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lol twitter.com/sovietsergey/s…

@KatiePavlich Are you willing to enlist and be a part of a ground combat force? If not, I’d sit this one out.

Sometimes, providing lasting peace means thoroughly defeating an enemy with force. We shall see.

@stoolpresidente I guess your Bruins fandom was fake. You really are the epitome of a terrible sports fan and the fan all of America hates.

I didn’t think we’d sweep em. Avs got a good room over there. Game 4 must win.

@Mpolymer You also have a neutered NSC, which in theory could take a command and coordinating role that DNI does on paper. But in reality they’re currently irrelevant too. I don’t think every agency solely doing their own thing is good and learns the lessons of 9/11 and Iraq WMD.

@Mpolymer On one hand ODNI is kinda useless, on the other hand stovepipes and agencies fighting w/each other would expand exponentially. I don’t think there’s going back to the days of DCI, nobody but CIA would agree with that, but a reformed structure is needed.

To add to the reporting, my two cents - Key issue now is future of the ODNI itself. Significant support on the Hill for more downsizing and even getting rid of the office all together (I and many other “formers” in the media would not object-though obviously I don’t matter at all) . So watch SSCI chair Cotton closely, he’s spoken publicly on this issue…. nytimes.com/2026/05/22/us/… via @NYTimes

@sarahadams You’re a defender of terrorists, be better.

The FBI officers responsible for this were never truly reformed, and they will do it again. That’s why those of us from Benghazi raised hell over things like the targeted IRS investigations against us and the framing of a fake mastermind for the attack on us. What you tolerate does not stop—it becomes precedent.

@Mpolymer I think you’re forgetting one other possibility. The collection and analysis are good or at least decent, but the policymakers either don’t believe the IC or just straight up don’t care and think they’re smarter than everyone. Intel is only useful if the policymaker buys in.

yes on below, makes some good points.... but I think it's missing a discussion of the following: potential collection shortfalls may have led to faulty analysis and assumptions. remember the (as reported in the media) massive compromises of agent networks decade plus ago-i wonder did the US IC ever recover? and note that successful intelligence on find/fix/finish ops (man hunting) takes a far different agent pool than penetrating the plans and intentions of the regime. an agent that provides pattern of life (POL) is not the same agent as one who is working in the Supreme Leader's office and has access to high level foreign intelligence information. anyhow, just some additional thoughts (that I have mulled over as well) after reading the piece. very glad this issue is being tackled.

@the_cats_meowww Don’t be a terrrorist, your husband could try that.

We lost everything over J6. My husband, Jay Johnston, is an actor and comedian with a career spanning over three decades. A lifetime of work in the entertainment industry disappeared overnight, replaced with a campaign designed to banish us from society completely. Networks and studios publicly blacklisted him before any charges or arrest. He was fired from Bob’s Burgers and several other ongoing projects. Theaters around Los Angeles put messages up on their marquees. Social media filled up with thousands of death threats and hateful messages. Friends disappeared. We were de-banked. Everything we ever worked for was gone. He went from working in Hollywood for decades to doing handyman jobs just to survive. Federal agents raided our home at dawn. They dragged us out of bed in our underwear at gunpoint and forced him to kneel in the dirt while the entire neighborhood watched. The government and media worked together to destroy us. I lost my career even though I wasn’t there that day. Our daughter, who was only 11 and has autism, was kicked out of her special needs programs. School administrators denied us. Other parents boycotted us and wouldn’t let their kids near her. She was placed on the Quiet Skies terrorist watchlist and subjected to repeated invasive searches at the airport. The sensory overload was so bad we couldn’t take her to visit her grandfather while he was going through cancer treatment. Our story is not unique. Hundreds of other families went through similar nightmares. Some lost their homes, businesses, marriages, and children. Military benefits gone. Fathers spent years in prison. Many were in solitary confinement, denied medical care and religious services, missing funerals and family milestones. The stress destroyed their health. Some J6ers even took their own lives. It’s time for restitution. Every ruined life, every traumatized child, and every stolen year demands full accountability and fair compensation. The amounts must reflect the true, permanent damage done - lost careers that spanned decades, destroyed futures, and irreplaceable family time - so victims are made whole, not given token settlements.

@bdomenech They’re not protesters, they stormed the Capitol and are terrorists. They should’ve been treated the same as ISIS if this was a country based on rule of law and justice.

Zero patience for any Senator who was going to charge taxpayers 500k for Arctic Frost bitching about this fund. The process was the punishment. The Biden DOJ ruined the lives and finances of people for protest and social media sins universally excused on the left. Hypocrites.

@EnriAlejandroTV He doesn’t indict Putin, who killed US citizens….food for thought.

While Donald Trump is indicting Cuban communist dictator Raúl Castro, Barack Obama was attending baseball games with him in Havana.

@DavidKlein719 @MarkSZaidEsq @RepNancyMace @tedcruz But Sen Moreno and Rep Spartz are naturalized citizens and thus are not eligible to run for President or VP.

@DavidKlein719 @MarkSZaidEsq @RepNancyMace @tedcruz His mother was a US citizen living in Canada at the time. So Ted was eligible, he’s basically at the time of birth a US citizen born abroad. There’s a separate specific certificate for that. Happens all the time for US military families posted abroad.

Ilhan Omar. Shri Thanedar. Pramila Jayapal. All born in foreign countries, none were citizens by birth. All sitting in the United States Congress. All making clear every single day their loyalty is not to America. We just introduced a long overdue joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to require Members of Congress, federal judges, and Senate-confirmed officers to be natural born citizens. This is the very same standard the President and Vice President are already required to meet. The people writing America's laws, confirming America's judges, and representing America on the world stage should have one loyalty: America. Not any other country. For too long we have allowed foreign born members to hold seats in this government while making clear they are America last, not America first. We see it every day. This constitutional amendment will put an end to it.

@Mpolymer 1) I wouldn’t blame the majority of CIA on this. This isn’t an analytical failure, it maybe is a DO CA failure but to me this was a Mossad op and the US just decided to go along with it. 2) I don’t think the working level of the USG has much say. This is a top down admin,

Where was CIA’s Iran experts cadre in all this? It’s seems like a never ending clown show of bad ops ideas and analysis from the US/Israel that ordinarily would never make the light of day. I’d ask same question for Mossad. What happened to adults in the room? There used to be a significant level of expertise in both intelligence communities. Did the DOGE cuts cause all this expertise to leave the agency, for example?

@nicksortor He was a screwup Auburn coach, I’m sure he can be a screwup governor.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump-endorsed Coach Tommy Tuberville has WON the GOP gubernatorial primary in Alabama CONGRATULATIONS, COACH! Tuberville is a sitting US Senator and former Auburn football coach Can't WAIT until he's officially elected in November and I can move to Alabama 🤣🔥

@stephenfhayes @JonahDispatch I would not just assume Paxton beats Talarico. Especially if things continue to get worse in the economy. Paxton has a ton of baggage and a lot of enemies in Texas.

Also, if Paxton wins, he'll be a senator. Bad for conservatives, bad for Texas, bad for the country, bad for competent governance...

@charadelaperla @danpfeiffer 1) Nobody likes either party anymore. It’s a battle of who is hated more. 2) A lot of Dems dislike the Democratic Party and are dissatisfied with the party. They’re still gonna vote against Trump and the GOP.

@danpfeiffer In the very same poll, Republicans still poll higher than Democrats. The only shot for Dems is to nominate someone who completely and loudly rejects the Democratic brand and way of doing politics.

1. The brand new NYT poll points towards a shellacking for the GOP driven by Trump’s putrid polls, an unpopular war with Iran, and anger about his economic policies. But the reality in the crosstabs is even worse than the headline suggests. Here's why:

@JAkinniranye @peterbakernyt @RobbieGramer I mean, they all have acting career diplomats filling in with the title Charge d’Affaires. But it’s not the same as having a senate confirmed ambassador. Embassies also do a lot of work for US citizens visiting or living abroad. And all the work NatSec agencies do abroad.

@peterbakernyt @RobbieGramer This is a chance to reevaluate their roles, contributions to diplomatic relationship-building, and their efforts to promote US interests... if the US can do without 115 of them in post right now, the question is whether they are really required?

At a time of war in the Middle East, the US has no ambassador in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Iraq or Kuwait. At a time of war in Europe, there is no US ambassador in Russia or Ukraine. Altogether some 115 of 195 ambassador posts are vacant. @RobbieGramer wsj.com/politics/polic…

@LawrenceBJones3 @RichLowry That said, if the report is true it does look like Rand Paul’s son went way over the line and didn’t just offer a normal critique Netanyahu or foreign policy and went into crazy town.

@LawrenceBJones3 @RichLowry Criticism of Netanyahu and his policies is not antisemitic. Just as critiquing the Iran Regime is not hating Shi’ism or criticizing MBS is not Sunni Islamophobia. You are allowed to harshly criticize foreign leaders. It’s not an -ism.

There’s a deep-seated cancer going on. I’m not surprised by the antisemitism on the left, particularly among those who embrace radical Islam. However, the rise of antisemitism on the political right is concerning. The sudden belief that Jews are solely responsible for their problems is absurd. How did a movement that prides itself on personal responsibility and resilience end up adopting such a victimhood mentality?!

Sleeper agents don’t look like spies. They buy homes, raise kids, and blend in. Operation Ghost Stories showed how the FBI uses surveillance and counterintelligence to find the pattern beneath the cover story. #FBI #Espionage #Russia fbi.gov/news/stories/o…

@alexbward @AlexThomp @BarakRavid Your outlet is a mouthpiece and a stenographer for the administration, more than any other outlet. Do better, actually do reporting and stop doing access journalism. Also, Ravid literally worked for Unit 8200 (Israeli NSA). It’s hard to not take MidEast reporting w/skepticism.

The pile on @BarakRavid is wildly unfair and ridiculous. He’s a great reporter. The rest is noise. Everyone get back to work.