Carla Sands

How do you negotiate with a regime that can't even agree on who's in charge? Former U.S. Ambassador @CarlaHSands joins The Alex Marlow Show to explain why Iran's ruling structure, the IRGC's influence, and decades of deception make negotiations uniquely difficult. She also discusses why President Trump remains skeptical of a bad deal and what it would take to force meaningful concessions from Tehran. From terror financing to infrastructure failures, Sands argues the Iranian regime has shown the world exactly who they are—and why the U.S. should believe them. Watch & Subscribe HERE | youtu.be/JNSn-Ufr4-Q

I’ve introduced legislation to expand the capital gains tax exemption so seniors can sell their longtime home and downsize without relinquishing a good chunk of their nest egg to the federal government.

Police in India arrested 11 people who issued over 100k fake university degrees in medicine, & engineering You're "Premiere talent" is here working as doctors on fraudulent degrees

BREAKING: Russ Vought at OMB has just overhauled $1 TRILLION in federal grants by adding: Strict E-Verify requirements, English-language rules, and political appointee oversight to ensure taxpayer dollars go to American citizens first. Vought’s new proposal replaces automatic payouts with “pay for performance” standards. Grants can now be terminated for waste, fraud, underperformance, or pushing anti-American priorities like DEI, gender ideology, or Green New Scam programs. No more blank checks and fraud complaints go STRAIGHT to inspectors general and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro within 10 days. 🇺🇸🇺🇸 Here’s Vought a month ago laying out his plan that went into effect today.

@SenMikeLee Allow President Trump to have his recess appointments.

There are 31 weeks left in the year. The Senate is currently scheduled to be in recess for 16 of them. We can secure American elections and pass the MAGA agenda using one weird trick: Stop taking vacations.

California Democrats have increased regulatory costs to grow lettuce 1,400% New data shows groceries are getting more expensive is because farming is getting more expensive A Cal Poly study tracked the regulatory costs of a California lettuce farm - In 2006, it was $109 an acre - Today, it's more than $1,600 an acre - That's a 1,400% increase in regulatory costs I looked more into this and it’s absolutely correct The study tracked a large scale commercial lettuce grower in the Salinas Valley across 2006, 2017, and 2024 2006: Regulatory compliance costs = $109.15 per acre (about 1.26% of total production costs) 2017: Rose to $977 per acre (795% increase from 2006; 8.9% of production costs) 2024: $1,600+ per acre (63.7% increase from 2017; 1,366% overall increase since 2006; now 12.6% of total production costs). The state produces 70% of US lettuce “That dramatic rise has come from layer upon layer of regulation, nearly two dozen of them related to food safety, air and water quality, worker health and safety, and wages.” California needs to vote Red and stop with all these insane revaluations

When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…

@epaleezeldin @ericmwohlwend Thank you @epaleezeldin 💰💰💰

After a Stacey Abrams linked NGO reported $100 in revenue in 2023, the Biden EPA awarded them $2 BILLION in 2024. Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, I canceled that entire grant and that NGO has not had access to any of those funds. In fact, the Trump EPA has canceled over $29 BILLION in grants so far on behalf of the hardworking American taxpayer.

🚨 WOW! WH anti-fraud task force cochair Andrew Ferguson just broke it down PERFECTLY on fraud: "Our whole society was designed for a high trust people." Then we imported the 3rd world. "The American people rightly expects that their fellow citizens will deal with them and with the government, honestly and fairly." "That's why for up until the last decade or so shelves in our grocery stores and our pharmacies were open and readily accessible. We weren't accustomed to seeing security guards outside of banks or jewelry stores." "We didn't have to worry about organized retail theft or industrial scale scammers or the type you all protect your citizens from every day. Nor did we have to worry about fraudsters raiding our benefits program. But sadly, that is no longer true." "It's become clear that huge groups of people in this country are taking advantage of our longstanding culture of trust to enrich themselves at the expense of the American people. I think a brief example would be illustrative. Just this weekend, I was shopping at a big home improvement store to buy a drill to do some home improvement." "And I had a call button and wait 15 minutes for a sales associate to come unlock a steel cage and a steel padlock to get access to a drill. It's why deodorant is now locked behind plastic windows at pharmacies. It's why security guards are seen at every store in America." "The social trust is evaporated and people are taking advantage of it and the same is true with our federal benefits programs." "Huge segments of the population have decided to take advantage of this generosity and trust of American citizens through deception and fraud and billions and billions of dollars each year." "Leave our programs into the hands of pirates, fraudsters, scammers and gangs who treat American generosity as little more than a get quick rich scheme." "We shouldn't have to live this way."

Emory University (@EmoryUniversity) has filed a notice of intent to hire an H-1B Director of Programs at the Emory Library Center of Digital Scholarship Salary: $89,458 No American citizen was qualified for this job.

Hasan Piker singled out the Shanghai-based Neville Singham as the "funding vehicle" for political agitation here in the United States. This is a huge admission from one of America's biggest podcasters. And it directly corroborates BPI's research on foreign influence in the campaign against American AI.

🚨 BREAKING. Scott Bessent just announced the Internal Revenue Service is launching MASSIVE AUDITS of financial institutions that facilitated the laundering of Minnesota funds. Read that again. Banks. MSBs. Financial middlemen. Anyone who helped move dirty money is about to get TORCHED. For once, the IRS is being deployed FOR AMERICANS FIRST — not against working families. Follow the money. Audit everything. Prosecute whoever broke the law. Music to my ears. Thank you, Sec. Bessent. 🇺🇸 FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

@Lily4Liberty Congratulations! ❤️

Happy 36th anniversary to my husband John. We got married in Austin, TX 1990 at a Methodist church. "To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part." 36 years later, John is a loving husband, a great father to our three children, a business partner and my best friend. As I am fighting to preserve the precious freedom I found in America and running for Congress in #NH02, John is my strongest supporter, advisor, volunteer, donor, driver and bodyguard. I am very blessed to have him by my side since I met him 38 years ago on the first day in America. The best is yet to come in our life journey together. I love him more than I can say!

🚨 Stephen Miller says the scale of welfare fraud is SO MASSIVE that eliminating it alone could balance the ENTIRE federal budget "The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars." "We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them." This should infuriate EVERY taxpayer.

Tennessee just did what Congress can't. They passed a law to break up the health insurance giants. Specifically, they made it illegal for pharmacy benefit managers — the companies in charge of pharmacy insurance — and pharmacies to be owned by the same company. That makes perfect sense. For example: CVS Caremark is the PBM, and CVS is the pharmacy. So if you have Aetna insurance, you have CVS Caremark as your PBM, and they're going to do everything they can to make sure you use CVS as your pharmacy. Aetna, Caremark, CVS — all the same company. That causes all kinds of incredibly obvious problems that this law hopes to fix. If your insurance company is in charge of approving your medication, deciding how much to pay for it, AND deciding who gets that money — while also being the pharmacy that gets paid at the end — guess what happens to prices? They go up. Governor Lee signed the law last week. CVS immediately filed a federal lawsuit because they said it will force them to close all 136 stores they have in Tennessee. Let that sink in. I'm not sure most people realize what that says about CVS and health insurance in general. They had to choose between owning the middleman (the PBM) or the healthcare provider (the pharmacy). Without hesitation, they chose the middleman. The biggest pharmacy chain in the country — with a store on every corner — would drop all 136 of their Tennessee locations in a second if it means keeping their middleman business. It is more profitable for them to be a health insurance middleman getting between you and your healthcare than it is to actually provide the healthcare. That is the problem with healthcare in America. We have made the middleman so powerful that they've taken complete control of the entire system. Three PBMs — Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — handle around 80% of all prescriptions in this country. How on earth can we expect healthcare to work well and remain affordable if that's where the money is? We all auto-pay our insurance straight out of our paycheck before we even see the money. And not surprisingly, they're keeping a ton of it. That's why we fired them. And they can't file a lawsuit to stop us. That lets us offer fair, transparent prices. No PBMs. No insurance games. No hidden markups. You see the cost, you pay the cost.

The ultimate Trojan horse isn’t a piece of uncrackable software; it’s a grain of rice soldered directly onto a motherboard. Bloomberg’s explosive investigative feature, "The Big Hack," laid bare a terrifying scenario: a massive, state-sponsored supply-chain attack orchestrated by Chinese intelligence. According to the report, operatives from the People’s Liberation Army successfully infiltrated Chinese manufacturing facilities to implant microscopic spy chips onto server motherboards produced by Supermicro. These tiny hardware implants were allegedly designed to alter the core operating instructions of servers, granting Beijing deep, undetectable backdoor access to the networks of nearly 30 major U.S. corporations, including tech giants like Apple and Amazon, as well as highly sensitive government agencies and defense contractors. The technical implications of a hardware-level hack are a cybersecurity nightmare. Unlike software malware, which can be flagged by antivirus programs or erased with a clean install, a manipulated chip operates beneath the operating system. It can intercept data streams, bypass encryption, and call home to foreign servers while remaining completely invisible to standard security audits. The report ignited an immediate firestorm, sending Supermicro’s stock into a tailspin and forcing Washington to confront the terrifying reality of relying on an adversarial nation to manufacture the literal backbone of Western digital infrastructure. However, the fallout from the story exposed a massive, ongoing controversy that divides the tech world to this day. Apple, Amazon, and Supermicro launched unprecedented, fierce denials, stating that exhaustive internal and third-party forensic audits turned up absolutely zero physical evidence of malicious hardware. While national security agencies and independent cybersecurity experts heavily questioned the technical feasibility of executing such an operation at scale without detection, Bloomberg has firmly stood by its reporting. Whether the specific details of "The Big Hack" are a verified reality or an unproven cautionary tale, the case permanently shattered the tech industry's blind trust in global hardware supply chains. #UnveiledChina #TheBigHack #SupplyChainAttack #Supermicro #HardwareEspionage #Cybersecurity #TechWarfare #BeijingInfiltration bloomberg.com/news/features/…

🇺🇸🔥 IT’S OFFICIAL: RFK JR. SHATTERS GLOBAL ORDER – U.S. completes WHO withdrawal with final message: “WE WILL NEVER BE RULED BY THEM AGAIN” [VIDEO] 🇺🇸🔥 HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the full U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization. In a historic speech, he exposed the WHO’s failures during COVID and declared that American health policy will no longer answer to unelected foreign officials. This move reclaims national sovereignty, ends U.S. funding, and reshapes global health leadership. 🇺🇸🔥 RFK Jr. Just Took Down the WHO – “We Will Never Be Ruled by Them Again”

This campaign is so clever. Democrats are no doubt losing their sh*t over this one. Just so funny.

A great day to honor my grandfathers and ancestors who fought in the American Revolution and the Civil War and those we lost.🇺🇸