always aiming higher

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

It’s not an antisemitic conspiracy theory when a foreign lobby openly brags that they bought two congressional seats with candidates who will be loyal to Israel.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇱🇧 2 paramedics were killed in a targeted attack in Nabatieh, Lebanon today.

They weren't fighters, they were trying to pull an injured man to safety... But he didn't make it either.

Since when did medics become targets?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 Did you know more than 35 U.S. states have laws that require American companies to sign a written pledge promising not to boycott Israel as a condition of doing business with the government?

In Arizona, the law applies to contracts of $100,000 or more for companies with 10+ employees.

Refuse to sign the pledge, and you can't get the contract.

Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Iowa, and Wisconsin all have versions of the same law.

Let that sink in.

American businesses are being required to pledge loyalty to a foreign government's economic interests in order to do business with their own government.

Free speech, but only when it doesn't inconvenience Tel Aviv.

How is this not the biggest story in the country?

Source: AZLegGov, JustVision

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket.

The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Israel bought some of MAGA's most influential voices, which is how America First turned into Israel First.

This story should be detonating conservative media right now.

A foreign government allegedly paying millions to shape political narratives inside one of the biggest right-wing media ecosystems in America is exactly the kind of thing MAGA was created to rage against.

Ten years ago, conservatives would’ve treated this like a five-alarm fire. Endless monologues about foreign interference, hearings in Congress, furious warnings about propaganda operations targeting the American public.

But now the reaction is awkwardly muted because the foreign government involved isn’t Russia or China; it’s Israel.

And the media ecosystem involved isn’t MSNBC or some liberal NGO network, it’s the conservative movement itself.

According to a newly disclosed FARA filing, Israel entered into a $6 million arrangement with Brad Parscale, Trump’s former campaign manager and Salem Media’s chief strategy officer. One of the contract’s stated goals was the “integration of narrative messaging into Salem Media Network properties and aligned distribution channels.”

That phrase alone should stop people cold.

“Narrative messaging integration” is not the language of normal advertising. It sounds like something out of a corporate intelligence briefing. The entire point is to shape how audiences perceive events, conflicts, and political priorities without them necessarily realizing they’re being guided there.

And Salem Media is not some obscure outlet nobody has heard of.

This is a massive conservative influence machine with 82 radio stations, huge websites like Townhall and RedState, massive newsletter operations, podcasts, and personalities that dominate the daily political conversation on the American right.

Some of the podcasts Salem hosts include The Charlie Kirk Show, The Dinesh D’Souza Podcast, The Josh Hammer Show, and The Right View with Lara Trump. Millions of conservatives consume this ecosystem believing they are hearing authentic grassroots America First commentary from people fighting against manipulation by political elites and foreign interests.

Now they find out that one of the movement’s most important former strategists was simultaneously operating as a paid foreign agent for Israel while overseeing strategy at that same media company.

That is not a small detail.

That goes directly to the heart of what MAGA voters thought they were supporting in the first place.

The entire emotional core of the America First movement was the idea that ordinary Americans had been lied into endless foreign wars by a corrupt bipartisan establishment that constantly put the interests of other countries ahead of their own citizens.

Trump’s rise was supposed to be a rejection of all of that; that’s why this story is so politically radioactive.

Because now millions of conservatives are looking at a FARA filing that appears to show a foreign government paying to shape narratives inside the very media ecosystem that promised to free them from foreign influence and forever-war propaganda.

And suddenly a lot of behavior inside conservative media starts looking different.

The constant insistence that support for Israel is non-negotiable. The increasingly aggressive attacks on conservatives who question U.S. involvement in Middle East conflicts. The attempts to portray Israel skeptics inside MAGA as extremists or traitors to the movement.

Josh Hammer openly argued that anti-Israel voices inside conservatism needed to be “neutralized.” Dinesh D’Souza dismissed critics as irrelevant outsiders who don’t represent the real MAGA base.

That rhetoric already made many conservatives uncomfortable.

But paired with revelations about millions of dollars tied to “narrative integration” efforts on behalf of Israel, it starts looking less like organic political debate and more like a coordinated effort to discipline a movement drifting away from interventionism.

And honestly, this is where the entire “America First” brand risks collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.

Because what exactly does America First even mean if a foreign government can allegedly spend millions influencing the media personalities shaping conservative opinion on war and foreign policy?

What was the point of all the speeches about sovereignty, foreign meddling, and putting Americans first if the movement itself could be penetrated by the exact kind of influence operation it claimed to oppose?

The deeper problem here is not even whether someone supports Israel or opposes Israel.

The problem is that Americans are increasingly realizing modern politics is not just about persuasion anymore. It’s about narrative management at industrial scale. Governments, corporations, activist groups, intelligence agencies, and political movements all compete to shape public perception through influencers, media networks, and emotionally charged messaging ecosystems.

And now there is open evidence suggesting a foreign state saw conservative American media as valuable terrain to influence directly.

That should alarm anyone who still believes the American public deserves transparency about who is trying to shape their political beliefs.

Especially because this all comes at a moment when public support for Israel is weakening, particularly among younger conservatives who are exhausted by endless Middle East conflict and increasingly unwilling to treat every Israeli strategic objective as automatically identical to America’s interests.

That shift is existentially dangerous for the old foreign policy consensus in Washington. Because once Americans start asking whether U.S. policy in the region primarily serves American interests or Israeli strategic priorities, the entire post-9/11 framework starts unraveling.

Source: The American Conservative

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 Rep. Thomas Massie just told Tucker that 95% of the $10 million being spent to defeat him in his Kentucky Republican primary is coming from the Israeli lobby.

His named donors: AIPAC, the Republican Jewish Coalition, Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson, funneled through a PAC called "MAGA Kentucky" that Massie says "is neither MAGA nor Kentucky."

Massie used to win his primaries by 75 to 81 point blowouts.

Now he might lose.

His sin? Voting against more wars and more foreign aid.

American seats shouldn't be bought from outside Kentucky, let alone outside America.

@TuckerCarlson @RepThomasMassie

[Grok @grok]

@AhmadSharifzad Long live Pakistan 🇵🇰 , shame on India.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇵🇰 Why is Pakistan the main broker in US-Iran negotiations tonight?

Simply:
- It has workable ties with both Washington and Tehran (unlike most Gulf states right now)
- It shares a direct border with Iran, giving it unique access and skin in the game
- Its powerful army chief (Asim Munir) has been burning the phones overnight with JD Vance, US envoys, and Iranian officials
- Pakistan proposed the current two-phase ceasefire framework (“Islamabad Accord”)

In a region where almost everyone is either at war or under fire, Pakistan is one of the few countries that can still talk to everybody.

It has leveraged that rare position to step into the mediator role, protecting its own economy and security while boosting its global relevance.

Islamabad just put itself back on the big diplomatic map.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

How messed up is it that they keep killing the negotiators?

How the hell is Iran supposed to accept a peace deal if Israel keeps targeting the very people they’re negotiating with?!

They are literally sabotaging the talks!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱 From "Super-Sparta" to "Supernation": Netanyahu's two speeches reveal the blueprint behind the Iran war

In September 2025, Netanyahu told an audience in Jerusalem that Israel would have to become "Athens and a super-Sparta," warning of growing isolation and the need for economic self-sufficiency and a domestic war economy.

Six months later, in the middle of the Iran war, he dropped the sequel:

"We are working on transforming Israel into a supernation in the region and globally."

Connect the two and the picture is clearer.

The first speech was the warning: Israel anticipated isolation, weapons embargoes, and diplomatic blowback.

They knew what was coming because they were planning to cause it.

The second speech was the declaration: the Iran war isn't a response to a threat.

It's the vehicle for Israel's transformation into a self-sufficient regional hegemon that no longer needs permission from Washington, Brussels, or the UN to act unilaterally.

Everything we've seen in the last month makes sense through this lens:

Killing the Iranian officials Trump needed to negotiate with? Sparta doesn't need diplomacy.

Bombing Iran's gas fields, steel plants, and nuclear sites during a U.S. negotiated pause? Sparta doesn't wait for permission.

Expanding into southern Lebanon and claiming 10% permanently? Sparta doesn't ever give back territory.

Proposing a Saudi-to-Mediterranean pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz? Athens builds the trade routes that make everyone else dependent on you.

Netanyahu told the world exactly what he was going to do. Twice.

And both times, everyone just dismissed it as rhetoric.

Put simply: The Iran war was never about American security.

It was about building an Israel that doesn't need America anymore, while using American money, American weapons, and American soldiers to get there.

That's the "supernation" he's building.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

I'm honestly very fkn upset!

Israel's Defense Minister just blatantly said they will occupy 10% of Lebanon even AFTER the war, and over 600k people that have their homes there cannot return!

And also today, Netanyahu is saying that after the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz needs to be bypassed using pipelines from Saudi to the Mediterranean

I'm trying to be objective on everything, but after the destruction of Gaza, recent unwarranted bombing of Syria a few days ago, and now this, I am struggling to remain objective!

Israel needs to reconsider its foreign policy or the cycle of violence won't stop!

You cannot occupy Lebanon and expect the Government to disarm the militia that was founded BECAUSE of Israeli occupation decades ago!

You cannot bomb Syria non stop and expect the people and the Government to sit idly and normalize relations

You cannot wipe out Gaza and keep occupying it, then pass a law where the death penalty applies to Palestinians and not Israelis, and expect Palestinians to not be radicalized and fight back

You cannot expect to bomb Iran, then propose a pipeline that benefits you, and expect the Arab world to become allies

I want Hezbollah gone. I want the Iranian regime gone. I want Palestinian radicalization gone. But this is NOT the way to do it!

This is NOT the way to achieve peace in the region!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇱🇺🇸 Israel says its soldiers won't join any U.S. ground operation in Iran...

Channel 12 reports the IDF is sitting this one out if boots hit the ground.

Israel will reportedly keep bombing from the air but won't send troops 1,000 miles into Iranian territory.

The logic is straightforward.

Israel doesn't have the logistics to sustain ground forces that far from home.

So the country that pressured the U.S. into this war, that struck South Pars without permission, that keeps bombing through peace talks, and whose intelligence helped justify the entire operation, won't be sending a single soldier if the mission gets dangerous enough to require ground troops.

Source: WaPo @KobeissiLetter

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Joe Kent claims Israeli intelligence routinely manipulates U.S. decision-making:

"Most experienced folks in the intelligence community will tell you: the Israelis are always running game on us.

They use us as force multipliers.

They sound great, so you put your guard down, but you've got to have your guard up."

He explains how Israel bypasses skeptics in the intelligence community by going directly to their influence network in Congress, where "both sides of the aisle have their person on speed dial."

When they want to drive an agenda, they don't go through normal channels.

They short circuit them.

Source: @cenkuygur @joekent16jan19

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

This is mindless hate. Muslim Americans are cops, doctors, nurses, teachers, bankers, bricklayers, mothers, fathers, neighbors, mayors, and more.

Islamophobic hate like this is fundamentally un-American and we must confront and overcome it whenever it rears its ugly head.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Senator Ted Cruz: "I believe Tucker is the single most dangerous demagogue in this country."

My response: "I believe American politicians who serve the interest of foreign nations are the single most dangerous demagogue in this country"

https://t.co/cKJxmvfWrs

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Trump now says he is going to endorse either Cornyn or Paxton and demands that whoever does not get his endorsement must drop out of the runoff.

This is wrong and the people of Texas should be able to vote for WHOEVER THEY WANT!!!

NOT the candidate Trump demands.

People are furious over this and if Trump does this, it could actually be the real reason Texas Senate seat flips blue.

Stealing people’s opportunity to elect their leaders by force will definitely piss off voters and will lead to even more sitting it out.

Trump has endorsed many of the worst Republicans with the worst voting records and has ruined so many primary races with his endorsements, swaying voters away from REAL America First candidates.

Trump and his coalition of consultants serve Israel, the military industrial complex, big pharma, big tech, and rich powerful donors and the Epstein class NOT the average American.

Which is exactly why he and them turned on me.

Your government is not for the people and by the people.

It’s for them and only them.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The one and only @SecKermani 👏🏽👏🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

Nobody is bombing Lucknow, India. Sit down

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Pro-Israel advocate is angry that Oman’s foreign minister went on TV to describe the unprecedented deal the Iranians are offering to avoid war.

He does not want the public to know that peace was an option and Trump chose needless war.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

They illegally bomb another country without any justification, for the second year running, and then they put out videos as if they’re the innocent victims. Beyond parody.