When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.
A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.
I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
"Don't believe everything you hear" 😂
Kobe gave it to Coop!?
Michael Cooper reminisced about the time he hopped in an NBA pre-draft workout with the late great Kobe Bryant.
Ongoing France vs Ivory Coast friendly. Kessié body-checked the referee thinking he was an opponent and sent his teeth into orbit. Lol 😂
Referee could be substituted.
Jon Stewart predicting our current media landscape back in 2001:
"We're all gonna get fired by the same guy one day and it's gonna be like a freaky genetic cross-breed between Dolly the Sheep and one of Murdoch's kids and it'll just rule AOLTimeViacomWarner" 👀
Hep beraber tatile gittiği arkadaşlarının, “Uçuş kartını biz çıkardık, sen hiç uğraşma” dediği adam.
Uçuş görevlisine göstermek için ‘Biniş Kartını’ istediğinde, kendisine uzatılan devasa kağıdı görünce gözlerine inanamadı😂
A deadly Black Mamba is snatched mid-air by a Snake Eagle… but the hunter becomes the hunted as the snake twists free and locks onto the eagle’s talons in a brutal struggle. Before either can escape, lions arrive on the scene, turning the chaos into a full-scale battle-leaving the trapped eagle with almost no chance of breaking free.
#videosvuvu
The official White House account just posted this:
“TWO KINGS.”
Let that sink in.
This isn’t a meme page.
This is the executive branch of the United States.
We don’t have kings.
We don’t do crowns.
We don’t do this shit.
We have a Constitution.
And the moment the people in power start joking about monarchy…
is the moment you should start asking whether they’re actually joking.
Because history has a very clear pattern:
Power doesn’t announce itself as tyranny.
It eases in as symbolism first.
Call it “harmless” if you want.
But this is how lines get blurred—and once they’re gone, they don’t magically come back.
While an American weapons officer was evading enemy forces in Iran, there was a live betting market on what day he’d make it home.
Military Times is out with a piece everyone should read on how this goes from morally indefensible to a genuine national security threat.
We know that anonymous accounts with no betting history placed and cashed out on six-figure bets on U.S. military operations minutes before they happened. I have serious concerns about insider trading here, and if that’s what’s happening, the consequences go far beyond illegal profits.
If military or government officials are trading on classified information they’re privy to, they aren’t just breaking the law. They may be exposing national security information on a public platform that our adversaries can track and use against us.
We need new rules here. That’s exactly why @SenAdamSchiff and I introduced the DEATH BETS Act, and why Congress needs to pass it.
https://t.co/uRfR6C65b0
How it feels when I’m looking at a 🔥🔥 post on 𝕏 and the timeline decides I didn’t need to finish reading it, so it refreshes when I’m halfway through it.