Steve

Retired early just in time for my government to screw our future. I'm kind of pissed.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

Never forget - the D party doesn’t want the welders, cafeteria staff and regular workers to become rich.

They want them on welfare. They want their vote, not their success.

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

The Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Maine did not issue a policy critique. He issued a death sentence.

Graham Platner looked at the first human being in history to accumulate a trillion dollars in wealth and wrote, without hesitation or euphemism, that this man must also be the last.

Not a call for higher marginal rates. Not a proposal to close loopholes.

A flat declaration that a particular category of achievement is now intolerable and must be rendered impossible.

Excellence occurred.

Ensure it never occurs again.

This is not the rhetoric of reform.

It is the rhetoric of elimination.

The same impulse that once sent kulaks to the wall for the crime of producing too much grain, that once dragged engineers and intellectuals through struggle sessions for the crime of knowing how to build, now dresses itself in the language of “working Mainers” and “foe of the oligarchy.”

The mask is thinner than its wearers believe.

Beneath it sits the ancient, festering pathology of ressentiment...the inability to tolerate another’s ascent without experiencing it as personal theft. Platner did not stumble into this formulation. He revealed himself.

What follows is not a defense of any single man.

It is a dissection of the worldview that treats visible, world-altering creation as evidence of moral crime.

It is an examination of the psychology that converts personal limitation into political virtue, that transmutes envy into justice, that has, across every century it has been tried, produced only ruin, poverty, and the corpses of those who refused to shrink themselves to fit the approved dimensions.

The sentence is short. Its implications are not.
Read it carefully. Then read what it actually means.

https://t.co/hWjyqsPlGl

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

BREAKING UPDATE: Texas Parole Supervisor who went on unhinged racist rant, slammed the Metcalfs, and said she will protect Karmelo Anthony, has been FIRED, per @SarahisCensored

[Senator Ron Johnson @SenRonJohnson]

This is a scandal WAY bigger than Watergate.

@CNN, @MSNOWNews, @NBCNews, @ABC, @PBS — it's past time to cover this.

People died from the COVID shot because the government lied to them, yet the legacy media refuses to report on this story.

[Isaac Holyk for U.S. Senate @voteholyk]

Hey WA,
Trump has banned the USPS from sending out any ballots in states where they do not allow access to the voter rolls.
If Steve Hobbs doesn't hand over the voter rolls not a single ballot will be sent out via USPS for the election in November.
Every ballot will be required have unique barcodes to verify each individual voter and provide an actual chain of custody.
States will hand over the voters rolls and confirm each voter is eligible against a verified citizen list or the ballot will not be sent out.
@PattyMurray I am coming for that seat.
This is all coming to an end guys.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Overton @overton_news]

This will go down as one of the greatest takedowns of a smarmy British elite on cable news.

NewsNation’s Leland Vittert went to war with The Hill’s Niall Stanage for three and a half minutes over what’s happening in Belfast.

Stanage tried blaming Elon Musk for “inflaming” the chaos, while Vittert kept bringing it back to the real cause — violent migrants from the Muslim world in the West.

When Vittert started dropping the receipts, Stanage went into a tailspin.

VITTERT: “The culture of Islam is a violent and conquering culture.”

“According to the interior ministry of France, 93% of thefts and 63% of assaults on public transport in the Île-de-France region are committed by foreigners.”

“At the same time, sexual violence in these spaces has increased 86% in ten years. And you’re telling me that the influx of immigrants from Muslim countries doesn’t have anything to do with this?!”

STANAGE: “I am telling you that it is completely, completely an over generalization to just suggest that people of a particular religious faith are therefore intrinsically violent.”

VITTERT: “I’m talking about culture...”

“Okay? I’ll try another one.”

“Denmark took in 321 Palestinian refugees in 1992.”

“By 2019, 64% had been convicted of a crime, including 34% of their children too. A very large portion were also on welfare.”

“I ask you the question though, Niall, if the statistics aren’t the problem, why does everybody get so mad when you talk about them?”

@LelandVittert

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Iranians playing Iranian games. Sane old story, same old BS.

Listen, I’ve been flying to the Middle East for decades. I know the cultures and the players.

Iran will NEVER tell the truth. It’s not in their DNA, They don’t think like us. They live for power, money and reach.

We’re incompatible.

When you start from that premise, it all makes sense.

I, like all American warriors, expect and demand a complete, thorough, and total emasculating outcome for Iran.

The American blood they’ve taken over the years. The sweat and toil of the rest of us.

Please end this now. Completely, totally, forever.

Thank you, sir.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐆𝐀𝐑𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃’𝐒 𝐎𝐖𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐉 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐒 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓-𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐎 “𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐏𝐈𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐏𝐈𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐏𝐈𝐃” — 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐋𝐘 𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐋

“𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥, 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥, 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘱𝘪𝘥.” That is what a senior Department of Justice official wrote internally, two days before Merrick Garland publicly released his October 2021 memo directing the FBI to monitor parents at school board meetings. A second colleague replied: “𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘈 𝘛𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦.”

The emails, obtained by Fox News and confirmed as authentic by a DOJ source, were written in the same week the National School Boards Association sent a letter to President Biden comparing some parents at school board meetings to “𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴.” Garland issued his memo on October 4, 2021, mobilizing FBI field offices to be on alert for threats to school administrators. 𝐇𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦, 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. He did it anyway.

Garland then testified before Congress and defended the memo as appropriate and narrowly targeted. The NSBA eventually apologized for the “domestic terrorism” language that had triggered the entire policy. Garland never apologized for the memo. 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝. 𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝. Parents who raised concerns at school board meetings were formally tagged as threats to federal officials.

Today, the Trump Department of Justice announced a formal probe into Biden-era targeting of parents. The unsealed emails are part of the record. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫: 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐁𝐈 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲.

𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 “𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬” 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐝. 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

A young Scottish girl who defended her sister from Muslim invader/predators has been vindicated by a British court. She should have a statue erected in her honor rather than have been charged in the first place. She has more heart than the leftist politicians destroying the UK.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

https://t.co/iT7eNP2hog

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

TAXPAYER MONEY STOLEN FOR 26 STRAIGHT YEARS

Minnesota has funneled millions to “Advance Mobility Incorporated” since 1999.

The company has no office, no staff, no vehicles — it doesn’t exist.

Investigator Nick Shirley was confronted and chased out when he visited the fake address.

26 years of payments to a ghost company. This is blatant, long-term fraud.

Our tax dollars are being stolen in plain sight.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Mike Lee says Senate Republicans should IMMEDIATELY FORCE the SAVE America Act on the floor, responds to Sen. John Cornyn claiming he’s “attacking Republicans”

“We have majority support for the bill. In this rare circumstance, we should put it on the floor and keep debating it until it passes.”

“That’s not an attack on Republicans. That’s a plan of attack against voter fraud.” 🔥🔥

Keep fighting! Securing our elections must be THE top priority 🇺🇸

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

It was ALL a lie. The real reason USAID was in Africa

Former African Union Ambassador to the United States, Arikana Chihombori-Quao:

“They're using that open access, sounding humanitarian, to constantly destabilize governments”

“We need to understand the real reason why USAID is in Africa, and not just USAID, but other NGOs They are coming in claiming that they're introducing grassroots initiatives that are going to help the people, and so they use that as a way to go into the most remote parts of Africa. When you look at it on paper, it all looks really good, but they're actually wolf in sheep's clothing.”

“The American taxpayer needs to know the billions of dollars that are being given to USAID. A fraction is making it to the people”

“They're using that open access sounding humanitarian to constantly destabilize governments. I can tell you right now, the majority of African leaders, and not just African leaders, but leaders in the developing world are celebrating the exit of USAID.

If you think about it, their sole purpose, for example, filling in the gaps in healthcare and education, where is the change? Show me one country that USAID was in and education improved. Show me what country where USAID was in and healthcare improved?”

They laundered our money

This isn’t even a conspiracy theory, there are offices White House reports showing the money being sent over “never made it to ground level”

Meaning it’s all stolen before it gets to the people it’s meant to help

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The new Supreme Leader of Iran, Mojtaba Khamenei, won’t agree to the new proposed peace deal with the United States, according to reports from sources close to the matter. 🇮🇷🇺🇸

If the conservative media outlets reporting this are correct, it would appear that the Iranian negotiating team has not been truthful with the mediators.

The latest reports from Iran say that the decision to say that the deal will be signed was made by the Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi but was made without Supreme Leader's Mojtaba Khamenei’s blessing.

[Richard Grenell @RichardGrenell]

🚨🚨🚨🚨

Wow! Becerra makes it clear - - Free healthcare for non-US citizens in California.

Get ready for huge tax increases and fewer services for legal citizens.

This is billion$.

Becerra says: “No one loses their health care because of where they were born”

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐒

“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘴 — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺, 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦.”

That’s Chuck Schumer, Senate Democratic leader, on the SAVE Act (H.R. 22 — Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act). What the bill actually does, stripped of the outrage: it requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, and directs states to run their voter rolls through a DHS system to verify registrants are actually citizens. 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫’𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐬. 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞.

Notice what he does not say. He does not claim the bill would wrongly remove American citizens. He does not argue the citizenship-check algorithm errs. His objection is specifically that ICE — coordinating with DOGE and Musk — will “𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺” the registration system by checking citizenship status. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬.

Schumer has built a broader record of alarm. He also called the SAVE Act “𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳” and “𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺.” A dagger to the heart of democracy. Requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

The House passed the SAVE Act. Democrats in the Senate blocked it.

𝐇𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐭.

[Mike Schuler @MikeSchuler]

SCOOP: President Trump's claim that a covert U.S. military operation has helped hundreds of commercial ships transit the Strait of Hormuz appears to be corroborated by an advisory earlier this month from INTERTANKO, the world's largest tanker trade association, which describes a tightly controlled nighttime passage system operating along the Omani coast under close coordination with the U.S. Navy.

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 NIGHT THREE CHANGES EVERYTHING

The government is desperately hoping the unrest burns itself out.

Because if Belfast erupts for a third consecutive night, the situation enters dangerous territory.

A single night can be dismissed.

Two nights can be managed.

But three nights suggest something much deeper is happening.

The next few hours could determine whether this crisis fades away...

Or spreads far beyond Belfast.