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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor - For Mahmoud Khalil, this past year has been marked by profound hardship—and by profound courage.
A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child.
Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together.
Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.
https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2031185185002164590
Megan Basham @megbasham - WOW!!! That he did not recognize the reference is peak irony. For those who do not understand, look up CS Lewis, and the acronym NICE. This is the organization Lewis invented for his novel That Hideous Strength. While NICE claims to be working for the betterment of humanity and looks respectable, corporate, and elite from the outside, that polish hides a deep, antihuman evil within.
Could not be a more perfect allegory for French’s own transformation.
https://x.com/megbasham/status/2031189949354225848
Megyn Kelly @megynkelly - Video: When did Lindsay Graham become our president? In the past 24 hours he’s threatened Lebanon, Cuba, the Saudis, the wider Arab region and now - checks notes - Spain
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Acyn @Acyn
Graham: Spain, you have lost your way. I don't want to do business with you anymore. I want our airbases out of Spain
https://x.com/megynkelly/status/2031201405462020597
Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - What do you call the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Republicans helped defeat a talking filibuster by Democrats then.
We can do it again.
If you want to speak for John Thune, at least get your facts right.
Republicans might not be able to guarantee an outcome, but we can try—and shame on us if we don’t!
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Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio
There’s a huge risk in even beginning the process, too (as proponents of the talking filibuster have been calling for).
Sen. Mike Lee and other conservatives have primed the GOP base to believe it’s possible to sustain a talking filibuster as a way to pass the SAVE America Act.
Sure, that’s technically true. But as Thune pointed out here, it’s never been successful. And Thune has continued to maintain that there isn’t enough GOP support for tabling all Democratic amendments, which is the only way to ensure that the bill can pass as-is — even putting aside Trump’s demand for more provisions to be added to it.
When it ultimately fails, will Lee & other proponents just throw up their hands and move on? I doubt it. The base will be pissed, and that could get ugly for GOP leaders.
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2031165403330675030
Mollie @MZHemingway - Someone just LOUDLY showed to an acquaintance a video featuring ABBA’s Dancing Queen in the gate area at Reagan Airport at 8:46 AM and I’m just wondering if we need a national conversation on how to stop this menace.
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/2030989561845653824
Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil - Iran’s New Supreme Leader Reportedly Wounded
Iranian state TV, while announcing the rise of Mojtaba Khamenei as Supreme Leader, described him as “janbaz” — wounded by the enemy in what Iranian media are calling the “Ramadan War.”
No details were given about the injury.
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https://x.com/MOSSADil/status/2030914841343365390
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