charles johnson

@TheShortBear I'm not making it about left vs right. What administration of either party hasn't been aggressive without a clear plan that benefited the US population above themselves?

@GmailChar Stop making it left vs right. I’m a republican but we are not dealing with the last admin, we are dealing with this one. I didn’t like the last one either, but I’m focused on the present. This admin is aggressive without clear plan.

The firing of top military and other officials right now is about putting troops on the ground. My best bet is they wanted this long weekend to do it, hence the immediate firing. Firing a general during a war is the last thing you want for moral, tactically and for optics. Everyone from close advisors to military people are replaced by yes men. Even the new attorney general is being replaced by Trumps ex personal defense attorney. When a top nation values blind loyalty instead of competency you lose all control, credibility and safety. Very troubling. Power keeps on being consolidated.

@Alladdin1983 @premium ID verified isn't enough. Do give the grok analysis a try - lots of info there.

@GmailChar @premium There are bunch of people with fake names and their accounts are professionals, Also, I am ID verified

Still can't switch my account to professional and I reached out to @premium they wont tell me which criteria i don't meet. Why we pay if you can't answer simple questions?

@SunriseTrader Deliveries are being reported tomorrow - could move stock a bit either way.

$TSLA and $TSLL gap up over 10ema daily. New here today

@kaylahaas That's a 2 spotted cow problem, I think...

This and a spotted cow

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@laralogan Because once they are here, we pay them to hate us. It's pretty easy work. Just ask Ilhan Omar.

Why are people from other countries coming to America if they hate America? Obviously not to preserve & defend…

Serial numbers didn't become a federal requirement until after the 1968 Gun Control Act. While many pre-1968 firearms DID have serial numbers anyway, there are MILLIONS of pre-1968 firearms manufactured by major firearms companies that are lacking serial numbers, including huge numbers of .22 LR rifles. If these arms are not somehow exempted in the bill, then lots of grandpas are going to become instant - and unknowing - felons...

Build it legally? Own it lawfully? Doesn’t matter under HF 3407 - the ban on so-called "Ghost Guns". Yesterday, Anna testified against turning ordinary gun owners into felons overnight in House Public Safety. This bill would: ➡️ Make it a felony to possess a lawfully made firearm without a serial number ➡️ Force owners to serialize, surrender, or destroy their property ➡️ Criminalize sharing digital design files (yes—speech) ➡️ Target hobbyists and collectors, not criminals This isn’t about misuse. It’s about possession. 📌 10–10 tie. Still alive. ⚡ TAKE ACTION: gunowners.mn/action 📝 SIGN A PETITION: gunowners.mn/petitions ✊ JOIN THE FIGHT: gunowners.mn/join 🛡️ BECOME A 2A DEFENDER: gunowners.mn/monthly 💥 DONATE: gunowners.mn/donate #mnleg #mn

@susancrabtree The fact that she isn't fired immediately is just more indication that DEI and protecting their own is still more important to the SS than their actual mission.

Former Secret Service agents said the troubling scenario raises questions about whether Perez was harboring an illegal immigrant and trying to obtain a friend or love interest a green card while covering up the effort, or at least failing to be forthcoming or transparent about it. “How does a Secret Service agent not properly report a relationship with a foreign national that could be an illegal alien, let alone marry her and then not report the marriage?” Rich Staropoli @RichStaropoli2 , former long-time Secret Service and DHS official, asked in an interview with RCP. “It speaks to the sad state of affairs of the Secret Service in recent years and who they're hiring.” The Secret Service over the last decade has been criticized for lowering its hiring standards to solve a persistent agent shortage.

🚨🚨@RCPolitics EXCLUSIVE: Female Secret Service Agent Faulted for J13 Butler Failures That Nearly Killed Trump Suspended Again This time, the agent in question, Miyo Perez, is under internal Secret Service investigation for allegedly secretly marrying a foreign national and failing to report it for nine months. "DO NOT ADMIT" This is the third time Perez has been suspended in a little more than a year. She is on administrative leave and under "Do Not Admit" status while the investigation continues. Congressional investigations that examined the Butler failures faulted Perez for not placing any Secret Service or local police asset on top of the now-notorious sloped roof of the American Glass Building where would-be assassin Thomas Crooks fired off his shots, among other security problems at Butler. Yet Congress also questioned why the Secret Service allowed an inexperienced agent to be placed in such a crucial role at an outdoor rally with thousands of people in attendance. The decision to have Perez in a leading security role for the Butler rally is even more concerning considering that top-level Secret Service officials, including current Secret Service Director Sean Curran, who was serving as the Trump campaign detail leader at the time, had been briefed on an Iranian threat to Trump’s life. Despite the ongoing congressional investigations and internal Secret Service review of her role in the Butler failures, Perez quietly married a Brazilian foreign national last April without notifying the agency, according to a copy of her marriage certificate located on the Brevard County public records website and according to sources familiar with the timing of when she informed the agency of her marriage. THE INVESTIGATION IS LOOKING INTO THE TIMING OF PEREZ'S MARRIAGE TO A FOREIGN NATIONAL AND WHETHER THE WOMAN WAS AN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT AT THE TIME OF THE MARRIAGE Perez had informed the Secret Service of her contact with the Brazilian woman in 2024 before the assassination attempt on Trump’s life, but the agency may have either lost the notification or failed to act on it at the time, according to several sources in the Secret Service community. It’s unclear, however, whether Perez characterized the contact accurately in 2024 and ever since. Agents are questioning whether she followed mandatory protocol to keep the Secret Service updated on how the relationship was developing and when the two began to live together and subsequently married. The marriage took place in April 2025, according to the marriage certificate attained on a public records database. I'll link to the marriage certificate below. Yet sources in the Secret Service community say Perez didn’t inform the agency until January, nine months after the marriage took place. The internal Secret Service investigation is examining whether the woman Perez was dating and married last year had overstayed her visa and was facing a deportation order, multiple sources familiar with the matter told RCP. SECRET SERVICE HAS A CHECKERED HISTORY OF COVERING UP OR UNEVENLY DISCIPLINING AGENTS WHO HAVE HAD RELATIONSHIPS WITH FOREIGN NATIONALS, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE KNOWN RUSSIAN SPY In 2018, news broke that a suspected Russian spy had been working for the Secret Service in the U.S. embassy in Moscow for at least a decade. Dan Bongino @dbongino revealed on his podcast that he had tried to report the spy when he was serving in the embassy before he left the Secret Service in 2011 but was dismissed and told to keep his mouth shut. The same Russian woman was suspected of being involved in an affair with the top Secret Service agent working at the embassy, who had served as the Resident Agent in Charge, or RAC, after Bongino left but several years before her discovery as a spy, multiple sources in the Secret Service community told RCP. The Secret Service and the FBI launched an extensive investigation and suspended the former Secret Service RAC because he couldn’t pass his polygraph when questioned about his relationship with the spy, according to sources familiar with the matter. At the time, the agent in question was the head of the Inspections Division, which oversees disciplinary actions and investigations against all Secret Service employees. The agency allowed this agent to remain on administrative leave until he retired in 2019, a breach of normal disciplinary protocol to benefit an agent and keep the matter out of the press, the sources told RCP. READ The FULL @RCPOLITICS STORY BELOW, INCLUDING SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR SEAN CURRAN'S DECISION TO PROMOTE TWO SUPERVISORS WHO WERE CHARGED WITH OVERSEEING PEREZ'S HANDLING OF THE BUTLER RALLY SECURITY. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

@BuffaloRon You were supervising, Sir, you were supervising...

Neighbors calf was running up and down our street a bit ago... went to go try and help round it up, but since everyone else in the area has a cutting horse, and I am the idiot walking with a stick and a dog. Was pretty useless. they got it caught and back in the pasture in seconds.

@StockSavvyShay It took a special kind of genius to add $SMCI to the index when the company has been sketchy for multiple reasons for more than a decade. Trading it is one thing, adding it to the index something else entirely...

Dear S&P 500 Committee, You added $SMCI at the top and then watched it lose ~80% (allegedly with a little help from a hair dryer). You have the chance to swap that out for $SOFI which has a banking license, 13.7M members and is guiding for at least 30% CAGR through 2028 (all without ever needing heat tools to pass an audit). We think you know what to do.

@PeterRHann1 Trick question...

You are in a Dauntless Dive Bomber on June 5th, 1942. Which one do you attack?

@Minnesota_DHS With hundreds of millions of CASH flown out of MSP to overseas destinations, it is very hard to believe that some of that CASH didn't find its way into the hands of MN government officials as bribes or payoffs before the rest was stuffed into a Somali suitcase...

The real question should be: Which MN DHS officials benefited from the explosive fraud? Who in Tim Walz’s administration got kickbacks? Some MN DHS leaders have created their own provider networks to cash in on this fraud. Others benefit from the voting block. Start the investigations!

I was working for one of the firms (now defunct, will not name) that was involved in that debacle. I was in IT, not the financial end of things. I was there until the bitter end long after most of the financial folks had left or been fired because IT was involved in handing over the remaining data to the firms who eventually showed up to purchase for pennies on the dollar the "assets" that were leftover. It was quite a time...

Its ironic that one of my favorite movies of the last two decades is one I never saw in the theatre, but a a few years after it came out. Its quotable. Its reasonably close to some parts of working for an investment bank. The back stabbing, the lack of empathy for fired staff, the ass covering, and even the moronic firing of the head of risk because of personal insecurities, all ring true. I was let go from TD in 2000 because they wanted to weaken my boss. She lasted 2 years more than me.

@BuffaloRon Probably good that you didn't have to fly home...

I remember when I was much younger drinking too much on St. Patrick's Day and I had to take a bus home. I had never driven a bus before

@PeterRHann1 That's an eggscelent observation...

You know what pisses me off? For a significant portion of my life I was told that eggs were bad. Then i was told, Peter, you are a mutant freak, you have very low cholesterol despite eating eggs. Then I was told, eggs are actually good for you. No shit. Thanks for all the accumulated guilt for my egg diet.

@kaylahaas Are you just ribbing?

bacon appreciation tweet

@kaylahaas That's very ham handed of you.

@DeItaone Those are rookie numbers. Somali fraud in MN alone is more than that.

US WAR WITH IRAN COSTS $11.3B IN FIRST WEEK United States officials say the first six days of the conflict with Iran cost $11.3 billion, nearly $1.9 billion per day, not including ongoing ship operations and personnel costs. The campaign has deployed two aircraft carriers, struck 5,000+ targets, and fired hundreds of interceptors against drones and missiles, with seven U.S. servicemembers killed. Defense officials expect up to $50 billion more may be requested to replenish munitions, as lawmakers push for full accounting of the war’s financial and human toll.