Melissa O'Sullivan

Re Russiagate/ODNI Dir. Gabbard's releases: "so the the significance of this episode it that it’s truly the turning inward of the CIA’s regime foreign government overthrow playbook against the American people and against a duly elected American President" That is the 'money line' from the great Michael Shellenberger in his conversation with great Sean Spicer. The whole discussion is excellent, but for the Cliff Notes, see excerpt below- emphasis mine: “…all of that was just to run an information war against Trump…and that trick, by the way Sean, of basically painting your enemies as a puppet of Putin- and this was not new with Trump-it was/ it’s been a strategy of CIA linked color revolution/regime change operations in Eastern Europe for decades, that’s a big part of how you discredit your political enemies is you associate them with Putin, so the the significance of this episode it that it’s truly the turning inward of the CIA’s regime foreign government overthrow playbook against the American people and against a duly elected American President and that has never happened before at least as far as we know and should continue to shock us and, and continue to require us to demand more transparency and more reform.” youtube.com/watch?v=p2ikqn…

NEW: Claire Lai weighs in to @realDailyWire on news that President Donald Trump advocated for her father to President Xi Jinping. “True to his word, President Trump brought my father up to President Xi. I remain endlessly grateful for the support he and his administration has shown to securing his freedom,” she says. “An ailing man turning 79, who was always pro democracy, anti violence, anti independence, and just wanted the promises made in the Sino British joint declaration, which China signed in the exercise of its sovereignty to be kept. We hope the Holy Spirit will move President Xi’s heart.” “I remain confident it is President Trump and his administration who will free my father. In the meantime I know Our Lord and the Blessed Mother will continue to watch over him as they always have.”

The UN hasn’t said a word.

You may not see my scars, but they are there. I know trauma. I know pain. I also know that seeking help is a sign of strength. I did, and you can too. This Mental Health Awareness Month, I remain committed to breaking down barriers to care for our Sailors and Marines. You are always worth fighting for.

Iran will be free. And I am convinced that Reza Pahlavi is the man to deliver that freedom, just as Juan Carlos transitioned Spain from Franco's dictatorship to a modern democracy. Javid Shah! #LionAndSunRevolution

@RepBrandonGill @GOPoversight None better to lead this effort.

I've been named Chairman of the new @GOPoversight Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses. And we are not waiting. For too long, corrupt institutions across this country have operated like the rules don't apply to them, abusing Americans, plundering taxpayers, and silencing speech — all in plain sight, betting that nobody would ever come for them. That calculation just changed. Here's what this Task Force is going to do: We are going after entities that have abused immigration and welfare programs to defraud taxpayers and rob Americans of their hard-earned money. We are going after institutions that have hidden illegal race-based discrimination behind DEI cover and lied to the American public about it. We are going after entities that have worked to silence Americans' lawful political speech. And we are already moving. Our first action: a formal investigation into a massive Medicaid fraud scandal in Ohio — where hundreds of shell companies operating out of empty office buildings billed taxpayers over $250 million for services that could not be verified. And we believe the full scope of this scandal reaches into the billions. A @realDailyWire reporter found this in two months. The agency responsible for stopping it had years. We just sent the letter demanding answers. This is what the Task Force was built for. Corrupt institutions have had their free pass for too long. We are coming for them.

Another innocent Iranian murdered by the terrorist Islamic Republic occupying Iran. Ehsan Afrashteh. Shame on those who remain silent. Shame on those who want to engage in "diplomacy" with this brutal Islamic Dictatorship that's holding 90 million Iranians hostage.

“Slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead.” Rep. Wesley Hunt pushes back on what he calls “reinvigorated talk” of Jim Crow, while defending the idea that America is a Christian nation: "As someone who is a direct descendant of a slave, as someone whose great-great-grandfather was born on a plantation, I can assure you, slavery is over. Jim Crow is dead." "I am a Black man representing a White-majority district in Texas, the great-great-grandson of a man born on a plantation stands before you today as a proud, conservative Republican from Texas. As a believer and follower in Christ."

In 1942, in Nazi-occupied Tunisia—the only Arab country to suffer direct German occupation—a drunken officer bragged at dinner about the Jewish woman he planned to seize from a forced brothel. He named her. Across the table sat Khaled Abdul-Wahab, a 31-year-old wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York, spoke fluent German, and was trusted by the Nazis. They invited him to their tables. He smiled, poured the wine, finished the meal… then raced through the night. He pounded on the door of the woman’s family at midnight. “Pack nothing. Come now.” He gathered 25 terrified Jews—mothers, fathers, children, cousins—and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm. For four agonizing months, he hid them in the olive press, stables, and storage sheds. He fed them as supplies ran desperately low. He kept crying babies silent. When German soldiers came to count Jews, the hidden families pinned on their yellow stars, stood motionless, then tore them off the moment the danger passed. One terrifying night, a drunk soldier stumbled upon them and threatened to kill everyone. An 11-year-old girl, hiding under a bed, watched in horror—until Khaled appeared like a guardian angel. He calmly disarmed the soldier and sent him away. No one on that farm died. In May 1943, the British liberated Tunisia. The 25 returned home alive. Khaled went back to his quiet life—painting, raising daughters, serving his country—and never spoke of it again. Not to his wife. Not to his children. He died in 1997 at 86. His secret died with him. A decade later, his daughter Faiza sat in a Paris café reading a newspaper. An American historian was describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews. He named her father. She was 45 years old and hearing the story for the first time. “I rediscovered my father,” she said. Khaled was nominated to be the first Arab recognized as Righteous Among the Nations—Israel’s highest honor for those who saved Jews. The committee declined. Today, those 25 souls have hundreds of descendants living in Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl under the bed grew up, built a family in Paris. None of them would exist if Khaled had looked away that night. He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he carried the silence for the rest of his life. The world almost forgot him twice. Now you know his name: Khaled Abdul-Wahab. A true hero. A Muslim who stood against evil when it mattered most. Colorized image of black and white photo poster by Israel the Jewish State.

Wow- I remember that moment ( China said malfunction with front exit stairs leading to Pres Obama leaving from rear) and as the years rolled on and Pres Trump came on the scene, I remembered it and thought if the Chinese had pulled that on Pres Trump, he would have said, “ Wheels up!”

🚨 NOW: Everyone is comparing just how RESPECTED President Trump was in China compared to disgraceful Barack Hussein Obama HUSSEIN: Snubbed on the steps, leaves through the a*s of Air Force One, barely any ceremony, no red carpet TRUMP: The big steps, red carpet, HUNDREDS of Chinese youth waving, chants, endless USA flags, red carpet, military band and more LMAO! Leftists are having a horrible morning 🇺🇸🇨🇳

The Optional Practical Training program is a creation of the administrative state, not Congress. It undercuts American students and functions as another avenue for de facto amnesty. The Trump DHS should eliminate it completely.

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined. Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?” One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had. Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation. Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it. Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans. They conquered until they collapsed. America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined. And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated. Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.” Almost unprecedented? It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history. The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid. It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed. America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership. Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation. Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth. Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin. A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it. That’s not policy. That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything. You’re being told a story right now. That America is the villain of history. You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms. Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.” Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one. The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it. And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities. Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.” Probably right. China has historically built walls, not fleets. But the real question isn’t about borders anymore. We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet. AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint. If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be? The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to? Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy. Billions lifted out of poverty. All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before. And carries no guarantee of being repeated. The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb. It was what it didn’t do after.

I am convinced that Reza Pahlavi is the greatest hope for a free Iran. Like Juan Carlos in Spain after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, the Crown Prince will lead a transition to democracy that utterly changes his nation, region, and the world. Javid Shah!

What the New York Times didn’t want you to read today. So they published what they published. Read it now. Don’t look away.

I read the names of freedom fighters killed by the regime in Iran on every international media, because regime wants to erase them, their faces, their voices, their names. We should not let them kill protesters twice: first by execution, then by silence.

Pope Leo XIV bestowed the Vatican’s highest diplomatic honor upon the Islamic Republic’s Ambassador, Ayatollah Mohammad Hossein Mokhtari. The man is part of a regime that slaughtered 42,000 of its own people and imposes the death penalty on Muslims who convert to Christianity.

It is impossible to overestimate the historic importance of @elonmusk purchasing this platform. He saved freedom of speech. He saved truth.

The liberal media is flat out ignoring this .... so, since we're the media now, you know what to do 👇

Democrat city.

My illiterate mother has been my role model. The regime forced her to disown me on state TV. She refused. I haven’t seen her in more than a decade. Not because I committed a crime. Because I spoke. Happy Mother’s Day 🌻💔