Amy Olney

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

A photo speaks a thousand words.

What does this photo say to you?

I told you the Navy Admirals cut a deal with Mamdani: sail every ship past Manhattan except the 🇺🇸 warships.

Foreign warships from Navies that did not participate in Iran are ok but no US navy warships near Manhattan.

They left America’s most powerful ships anchored far from the city while welcoming the mainstream media aboard to sell a false narrative on TV: “The Navy participated in the parade of ships.”

Well it aure looked like the Navy participated on TV and I’m not Navy, but I hold a license to master ships of any size, and I’ll tell you this: A ship must weigh anchor to parade.

Our greatest Navy ships in New York Harbor today did not.

I walked the Manhattan waterfront for hours and didn’t see a single sailor in uniform. Did someone order them to avoid Mamdani’s Manhattan?

What’s worse, the Navy stamped EXPIRED in big letters across its own 250th anniversary webpage announcing viewing locations.

Worse still, the ferry to the main parade grounds on Governors Island mysteriously broke down the night before.

And now the communist posts this. Literally posted a conspiratorial laugh with a public affairs sailor.

This photo comes hours after Mamdani delivered the most decisive speech all year in front of Washington’s desk.

And he posted hours after our Commander in Chief condemned that speech and called on the nation to stand up to communists.

I don’t believe in most conspiracies. I also don’t believe in strings of coincidences.

The admiral in charge of Navy public affairs, Rear Adm. John Arthur Robinson III, needs to be fired ASAP.

At the very least, he dropped the ball today. It’s possible he did far worse.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Charlie Kirk left a tweet for everything

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

If a woman gives birth at the Supreme Court, is her baby entitled to automatic status as a justice?

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

John Kasich lives in a $2 million dollar home next to a country club in Westerville, OH.

The population is 83% White.

0 TPS Haitians live there.

He’s OK with Springfield and similar towns being overrun by tens of thousands of foreigners with an incompatible culture because he doesn’t have to deal with it.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Good chat with President Trump tonight

He’s not giving up on the SAVE America Act

Neither am I

He’s as convinced as I am that we can get this done if the Senate’s willing to do the hard work

Pass it on if you’d like to see that happen

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Here’s the thing I want to make exceptionally clear:

We know democrats aren’t going to vote with us or ensure that only Americans are voting in our elections.

It’s an act of betrayal when members of the Republican Party won’t vote for the legislation we elected them to enact.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

There is literally *nothing* more important for the Senate to debate and ultimately pass right now than the SAVE America Act.

Everything else pales in comparison.

Share if you agree.

[Jimmy’s Famous Seafood @JimmysSeafood]

@nytimes @TheAthletic The only thing truly problematic about America is the number of self-hating dipshits who refuse to appreciate its greatness.

Also, GFY 🇺🇸

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Amy Olney @AmyOlney]

@real_bechambers

[Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland]

A thought on Cassidy’s defeat.  Donald Trump’s philosophy of practicing politics is simple: “If you hit me, I’ll hit you back 10 times harder.”  This is his way of imposing discipline so he can get things done.  Many Republicans mistake this for childish petulance.  The ironic thing is that when these oh-so-high-minded Republicans (Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Thom Tillis, etc.) get their comeuppance, they are the ones who react with truly childish petulance.  They are the ones willing to frustrate the advancement of the conservative agenda that they once claimed to support, simply because they didn’t get their way.  For all his supposed faults, Trump constantly tries to advance the agenda he has been pushing since before he was elected.  His Republican detractors, not so much.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

It’s an insurrection only when Republicans do it.

It’s partisan gerrymandering only when Republicans do it.

It’s “norm shattering” only when Republicans do it.

Please like and share if you’re tired of the double standard.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Terminate the filibuster

And win

Pass it on

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵🚨 BREAKING: Miles Taylor: "Anonymous," former DHS Chief of Staff, Google security executive launched a website called GTFO ICE that collects your full name, email, phone number, and zip code to join an anti-ICE "rapid response network." And publishes the user infromation via a public API. 🚨

17,662 people have signed up.

The sign-up data is exposed on a public REST API. No true authentication. No rate limiting. Full records: names, emails, phone numbers, zip codes, timestamps.

The man who ran the third-largest federal department (250,000 employees, $60 billion budget) who oversaw election security architecture and led counterterrorism operations, then served as Google's Head of National Security Policy...

...can't secure a sign-up form. But he does milk hundreds of thousands of NGO dollars on these credentials. While freeloading off his fame as the person who wrote the infamous NYT article "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration."

And despite me pinging @MilesTaylorUSA about this 12 hours ago, the REST API is still wide open and exposed as of now. Everything has been turned over to FBI, HSI, ICE, and more agencies.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’m tired of the Senate’s evergreen excuse for inaction:

“We don’t have 60 votes.”

There are ways around the 60-vote cloture standard.

It’s time to start using them.

And stop disingenuously characterizing any refusal to do so as virtuous or conservative.

Share if you agree.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.

The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.

A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.

Everything else was improvised.

I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

That's priority.

The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.

A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.

That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.

I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.

A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Reminder that Norah O'Donnell squashed CBS correspondent Catherine Herridge's reporting on Hunter Biden laptop before the 2020 election.
Herridge later was forced out of CBS. O'Donnell keeps her job, applying the opposite standards to Trump than she did with Biden. https://t.co/VTeiK9U1f9

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

As it turns out,

the SECRET slut fund that 357 members of Congress just voted to block the release of—appropriated for their sexual harassment and rape charges—paid out $17 million at taxpayers’ expense.

It’s MORE. It’s a lot MORE.

The taxpayer money that John Conyers used to settle his sexual harassment and rape charges was made through his OFFICE BUDGET.

In other words: They knew about Eric Swalwell for years, yet they kept it secret even while he was plotting to take down the United States government.

Audit every single member who voted against the release—Eric Swalwell was one of them.

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

A friendly reminder that John Thune is holding up voter ID and the SAVE America Act, and we are severely unimpressed with his floor speech.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Has anybody thought through the possibility that @realDonaldTrump understood that drawing attention to what the Pope and his liberal cardinals were saying and doing about foreign policy and illegal aliens was going to make Catholics realize just how much their church leaders were interfering in politics in favor of leftist agenda items?

The whole billions in funding designed to import illegals thing is not going to be popular, but until now, how many people really understood it? And now that I understand it, it’s entirely possible they’ll be more irritated with the Church for doing those things than with Trump for pointing out that the church is doing those things.

And do you think Catholics aren’t going to see the hypocrisy of abortion fanatics suddenly getting down on their knees and genuflecting?

I don’t know for sure. I’m a protestant. We have dumb guitars in church. It’s a Catholic thing. But I’m betting that a lot of Catholics don’t like what a Church liberal hierarchy is using their clerical positions to push.