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[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump on Iran War:

Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal?

Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

Bing Crosby's nephew once asked him a simple question on a golf course.
"What was the hardest thing you ever had to do in your entire career?"

Howard expected Hollywood stories. A difficult director, maybe. Studio pressure. The grind of fame.

Bing didn't hesitate for even a second.
December 1944. Northern France.
The war in Europe still had months of blood left to give. Bing Crosby was overseas on a USO tour - not because anyone made him go, but because he'd tried to enlist and been turned down.

Too old, they told him. General George Marshall put it plainly: "We don't need you on the front lines. We need you keeping these men alive on the inside."

So Bing went. At his own expense. No toupee — he called the thing a "scalp doily" and refused to wear anything fake in front of men who had nothing fake left in them. And when the brass tried to claim the front rows, he shut that down immediately. Front rows were for enlisted men. The ones who'd actually be in the dirt.

That night, they set up an open-air stage in a field. Thousands of soldiers gathered in the cold. There were laughs, there were jokes, there were moments where the war felt briefly, mercifully far away.
Then came the last song.
White Christmas.

Since 1942, that song had followed American soldiers everywhere. It played on Armed Forces Radio. Men who hadn't seen snow, or their families, or their front porches in years would hear those opening notes — and completely fall apart.

Bing looked out at the audience as he began to sing. Every single one of them was crying. Thousands of men. Combat soldiers. Men who had seen things no human being should see. Weeping openly, without shame, in a cold field in France, listening to a song about home.
And Bing Crosby had to finish it.

He had to hold his voice steady. He had to keep going, bar by bar, note by note, while thousands of men wept in front of him. He told his nephew it was the single most difficult thing he ever did in his life.

Not a film. Not a performance. Not anything Hollywood ever asked of him.
Just a song. Just a field. Just the faces of men thinking about home.

A few days later, those same soldiers were sent into the Ardennes Forest.
December 16, 1944. The Battle of the Bulge - the largest, costliest battle American forces fought in all of World War II. A surprise German offensive that would leave tens of thousands dead before it was over.
Many of the men who wept in that field never came home.

After the war ended, Allied troops were surveyed: who had done the most for their morale? Bing Crosby.
Ahead of Bob Hope. Ahead of President Roosevelt.

Ahead of General Eisenhower.
He wasn't a star to them. He was a piece of home that came to find them when they couldn't come home themselves.
🙏♥️🇺🇸

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This exchange just happened on the Senate floor.
Cornyn: “I don’t understand how the SAVE Act disenfranchises voters.”

Durbin: “Happy to explain. Driver’s licenses don’t qualify under the bill. 50% of Americans don’t have passports.”
Cornyn: “Why not just amend it?”

Durbin: “When’s the last time the Senate actually amended a bill?”

Silence.

The SAVE Act requires passport-level documentation to register to vote.

50% of Americans don’t have a passport.

The people least likely to have passports: the elderly, the poor, rural Americans, young first-time voters.

The people most likely to have passports: wealthy Americans.

This is not voter protection.

This is voter selection.

And when a senator suggested fixing it — his own colleague couldn’t name the last time the Senate amended anything.

That’s the Senate in 2026.

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@lady_valor_07 On my Dad's side, I had my Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather until I was 12-14. We spent lots of time there. They lived in a tiny house heated by a wood stove, had an outhouse and a fresh water spring in the yard. I remember looking at old family photos kept in cigar boxes.

[Elmo @elmo]

Elmo knows that it's important to be kind, just like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ❤️

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@mychaelschnell @MSNOWNews

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@Lifetouch

[RMS @RFSutphin]

I have never done this before, but I am livid. Our son's high school hired Lifetouch to take the graduation photos. The last 1/3 of the class' photos were ruined by an inept photographer. I called today to see if the photos could be touched up/improved.

[RMS @RFSutphin]

Seriously?? You ruined the photos of a momentous occasion, and in order to have any record of it, I have to pay you?? You should be ashamed to provide such terrible service.

[RMS @RFSutphin]

Lifetouch, why don't you stand behind your products?? My son's graduation photos were ruined by your photographer. You can barely see his face because they failed to use the flash. Your "customer service" tells me the best they can do is 50% off the cost.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

BREAKING: In an unbelievable moment, Republican Senator Thom Tillis breaks away harshly from Trump's policy on Ukraine, calling Vladimir Putin "a cancer, and the greatest threat to democracy in my lifetime."

Make sure everyone sees this.

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@FlSkinsFan4Life

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@TheRyanHamilton Absolutely

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@chantel_lovett Yes!

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@ronsterd89

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@ThePOTSPostman That you just have to push through it, and then you'll be fine.

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@ThePOTSPostman Agreed!

[RMS @RFSutphin]

@FindingStephen No judgment here. No one has the right to judge you. Just sending you prayers.