Look, if you can't laugh at the president desperately promising angry farmers that he'll magically replace massive quantities of fertilizer from our nextdoor military ally with small imaginary quantities from a tinpot authoritarian thousands of miles away, then you simply have no sense of humor.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.
BREAKING: Look at this.
The day before Trump paused tariffs, triggering a historic 10% market rally, his accounts purchased 327 stocks worth up to $12.8 million.
The trades were disclosed more than a year late, resulting in a $200 penalty.
Unusual.
Worst of all worlds for Trump, tbh. Admit imports lower prices (and tariffs increase them), but don't get any actual market benefit bc of opposition from profiteering US ranchers & their GOP friends in Congress.
BREAKING
Pressure works!
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Iranian freedom fighter Narges Mohammadi has been transferred via ambulance to Tehran Pars Hospital where her own physicians are able to treat her.
This comes after 10 days of hospitalization in Zanjan, Iran.
Her family is demanding her unconditional freedom and the dismissal of all charges.
For the last several weeks, foreign officials and activists, including U.S. officials such as @USAmbUN and @michaelgwaltz, have been demanding that Islamic Republic authorities allow her immediate access to proper medical care and release her from custody.
Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize while imprisoned, has suffered a severe deterioration in health in recent months, including a heart attack, episodes of unconsciousness, dangerous blood pressure fluctuations, a pulmonary embolism, and a serious cardiac condition known as Prinzmetal angina.
5 minutes before Trump’s announcement:
* $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip.
* $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold.
More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close.
Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!
For 47 years, the people of Iran have yearned for justice, freedom, peace, and prosperity—and have paid for it with their blood.
If your outrage at Iranian lives lost began only today, but you were silent as the regime slaughtered thousands of its own people in recent weeks, Iranian lives did not suddenly become worthy of your concern. Their lives have always mattered.
Many Iranians today are experiencing a profound and painful dissonance: waiting with bated breath for the fall of their tormentors, while grieving every innocent life lost—and knowing it was decades of the regime’s violence, repression, and recklessness that led the country to this precipice.
Imagine the profound dissonance of living under such injustice for so long that war begins to feel like the lesser evil.
It pains me deeply that the Islamic Republic has led Iran to this moment. The Iranian people are not this regime. They are its first victims—and they have never stopped fighting to rid themselves of it.
I stand with the people of Iran and their right to self-determination. May freedom, justice and peace swiftly prevail.
#Bones duo Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz are both set to lead two new NBC pilots.
- Deschanel is playing a criminal profiler in a new drama pilot
- Boreanaz is taking on the role of Jim Rockford in the “The Rockford Files” reboot
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Trump, who is bombing boats said to carry drug runners, pardons the former president of Honduras who was convicted of supporting one of the largest, most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world. @ShawnMcCreesh@anniecorreal@JeffgErnst https://t.co/9yymu0o5XG
The Supreme Court case (arguments scheduled for 11/5) will be interesting. Does a TV ad quoting Ronald Reagan qualify for the kind of emergency that would allow the president to circumvent Congress’s power over tariffs?