Jeff Franzius

[John Schindler @20committee]

"Since the DNI’s creation two decades ago, CIA viewed it as taking over its turf, while worrying that the DNI might usurp ever more Agency missions and prerogatives over time. Gabbard, intentionally or not, made CIA’s case for it with her incompetence and irrelevance."

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[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Bill Pulte is completely unqualified to lead our intelligence agencies, yet Trump is backing him anyway.

That says everything you need to know about how seriously Trump takes our national security.

[The Hill @thehill]

Warner introduces bill to require Senate-confirmed acting DNIs in wake of Pulte controversy
https://t.co/E5iC9yQAlj

[Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn @GunterFehlinger]

Cry us a river

[TheSteadyState @steadystate2025]

Democracy can only endure when equal opportunity, equal protection, and public trust are real in people’s lives, because exclusion and inequality create openings for authoritarianism. For more on democratic renewal and the promise of equal opportunity, read Russ Travers’ Common Sense: Take 2 on Amazon.

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[TheSteadyState @steadystate2025]

Every intelligence professional Pulte sidelines makes us less safe and leaves more power in the hands of a loyalist whose only qualification is a track record of doing Trump’s political dirty work.

https://t.co/EzX08dAkkp

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Tulsi Gabbard was sent by one cult to serve another, but she was ultimately sabotaging the West on behalf of Russia. That is called treason

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

"How could the United States Senate confirm Tulsi Gabbard? How could it confirm Pete Hegseth? How could it confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? How could it confirm Kash Patel? The answer is as depressing as it is obvious because courage has become scarce."

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[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Shortly before Putin had him murdered in front of the Kremlin, Boris Nemtsov predicted Putin would become the monster that he is today, and that after the Russian people tire of isolation and war, they will finally rid themselves of him.

[TheSteadyState @steadystate2025]

The law itself has been repurposed to reward those who break it for the president, and to punish those who oppose him. @IAmPoliticsGirl

[Larry Pfeiffer @LarryPfeifferDC]

Only the best people. A long read, but strongly suggests heavy outside influence or even control of former DNI and Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard by a controversial religious sect.

GIFT: https://t.co/BV6SZbxWr4

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

Meet Yuriy Yaschenko. He holds a Ukrainian passport and has a hefty criminal record there, but has lived in Russia and has fought against Ukraine since Donbas was invaded in 2014.
These days his job is to parade around Canada and yell racist slurs at locals, promising to kill them all alongside the "Banderites" he hates.
All while waving a Ukrainian passport at everyone - clearly seeking to denigrate all Ukrainians.
To his mostly Russian - and largely sympathetic - audience on TikTok (he got nearly 1 m likes under a video in which he yelled incredibly offensive racist insults at a minority shop assistant) he describes the terrible life and absence of basic rights in Canada. The country that let him abuse their emergency visa exemption for Ukrainian refugees - whom he personally vows to kill.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

A traitor who takes orders from a fringe religious guru was the Director of National Intelligence for 15 months.

The newly exposed reality of Tulsi Gabbard's compromised leadership is a massive blow to American security.

For years, critics warned about Tulsi Gabbard's alarming ties to Chris Butler and his Hawaii-based sect. Now, a massive trove of leaked emails and internal memos has proven the worst-case scenario.

The documents reveal a systematic pipeline where Gabbard was told exactly what to post, what legislation to introduce, and how to frame her media appearances. Her political career was essentially manufactured and guided by a group that former members explicitly describe as an abusive cult.

It explains so much about her baffling political trajectory. This is the same person who consistently parroted pro-Russian propaganda, carried water for brutal regimes, and actively worked to undermine Western alliances from within the highest levels of government.

Donald Trump's decision to appoint a compromised asset to the role of Director of National Intelligence is pure betrayal of American interests. It goes beyond simple bad judgment. Elevating a compromised figure under the total control of a cult leader is as traitorous as it gets

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

🚨🚨🚨A standing ovation for the Washington Post, @wapo . 👏👏👏

You spent a full year investigating whether America's Director of National Intelligence, the woman with access to every classified secret this country has, was being directed by a cult leader who got busted for pyramid schemes in multiple countries.

And you held it until she resigned?

This same cult leader, Chris Butler, has his sect directly tied to QI Group (QNET), a Hong Kong-based company with operations across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

So the real question: Which countries now have access to our national intelligence? Which of our spy names are compromised?

And let's not forget, this is the same Tulsi Gabbard who used her position to do a coordinated hit job on Dr. Fauci, a man who spent his entire life saving Americans.

Imagine if this story dropped while she still had her hands on our nation's secrets.

Our press and mainstream media are failing us at every level.

https://t.co/XHlqQZnSNx

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

🚨🚨🚨WHERE IS OUR PRESS ON THIS?

A woman told the FBI in 2021 that two men were openly roaming Trump Tower recruiting women to go upstairs and have sex with Trump.

She said one winked at her and told her Trump could "fulfill any of her desires." 🤢

When she said no, they handed her an invitation to a party at Jeffrey Epstein's house to meet Trump there.

She watched the same men approach other women, mostly blondes, 15 / 16 years old, for six straight months.

When she refused? They threatened her, told her they knew where she worked.

Imagine if this was Obama or Biden. It would never leave our TV screens.

But it's Trump, so let's move on from one shiny object to another.

Woman Told FBI Trump Tried to Recruit Her From His Tower https://t.co/nMV5RK6oBs via @YahooNews

[Jeff Franzius @jk55044]

Just a friendly reminder. Don't let "them" fool you.

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[Jeff Franzius @jk55044]

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[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: What Russians do is they put out not one lie, but million lies, or not one explanation, but one after another.

It's a propaganda technique. They just flood people with massive, contradictory stories, and sooner or later, people won't pay attention to anything at all.

And there's so much information all the time that people eventually just tune out, and they say, "I don't know what's true, I don't know what's not true, I don't believe anything, I'm not going to engage in this issue, I'm not going to get angry about it, I just don't want to know anything at all."

[Open Society Foundations @OpenSociety]

“If we want to stop future wars, we must punish the states and their political and military leadership for starting them,” writes Oleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina).

In modern history we have only one precedent: the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials following World War II. Subsequent tribunals focused on war crimes but not the act of planning and initiating war.

While Nuremberg and Tokyo were an essential step toward establishing accountability and justice in the last century, they have created the impression that justice is a privilege of the winners of a settled conflict. But justice is not a bonus— it is an essential human right.

In May, 36 countries and the European Union committed to joining a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. The efforts were supported by the Center for Civil Liberties (@ccl_ua), the Ukrainian human rights organization led by Matviichuk.

“We must break the circle of impunity and establish a special tribunal on aggression to hold them accountable, not just for people in Ukraine, but in order to prevent a next Russian attack to the next nation.”

[Nicolas Tenzer @NTenzer]

Advice to the russian occupiers of Crimea: get out while you still can. You’re stuck!
No one forgets that you've deprived the Ukrainians of their property.
Crimea will be liberated and international law will be restored.
The Ukrainian flag will fly over Simferopol—and Sevastopol.

[Jeff Franzius @jk55044]

Russia conducting hybrid warfare against Europe and the west including America, while Trump does nothing to penalize Putin and Russia for "any" of these attacks. In fact, Trump rewards Putin and calls him a genius for invading Ukraine and hangs pictures of Putin at the WhiteHouse

[European Parliament @Europarl_EN]

The EU will not be intimidated by Russia.

Russia is trying to destabilise the EU, using drones, violating airspace and spreading disinformation.

Parliament says: the EU stands in solidarity with countries which have been targeted and will defend its security.