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[Michael Berry @MichaelBerrySho]

The world’s first trillionaire is an African-American.

[The Rick @RickyVolnay]

@vulturetrades 11 flips

[The Rick @RickyVolnay]

@ChadChoquette This asset was cash out refinanced back in 2021 into a portfolio swap loan at 3.6% fixed for 10 years

[The Rick @RickyVolnay]

First investment breakdown! Financials calculated after moving out of my owner occupant unit in 2012 in Boston!

#realestate #realestateinvesting #investing

[Marc Emery @MarcScottEmery]

These ads for @spencerpratt for Mayor of Los Angeles are game changers. Inspiring!

[Kevin Dalton @TheKevinDalton]

How to win an election in 30 seconds by Spencer Pratt.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

By Season 4 of The Sopranos, Gandolfini was earning $400,000 per episode. HBO wanted Season 5 on the fast track, and the offer was staggering: roughly $1 million per episode across 13 episodes. Agents celebrated. Lawyers drafted. But something stopped him cold.
His co-stars were earning a fraction of what he made. Edie Falco, the woman who carried every scene as Carmela Soprano, wasn't close. The supporting cast earned even less. Gandolfini looked at his contract and saw something executives didn't want him to see — a gap that felt deeply unfair.
So he did something that shocked Hollywood. He walked away.
Production stalled in early 2003. HBO filed a lawsuit seeking around $100 million in damages. Headlines called him difficult. Columnists called him unstable. "They think I'm a wild animal," he reportedly told a friend that spring. The easy move would have been to sign, cash the check, and disappear into Tony Soprano's shadow — the character who made him a household name and quietly trapped him inside it.
Instead, Gandolfini made a different choice.
He eventually returned to the negotiating table and signed the deal. But what he did next became legend. Gandolfini reached into his own pocket and personally gave approximately $33,000 to each of 16 supporting cast members — roughly $500,000 of his own money — as a thank-you for standing by him during the shutdown.
No press release. No cameras. No announcement. Just quiet envelopes handed out privately.
Crew members remembered other moments too. Gandolfini would show up early at Silvercup Studios in Queens, sit in a folding chair, chain-smoke, and ask grips and lighting technicians about their kids by name. He remembered birthdays. He remembered losses. When a crew member's family member fell ill, he quietly helped with expenses. When writers pulled all-nighters rewriting scenes, he fought to protect their words on screen.
The turning point wasn't the signing. It was the pause — the refusal that cost him his reputation, invited a massive lawsuit, and risked killing the biggest show on television. He bet everything on a principle most people would have quietly swallowed.
Season 5 aired in 2004. Ratings climbed. Awards followed. Critics called it one of the greatest seasons of television ever made. But behind the numbers was a quieter truth: James Gandolfini used his leverage not just to lift himself — but to lift everyone standing beside him.
He played a man who ruled through fear on screen. Off screen, he led through loyalty.
When he died suddenly in 2013 at age 51, cast and crew members told the same stories over and over — not about his Emmy wins or his iconic performance, but about the envelopes, the folding chair, the questions about their kids. A legacy built not on what he earned, but on what he shared.
Power doesn't always roar. Sometimes it whispers through a quiet envelope, handed over with no cameras watching.

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

It feels like something will change tonight.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I don’t want a Lambo.

I want to hang out with my 3 year old daughter at 1PM on a Monday while everyone else is at work.

[TraderSZ @trader1sz]

What did I just watch

[U.S. Senator John Fetterman @SenFettermanPA]

This is incredibly generous.

TSA agents across the country are relying on food pantries and community donations just to get by.

I remain the lone Dem to vote with my Republican colleagues to fully fund DHS and get people paid.

It should never come to this point.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country

[Short Squeez @shortsqueeznews]

BREAKING: JPMorgan plans Boston hiring spree after leasing office space.

The bank plans to become the main tenant at Boston’s South Station Tower in 2028 and will add 300 new jobs.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Here is the full 40 minutes of my crew and I exposing California fraud, Minnesota was big but California is even bigger... We uncovered over $170,000,000 in fraud as these fraudsters live in luxury with no consequences. Like it and share it, the fraud must STOP.

We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening. These fraudsters have been able to defraud American taxpayers for years without any pushback from the public and politicians.

It is time to EXPOSE IT ALL and end America's fraud crisis.

[Charles Curran @charliebcurran]

Being able to kidnap a head of state, and decapitate a regional military power back to back without taking a single american casualty is such a wild spectacle of power i don't think it has any other historic precedent

[Jack @jackunheard]

Holy smokes. This might be the most American thing I've ever seen.

Congrats to these guys 🇺🇸

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

“And I’m so proud to be AMERICAN today”

Jack Hughes you’re a LEGEND

https://t.co/ty5bB0esZP

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Keep calm.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

NEW: $525K flag that covered Abraham Lincoln's casket finds home at Keens Steakhouse in NYC steakhouse

[Dante 🇺🇸 @DanteTheDon]

This is insane