Bull of the Woods

Mike Lee should be the Majority Leader!! John Thune is an abject failure at it! His record states the facts: fewest number of bills passed, backlog of bills passed in House, awaiting Senate action. The Voters give Republicans both houses of Congress and the White House. Only the Senate is where all action, all improvements, stop dead in the water! That FACT is a condemnation on John Thune’s leadership!! We need a new Majority Leader: NOW!!!! Five! We need 5 Senators who are also fed up with this POOR PERFORMANCE to start a caucus for new Majority Leader! Get with it Senators!!!!! @SenMikeLee @SenJohnKennedy @SenTedCruz @SenRonJohnson @SenateGOP @MarshaBlackburn @SenEricSchmitt @SenTuberville @HawleyMO @SenTomCotton @SenRickScott @SenDanSullivan @SenToddYoung @SenatorWicker @SenatorRounds @SenatorRisch @SenatorRicketts @SenMullin @SenatorMarshall @SenLummis @SenatorBanks @SenJohnBarrasso @JohnBoozman @SenKevinCramer @SenatorHagerty @SenHydeSmith @JimJusticeWV @SenatorLankford

🚨 The next Attorney General will decide whether the DoJ investigates domestic terrorism with resolve, or with misplaced empathy and incompetence. The People’s Conference for Palestine was a 3 day event last summer in Detroit. Calls for violent uprisings, distribution of terrorist propaganda, planning strategies to take over campuses, hospitals, and the workplace, all happened under our DoJ. It was ignored. Radical Islamic organizations with ties to foreign funding sponsored this event. Thousands attended. We cannot afford to have an AG who refuses to confront this with speed, surprise, and overwhelming use of force.

@BillAckman Mr Federico, I grieve with you for your loss. You have every right to be upset and angry at the Judicial system in America. There are many of us who stand with you.

A must watch on why the policies and the judges that release violent criminals from jail must be changed.

🚨 Professor Hatem Bazian is one of the founders of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). He’s from Jordan. His partner, Salah Sarsour, was arrested yesterday by DHS/ICE for visa violations and potential terror ties. Bazian is supposedly a professor at Berkeley. I have no clue if he ever shows up for class. This is a taxpayer-funded activist for “Palestine.” His organization is one of the single most dangerous and powerful Islamic lobbying groups in America. I’ve seen him speak numerous times. He vomits nothing but vile antisemitism and anti-American garbage. The DoE is about to hand Berkeley nearly $600 million in federal funding for 2026-2027.

n 2004, a journalist named Asieh Amini came across a story from a small town in northern Iran. A 16-year-old girl named Atefeh Sahaaleh had been publicly hanged. The official charge: "acts incompatible with chastity." The reality, which Amini uncovered through careful, dangerous investigation: Atefeh had been repeatedly raped by a neighbor and other men beginning when she was nine years old. She had been neglected by her family and paid to keep silent — money she used simply to survive. At 13, Iran's morality police arrested her. A judge sentenced her to one hundred lashes. Under Iranian law, a woman could be sentenced to lashings three times — the fourth offense carried the death penalty. She was 16 when they hanged her. Amini wrote the story. Her newspaper refused to publish it. Another paper refused as well. A women's publication finally agreed to run an edited version. She kept going. Born in 1973 in the Mazandaran province of northern Iran — one of four sisters who spent their childhood painting, reading, and playing outdoors — Amini had built her career as a journalist through the brief flowering of press freedom following President Khatami's election in 1997, editing a women's affairs newspaper called Zan until hardline clerics shut it down in 1999. She had known the Iranian state's capacity for silencing voices. She had not yet known the full depth of what it was capable of doing to girls. After Atefeh, she knew. Case after case began reaching her. Leyla — a 19-year-old with diminished mental capacity, herself a victim of child rape, facing execution. The judge in her case told Amini plainly that Leyla was a threat to family life because of her "sexual availability." Amini enlisted human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr, published Leyla's story, drew international attention, and helped get her out of prison and into the care of a women's organization in Tehran. One life at a time. One story at a time. Against a legal system that had no interest in being exposed. In 2006, Amini discovered that despite a government moratorium on stoning — a directive issued in 2002 that carried no binding legal force — a man and woman had been stoned to death in Mashhad for adultery. The judge claimed he answered only to Sharia law. The Ministry of Justice denied the stoning had happened. State media attacked Amini's credibility. That October, Amini and Sadr co-founded the Stop Stoning Forever (SSF) campaign — systematically documenting stonings occurring across Iran and sharing their findings through colleagues abroad who could publish without fear of arrest. The state took notice. In March 2007, Amini was among 33 women arrested during a silent sit-in at a Tehran courthouse. During interrogation she realized — with the specific clarity of someone who had been investigating surveillance — that the police had been investigating her for some time. She was released after five days. Her phones, she was certain, were tapped. Her movements tracked. She kept reporting. The sustained pressure of the work eventually took its physical toll — stress-induced symptoms that included headaches, vision problems, and muscle paralysis forced her to step back briefly while her partners reorganized the campaign from outside Iran. She recovered. She continued. In 2009, following the disputed reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Amini was among the demonstrators beaten in the protests that swept Iran. She continued reporting — under pseudonyms, in the chaos. Then came the warning: police were questioning prisoners about her. She needed to leave. She had been invited to a poetry festival in Sweden. She took her daughter Ava and she went. They did not come back. Amini settled eventually in Norway, supported by the International Cities of Refuge Network — a program that protects writers facing state persecution. From exile, she continued her advocacy, published two books of Norwegian-language poetry, and kept doing what she had always done: making sure that the stories of girls and women the Iranian state wanted silenced were heard by the world instead. She was awarded the Human Rights Watch Hellmann/Hammett Award in 2009 — the same year she fled. The Oxfam Novib/PEN Award in 2012. The Ord i Grenseland prize in 2014. Asieh Amini picked up a pen in a country that punished women for existing outside the law's narrow definitions — and she used it, at enormous personal cost, to push against every wall that pen could reach. The girl from Mazandaran who dreamed of becoming a painter and writer became something rarer and harder: A witness who refused to look away. And a voice that — no matter how many times the state tried to silence it — kept finding new ways to be heard.

Winston Churchill was based.

The terrorists of the Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shabi), carrying Iraqi flags, have taken up positions in the streets and squares of Iran. They parade around, sowing fear and threatening massacres, while chanting their propaganda in the face of our people. What the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein failed to impose on Iran during eight years of war, the criminal Islamic regime is imposing on the Iranian nation today. This is the ultimate disgrace of an anti-Iranian regime that, in order to survive, has handed the country over to foreign occupiers. This is the trampling of a nation’s pride and a blatant insult to the blood of those who defended the homeland for eight years against Iraq. Shame on every man in military uniform who stands beside the invading terrorists of Hashd al-Shaabi against the great nation of Iran. Where is the Iranian Army? Where are the veterans of the eight-year war with Iraq? Where has Iranian military honor gone, that Iraqi terrorists now lord over the lives, property, and honor of Iranians from Khuzestan to Tehran? The Hashd al-Shaabi and other Iraqi militias are invading and occupying forces. They have no place in Iran. They must be expelled immediately from the pure soil of Iran. Long live Iran, Reza Pahlavi

This Department of Justice is prioritizing fraud cases all over this country for the foreseeable future.

OPERATION GREENLAND: Trump negotiated 2 new US special forces & maritime bases in Greenland under a 1951 treaty while considering closing 200+ European installations & bring home 100,000 troops. America is may very well be done subsidizing European security. Greenland is the future.

@GodandCountryy Amen....

Amen 🙏

WOW. Senator Harry Reid, a DEMOCRAT, introduced a bill in 1993 to END birthright citizenship for illegal aliens. But if Trump wants to do it, Democrats call it "rAcIsT"

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli on healthcare fraud arrests made in California: “They've not taken fraud seriously for over a decade here in California... Remember, none of this fraud could happen unless California issued these licenses.”

President Trump cannot save America all by himself. He needs ALL of America to step up and join the cause!

Dismantle the CDC — they’re causing more harm than good. Blank vaccine inserts. A 148-page CDC study on myocarditis after “COVID vaccination”… every single word redacted. We’re witnessing an active, colossal cover-up. ~ Dr. Peter McCullough

@LizaRosen0000 Barbaric animals from 800AD.

t.co/kD8o4p0C9b The Syrian singer Omar Khayri has been ARRESTED and brutally HUMILIATED by the Jihadi terror forces of the new Syrian regime under al-Joulani. His head was shaved, his face and body covered in blood and degrading markings, all because these Jihadists consider singing and music to be "Islamophobic hate crime” and “blasphemy against Allah". While innocent people are being publicly tortured to death in the streets of Syria, Western leaders continue to embrace and legitimize this jihadist regime: - French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Joulani at the Élysée Palace - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Downing Street just days ago - UN Secretary-General António Guterres met with him at the United Nations The same leaders who claim to defend freedom and human rights are hugging a regime that crushes innocent people. When will the West stop empowering the jihadists?

@PhilMcCrackin44 @LeaderJohnThune .. and the American people!

The Senate Majority Leader is not a stupid man….He knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s maliciously sabotaging the Trump presidency.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.