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[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

Being a governor for all means believing that no matter who you are & no matter where you are in life's journey, you're always welcome.

I was honored to visit and spend time at the new Hindu Temple in Robins. Thank you to Binny Bahadur and everyone I met for allowing me to join you.

[Zal @ZalinCal]

@LucasSa56947288 (A: Yes ..... ages ago!

[Zal @ZalinCal]

SAVE THE NICOBARS - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/yyXfaT4ZO9 via @Change

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Ossoff on fire here

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

A BBC investigation confirms it: IDF snipers are systematically targeting and killing Palestinian children, including infants

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

Let’s talk reality. A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out. That’s apartheid.

[Orli Peter @orlipeter]

You can hear the echo if you listen across media outlets. A line dropped here, a shrug there, each one shifting the Overton window another inch. Until the moral ground moves beneath our feet and the unthinkable becomes speakable: that shooting up Jewish children in a synagogue nursery is somehow justified because …something something …Israel.

[Zal @ZalinCal]

@ryangrim Some folks love to clutch their pearls. With everything going on right now, how does this conversation have any importance?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Dear @joerogan, he lied. Trump lies as he breathes. Yes there are people who feel betrayed by him, I talk to these folks every day. And I tell them all the same thing - I’m sorry he lied to you, but this is on you too bcuz you chose to believe a sociopath/pathological liar. And if you don’t condemn him or walk away from him when he lies to you, he’ll keep right on lying to you.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

You could begin by restoring the passenger rights work you rolled back - and then seriously enforce airline laws, like we did. Trust me, it gets results!

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story.

A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island?

It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel.

These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time.

Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’

Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’

Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind.

Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world.

I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived.

I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life.

Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

[Zal @ZalinCal]

An incident at Delhi airport sparked renewed conversation on racial prof... https://t.co/GAtBZ92o9M via @YouTube

@airindiax .... confirm? If true, how will you be addressing this?

[Zal @ZalinCal]

@WalshFreedom @abbydphillip @ScottJenningsKY Does her job benefits also included 24/7:access to a therapist? It should.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Van Hollen: I—and my office—have been working with a mom from the state of Maryland. She lived here 20 years. She has four kids. She was snatched off the streets by ICE a couple of weeks ago.

She asked to be released to be able to visit with her 15-year-old son, who was dying of cancer. They said no. Shame.

He died the next day. Her son died the next day without being able to say goodbye to his mom, and his mom was unable to say goodbye to him. That is the lack of humanity. That is the lack of basic human decency that we’re seeing from this administration. And that is why you’re all out here.

We are now working very hard to make sure that this mom is at least released to go to her son’s memorial service.

[Zal @ZalinCal]

@michaelmina_lab @Delta @united does better. I was flying to from Pt A to Pt C via B. Flight B to C had technical issues and United couldn't get me to Pt C until 30 hours later. So I asked them to send me back to Pt A. They got me a hotel, food vouchers and a 70% refund.

[Zal @ZalinCal]

@Zu__No @premierleague @LUFC #11 Brenden Aaronson 🇺🇲

[Zal @ZalinCal]

@RealGaryWebster Sadly for Martinelli, looks like Troussard got his chance.

[Zal @ZalinCal]

@RobSandIA Would love to get your thoughts on why you believe this a good thing. My view is we've moved too fast in normalizing weed use to the detriment of our younger generations. So genuinely interested in your take.