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[Fla Mom @Fla_Mom]

“Why isn’t Trump taking control?!” A thread for those who don’t know what being an American citizen means, with practical suggestions for what a citizen can do him- or herself: >>

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

84 years ago today, four Japanese aircraft carriers were burning in the Pacific because of a man who went to work in a smoking jacket and slippers.

Washington took his job, buried his name, and blocked his medal for 44 years.

This is the story of Joseph Rochefort, the codebreaker who saved Midway.

December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor burns. Rochefort, head of a Navy codebreaking unit on Oahu, takes it personally. He tells a colleague that an intelligence officer has exactly one job: to tell his commander today what the enemy will do tomorrow. On December 7, he believes he failed at it.

He decides he will never fail at it again.

His unit is Station HYPO, hidden in a windowless basement at Pearl Harbor that his men call "the Dungeon." It is cold, damp, and lit like a morgue. Rochefort wears a smoking jacket over his uniform to fight the chill and slippers because the concrete floor wrecks his feet. He works 20 hour days, sleeps on a cot in the basement, and lives on coffee.

His team is just as strange. Brilliant misfit cryptanalysts like Joe Finnegan and Ham Wright, plus the surviving bandsmen of the battleship USS California, sunk on December 7. The musicians turn out to be naturals at running the IBM punch card machines. Sailors who played trombones in November are reconstructing an enemy cipher by March.

Their target: JN-25, the Imperial Japanese Navy's operational code. Tens of thousands of code groups, layered with additives, changed regularly. On a good day HYPO can read maybe 10 to 15 percent of any message. They rebuild the rest from fragments, traffic patterns, callsigns, and Rochefort's freakish memory. He had spent three years in Japan learning the language. He could hold months of intercepts in his head at once.

By May 1942, processing up to 140 decrypts a day, HYPO sees something enormous taking shape. Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, is massing nearly 200 ships for one decisive battle. The target appears in the intercepts as two letters: AF.

Rochefort is certain AF is Midway Atoll.

Washington is certain he is wrong. The Navy's own codebreaking office, OP-20-G, argues for the South Pacific. Others fear Hawaii again, or even the West Coast. The Army wants planes held back to defend San Francisco. If Nimitz bets his last carriers on Midway and Rochefort is wrong, the Pacific is lost.

So HYPO sets one of the great traps in the history of intelligence.

The idea comes from staffer Jasper Holmes. The order goes to Midway by undersea cable, which the Japanese cannot tap: broadcast by radio, in plain language, that your water distillation plant has broken down.

Midway sends the fake distress call.

Two days later, HYPO decrypts a Japanese intelligence report to fleet commanders: AF is short of fresh water.

Two letters, confirmed. The argument is over.

Now Nimitz goes all in. The carrier Yorktown, mauled in the Coral Sea and given 90 days of repairs, is patched up in 72 hours and sent back out. Three American carriers slip northeast of Midway and wait at a spot on the map they name Point Luck.

On May 27, HYPO cracks the Japanese date and time cipher, the final piece. Nimitz's intelligence officer Edwin Layton, Rochefort's closest friend and partner, gives Nimitz a prediction of nearly insane precision: the Japanese carriers will be spotted on bearing 325 degrees, 175 miles from Midway, around 0600 on June 4.

On the morning of June 4, 1942, a PBY scout plane radios in the sighting. Nimitz turns to Layton and says: well, you were only five minutes, five degrees, and five miles out.

What follows are the most consequential ten minutes of the Pacific war. American dive bombers catch the Japanese carriers with fueled planes and stacked ordnance on their decks. By nightfall, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, four of the six carriers that hit Pearl Harbor, are gone, along with thousands of men and the irreplaceable core of Japan's elite naval aviators. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's advance across the Pacific is broken. It never recovers.

A basement full of misfits had handed the US Navy the greatest ambush in its history.

Then came the knives.

The same Washington officers who had called Midway wrong now claimed the credit. They whispered that Rochefort was difficult, an ex-enlisted man without the right pedigree. Nimitz recommended him for the Distinguished Service Medal. Washington killed it. Nimitz tried again. Killed again.

In October 1942, four months after the victory he made possible, Rochefort was pulled from HYPO. The man who outwitted Yamamoto spent much of the rest of the war commanding a floating dry dock in San Francisco Bay.

He never lobbied for himself, never wrote a self-serving memoir, and rarely spoke of it. He said his real reward came at Midway itself. He died in 1976, unknown to the public, medal denied.

His old shipmates refused to let it go. Layton and others fought the Navy bureaucracy for years with the declassified record. In 1985 the Navy relented, and on May 30, 1986, President Reagan presented the Distinguished Service Medal to Rochefort's children in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

44 years late.

One man in slippers, in a basement, out-thought an empire and was punished for being right.

[Paul Sperry @paulsperry_]

BREAKING: Unindicted Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood co-conspirator North American Islamic Trust, the largest custodian of US mosques, has joined forces with unindicted co-conspirator CAIR to raise $2 mil to fortify/militarize mosques and train imams to apply for federal security grants

[Joel Fischer 🇺🇸 @realJoelFischer]

How dare you, Senator Collins?

We’re busting our asses to save your tight race, and you thank us by teaming up with Democrats to kill the SAVE AMERICA ACT?

Shame on you.

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Imagine a post like this, but instead of referring to an unborn baby, he’s referring to his Down Syndrome toddler. Everyone would be aghast and enraged.

Yet the only differences between a toddler and an unborn baby are age and location. These aren’t reasons to kill someone outside the womb, so they don’t work as reasons to kill someone inside the womb, either.

No euphemisms or sympathetic language can mask the reality that killing a baby is brutal, painful, and evil.

People with special needs are no less valuable - and therefore no less deserving of life - than people without special needs.

Despite Jesse’s attempt to center this murder on his and his wife’s feelings, the truth is, in every abortion scenario, the primary - and typically only - victim is the baby. He or she deserves all of our sympathy and advocacy.

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

The Tiananmen Square Massacre itself was monstrous.

But hope died twice that year.

First in blood on the streets of Beijing.

And again when the United States responded not with sustained accountability, but with quiet accommodation.

Just weeks after the killings, the US administration at the time secretly dispatched its National Security Advisor and Deputy Secretary of State to Beijing.

Their mission was to signal to the Chinese leadership that America would ride out the storm of public outrage and work to restore the strategic relationship.

Most Americans never knew this backchannel effort had taken place.

For decades we pursued a policy of engagement, telling ourselves the comforting story that trade and money would change China—that economic integration would liberalize the regime and make it a responsible stakeholder.

The opposite happened.

The Chinese Communist Party changed us.

It turned our openness into vulnerability, captured influence in our institutions, and made us economically dependent on a system built on lies, repression, and brutality.

I was honored to be invited to speak tonight at @VoCommunism’s candlelight vigil remembering June 4.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

This is a really cool article about the secret Signal networks that nonprofits use - @jimmy_rustlin , @astrarce , @bitchuneedsoap are all mentioned here as "Digital Avengers."

Read the latest from @AsraNomani . Proud to have helped out with some of the research here!

[Tim Burchett @timburchett]

Why would you do this unless you wanted to cheat. https://t.co/unymBF4EBV

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: The US Senate has just REJECTED the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation, 48-50 — would've required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide

REPUBLICAN NAYs: Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell and Susan Collins

UNBELIEVABLE!!

It needed 60 votes.

Why can't the Senate pass what over 80% of Americans want?!

[Aric Chen @aricchen]

🎬 For decades, film rolls containing more than 2,000 photos documenting the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement had been shut inside a metal box, never known to the world.

These photos, taken by a Chinese state media photographer and having survived the ensuing political purge campaigns after the massacre, eventually made their way to the United States, and were recently entrusted to The Epoch Times.

Now, The Epoch Times is making the photos public for the first time. ⬇️

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Election Shambles Update:

1. California Democrats have turned our state into a global laughing stock. India counts 600 million + ballots in a day. California counts less than 10 million in a MONTH.

2. Make sure YOUR vote is counted. Watch this video for the steps you should take.

3. We're watching everything closely and have lawyers standing by if needed.

4. We're as confident as ever that we will make the top two.

5. As governor I will replace this absurd system. We cannot have another election that makes us look like a "failed state", as @NateSilver538 put it.

Link to check that your vote is counted:
https://t.co/3nhM0DvAZH
Link to report any incidents:
https://t.co/ajEO5EFY0a

Thank You - stay focused - Change is Coming!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The SAVE America Act:

✅Requires an ID to vote
✅Proof of citizenship in order to vote
✅Prohibits mail-in ballot (with limited exceptions)

Supporting the SAVE America Act truly is a no-brainer.

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨BREAKING: Pakistani-American woman joins U.S. Air Force and NYPD — then brags both bent the rules for her.

• Hijab stayed on during gas-mask training
• Full uniform waivers granted
• PT modified so she could stay covered
• Taxpayer-funded halal meals

Standing under the American and Pakistani flags, she declared: “America accommodated her.”

Not the other way around.

This is conquest by compliance. Sharia privilege is being institutionalized in our uniforms while Christian faith is sidelined.

When will Washington address the Islamization of American power?

Credit: Amy Mek

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Isn't it funny how Cassidy and Cornyn were BEGGING you to believe that they supported The President when their jobs were on the line, but the second they lost their primaries, they went full blown Mitt Romney on social media? Pathetic.

[Caroline Wren @CarolineWren]

Can’t wait for Matt Damon to play Graham Platner in a future coming-of-age Netflix film about a spoiled rich kid who acts out as a teenager and is shipped off to an $80K a year boarding school only to get expelled after one semester for sexually assaulting a student then he joins the Marines as a fuck you to his parents and while enlisted he frequently posts on Reddit about how soldiers should bang hookers in Thailand then gets wasted in Croatia and gets a Nazi tattoo before deciding to move back to DC and bartend at Tune Inn where he meets a Blackwater executive who hires him to “work security” in Afghanistan which he does for a year before moving home to Maine to sell oysters to his mom and run for the U.S. Senate.

Give it the Oscar already.

[Princess Pinocchio 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @PinocchPrincess]

I found this moving account of someone at the Southampton vigil for Henry Nowak on Facebook:

Last night a few people mentioned the 'Southampton Riots' and were surprised I was there. So let me clarify.

I went to Southampton to show my respect for Henry, that his death wasn't in vain, and that knife crime and two tier policing needs to stop.
I am not a 'grief tourist', a 'far right fascist' or a 'rioter'.

What the media didn't show you, was that the initial 2000 people showed absolute respect. A minutes silence, the Lords prayer, a song.

The only incitement was the police who tried to push us down the stairs twice to bait a reaction.
Then we marched. People parked their cars and joined us. People came out of flats, houses and shops and joined us. Drivers bibbed their horns showing solidarity. Sikhs shook our hands apologising. (we know it's not their fault) When we passed the Gurdwawa there was silence and no chants. The march grew to about 5,000 people. We ALL CARE. This won't be shown on social media as it doesn't fit the narrative.

The police tried to kettle us. Fire engines and ambulances sent up and down the road for no other reason than to remove us.

At Belmont Road (where Henry died) we stayed 100m away from the location. The police were protecting the Digwa house. Where the father, charged with various knife offences (not charged with perverting justice or kidnap) and the brother charged with similar knife offences (but not perverting justice, kidnap and assualt) were happily watching TV. 1000 of us all got on one knee. We asked the police to join us. At this point there was no riot gear. They refused. They were asked please join us. They refused.

I don't for one minute condone the riots or violence. I was stood on top of a high wall with two polish fellas. Out of the way. We could see from our vantage point the police donning riot gear behind the row of vehicles.

At that point I and a friend from the IOW left and walked back. Then the riots, which we never saw, must have occurred.

Please don't be blindsighted by the biased media. Please watch GB News.

This isn't black v white. Many different ethnicities joined us and as mentioned Sikhs shook our hands. I never saw any race hate whatsoever.

This isn't left v right.

It's about the unlawful killing of a white man because he was white, because of knife crime and because the police are so scared to be called racist they prioritised lies and false claims of racism instead of an obvious desperate and dying young man.

If you can't see that yet, then I really hope that that day will soon come.

Thank you to the messages of support too.

I will never ever change. I will always stand up for what I believe in. My integrity has been expensive, yet worth every penny.

For those that missed this before, here is the silence observed perfectly by the 2000 at Southampton Police Station..

Thank you.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

“Elon Musk is interfering with our politics and inciting division.”

I don’t think he is mate.

[ᥴꪮᦓꪑꪮ @jagrmeister]

My first child had a brain cyst detected in utero, and doctors told us there was an 80% chance she had Trisomy 18, with very little chance of survival. Abortion was never an option for my wife and me.

And here we are today, 23 years later. ❤️

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

🚨 BREAKING TEXAS: MAJOR ARREST 🚨

The Wylie East Administrator Who Targeted Marco Hunter-Lopez Is Now Accused of Criminal Conduct Toward a Student

Zach Neu - Wylie East's Dean of Students, the administrator who repeatedly blocked Marco Hunter-Lopez's Republican club, and a key figure in the controversy that ultimately led to congressional testimony - has been arrested on allegations of "inappropriate communications and other criminal conduct" involving a student.

Now, Neu has been scrubbed from the school's website as parents demand answers about what happened inside Wylie East High School.

(MUG SHOT BELOW)

🔺Today - June 4, 2026 - a Wylie East High School administrator was ARRESTED on allegations of "inappropriate communications and other criminal conduct" toward a student from the Class of 2026.

That's from the district's OWN letter to families. And he is the same administrator who spent over a YEAR making 16-year-old Marco Hunter-Lopez's life a battle.

Let me lay out exactly what this brave kid has endured - and exactly who failed him.

📌 As a FRESHMAN, Marco did everything right to start a Republican Student Club: 10 members, a teacher sponsor, a room. Every box checked. The Muslim Student Association and gender-ideology groups? Approved instantly. Marco's club? DENIED — for being "political in nature."

📌 Administrators claimed a "district policy." When Marco asked them to put it in writing, they couldn't — because it didn't exist. They finally admitted it was just "how they felt." It took a 14-year-old MONTHS of emails and relentless pushback just to get the same rights every other club already had.

📌 Even after approval, they came after him. Principals tore down his approved posters while he was out of town. He was pulled into the office, cornered, talked down to. His own FATHER had to create a guest-speaker form just to protect his son as a minor from the adults running the school.

📌 Then on Feb. 2, those same administrators stood by while an outside group set up an "Islam" booth at lunch — handing minors Shariah pamphlets, Qurans with conversion cards, and putting hijabs on non-Muslim girls. No parental consent. No intervention. The principal had publicly gushed about "loving" World Hijab Day. The double standard wasn't subtle — it was policy.

📌 Marco documented it. He told the truth. And for that, this CHILD started receiving DEATH THREATS. He had to stay home from school for his own safety. When his mom begged the principal to have teachers watch over him, the response was a cold "you can." That was their idea of protecting a threatened student.

📌 He carried all of this to the United States Congress and testified under oath. The principal was removed — and instead of apologizing to Marco or making a single thing right, the institution made ITSELF out to be the victim. The threats against him only escalated.

📌 And now? Zach Neu — a Wylie East administrator, one of six assistant principals, whose title was Dean of Students with authority over clubs and organizations — the man who oversaw and repeatedly denied Marco's club, who hauled this boy into his office and cornered him, now sits in custody on allegations involving a student.

And the principal who oversaw HIM? Tiffany Doolan — the one they removed. When she left that role, she never took an ounce of responsibility for how Marco was treated. Instead, the school recast her as the victim — not as the leader who failed a child on her watch.

The adults entrusted to protect these kids closed ranks to protect themselves, and now one of them is in custody over a student. Let that sink in.

Marco has been BEGGING for help and FIGHTING for over a year. A child. Most adults would have crumbled under a fraction of this. He stood tall every single time the people in power let him down.

@GregAbbott_TX @KenPaxtonTX - I am asking you both, publicly and directly: OPEN A FULL INVESTIGATION into Wylie East High School and Wylie ISD.

This is not one incident. It is a years-long pattern of the adults entrusted with our children failing them, silencing them, and endangering them. Texas kids are under threat, and these people keep looking the other way.

Enough. Investigate this school. Protect these children. Answer the boy who has been screaming for help.

And to the student who had the courage to come forward - thank you. Speaking out against an adult in a position of authority takes tremendous bravery, especially when you know the attention and scrutiny that can follow. No child should ever have to carry that burden alone. By coming forward, you may have protected other students from harm.

And to Marco - you are one of the bravest young leaders in America, and you are NOT alone. For more than a year, you refused to stay silent when the adults around you failed to do their jobs. You stood up when it would have been easier to walk away. We will never, ever back down.

#ProtectOurKids #Wylie #Texas

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Today is 37 years since the Tiananmen Massacre

On this day in 1989, the Chinese Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to open fire on its own citizens.

Peaceful pro-democracy students and workers who gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square demanding freedom, anti-corruption, and basic human rights were crushed under tanks and gunfire.

The protests began in mid-April 1989, triggered by the death of reformist leader Hu Yaobang. On May 13, students began a hunger strike. Martial law was declared on May 20, but protesters remained peaceful.

In the early hours of June 4, troops advanced with tanks and live ammunition. Soldiers fired on unarmed civilians blocking their path in the streets surrounding the square.

Hundreds to thousands were killed. Thousands more were imprisoned, tortured, or disappeared.

To this day, the Chinese government censors all mention of it, erases it from history books, and threatens anyone who remembers.

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

"Unwanted touching" in D.C. is "assault."

Any number of jury instructions in J6 cases would make that clear to you.