Dan Nikols

F.O.C.U.S

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Hey @RudyGiuliani, do you remember this? Your 2019 lunch with your long time fixer, Vitaly Pruss.

It was at Cipriani on 57th Street. Lev Parnas set it up and sat at the table. Pruss was your guy, fifteen years as your go-between for business in the former Soviet Union, who first paid you $100K for a speech to a Russian steel company back in 2003.

Pruss told you the FSB had gotten hold of my personal devices and that photos, texts and emails could be delivered to you from Ukraine.

You pounded the table. "We got him."

Here's the part you never mention. Pruss is the same man who arranged the Burisma board seat in the first place, through Devon Archer. I met him a handful of times. He was your associate the entire time. So, the man who helped put me on that board ended up being your fixer who showed up five years later to help you build kompromat about it.

And your team already knew a "hard drive" was coming. Lev testified Yuriy Lutsenko promised him one in February 2019. That is two months before anyone claims a laptop was dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware.

Now about Lev. On March 20, 2024, the man who sat at that table with you, who ran your errands across Ukraine and Vienna and everywhere in between for the better part of a year, who raised his right hand before the House Oversight Committee and swore to tell the truth.

Under penalty of perjury he told Congress he found "precisely zero proof of the Bidens' criminality." He told them every piece of dirt pushed about my family in Ukraine came from one source, Russia and its agents. He told them you knew it. He told them your friends in Congress knew it. He named them.

You have never been asked any of that under oath, Rudy. Lev did.

So please, sue me.

Lev will be my first witness. Then maybe I’ll call Pavlo Fuks. We can talk about him tomorrow.

[Dan Nikols @dannikols]

@WhiteHouse

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Wait, @DataRepublican works for Pete Hegseth at the Department of War?

[Dan Nikols @dannikols]

@GOPMajorityWhip Yes, let’s ruin MN for a foreign company

[Dan Nikols @dannikols]

@admcrlsn Would you consider sharing the google sheet - i love tracking your work

[Dan Nikols @dannikols]

Love https://t.co/jKxuqHNkAK

[Dan Nikols @dannikols]

To the “I voted for this” crowd - thanks!

Price changes over last year (July CPI)
Fuel Oil: +39.1%
Gasoline: +24.6%
Gas Utilities: +4.3%
Electricity: +4.2%
Apparel: +3.9%
Overall CPI: +3.4%
Food away from home: +3.4%
Shelter: +3.2%
Transportation: +2.9%
Medical Care: +2.7%
Food at home: +2.7%
New Cars: +0.5%
Used Cars: -1.9%

[Dan Nikols @dannikols]

@Acyn Family was in Palm Springs in February and when we told people we were from Minnesota, they thanked us for resisting against ICE and that we were an inspiration. So I guess it’s just who you talk to.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Ukraine congratulates United States of America with Independence day 🇺🇸🇺🇦

Mother Ukraine monument wears USA colors right now.

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

We are going loud RIGHT NOW! 💪🏼🎙️🔥
(Join us on any damned platform known to man, links👇🏼)

[McClung PR @McClungPR]

Out-of-context restaurateur: “I’d eat bluegills all year round if I could.” 🐟😀

Fish & chicken tavern HARLAND set to open in Victoria, MN later this summer. Check out @JoyEstelle’s preview in @StarTribune. #mnfood #newrestaurant https://t.co/4XPSqVbG08

[War Times @wartirnes]

Hell in the Hedgerows: Bocage Fighting in Normandy (Summer 1944) 🇺🇸🇩🇪

After D-Day, American forces faced one of their toughest challenges in the dense Normandy bocage. Thick hedgerows turned the countryside into a deadly fortress for German Fallschirmjäger.

U.S. Army troops advanced meter by meter under heavy fire from determined German defenders. Close-quarters combat was brutal and relentless. To overcome the terrain, American forces adapted by modifying tanks to break through the hedgerows and support the advance.

This grueling war of attrition continued until Operation Cobra finally shattered the German lines and opened the road to the liberation of France.

Digitally restored, enhanced, and presented with sound design to recreate how these moments may have looked and sounded at the time.

[McClung PR @McClungPR]

🚨HARLAND, a chicken & fish tavern from restaurateur Erik Forsberg inspired by MN lake traditions, is slated to open this summer in Victoria. 🍗🐟

HARLAND will feature fried chicken, seasonal fish, Shore Lunch specials & a welcoming tavern atmosphere. 🔗https://t.co/cByKELbsQA

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

Pipe Hitters Hits Hard and Goes Hot – NOW 🎙️🔩🔥
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[Google Earth @googleearth]

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. https://t.co/hQP0No142P

We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...

Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

Alongside it, Anthropic is releasing a proposal for how governments can address the risks posed by frontier AI and a policy framework for job displacement, for which we intend to provide substantial financial backing. https://t.co/P0W2lIKbdY

[Dan Nikols @dannikols]

@USArmy Chief Warrant Officer Philip Windorski Jr. was a great guy. Sadly, CW3 Windorski was killed when the OH-58D helicopter he was flying was struck by hostile fire and crashed while conducting a reconnaissance mission near Kirkuk, Iraq.

[Michael Stephen Fuchs @michaelstephenf]

Hey, everyone! I have one more blistering suggestion for Tier-1 pipe-hitting action for you, until Ops v2 drops in audio next week. (Full details 👇🏼) But suffice it to stay, @TylerAresGrey may have produced the best Unit memoir EVER. (And has hugely influenced my work.) 👊🏼🔥🖤