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@DeptofDefense @NATO Welcome Finland! This doubles NATOs border with Russia. Somewhere, Mackinder is smiling.

@BillMelugin_ They seem to always get a smart, promising young woman doing the right thing. Thanks, Biden.

BREAKING: DHS confirms that the suspect in custody for murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught & released at the border by the Biden administration in May 2023. DHS says he was also released from local custody after a shoplifting arrest in the sanctuary city of Chicago on June 19, 2023. DHS identifies the suspect as Venezuelan national Jose Medina-Medina. Medina-Medina is accused of approaching Gorman while she was walking in a park with friends early Thursday morning. DHS says Medina-Medina came up to her while wearing a mask and armed with a gun. As she attempted to flee, he fired his gun and shot her. Gorman was shot and pronounced dead at the scene. DHS statement: “Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “We are calling on Governor Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods.”

@stockmom @DefiyantlyFree Budgets are so huge they are loaded with corruption. They help no one except those skimming off the top. People are taxed to provide funds cities and states can launder through programs and end up enriching the 1%

🗽New York is officially eating itself alive and the clowns in charge are handing out the forks. Gov. Hochul literally begged wealthy people to “come back” and “fund our social programs” while NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to gut the estate tax exemption from $7.3 MILLION down to $750k and jack the top rate to 50% (from 16%). Does anyone else remember when Hochul literally told New Yorkers to get out? Go to Florida where you belong? Yeah, that’ll definitely convince the millionaires and billionaires to stick around and keep writing checks. Genius-level economic strategy right there. 🙄 Meanwhile, NYC blew $368 MILLION last fiscal year on unsheltered homeless services. That’s $81,000 per person. More than the city’s median take-home pay ($40,600). And it’s projected to hit $456 million this year, pushing almost $97k per person. Let that sink in. We’re spending more per homeless individual than many hardworking New Yorkers take home in a year, while the same politicians cry about budget holes and then propose policies guaranteed to make the tax base even smaller. Our $115.9 billion city budget for 8.5 million people is almost the same size as Florida’s $117.4 billion for 23+ million. Per-capita insanity. This isn’t compassion. It’s a masterclass in how to bankrupt a once-great city while pretending you’re helping. Born and raised here. Still love NY. But this level of fiscal delusion is going to leave us with nothing but empty luxury condos and even longer shelter waitlists. Wake up, Albany and City Hall. Stop punishing success and start rewarding the people actually keeping the lights on. Thoughts?

@AmandiOnAir @Libralady13 Nobody’s buying your partisan propaganda. It’s Semocrats refusing to fund TSA.

This is what happens when Republicans control and run the government.👇🏼

@GeraldoRivera They can go overland through gulf state

2500 Marines and three more major warships are heading toward the Strait of Hormuz. Before they can be deployed against say Kharg Island, they have to run the gauntlet of the Strait. It will be messy and dangerous, not to mention escalatory. The worst is yet to come.

@CFL68 @Saul_Sadka @WStrohmacher Those aren’t crimes

@mariaICdata @Saul_Sadka @WStrohmacher They are literally leading the world’s largest military and glorifying the war.

The IRGC can definitely hit the UK with a missile that can hit Diego Garcia, the distance is the same, and if it hadn’t been for the efforts of the United States and Israel, all of Europe would have been under a permanent jihadi nuclear cloud, since just as they were lying about the missile range, they were lying about building the nukes to put on the end of those missiles: nukes to destroy London, Paris, and Madrid, and bring about the Armageddon they are religiously bound to crave. No need to thank Israel and the United States for literally saving the world, but history will know what they did, and how the childish leaders of Europe stood on the sidelines and whined as the adults saved them from their own stupidity.

@CFL68 @Saul_Sadka @WStrohmacher Yes but evangelicals don’t find and train auxiliary terror grouos to blow up the Mideast.

@mariaICdata @Saul_Sadka @WStrohmacher These are friction points based on perceived (not incorrectly) US imperialism and Israeli treatment of Palestinians. There is no evidence of attacks trying to destroy America. American evangelicals have their own crazy return of Jesus Armageddon bullshit.

@CFL68 @Saul_Sadka @WStrohmacher But it’s reasonable to assume threats exist and plan against them to lower the possibility they can be carried out.

@DirkSwaller54 @GaryGol88424403 @Wurmserscribit I’m thinking hospitals, medical devices, water treatment or desalinization, etc…. All need power.

@mariaICdata @GaryGol88424403 @Wurmserscribit Nobody's going to freeze (lows of 7°C). Water will be the main concern in a city.

Iran just blew Oman oil storage. It issued a threat to Doha. And they are trying all day to strike Dimona in israel, and we all know what they were targeting. They have drawn blood in Israel tonight. Simply, Iran is now going full Samson option But keep in mind, it means they know it’s the Samson moment. It means they know their days are numbered and they want to tear down everything they can on the way down. Like Hitler ordered Paris detonated (his commanders didn’t follow the order) or in the end said let Berlin be destroyed. Probably the wrong saying for that part of the world, but it’s part the approaching Samson Option moment and part a Hail Mary pass that in the destruction, they hope we will lose nerve. In that vein, I strongly suspect they will lash out at the weak link from which the lost nerves are likeliest to come: Europe itself, such as Rome or Paris. But israel was wounded tonight. It will not back off. Nor do I suspect President Trump would. And the Gulf Arabs are at their last molecule of patience with Iran. So from Muscat to Jerusalem, a consensus to go all the way no holds-barred has emerged. Europe won’t be heard if it loses nerve. Like the Iranian people themselves, the greatest victims, the mood is emerging everywhere to just do whatever it now takes to bring the tyrants down as fast as possible. It often looks darkest before dawn, but one thing is clear; these are acts of despair by a dying gang of tyrants, not the product of confidence or sage strategy.

@NewsZagros @AlirezaNader @PahlaviReza @FDD @SGhasseminejad Trump is talking about the regime. The reporter is asking about Iranian people. Trump needs to be clear when he’s talking the Iranian people, or the regime.

@AlirezaNader @PahlaviReza @FDD @SGhasseminejad Trump now says Iranians "can't behave". Undoubtedly the fruits of the Pahlavi camp. x.com/DD_Geopolitics…

Reza Pahlavi (@PahlaviReza) advisor and @FDD analyst @SGhasseminejad advocates for the destruction of critical infrastructure necessary for sustaining life for millions of Iranians. It will take years and billions of $$$ for Iran to rebuild its infrastructure after the US/Israel attacks. Scientists also believe the smoke from Tehran’s burning refineries could spike rates of cancer & other diseases among its residents.

@CFL68 @Saul_Sadka @WStrohmacher In the past 20 yrs they’ve demonstrated it is not euphemism but a policy rooted in physical acts against Americans, allies and global shipping through the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah.

@CFL68 @Saul_Sadka @WStrohmacher Threat is assessed by combination of capability and intention. They have the intention (Death to America, 40 years of terrorism against US assets) now they demonstrate ballistic misdile range capability. Other nations might have capability but no intent against US.

@Osint613 Why is the regime still conducting strikes?

Iran’s Mehr, after Trump’s threat, warned: “Say goodbye to electricity,” publishing a map of Gulf power plants as potential targets. “In the event of even the smallest attack on Iran’s electrical infrastructure, the entire region will be plunged into darkness… 70% to 80% of major power plants are along the Persian Gulf coast… all within Iran’s deterrence range.”

@DrNeilStone I can’t explain why it still exists unless we are deliberately not targeting known IRGC sites. Why have we not struck anti-ship batteries along the coast? Why is the regime still conducting strikes.

Can someone please explain to me why the IRGC is still legal in the UK????

@overton_news Is Carville a shut-in? Does he never leave his kitchen? I never see his family or dog around. Is it a trailer? Is he okay?

Senator Fetterman LAUGHS in the face of lunatic James Carville — and fires back after watching his profanity-laced attack on him. “Jim has been struggling for relevance for the last 30 years.” FETTERMAN: “I’m proud to be on the right side of Epic Fury, I’m proud to be on the right side of standing with Israel.” “And for me, it’s country over party and he acknowledged I’m [he’s] blinded by TDS.” “So I’m the one guy that represents Pennsylvania.” “I’m not an angry, weird guy online.” “I represent a state like Pennsylvania that keeps you honest and I’m the only one…that flipped a seat as well.” “So some people might listen to his advice but I’ve actually done the kinds of thing that really matters in the current time we are in politically.”

@JohnnyHudSF @KurtSchlichter Those who mistakenly apply the wrong lessons of history misdiagnose their current situation. Yes, remember the past, but rigorously apply the correct lessons.

@mariaICdata @KurtSchlichter I know that but the optics were bad. But in that speech Bush said “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” He was wrong. By 4234 deaths and 8 more years.

What an interesting definition of cornered. Oh wait, it’s a European. Understood.

@Saul_Sadka @hughhewitt This BM range capability is a big miss on the part of the IC. Alternatively, it was kept classified and was part of the impetus to act now, not anticipating that Iran would brazenly demonstrate their ability to hold W Europe at risk with long range nuclear capability, in time.

@DrNeilStone Good way to put the current risk calculus.

The West overestimates the regime's strategic capabilities but underestimates it's bad intentions A terrible mix

@WallStreetApes Sounds like a base from which to launch an insurgency, if your goal is to fracture and destabilize the country.

American was on the ground in Plano, Texas and is able to confirm the Mosque/ Islamic Center is moving ahead with Epic City He says this is a 100% Muslim only community in America, only Muslims are allowed He says the whole area has already been “Islamfied” and no assimilation “The whole area here has been Islamized, has been Islamized, Islamification — Why is this mosque building a city that is all about being Muslim caught passing out pamphlets and information — This is Islamic City. I have a problem with people not assimilating and that's the problem. Assimilation and a Muslim congregation building a city that is for Muslims. You can't do that in America”

@politvidchannel This is antithetical to civic life in America, but there are many in leadership not rooted in the US Constitution. Their allegiance is to global interests, not US citizens.

BREAKING: Democrats are planning "Project 2029," a plan to jail Trump, his family, and members of the current Trump administration.

@FurkanGozukara Looks like CIA missed Iran’s 4000 ballistic missiles range capability. That’s a big miss.

Former CIA Director John Brennan drops a massive reality check. He confirms there was absolutely ZERO intelligence of an imminent threat from Iran to justify the bombing campaign. He says the administration is lying fast and furiously to cover it up.