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@porterstansb My guns have never walked out of my house or jumped out of my hand to shoot people

Race has nothing to do with this. The problem is guns, not people.

@Esoteric_Though @Microinteracti1 The video shows Meloni sarcastically responding to journalists in a January 2026 press conference about distancing from the US, not replying to Trump about air bases. The portrayed dialogue is fabricated. edmo.eu/publications/a… youtube.com/watch?v=Y2NtIm…

@Microinteracti1 It’s one thing not to join the war. I get it. It’s another to deny access to bases we’ve built and allied airspace for a military action. Bold move by a bunch of weak ass, helpless, poor nations.

This is a complete humiliation 😅🇮🇹 Trump: “Give us your air bases to attack Iran.” Meloni: “We won’t give.” Trump: “NATO is zero without America.” Meloni: “Cool. So should we shut down your bases, cut trade, or just storm McDonald’s?” And then she followed through. Italy officially refused permission for U.S. military aircraft heading to the Middle East. Not a strongly worded letter. A flat refusal. Aviano. Sigonella. Decades of quiet assumption that these bases were Washington’s to use as it pleased. That assumption is now in the bin. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 H/t CN The video shows Meloni sarcastically responding to journalists in a January 2026 press conference about distancing from the US, not replying to Trump about air bases. The portrayed dialogue is fabricated. edmo.eu/publications/a… youtube.com/watch?v=Y2NtIm…

@FrankLuntz @irishspy Slavery is great is the @DNC @IdahoDems playbook since the Civil War

According to an estimate by Texas A&M, dairy farms that employ immigrant workers produce 79% of the nation’s milk supply – and the price of milk would double without them. nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/…

Lie Acceptable Forms for Documentary Proof of U.S. Citizenship (Registration) The bill defines these specifically. Standard driver’s licenses or most REAL IDs do not qualify on their own because they typically do not indicate citizenship status (REAL IDs are available to non-citizens in many cases, and few states issue “enhanced” versions that explicitly show citizenship).  Acceptable options include any one of the following (with additional rules for name mismatches, such as providing marriage certificates, divorce decrees, or court orders): • A REAL ID-compliant form of identification that explicitly indicates the applicant is a U.S. citizen (rare; only certain “enhanced driver’s licenses” from a handful of states like NY, VT, MI, MN, or WA may qualify on their own). • A valid U.S. passport (or passport card). • An official U.S. military identification card + a U.S. military record of service showing the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States. • A valid government-issued photo ID (federal, state, or tribal) that shows the applicant’s place of birth was in the United States. • A valid government-issued photo ID (e.g., standard driver’s license or state ID) combined with one or more supporting documents, such as: • A certified birth certificate (issued by a state, local, or tribal vital records office; must include full name, date/place of birth, parents’ names, official signature, and seal; hospital records or extracts may qualify in some cases). • Consular Report of Birth Abroad (for those born outside the U.S. to U.S. citizen parents). • Naturalization Certificate or Certificate of Citizenship. • Adoption decree showing U.S. place of birth. • Certain American Indian Cards (with “KIC” classification for specific tribal members).

Under the House Republicans’ SAVE Act, a military ID wouldn’t be enough to register to vote. Service members risk their lives to defend this country, & they want to strip their voting rights? That is betrayal, not patriotism. 🇺🇸🔥 #NoPayToVoteSaveAct

There is a serious constitutional crisis when the legislative branch of the federal government is unable to legislate because of self-imposed ‘extra-constitutional’ rules and procedures. The Byrd Rule… named for a long-dead Democrat leader who appears to control the Senate from the grave. The filibuster rule that can’t work because of some long ago interpretation of the filibuster process. The question is whether the Senate leaders will continue to allow their foolish adherence to arcane rules and procedures to create this constitutional crisis. They say they won’t “nuke” the filibuster. But they also won’t overturn the long ago ruling by a parliamentarian who “interpreted” the 2-speech rule to mean the filibuster can never ever end. As we have had to learn more about the Senate rules, it is becoming increasingly clear that the Senate is refusing to protect the filibuster by overturning the interpretation that makes the filibuster impossible to end without a supermajority. That’s a constitutional crisis and rather than seriously address the issue and the procedures and the rules, the Senators left town. So disgraceful. We will know soon enough where these Senators went if they traveled during the recess. How many went on junkets. Who had fundraising trips. What they did rather than face their responsibilities. Like funding DHS. Like securing our elections. Like addressing this constitutional crisis they have allowed to take over the Senate and that they refuse to remedy. This is not what the voters bargained for. This irresponsible bunch of Senators who refuse to protect the Senate and ensure its ability to function to serve the people. They’re mad at @BasedMikeLee for calling this all into public view. On full display so we now see it - understand it. And hate it. But he’s not the problem. They just didn’t want the public to ever find out. But now we know. And we are disgusted. @EIwatchdogs @BasedMikeLee @chiproytx

@conor64 This isn’t a real question is it? Were you in a coma? I don’t know one person, including my doctors, nurses and everyone else who don’t know we were lied to by the health industrial complex.

A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.

@DataRepublican @LeaderJohnThune I am so disgusted with the republicans. This is a total betrayal of the republican voters. Thune is scum. All senators in the Republican Party are scum

Hello Senator Thune, At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP. Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept. You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to. You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to. You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to. Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats. Let's be precise about what you did: 1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer. 2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM. 3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding. The precedent you set: You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins. But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered: • Voice vote to avoid accountability • Empty chamber to avoid debate • Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny • Immediate recess to avoid questions You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one. What you've actually accomplished: Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded. Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded. And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning. The question you should answer: Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM? Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record? You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like. Here's my message: We saw it anyway. Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome. Own it.

Let’s summarize where we are after a 40+ day Democrat shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. 1) ICE and CBP are funded, thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts and the foresight of President Trump and Republicans in Congress. 2) After holding DHS and the American people hostage for over 40 days, Dems got ZERO restrictions that would prevent ICE and CBP agents from doing their jobs safely. 3) Due to Dem obstruction of the appropriations process, ICE and CBP will get even more funding through budget reconciliation. 4) Dems have once again established themselves as the “Open Borders, Defund the Police” party heading into an election. 5) Dem leadership has proven once again they can’t be trusted to make a deal. Which begs the question if you’re a Dem senator or one of their left-wing supporters: What was this really all about?

I’m an Econ teacher. I’m gonna remind you of Econ 101 The most important cost that normies don’t measure is opportunity cost. Don’t keep him I that school. Every day there is a day he won’t get back, a day he could have rocketed ahead. I have PTA’s over parents like you and your wife who can write a narrative like this but then keep their kids in the school that retains and empowers teachers like this. I need more men like you running shit. He is going to be a man like you. Don’t let them hobble him.

Where is my 2500 reduction? My insurance went up 6000/year and I lost my coverage because my employer had the gall to take care of his employees with a “platinum” plan You ruined a system that wasn’t perfect but at lease 5he old system was “affordable” and better coverage. Screw you

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time. The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more. But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.

ELON MUSK: SpaceX will build a mass driver on the moon. "If you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. So by having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver, which is the kind of thing you really need to learn about in read about in science fiction, but we're going to make it real. We're actually going to have a mass driver on the moon. And if you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater. You can go to 1000 gigawatts or more per year, and ultimately get to maybe a millionth, and then a 1,000th and maybe even a few percent of the sun's energy. I really want to see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space just go like just one after the other. I can't imagine anything more epic than a mass driver on the moon and a self sustaining city on the moon, and then going beyond the moon to Mars, going throughout our solar system, and ultimately, being out there among the stars and visiting all these star systems, maybe we'll meet aliens. Maybe we'll meet see some civilizations that lasted for millions of years, and we'll find the remnants of ancient alien civilizations. But the only way we're going to do that, do that, do that is if we go out there and we explore, and this is the path to making it happen."

This is a very bad idea. This will allow ‘bot farms to downvote otherwise popular posts. @elonmusk

@BirdNewEngland @jasonrantz Washington state. Read the article

@jasonrantz Ohh it’s Democrats spending money right now? With republicans occupying the House (the only ones who CAN spend), the Senate, the executive branch and arguably the Judiciary as well. Are these “Washington democrats” in the room with us now?

‘Fiscal suicide’: Wall Street Journal says Washington Democrats are the real threat to democracy, not Trump seattlered.com/taxes/wall-str…

@JenniferSey We love your mission, and products. Keep it up

There is wide ranging criticism and dislike of me in some corners of the movement to protect women's sports and spaces. That's the most fun, when we can't get our shit together enough to work together and we come apart from the inside. Here's a sampling of what they don't like and feel they need to tell me daily. 1. You're too late. Are we not welcoming new people to this fight? Do we want to lose? I've never said I was first or early even. 2. It's a business. (You obviously don't care about this you just saw an opportunity to make money.) Yes it is a business. I've never said otherwise. And my goal is to help to normalize our collective POV (protecting women's sports, spaces, dignity and rights) by keeping it at the center of the cultural conversation. With over 100M views of our videos/content, I think we help. Keep in mind, the "other side" has 100s if not 1000s of brands popularizing their nutty and dangerous POV that men can be women if they just say so. We deserve one that fights back. Not for nothing, we've also contributed close to $100k to advocacy organizations on the front lines and we're just a start up. Please stop sending me angry DMs asking snippily what percentage of sales go to support the cause hoping it's zero so you can be more pissed at me. What we can afford, that's how much. It will grow as we do. And putting mainstream, broad reach, widely cheered content into the world and supporting brave female athletes who speak up with contracts and community is also supporting the cause. There are many ways to do it. Not just contributing to non-profits. 3. You're a grifter. I'm a business person and a brand builder. I'm not a politician, lawyer, legislator or activist. And I think @xx_xyathletics can be a part of driving change in the culture which we absolutely need to do. If I was a grifter I'd have kept my big mouth shut and stayed in corporate America. Believe me, the pay was better and I worked far fewer hours. 4. You talked to [insert trans identified male]. Yes I did. I talk to people I disagree with all the time. Some people I disagree with on this topic, I even like for other reasons. Members of my own family, for instance. Am I perfect? No. Have I said everything perfectly? No. Am I contributing in a positive way? I think yes. Do I listen and learn every day? Yes. Am I going to apologize to every troll whose standards I don't meet? Absolutely not. That's it. Nothing more to say on the matter. Except I hope you'll check out the brand @xx_xyathletics! We have so much cool new stuff for spring and golf and tennis and running!

@chucktodd No

Anyone else fear that the Commander in Chief isn’t getting the full picture of the war’s impact out of fear by those around him of telling him something he doesn’t want to hear?

So our ROTC guys got a kill with their bare hands.... nice.

@BabakTaghvaee1 @CENTCOM Did you not watch Maverick take a museum piece f-15 and shoot down 5th gen fighters? Of course we have to destroy museum pieces

The @CENTCOM is busy destroying museum pieces in Iran, including a decommissioned MiG-23BN of the Iraqi Air Force at the 3rd Tactical Fighter Base near Hamedan, which I once tried to save by advocating for its transfer to the Iranian Air Force Museum. Here is an image of that poor MiG-23BN I was trying to preserve, but it was ultimately destroyed by a USAF MQ-9A drone operator today. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@Partisangirl @abbasnasir59 Someone did not check weather dot com. It’s not raining like this is Tehran

Hegseth claims "Iran's leadership is underground", at the exact moment Iran releases video of their president taking selfies with the public and walking the streets. Embarrassing!

For the first 2 questions, yes I have, for the last, no. That said, the Breach the Dams crowd have no solutions to replace the power. Without electricity, the state of Idaho will bleed jobs, reduce the tax base and reduce money used for fish and game enforcement. Solar won’t work (my solar panels only supply about 60% of my usage and we are a low usage family), neither will wind. Idaho power no longer buys coal fired power from Jim Bridger. Where will the power come from? Are the Breachers willing to use coal? For the NA, where will the power come from to run their slot machines in the casinos on the reservations? The Breachers always say they are “for finding solutions as long it’s our solution.” “Are the people who are making these decisions to keep the dams — have they ever seen a wild, healthy Chinook deep in the heart of the Idaho backcountry? Have they listened to the Nimipuu stories of fishing who no longer have their share? Have they seen the toxic algae blooms at the beach with their children?”

Running out of time: Breach the Snake River dams not to save salmon | Opinion idahostatesman.com/opinion/reader…

Hello Professor Nichols, You spent twenty-five years at the Naval War College. You taught the officers who would go on to run America's wars. Famously, you never served in any of them. In February 2003, you were at your desk in Newport when you wrote this, about Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations: “There is only one thing to say about Secretary Powell’s presentation at the U.N.: If this doesn’t do it, nothing will.” You were confident. You were expert. You were wrong. You acknowledged this twenty years later in The Atlantic — the invasion was, in your own words, “one of the greatest geopolitical disasters in American history.” You wrote that from the same institution you are now defending. The Senior Service Colleges produced the officers who managed the Afghanistan withdrawal. General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. General Kenneth McKenzie, CENTCOM commander. On September 28, 2021, both testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that they had recommended keeping 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. The recommendation was not followed. They did not resign or say a word publicly. Then 13 American service members died at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021. Only after that did they testify. Your response, in The Atlantic, August 16, 2021: “Afghanistan Is Your Fault.” Not the generals your institutions trained and credentialed. Not the curriculum that built the career-preserving, NSC-deferring officer class that drove those decisions to their conclusion. The American public, with our short attention span and our SUVs. General Milley, whose career your institution shaped, secretly called his PLA counterpart twice, October 30, 2020 and January 8, 2021, and assured him the US would not strike China, and that Milley would warn him personally if an attack were ordered. You wrote “Trump Put Milley in an Impossible Position.” That's not all. Secretary Austin concealed a cancer diagnosis from the White House and Congress for weeks while incapacitated; the DoD Inspector General documented it. At his farewell address in September 2023, Milley publicly called his former commander-in-chief a “wannabe dictator.” You found none of this worth a column. Anthony Tata is a retired Brigadier General. He commanded forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He led soldiers in both wars. And now he has been asked to conduct a 90-day curriculum review of the Senior Service Colleges. Your objection is that he lacks the credentials for the job. You wrote a whole book about credentials. The foundational knowledge of the average American is, in your assessment, “plummeting to aggressively wrong.” Institutions must be insulated from the ignorant. Expertise must not be questioned by those who haven’t earned it. The men who earned your institution’s credentials - over twenty-plus years of your tenure - presided over two of the longest military failures in American history. They managed those failures in line with everything the War Colleges taught them: subordinate military judgment to civilian direction, preserve the relationship, testify about it later. They retired with honors. That is what "expertise" means to you. The question Pete Hegseth is asking isn't whether the War Colleges have credentials. It's whether the credentials mean anything. After twenty-five years on your faculty training generals who only know how to lose war, Professor Nichols, you are the wrong man to answer that.