Servant of Christ, devoted to Our Lady. In love with @Michelepexner and our kids. Board @VeteransonDuty, Fellow @HudsonInstitute. Fmr Marine Raider & @tedcruz

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In 2007, when Chuck Norris visited Marines in Western Iraq, he demanded to get away from large bases and instead visit the small FOBs and COPs. MNF-W said it would be too dangerous, but Norris insisted and in the end, got his way. I'm forever grateful for the example he set, and this awesome choke hold.
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USA! USA! USA! 🇺🇸
If you walk into the rink hole wearing a USA jersey, you better walk away with a birdie 😅 📺 Golf Channel
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PRAYER IS NEEDED. My friend Daniel — a Green Beret and founder of the Special Operations Association of America — has spent his life showing up for America. He and his wife need our help now. Lauren is fighting glioblastoma brain cancer while they raise their 2-year-old daughter. Please pray for him, his wife, and their daughter. And if you can, please help support them here via Special Forces Trust: secure.qgiv.com/event/lauren…
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TONIGHT at 10pm | @NewsNation President Trump calls off planned strikes against Iran as he says a settlement will be signed in the coming days. Plus, a new installment of The Bradley Report and the latest on efforts to bring human traffickers who flourished under Biden's open border to justice, an update on fraud investigations in Minnesota, and more! ✅ @JGilliam_SEAL@Exner_Garrett@AmberSmithUSA@MehekCooke@JulianEpstein@MattWhitlock@PamelaEvette@AliBradleyTV@KRobbinsMN
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This is correct. I would only add one item: The US could begin seizing Iran’s floating oil storage to increase pressure on Tehran. This is a relatively low risk option. There are groupings of unprotected Iranian tankers filled with millions of barrels. The US could take it and give it to Gulf states as reparations for Iranian attacks.
We do not appear postured for Kharg. Nor taking control of (let alone maintaining control) energy infrastructure inland (unless regime collapse is imminent). We have not seen any willingness to strike power plants, refineries, bridges, etc for fear of retaliation against Gulf allies. Has that changed? Our posture and target selection aligns with Project Freedom, which is slowly happening. And blockade plus Project Freedom still equals checkmate for the regime. Settling for a bad deal that frees up billions in budget support without securing all necessary concessions on the regime’s myriad threats sounds premature to me. So, we’ll see.
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It’s like watching Tocqueville live tweet Democracy in America, and I think that’s beautiful
This is the most “The European mind can’t comprehend this” moment of my life. One of my friends said, “Punch me five times tomorrow and I’ll still think this isn’t real.”
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ICYMI: The Clarity Act gives law enforcement key tools to fight fraud, money laundering, and illicit activity while allowing responsible digital asset innovation to grow in America. As @Exner_Garrett put it: “The Clarity Act is not a niche financial regulation bill. It is a national security measure. Congress should treat it accordingly.”
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Pretty incredible moment for @Saronic. Their Corsair USV showing up when it mattered most is just awesome. Huge win for @MavrookasD and team -- and a glimpse of where maritime autonomy is headed.
According to the Washington Post’s @DanLamothe, the U.S. Navy drone that aided in the rescue of two U.S. Apache helicopter crew members was a Saronic Technologies Corsair unmanned surface vessel (USV). First deployed in the U.S. Central Command AOR in March of this year, the USV reportedly picked up the two soldiers and then took them to a secondary location where a waiting helicopter hoisted them up. Such a rescue would be the first time that such a system was used in this role.
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We need a Birthright for Americans. Not to Israel, but to Normandy. Every young American should have the opportunity to stand where Western civilization was defended and understand what was sacrificed to preserve it.
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If you want to hate America watch the news, if you want to love America drive across it. 🇺🇸
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GOOD. It is imperative Americans take their children to places like Normandy to teach them about the sacrifices and bravery of our Greatest Generation. The people of Normandy are endlessly grateful and remember what America did for them. If only more Americans had the same gratitude.
Hegseth takes six of his children to France on official trip, reports @taracopp washingtonpost.com/national-…
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Ray’s Rock - Omaha Beach On the morning of June 6, 1944, 23 year old Staff Sergeant Arnold “Ray” Lambert came ashore with the first wave of the 1st Infantry Division on the eastern side of Omaha Beach. At this small patch of concrete he saved nearly 20 lives: The division came under intense fire from several German bunkers surrounding the entrance to the Colville Draw (one of two exits off Omaha Beach). Ray, a medic, immediately went to work. He was shot in the arm. Moments later he was hit by shrapnel in the leg, but Ray kept pulling men to safety. He pulled nearly 20 wounded soldiers to cover behind this 8ft wide obstacle, treating each soldier before going out in search of others. After several hours under fire, while pulling a wounded soldier from the ocean, he was struck by a landing craft. It dropped its ramp on top of him, breaking his back. He fell face down in the water, drowning. The craft backed up and nearby soldiers pulled an unconscious Ray to safety, eventually evacuating him off the beach. Remarkably, Ray had already earned two Silver Stars and three Purple Hearts in Sicily and North Africa, prior to landing in France. But here in Normandy his war would end. He awoke in a hospital back in England a day later. In the next bed over was his brother, who had also been wounded at Omaha. When asked about his work on D-Day, Ray simply said, “I did what I was called to do.” Ray Lambert passed in 2021 at 100 years old. He exemplified the best of American grit and why remembering this day is so important.
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This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy. Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness. It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group. One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks. Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.
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We sacrificed 360,000 souls to end slavery and another 250,000 souls to defeat fascism. Any moral debts were paid in blood many decades ago.
MS NOW Anchor Feels 'Deep Unease' About Celebrating America's 250th Birthday: US Has Never 'Fully Reckoned With Its Racist Past' mediaite.com/media/ms-now-an…
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We’re just starting to look really deep into James Talarico and Graham Platner. I’d like to thank the Democratic primary voters of Texas and Maine, this is a ton of fun.
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DC City Councilwoman brags about raising taxes on her constituents in order to "be really generous...for civil justice programs." If you order delivery for anything-- restaurants, groceries, medicine, diapers-- you'll pay more every time-- just to bankroll a DC slush fund.
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FWIW, the cost of building a capable proxy unit (150 trained and equipped fighters) in a foreign country is less than $5 million. If this report is true, Iran only needs to misuse a small fraction of this fund to make the entire region suffer.
NYT Claims: The U.S.–Iran draft deal includes a $300 billion investment fund for Iran. Tehran wanted reparations for war damage. Washington rebranded it as an international investment vehicle. Witkoff and Kushner floated the idea, pitching Tehran real estate and a broader fund as deal sweeteners.
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All Hokies need to read Roc's response. "in the 154 year history of Virginia Tech, dating to its founding in 1872, no Governor of the Commonwealth has ever removed a member of the Board of Visitors for cause."
Replying to @therealdcunna
Here's Rocovich's full, four-page letter: cardinalnews.org/wp-content/…
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How many millionaires has Bernie created? One. Himself.
SpaceX millionaires 4,000 x $1mil , 400 x $100 mil Every employee who joined before the first succesful launch made (unless they sold early) more than $100 million. SpaceX lists June 12 at ~$1.75T. Work backward from the cap table. At $1.75T, clearing $100M takes ~0.0057% of the company. - 2002–2008, first ~500 in: joined at a ~$50M company. Held to $1.75T = a 17,000x. The core of the club — maybe 150–250 left holding - September 2008, SpaceX has first successful launch - 2010–2016: joined at $1B–$10B. Needs a senior grant — directors, principal engineers, early Starlink. ~100–200 - C-suite board: Shotwell, Johnsen past $1B. A layer of SVPs below them clears $100M on equity, not salary. ~20–40 - Post-2016: joined at $20B–$350B. To hit $100M you'd have needed ~0.4% of the company. Impossible for an employee. This is the millionaire tier — almost none reach $100M The tally: ~400–500 at $100M A few dozen above $500M A handful of billionaires past Musk Same building. Same mission. Two orders of magnitude apart — set entirely by what year you walked in. Early isn't a strategy. It's a date stamp.
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SpaceX millionaires 4,000 x $1mil , 400 x $100 mil Every employee who joined before the first succesful launch made (unless they sold early) more than $100 million. SpaceX lists June 12 at ~$1.75T. Work backward from the cap table. At $1.75T, clearing $100M takes ~0.0057% of the company. - 2002–2008, first ~500 in: joined at a ~$50M company. Held to $1.75T = a 17,000x. The core of the club — maybe 150–250 left holding - September 2008, SpaceX has first successful launch - 2010–2016: joined at $1B–$10B. Needs a senior grant — directors, principal engineers, early Starlink. ~100–200 - C-suite board: Shotwell, Johnsen past $1B. A layer of SVPs below them clears $100M on equity, not salary. ~20–40 - Post-2016: joined at $20B–$350B. To hit $100M you'd have needed ~0.4% of the company. Impossible for an employee. This is the millionaire tier — almost none reach $100M The tally: ~400–500 at $100M A few dozen above $500M A handful of billionaires past Musk Same building. Same mission. Two orders of magnitude apart — set entirely by what year you walked in. Early isn't a strategy. It's a date stamp.
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Army combat veteran and a Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels in the Wall Street Journal: I’m the Soldier Graham Platner Mocked “Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as “relatable” to working-class Americans, but in reality he’s a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist. I couldn’t care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I’d see the day when Democrats would even consider backing a candidate like this.” wsj.com/opinion/im-the-soldi…
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