I carry a generally ambivalent sense about the Iran stuff, and I have no idea why.
That said, teaching the Iranians a new strategy in how they can hold the world hostage with control over the strait of Hormuz, and the newfound discovery about using that leverage to politically confront and damage Israel, while simultaneously never having to exert any military action, is quite remarkable.
It's an insurgency mindset with a strategic political component that will likely prove much more effective than anyone ever thought possible.
As long as Israel keeps killing people, Iran will shut down oil flows. If Israel stops killing people, Iran will reopen the strait.
The pressure from the world upon Israel will be a thousand-fold more effective than a kinetic weapon.
Iran will remove Netanyahu from power. Simply by exerting power in their own backyard.
This is a very positive development. Because when Israel doesn't do what President Trump expects, the veil of pretense, false respect, drops - and things will change.
Kari Lake’s confirmation hearing for U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica is today at 10:30 AM ET before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Watch live and cheer on this America First fighter! https://t.co/YEE5YjrZhs
We hope that one day, this corrupt machine and propaganda press will feel a great deal of shame for how they've treated @KariLake. We won't keep our hopes up.
In truth, they don't matter.
REAL Arizonans know the sacrifices she has made, the vitriol she has taken for the original "sin" of wanting to help the state she loves.
No one has fought harder for Arizona than Kari.
We're honored to have fought these battles alongside her.
God Bless Arizona, and God Bless Kari Lake. 🌵❤️
- Kari Lake War Room.
Thank you to President Trump for nominating me to serve as the next U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica. 🇺🇸🇯🇲
Jamaica is a country I know very well, full of incredible people, and if confirmed by the Senate, I look forward to strengthening the partnership between our nations, advancing America’s interests abroad, and building on the deep friendship shared by the American and Jamaican people.
Honored to continue serving in this HISTORIC Administration!
As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins—with Khalil Gibran pop platitudes—he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others.
The latest? At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama Presidential Center in Chicago—a $850 million flak-tower, monolithic boondoggle mired in debt—Obama lectured us on the need to resist the allure off "money, attention, [and] fame."
Thus spoke the owner of four homes, three of them multimillion-dollar mansions, whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office, and on spec, jets private to sermonize to various audiences–often at $400,000 a shot—on their own false-consciousness shortcomings.
Plain-speaking, frugal Harry Truman in obscure retirement in Independence, Missouri Obama certainly is not.
Dan Bongino just had John Solomon on and what he said should have every American paying attention.
He’s predicting Trump is about to drop evidence showing foreign countries interfered in the 2020 election in ways people never fully understood.
And once that hits, it could force John Thune and others to fold on the filibuster and push the Save America Act through.
Solomon didn’t hedge. He said Trump is about to flip the entire conversation in this country and shake Senators who thought they were safe.
According to him, intelligence that was hidden from the public is about to come out, and it points straight at foreign adversaries messing with our election system far more than anyone admitted.
He believes once Senators realize their own states may have been targeted, the tone in Washington will change fast.
His warning was clear.
What’s coming isn’t small. It’s serious, it’s ugly, and it’s going to expose just how vulnerable our elections really were.
Today the European Parliament voted 418-218 to pass the strictest migration law in EU history.
When the result was announced, MEPs started chanting.
"Send them back."
Inside the parliament chamber. On the floor. In 2026.
Here's what the law actually does:
— Deportation orders now apply across all EU member states. You can't evade removal by crossing a border.
— Detention before deportation extended from 6 months to 30 months. Unlimited for security threats.
— "Return hubs" in third countries. Migrants can be transferred outside the EU while awaiting deportation — including families with children.
— Automatic deportation stays while appeals are pending? Gone. Courts decide case by case.
— Entry bans double from 5 to 10 years. Lifetime bans for security risks.
Currently only about 20% of people ordered deported from the EU actually leave.
For years European leaders told voters that open borders and mass migration were non-negotiable — that wanting enforcement meant you were a fascist.
418 Members of the European Parliament just disagreed.
Trump proved his immigration policies were popular enough to win elections.
After a wave of right-wing electoral gains across the continent, Europe is following in his footsteps.
And the Overton Window is getting kicked off its hinges.
Your old phone in that drawer is a free 24/7 security camera.
not e-waste. not a paperweight.
Cracked screen, 3 years old, doesn't matter.
Took me 2 minutes to set up and it works better than ring.
Here's exactly how (no subscription, no hardware):
Today @USDA@SecRollins and I secured a major win for animal welfare.
Ridglan Farms will transfer its remaining 475 beagles out of a research breeding facility and into the care of a no-kill rescue, where they can begin the path to adoption.
Thank you, @LaraLeaTrump, for championing this issue.
We are also launching a new @NIH office, ORIVA, to speed the transition away from animal testing and toward modern, human-based science.
We will keep fighting for humane treatment of animals, better science, and accountability.
💥NEW: @DavidSacks: “Do not deny the evidence of your eyes and ears — even if they call you an election denier. I personally don’t care. I deny it.”
“Spencer Pratt should be in the runoff. I deny that Raman won legitimately.”
I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true:
— As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable.
— Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.)
— A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused.
— In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.”
— In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety.
— In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community.
— The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority.
— Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
https://t.co/pLMD0krc69
So like if it was 20 votes, I’d understand. There’s going to be a reasonable margin of error.
But it’s 18,000 votes, all for Spencer Pratt that have been rejected. That’s not an accident.
It’s treason.
Committed by the people who want to “defend democracy” whatever that means.
These are deeply disturbed and mentally unstable people; very likely narcissists, with massively overstated internal senses of grandiosity and self-importance.
That sense of identity is certainly why they need to cloister together in groups, tribal media, in order to receive the affirmation needed to retain their worldview without challenge. Deeply intolerant, and emotionally unstable people.
This is not emotionally mature or mentally stable behavior. What is being witnessed in this video is a psychological pathology and a codependent enabler of that pathology, under the mistaken premise of sensitivity.
This is the opposite of intellectual. This is a child in an adult physiology. It is alarming to witness outside a clinical or institutional setting.
@brianstelter@LuluGNavarro