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[Leah🏇Honor Code/AP🏇Brandon🥋 @Leahbrandon]

@DecisionDeskHQ She lost her own district but is SURGING in others?

[Secretary Markwayne Mullin @SecMullinDHS]

I’m not surprised you would say something like this, @GovSherrillNJ.

On June 8th, I personally granted you access to the facility as an act of good faith— despite you having exactly ZERO federal oversight authority. Of course, you’re still trying to turn Delaney Hall into a political football for the radical left.

You were told BEFORE you went in you would not have the ability to speak to detainees. This is a federal facility, Governor. You are NOT federally elected.

I suggest you and your health inspectors spend more time at your New Jersey state detention facilities. Delaney Hall has 2x more medical personnel per detainee than NJ state prison, and at least 2x as much square footage. Detainees are also 2x more likely to die in NJ state custody. ⬇️

[Return on Life @advisorrob]

@mirandadevine @ScottPelley This is a reminder that the old guard of elite 'newscasters' and 'journalists' hate when someone wants truth & clarity. I'm not a huge @bariweiss fan, but kudos to her for breaking up the cabal. Guys like Pelley think they have ownership over telling us what are facts. F him.

[Return on Life @advisorrob]

@ScottJenningsKY @SenGillibrand 2. Some of the same folks on the left. Scream about Epstein, yet have nothing to say about Congress voting to keep their taxpayer funded slush fund for sexual harassment & assault under wraps. Hypocrites.

[Return on Life @advisorrob]

@ScottJenningsKY 1. Scott, great point. It's also why I told take the left seriously over Epstein. Platner has #metoo allegations. @SenGillibrand help run Al Fraken out of the Senate for far less than what Platner has been accused of doing.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

10 years. 10 years. I’ve listened to every Dem & never Trump pundit call Trump, Elon and anyone else who voted Republican a Nazi. And now they line up behind Platner, with an actual Nazi tattoo. Unbelievable.

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

Give it about a year. Pelley will be full-Olbermann by this point. This is delusional stuff.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Siri, can you show me the most divorced from reality person that ever lived?

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

I want to tell you a story about a “journalist.”

I’m pretty sure the journalist in question was Scott Pelley, but for reasons I am about to explain I can’t be 100% sure—I just know it was a major US TV reporter.

August, 2003.

I was the G-4 of the 82nd Airborne Division. The IED threat had just become a real thing in Iraq and the 82nd—having just returned from Iraq—was sent back to the fight.

The “Division Support Area” was earmarked for a place called al Taqaddum, or “TQ.” I led the advance party to occupy the site (we drove from Kuwait). TQ was a huge area on a high bluff, west of Fallujah, and had a cratered Iraqi Air Force airfield. Later in the war it was a plush site with a PX and restaurants, but when I occupied it, it was nothing but a bunch of abandoned buildings, hulks of old Iraqi fighting vehicles blocking the runway, nightly rocket and mortar attacks, and constant probing of the huge perimeter by insurgents.

The IED threat was happening because insurgents were pulling artillery rounds out of abandoned Iraqi army ammunition supply points and turning them into roadside bombs.

We had been on TQ about one full day when the front gate called me on the radio: “All American 4, we have some TV reporters here, they want to come in, what should I do, over?”

After telling the gate to check IDs and do a sweep of their vehicle, I said: “Send them to me, over.”

A few minutes later an armored Mercedes pulls up to our TOC. The “talent” is in the very back where I could barely see him, but I’m pretty sure it was Scott Pelley. (Pelley was definitely in Iraq at the time, I checked.)

His producer gets out from the air-conditioned Mercedes plushness and pulls out a map. He arrogantly points to an Iraqi ammo supply point between TQ and Ramadi and demands: “I need you to escort us to this location.”

(They wanted to do a story with reporter speaking against a backdrop of an ammo supply point, because that’s where the IEDs were coming from.)

“NEED? I’m sorry sir, that site is not secured and I am not putting my paratroopers at risk for your story.”

Big disappointment and head shaking. I’m thinking: “The NERVE of this guy. Does he think I work for him?”

He then asks: “Well what will happen if we go by ourselves?”

My response: “You’ll probably die.”

(Important background: TQ also had a giant Iraqi ammo supply point that was inside the wire but we had not cleared it yet—it could have been booby-trapped, we just did not know at the time.)

He points at the map again: “Well how about the ammunition right here? We can just drive over there, right?”

“No sir, you cannot. We have not cleared that site.”

By this time he was visibly angry, he had a chat with the talent in the back, and then they all got back in and left without even saying thank you or good bye.

(Important point: the ammo on TQ he wanted to use as a backdrop for his “story" was SECURED from Iraqis grabbing any of it, yet they wanted to use that as a backdrop for a story on Iraqis grabbing ammo.)

The point of this story is this: those “journalists” were incredibly arrogant, incredibly dismissive of anyone in uniform with dirty boots, and basically oozed a sense of entitlement as if they were on some sort of noble mission, when in reality their mission was to smear the effectiveness of our operations because Bushitler.

When you hear Scott Pelley talk, oozing with arrogance over his “combat” experience, remember that he is of a breed that all think and act alike. To those "journalists," we were not American fighting men and women in combat. No, we were there for their convenience. It sickened me, and still does.

You think you hate journalists enough...

[Sam E. Antar @SamAntar]

Memo to Scott Pelley:

I buried two children. They were not murdered.

That’s why I know the difference between grief and hyperbole.

Getting fired from a television job is painful. Losing colleagues is painful. But murder leaves empty chairs at family dinners, birthdays that never happen, and graves that never stop hurting.

Corporate layoffs are not a massacre. Being fired is not murder.

Some analogies don’t demonstrate passion. They demonstrate a level of privilege so profound that career disappointment becomes indistinguishable from death.

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

@tedlieu @spencerpratt Shut the fuck already. Go clean your district. It doesn’t take a month count an election. You are one absolute disgrace.

[Return on Life @advisorrob]

@tedlieu @spencerpratt How’s Ed Buck?

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Here’s a number for you, Ted.

Election Day was six days ago and your scam of an election system is still accepting ballots and counting.

The rest of us don’t have to pretend that third-worldist slop is acceptable.

[Rob Schmitt @SchmittNYC]

Here’s Nithya Ramen crying on election night. The polls had her losing to Pratt decisively, and it happened that night as predicted. But now 5 days later she’s about to beat Pratt and move on to November. This is bullshit. Even she knows it.

[Dustin Grage @GrageDustin]

Nobody is surprised that Spencer Pratt is losing ground in the mail-in vote. That’s not the anomaly.

The anomaly is Nithya Raman dominating the mail vote and even outperforming Karen Bass.

It’s open and brazen cheating.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Iran fired missiles at Israel, with one apparently hitting Haifa. No reason not to destroy the regime now. Ceasefire has been a joke for a while and this is an escalation. Iran will claim Israel violated by hitting Hezbollah in Beirut, but there too Iran fired first. Finish them.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

All of the lies being perpetuated about Trump and Israel right now is one big parting OP by the Tulsi Gabbard defense priorities crowd right before they get purged from ODNI.

They know they only have one month left and so they are causing as much chaos as possible.

This is why Tulsi should just leave now. No sense in letting her stay till June 30.

So much chaos will be spread over one month.

Notice how her Chief of Staff Joe Kent is the ring leader of all of this.

That isn’t a coincidence.

[Return on Life @advisorrob]

@Daily_MailUS There ought to be a law!

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Joe Kent works for Defense Priorities now.

Dan Caldwell, the guy Hegseth fired for leaking and DNI rehired AFTERWARDS worked for Defense Priorities.

Will Rutgers hired by DNI used to work for Defense Priorities.

Defense priorities is the media arm of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. It was founded by Koch and Soros. One of its cofounders is also Trita Parsi one of the architects of Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal.

On 1/15/25, Trump posted on Truth Social listing people and groups his administration would not hire, explicitly from including anyone associated with Charles Koch.

DNI explicitly ignored that and hired people directly from there.

Since then, there have been 15 months of intelligence leaks. All of them in favor of authoritarian regimes from Venezuela to Iran.

Despite promises, not one leak has been publicly identified by DNI.

The only leaker that was identified was done so by Pete Hegseth, and fired only to be rehired by DNI.

Quincy has never met an authoritarian regime they don’t shill for.

I’m sure all of this is a complete and total coincidence. 🙃

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

California

Before 2016 law changes: Elections resolved on election night or within days. Republicans won seats, held seats, results were stable.

2016: Democrats pass ballot harvesting and universal mail ballot laws. Signed by Democratic governor.

2018 onward: Every close race follows the same script. Republican leads on election night. Slow count begins. Lead shrinks daily. Republican loses weeks later.

Seven House seats in 2018 alone. All the same pattern. All in one direction. Never reversed.

Since 2018, there hasn’t been one single race where the slow counting of votes didn’t take away a Republican victory by the end.