The final minute of Secretary Marco Rubio’s address in Athens is truly spellbinding if you listen closely. This will go down as one of the greatest speeches ever delivered by a Secretary of State. He perfectly weaved in the history of ancient Greece to show why Western civilization is worth fighting for. Most importantly, it was a warning to the rest of Europe about what could be lost if the West forgets where it came from. RUBIO: “But Europeans and our friends across the West must relearn the lessons our forefathers took from this place and from its history.” “The history of Greece does not just offer us a glimpse of our institutions in the earliest forms. The history of Greece shows us an image of ourselves.” “It shows us that ours is the inheritance of great heroes and we should be proud, intensely proud, where we come from.” “We should marvel at what our forefathers carved out of this countryside.” “The story of our civilization is the greatest story ever known to man, and it began here with the first men and women of the West, from them, from them we can rediscover the virtues, the courage and the strength to confront the dangers that we face in our time.” The entire place erupted in applause at the end. That was a special moment from Rubio.

Two of the 'Cornell 7' still on campus - and teachers don't know how to handle it: report trib.al/UTGw7Dg

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed admits to dual citizenship in Egypt.

J’étais aujourd’hui aux côtés des lycéens et des étudiants mobilisés à Paris. J’ai été témoin d’un usage totalement disproportionné de la force face à des jeunes qui demandent simplement à être entendus. J’interpelle le ministre de l’Intérieur : les consignes doivent être revues d’urgence avant qu’un drame ne survienne. Aux jeunes mobilisés : vos revendications sont justes. Continuez à vous organiser et à faire entendre votre voix. Mais ne cédez à aucune provocation. Restez unis et non-violents ! C’est par votre nombre et votre détermination que vous obligerez le gouvernement à vous entendre.

I would agree to a plan to phase out social security over the next 25 years, even knowing that it means the system will end right at the moment when I would start drawing a check. If that means that my kids and grandchildren aren’t subjected to this scam for their entire lives, I’m willing to take that hit. I just can’t for the life of me understand or relate to the older people who don’t feel that way and wouldn’t be willing to make the sacrifice for the sake of their descendants. Totally foreign mentality to me. I truly find it baffling. Setting my kids up for the future is like one of the only things I care about anymore.

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes. Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

WHAT ADULT IS STILL OUT HERE EATING PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY SANDWICHES