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Idris Elba says he lied about being American to land The Wire "The casting director told me, 'You cannot let them know you aren't American.' So I auditioned for four weeks straight in an American accent." "Then they asked, 'Where are you from?' My palms started sweating. I finally said, 'I'm from East London.'" "The room exploded. They said, 'You got the job. We don't want you to play Avon. We want you to play Stringer Bell.'" (throwback) Credit: @Trevornoah

"But a goal will not count if a player is offsides." "When is a player offsides?" "Whenever anything exciting happens."

A military officer should never publicly criticize the admin and senior military leadership, especially in uniform. Anyone who does should be punished... and never be trusted with a position of leadership in the DoD

James Tate @JamesTate121

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An active-duty member of the United States military stood on the steps of the Capitol, in uniform, and called for the impeachment, conviction, and removal of Donald Trump. He was arrested. He didn’t stumble into this. He knew exactly what he was doing. Under Department of Defense

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1,000 days ago the Middle East changed forever when Hamas launched a terrorist attack killing 1,200 Israelis. We arrived in southern Israel as the massacre was unfolding on the morning of October 7th.

Creamsicle 2 glowing in the sun! C1 sleeping outside on a soft summer day. Beautiful boys.

Melat Kiros, and her fellow DSA members, are openly hostile to America and brazenly antisemitic. She has blamed the United States for 9/11, called October 7 “inevitable,” and refused to call the firebombing of Jews in her own city antisemitism. They no longer speak for the fringe, they represent who the Left has become.

Way to lose all the centrists and independents for ‘28. All the political pros will say, yes, the Democrats need a big tent, blah blah blah. The correct thing to say is if you cry about the GOP tilt to the MAGA nutters, you can’t do the same thing on the Dem side catering to the DSA crazies. JFC-we need a third-party…..

Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024

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ABC News: California Governor Gavin Newsom has been in touch with Zohran Mamdani. They texted each other as recently as last week.

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Oh FFS. Will this be MAGA vs Dem Socialists in ‘28, ie the race on each side to be more bat shit crazy? Or can the centrists in each party (Rubio and Shapiro, respectively, for example) prevail? If the Dems go the Mamdani route, I’m out. I’m a never Trumper to the core, and Vance is a weirdo and beholden to tech bros and tight with a pro Iranian regime advocate, but this Dem socialism thing with anti semitism and anti law enforcement and 911 conspiracy baked in seemingly everywhere (look at the candidates who r winning primaries) is all nuts… how depressing. Maybe @PaulRieckhoff has it right, re Independents and a new way?

Axios @axios

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Scoop: Harris reaches out to Mamdani, pro-Palestinian activists in run-up to 2028 axios.com/2026/07/01/har…

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🇺🇸 Gettysburg 163 Live: July 1st, 12:30 PM Gettysburg resident John Burns decides he is not hiding in his cellar. The 69-year-old civilian walks directly onto the active battlefield wearing a blue swallowtail coat and a top hat. Armed with a personal rifle, the elderly constable reports straight to the front line and demands a place in the ranks. Sent over to fight alongside the fierce Midwesterners of the Iron Brigade, Burns settles into the woods and opens fire. He spends the afternoon calmly picking off targets from behind a tree, refusing to yield an inch of ground. Despite taking three bullet wounds, the old veteran survives the onslaught to become an absolute national legend.

How authoritarian leftists crushed the democratic left and took over the DSA, which is now aiming for the Democrats theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/…

🇺🇸 Gettysburg 163 Live: July 1st, 7:30 AM The first shot of the Battle of Gettysburg is fired. It missed. Lieutenant Marcellus Jones of the 8th Illinois Cavalry spots a mounted Confederate officer roughly 700 yards away. He borrows a Sharps carbine from a sergeant, rests it on a fence rail, and squeezes the trigger. Even though it didn't hit its target, the alarm is raised. Buford's dismounted troopers deploy into skirmish lines. They begin a calculated, fighting retreat to slow the Confederate advance toward the town. Lieutenant Marcellus Jones and his fellow veterans would return to Gettysburg in 1886 to purchase the exact spot of land this occurred and erect a limestone marker at the Ephraim Wisler house. They inscribed it "July 1st 1863. 7:30 a.m."

Hezbollah terror tunnels and cartel drug tunnels are just one part of this symbiotic relationship. Hezbollah first turned the Bekaa Valley into a narco-goldmine in the 1980, trafficking in hashish & heroin. By the 2000s, its “Business Affairs Component” was allied with Colombian cartels, Mexican groups like Los Zetas, and Venezuelan facilitators. Multi-ton shipments of cocaine flowed from Latin America through West Africa to Europe and the U.S. with laundered money returning to Hezbollah via the Black Market Peso Exchange, used-car schemes, and banks like the Lebanese Canadian Bank (which moved hundreds of millions in dirty money before it was shut down). In fact, the DEA’s Project Cassandra exposed the scale of Hezbollah’s massive drug ring when it found terrorists moving cocaine by the ton and laundering over $850 million in just one network alone. The latest U.S. official estimates I’ve seen show narcotics sales supply up to 40% of Hezbollah’s funding - equivalent to many hundreds of millions of dollars annually (on top of the practically endless Iranian cash, at least until recently).

The woman, terrified by the bear that entered the garden, quickly locked herself inside the house. Right then, the house cat sprang into action, used its own clever methods, and successfully drove the bear away, repelling the danger 😼

George Meade — 11 Facts About the Victor of Gettysburg • He wasn't born in the US • Both he and Robert E Lee once shared a close brush with death together  • He was investigated by Congress • One of his descendants is a famous TV star Details here: militaryhistorynow.com/2019/04/26/the…

Former Delta Force B and D Squadron dog handler Sergeant Major (Retired) Jeremy Knabenshue and his Military Working Dog, Weblo. Weblo started his life as a beaten down Belgian Malinois from Holland that flinched at every sudden movement. In Jeremy’s hands, he would become one of the most decorated combat K9s in modern U.S. Special Operations history. Together, the pair deployed seven times to Iraq and Afghanistan alongside America’s Tier 1 operators. On Halloween night 2007, Weblo was shot through the abdomen while clearing a building in Iraq. Jeremy was the only man on target carrying a K9 first aid kit. He treated Weblo in the dirt under fire, saved his life, and watched his partner make a full recovery and return to duty. Weblo went on to save countless American lives across multiple deployments, once catching an enemy combatant hiding in wait with an AK-47 at a breach point, something no operator or aircraft above had spotted. Weblo retired in 2012 and lived out his days as a family protector. On March 8, 2016, Jeremy gave him a final helicopter ride over the airfield, the wind in his fur one last time, before letting him go peacefully. Warriors come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them have four legs.

Rep. Dan Goldman tells @jaketapper many American Jews are living in fear because antisemitism is 'becoming normalized' in the US

The Secret History of the Israeli Ecstasy Mafia They recruited Hasidic jews in New York to carry suitcases of ecstasy, which they thought were jewelry. Profits led to bombings in Tel Aviv. Were they linked to fake students spying on DEA offices? Read:↓ crashoutmedia.com/p/the-secret-h…

Two thumbs down, @NPR I almost veered off the road driving to work this morning, as I listened to an especially slanted @MorningEdition report out of #Beirut on the #Lebanon-#Israel “framework agreement” signed in Washington last Friday. Here’s what I mean: The 3-minute segment was set up as a preview of expected US-#Iran talks in #Doha, with an emphasis on why the Iranians may be coming to these negotiations in a foul mood. After explaining the lack of trust between the two sides, NPR ‘s Beirut-based correspondent @RSherlock then said Tehran was “furious” about the Lebanon-Israel agreement brokered by the USG. Asked to explain why the Iranians were unhappy, Sherlock replied: “Well, Israel is fighting #Hezbollah, the militia in Lebanon, which is heavily supported by Iran. And the deal says Hezbollah would be disarmed. And crucially, it makes Israel's full withdrawal from the large amounts of land it's occupying now here actually conditional on Hezbollah first disarming. Hezbollah was never part of the agreement and has outright rejected it, calling it a surrender of sovereignty.” So far, so good. But then, for some inexplicable reason, Sherlock turned in a wildly different direction, relaying anonymously sourced critiques of the agreement itself instead of explaining why it may complicate the Doha talks. “And this, though, has also been widely criticized by independent experts who say the problem here is the Lebanese army, who would disarm Hezbollah, is quite weak and is simply unable to do this. And therefore, this agreement essentially cedes Lebanese territory to Israel.” Whoa… The correspondent could have explained that the Iranians are angry because the democratically elected Lebanese government decided to break free from decades of Iranian interference in Lebanese domestic affairs and take a chance on an historic agreement that holds the prospect of reclaiming full sovereignty over their country and building real peace with Israel. But instead, she pivoted to relaying a critique of the agreement itself by unnamed “independent” experts – whatever that means. And she ended the paragraph with a damning and wholly unsubstantiated assertion, implicitly ascribed to those same “experts,” that “this agreement essentially cedes Lebanese territory to Israel.” (It does not, by the way.) It gets worse. With the original theme of the segment – a preview of the Doha talks -- now discarded, the conversation then turned to a discussion of how ordinary Lebanese view the agreement with Israel. But instead of asking THAT reasonable question, host @rachelnpr focused solely on how displaced people from southern Lebanon view the deal. Following the “garbage in/garbage out” principle, it is not surprising that Sherlock didn’t offer a nuanced response that reflects Lebanon’s political, economic, ethnic, and religious complexities. Instead, we hear the voice of Hezbollah. “MARTIN: You've also been speaking to some of the people displaced from these southern areas. What are you hearing from them? “SHERLOCK: You know, people here told us they feel sold out by the Lebanese government over this deal. Many are from areas that are now controlled by Israel. Israel says it's weakened Hezbollah enough that the Lebanese army can now take over these southern border areas and oversee disarmament. But there is still support for Hezbollah in these areas by people who see them as a protector from Israel. Lebanon is a country of many religions with a long history of sectarian violence. “I spoke with Ali Chaito (ph), who's a mechanical engineering student who's displaced. He now lives in a tent in Beirut. And he warned that if the Lebanese army tries to remove Hezbollah's weapons, it could push the country to civil war. “ALI CHAITO: To have a war between each other, not with another country. No one could take the weapon of Hezbollah.” Then, Sherlock closed the segment this way: “Lebanon's president insists that the Lebanese army will deploy to the southern border. Israel has agreed to withdraw initially from a couple of towns in the south that are going to be called pilot zones, where the Lebanese army would deploy and disarm Hezbollah. But as I said, many Lebanese are really worried about all this.” In other words: - The displaced engineering student who repeated Hezbollah’s talking point about civil war gets named and a direct spoken-to-microphone quote, evoking empathy among listeners, but not the president of Lebanon, who doesn’t even get named. - The only “ordinary” Lebanese we hear from is a Hezbollah-sympathizer. We did not hear from any supporter of the largest political party in the Lebanese parliament, the Christian-based “Lebanese Forces,” whose leader, @DrSamirGeagea, enthusiastically embraced the agreement. Nor did we hear from Sunni supporters of the deal, such as backers of the popular Sunni parliamentarian @fmakhzoumi, who is a strong advocate of the agreement. Nor did we hear from anyone else in the broad coalition of Lebanese – including Shiites – who are fed up with Iran’s local agents dragging them into wars they don’t want and who welcome this agreement as a chance to reclaim Lebanon’s independence and sovereignty. - The segment concluded with one of the oldest journalistic tricks in the book, use of the term “many,” as in “Many Lebanese are really worried” about the agreement. How many is “many” - 20 percent? 40 percent? 60 percent? 80 percent? It makes a huge difference. Answering that question, however, would have required talking to lots more people that the correspondent evidently did. Bottom line: what started as a preview of the Doha talks ended as a one-sided attack on the Lebanon-Israel agreement. To borrow from Siskel and Ebert (may they rest in peace) -- two thumbs down, NPR. If you want to check my quotes, the full transcript of the segment can be found here: npr.org/transcripts/nx…

Most of western media reporting from Beirut is in fact biased or naive. Very few reporters are willing to make the effort to dig deep and talk to people, not just interview them. It’s a pity because Lebanon is a country that is going through major shifts and most journalists can’t see it, or maybe don’t want to. Read this👇

Robert Satloff @robsatloff

3 days ago

Two thumbs down, @NPR I almost veered off the road driving to work this morning, as I listened to an especially slanted @MorningEdition report out of #Beirut on the #Lebanon-#Israel “framework agreement” signed in Washington last Friday. Here’s what I mean: The 3-minute

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Rethinking Treasury's Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Office lawfaremedia.org/article/rethin…