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[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

Give us a break: If you cared about the victims as you say, you’d stop making false accusations to cover your ass and start using your $220m of influence with President Trump to get justice for the victims.

Instead, you’re focused on comparing my visit fundraising for MIT to your begging to go to his island (which happened TWO YEARS before the screenshot you shared), and helicoptering over to Epstein looking for the “wildest party.”

You lied about this to everyone for over a decade, and now your excuse (it’s disgusting, by the way) is that you could get young girls without Epstein?

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

If only the guy who made fun of a beloved movie director for being murdered wasn't also deindustrializing America with tariffs, encouraging a measles epidemic, and selling American interests out to Russia and China

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

🚨 We now have an official leak confirming that this so-called “peace proposal” was completely fabricated by the Russians. The crazy part? The US government even pretended to be the authors of this document, when it was so obviously Russian. Even more astonishing, it became part of official discussions—and they were so obviously lying to all of us!

[Coffeezilla @coffeebreak_YT]

The HyperLiquid whale shorting BTC/ETH yesterday was placing shorts up till exactly 1 minute before Trump threatened tariffs against China.

The last short was placed at 20:49 GMT. Trump tweeted at 20:50 GMT.

What incredible "luck"

[John Bolton @AmbJohnBolton]

The White House has set U.S.-India relations back decades, pushing Modi closer to Russia and China. Beijing has cast itself as an alternative to the U.S. and Donald Trump.

https://t.co/klFKyh1BrK

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Best one of these i've seen in a minute.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

If a fictional admiral in Battlestar Galactica can figure this out in the middle of a robot invasion maybe Earth can too.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

I wish conservatives got this straight:

Without blue states, America would look like a failing country; patchy internet, collapsing schools, no tech, no medicine, no future.

Red states cash the federal checks. Blue states write them.

You don’t fund the nation. You bleed it dry.

The math is simple: the places screaming the loudest bring the least to the table.

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

Putin meets alone with Trump.

A week later, US intelligence is gutted by Tulsi Gabbard.

FBI goes after John Bolton.

Had Putin ordered it through Amazon, could not have been more efficient.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

Those of you who don't know what authoritarianism looks like...this is it. All the gaslighting about previous presidents "what about...!!! Is bullshit. I've been talking about the slide towards NOW for 30+ years. Those earlier concerns were nothing. Now we are HERE.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

The GOP is no longer a political party.

The GOP is a cult.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I’ll donate to Texas Democrats like @JamesTalarico and others fighting the GOP’s gerrymandering scam:

💰 $0.10 per like on this tweet
💰 $0.50 per retweet
💰 $1 per follow

(Starting at 86,373 followers)

It costs ~$500/day for each Dem to block the TX GOP from rigging the midterms.

Let’s help them hold the line.

P.S. If this blows up, I will cut y’all off eventually. 💙

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Chair Powell has been one of the unsung heroes of the U.S. economy these past few years. He deserves better than this.
So does our economy, which Trump is trying to turn into a Venezuela or a Turkey with his efforts to politicize the central bank.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Under Trump, the U.S. has become one of the most corrupt governments in the world.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

FUCK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Invented by the RADICAL LEFT DEMOCRATS:

https://t.co/SUz8chTxvH

[Adam Robinson @IAmAdamRobinson]

No pain, no gain!

Right?

WRONG!

What if success did not require sacrifice at all?

Hear me out.

To be sure, even the giants sometimes viewed their hard work as the necessary painful cost of success.

The great Muhammad Ali admitted, "I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

Short-term pain for the sake of long-term pleasure.

Of course, the problem we run into is that the short-term pain of hard work and effort is competing against the temptations of immediate pleasures all around us,

while the long-term pleasure is, well, distant, and unlikely to be realized anytime soon.

But...

what if we could reframe the no-pain-no-gain tradeoff as no tradeoff at all?

What if you didn't have to suffer now to live the rest of your life as a champion?

What if you could celebrate now to live the rest of your life as a champion?

The next time you know you should be heading to the gym, or starting your business plan, or revising your manuscript, or improving your programming skills,

and countless temptations or distractions beckon,

instead of exercising willpower, discipline, or self-restraint,

TRY THIS:

imagine how many people would choose wisely in your situation?

1 in 100? 1 in 1,000? 1 in 1,000,000?

Right now, feel the joy, the pride, you experience in doing the right thing.

Turning down the temptation isn't a sacrifice now,

it's the way you experience your superiority.

Not superiority over Others—superiority over yourself!

Yesterday you might have given in to the temptation, probably would have. And tomorrow you might.

But not today.

Today you choose to REVEL IN THE PLEASURE OF SELF-MASTERY.

no other comes close!

[This You? @Thiss_Youu]

🇺🇦

[Brandon Bradford @BrandonLBradfor]

Estimated cost of the undocumented on American healthcare/Medicaid is ~3 billion out of our annual healthcare costs of 4.9 trillion. Roughly, effectively, 0%. By every estimate we can find, it would be actually very difficult to round up and get it to 1%.

[₿it Cat⚡🟠🗝️🇨🇦 @feline_toshi]

Well this is something.

Old wallet flaw exploit?
Legal notices in OP_RETRUN?
Lost references?

October 5, 2025.
Bookmark it.

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