MatTheWhelms

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[MatTheWhelms @matthewhelms]

“...To live so we may see your smiling face once more...” https://t.co/QWYtYFqK4b

[uSTADIUM @uSTADIUM]

This is Marshall Manning, Peyton’s 14 year-old son, spinning it. He is prepping for his 9th grade season this fall.

Marshall is expected to be in the recruiting class of 2030. (🎥: qbc_chattanooga on IG).

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell on live TV. US Senator Chris Coons confirms Israel intentionally assassinated the exact Iranian leader the Trump Administration was trying to negotiate peace with. Israel deliberately sabotaged diplomacy to trap Washington in an endless war.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

BREAKING🚨: This was EPIC 🔥

🇺🇸Trump: We need $2 billion a day to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

🇺🇸US Senator: But the SOH was already open before the war? So what was the point of whole war?

You have created a Global Crisis OUT OF NOTHING” 🔥🔥

BRUTAL REALITY CHECK⚡️🗿

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Jim Himes: We're giving Iranians billions of $ by letting them sell oil to China, which they use to buy drones from Russia.

And, we're allowing Russia to sell oil so they can fund attacks against Ukraine and our own troops.

You couldn't make this up in a Hollywood script.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

NBC News exposes massive insider trading right before the Trump administration launched the Iran war. Elites pocketed millions with advance knowledge of military strikes while ordinary Americans suffer soaring gas prices and job losses. The corruption is staggering.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The video shows Marco Rubio first saying that “Ukraine is not America’s war,” and then older video showing him explaining how “America promised to defend Ukraine in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons.”

Rubio has become a prime example of the MAGA cult mentality. He has compromised his own principles in order to follow the cult leader.

Rubio is now wearing shoes that do not fit, yet he is too afraid to admit it.

[Ryan Schumpert @ryanschumpert00]

Rick Barnes on Ethan Burg: "I’ll tell you a great story with Ethan. He was really struggling, and I actually asked him one day, I said, are you about ready to quit? Because he was down, about as low as you could be.

He said to me, Coach, I will never, ever quit on these guys. He said, this is the first real team I’ve ever been a part of. He says if I never play another minute, I will never quit on these guys. I promise you. He said I love them. There’s a brotherhood with us. I would never quit on them.

And he hasn’t. The last couple games, we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for him. He has maturity, and he went through a tough time.

You’ve got to realize, his family has been in and out of bunkers in Tel Aviv for months now. It’s been tough on him, but he’s handled it really, really well.

That was one of the greatest things that any player’s ever said to me. He said, I would never quit on these guys. And he wasn’t playing. He just kept grinding and good things happen to people that do that.”

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute humiliation for Trump. A national security expert points out Trump is desperately trying to negotiate the exact same Iran nuclear deal he ripped up in 2018. The US literally went to war just to get back to the agreement they already had. Total incompetence.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is an important point. Behind the unforgivable lie - we were not in talks and Trump just made that up - is that the lie telegraphed to Iran that Trump is desperate and in a corner, which has the impact of making talks even less likely. Just national security malpractice.

[MatTheWhelms @matthewhelms]

.@nateburleson knows how to dress. I need this style, but I’m not cool enough. Never seen a jacket/suit like that. So cool.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@jonstewart Iran-splains the ramifications of closing the Strait of Hormuz in a way even Trump can understand

[Senator Chris Coons @ChrisCoons]

Nazeer fought alongside our soldiers and came to the US with the promise we'd protect him, only to be detained by ICE and dead 24 hours later. There needs to be an independent investigation into his arrest and death and accountability for any mistreatment. https://t.co/vy4LZYM7s1

[Josh Rogin @joshrogin]

“I don’t think the European countries are going to come and bail out of this mess. You have to think about the context here. Trump just spent a year hurting their economies on purpose, threatening to attack NATO, threatening to pull out of NATO. And then the Trump administration started this war without even bothering to consult them, didn’t take their interests into account until he needed them. And their populations are at historic levels of anti-Americanism because of how we’ve treated them over the last year.”

“And they are democracies, so I don’t think their leaders are going to be able to overcome that. And why would they? It’s much easier, and you’ll see a bunch of countries doing this, to negotiate with the Iranians. The Iranians are setting up a system whereby they let the ships pass that they want to let pass. Just in the last 24 hours, they let several ships pass for countries that they’re not at war with. So if you were any country in the world, depending on this Strait, it’s much easier to make a deal with the Iranians than to send your ships down the Strait, to make them sitting ducks for Iranian drones and missiles, which seems crazy reckless.”

[MatTheWhelms @matthewhelms]

I am no expert, but @shailenewoodley is deserving of some award for her role in Paradise. The depiction of intense emotion was really awesome.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is genuinely extraordinary: https://t.co/bCioDPpxC4

Speaking is General Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

He says that the UK "should not, in any way, shape or form be involved with the Americans because they are being led by a couple of gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth without a proper strategy and without serious thought about what the end state for this war is."

He goes on: "Yet again we have an American president who has gone to war, a war of choice, a war of hubris frankly, without ANY [the emphasis is his] clear idea of how the war ends and without any clear strategy." He predicts that "this thing is going to go south very, very quickly."

He highlights in particular just how foolish it was to kill Ayatollah Khamenei: "The idea of assassinating the Ayatollah Khamenei who was not just Iran's head of state but he was the religious symbol for Shiites worldwide. Assassinating him during the month of Ramadan is about as subtle as murdering the Pope on the steps of St Peter's in Holy Week. It will inflame the Shiite world and what you're doing by doing that is probably pushing large numbers of Iranians who might have been reconcilable, who might have thought about rising up, back into the fold of the irreconcilable."

[MatTheWhelms @matthewhelms]

Amazing quote from @tess_darby10: “Accountability isn't disrespect, and standards aren't mistreatment.” Dude.

[Tennessee Basketball @Vol_Hoops]

Devastated by the news of Wes Rucker's tragic passing.

Our hearts and prayers are with his family and loved ones. He will be deeply missed by so many in our community and beyond.

[John Nabors @JohnNaborsShow]

John Calipari goes OFF for nearly SEVEN MINUTES about current state of college athletics & the Trentyn Flowers story in CBB. I haven't seen him this fired up in a press conference...ever?

[MatTheWhelms @matthewhelms]

The least among us are leading us.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Senator Angela Alsobrooks tells RFK Jr that he isn’t answering any questions or he’s acting like he’s forgetting them when she and others question him so she asks him which office the “Safe to Sleep” Campaign operates out of? He gives her the wrong answer! How embarrassing! 😡