Alan RM Jones

Dad, ex-politico, political privateer, hockey tragic, doggo servant. Views are mine unless I steal them but you're welcome to them. RP/follow ≠ endorsement.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

‘This story shall the good man teach his son.’

[Defence On The Brink @DefenceBrink]

The most powerful short video of our time.

"He went from being a good leader to being a great leader, to being Winston Churchill with an iPhone."

If you haven't already then please do watch The Zelensky Story on BBC iPlayer.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

President Trump: "Hamas actually behaved pretty well."

Can't believe I'm hearing this.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Lawbreaking has been part of GetUp’s MO since it midwifed the Teals, who rely on GetUp for its campaigning, still. The Press Club has some questions to answer—particularly given the perception of unfair treatment during the Voice campaign—but the Teals should be held to account.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

CIA, Defence and State appear not to be fully on board. And, as in the previous round of Iran negotiations, Rubio is not in the frame.

[Axios @axios]

SCOOP: CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Trump and other senior officials that intelligence gathered by the U.S. raised serious doubts about Iran's willingness to make the nuclear concessions the U.S. is seeking in a final deal https://t.co/aR4FPTMubZ

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Uh huh.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Saving Christianity is busy work for Putin.

[Keith Kellogg @generalkellogg]

This attack tonight on the Monastery by the Russians in Kyiv makes no sense. It has a parallel with the bombing of London’s St. Paul’s in 1940 by the Germans. It won’t work. Someone tell me the military necessity of the Russian attack. There is none.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Personally, I am looking forward to the spectacle of greenies throwing themselves into the sea as human shields to protect white pointers from being culled. 🥤🍿

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Tap, tap, tap.

“The agreement is believed to pave the way for a 60-day period of negotiations over Tehran’s controversial nuclear program, which the U.S. suspects could be used to develop a nuclear weapon. In exchange for curbs on the program, Iran expects access to billions of dollars of cash blocked abroad and an end to sanctions that have stifled its economy.”

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Just quietly, TV news isn’t rocket science. But Weiss had two decades of journalism experience including starting up and publishing The Free Press before she was made CBS deputy editor. The NYT publisher, AG Sulzberger, got his gig after little more than 10 years in the news business. I guess it helps if your family owns the joint.

[David Zweig @davidzweig]

This NYT line is ridiculous. Yes, Weiss was an opinion writer. But she also was founder & editor of a media corp that had over 1M subscribers, a non-trivial portion of which are paid, that published plenty of investigative work. NYT deliberately used the least salient descriptor.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury achieved a great deal. The world is safer, to be sure. But Iranians will not have a just future nor will there be peace and stability in the Middle East so long as a revolutionary Islamist regime calls the shots from Teheran.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

I don’t think you have, mate.

“I have taken the difficult decisions to make sure that we are safe as a country.”

https://t.co/I6jVEgMA3l

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Everyone knows that @realDonaldTrump loves winners, and has said that Ukraine can win. It can, if America and Europe back it as they should. It is, after all, in their own interest.

[Margo Martin @MargoMartin47]

President @realDonaldTrump in the Oval Office with the Heavyweight Champion of the World @usykaa 🇺🇸

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Looking forward to seeing the fine print.

[John Roberts @johnrobertsFox]

With a number of my colleagues, we had a 1 hr conference call with a Senior Administration Official - who outlined the terms of the MOU with Iran
1. Nuclear material will be destroyed and removed
2. Nuclear program will be dismantled
3. None of their money released until they perform
4. Strait of Hormuz will be open
5. No Iran funding of terrorist groups

While still playing coy...note this interesting change of tone by @araghchi

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

SpaceX market cap (albeit on limited liquidity) is greater than Australia’s GDP and that of 180 other nations. Out of this world, you might say.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: SpaceX shares ended their first day up 19%. With a market cap of $2.1 trillion, the rocket maker is now America's 6th most valuable public company. https://t.co/8RQyC2OPjM

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

When the Right Honourable does the right and honourable thing.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

This is pretty wild. SpaceX plans to launch one million satellites into orbit to form a space-based web of AI data centres. There have only been about 25,000 satellites lunched since the beginning of the space age.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

More limited strikes as Iran keeps tapping along to the midterms—a hostage-negotiating game the regime learned in its infancy.

[U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM]

https://t.co/06XEfevOgs

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

China is engaged in a multi domain hybrid war with the West, which includes cyber intrusion, theft and disruption operations, yet it is permitted to vertically integrate our energy and transport systems. Call me Jacobim “crazy pill” Mugatu if you like, but this is insane.

[Alan RM Jones @AlanRMJones]

Facilitated by and for China.

[Simone Ledeen @SimoneLedeen]

North Koreans behind nearly half of US tech industry hacks, says CrowdStrike | TechCrunch https://t.co/VhwGGy2fUx