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[deanphil @deanphil]

@MAGAVoice No, she should learn how to do a fair and balanced interview. Trump already agreed to a do-over.

[deanphil @deanphil]

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[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice claims the war with Iran has fundamentally reshaped the Middle East in America’s favor, leaving Tehran weaker, Israel stronger, and giving President Donald Trump a historic opportunity to secure long-term regional stability.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos reveals the simple phrase that saved him countless arguments running Amazon

"Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing"

"One of my direct reports would want to do something. I'd think it was a bad idea. We'd go back and forth and I'd often say, you know what, I don't think you're right, but I'm going to gamble with you"

"You're closer to the ground truth than I am. I've known you for 20 years, you have great judgment"

"At least then you've made a decision and I'm agreeing to commit to that decision. I'm not going to be second guessing it, sniping at it, or saying I told you so"

"I'm going to try actively to help make sure it works. That's a really important teammate behavior"

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST NOW: President Trump angers the Democrats by going full WASHINGTON DC BEAUTY mode, he personally made donations and worked with Doug Burgum

"You're going to have the reflecting pool opened within hours. I mean, literally within hours. The water starts pouring in tonight. It's going to be beautiful. You haven't seen that since 1922!"

"The parks are open. We changed the grass. You know, grass has a life also. Grass has a life. And that grass hasn't been changed in 70, 80 years. It died many times over!"

"We have beautiful grass, beautiful parks, beautiful everything. We don't have people living on it. And Washington, D.C. In a matter of 14 months, Washington, D.C. is like a different place that people are coming here!"

"You know, the restaurants were all going out of business, you know, because you used the restaurants. And now the restaurants are hot. In fact, if anything, we don't have enough restaurants based."

"They're all reopening. It's become vibrant. It's a beautiful thing to watch. And I am honored that I've been able to do it to our nation's capital."

Patriot.

[Sports Patriot @SportsPatriotUS]

I’m going to say this as calmly as possible:

Watching Caitlin Clark in the WNBA has become genuinely hard to stomach.

Not because she struggles sometimes. Not because she makes mistakes. Not because she gets criticized. That comes with being great.

It’s hard to stomach because it has become obvious that the league, the officials, the media, the players, and even her own organization have all decided that the most important thing is not letting Caitlin Clark become too big.

And that is insane.

This league was handed the most marketable, electric, revenue-generating player women’s basketball has ever seen, and instead of building around the moment, too many people seem obsessed with humbling her.

She gets fouled. Held. Hit. Cheap-shotted. Mocked. Targeted. Then when she reacts like a normal competitor, suddenly everyone wants to analyze her attitude.

No.

Her attitude is not the story.

The story is that a generational player is being treated like a problem by the very league she helped drag into mainstream relevance.

This reminds me of the worst kind of youth coach... the one who sees a special player, feels threatened by her talent, and slowly drains the joy out of her in the name of “teaching humility.”

That is what this looks like.

The freedom she played with at Iowa is disappearing. The fire is still there, but the joy looks damaged. The confidence looks weighed down. She looks like someone constantly fighting the refs, opponents, narratives, coaching decisions, jealousy, and a league culture that should be protecting its golden opportunity instead of resenting it.

And let’s be honest: Stephanie White has not helped.

Benching Caitlin Clark randomly when she is controlling the game tempo, or having your best shooter off the floor in critical game ending minutes when a victory is within reach is basketball malpractice. Limiting her rhythm, downplaying her greatness, benching momentum, and treating her like just another piece instead of the engine is absurd.

You do not take a player who changed the economics of your sport and manage her like you’re afraid her greatness might offend the room.

Nike deserves criticism too. Other players get signature shoes rolled out with urgency, while the biggest draw in women’s basketball is somehow still waiting on that signature shoe. That is not confusing. That is revealing.

Fans are not stupid.

They see the fouls.
They see the double standards.
They see the jealousy.
They see the media resentment.
They see the league benefiting from her popularity while refusing to fully embrace her.
And here is the part the WNBA better understand quickly:
People are not tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be humbled.
They are tuning in to watch Caitlin Clark be great.
If she walked away tomorrow, the fans would follow her. The sponsors would follow her. The energy would follow her. The high salaries and the charter jets would follow her. And the league would be forced to confront the uncomfortable truth it keeps trying to avoid:

Caitlin Clark did not need the WNBA nearly as much as the WNBA needed Caitlin Clark.

At some point, her family, her agent, and her team need to ask a hard question:

How much longer do you let a league profit from her while allowing the culture around her to beat the spirit out of her?

Because from the outside looking in, this does not look like normal adversity anymore. It looks like abuse.

It looks like a league trying to break the very player who made millions of people care.

https://t.co/AAxFrO46Z4

[deanphil @deanphil]

@mich_enjoyer B

[deanphil @deanphil]

@WhiteHouse Imagine if they did this simple design to fix the student loan fiasco. That system sucks.

[Newt Gingrich @newtgingrich]

After spending this week reviewing the Iranian war I am now convinced President Trump is on the edge of an historic victory. The real breakthrough for me came as I reviewed President Trump’s decisions and maneuvers not from the standpoint of American unilateralism but from the standpoint of the leader of a remarkable historic coalition, the largest coalition ever put together in the modern Middle East. Everyone understands that Israel is an important ally. What is little discussed is the depth of support from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the region. It has to be sobering for the Iranian dictatorship to realize that it does not have a single ally willing to challenge the American naval blockade. Slowly, gradually, timidly, our European allies are lining up to help with the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. A great deal of President Trump’s maneuvers against Iran make sense once he is seen as a coalition leader and not just as a unilateral American President. I spent a lot of the last couple weeks reviewing kinetic options including wining the battle of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and if necessary using the shocking and shattering level of force President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger used against Hanoi and Haiphong in Christmas 1972 (which both leaders believed convinced the North Vietnamese to agree to a truce and the freeing of American POWs). If this were a unilateral American campaign I could enthusiastically support a more aggressive kinetic campaign. However it is also clear it would shatter the coalition because our Arab allies are convinced Iran could still do enormous damage to their oil fields and infrastructure. Coalitions are inherently slower than unilateral campaigns. However coalitions ultimately bring vastly more power to the fight. I am as frustrated as everyone else by the pace of talking with the dictatorship but having reviewed the correlation of forces and the options available to the coalition on one side and the Iranian religiously motivated dictatorship on the other I am prepared to assert that President Trump’s coalition leadership (something almost none of his critics want to acknowledge) is within reach of an enormous historic victory. And if the Iranian dictatorship ultimately proves it is hopelessly committed to a suicidal position there will be plenty of time for a kinetic campaign of enormous power and effectiveness. Either way we are on the edge of an astonishing victory for our values and for a safer Middle East.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Treasury Sec. SCOTT BESSENT is officially filling in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt tomorrow in the White House briefing room at 2PM

LFG! This comes after both Marco Rubio and JD Vance filled in

Acting Press Sec. Bessent will crush it 🤣🔥

[deanphil @deanphil]

@hikingtheglobe0 Duh

[Women’s Hoops Network @WomensHoops_USA]

Cameron Brink tonight 🔥

• 16 points
• 8 rebounds
• 7/11 FG
• 24 minutes played

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

@TulsiGabbard shared publicly today that her husband Abraham has been diagnosed with bone cancer and she is resigning her position as Director of National Intelligence. Would you join me in praying for Abraham and Tulsi?

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Retard of the day 🥇

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

You have been in office since I was 17 years old. Your career is nothing more than failed impeachments. The day you leave office everyone will immediately forget you ever existed.

You inspire no one. Stand for nothing - and have no influence outside of the msnow greenroom.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Nick Shirley drops a BOMBSHELL, a Somali fraudster he exposed just got criminally CHARGED, and Ilhan Omar HAD TO KNOW about it

Fahima Mahamud faces FEDERAL charges, and engaged in child care fraud, linked to Feeding Our Future

SHIRLEY: "For Ilhan to say she doesn't know about this fraud is like the biggest lie we've heard in America history! She knew about the fraud."

"And today they actually just criminally charged one of the ladies whose daycare was used for the Feeding Our Future fraud! I exposed her daycare in my video that viral. That person's now been charged."

"And that was the same daycare that was used to run Feeding Our Future."

Keep exposing it all, @nickshirleyy! @willcain

[Liz Wheeler @Liz_Wheeler]

"The Minnesota 'mastermind' of the state’s massive COVID meal fraud claims 'Squad' Rep. Ilhan Omar was in on the $250 million scam," the New York Post reports.

Omar, the Post reports, "was instrumental in loosening the laws that set the stage for this scheme."

Ilhan Omar introduced the MEALS Act to Congress in 2020, which the Post reports "allowed the US Department of Agriculture to issue waivers of school-meal requirements during the pandemic."

"The waivers dramatically eased oversight of the federal programs by allowing restaurants to participate without any of the usual site inspections. Omar would personally step in whenever those waivers ran out, allowing the rampant fraud to continue," the mastermind Aimee Bock alleged.

Thanks to Ilhan Omar's MEALS Act, fraudsters could get a waiver that let them bypass any kind of site inspection.

Without Ilhan Omar's MEALS Act and her greasing the wheels of these waivers, this $250 million fraud scheme could not have happened.

Omar rigged the system to benefit her fraudster friends.

The only reason they're behind bars and she's not is she makes the laws that enable the fraud...