book of Trump, 11:06.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Like all regular people in America's heartland, JD Vance studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and wrote a bestseller trashing that community.

Come on.

I can't wait to debate the guy��that is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up.

[Jeremy Slevin @jeremyslevin]

Some of the policies Walz signed into law in Minnesota:

-Universal school meals
-Stronger labor protections
-Cannabis legalization
-Stronger LGBTQ+ protections
-paid leave/sick
-100% clean energy by 2030
-repro rights
-$1B for housing
-gun safety
-cut child poverty 1/3

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Tim Walz is a former Army officer, a former social studies teacher, a former state champion football coach, a former Congressman, and currently an extremely successful governor in Minnesota.

And in a few months, he will be the next Vice-President of the United States.

Great pick, Madam Vice-President!

[B.W. Carlin @BaileyCarlin]

Tim Walz is a:
- Veteran
- Former teacher
- State championship winning football coach
- Faculty advisor of the first gay-straight alliance at his school
- Gun owner
- Highest-ranking retired enlisted soldier ever to serve in Congress

Not to mention has more charisma in his earlobes than Vance has in his body. I can’t imagine a better choice for VP

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Here is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signing a law guaranteeing all students receive a free breakfast and lunch no matter their household income.

[Josh @jdogzee]

Walz is the dad America needs right now

“Those guys are weird, don’t hang out with them” 😭

#HarrisAndWhoeverSheChooses2024

[GG @LuillyDRR]

@EdKrassen The center left Tim Walz represents a progressive approach in his policies, focuses on social justice, economic equity, access to education and health, as well as environmental sustainability, is pro LGBT and defends women’s rights.

[Movies, politics, life. @urbanmyths]

@EdKrassen Kamala Harris will soon be Walz-ing into the White House!