Yesterday, Rome turned 2,777 years old.

You know the Colosseum already — so these are its lesser-known wonders... 🧵

1. Andrea Pozzo's '3D' ceiling:

Solar Eclipse 2024 - a thread 🧵

1. Cleveland by Gabe Wasylko

How is it that one person can produce all of this?

That person lived 500 years ago — so why hasn't humanity produced another talent like him in all the time since? 🧵

Forgive my language, but this stood out to me: As Peter Navarro entered prison, he told reporters, “I’m pissed.”

No doubt a similar sentiment many felt when he refused to tell investigators what he knew about the plot to overthrow the 2020 election.  

And there’s even more:…

💥 University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill is being asked to resign by the board of Penn's Wharton business school

via Axios ➡️🔗
axios.com/2023/12/08/pen…

The donor lungs Carole was supposed to receive on Monday are no longer available; because of Cigna Healthcare, the transplant was canceled. Carole will now need to undergo additional tests to ensure the cancer has not spread. She will then (hopefully) be placed back on the waitlist.

When someone says they want the United States to be a “Christian nation,” they are referring to the nation conforming to their own preferred theology and interpretation of scripture, which excludes people from other religions and nonreligious, but many other Christians as well🧵

After 49 days in the hands of Hamas monsters, 13 Israelis, 10 Thai and 1 Filipino nationals have returned to Israel.

We can cry for a moment then we have to get back to work. There are still over 200 hundred hostages to bring home.

#BringThemHomeNow All. Of. Them.

Have NEVER seen this on Capitol Hill:

While talking to Rep. Tim Burchett after the GOP conference meeting, former Kevin McCarthy walked by with his detail and McCarthy shoved Burchett. Burchett lunged towards me. I thought it was a joke, it was not. And a chase ensued...

Wow.

This John Kirby answer is *perfect*

I would urge everyone to listen to this.

Useful idiots in America projecting “Glory to the Martyrs” on university buildings are glorifying a death cult that has been squeezing the souls of the Gazan ppl for years before it was empowered enough to start terrorizing and murdering ppl at a music concert or in their homes.

Lubbock County, TX just banned abortion-related travel, trapping women in a health care desert. This policy violates the constitutional right to travel.

Let’s pass my bill with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher and Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland to reaffirm free interstate passage for all Americans.

A quote from my dad, a man born and raised in Gaza. Remember that most of the ppl screaming have never set foot in Palestine and have probably never met a Palestinian. Ppl in Gaza know that it all went downhill from Arafat and went dark after Hamas. They’ve been cursed w…

I am an assistant professor at Columbia Business School. I am a father, a husband, an uncle, and a son. I am a forty-year-old man, and last week I found myself crying in front of a group of complete strangers.

While I feel miserably sad for the Palestinians who lost their lives at a Gaza hospital, and have their loved ones in my thoughts, I have no special insight on who stands behind the explosion. What I can explain, however, is the politics behind the big fuss it is making.
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As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral…

I have given a few hours of thought to Ilhan Omar messaging me privately to tell me she “wasn’t” lying.

I have had a lot of people combing the internet for a shred of truth to support her claim. None has been found.

The only “proof” she gave me was saying she and the Muslim…

THANK YOU MEMPHIS!

“What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love. They're the guiding lights of a life.”
~Jimmy Carter

President Carter turns 99 today. Happy Birthday to a man who lives those words.

Not an orginal point but it is an absolute outrage--and politically stupid--for members of Congress to get paid during a shutdown THEY PRECIPITATE when other federal employees won't!