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I am 28 years old, and I have lived my entire life suffocating under the Islamic Republic. I am writing this from the streets of Tehran, nearly a month into a war, and let me tell you a truth that the outside world cannot seem to comprehend: My biggest fear right now is not the missiles. My paralyzing, everyday terror is walking out my front door and hitting an IRGC checkpoint. It is the sickening knot in my stomach when the people I love step outside, knowing they might get dragged away by these monsters. Nothing is, was, or ever will be worse than this regime. You cannot convince me otherwise. I am bleeding myself dry. I spend every ounce of my energy and money fighting this digital blackout, buying VPN after VPN just to force a connection through so I can be the voice of my people. And what do I see when I finally get online? Analysts sitting safely abroad telling us, *"You haven't tried all the paths yet!"* Are you out of your minds? The last "path" we took, over 40,000 of us didn't come home. On that path, a live bullet flew centimeters past my ear and right past the head of the most precious person in my life. I almost lost my best friend forever on that asphalt. What goddamn path is left to take? Why do you trample on the spilled blood of my compatriots? Why do you spend your time fighting Crown Prince @PahlaviReza instead of listening to a crushed, bleeding nation? Last night, I watched his speech. Do you know what I felt? Relief. The profound relief of hearing an honorable man echo the exact pain and demands of his people, with more precision than anyone else. And I felt pride. I felt absolute pride in the truth, structure, and beauty of his words. Do you know how heartbreaking it is that pride is a foreign, alien emotion for an Iranian today? He gave that back to us. We screamed his name with all our might. 40,000 of our fallen heroes signed his leadership with their own blood. Stop fighting our choice. Listen to us.

If you know nothing about Iran or the Islamic regime, here is an Iranian woman explaining it to you like a 5-year-old: The bad Islamic Republic has been occupying Iran for 47 years. They are very bad. They oppress the good people, torture them, kill them and execute them. This is bad. Very bad. Every few years the good people take to the streets. The bad regime cracks down and hurts them. This is bad. On January 8, 2026 the good people took to the streets again in millions. The bad regime turned off the internet, made total darkness and killed as many as they could. 💔 Iran massacre. This is very very bad. Then something good happened! Trump attacked the bad IRGC and killed Khamenei and the murderers. This is good! Very good! But the bad regime turned off the internet again. Iranians are in total darkness with no evacuation alerts. This is bad. So bad. Israel and Trump keep killing the bad IRGC bases, bad commanders and terrorists. This is good! Very good! The good Iranians and diaspora tried so hard to be the voice of their compatriots trapped inside. This is good. But the world, the international community, the activist liberal leftists? They don’t listen. They support the bad terrorist regime. This is very bad. The good Iranian people inside and outside are happy this war is happening. Trump and the others are taking out the murderers. We want freedom! Stand with the good people of Iran! #DigitalBlackOutIran #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

This is WILD!! An 11-minute time-lapse video showing TENS OF THOUSANDS of Iranians gathering in Washington, DC. "THANK YOU, TRUMP & NETANYAHU!" "USA! USA! USA!" "LONG LIVE IRAN" Iranian flags 🇮🇷 American flags 🇺🇸 Israeli flags 🇮🇱 SHARE THIS!!!

🇬🇷 Athens, today: At an “anti-imperialist” demonstration, we spotted this shocking banner: “Glory to the Axis of Resistance” featuring Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iran. The worst terrorist groups in the Middle East, glorified in Europe.

You’re allowed to wave Hamas flags. Hezbollah flags. Flags of the USSR. IRGC flags. ISIS flags. Gay pride flags. But don’t you dare wave the British flag or a police officer will confiscate it and arrest you for incitement and racism. Welcome to the UK.

Horrifying, a pro-Palestinian wears a mock suicide vest in NYC. When will America wake up before they actually start blowing themselves up?

🚨 NOW in NYC: “No Kings” protest gets even crazier, a Communist group openly chanting “There is only one solution, COMMUNIST REVOLUTION!” while marching with the crowd.

Why do we tolerate a Muslim US Senate candidate glorifying the violent No Kings protest where attendees openly call for President Trump’s assassination? Abdul El Sayed is unfit for office. Of course he has me blocked on X. Ban Muslims from holding office in America! No Sharia!

From the same march: Real Iranians on one side waving the Lion and Sun flag. White privileged leftists waving the islamic regime flag on the other side. The progressive Left wants Middle Easterners to be oppressed. You can't make this shit up.

Masked Muslims in NYC: “We support Hamas. USA, go to hell!” Why aren’t they being deported from the U.S. 🇺🇸?

“Until we have done everything within our power to bring the United States to its knees, let us not lose sight of the enemy. For every US military base that crumbles and for every US soldier — who returns home in a casket — we cheer.” “May a Hamas rocket blow up your family’s home.” This is the cancer growing & spreading within our country. This is the democrat party. This is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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.

"We will chop off their heads." "We will lead the army of Allah." "We will subject them to eternal torture." These are Muslim children in an AMERICAN school in Philadelphia! The Western world needs to understand Islam before it is too late.

Here in Philadelphia. Truly appalling. These assholes chanting for the death of our servicemembers. Where’s the Dem outrage and condemnation?

This is NOT Gaza. This is NOT Iran. This is Philadelphia, United States of America. In a Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic school, young children are being taught to glorify jihad, martyrdom, and the murder of Jews. Listen to what they’re singing and reciting on stage: “Glorious steeds call us… The blood of martyrs protects us… We will chop off their heads and liberate Al-Aqsa… We will subject them to eternal torture.” One little girl proudly asks: “Will Jerusalem be a hotbed for cowards?” Another declares: “We will defend Palestine with our bodies.” MAS Philly is part of the Muslim American Society, which has 42 chapters across the US. Their official mission? “To convey Islam with utmost clarity” and build a “virtuous and just American society.” Teaching American kids to become martyrs and chop off heads is not “virtuous.” It’s grooming the next generation of jihadists, on U.S. soil. This is insane. And it’s happening right now in America. Share this. The denial has to end.

Hello Senator Thune, Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation." You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process. Here's how we know: Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you. Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work: Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill. Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results. Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess. Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate. You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months. Now let's talk donors: • Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user • Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify • Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration • Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail." Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable. We see the loop. You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed. What we want: 1. Force a real talking filibuster. 2. Stop hiding behind process. 3. Pass the SAVE America Act. YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents. You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time. Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

Just so we all understand the new rules... If you get killed while assaulting an ICE agent, you're a martyr. If you get killed by a street thug, you we're "in the wrong place at the wrong time," because you apparently shouldn't expect to travel your own country freely.

This is: One of the most damning evidence against Nancy Pelosi and her co-conspirators behind the Jan 6 staged riot. Jan. 6—Capitol Police cuffed one of Christopher Wray’s 274+ undercover FBI agents, then brought him aside, where they happily uncuffed him and fist-bumped him. Mission accomplished. And yet, they charged Americans with terrorism and confined them to 6-by-6 prison cells.

Democrat Ald Maria Hadden blames Sheridan Gorman for her own murder, she implies that if Sheridan hadn't startled this illegal, he wouldn't have murdered her Nothing to see here, just a wrong place, wrong time incident.... and the media agrees Democrats are f'n sinister AF

.@GovPritzker, I saw your post honoring lives lost in Minnesota—standing publicly, naming Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and laying flowers in their memory. But where was that same compassion on January 19, 2025? That is the day my 20-year-old daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed here in Illinois. She was innocent. She did not knowingly put herself in the middle of an ongoing law enforcement situation. She was not making a dangerous choice. She was simply living her life—and it was taken from her. You have never said her name. You have never come to where she died. You have never acknowledged her publicly. And beyond that—you have never even responded to me. I sent you a simple, non-political letter. Not for attention. Not for headlines. Just a father asking for clarity, for answers, and for understanding of the state’s position. You never replied. And now, in the wake of another tragedy here in Chicago, your public display of compassion elsewhere—while remaining silent about victims in your own state—feels deeply disconnected from the reality families like mine are living every day. Instead, you continue to defend sanctuary policies that create the conditions where preventable tragedies like hers can happen. This is not about politics. It’s about leadership and accountability. When you choose to publicly mourn some victims while remaining silent about others—especially those lost under policies you support—it sends a message. Whether intentional or not, it tells families like mine that our loss does not matter the same way. So I am asking you directly: Where is your compassion for my daughter? Where is your acknowledgment of victims here in Illinois? And when will you take responsibility for the consequences of the policies you defend? Say her name: Katie Abraham. Stand where she died. Show the people of Illinois that every life matters.