Earlier today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Athens, Greece. Outstanding message presentation to our longstanding partner and other European allies!
SECRETARY RUBIO: For twenty-five centuries since, the Parthenon has stood. Empires have risen and fallen beneath its shadow.
And the progeny of the men who built it – the sons of Athens and Rome – have carried their civilization with them to the ends of the Earth.
Two and a half centuries after the founding of the American republic halfway across the world from where I stand now, I stand here today – as the Secretary of State of that republic, and as the great-grandson of settlers who arrived in the new world from Spain – I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space, can ever extinguish.
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Marco Rubio is delivering the greatest defense of Western Civilization I have ever heard in Athens
“The history of America… is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity.”
Rubio pointed to the unmistakable Greek influence on the United States:
-Greek architecture is carved into Washington, D.C.’s columns, domes and monuments
-America’s founders drew inspiration from the civilizations of antiquity
-Even Philadelphia, the birthplace of the Constitution, bears a Greek name
America didn’t emerge in a vacuum. Its institutions, architecture and founding principles carry the legacy of Western civilization.
Incredible optics.
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Unfortunately, Americans typically have short memories. For those thinking about voting Democrat in next month's November elections, please take a look at this list, what is stated is accurate.
Democrats seized power in 2021.
Within three years, millions crossed our border. Overdoses hit records and killed over 100,000 Americans yearly.
The Taliban retook Afghanistan. Russia invaded Ukraine. Hamas slaughtered more than a thousand Israelis. Gaza was rightfully reduced to rubble.
Inflation hit 21.5%, leaving families paying $14,300 more a year to live.
Men entered our daughters bathrooms and competed in their sports.
Political opponents faced relentless lawfare.
The list of failures is endless.
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Another (crazy) example of the direct and indirect stealing of taxpayer money that is going on everywhere. EVERYWHERE. No wonder the federal government cannot balance a budget and why we are $40T in debt. The stealing MUST STOP.
NEW: RFK Jr. says Medicare spending on wound care patches exploded from $200 million in 2019 to $14 billion last year: "It's all stolen."
Bad actors billed Medicare billions by slapping the most expensive skin grafts on elderly and dying patients who didn't need them.
"The doctors who prescribed them would get 6% of the sales cost. And so, they were incentivized to prescribe more expensive products. In Europe, they spend 35 cents a cubic inch. We were spending $135, and that went up to $2,000 a cubic inch."
"So 2019, we were paying $200 million. Last year we spent 14 billion. All stolen. It's all stolen. And we were on track to spend 23 billion this year."
"We put an end to it, and we now have driven that cost down to somewhere around a billion dollars."
In one Arizona case, the owners of two wound care companies pleaded guilty to more than $1.2 billion in fraudulent claims. Medicare paid over $1 million per patient for grafts slapped on elderly patients who didn't need them, many of them dying in hospice.
In June, DOJ charged 11 more defendants over more than $2 billion in allograft claims, including a company accused of issuing sham invoices to inflate what Medicare paid.
It feels like every week I learn a new way people were ripping off taxpayers for billions.
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Incredible views from Starlink V3 satellites being deployed from SpaceX's Starship earlier today. SUCCESS!
Views from of one of the first 26 Starlink V3 satellites successfully deployed to orbit by Starship
Thanks for the ride, @SpaceX!
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Wow, Tesla and SpaceX delivering a REALLY EXCITING program this week. See you at 8:15EST for the Starship launch broadcast!
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🚨 Weather outlook for the SpaceX Starship launch tomorrow morning from Starbase @ Boca Chica, TX is favorable! Live broadcast link is included in the announcement see you there!
Starship’s 14th flight is set to launch on Monday, Sept 28. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission starts ~35 minutes before launch → x.com/i/broadcasts/1qxvvenMP…
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Unaudited NGO's/'nonprofits' are one of the main contributors to the US Government budget deficits and why we are $40T in debt. Direct and indirect theft of taxpayer money is everywhere. EVERYWHERE.
Elon to Cruz: the government funds “nonprofits,” then never audits them.
🚨They pay themselves insane salaries. Expense everything. Buy jets and homes. Live like royalty on your taxes.
He said it’s one of the biggest holes DOGE found and it’s not a couple of bad actors. It’s everywhere.
80% waste. 20% fraud.
The rest is the gray zone where a contract should have been killed and the checks kept going out anyway.
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Ready to have your mind blown?
Senator John Kennedy on Elon Musk and DOGE exposing USAID, “I'll tell you what Mr. Musk discovered. I find it fascinating. He discovered:
- The American taxpayers are giving money to Afghanistan
- He found that we are giving money to Yemen
- He found that we are giving money to Syria
- He found that the USAID has 10,000 people employees, and every year they give away $40 billion
- He found that the USAID gave money to support electric vehicles in Vietnam. Our money, taxpayer money
- He found that the USAID gave money to a transgender clinic in India. “I didn't know that. I bet you the American people didn't know that”
- He found that USAID gave $1.5 million to a Serbian LGBTQ group, they got $1.5 million to QUOTE, “advanced diversity, equity, inclusion in Serbia's workplaces and business communities”
- They found that USAID spent $164 million to support radical organizations around the world
- They gave $122 million of that to groups aligned with foreign terrorist organizations
- According to this report in Mr. Musk, the USAID has given millions of dollars to quote organizations in Gaza controlled by Hamas
- He found that we gave $2 million, USAID did, for sex changes in Guatemala
- He found that we gave $20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
- He found that we gave $4.5 million of taxpayer money to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
- He found that we gave $10 million, USAID did, of meals to an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group called the Nusra Front
- Mr. Musk found that we gave $7.9 million of taxpayer money to a project that would teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid binary gendered language. (The USAID took 8 million bucks and gave it to a bunch of journalists in Sri Lanka to teach them how to avoid binary gendered language)
- USAID gave $1.5 million to promote LGBT advocacy in Jamaica
- They gave $1.5 million to rebuild the Cuban media ecosystem
- They gave $1.5 million for quote, art for inclusion of people with disabilities in Belarus
- Another $3.9 million for LGBT causes in Macedonia
- $8.3 million for equity and inclusion education in Nepal
“I could go all night and many of my colleagues are upset. They're really mad at Mr. Musk. Hell, I think we ought to give him a medal”
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Here in the N. New Jersey/NYC area we are having a nasty 'Nor'easter' that on the satellite loop looks suspiciously like a hurricane 👀
The Nor'easter has formed an "eye" and that's just fine.
Does that mean it is now a hurricane? Not quite.
But we need to dig deeper into the jargon to explain what's going on --> don't panic.
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Powerful #noreaster bringing major coastal flooding & damaging winds to the East Coast. Roads are underwater at the Jersey Shore & gusts hit 64 mph on Nantucket. More flooding likely at high tides tonight & Sun. Turn Around, Don't Drown. Reports so far: wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussion…
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Thankfully, the US southern border has been effectively closed to illegal immigration since February 2025. US citizens have been and are paying a huge price for what was (and wasn't) done under the Biden Democrat administration between 2020-2024 when an estimated 10 million illegals were allowed to enter our country.
Do not look away.
Before President Trump took office, our nation’s sovereignty was threatened by unrestrained Third World mass migration.
Now, after sixteen months of zero releases at the border, the world knows: America will never be a dumping ground for their criminals.
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👍The next SpaceX Starship launch is Flight 14, scheduled for no earlier than Monday, September 28, 2026, pending regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration. A 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT (5:15 a.m. PT).
Stacked under the stars, Starship 41 has been lifted onto Booster 21 - giving us our first look at the Flight 14 full stack!
Absolutely gorgeous view! 🤩 🚀
📸: @mymatrixplug For WAI Media
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The US government's $40T debt and a large segment of Democrat voters trending towards socialism and or communism is no laughing matter. There is no such thing as "free money" and as Maher points out, 40% of the population does not work, including 6 million able bodied working age men. Overwhelming direct and indirect theft of taxpayer money, low labor participation rate and little to no spending oversight has resulted in a crisis. Term limits and balanced budget amendments and or return to the gold standard Dollar are the only real answers.
Our approach to spending has been so ridiculously unstable and unsustainable for so long that A.I. ending the world is a solution.
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SpaceX says they've made several upgrades to Starship's heatshield for test flight 14:
The upgrades include additional retention mechanisms added to tiles in areas deemed to be at highest risk of falling off during ascent, addressing recently discovered areas that offer flow paths behind tiles for plasma, and flying multiple areas with a curved tile design that has shown the ability to reduce heating in the gaps between tiles. Lastly, two tiles recovered from Ship 40 are planned to be reflown on Ship 41, marking the first tile reuse for Starship.
Looking forward to the launch!
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