Michael J. Forman

Personal Manager/Producer Beverly Hills representing actors, models, writers, and directors. Producing film and TV. Trying to do a little good each day.

[Overton @overton_news]

John Fetterman just broke from his party’s usual rhetoric and praised Elon Musk as a modern-day Thomas Edison.

Fetterman ripped into the critics like Graham Platner, who attack Musk’s wealth, asking why anyone would hate a visionary who builds companies and creates jobs.

FETTERMAN: “I’m in awe of what he’s accomplished. We’re the same age, he’s so far more successful and smarter than I could ever be.”

“Then you have people, you know, that guy from Maine said that he’s our first trillionaire, let’s make sure he’s the last one.”

“And I’m like, why do you hate a guy, he builds rockets, he builds cars…how many jobs have you created?”

“That would be like hating on Thomas Edison and these other kind of entrepreneurs.”

[Solomon Friedman 🇮🇱💙✡️ @Rabbinical_]

Next time you say Jews didn’t build America take a look at this picture.

While few in number, Jews fought and prayed fervently for independence 🙏🏻💙

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Thierry Henry looks back at Messi’s impressive performance in Argentina’s comeback win

[ᜰ 🇦🇷🇯🇵 @markklfc]

Lionel Messi on why he broke down in tears after Argentina’s victory over Egypt:

🗣️ “People saw me crying and probably thought they were tears of happiness. The truth is… they were much more than that.

When the final whistle blew, every emotion I had been carrying for years came crashing down at once. The pressure, the expectations, the fear of letting my country down it all exploded inside me. There are moments in football when your heart simply cannot hold everything anymore.

After missing the penalty, I felt like I had failed my teammates, my family, and every Argentine who believed in me. I couldn’t stop replaying that moment in my head. I kept asking myself, ‘What if that miss costs us everything?’ Those were the longest minutes I’ve ever lived on a football pitch.

My teammates never stopped believing in me. They kept telling me to lift my head, to keep fighting, and they gave everything to turn the match around. Watching them sacrifice for me made the final whistle even more emotional because I knew I wasn’t carrying this dream alone.

When I looked into the stands and saw my family crying, I completely lost control of my emotions. They have lived every criticism with me, every defeat, every sleepless night, every sacrifice that nobody sees. Those tears were for them as much as they were for Argentina.

People only see ninety minutes on the pitch. They don’t see the years of pain, the sacrifices, the injuries, the doubts, or the fear that every World Cup could be your last. At this stage of my career, you understand that every match could be the final chapter of a lifetime’s dream.

I cried because I realized how close football can bring you to losing everything you’ve worked for. One moment can change history forever. Tonight, we survived, but emotionally it felt like I had lived an entire lifetime in just one match.

These were not tears of weakness. They were tears of relief, gratitude, love for my teammates, and love for my country. I will never forget this night for as long as I live.”

[Mohit Mishra @mohitmishr93531]

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.

👇 Bookmark it for later

[Dodgers Nation @DodgersNation]

A wild foul ball found its way into the broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium tonight!

Thankfully, Joe Davis was ready 😂

[Hribi @Hribson]

Tom Cruise reveals how he kept Hollywood working during COVID: calling rival studios and saying 'we're shooting our movies'

“Well, what I did was is basically, yeah, I did. Because look, my friends, it's not just about the films I'm making.”

“And then I called back a week later and I was like, 'How's it going?' They said, 'Oh yeah, we're shooting our films.' I said, 'Cuz we're coming out next summer, you know. So we're on this date. I hope you're not on this date.'”

“Then I called the studio that I was working with. I said, 'Look, all these guys are making movies. We got to make movies.'”

“I was calling like, 'We have to set up the rules. Let's make agreements so that we can get back to work.' And then I was calling governments and getting agreements with them. And then I was telling, sharing it with the other studios and my friends saying, 'This is how we're doing it.'”

“And just kind of saying, 'My crew is going to get paid during this time.' I just kept everybody working.”

“Our orchestra for Top Gun Maverick, we were able to get mics to people's apartments all over the world where they're recording their instruments and then combining those instruments to create a live orchestra.”

[Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom]

BREAKING: @CENTCOM forces are striking Iran in response to the regime's attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz today.

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

Romi Gonen is still held hostage by Hamas.

She physically returned home in January 2025 after 471 days in hell—but her mind never did.

Kidnapped at age 23 from the Nova music festival, Romi endured multiple sexual assaults, endless isolation in tunnels, an untreated gunshot wound, and brutal conditions.

Today, Romi battles deep, lasting trauma, PTSD, guilt, anxiety, and daily emotional struggles, even as her body tries to recover. Ordinary sounds still transport her back. Mental breakdowns strike without warning.

In her public testimony, she said it plainly: "You can’t heal from such a thing." Her fight continues every single day.

The horrors of October 7 are not the past—they are still today.

[The Uri @uricohenisrael]

Celebrating Messi's goal against antisemitic Egypt while serving in the IDF. 🇮🇱⚽

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

Jackson Hinkle went to Iran, stood on stage at a pro-IRGC rally, and lead a crowd chanting “Down with USA.”

There’s a difference between opposing another Middle East war and performing for a regime that hates your country.

This is insane.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

The IDF killed Muhammad Abu Emad Tamiya today, a Hamas Nukhba member who invaded Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7.

@JoeTruzman

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Remember the Egyptian coach who waved the Palestinian flag? Today he lost to the side waving the Israeli flag 🇮🇱🇦🇷

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Spanish call of Messi’s equalizer is PHENOMENAL

[Overton @overton_news]

Joe Rogan just said out loud what millions of taxpayers have been thinking for years.

He made the case that until the government can account for where taxpayer money actually goes...and eliminate fraud and waste...it has no business throwing people in jail over taxes.

ROGAN: “I don’t like anybody getting arrested for taxes.”

“I think taxes…until they have an accurate account of where the F*CKING money goes, and until you completely eliminate all fraud and waste…”

“What the f*ck are you doing locking people up for not paying taxes?!”

“Like YOU guys should get locked up for not doing a good job with our MONEY!”

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Between games, Willie Mays came over to me & said:
‘Now, in second game, you’re going up against Bob Gibson.’
I only half-listened to what he was saying.
So I walked up to the plate the first time and started digging a little hole with my back foot.
No sooner did I start digging that hole than I hear Willie screaming from the dugout:
‘Noooooo!’
Well, the first pitch came inside.
No harm done, though.
So I dug in again.
Next thing I knew, there was a loud crack and my left shoulder was broken.
I should have listened to Willie Mays."
Jim Ray Hart on Bob Gibson

[Dodgers Nation @DodgersNation]

The Dodgers & Dodgers Foundation will donate net proceeds from their 50/50 raffle tomorrow night to support Venezuela earthquake relief 🙏

These earthquakes took the lives of Eliezer Alfonzo’s stepmom and sister.

Miguel Rojas’s family was near where the earthquakes occurred.

[The Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson: Mamdani is the Very Product of Privilege He Tells New Yorkers to Hate

We Americans don’t ask for much. Immigrate legally. Show gratitude to the country you live in. And appreciate the freedoms you have that most of the world will never see.

Despite his rhetoric, Mamdani has every privilege in the world. As the son of a film director and prestigious professor, Mamdani is quite literally part of the 1%. So why is he so ungrateful?

It seems like all the millionaires can’t stop talking about race and tribalism, and the American people are sick of it.

Watch the full episode with @VDHanson here: https://t.co/fJyxhXJwgs

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Nikki Haley just dropped some tough-love advice on Iran for the Trump administration:

"If you started it, you have to finish it... Finish the job, bring Iran to their knees, stop with the release of the frozen assets, stop with the sanction waivers, and finish what you started. We had them at the weakest they had ever been — and then we caved. That can't happen."

She's right. Iran walking away stronger than before the war — still threatening the Strait of Hormuz, still funding its proxies, still chasing a bomb — isn not an acceptable outcome. This administration needs to hear her unfiltered analysis.