Royal_Bengal

Aspiring SuperVillain

[Raq @raqisright]

I’m convinced New York is a social experiment.

New bread store just opened (not a bakery, but a bread store): Rye

I went in to grab a loaf, my friend and I took guesses on how much a loaf would cost

I guessed $25
She guessed $80 based on the interior of the store

$60 for a loaf of bread.

There’s no way people with a fully developed frontal cortex are buying $60 loafs of bread

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

This might be the most corrupt US administration we have ever had

[The Associated Press @AP]

A jury convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defense. https://t.co/ahmHC5wXaV

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Charles Dickens making sure his youngest son is aware of why he gave him a Bible

[Theo Wold @RealTheoWold]

Last Friday, an illegal alien from Mexico was charged in Boise for using a fake birth certificate to obtain a U.S. passport, with which he was then able to receive Medicaid benefits, buy firearms, and register to vote.

The immigration bills that were introduced in the last Idaho legislative session attempted to close the legal loopholes that would allow something like this to happen.

Cheap labor Republicans, however, decided that they were perfectly okay with foreigners taking advantage of our laws.

[Remigration Station @TotalRemigrate]

Nashville is about to be completely overrun by Indians if we don’t stop the invasion NOW.

[Incentivising @incentivising]

Why people don't tell you the truth (game theory)

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 Huckabee aide with top-secret clearance solicited cash wedding gifts from Israelis, sparking security concerns

David Milstein, a senior adviser to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee who holds a top-secret security clearance, solicited monetary wedding gifts in U.S. dollars or Israeli shekels from Israeli citizens via a QR code before retracting the request Saturday, hours after Politico asked whether he had State Department or White House approval for this solicitation.

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

The Founding Fathers would have loved Twitter

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

20% of male suicides are tied directly to the breakdown of an intimate relationship:
divorce, separation, break-ups.

[Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne @RepBethVanDuyne]

H-1B visa fraud has run rampant in North Texas. Thanks to the great work of a North Texas journalist, @SaraGonzalesTX, we saw just how vast it is in our own backyard.

I alerted the Trump Administration and called for an interagency investigation. They responded quickly, and efforts are now underway to crack down on this fraud. We even have had @DOLOIG Inspector General D’Esposito in North Texas continuing to uncover the fraud and working to hold the fraudsters accountable.

[Conor Friedersdorf @conor64]

As sympathetic as I am to principals and teachers, if you run a school that routinely fails to supervise young kids at lunch, or that neglects to review a student's math work for errors, *you should be fired.* That no one demands this or imagines it possible is a problem.

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

The real takeaway from the Nikole Hannah-Jones article is that teachers and administrators are failing black and Latino kids, and that New York City (and other cities, presumably) has to stop sitting on its hands and take action to meaningfully change this.

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

"I reveal in this book for the first time that Jake Sullivan personally questioned whether Palestinians were starving in Gaza...in the Biden era, there were fewer than five U.S. officials who were regularly in contact with Palestinians." -@AkbarSAhmed

https://t.co/Gu8tQ3hgdL

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

"I like was trying to get a 1:1 with @nikitabier. He reported up into me btw. I couldn't get him to agree. So I was like, dude, if you don't f*cking answer my DMs, I'm going to go on @intro and book you so I can just have a 1:1 with you right now.

Luckily, it didn't get to that." 😅

[Buckley Carlson @buckleycarlson]

Judea declares war...

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Saudi Arabia and Israel held talks mediated by CENTCOM for Israel intelligence support against the Houthis.

Shortly after, media reported Saudi attacks on 5 locations in Yemen.

Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline was attacked causing oil prices to surge. With the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab el Mandab maritime chokepoints closed by Iran and Houthis, the East-West pipeline was an attempt to circumvent that by feeding crude into the Red Sea and export through the Suez Canal. Now, that is also shutdown and the Saudis are working with the Israelis.

Reporting has long alleged the Saudis worked with the Israelis to encourage the U.S. to start the war on Iran which started this whole situation.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

They’re not even pretending anymore.

US/Israel/Saudi Arabia/Al-Qaeda/ISIS

vs.

Houthis

[khaled_Engilsh @k_h_0oE]

BBC correspondent was surprised to find large numbers of isis and al-Qaeda members fighting on the side of the Saudi-led coalition and receiving monthly stipends...

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

Jeff Bezos on taking big swings: