CHANGE I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IN: Trump says he thinks he will have the ‘honor’ of taking Cuba.

Here’s how much the Commie regime cracked on Monday: Cuba plans to open up to investment from nationals living in U.S., as Trump puts pressure on island.

“Cuba is open to having a fluid commercial relationship with U.S. companies [and] also with Cubans residing in the United States and their descendants,” Deputy Prime Minister Oscar Pérez-Oliva Fraga said in an interview with the outlet. He added that the country is open to “not only small investments, but also large investments, particularly in infrastructure.”

Fraga indicated that the new policy would be announced Monday night.

CBS News has reached out to the White House for comment.

It marks a notable shift for the country, which has had a largely state-controlled economy for decades and heavily restricted residents from starting private businesses until 2021.

Not only that, but Havana until viewed Cuban exiles like Stalin viewed Trotsky. Inviting them — and their money — back is probably the biggest concession we’ve yet seen. With more to come.

Fidel outlasted every president from JFK to GWB, and his Communists from Obama until… Trump 47?

MOST DO-GOODER NONPROFITS SEEM TO BE MONEY LAUNDRIES:

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN ALTERED:

I suspected that this might be fake, it’s so perfect, but Grok says it checks out.

DATA REPUBLICAN: The Blob Eats Its Own: War on the Rocks and the Capture of Realist Journalism. What the doxxing of Cynical Publius reveals about how the national security establishment protects itself. “That is the tell. Not the funding, not the network, not the deletion of “realist lens” from the About page — though all of it is documented. The tell is this: the publication that was supposed to be the honest after-action review became the institution that shuts it down. The correction mechanism became the immune system. When someone tried to do the work the publication was founded to do, the publication exposed him to the people he was criticizing and let them take it from there.”

Plus: “The people tasked with explaining why America keeps losing are the same people defending the institutions that produced the losses.”

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.