Israel is partly a desert with 15% less rainfall in Tel Aviv than London but because it is run by Jews who aren't complete idiots about energy and water reclamation, we have enough water to lay new lawns at the beach mid summer and water them.
An invisible new moon and clear skies in Florida should make the 2026 Perseid meteor shower's peak activity a spectacular and memorable cosmic show. https://t.co/ON2EcCJSqQ
BREAKING: The 1-of-1 Shohei Ohtani dual Gold Logoman autograph card has surfaced in Boca Raton, Florida
The card was pulled from a hobby box of Topps Chrome Baseball by a collector at his local card shop, Boca Sports Cards
“Always a hoot” 🌹
On this day in 1995, the Grateful Dead played their final show ever. It was the second of two consecutive nights at Soldier Field in Chicago, with The Band opening each show. After closing with a rare double encore of ”Black Muddy River” and “Box of Rain,” the final notes rang out with a fireworks display set to Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner,” lighting up the Chicago skyline. No one in the crowd realizing they'd just witnessed the band's last concert, but as we all know, the music never stops 🌹
Photos by Philip Gerstheimer, Susana Millman, and Robbi Cohn
People forget that Gov DeSantis beat this guy in 2018 by less than 0.5%.
He would’ve been our Governor during Covid, kept us locked down, and the country would’ve never been the same.
The reason he almost won was b/c deep blue Broward County kept “finding” votes weeks after the election.
The vote fraud was stopped, DeSantis cleaned up our elections, and he won by almost 20% in 2022.
It’s amazing what happens when election fraud is cleaned up.
Super Typhoon #Bavi’s outer rain bands are now being detected by the radar station in Guam.
Winds around the eye of the typhoon are a sustained 260 km/h (160 mph), still category 5 strength.
🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis has just stunned the nation, sitting down to SIGN this year’s SMALLER BUDGET THAN LAST YEAR for 4 straight years
Florida will now have a budget less than HALF the size of New York, despite being similar population
And the rainy day fund WILL BE FULL and more than TRIPLE THE SIZE from 7 years ago
FLORIDA DOES IT RIGHT!
No income tax, incoming property tax relief, every state should do this! 🇺🇸 ☀️
@FLVoiceNews
A U.S. Plan to Save Lebanon
Dear @POTUS,
It is essential to establish several counterterrorism brigades within the Lebanese Army as soon as possible under the oversight of U.S. Special Forces. These units should be trained in secure areas between the Metn and Bsharri districts in northern Mount Lebanon, as well as along the coast between the Keserwan and Batroun districts—areas beyond Hezbollah's control.
As announced by Secretary @marcorubio, these brigades should be fully equipped by the Pentagon and operate under a joint Lebanese-U.S. command in coordination with @CENTCOM. With full U.S. air support, they could gradually deploy southward and eastward to help the Lebanese state reassert its sovereignty over areas controlled by hostile armed militias.
Israeli forces would gradually transfer responsibility for their positions to these brigades under U.S. supervision. The United States would also help ensure the security of Lebanon's Ministry of Defense against attacks or infiltration by jihadist groups and Hezbollah.
Dear President @realDonaldTrump, this approach could help stabilize Lebanon, strengthen its sovereignty, and support its reintegration into the community of free nations, while creating conditions that would enable it to join the #AbrahamAccords.
This is a feasible, necessary, and decisive plan.
@SecRubio@SecWar@SpeakerJohnson@SenTedCruz@LindseyGrahamSC@SenFettermanPA@HouseForeignGOP@SFRCdems
Lebanon has recognized Israel as a sovereign state and agreed to end the state of war.
That would have been unthinkable without U.S. and Israeli successes against the Islamic Republic in Iran and Hezbollah—and @SecRubio’s diplomacy.
Many obstacles remain, but this is a hopeful sign in a region that rarely offers one.
At 37°C, AI-guided microneedles bend into a programmed curve to help close wounds while releasing regenerative DNA and providing antibacterial protection. @advmater https://t.co/X1SecFDOrk
“You hold the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, and the pricing is rather high. How do you see it now?” billionaire investor @BillAckman was asked recently. The answer is worth hearing.
“I’m very bullish on Israel economically. Think of it as Silicon Valley as a country—an incredible density of talent, IP, and raw IQ packed into a tiny place. You now have a generation of 24- to 28-year-olds who’ve come through a brutal war and developed real grit, plus a military that’s deeply sophisticated technologically. Every top venture firm has opened an office there.”
And there’s more.
“Israeli entrepreneurs used to sell early—take Google’s $100 or $200 million and walk. Now, after exits like Waze, they realize they can build big companies at home. I think you’ll see a trillion-dollar company come out of Israel before long—probably AI or cybersecurity—and that value gets amortized over a relatively small economy, which makes it one of the best in the world.”
Ackman has reason to be confident. He and his wife, Neri Oxman, bought roughly 5 percent of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in January 2024 at NIS 20.60 a share—a $25 million bet that was up about 300 percent by September 2025 and has since climbed past 500 percent, briefly worth more than eight times their entry price at the stock’s May 2026 peak. He isn’t done, either: in an interview with Globes last year, he claimed he wants to invest another $1 billion in Israeli companies.
His case for the purchase is simple:
“Owning a piece of the exchange is like owning a royalty on the success of capitalism in the country. That’s why I’m bullish—and I think it’s cheap.”
Cheap is a bold word for a stock that has risen more than sixfold. But that’s the whole wager: that a country the size of New Jersey is still in the early innings of building trillion-dollar companies, and now is still the time to get in on the ground floor.
Touchdown in MIA! ⚽✈️ The world’s oldest football has officially landed in the US for the first time ever! Straight from Scotland, this historic relic is making an appearance at the Brazil vs. Scotland World Cup match on June 24.
Want to get up close to history? You can catch it on display at the @GablesMuseum! 🇺🇸🏴🇧🇷
Israel has been very tolerant, if not suicidal, in how it handled national security threats. Allowing Gazans to march right up to the border, letting Hezbollah pitch a tent inside Israeli territory, and ignoring endless weapon smuggling from Egypt and Jordan. Not to mention the constant antisemitic diatribes coming from Turkey’s leaders.