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[grey area @TJSilman]

Framing matters. Beyond the fact that no agreement was reached per Ukrainian negotiators, a more accurate title would have been: "How a Russian Massacre Scuttled the Chance for an Early Peace in Ukraine"

https://t.co/eYTsS77CdI

[Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus]

Four days before Trump’s inauguration, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal w/the Trump family to buy a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500M, according to documents & people familiar.

The buyer paid half up front, steering $187M to Trump family entities and $31M to Witkoff entities.

The investment was backed by the UAE national security adviser, Tahnoon bin Zayed. The deal put two executives at his company, G42, on the board of WLF, alongside Eric Trump and Zach Witkoff.

W/@skesslr @eliotwb @AABerwick https://t.co/toL2TKth6j

[grey area @TJSilman]

@RachelMoiselle It’s wild on here now. Dude literally has “NatSoc” and “anti-Abrahamic” in his bio, and posts tons of swastikas. Why should we give Elon our attention (aka money) for this garbage?

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

[grey area @TJSilman]

@stephenwertheim @mattyglesias presumably you're smart enough to know that "giving" =/ "success in building" - can't retcon a different phrasing.

[grey area @TJSilman]

@j_fishback Just because you can't read doesn't mean they aren't answering.

[Andriy Yermak @AndriyYermak]

I’m convinced the world cannot afford to be anything but united and strong in times when even Oasis has reunited.

Today, Ukraine says: Stand by me.

[grey area @TJSilman]

@DKThomp I think you missed a few opportunities to interrogate his abundance bonafides. For example, when talking about the existing NYC grocery program, he highlighted how it "doesn't require collective bargaining." Larding on such requirements is the opposite of abundance liberalism!

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

This @propublica story is important and Democrats need to talk about it. Bukele isn't tough on crime. His political rise is built on dirty deals with MS-13. Gangs round up votes. Bukele does them favors, and the gangs don't stop killing, they just hide the bodies better. (1/2)

[Corey Walker 🇺🇸 @CoreyWriting]

I love how people say "I'm not antisemitic, I'm anti-Zionist" and then respond to a video like this by jumping over a Jewish actor for talking about his faith, demanding that he talk about Palestine instead.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich
2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor
3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income

Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.

[Leicester City @LCFC]

GREATEST OF ALL TIME 🐐

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Housing is broken

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

The Wall Street Journal obtained exclusive documents from within Gaza, which were verified by several Arab intelligence and diplomatic sources, about Hamas’s real intention behind the October 7 attacks. The Islamist group was primarily concerned with sabotaging the prospect of Saudi-Israeli normalization, which it felt would be a significant setback to itself and the Palestinian issue, despite promises by Saudi Arabia that Palestinian statehood would be a precondition of normalization, Hamas’s Sinwar and senior leadership did not trust Saudi promises and decided to activate attack plans that had been in the works for years.

Before using Gaza, Hamas wanted to escalate violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem to torpedo Saudi-Israeli normalization. But when that failed, the Gaza Strip became the fulcrum of the terror organizations’ hopes that it could undo what at the time seemed like an inevitability. Interestingly, the documents also revealed that Hamas advertised a job position or possible positions to include grassroots organizing against normalization with Israel and to employ tactics of boycott of entities that were in support of normalizing with Israel.

This is a massive and significant revelation that proves an incredibly disturbing fact and reality: October 7 was not about breaking the blockade, breaking out of the Gaza prison or “concentration camp,” responding to injustices in the West Bank or Jerusalem, or seeking to promote Palestinian rights and statehood. It was a very specific and nefarious political action by a deadly terror organization to derail a political development that it felt was not advantageous to its objectives.

This proves all Hamas’s critics right, that Gaza did not need to be destroyed on October 7 for the terrorist group to make a point. As many others and I have repeatedly stated, Gaza was a beautiful place that meant so much for its people, and Hamas could have made different choices to prevent the territory’s annihilation by the most far-right government in Israel’s history.

To all who incessantly excuse the terrorist organization: the evidence is before you to realize that your beloved “resistance” organization is a fraud and that justifications for October 7 that got 60,000 Palestinians killed are nothing but a web of lies by an ISIS-like Jihadi organization which is largely rejected by Palestinians in Gaza.

[Ben Hunt @EpsilonTheory]

We live in a golden age of found humor, and it’s important not to let gems like this slip away.

[StopAntisemitism @StopAntisemites]

SCAD’s Class of 2028 is planning a party - only if no Jews are invited.

This is vile antisemitism and blatant racism.

The student behind it should face serious discipline, including possible expulsion.

@SCADdotedu, would you tolerate this if it targeted any other group on campus?

[Reid Jackson @reidjjackson]

How it started / How it’s going

[grey area @TJSilman]

@dieworkwear Some people are just good at Twitter, and the rest of us can bow down

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Let it begin.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

If you don’t consider this to be classified info about imminent war plans, it *may* be that you’re too partisan to recognise the truth when it slaps you around your tribal chops. If this had happened on Biden’s watch, Republicans would have rightly gone berserk.