NicE

Family. Freedom. TRUTH. #AssangeFree

[Jamel Holley @jamelholley]

I guess I’ll be the one to say the quiet part out loud.

While progressive Democratic officials express such deep concern about conditions at Delaney Hall, let me offer a reminder.

The very same officials oversee and are directly responsible for state and county jails and prisons facilities they actually control that suffer from serious, longstanding problems of their own.

Mercer County Corrections Center (Lambertville) Inmates and advocates have filed multiple lawsuits detailing complaints like moldy cells, fly infestations, unsanitary water, and scalding showers.

Northern State Prison (Newark)
State watchdogs reported high rates of self harm, isolated confinement issues, and dozens of staff inmate assaults in its disciplinary housing units

Passaic County Jail (Paterson)
The facility has been the subject of class action lawsuits and complaints concerning living conditions and brutal treatment of inmates.

Bayside State Prison (Leesburg)
State investigations highlighted complaints of excessive force by corrections officers and improper internal handling of those reports.

Somerset County Jail (Somerville)
Cited for violating the Dignity Act and failing to properly document checks on suicide risk detainees.

South Woods State Prison (Bridgeton) & New Jersey State Prison (Trenton)
As the state's largest lockups, they are consistently primary sources of complaints regarding missing property, drugs, and medical care.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

I'm replying to your post from yesterday: "Despite Democrats' partisan games, we're still going to get the entire federal government funded."

Today, you sent the Senate home... not because of Democrats. Because of you.

Here's what actually happened.

On May 18, the DOJ announced an Anti-Weaponization Fund: $1.776 billion to compensate Americans harmed by Biden-era DOJ abuse. Your own caucus revolted. After a two-hour closed-door meeting, you departed for Memorial Day recess without a vote. ICE and CBP funding, punted to June 1. The "partisan games," it turns out, were yours.

Your stated objections: no congressional authorization, no eligibility standards, no legal precedent, executive overreach. Fine. But let's talk about November 2025, when you tucked a provision into the government funding bill.

The FBI had quietly seized phone records from eight Republican senators without notice, under an investigation codenamed "Arctic Frost."

Your provision gave those senators, and only those senators, $500,000 per violation, retroactive to 2022. The House voted 426-0 to repeal it.

The critics weren't opposed to compensating victims of DOJ abuse. They were opposed to senators compensating themselves while doing no other structural reforms.

Lindsey Graham held the Senate hostage to preserve it. He delayed a spending deal in January 2026 to secure a floor vote on his revised version.

Let's put the two columns next to each other:

➤ DOJ abused senators: $500K/violation payout, senators only, no hearings, no process, no eligibility debate, no floor vote on substance.

➤ DOJ abused Americans: "very legitimate questions," two-hour meeting, Senate goes home, reconciliation punted, June 1 deadline in jeopardy.

You told Punchbowl News you "did not personally see a need for this fund."

You personally saw a need for the fund when the targets were you.

Go cry harder to your Punchbowl friends @JakeSherman and @AndrewDesiderio, because at this rate, they'll soon become the only people who are buying what you're selling.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨ARTICLE: The Shadow Cabinet of Soros🚨

This is the story of National Security Action, a secretive Soros NGO.

Ten days after Trump's inauguration, a former Pentagon official publicly floated a military coup in Foreign Policy magazine. Within a year, she was advising a new Soros-funded organization that quietly assembled 70 former Obama national security officials under one roof.

46 of them went on to staff the Biden administration -- including the Secretary of State, CIA Director, DNI, NSA, and UN Ambassador. 88.6% were Obama alumni. The primary funder: the Open Society Action Fund.

The same woman simultaneously sat on the funder's board and the organization's advisory council. She also co-founded the Transition Integrity Project and spent 14 years at New America developing doctrine on military refusal of orders.

Read it here.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

REMINDER:

The worst scandal in U.S. history is the Trump/Russia Collusion Hoax.

This was literally a coup attempt, executed by a sitting incumbent President (to block his successor) and the losing Presidential candidate (to overthrow the man who defeated her in a fair election).

WORST

SCANDAL

IN

U.S.

HISTORY.

And we are all so used to the crazy things the Democrats try to do that we lose sight of the sheer, awful magnitude of this scandal.

[NicE @nutsifiedwrld]

@shawnjvandiver @DataRepublican Didn’t see it mentioned in your critical above post. Nice try.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

https://t.co/6lV37e01xB

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I’m up in the middle of the night and am about to go back to sleep. But seeing the news of this pilot being rescued after one of the most daring rescue operations in history has me motivated beyond belief.

To the media and the haters who’ve been obsessed with palace intrigue stories. Trying to sow division and calling for the heads of our leaders. I hope this news hurts. I hope it hurts a lot.

I have my finger on the pulse of the information machine these days. And what I’ve seen over the past 48 hours is the weaponization of said machine.

Bots, grifters, and partisan hacks all working in unison literally rooting for our failure. Rabid. Drooling. Damn near praying to satan for our own pilot to be killed or captured.

Hyenas, the lot of them. All cheering against America.

While they’ve all been groaning like demons for the heads of our leaders and warriors, people like @PeteHegseth, @SeanParnellASW and others have just been busily…. doing the job to get our guy back.

Nothing I type here will matter at 0300. But when the world wakes up in a few hours, it’ll see the fruits of merit based leadership at echelon. All the way down the chain.

An Airman safely home after evading capture for over a day. An epic rescue that will be remembered for generations. Millions inspired by the shear power and conviction of the United States military. And millions more disappointed by it, because they were praying for our national embarrassment.

I’m not sorry you’re witnessing a competent war machine in action.

I’m not sorry that our leadership will never leave anyone behind.

I’m not sorry for any hurt feelings caused by this.

Because you were never on our team anyway.

God Bless America.🇺🇸

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

[Dawn Fantasia @DawnFantasia_NJ]

Yesterday during the budget address, we heard over a dozen times that @POTUS is the reason for NJ's financial problems.

Then @GovSherrillNJ shared an American Dream story: a union worker helping build the Gateway Tunnel. Hard-working guy. Union labor. Successfully putting his kids through college.

That IS a great story, but there was one fatal flaw. He lives in Pennsylvania…BECAUSE HE CANT AFFORD TO LIVE IN NJ.

Now fact check me here — I could be wrong — but I think Donald Trump is also the President in Pennsylvania?

When your own success story has to move to PA to survive your policies, the problem isn’t Washington.

It's you.

[NicE @nutsifiedwrld]

@LeaderJohnThune @DHSgov Average American here. Not paid. Stop posting, do your job and Pass the SAVE Act!

[NicE @nutsifiedwrld]

@LeaderJohnThune Pass the SAVE Act!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Thune needs to sings a different tune

[LHGrey™️ @grey4626]

In the gilded theater of the Senate, where corporate puppeteers pull strings from the wings of K Street, one witnesses the exquisite choreography of captured journalism.

Behold Andrew Desiderio, senior sentinel at Punchbowl News...the very organ whose lifeblood flows from nearly ninety percent corporate sponsorships, those trade groups and multinationals whose fortunes hinge on the whims of the Majority Leader’s gavel.

Their premium subscribers, the sleek lobbyists of PhRMA, ExxonMobil, JPMorgan, and the rest, do not merely read the news; they purchase front-row seats to it.

Witness “Fly Out Day,” that exclusive ritual taped in Punchbowl’s own townhouse, peddled as an “insider’s first look” for the anointed.

Its second-ever guest?

None other than Senator John Thune himself, back in September 2025, lounging in the very chair from which policy is whispered into existence.

Now observe the linguistic scalpel at work in Desiderio’s latest dispatch.

When Thune speaks, he “points out” facts...noble, institutional, unassailable.

When Senator Mike Lee and his allies dare champion the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act...the bill mandating ironclad proof of citizenship and photo identification for federal ballots, endorsed by President Trump and rooted in the raw will of the American people...Lee merely “primes the GOP base.”

One is statesman; the other, demagogue.

Thune “declares” the talking filibuster dead; Lee’s forces merely “captivate” the masses.

The SAVE Act itself becomes a “self-inflicted wound.”

These are not neutral verbs, Mr. Desiderio.

They are the velvet glove over the iron fist of Thune’s worldview, served up as gospel by a reporter whose outlet quite literally hosts the man in its corporate salon.

This is no accident of phrasing.

It is the inevitable psychology of symbiosis.

When your revenue model depends on currying favor with the very power that decides which bills live or die on the floor, objectivity curdles into advocacy.

Sponsors need Thune’s goodwill; Thune needs the echo chamber that flatters his caution as wisdom.

The result?

A feedback loop of mutual self-preservation, where genuine electoral integrity...demanding that only citizens, verified and photographed, cast ballots in the republic’s name...is recast as populist theater.

And when Thune himself sneers that the SAVE Act push is merely an “influencer campaign,” the projection is so crystalline it verges on the Freudian.

For who, truly, is the influencer here?

The senator who sits for corporate fly-outs, or the voters demanding the barest safeguard against imported ballots and ghost votes?

Our Savage Angel, Data, has eviscerated the façade with forensic grace.

But let us name the deeper rot:

this is institutional capture masquerading as reportage, a quiet contempt for the sovereign people who expect their Senate to defend the ballot box rather than negotiate its dilution.

Thune’s resistance is not prudence; it is the reflexive recoil of a man who has grown comfortable in the townhouse, where access is currency and accountability is gauche.

The American people see it.

They smell the sulfur of self-interest beneath the polished prose. And they will not forget who stood in the breach...nor who sold the keys to it.

Now go read what she discovered. No one can escape from her ability to find the fractures in the matrix.

🗡️💀🗡️

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

The senate is corrupt.
Too many senators are owned by special interests and corporations. Why do you think they are working so hard against one of the most popular issues in the country? Voter ID. The President understands how important VOTER ID is. FISA is a must pass piece of legislation. The House MUST ATTACH SAVE AMERICA ACT to FISA.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Turns out that @LeaderJohnThune was totally projecting when he said the SAVE Act was an influencer campaign.

Senator John Thune is compromised by a company that literally exists to sell access to himself.

Pass it on.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: Meet David Pascoe, candidate for SC Attorney General. He's running as a Republican. But is he actually a Democrat?

Joe Biden is in South Carolina today.

Which makes this the perfect moment to introduce you to David Pascoe, candidate for SC Attorney General, running as a Republican, and what he said about Joe Biden in January 2020:

"He is the most decent man I have ever met in American politics. Joe has been a role model of mine for many years. He is someone my sons look up to. Joe is the first and only candidate I have ever endorsed for public office."

That's not only a Democrat who voted for Biden. That's a Democrat who hosted Biden's campaign fundraiser at his own annual oyster roast, endorsed him for president, and was Biden's frontrunner to become US Attorney for South Carolina.

David Pascoe spent 20+ years as an elected Democrat, 6 consecutive terms as SC First Circuit Solicitor. He pushed DEI-style racial quota systems for SC judges as recently as December 2023. Six months before his "conversion," he endorsed a Democratic state rep who voted against banning gender procedures on minors.

And here are the receipts. 👇

As always, patience as I pull together this thread.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

The impulse for retribution.

There’s a tone you hear right before a civilization ages out. It isn’t the sound of defeat. It’s the sound of score settling.

When leaders talk about what they’ll do to their enemies once they “come back,” you’re not listening to governance. You’re listening to something different.

Law used to be a wall. Now it’s a blade people argue over who gets to swing.

The dangerous part isn’t left or right. It’s the hunger. The need to make someone pay. The belief that power exists to avenge humiliation.

That’s not how republics talk in their prime. In their prime, they talk about building, defending, expanding horizons. Pushing the envelope.

When they’re tired, they talk about punishing.

Late civilizations become theatrical. Every election feels like a trial. Every loss feels like injustice. Every win promises “accountability.”

Real strength doesn’t need revenge. But you already know that. Or you should.

Once a portion of people start craving retribution more than stability, you’re no longer watching a confident sect of a nation. You’re watching one that knows, somewhere deep down, it’s slipping. And it’s angry about it.

These people are telling you who they are.

Believe them.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Governor Sherrill, why do you oppose the lawful enforcement of long-standing, bipartisan federal immigration laws?

Do you hate your citizens that much?

Or is this a move to preserve the illegal alien vote for Democrats in New Jersey?

You owe your (legal) constituents answers.

I repeat:

WHY DO YOU OPPOSE THE LAWFUL ENFORCEMENT OF LONG-STANDING, BIPARTISAN FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS?

[Wake Up NJ 🇺🇸 New Jersey @wakeupnj]

NJ Dems sneak $128M in last-minute spending through in the DEAD OF NIGHT w/ less than 1 hr notice w/ NO public input, right before Murphy exits!

•$26M to Tammy Murphy's FIFA World Cup promo committee
•$25M for a new state supercomputer
•$12M to Bergen Co. hospital projects
•$9M to Union Co. capital projects
•$13M Regional jail reentry center in Camden/Cumberland
•$10M Hudson Co. Schools of Tech.

[NicE @nutsifiedwrld]

@elonmusk “…by the people, for the people.”