Bob Hafer 🍊

Retired scientist, restauranteur and tech junkie. mostly I tweet news articles I find interesting or important; with occasional commentary.

[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

The people blaming Israel for situation in the Middle East need to stop talking about Israel and start focusing on the Iranian regime.

They are the ones trying to kill Americans on American soil.

[Tom Fitton @TomFitton]

CIA helped anti-Trumpers attack Hunter Biden laptop story. CIA in on scheme to hide China attacks from @RealDonaldTrump and Congress. Why do we still have the CIA?

[Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll]

"In Georgia, a federal court gave computer scientist J. Alex Halderman 12 weeks with the state’s ImageCast X ballot-marking devices. His report sat under seal for nearly TWO YEARS while the equipment stayed in statewide use.

When a redacted version finally emerged in June 2023, the public learned what CISA had already flagged in a nine-vulnerability advisory, including a flaw that could let an attacker forge the activation mechanism and print unauthorized ballots.

Compare that to Washington DC in 2010, when officials invited the public to attack a planned internet-voting system before it went live. Halderman’s team gained near-complete control within 48 hours, changed every vote, exposed almost every ballot, and went undetected for nearly two business days. DC scrapped the system. That is what disclosure buys you.

Georgia’s sealed report bought nothing but delay. Ironically we now learn that China had these vulnerability reports while our own officials were denied access."

[Jewels Jones ® @JewelsJonesLive]

Massie says ‘we won, so why fix election fraud.’ That’s like saying don’t fix the lock because nobody’s robbed you yet. Fix it NOW, before the next guy uses the same broken system against you.

[ThePersistence @ScottPresler]

Olive Garden implemented the SAVE America Act more quickly than the US Senate.

[Outnumbered @OutnumberedFNC]

🚨FOX NEWS ALERT: Iran retaliates against gulf allies after CENTCOM launched a new round of strikes against Tehran. This is the 6th straight day of U.S. operations against Iran's radical Islamic regime.
@kayleighmcenany

[The Common-Sense Guide to American History @THEGUIDE1776]

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[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Again I ask: How long have we had all this evidence? And what else do we have?

[Sean Parnell @SeanParnellASW]

Reporters do not have a First Amendment right to freely roam the halls of the Pentagon.

The Department of War welcomes the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision granting our emergency motion for a stay - a big win for protecting national security. The Court found that we are likely to succeed on the merits of our argument, so our policy remains in effect while the case moves forward on an expedited schedule.

This escort policy is a common-sense security measure designed to protect classified national defense information. Since its implementation, the Department has seen a meaningful reduction in unauthorized disclosures that previously occurred with alarming frequency and put American lives, service members, and our allies at risk.

The policy has never been about limiting journalism, it is about safeguarding the classified information that protects this nation.

[Hanif 𝕏 FreeIran @HanifFreeIran]

🇮🇹 #BREAKING Rome Italy
NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi arriving at conference on:

"Iran Beyond War - Human Rights and the Power of the People as a Solution"

Prominent Int'l speakers including @guyverhofstadt @GiulioTerzi

cc: @Agenzia_Ansa @dw_persian

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

“[Perp walks are] possible. I think you'll see terminations first.”

White House advisor @jsolomonReports predicts major consequences for the members of the Intelligence Community who hid information about Chinese election interference from President Trump:

“They basically are talking about deliberately "massaging" President Trump's database so he won't see the Chinese election interference stuff… Another FBI person, who kept pulling back China intelligence interference reports and not letting the community see them so they could be investigated, wrote in her own text messages to her colleague, ‘I'm running a SHADOW GOVERNMENT to keep the President and others from learning about this.’

Other people were writing, ‘This is clearly politics. We should be telling the President.’ An NSA guy said, ‘I'm alarmed that we're not telling the President, but I was too weak to stand up and object in the meeting.’

This was one of the widest secrets in the intelligence community, that some intelligence analysts used their power to keep the President in the dark about a 220 million voter data breach.”

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

Every single Chinese Student VISA needs to be cancelled immediately @SecRubio

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

@margbrennan You and your colleagues eagerly spread the lie — for YEARS — that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia but draw the line at … honestly covering declassified files that harm your narrative. Interesting.

[Judicial Watch ⚖️ @JudicialWatch]

.@TomFitton: Obama Involved in Plot to Destroy @realDonaldTrump!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨 The U.S. Election System is Broken.

Here’s what the disclosures reveal:

- Hundreds of millions of American voter files in the hands of foreign govs
- Voting machines & ballot-counting systems exposed to hacking & manipulation
- China & other adversaries actively trying to meddle in elections
- Evidence of fraud being buried
- Hundreds of thousands of non-citizens & dead people still active on voter rolls
- No Voter ID, no Proof of Citizenship required
- Tens of millions of mail-in ballots floating unsecured

Enough is enough.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

Taliban leaders send their daughters to elite schools in Qatar, Pakistan, and even in Western countries in Europe and the United States.
The same goes for the sons of Iranian leaders, Hezbollah, and Hamas chiefs — all living lives of luxury and privilege.
Meanwhile, they force their own people to live under strict, oppressive rules.
Journalist: “Are your two daughters going to school?”
Taliban leader: “Of course they are.”
Hypocrisy at its finest.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Toxic Wildfire Smoke Begins To Disrupt Local Economic Activity As GOP Senator Readies Canada Sanctions Bill https://t.co/X25ELVve77

[Keith Ainsworth @AinsworthKeith]

If the communist leaning Democrats thought for one second that China was using its hacking skills to benefit Trump in any way, they would be screaming bloody murder around the clock.

[Owen Gregorian @OwenGregorian]

Trump admin investigating 75 truck driver schools for fraud, helping non-citizens get licenses | Eric Mack, Fox News

The Trump administration announced Thursday it is investigating 75 entry-level truck driver commercial driver’s license schools across the U.S. that are suspected of fraudulently helping put non-citizen drivers on American highways.

The Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) are partnering to address fraud regarding the issuance of non-domiciled CDLs to illegal aliens.

"FMCSA has identified approximately 75 entry-level driving training schools suspected of fraudulent activities, including using improper driver certifications, falsifying training records, and failing to properly train drivers applying for CDLs, among other violations," DHS announced in a release Thursday.

The crackdown comes after months of American deaths from truck-driving accidents caused by reported illegal immigrants.

"Too many American lives have been lost in completely avoidable accidents because illegal aliens have been granted commercial driver's licenses to drive trucks and 18-wheelers on America's roadways," DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote in a statement.

"DHS law enforcement is partnering with the Department of Transportation to eliminate CDL fraud, strengthen the integrity of the CDL system, and investigate commercial driver's license schools throughout the country," he added. "This is a whole-of-government approach, to keep America's roads safe."

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy hailed President Donald Trump's DHS investigators for being "force multiplier" in the administration’s effort to root out CDL fraud and restore safety to America's streets.

"USDOT has spent the last year rooting out bad actors from our trucking industry," Duffy wrote in a statement. "We've knocked over 24,000 drivers off our roads for failing to speak English, forced states to cancel over 28,000 licenses illegally issued to foreign drivers, and purged over 9,500 unqualified training schools from our FMCSA registry.

"DHS will be a force multiplier of our efforts to clean up America's roads,' Duffy continued. "President Trump is using every lever at his disposal to ensure the safety of American families."

Fatal truck accidents have been in the news for years, frequently pointed to by Trump administration officials as a danger of former President Joe Biden's open borders and Democrat-run sanctuary city and state politics.

In one prominent case, Harjinder Singh, 28, an illegal immigrant from India, was arrested after an August 2025 crash in Fort Pierce, Florida, that killed three people. Investigators revealed that Singh, who was accused of jackknifing his 18-wheeler while executing an unauthorized U-turn, had previously failed his CDL knowledge exam in Washington state 10 times in just two months and struggled significantly to pass basic English and road sign tests.

Despite this, he was eventually issued a commercial license in Washington, which he later transferred to California.

Another major incident occurred in October 2025 on Interstate 10 in San Bernardino County, Calif., when Jashanpreet Singh, 21, allegedly drove his semi into slow-moving traffic without braking. The resulting eight-car chain-reaction crash killed three people and severely injured several others.

Singh, an illegal alien who crossed the border under Biden in 2022, had obtained a California CDL in June 2025. The crash fueled intense criticism from federal officials, with Duffy condemning California's licensing loophole and calling Singh's subsequent five-year prison sentence a "slap on the wrist" for a tragedy that should have been prevented.

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[Rep. Jim Jordan @Jim_Jordan]

Republicans want to:

-Secure our elections
-Deport criminal aliens
-Fight government fraud

Why is that so controversial?