Brandon Wayne

Husband. Father. Son. Friend. Average Guy.

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

"It's the strangest thing." https://t.co/sNKjYxjEmk

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

A Chinese company, @engineairobot, just held the world’s first public humanoid robot fight tournament in Shenzhen. Real Steel in real life.

One robot cleanly knocked another’s head off. The crowd cheered. The same company already has combat robots working with police on real streets.

While some are still making robots do backflips for YouTube views, this is real stress-testing, absorbing damage, recovering balance, learning under pressure.

Every fight is training data.
If this is what they’re willing to show in public, the private development is the part worth thinking about. China isn’t waiting for permission or hearings. They’re just building.

[Mark Montgomery @MarkCMontgomery]

Russian ballistic missiles are pounding Ukraine. Most everyone is trying to solve the challenge with hard to source Patriots. What if Ukraine could use its F-16s and ERAM missiles to target Russia’s ballistic missile launchers ? I lay out a few steps to get this capability below

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Overnight, Ukrainian attack drones successfully penetrated over 2000 km of Russian airspace to hit the Tyumen Oil Refinery, setting multiple parts of the facility ablaze.

[Mossad Commentary @MOSSADil]

IRANIAN OPERATIVES KILLED NEAR ISRAEL’S BORDER

Bedouin IDF trackers serving with the 810th Mountains Brigade say three operatives killed near the border were Iranian nationals, with Iranian passports reportedly found on their bodies.

“The three terrorists we killed were Iranians.”

YNet

[Adam 🆘 Sosnick @sostalksmoney]

Projection much? @RealCandaceO

[Adam 🆘 Sosnick @sostalksmoney]

Interviewing the Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States @DrMichaelOren 🇮🇱🇺🇸

[Eitan Fischberger @EFischberger]

WHOA: Tucker just called for President Trump and the congressmen pushing for American-Israeli military cooperation in the NDAA to face Nuremberg-style treason charges

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Six years ago Tucker Carlson said, "Gerald Posner may be the best known and most thorough investigative reporter in this country."
I wish I could still recognize the man who said it.

I first met him in 1995, when I was writing a biography of Ross Perot and he was a 26-year-old staff writer at the newly launched Weekly Standard.

Decades later I was a guest on his FOX primetime show — on the JFK assassination, the opioid crisis, the CIA, once for a full hour for his FOX Nation show. I got to know him as provocative and smart, often pushing on things I agreed with: the government's refusal to fully release the JFK files, the Sacklers' lack of accountability, McKinsey's role in the opioid crisis.

I never saw a glimpse of the person who has emerged since he left FOX— someone who finds a byzantine conspiracy behind every major story, who has turned "America First" into cover for old antisemitic tropes and an anti-Israel fervor that at times makes him a modern-day Father Coughlin — the radio priest whose 1930s broadcasts to tens of millions of Americans made him the most notorious antisemitic demagogue in U.S. media history.

@trishaposner and I wrote about this in May, in "The New Normal for Antisemitism": Carlson has suggested using genetic testing to determine "who Abraham's descendants are," and has questioned whether Netanyahu has any real connection to Israel because his family is "from Poland" — an echo of the discredited Khazar theory that casts Ashkenazi Jews as impostors. He also gave an uncritical two-hour platform to Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust-denying, authoritarian-praising antisemite, without any meaningful pushing back.

He has often gone further still but this latest seems the last step off the precipice of sanity. Suggesting that Trump and members of Congress who back the U.S.-Israel defense alliance in the National Defense Authorization Act should face Nuremberg-style treason charges is beyond the pale.

I do not believe this is about money — he has plenty. It isn't a hunger for the spotlight — he's had that for decades. This is ideological. I believe we are finally seeing the real Tucker Carlson.

I'd once have said "for better or worse" — there is no "better" in this version of him. He is one of the most prominent voices stoking anti-Jewish fervor at a moment when antisemitic violence is at record levels. In some ways he's far more dangerous than Candace Owens, because he's a sharper, a more practiced debater, someone who can twist facts into a narrative that millions of his followers find compelling.

The Tucker I sat across from in that studio is gone. What's left is something the GOP will have to reckon with. By 2028, serious candidates will need to put visible distance between themselves and Carlson. The one most exposed is JD Vance, who has long counted him as a close friend. The rest of the party would be wise to start distancing itself now, before Carlson decides who they have to answer for.

[Cam Higby 🇺🇸 @camhigby]

What would compel people to lie about the NDAA being an Israel military merger?

Because killing the bill kills the SAVE Act.

These lies start in left-wing circles and bleed into right-wing conspiracy circles.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

The Muslim Palestinian terrorist who carried out the terror attack today is Farooq Adnan, a sheikh from a Palestinian village who is considered a "man of religion."

On Arab networks, they're praising him for killing two Jews.

Where are the "moderate Muslims" condemning him?

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

"Are US strikes laying the groundwork for a wider Iran war?" my talk with @IranIntl_En https://t.co/Se5NbOmwVs

[Andrea Stricker @StrickerNonpro]

Trump Throws Cold Water on U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal

President Trump should maintain longstanding U.S. policy against proliferating nuclear fuel-making capabilities by keeping enrichment technology away from Saudi soil.

If the bilateral nuclear cooperation accord advances, Congress should use its 90-day review to block it on nonproliferation grounds.

My latest @FDD policy brief: https://t.co/dv4uaWkjhR

[Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch @BabakTaghvaee1]

BREAKING: For the first time during the 2026 Iran War, the air forces of Kuwait and Bahrain conducted joint airstrikes against targets deep inside Iranian territory early this morning.

This has been confirmed by Israeli military sources who were briefed on the situation by their Emirati counterparts. According to my sources, Bahraini and Kuwaiti fighter jets landed at an airbase in the UAE after participating in the strikes against targets in Iran.

The UAE is currently hosting Bahraini and Kuwaiti fighter jets evacuated from Isa Air Base, Ahmad Al-Jaber Air Base, and Ali Al-Salem Air Base to Al Dhafra Air Base and possibly another airbase in the UAE.

#OperationEpicFury

[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

🇮🇷 Suddenly a very quiet night in Iran.

CENTCOM forces have not launched their nightly strikes.

No statement or announcement.

Share your thoughts below.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

Why Iran's Leaders Were Targeted First https://t.co/x2uHsJ6zrg via @YouTube

[Faytuks Network @FaytuksNetwork]

At least five explosions have been reported in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, in an apparent Houthi missile and drone attack, according to regional media. Commercial flights to the area are either diverting or entering holding patterns.

[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

UPDATE: footage of impact in Saudi Arabia

[Tousi TV @TousiTVOfficial]

🇸🇦 JAZAN ON FIRE

Saudi Arabia’s top industrial city burns following the strikes by IRGC’s Houthi attack dogs.

[Tom Kratman @TKratman]

Here's the deal on the left and the deep state going after Trump and his minions. They know he was much more a symptom than a cause. WE were the cause who put him in power. It's really US they want to send to the gulag, but we are too many, too willing, and too armed. So they're trying to deprive us of a voice by making anyone who would take up our cause fearful to do so.