Neal Pierson

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

https://t.co/lfIRAibOtT

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

"Trump’s in a box of his own making. He thinks he can talk his way out by simply asserting a reality that doesn’t exist." | @JonahDispatch

How Trump Left Himself With No Good Solutions on Iran: https://t.co/MYWn8dxOBk

[Neal Pierson @NealPierson]

@jaynordlinger Might be the most clever thing he's ever said.

[Jonathan Schanzer @JSchanzer]

Qatar’s Influence-Buying in America Is Even Worse Than We Thought.

This is a must read. And a great summary by @FrannieBlock from @TheFP of @FDD’s new report by @NatalieEcanow
https://t.co/Ql8I2QMGmO

[OSZ @OpenSourceZone]

CNN: Democrats are dissatisfied with their party and want them to move to the center

Democrats Net Approval of Congressional Democrats

Oct 2025: 🟢 +22
Now: 🔴 -9

Democrats want their party to…
🔴 Move To Center: 47%
🟡 Not Move: 18%
🔵 Move Left: 28%

[The Dispatch @thedispatch]

America's 250th celebration is turning into an ugly, stupid mess. | @JonahDispatch on The Dispatch Podcast

[Neal Pierson @NealPierson]

@harryhew He's already pretty close to letting me see his naked body.

[John A. Daly @JohnDalyBooks]

Georgetown's @PaulDMiller2 believes China will indeed invade Taiwan, and he thinks he knows when...

From this week's @ReaganCaucusAct Podcast.

[Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman]

He’s lost the plot. https://t.co/CZyQWN8R6N

[Alejandra Jaramillo @AlejandraJMillo]

"It's very overrated. I'm the one that overrated it, but to me it was important," Trump says on Iran's buried nuclear stockpile.

[Neal Pierson @NealPierson]

@itsFaithMerrill An idiot?

[Noah Rothman @NoahCRothman]

Awful. And not consequence free. The Gulf states only gravitated toward the U.S. because the U.S. was the regional power actively defending their interests. If he’s not going to hold up his end of that bargain, why should they?

[Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc]

NEW! Rubio tells Senators that Russia will NOT achieve its objectives in Ukraine, and “they may not even be able to militarily EVER achieve the objectives they're demanding now in negotiations”

Says “not only are the Ukrainians bravely fighting, they're effectively fighting”
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[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is another sign of how the old categories of liberal and conservative no longer map precisely on our modern parties. Here the Democrats are more conservative as we’ve long understood the term — they’re (rightly) the Russia hawks.

[Neal Pierson @NealPierson]

@moginstall @SteveRob You sound like an absolute loser.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

I told CNN that people outside Ukraine don't understand how intense Russian attacks are. Ukrainians die and these deaths could have been prevented with better Western supplies of Patriots.

This is painful. It's unjust. But we're resolved. We accept it. What choice do we have.
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[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

The failure of the US to plan for the obvious closure of the Strait of Hormuz may go down as one of the worst military blunders in history

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

https://t.co/gHK9ZS38Vx

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

MCCONNELL on PULTE at DNI:

“Very few Senate-confirmable positions come with statutory eligibility requirements. There are good reasons why the Director of National Intelligence is one of them. Anyone performing this role of such immense public trust must have the extensive national security experience required by statute, and no nominee who falls short of this requirement will earn my vote.”

[Burcu Ozcelik @BurcuAOzcelik]

The Strait of Hormuz was hardly a black swan. Years of US war-gaming reportedly identified it as Iran’s most likely response to a major attack. The real question is why, despite extensive war-gaming and scenario planning, Washington appears to have been so unprepared for the costs and consequences when it happened. We still don’t know the answer.

https://t.co/IC4H6acaP7