Dave

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨Congress Is About to Hand Israel the Keys to the $1.5 Trillion U.S. War Machine — With No Debate, No Treaty, and No Way Back

They’re not even hiding it anymore.

Buried inside the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act — a thousand-page behemoth nobody reads — sits Section 219. It doesn’t just expand “cooperation” with Israel. It mandates the permanent institutional integration of the U.S. and Israeli militaries at the most sensitive levels: AI weapons systems, quantum sensing, cyber-electronic warfare, directed energy, space defense, missile defense, biotech, and autonomous kill vehicles.

The language is precise: integrate, synchronize, eliminate duplication. That’s not a partnership. That’s a merger.

And here’s what they’re not telling you:

The NDAA authorizes $1.5 trillion — a 67% increase over the $900 billion we spent last year. It now consumes 80% of America’s entire discretionary budget. While they’re slashing food stamps by $6.3 billion (if that is all fraud, good!), gutting job training programs by $3.7 billion, cutting work-study by 90%, and hollowing out education and healthcare — they found $600 billion more for war.

But the real poison is this: once Israel is embedded inside the Pentagon’s procurement and planning architecture, that $4 billion in direct aid becomes pocket change. They’ll have a seat at the table directing $1.5 trillion annually. Every year. Forever. No more votes. No more congressional oversight. It becomes part of the Department of Defense's daily business — now more accurately called the Department of War.

Dennis Kucinich laid it bare in a recent interview: “One step from a merger is an acquisition.” Israel gains weapons endurance, intelligence depth, AI targeting capacity, and the ability to entangle America in any war it chooses — Egypt, Turkey, wherever the Zionist expansionist project demands next. We become the muscle. They hold the leash.

The constitutional violation is so flagrant it’s almost laughable if it weren’t treasonous. No treaty. No Senate ratification. No debate. The Massie-Khanna amendment to strip Section 219 was blocked from even being considered by the Rules Committee. They literally wouldn’t allow a vote on whether to have a vote.

Meanwhile, Netanyahu — a man many insiders believe is facing prison if he loses power — publicly takes credit for the idea. The same Netanyahu who defied Trump’s orders to stop attacking South Lebanon. The same Netanyahu who’s been pushing America into Middle Eastern wars since he testified before Congress in 2002 demanding we invade Iraq, Iran, and Libya.

The playbook is transparent:

- Fold a sovereignty-destroying provision into a must-pass bill
- Attach a popular voter ID measure so anyone voting no gets framed as opposing election integrity
- Give every congressman a defense contractor in their district so they can say “I was protecting jobs”
- Bury it in a thousand pages with no hearings, no markup, no floor debate
- Once it passes, it’s permanent — institutional integration can’t be undone without crippling our own military

And the timing? They’re ramming this through the week of July 13th, right after America’s 250th Independence Day celebration. You can’t make this up.

The U.S. just ‘exited’ a catastrophic war with Iran — a country with the GDP of a single American state — that will cost taxpayers roughly a trillion dollars. The rational response would be: stop, assess, scale back. Instead, they’re doubling down and handing decision-making power to the one country on Earth currently committing an active genocide, documented in real time — children shot in the head, journalists triple-tapped, ambulance drivers murdered, entire families vaporized. This intel isn’t propaganda. War is ugly. Period.

This isn’t about helping an ally. This is about permanently wedding American military might to a foreign nation’s expansionist agenda, evading the Constitution, eliminating democratic oversight, and ensuring that the forever wars never end — because peace is a threat to the racket.

Call your representative at 202-224-3121. Demand they support the Massie-Khanna Amendment to strip Section 219. If they won’t, demand they vote no on the entire NDAA.

Because once this passes, there’s no calling them back. There’s no election that fixes it. There’s just a merged war machine — and you didn’t even get a say, and they hid it from you.

A nation that cannot control its own military decisions cannot claim to be sovereign. Congress is about to prove which one we are.

@RepThomasMassie @RoKhanna

[Sam Mahmood @TheSammahmood_]

The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.

I played soccer for 20+ years.

Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.

And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:

The US soccer infrastructure is broken.

In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.

For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:

Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.

But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.

From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.

Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.

That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.

Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.

The gap is massive.

And it shows.

American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.

But at the highest levels, that is not enough.

The biggest difference is technical comfort.

We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.

That comes down to volume.

Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.

In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.

Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.

But the return on invested capital is poor.

We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.

That is a broken operating model.

And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.

You inspect the system.

The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.

But the foundation is wrong.

We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.

Those are not the same thing.

Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.

I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.

I’m saying it because I lived it.

And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.

[@amuse @amuse]

https://t.co/k6xbvllUkW

[Gain of Fauci @DschlopesIsBack]

BREAKING: USA comes back from huge deficit to defeat Belgium 5-4 after receiving four surprise mail-in goals at 3:00am

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

I spent at least 15 years straight reporting from the battlefields of Iraq & Afghanistan for 60 Minutes & CBS News. Over that time I heard the same thing from countless men & women in uniform: “I came here so that we do not have to fight this war at home”. Now we see that the enemies of this country, both foreign & domestic, have successfully brought that war to our door. It looks different in different parts of the country & it does not account for all the decent people who want nothing but to raise their children in freedom & peace, just like the rest of us. But the globalists are determined to use their Islamist-leftist puppets to push us all into a clash of civilizations & we’ll be playing right into their evil hands.

[Dave @soccercheese]

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[Dave @soccercheese]

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[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is outrageous.

A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town.

The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it.

The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court.

We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The inability of US AI companies to engage US youth into a very positive future has conceded to doomerism and nihilism in to their consciousness.

The Pickle Ball industry does a better job in engaging the youth.

One more year like this and the political winds change—permanently

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

Today I disclose Dominion's emails because I no longer follow traitorously illegal orders from Magistrate Judge Upadhyaya (a vile Indian who repped Madudo & VZ 2019-22), Deep State Judge Nichols, & their boss Judge Boasberg (a dirty Bolshevik).

cf. MLK, "Birmingham Jail".

rtw

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

The great Rob Woodson has passed. A giant among Frederick Douglass Republicans.

A true gentleman, too. The kind that one rarely finds anymore.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 JUST AS TINA PETERS WALKS FREE WITH THE BACKUPS THAT COULD EXPOSE 2020—DOMINION’S ‘MAINTENANCE’ CREWS SWOOP IN NATIONWIDE AND VANISH THE EVIDENCE. COINCIDENCE? OR THE MOST ELEGANT COVER-UP IN REPUBLICAN HISTORY? PHOENIX RISES—DOMINION ERASES THE ARCHIVE!

The Alarming Coincidence Demanding Forensic Scrutiny

Tina Peters, former Mesa County Clerk, preserved critical election data logs and forensic images during a 2021 “Trusted Build” update—precisely when Colorado officials ordered routine erasures of 2020 records. For this act of archival stewardship (defending chain-of-custody protocols akin to those safeguarding ancient papyri or Watergate tapes), she faced felony charges, a nine-year sentence, and what many view as selective prosecution.

Now, with Governor Polis’s recent commutation setting her release for June 1, 2026, disturbing synchronized reports emerge: Dominion Voting Systems (rebranded Liberty Vote) has dispatched technical teams nationwide under the innocuous banner of “Trusted Build Maintenance.”

Multiple precincts report systematic wipes of 2020 election artifacts—logs, images, and audit trails—right as Peters’s backup evidence could re-enter public discourse.

This is not conspiracy theater. It is a textbook historiographical red flag: cui bono? Who profits when the primary digital artifacts of a contested election vanish under the guise of routine “maintenance”?

In an age of machine-tabulated ballots, the integrity of electoral provenance is non-negotiable—equivalent to demanding tamper-evident seals on nuclear command codes or an immutable blockchain for financial ledgers. Without ironclad paper trails, voter ID, mandatory preservation statutes, and independent forensic audits, the republic’s electoral archive becomes as ephemeral as a deleted tweet.

Peters did not “tamper”; she refused to let the state memory-hole potential evidence. The real question: why was her preservation deemed criminal while nationwide data sanitization proceeds unchecked?

True republicans (lovers of res publica) reject blind faith in proprietary systems. We demand transparency, not trust. The SAVE America Act, hand-count pilots, and full chain-of-custody reforms are not partisan—they are the bare minimum for a functioning constitutional republic.

What safeguards would you mandate to make every election audit-proof? Drop your most rigorous proposals below. Repost if this merits debate in the public square. The Phoenix algorithm rewards truth-seeking engagement—let’s give it something worthy of ranking.

This is not about one clerk. It is about whether digital elections can ever be verifiable—or if they are, by design, faith-based systems immune to scrutiny.

Watch the original video of the hearing testimony exposing the “Trusted Build” process and timing 👇

#TinaPeters #ElectionIntegrity #TrustedBuildWipe #DigitalChainOfCustody #PhoenixRetrieval #SaveAmericaAct #ForensicAuditNow #NoMemoryHole #ElectionArchaeology #ResPublica

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

Words fail me.

[Robert Spencer @jihadwatchRS]

The Ottoman Empire was once the world's most fearsome power — but the jizya, the Qur'an's tax on Jews and Christians, was the chief source of its income. Once the Jewish and Christian communities were bled dry and impoverished, the great empire went into an irreversible decline.

Islam teaches no work ethic. Its ideal state has Muslims living on the backs of non-Muslims, while discriminating against the non-Muslims so severely that the host cannot indefinitely continue to support the parasite. And so Islamic states inevitably go into decline and have to wage more jihad to find more non-Muslims to support them.

Find out more about this in "The Tragedy of Islam: Failure and Excuses"

[Frank (Ephraim) Zelenko @frank_zelenko]

‘There’s a category of virus called ssRNA. It includes all the covid strains, all the Flus, RSV, Ebola, Marburg, Hanta and many more. They can all be treated with the same protocol using zinc ionophores (HCQ, Ivermectin, quercetin, EGCG) taken together with supplemental zinc.’

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “We want a society of variety and diversity. We want a society in which people can celebrate their ethnic backgrounds.”

“But that’s a very different thing from a society which takes ethnic characteristics as a criterion for preference or lack of preference.”

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.

[Seth Keshel @RealSKeshel]

Early in-person: 50.8% to 49.2% YES

Election Day in-person: 54.5% to 45.5% NO

Mail: 72.5% to 27.5% YES

Sure thing!

[The SCIF @TheSCIF]

Small local NJ election STOLEN using electronic voting machines with only 43 voters.

The final count was 33 to 10, but the woman who lost called the people that voted because she knew all of them, and they found out that her votes were switched with her opponents by someone on the inside of her county.

We have a serious problem in America with these voting machines and nothing seems to be happening about it.

[Bob Woodson @BobWoodson]

On my 89th lap around the sun, here’s what I know:

Everyone wants to fix America—
but almost no one wants to fix themselves.

Stop waiting for a handout.
Be the agent of your own uplift. (Food for thought from an old guy that might know a thing or two;)