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[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

Project Freedom is a test.
Do Iran's peace negotiators actually control the IRGC?
If they do, we get a deal. If they don't, the IRGC walks into the open — and the Navy's guns are waiting.
@BarbaraMBoyd on this week's Monday Brief:

[John Reese - Person of Interest @Rickisback_ON_X]

At the upcoming Indictment Announcements Presser, Joe diGenova should start by playing the video of James Comey telling Nicole Wallace how he thought it was a good idea to try to frame @GenFlynn by sending over FBI agents to "question" him about a fake Logan Act violation.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

The Democrats want power.

But knowledge is power. If you are loosely following the Eric Swalwell situation, please read.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Look, I get it, Dems.

You think buying Greenland is dumb.

You think trash-talking NATO is dumb.

You think Hegseth firing generals is dumb.

You think bombing Iran is dumb.

Fine. Maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re wrong. I’ll buy you a beer and we can argue about it.

But that’s not the point.

Every administration in American history has done dumb things.

Jefferson had an embargo that tanked his own economy.

LBJ had Vietnam.

Carter sold the Panama Canal for $1.

W. had “Mission Accomplished.”

Obama had…. where do I even begin?

Dumb is bipartisan. Dumb is American. Dumb is fine. DC runs on dumb decisions.

What NONE of them ever did, what is truly, mind-melting, pants-on-head, clown-car-fire, galaxy-brained, lead-paint-chip-eating, 50-IQ-Neanderthal-ripping-a-bong dumb, was pay NGOs by the busload to smuggle tens of millions of people, including actual convicted criminals, across a border we spent trillions pretending to defend, then hand them free four-star hotels, free cell phones, free ATM cards, and a court date in 2031 they were never going to show up for.

That is not a policy. That is a SNL cold open someone forgot to write a punchline for.

A five-year-old with a juice box could tell you that was Bozo-the-Clown-on-crack, Weekend-at-Bernie’s-running-DHS, “hold-my-beer-I’m-gonna-try-something” levels of stupid. My golden retriever could have run a tighter border. A Magic 8-Ball would have outperformed the entire Biden interagency.

That’s the new threshold, Democrats.
That’s the low-water mark. That’s the floor. That is the Mariana Trench of public policy and you personally rented the Titan submersible.

Argue all you want about the Strait of Hormuz. Write your op-eds. Go on cable TV with Tom Nichols. Clutch your pearls about Greenland.

But until Trump proposes something even half as mind-bendingly, bone-crushingly, civilization-forfeitingly brain-dead as what Biden and Kamala did with our borders, I genuinely do not care.

Zero F’s given by me.

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

No Kings explained for people who think they're fighting fascism.

You're standing in a crowd on Saturday. You look around and think yeah. No Kings. This is what democracy looks like.

Bro.

You're holding a sign made by a communist billionaire who lives in Shanghai.

You live in a constitutional republic.

Elections. Term limits. A free press that spent four years calling the president a fascist without one journalist being arrested.

The modern left's definition of fascism:

You love your country? Fascist.

You want to enforce the border? Racist.

You think parents should raise their kids? Bigot.

You want to know who's voting in your elections? Jim Crow.

Being patriotic is fascism to the modern left.

But every country has borders and enforces them. 176 countries require ID to vote. That's the definition of a country.

But the Democratic establishment told you otherwise. And you believed them.

Congress has a 15% approval rating. 80% of Americans disapprove. 97% of incumbents got re-elected.

Chuck Schumer. 46 years. Longer than Stalin.

Steny Hoyer. 45 years. Longer than Mao.

Mitch McConnell. 42 years. 5x more than Napoleon.

Nancy Pelosi. 39 years. Longer than Henry VIII.

Maxine Waters. 35 years. Longer than Mussolini.

Bernie Sanders. 35 years. Triple Hitler's entire reign.

Trump. 5 years and 3 months. Won the popular vote and the electoral vote.

But Trump is the king. Okay buddy.

You don't hate kings. You hate kings that aren't yours.
And Saturday they had you in the streets carrying their water.

The Democratic Party installed a president without letting you vote. Biden quit on a Sunday. By Tuesday your queen was crowned.

No primary. No debate. No ballot. First time since 1968.

Three days before your march every Senate Democrat voted against photo ID to vote.

During COVID you carried a vaccine card everywhere like a hall pass from the government just to eat at a restaurant.

But getting a birth certificate or waiting two hours at the DMV to prove you're a citizen before you vote? That's oppression.

The Democratic Party is pro illegal immigration.

Counts non-citizens in the Census. Census determines congressional seats. More non-citizens means more seats means more power. No voter ID means no way to check.

That's how you keep power without wearing a crown.

Biden built a censorship machine.

Pressured Facebook to suppress true information and admitted it in writing. Censored scientists. Censored doctors. Censored JOKES. The Biden White House told Facebook to remove "humor and satire."

They literally went after people for making fun of them. UK does it better tho...

Everything they censored turned out to be right. They just outsourced the silencing to Silicon Valley.

And it doesn't stop at speech.

The extreme left justifies taking children from families.

Six thousand schools rewrite children's identities without telling parents. And the State has the right to intervene.

The Hitler Youth did this. Mao's Red Guards did this. The Soviets built statues of a child who reported his own father.

Same playbook.

During Covid, your bakery got shut down. Church closed. You couldn't hold your dying mother's hand at the hospital.

But thousands packed together during BLM to burn Minneapolis and THAT was essential civic engagement. Obviously.

$2 billion in damage. 25 dead. 2,000 cops injured. 20 states burning. VP Kamala promoted a bail fund for the rioters. No investigation. No hearings.

January 6. One building. Few hours. 1,000 prosecuted. Two years of televised hearings.

Kings decide which violence counts. The left decided.

Charlie Kirk spent his life walking onto campuses asking for honest debate. He was assassinated.

CSIS terrorism database. 2025 is the first year in 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber right-wing. Yet no one brings this up.

75% of liberal students say preventing a speaker from talking is justified. 27% say violence is acceptable.

Liberals who went to Trump rallies: "I never felt unsafe." "The experience changed me."

Conservatives who show up on liberal campuses get screamed at, blocked, and assassinated.

One side talks. The other side screams.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation marched with you Saturday.

Their stated purpose in their own words: "Revolution." Not reform. Marxism.

The system that killed a hundred million people last century. They had you holding their signs while they said it out loud.

500 groups. $3 billion in revenue. Pre-printed signs. The signs were ready before you were angry.

The money leads to Neville Roy Singham. Billionaire in Shanghai. Attends CCP workshops. Funnels millions through shell companies at UPS mailboxes. Three Congressional committees have subpoenaed him as a suspected CCP foreign agent.

You thought you were fighting for democracy. You were carrying water for Beijing.

"Liberals are leaving the First Amendment behind." Spoken by the ACLU lawyer who defended Nazis in court because it was their constitutional right.

Bill Clinton put 100,000 cops on the street. Reformed welfare. Said illegal immigration is wrong to a standing ovation. Told America the era of big government is over.

Today his own party would call him a fascist.

The 1990s Democrat defended free speech for Nazis. Yours censors doctors for telling the truth.

The 1990s Democrat held open primaries. Yours installed a nominee without a vote.

The 1990s Democrat trusted parents. Yours takes their children.

Historians measure fascism across eight traits. Here's who checks the boxes in 2026:

Censorship of political opposition. Democrats.

Contempt for democratic process. Democrats.

Tolerance of political violence. Democrats.

State ideology forced on families. Democrats.

Corporate-state fusion. Democrats.

Scapegoating and manufactured enemies. Both sides.

Cult of personality. Both sides.

Ultranationalism. Republicans.

Five for the left. One for the right. Two shared.

You marched against kings on Saturday.

You marched FOR kings.

You just didn't know which was which.

Stop being gaslit.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

[doUever think@all @j_douever]

@thehoffather Just who was questioned in this poll? That might be important.

[The Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Kent ‘Opened an Escape Hatch Into a Very Lucrative Pod’

Joe Kent’s claim that Israel directed the U.S. strike on Iran became a nuclear‑level shockwave on the internet because it was made by a former director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center.

Many people believe that Kent’s resignation and his decision to make this statement were preemptive moves, as he knew he was under investigation for leaking classified documents and was about to be dismissed.

“So you would think that, to be sober and judicious, he would simply attend the meetings and try to follow the directives of the elected president. And if he couldn’t do that, he would write a polite letter, say he was in opposition, and step down. But he didn’t.”

@VDHanson said on the newest episode of "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words."
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[doUever think@all @j_douever]

I want to make it clear that I am not disparaging his honorable military service at all. He will always have my highest respect for his service

[doUever think@all @j_douever]

I’ve followed Joe Kent's political career for years—I live in the district he ran to represent, and I voted for him twice.

I always saw him as an honorable, disciplined guy with a strong moral code. As a veteran and Gold Star husband, he seemed to embody the no-nonsense integrity a lot of us want in leaders. I was genuinely pleased when Trump appointed him Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

So when I heard he'd resigned, I wasn't shocked that he might have a differing view from the President—people can disagree in good faith. But reading his resignation letter felt different. It came across more like a public tantrum than a professional exit.

I'm old enough to have left jobs on bad terms a few times. The rule is simple: keep the letter short, polite, non-political. Thank people, state you're moving on, and leave it there. Don't insult your commander-in-chief—especially not while U.S. troops are in the field during active operations.

Kent's letter went further: claiming no imminent threat from Iran, blaming the war on "pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby," and suggesting Trump was misled by a misinformation campaign. Then he doubled down in the Tucker interview.

What bothers me most: this seems to counter a lot of what Kent himself has said and posted about Iran over the past few years. He's long criticized endless Middle East wars, urged avoiding easy targets for Iran, and pushed for letting allies handle their own fights—positions that aligned with "America First."

So why the sudden, public reversal in tone and specifics? Why air it this way, this publicly, at this moment?

Disappointed. I respected the man I thought I knew.

[Barbara M Boyd @BarbaraMBoyd]

WHY IS THE DEEP STATE AND ITS MEDIA ARM GOING AFTER TULSI GABBARD? A thread.

1/ The attacks started the moment she was confirmed as DNI. The NYT, WaPo, Guardian — coordinated barrages. But look at the *pattern* and ask who benefits.

2/ WAVE ONE — THE IRAN TRAP (March 2025): Tulsi testified that the IC assessed Iran was NOT building a nuclear weapon. That is literally her job — she read the community's assessment. It was NOT her personal opinion. But the press plastered it everywhere to wedge her from Trump.

3/ WAVE TWO — THE WHISTLEBLOWER SMEAR (Feb 2026): The Guardian and NYT ran coordinated stories claiming Tulsi 'hid' a complaint for 8 months. Tulsi fired back: the IG found the complaint NOT CREDIBLE. Sen. Tom Cotton: 'just another smear campaign.' She followed the law. Every. Single. Time.

4/ WAVE THREE — JOE KENT (March 2026): Tulsi appointed Kent to lead NCTC. This same man spent YEARS warning Iran was a major threat. Then he abruptly quits, does a Tucker Carlson tour, and NOW says Iran is no threat and Trump was 'dragged into war by Israel.' An about-face so complete it's almost choreographed.

The press immediately tied the Kent chaos back to TULSI — not to Kent.

5/ WHY TULSI? Because while all this noise was being made, she was quietly doing THIS:

✅ Declassified JFK, RFK & MLK files
✅ Released proof Obama's team MANUFACTURED the Russia hoax ICA
✅ Declassified Biden-era docs labeling political dissidents as 'domestic extremists'
✅ Cut ODNI bloat by 40%, saving $700M/year
✅ Revoked clearances of Clapper, Brennan-linked figures
✅ Investigating Crossfire Hurricane, COVID origins, election security

6/ THE DNI HAS UNIQUE DECLASSIFICATION POWER. No other cabinet official can do what she's doing. She is the only person in government with the authority and the will to expose the institutional criminality of the intelligence community — and they know it.

7/ Joe Kent didn't embarrass himself. He was deployed as a heat-seeking missile aimed at Tulsi — to give the media a 'Gabbard chaos' narrative, create distance between her and Trump, and pressure her resignation before she finishes the job.

8/ The London press, the NYT, the WaPo — none of them are covering what she's actually DONE. They're covering the noise designed to stop her.

Tulsi Gabbard is directly over the target. That's why every gun is pointing at her.

[doUever think@all @j_douever]

@thehoffather @realbillbruch Didn’t the Seattle Times hate Joe Kent like just 3 days ago?

[doUever think@all @j_douever]

@PattyMurray It is the only reason Patty Murray has been in office since dinosaurs roamed the earth. Of course she doesn’t want to end voter fraud

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

I'm going to fucking say it, because someone bloody needs to.

It doesn’t matter if you bled in Fallujah, commanded battalions in Kandahar, or pinned on stars while the Republic still believed in you.

It doesn’t matter if you can recite the Ranger Creed backward in your sleep or if your chest rattles with enough ribbons to blind a lesser man.

None of it registers.

Not one goddamn second of it.

Because the moment you choose betrayal...any flavor of it, whether selling out the Constitution for a foreign handler, leaking secrets to the highest bidder, or simply kneeling before the domestic machine that hollows this nation from the inside...you ceased to be a soldier.

You became pathology incarnate.

A metastatic cell in the body politic.

The kind of rot that history names once and then spits on forever:

Benedict Arnold with modern camouflage and a pension.

The same fractured ego that once let you swear the oath..."I will support and defend… against all enemies, foreign and domestic”...is the exact fracture that later rationalizes selling that oath for power, relevance, or thirty pieces of silver.

You didn’t slip.

You didn’t “evolve.”

You revealed the predator wiring that was always there, waiting for the right incentive to flip.

Loyalty isn’t a skill set you list on LinkedIn; it is the existential core of the warrior.

When that core collapses, everything else...tactics, leadership, courage...becomes costume.

A well-decorated lie.

And you become seen for what you are:

vectors of treason.

Your “experience” is irrelevant data.

Your scars? Just scar tissue over a soul already necrotic.

Your stories around the fire? Propaganda for the naïve.

The only metric left is the single, irrevocable act of betrayal, and it stains every frame of your existence like blood that never dries.

This isn’t politics. This isn’t opinion.

This is the cold, lethal arithmetic of survival.

Nations die when their guardians become their gravediggers.

You betrayed the Republic.
That is the only epitaph you will ever deserve.

The rest is just noise from a dead man walking.

🗡️💀⚖️

[@amuse @amuse]

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[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

You can disagree with the decision to strike Iran. Fine. You can ask hard questions about execution and costs. That’s your job. Nobody wants cheerleaders.

But once American troops are in the field, your job is to look at the actual evidence, do the actual thinking, and give your audience an honest assessment. Not Iranian state media. Not Russian talking points that somehow keep finding their way into America First spaces. The real evidence. The public briefings. The confirmed reporting. You do the reading, you do the analysis, and you tell people what you actually found.

There is a difference between a conservative who honestly disagrees with this president and someone who has decided their brand and their engagement matter more than the outcome of a war Americans are dying in right now.

One of those people is doing honest work. The other one has picked a side and it isn’t America’s.

You don’t get to wrap yourself in the flag, call yourself a Trump supporter, build an audience on the back of the America First movement, and then use that platform to seed discord and doubt during a live military operation for your personal desired objectives. No matter what they are.

We see you all.

[Promethean Action @PrometheanActn]

🚨 NEW: While every talking head screams "Iraq 2.0," @barbaramboyd explains what they'll NEVER tell you — 118 years of British financial control over Iran, and why Trump just struck the last piece on the Empire's chessboard.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

What if the real power of Trump's State of the Union lies not in the "what" or "how," but in his unbreakable "why"? Drawing from Simon Sinek's "Start with Why," I dive into five core motivations from last night's address, rooted in love for America and its people, and connect them to our lives. It's a call to action for conservatives: Get out and vote red this November midterms to preserve that vision.

Time to read: 6 minutes

#TrumpSOTU #StartWithWhy #ConservativeValues #VoteRed #Midterms2026 #AmericaFirst

@GOP
@SenateGOP
@HouseGOP
@MikeCollinsGA
@DavidClarkGA

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

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[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

Im going to try to explain something and I'll probably screw it up because people tend to allow their emotions to guide them when it comes to subjects like this.

There are certain people in public life who are very intelligent or at least think they are very intelligent.

Many of those people know exactly what to say and what buttons to push for people to follow them, and make no mistake, what they say sounds really good.

Their words hit all the right synapses in your brain and you end up agreeing with and supporting them because you feel like they are supporting you and your beliefs.

However, several of these people don't mean a word of it. They say these sweet little nothings in public but in private they are saying and doing something else.

People like this are the ones I can't stand and when they are outed many of their followers will stick with them because they are invested or it will cause cognitive dissociation to abandon someone they have grown to like or trust.

Granted, some of the difference between the public perfect person they present and the private normal person is just removing some of the gloss or makeup and shouldnt be a cause for a mass exodus.

However, there are many who are night and day compared to who they present themselves to be and who they really are. These individuals should be shunned as quickly as possible.

Even if they continue to say what you want to hear, they need to be excised from your life, if not you are tarred with their private persona not just their public persona.

It's probably not a coincidence that many of these people try to "out" others who they think must be doing the same or get people to believe their leaders are indeed two faced. It's these people's go-to line of attack.

On the other side of the coin, these two faced people will be the first to defend others of their kind that they are friends with in private and try to make you believe the ones exposing them are lying or part of some plot like say a jewish cabal.

It's a mess because no one is the exact same person in public as they are in private. It's just the way of the world. The best way I've found to know the difference is to not just listen to what they say, but pay attention to what they do. Don't be distracted by their words, concentrate on their deeds.

We are seeing several people's private persona exposed in real time and the deeds and words they did and said behind closed doors. Don't look away.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

The real reason Trump keeps beating the media at its own game | Mark Halperin, Fox News

There are many reasons why covering Donald Trump is the journalistic challenge of a lifetime.

His temperament. His velocity. His volume. The sheer fact that he can generate three news cycles before most reporters have finished their first cup of coffee.

But there is one explanation that is often overlooked, and it may be the most important of all: Donald Trump understands the business of news better than any modern president — better, in many cases, than the people who work in it.

That may sound surprising. It shouldn’t.

Trump did not grow up in politically friendly territory. Things were different for him before he entered the campaign world as a Republican. As a businessman and then a reality TV star, Trump luxuriated in dishy and usually aggrandizing gossip items, including in the August columns of New York Post legend Cindy Adams. His friendly, bantering relations with the press helped turn him into a larger-than-life figure.

But that all changed when he joined the political fray. Like George W. Bush before him, Trump learned how the press really works in a hostile environment. He was never granted automatic goodwill. He was rarely given the benefit of the doubt. He had to study the system, test it, provoke it, and sometimes fight it just to survive.

So he learned.

And he learned well.

Trump treat the media it as a rival, a foil, a stage and a punching bag. He studies it like a brilliant Ph.D. student. He probes it like a boxer testing defenses.

Other recent presidents — Democrats Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden — operated in a media climate that, while not always gentle, was structurally sympathetic. They were criticized, yes. But they were also understood. Interpreted generously. Given time. Granted patience. Their mistakes were often softened by context and explanation.

Trump never had that luxury.

So long before he descended the escalator in 2015 — long before rallies, red hats and chants — he was paying attention. Watching. Noticing patterns. Studying how stories were framed. Who was treated as "serious." Who was treated as "dangerous." Which narratives stuck. Which faded. Which sins were forgiven. Which were never forgotten.

And he reached some conclusions.

He saw, first, a cultural bias — not necessarily in every article or every reporter, but in the air newsrooms breathe. In assumptions about what is normal and what is radical. In who is presumed reasonable and who is presumed reckless. Conservatives, he concluded, were playing uphill — and tens of millions of Americans knew it. It made them angry.

He saw, second, elitism: newsrooms clustered in a handful of coastal cities; journalists with similar educations, similar friends and similar politics. The press spoke endlessly about "ordinary Americans" while growing more distant from them every year. It struggled to grasp why illegal immigration worried so many families or why trade deals felt like personal losses in factory towns.

He saw, third, a broken business model: newspapers and networks that missed the digital revolution; revenues shrinking; newsrooms shrinking; panic setting in. A few outlets found lifelines. Most did not. Layoffs became routine. Survival became uncertain.

And from these three problems flowed the fourth: collapsing trust.

When audiences see bias, distance and desperation, confidence erodes. And once credibility is gone, it is almost impossible to restore.

Here is the great irony:

When Trump began attacking the media for these flaws, he did not fix them. He intensified them.

His criticism put news organizations on the defensive. They closed ranks. They hardened. They became more ideological, more insular, more brittle. Every attack convinced them they must be doing something right. Often, it meant the opposite.

Trump, meanwhile, turned his feud with the press into a permanent political weapon.

Before him, Republicans sometimes complained about coverage. But Trump transformed grievance into theater. He did not merely dispute stories. He made the media itself a character in his drama — the villain, always lurking, always scheming.

With humor. With ridicule. With exaggeration. With showmanship.

And it worked.

It still works.

This was never accidental.

Behind the scenes, Trump and his advisers learned the incentives of modern journalism. They know which outlets crave clicks. Which reporters thrive on conflict. Which controversies spread fastest. Which phrases become headlines. Which outrages travel farthest.

They understand the machinery.

They know how to trigger it. How to flood it. How to redirect it. How to exhaust it.

They know that outrage is oxygen. That conflict is currency. That attention is power.

And they know their supporters love watching it all unfold.

Criticism becomes proof of persecution. Coverage becomes confirmation of importance. Attacks become fuel.

Knowledge, in politics, is power. And Trump’s knowledge of the media has given him power — over the press and over his own movement.

He plays the system as it exists, not as journalists wish it were.

He understands that modern news is part information, part entertainment, part combat sport. He understands that narratives matter more than footnotes. That emotion beats nuance. That speed beats reflection.

So he moves fast. He moves loud. He moves relentlessly.

For reporters and news organizations, this is the real challenge:

Not simply covering what Trump says and does — but covering someone who understands their industry’s financial, cultural and psychological vulnerabilities and presses on them constantly.

Every weakness becomes leverage. Every habit becomes a pressure point.

Trump is not just running against and competing against Democrats.

He is running against and competing against the media.

He treats it as a rival, a foil, a stage and a punching bag. He studies it like a brilliant Ph.D. student. He probes it like a boxer testing defenses.

And he knows exactly where it is fragile and vulnerable.

In an age when trust is scarce and attention is priceless, that knowledge may be his greatest political asset.

Better than any president in modern history — perhaps better than almost anyone in public life today — Donald Trump understands how the news business really works.

And he knows how to use that understanding to his advantage.

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