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[Department of State @StateDept]

Welcome to the Volunteer State.

The United States of America is the most beautiful country in the world, and we’re happy you’re visiting.

[Jon Schweppe 🇺🇸 @JonSchweppe]

lol

[Lyndsey Fifield @lyndseyfifield]

This week I've heard from dozens of women who have been victims of domestic violence.

Many have remarked not just how much they relate to my story overall but how they, too, once qualified their abuse in the same way I did in my interview with the Times: Clarifying that Graham didn't break my arm, didn't ever punch or slap me.

I didn't realize that was what I was doing—I just didn't want to exaggerate. If anything I wanted to downplay his violence and the deep, lasting impact it has had on my life.

I also have felt I need to be clear that I was never, ever antagonistic, never picked a fight, and took great pains to try to keep him from becoming enraged.

My friends have pointed out that that's not normal. I shouldn't feel the need to insist to the public that I didn't do anything to deserve or provoke physical intimidation, control, or abuse. No one does.

I forgave Graham years ago and was glad to see that he had gotten sober and seemingly had gotten help for his mental health issues—I sincerely wished him well but when I realized I was not the only woman he had done this to, that he has a lifelong pattern of deep contempt for women, I realized he had suckered me once again.

And instead of support for coming forward, Jenny and I have been met with horrific smears, told it was “karma,” or that it wasn’t “that bad.”

So... yeah, that is actually pretty classic.

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

I hope this is true.

But if it is, you will see massive movement of oil tankers tomorrow. I find that highly unlikely.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

This 15 year old girl was nonconsenually and unknowingly touched, groped, and violated by a man.

This is beyond a civil offense. In a just society, every adult who allowed for this scenario to play out would be criminally charged.

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match.

Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong.

Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

It’s inconceivable that two future Hall of Famers would be combat vets in today’s day and age.

Great ballplayers and great Americans!

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

They don’t care.

At no point has the pro-Hamas crowd ever actually cared about Gazan civilians. They are just pawns for their anti-West campaign, and if it’s Islamists torturing and killing them, they won’t say a word.

[Gummi @gummibear737]

This is a good step, even if overdue, but doesn't change how much the US has lost in terms of leverage and credibility during the ceasefire

Having said that, I'm not convinced this will be sustained in a credible way that reverses that damage...but I'm hoping Trump gets it right

[Walter Kirn @walterkirn]

JD Vance as an Elliot Ness-Like fraud cop is a role that suits him, I think. The VP job, performed traditionally, is stuffy and ceremonial and inert. I like the man-of-action version better, issuing warnings, swooping in on raids, briefing the public on the recovered loot.

[Tennessean @SkySoldierVol]

@jek314642 @JustinPetersMin @grcastleberry Nope. Don't mean that at all. I've always voted out churches that had female pastors. Always will. Blessed night.

[Thomas Hern @ThomasMHern]

Heck of a diving catch by Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt.

It should surprise no one that Republicans are better than Democrats at baseball.

[TV News Now @TVNewsNow]

🚨 NEW: Fox News’ @marcthiessen on tonight’s attack on Iran: “The goal should not be to get them back to the table. We’ve launched 13,500 strikes and it hasn’t brought them to the table in any serious way. That’s a hopeless cause at this point. We have to destroy this regime.”

[Tennessean @SkySoldierVol]

@JustinPetersMin @grcastleberry The "Yes" vote would've been higher IMHO if we'd allowed more time for discussion and made the wording more precise. But that didn't happen. Poor form to call the question so soon.

[Tennessean @SkySoldierVol]

@JustinPetersMin @grcastleberry 25% didn't vote no because they think female pastors are okay. Some voted no because they're concerned the language, specifically the word "endorse," could be weaponized against female SBC endorsed missionaries and chaplains.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

🚫 CLAIM: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims that the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

✅ TRUTH: Commercial ships are continuing to transit in and out of the Strait of Hormuz tonight.

[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

The drone that took down one of our Apaches got lodged between the two pilots, was on fire, but did not explode. Both pilots survived. That is absolutely incredible. This is what you call a kind providence of God. Wow.

[BT @back_ttys]

Everyone needs to relax. New England would never send a man with an alcohol problem and a history of abusing women to the United States Senate.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Somewhere, at some left-wing news site, they are preparing a hit job on that German guy everyone is now following on Twitter as he travels the country for the World Cup.

[Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman]

This is the strait opening operation that has been overdue since mid-April.