Lead From Day One

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[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

I saw it. Now you have to see it. His name is Samuel. And he…is a king.

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
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[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel bombed a Roman Fort in Lebanon, over 2000 years old, one of the finest examples of Roman Architecture left on the planet, stood isolated on a hill.

But Israel bombed it anyway.

They are terrorists, and they destroy everything.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

This is what an Emmy awards acceptance speech looks like. Kudos

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained"

Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The instant he lost his seat, Cassidy began standing up for things he’s known all along were right. Profiles in cowardice, through all the ranks of the GOP.

[Daniel Pink @DanielPink]

Just sat down with David Epstein (NYT bestselling science writer) to gut-check the "wise" beliefs quietly wrecking careers.

The 7 that hit hardest:

[LateNighter @latenightercom]

Colin Jost says he pitched Pete Hegseth mistakenly quoting Pulp Fiction as Bible verse in the SNL writers room—then Hegseth actually did it.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

Robert Gates, who served as CIA director and defense secretary under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, spoke with CBS News’ @margbrennan about the Iran war, saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has for years pushed U.S. presidents to consider military action against Iran.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

MAGA is winning its war against American elections, with the universe of people pressing debunked theories now so broad that it’s a feature of the system, @yvonnewingett, @shaneharris, and @S_Fitzpatrick report. https://t.co/RLuk5BVEMu

🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Mark Ruffalo: “We’re watching this degradation of journalism through political pressure happening at CBS right now. They brought a war criminal on 60 Minutes the other night. Netanyahu, they gave him their 60 Minutes platform”

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

President Trump unloading on @SangerNYT reflects a combination of anxiety, insecurity and desperation about the Iran war. David is the dean of national security reporters: experienced, meticulous and fair. Blaming the messenger underscores that the reality itself is pretty bad.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

They Want to Put Us Back on the Plantation

Alabama House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter didn’t misspeak. He said the quiet part out loud. While defending the dismantling of Black political power in Alabama through racist gerrymandering, he openly declared that he hopes the Supreme Court overturns the 14th Amendment, the amendment that granted citizenship to formerly enslaved Black people after slavery.

Let that sink in.

An elected official in 2026 is publicly expressing hope that the constitutional amendment recognizing Black people as citizens of this country will be overturned.

And some people still want to pretend America isn’t racist.

This is what Make America Great Again has always meant to the extremists driving it: rolling back the gains of Reconstruction, gutting voting rights, erasing Black history, dismantling civil rights protections, purging Black people from positions of power, and returning America to a racial hierarchy where whiteness is protected and Black existence is controlled.

I have said many times on my radio program that Black people in America are only a couple of laws away from the plantation. Some people called that hyperbole. It wasn’t hyperbole. It was historical awareness. Because Black progress in America has always been conditional in the minds of white supremacists. Every gain we made had to be forced through protest, bloodshed, organizing, litigation, and sacrifice, and every gain has always faced backlash from people who never accepted our humanity in the first place.

The 14th Amendment is the foundation upon which modern civil rights protections stand. Birthright citizenship. Equal protection. Due process. Voting rights rulings. School desegregation. Anti-discrimination law. All of it flows from the legal recognition that Black people are fully citizens and fully human under the Constitution.

And now powerful Republicans are openly fantasizing about undoing it.

I have absolutely no confidence that this racist Supreme Court will protect Black citizenship, Black voting rights, or Black humanity if given the opportunity to weaken them. This Court has already gutted the Voting Rights Act, enabled racial gerrymandering, weakened affirmative action, and signaled hostility toward every major civil rights protection won through the blood of our ancestors.

So Black people need to stop treating this like politics as usual. This is not a game. This is not partisan disagreement. This is a fight over whether this country will continue moving toward democracy or openly embrace apartheid-style white nationalism.

Our ancestors fought too hard, bled too much, marched too long, and died too young for us to sit comfortably while people in power openly discuss stripping away the very amendment that recognized our citizenship.

If this nation is determined to drag us backward, then we must be just as determined to resist. We must organize, educate, mobilize, vote, protest, litigate, build institutions, protect our communities, and prepare ourselves spiritually, politically, and economically for what is clearly coming.

Because they are not hiding it anymore.

They are trying to put us back on the plantation.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

US Senate Vote on passing Voting Rights Act of 1965

[Bear Liu @bearliu]

这个 芬兰饶舌歌手的MV 在英推已经传疯了，估计还有很多人没有看过。一镜到底，没有任何技术，但整个MV就是一个编舞和审美与执行的炫技。

我太喜欢了！特别是那些 AI 东西看多了，审美疲劳，看见这种人类的创意加执行出来的精品，那种张力就忽然让我意识到，很多事情机器真的替代不了。

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The most honest thing ever said about the American War was said by a Vietnamese colonel to an American colonel after the war ended.

The American colonel, Harry Summers, told his Vietnamese counterpart:

"You know, you never defeated us on the battlefield."

The Vietnamese colonel, Nguyễn Đôn Tự, thought about it and replied:

"That may be so. But it is also irrelevant."

That exchange contains the entire war.

The Americans won battles. They won firefights. They had superior firepower in almost every conventional engagement.

By their own metrics, body counts, kill ratios, territory controlled, they were often "winning."

And they lost the war.

Because wars are not won by body counts.

Wars are not won by kill ratios.

Wars are not won by the number of bombs dropped or the cost of the weapons deployed or the technological sophistication of the killing machinery.

Wars, especially wars of occupation, wars of colonial imposition, wars fought against people defending their own land, are won by will.

And on the question of will, there was never a contest.

The Vietnamese people had been resisting foreign occupation for two thousand years before America arrived.

Fighting was not a policy position. It was a cultural inheritance. A collective understanding of who they were and what they would do when someone came to tell them how to live.

America arrived with the most powerful military in human history and a firm belief that sufficient firepower could substitute for legitimacy.

It cannot. It never could. It never will.

Irrelevant. That one word, from a Vietnamese colonel to his American counterpart, is the entire lesson.

[Ellie Leonard🇺🇦 @RedPencilScript]

We absolutely need to investigate the accusations against Swalwell, and prosecute him if necessary. But the fact that this is big news, and 40+ similar accusations against Donald Trump isn't, is beyond me.
https://t.co/QkWLaawMvf

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Okay! But I gotta ask, since you seem concerned about sexual misconduct, have you met President Trump?

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles