Matthew Carter

Ohio native and West Virginia resident.

[TreVeyon Henderson @TreVeyonH4]

To the broken, to the lost, to the undeserving, there’s hope In Jesus. Repent and believe in The Gospel(Good News).

“But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.”
Isaiah 53:5-6

[SharrellAnne @SharrellAnne2]

Gold Star wife here.

When ISIS killed your wife, you supported going after the people responsible. You understood exactly why we were fighting and never called it “Israel’s war.”

My husband, Alan, was killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq. And now, after decades, the fight is finally leading back to the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

You understood it when it was your loss. Now you’re minimizing it when it’s mine.

You don’t get to redefine this war just because it’s not your grief anymore.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Brad Duplessis,

You pre-emptively blocked me here on 𝕏, so I am forced to make this "Hello" a standalone post.

You are a retired Army infantry officer. You served in Iraq and Afghanistan. You graduated from the National War College in 2018. You are now an Assistant Professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Thank you for your service.

But reputations are not defined by resumes. They are defined by choices.

Today, you chose to doxx @CynicalPublius.

Today, you published your debut article on War on the Rocks. You published his legal name. His profession. His pseudonym. All in one sentence. Indexed, archived, permanently searchable.

You have changed the course of his life forever, and revealed him to the leftist ghouls who will demand his blood for forever. It doesn't matter if he was planning to reveal his identity eventually. You still made that choice. And I will make sure you are remembered for this.

So, what was CP's sin such that you saw it fit to throw him to the wolves?

Last month, he dared to write an article for American Greatness, centered around nine recommendations for War College reform. The recommendations included firing most civilian faculty and ending permanent military faculty positions.

You hold a permanent civilian faculty position at a War College. You did not mention this in your article.

In short, you named him, exposed his life to danger, because you really are arguing for your job and self-preservation.

Know what is the most disgusting, hypocritical part of this is?

In the Fall 2017 issue of eARMOR (the U.S. Army Armor Branch professional journal) you published an article. You titled it "Our Readiness Problem: Brigade Combat Team Lethality." You opened with General Milley: "Our fundamental task is like no other — it is to win in the unforgiving crucible of ground combat." Your thesis: "If we are to get after GEN Milley's No. 1 priority, we must first address brigade combat team (BCT) lethality." The word "lethality" appears in your article about fifty times. You meant it as a compliment.

Now contrast to today's piece. You wrote this: "In staking out this Huntingtonian position, the cult of lethality does a disservice to service members and the American people."

The same word. Nine years apart. You were a field commander then, and lethality was the mission. You are a faculty member now, and lethality is what your critics embarrassingly worship.

Frankly - and you will never realize this - but you yourself are the living, walking example of the thesis which @PeteHegseth is proving.

Also, you named a section of today's article after Colin Powell. You called him your model of what War College education produces. Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama in 2008, endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, and publicly called Donald Trump "dangerous for our democracy." Powell, who infamously tipped the scales at the UN to start the Iraq war even after privately doubting the WMD intelligence, is your hero in an article about who gets to reform the military in 2026.

In addition to being a doxxer, you look a lot less like someone who's defending institutions, and a lot more like someone who exemplifies institutional capture in the name of self-preservation. And you disclosed none of it.

Let me reiterate.

@CynicalPublius wrote under a pseudonym and identified himself as a retired Army colonel with Afghanistan and Iraq experience. He argued about curriculum policy. You responded by putting his name on the internet.

Your career depends on the institutions you are defending. Your article defending those institutions is the same article that ended his anonymity.

You taught your students about the instruments of national power, Professor Duplessis. You are now a living, breathing demonstration one of them. And why reform must happen.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Professor Nichols,

You spent twenty-five years at the Naval War College. You taught the officers who would go on to run America's wars. Famously, you never served in any of them.

In February 2003, you were at your desk in Newport when you wrote this, about Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations: “There is only one thing to say about Secretary Powell’s presentation at the U.N.: If this doesn’t do it, nothing will.” You were confident. You were expert. You were wrong. You acknowledged this twenty years later in The Atlantic — the invasion was, in your own words, “one of the greatest geopolitical disasters in American history.”

You wrote that from the same institution you are now defending.

The Senior Service Colleges produced the officers who managed the Afghanistan withdrawal. General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. General Kenneth McKenzie, CENTCOM commander. On September 28, 2021, both testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that they had recommended keeping 2,500 troops in Afghanistan.

The recommendation was not followed. They did not resign or say a word publicly. Then 13 American service members died at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021. Only after that did they testify.

Your response, in The Atlantic, August 16, 2021: “Afghanistan Is Your Fault.”

Not the generals your institutions trained and credentialed. Not the curriculum that built the career-preserving, NSC-deferring officer class that drove those decisions to their conclusion. The American public, with our short attention span and our SUVs.

General Milley, whose career your institution shaped, secretly called his PLA counterpart twice, October 30, 2020 and January 8, 2021, and assured him the US would not strike China, and that Milley would warn him personally if an attack were ordered. You wrote “Trump Put Milley in an Impossible Position.”

That's not all. Secretary Austin concealed a cancer diagnosis from the White House and Congress for weeks while incapacitated; the DoD Inspector General documented it. At his farewell address in September 2023, Milley publicly called his former commander-in-chief a “wannabe dictator.”

You found none of this worth a column.

Anthony Tata is a retired Brigadier General. He commanded forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He led soldiers in both wars. And now he has been asked to conduct a 90-day curriculum review of the Senior Service Colleges. Your objection is that he lacks the credentials for the job.

You wrote a whole book about credentials. The foundational knowledge of the average American is, in your assessment, “plummeting to aggressively wrong.” Institutions must be insulated from the ignorant. Expertise must not be questioned by those who haven’t earned it.

The men who earned your institution’s credentials - over twenty-plus years of your tenure - presided over two of the longest military failures in American history. They managed those failures in line with everything the War Colleges taught them: subordinate military judgment to civilian direction, preserve the relationship, testify about it later. They retired with honors.

That is what "expertise" means to you.

The question Pete Hegseth is asking isn't whether the War Colleges have credentials. It's whether the credentials mean anything. After twenty-five years on your faculty training generals who only know how to lose war, Professor Nichols, you are the wrong man to answer that.

[Jimmy’s Famous Seafood @JimmysSeafood]

@nytimes @TheAthletic Go fuck yourself

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Mitch McConnell is a no vote on the SAVE ACT.

Over 90% of his constituents would vote yes.

But his owners don’t want it.

Can’t barely walk.
Has no clue where he is.

Everything wrong with politics.

Congress was not meant to be a crooked nursing home.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Hoffman,

Your wording that “FBI cleared me” as opposed to “I’ve got a clear conscience” did not go unnoticed.

To that end…. Guess what?

Have you been following all those OpenClaw posts on social media and what a game changer it is?

Yeah, I’ve been relatively quiet not for lack of effort, but because I’ve been hard at work automating myself using OpenClaw. Not for the boring (and socially risky) use cases of social media or email monitoring. No, I set to build a full-fledged research assistant that has access to FEC records, 990s, and has a strict entity resolution pipeline. Every question I ask it, it gets smarter because it automatically rolls in its own discoveries to the various graph databases it has.

One of the problems in tracking money flows is that the same funders have multiple pass-through sources. Which means that any given nonprofit will often have an intractable money flow graph with thousands of nodes.

So naturally… one of the first things I did with OpenClaw was to identify root funder philanthropies and group them. This was a completely unsupervised process. That grouping alone eliminated 80%+ of edge/node traversals because the big families love obscuring their own trails. Just look at how many foundations Pierre Omidyar owns.

And wouldn’t you know it? OpenClaw identifies YOU among one of the 30-ish root funding mega-rich families ruining this country.

Exact report:

• Aphorism Foundation (EIN 46-4347021) — $68M across 51 grants (2022-2023). His and Michelle Yee's main charitable vehicle. Top recipients: Stanford ($10M), New America Foundation ($4.2M), Chan Zuckerberg Biohub ($4M), MIT ($1.8M), Harvard ($1.5M)

• Apercen Partners LLC (EIN 83-1589303 / 83-3181719) — Two c4 entities, $1.85M out. President/Chair. Recipients:

• Rapid Resist Action ($755K) — anti-Trump rapid response
• IPI Action Fund ($500K)
• VoteAmerica ($250K)
• Catalist ($200K) — Democratic voter data firm
• Grab Your Wallet ($100K) — Trump boycott org
• More Perfect Union Action ($45K)
BOARD SEATS:
• Lever for Change (EIN 83-3044655) — MacArthur Foundation affiliate, $20M budget. Director 2020-2023
• Kiva — microfinance platform (board member)
• Endeavor Global — entrepreneur network
• B Lab — B Corp certifier (also gets $1M from Aphorism)

KEY GRANTEES WORTH NOTING:
• New America Foundation — $4.2M. Major think tank, Google-linked
• Center of Complex Interventions — $3.2M. Behavioral research
• UBI Charitable — $1M. Universal basic income advocacy
• Cortico — $1M. "Constructive dialogue" / media narrative tech
• Mercatus Center — $360K. Libertarian-leaning (George Mason)
• Players Philanthropy Fund — $1M. Fiscal sponsor (like Tides)
• Aspen Institute UK — $307K

Sooooo…. If all this is right… then..:

You’re adjacent to the powers that be which have been in control of the entire Western world for a century, and thus are responsible for its failure.

You don’t get to squirm your way out of this.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Trump could tell Modi today: End the scam farms or all visas will be pulled immediately. This would be the most popular move in political history.

[Kenny Powers🇺🇸 @Kenn_Fn_Powers]

How the gas station cashier looks at me after I tell her the toilets clogged:

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

1. Turn over all incarcerated or active warrant criminal illegal aliens for immediate deportation.

2. Transfer all criminal illegal aliens arrested by state and local police.

3. Assist federal authorities in detaining criminal illegal aliens wanted for crimes.

4. Democrats must work with the federal government in the rapid removal of all criminal illegal aliens.

It's that simple. End the chaos.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

"We really want illegal aliens to vote in elections and will riot to ensure that it is so."

[Huff @Huff4Congress]

The prompts were simple.

First, I told ⁦@grok⁩ to look at every single Amelia meme on the Internet.

Second, I said: “Become Amelia, then make a video and tell the British people what you want them to know.”

Here’s the surprising result.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

BREAKING: The Trump Administration announces the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, putting REAL FOOD back at the center of health. 🇺🇸

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[JD Vance @JDVance]

You see a lot claims that Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs because most of the fentanyl comes from elsewhere. I want to address this:

First off, fentanyl isn't the only drug in the world and there is still fentanyl coming from Venezuela (or at least there was).

Second, cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the Latin America cartels. If you cut out the money from cocaine (or even reduce it) you substantially weaken the cartels overall. Also, cocaine is bad too!

Third, yes, a lot of fentanyl is coming out of Mexico. That continues to be a focus of our policy in Mexico and is a reason why President Trump shut the border on day one.

Fourth, I see a lot of criticism about oil. About 20 years ago, Venezuela expropriated American oil property and until recently used that stolen property to get rich and fund their narcoterrorist activities. I understand the anxiety over the use of military force, but are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don't act like that.

The United States, thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a great power again. Everyone should take note.

[Banished Kent @kentbanishearl]

“Oh I’m afraid the Monroe Doctrine is still quite operational…”

[𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 @BengalsCaptain]

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[Cincinnati Bengals @Bengals]

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