Nick Falcone

Husband, father, attorney. Former Chair Bd Dir and Programming Garden State Film Festival (6/2009-5/2019). B'way & Film prod, performer, opera, theatre & film.

[Nick Falcone @NickFalcone1]

How The Majestic Became Home to Phantom of the Opera. @BroadwayWorld @playbill @ShubertOrg @nytimes @nypost (I was working for Hal Prince at the time of the events described.)

[Nick Falcone @NickFalcone1]

True

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Criticize Trump For Holding MMA Match On The Hallowed Ground Where Biden Hosted Topless Trannies

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Wait till you hear this…

One of the executive directors of a nonprofit which is getting the “immigrants funds” that Boston City Councilor Ben Weber is reallocating from the police budget…

Is…

HIS WIFE

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

On a daily basis the Biden Administration turned over hundreds of alien children who had been smuggled across the border to unverified and unknown adults (almost always illegal aliens) who requested them. Thousands of times multiple minors were handed over to the same illegal alien adult. The Biden Administration never even met these adults: they gave the minors to third party contractors and the contractors drove the minors to the unknown adult “sponsors.” The “official” addresses on government forms usually faked or abandoned. Then, the Biden Administration would administratively close the case ensuring that the minor would disappear.

[NYPD NEWS @NYPDnews]

WANTED FOR GANG ASSAULT: On Wednesday night after the Knicks game, a group approached a 17-year-old near 237 W 35th St and got into an argument. This individual punched and kicked the teen. He had a seizure and was in a coma. Any info? DM @NYPDTips or call 800-577-TIPS.

[Nick Falcone @NickFalcone1]

On point

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

If she didn’t consent to wrestle with a boy, she didn’t consent for him to put hands on her, and she certainly didn’t consent for him to put fingers INSIDE her

Every violation follows from the first

Didn’t we tell you sex deception leads to sexual assault?

Didn’t we tell you?

[Nick Falcone @NickFalcone1]

Funny

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Elon responded to Warren calling him a “freeloader" in 2021:

“I'm actually paying the most tax that any individual in history has ever paid this year. Ever."

"And she doesn't pay taxes basically at all. Her salary is paid for by the taxpayer, like me. If you could die by irony, she would be dead."

[Nick Falcone @NickFalcone1]

@SamaHoole @Doc_aka_Rich Don’t forget the film Frances with Jessica Lange.

[Nick Falcone @NickFalcone1]

Great post, and that is so without including thalidomide, probably the worst of the worst.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

Mohammad Skaf, who alongside his brother Bilal, gang raped children across Sydney, Australia, calling them "white pigs" as he abused them, has been arrested drug trafficking.

His prison sentence for the rapes was REDUCED by judges, he showed no remorse, they freed him!

[Ida Turan 🇮🇷 ایده توران @iranidaturan]

If there’s only one thing I want you to remember as someone who actually grew up in Iran, it’s this:

A bully only backs down when he faces a bigger bully.

Trump’s approach is messy, unconventional, and disruptive, but that’s exactly why it has a real chance of working. Because the regime itself is messy, unconventional, and disruptive.

This is not a normal government. It doesn’t play by any rules, and it doesn’t care about looking good or ethical.

Anyone who tries to act diplomatic or “proper” with them has already lost. For the mullahs, diplomacy has always just been a fancy word for lying, deceiving, and hiding their true intentions.

Now they’ve run into someone their old tricks don’t work on. Someone who flips the table whenever he feels like it, who doesn’t care about diplomatic etiquette, and who is completely unpredictable to them.

They can’t outsmart him like they used to. Messing with the lion’s tail this time could cost them dearly, because unlike Obama, Trump actually has his finger on the trigger, and unlike @netanyahu , nothing is holding him back.

Another reason his style seems so chaotic is that the global system and other powers have long benefited from keeping the status quo, a corrupt system that quietly protected the regime. Trump is breaking that old order apart.

For Trump, this whole negotiation and deal-making process is basically a soft war. It’s a deliberate strategy to gradually disarm and weaken the regime piece by piece, at minimum cost.

Even if a deal is reached, he won’t stop, He’ll continue until the regime is so eroded and weak that the Iranian people finally have a fair chance to confront and defeat it themselves.

It won’t happen overnight, but if you look at the direction things are going, the trend is clear.

President Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s not performing for us. He’s taking massive risks with his political capital.

It’s a big gamble, yes, but it doesn’t mean it won’t work. And if one person can actually pull Iran out of this cancer, it’s him. No one else. Trust the man, trust the process.

[Jennifer Sey @JenniferSey]

To use a leftie term, I’m feeling especially triggered by the response to what happened to Kallie Keeler. All the anon accounts screeching that it's a normal part of wrestling, just an "oil check" (an illegal move by the way, that this was not), that she's too wimpy and weak to be a wrestler if she can't handle it.

Bullshit.

She was assaulted. A man stuck his fingers inside her vagina and held them there.

This incident echoes dark patterns that I have witnessed and even been caught in the midst of for decades.

Bad men will hide behind shields of respectability while abusing girls and women in plain sight.

As a former gymnast and whistleblower, I see the parallels to Larry Nassar immediately. Nassar hid behind the respectability of his medical degree and his role as USA Gymnastics team doctor. After he abused young female athletes for 30 years, finally women came forward in droves to report the assaults. Those victims were attacked for months until there were too many to ignore.

My coach hid behind his "coach" title, while claiming to keep athletes safe as a spotter, then molesting in plain view. Athletes were shamed into silence.

Predators will exploit any opening to find, abuse and assault their victims.

[NY Taxi Workers @NYTWA]

That's our member behind the wheel. He was pulled out of the cab and suffered shock and physical injury to his arm, back and head.

The whole city is elated about our hometown team — and that includes drivers who watched the game last night at airport lots while waiting for the next fare, listened on their radios while cruising for the next job, and huddled at hotel lines with the same heart-stopping anxiety that turned into the most beautiful joy.

Pulling the cab driver out of his seat, stomping on and shattering his hood turned our joy into a nightmare.

When you see the yellow, do you not see the person behind the wheel? That's someone's spouse, child, parent or friend — a New Yorker.

He wasn’t out there for a joy ride, he was working to make ends meet and to get his fellow New Yorkers home safely.

Cabbies pay just to go to work. They pay for their cars — whether through loans or leases.

Drivers need safety on the job, both in the quiet moments of ordinary days and in the middle of public celebration.

Shame on anyone who turns these joyful moments into nightmares for fellow New Yorkers.

[DNI Tulsi Gabbard @DNIGabbard]

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.

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[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Nick Falcone @NickFalcone1]

@JournalistJill Lol

[Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence]

Karmelo Anthony’s supporters are now threatening to riot and burn down cities after he was found guilty.

Riots for what?

Do y’all think it’s okay for a Black person to kill a white person with no consequences?

That is racist.

Somebody lost their son. Somebody lost their child. Austin Metcalf is never coming home.

The only people who should be angry, sad, heartbroken, and devastated right now are Austin Metcalf’s parents.

They lost their son.

This should have never been turned into a race issue. It was not about Black versus white.

Wrong is wrong.

You do not get to stab somebody to death and then have people threaten to riot because justice was served.

Karmelo Anthony was found guilty.

Justice was served.

[Mat Nuclear @MatNuclear]

I’m black, I haven’t stabbed anyone in the chest after being asked to leave a tent.

I’m not in prison, I’m free.

It’s not that hard to not commit a crime.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

The UK defence secretary has resigned, hitting out at @Keir_Starmer as an utter failure who won't put a penny towards defending the United Kingdom.

Well over £2bn a year goes on housing invaders in hotels.

£15bn on welfare for them.

[Ryan Fournier @RyanAFournier]

BREAKING: Acting AG Todd Blanche just announced indictments for three individuals involved in a massive child smuggling ring. But the real bombshell is what he said next...

The DOJ has officially uncovered over 15,500 "super sponsor" cases.

Read that number again: 15,500.

Because of the Biden Administration's disastrous and broken border policies, thousands of innocent children were essentially handed over to criminal networks, traffickers, and abusers. They completely turned a blind eye while the worst of the worst exploited the system right in our own backyard.

Absolutely sickening. Where is the mainstream media on this?!

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Dear Senator Cornyn,

I approached you respectfully at the airport, extending my hand & introducing myself.

We were at the ticket gate with literally dozens of witnesses — passengers inches away.

Despite a quib reply back from you, I kept things professional & focused on the SAVE America Act.

While I respect that you say you want to ensure wins this November, I speak for millions when I say that voters will be more likely to vote upon the passage of the SAVE America Act.

Voters see what’s happening in California & wonder why our Senate isn’t doing everything in its power to secure our elections.

Did you know that former Congresswoman Michelle Steel (R-CA) lost by 653 votes in 2024? Did you know that former Congressman John Duarte (R-CA) lost by 187 votes?

I have no doubt that the SAVE America Act would have prevented these losses.

Why are we normalizing an expectation for California to count votes for weeks after Election Day — like Spencer Pratt’s election.

In North Carolina, the State Board of Elections found 34,000 dead voters on the voter rolls — fact-check me. (CC: Senator Tillis)

How can Americans have confidence in our elections & how are Americans going to be inspired to vote if you don’t legislate as the majority?

Last — & I mean this with the utmost of respect — for the $150 million that was spent on the Texas Senate primary/runoff,

we could have built massive voter registration/get out the vote operations in every single swing state.

While I understand it might be difficult to contemplate an American citizen doing this work because it’s the right thing to do, I’m proud to say that I don’t take PAC $ — not even from my own organization.

I can’t be bought, which frustrates the political establishment.

My one singular mission is doing right by the American people and delivering legislative wins that the popular vote delivered in 2024.

I’m on the way to the Texas GOP Convention to help ensure all of our Republican candidates win this November — I hope you’ll do the same.

I hope you’ll do the right thing & encourage your colleagues to pass the SAVE America Act — let’s win big.