@OleTimeHardball Either Pete’s in or Ohtani is also out. A translator does not have the juice to run up a $4.5 million tab at Vegas sports books. “I didn’t know he was gambling with my money” excuse sounds too much like “I was at a couples resort w/ friends and ran into a familiar NFL coach.”
@VitaleforBoston The same phenomenon occurred in NYC. An unpopular person was elected to the detriment of the majority. And both mayors are outsiders with hidden agendas that do not favor the long term residents. Apathy yields just desserts, however unpalatable.
Left wing hockey Twitter has spent the last few days saying Jack Hughes lost “all his fans,” and here he is getting a standing ovation and loud cheers from the NJ Devils crowd
Almost like their echo chamber doesn’t reflect reality!
@overton_news@stoolpresidente Dave can be extreme but he’s a true fan. Of all sports, including hockey, men’s and women’s, of the Olympic Team and of the USA. Everyone needs to get off the hater bus and get back with the program. This remains the best country on the planet and we all need to pull together.
Quinn Hughes asks for another beer before he and his brother defend Auston Matthews from a reporter who tried changing the topic to his regular season play.
Reporter: I don't want to take you away from this moment…
Matthews: I'm trying to live in the moment, man. Come on.
Jack Hughes: It doesn't matter what anyone says now. Auston Matthews is a winner.
Quinn Hughes: That's what the media in Toronto should be talking about. Auston Matthews led us to a championship.
@SenRandPaul Verify the number of times these asylum seekers returned to Chechnya for visits over the years after claiming personal safety concerns to support their asylum filing. And where are the parents now?
@stoolpresidente Like closing the barn door after the horses have run off. Too little, too late. Shining example of a total lack of professionalism and discipline. The Hall may recover its reputation in time, but a half assed response does little to rectify a major misstep.
@WEEI Fans should boycott the Hall and inductees should return their gold jackets. How long would it take for the selection committee to publicly expel biased members who violated the spirit of the process and tarnished the reputation of the Hall?
@ClayTravis Stick with basketball, Steve. You’re out of your lane when it comes to opining on unsupported “facts” that are frequently altered to support biased reporting.
As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.
What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.
Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.
This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.
The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.
I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.
Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.
We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.
Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.