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The most common form of despair is not being who you are. © Sören Kierkegaard @quote

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. © Confucius @quote

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. © John Lennon @quote

Trump Went Berserk: “Release the Files Now!” 🤬 The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives is expected to vote on Tuesday to force the release of investigative files related to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the latest move in a scandal that has dogged Donald Trump since he returned to the White House. 📋 In a sharp reversal this weekend, Trump dropped his opposition to a vote releasing files from the criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice into Epstein on Sunday. On Monday, Trump said he would sign the measure if it reached his desk. 📌 Trump’s friendship with Epstein has been a long-running scandal in American politics as the late disgraced financier had links to many other rich and powerful figures in the US and overseas. 🧐 As a candidate seeking re-election, Trump promised to release the files on Epstein, who, investigators concluded, killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019. Since resuming office, Trump has failed to follow through. 🤔 The president’s dramatic shift came after it became increasingly apparent that the bill will pass the House, most likely with significant support from Republican lawmakers. 🗳 Trump and House speaker Mike Johnson changed their approach from outright opposition to declarations of indifference. “I DON’T CARE!” Trump wrote in a social media post on Sunday. “All I do care about is that Republicans get BACK ON POINT.” 📚 Speaking in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said he did not want the Epstein scandal to “deflect” from the White House’s successes, and claimed it was a “hoax” and “a Democrat problem”. 🗣 “We’ll give them everything,” he told reporters. “Let the Senate look at it, let anybody look at it, but don’t talk about it too much, because honestly, I don’t want to take it away from us.” 🗣 As president, Trump has the authority to order the justice department to release the documents in its possession, as he has previously done with the government records related to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and John F Kennedy. 📆 In an X post directed to Trump, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer wrote: “Let’s make this easier. Just release the files now.” 📺 In July, Democratic congressmen Ro Khanna and Republican Thomas Massie turned to an arcane procedural tactic known as a discharge petition to circumvent House leadership and compel a vote on their bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act, if a majority of the 435-member House signs on. Johnson went to extraordinary lengths to avoid a vote on the the measure, which splintered his conference. 📉 Democrats accused the speaker of delaying the swearing-in of Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva to prevent her from becoming the decisive 218th signatory. She signed her name to the petition moments after being sworn in last week. 📌 Following Trump’s reversal, several House Republicans, including close allies of the president, have publicly stated their intent to vote for the release of the files, meaning the measure could pass unanimously. 👍 The Epstein scandal is a core issue for a swathe of Trump’s rightwing base, some of whom believe in conspiracy theories that surround Epstein and his coterie of powerful friends and associates. Unlike many other issues, the Epstein files have prompted rebellions from Trump’s supporters in politics and the media, calling on him to follow through on his campaign promise to release them. 🧐 On Monday night, activists projected an image of Trump and Epstein on to the justice department building, accompanied by the message: “Release the files now.” 📸 #files #epstein #trump #pedophilia #republicans 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. © Shirley MacLaine @quote

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. © Elbert Hubbard @quote

The simplest things are often the truest. © Richard Bach @quote

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are © Epictetus @quote

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Life ain't a rehearsal, the camera's always rolling © Drake @quote

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. © Ovid @quote

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. © Robert Stevenson @quote

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive. © Marlene Dietrich @quote

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. © Oscar Wilde @quote

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. © William Shakespeare @quote

Love is the motto, love is the beginning, love is the source and love is everything that your heart shall crave for, in this world and the next. © Mwanandeke Kindembo @quote

As far as your self-control goes, as far goes your freedom. © Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach @quote

🛩 Airlines canceled 1,200 flights on Tuesday as air traffic control staffing improved significantly ahead of an expected end to a record-setting government shutdown as soon as Wednesday. After airlines canceled 2,400 flights and delayed 9,600 on Monday, airlines delayed just 1,700 on Tuesday, the best performance for the industry in recent days. #Shutdown #Avia 👂 More on Trump's Ear

Do not yet see, that, if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. © Ralph Waldo Emerson @quote

It’s sad to think what the state of rock and roll will be twenty years from now. It just seems like when rock and roll is dead the whole world’s gonna explode. It’s already so rehashed and so plagariazed that it’s barely alive now. It’s disgusting. I mean, kids don’t even really care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It’s already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life. And at that point I really can’t see music being of any importance to a teenager, really. © Kurt Cobain @quote