Husband, dad, co-author of Compelling People, communications guy.

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John Neffinger retweeted
This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts. In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention. Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it. This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it. nytimes.com/2026/04/19/us/po…
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John Neffinger retweeted
“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different that redistricting in California and Virginia. It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.” open.substack.com/pub/thebul…
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John Neffinger retweeted
Charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with a federal crime for paying informants to help dismantle hate groups is an outrageous weaponization of the Dept of Justice and the FBI. As someone who has been a prosecutor and has taken on the Klan I can tell you that use of paid informants is a common tactic used to dismantle drug cartels, the mob and extremist groups on both the right and the left. It is clear that all civil rights organizations are in the cross hairs of this Administration and that folks, puts everyone at risk.
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John Neffinger retweeted
Think about how much time Fox News spent on Hunter Biden. That was a real story, worth covering. But here they're not reporting on the potential corruption, they're celebrating it. Gross.
Eric Trump -- the president's son -- is on Maria Bartiromo's show bragging about one of his companies landing a $24 million Pentagon contract
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John Neffinger retweeted
However dumb you think the process for destroying USAID was, it was dumber. This is from Nicholas Enrich's new book Into the Wood Chipper, describing a meeting with Trump-appointed USAID leadership *after* they had largely gutted the agency
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Hey @AnthropicAI, paid Pro subscriber here, locked out of my account on laptop since before this morning's outage. Mobile works, laptop doesn't. Chatbot couldn't help and I can't reach a human. Who on your team can get me back in?
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Not my champion, but his point stands: there is in fact too much dancing.
🚨NEW: Stephen A. Smith: "Do I believe I would take Gavin Newsom out? Yes, I do. Do I believe I would go against Kamala and beat her? Yes, I do." "I think I’d beat MOST of the Democratic Party. Because there’s too much dancing — and I don’t dance." @DailyCaller
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🚨NEW: Stephen A. Smith: "Do I believe I would take Gavin Newsom out? Yes, I do. Do I believe I would go against Kamala and beat her? Yes, I do." "I think I’d beat MOST of the Democratic Party. Because there’s too much dancing — and I don’t dance." @DailyCaller
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John Neffinger retweeted
Trump: “We’re not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When somebody’s nice to me, I love that person. Even if they’re bad people. I couldn’t care less, I’ll fight to the end for them.”
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John Neffinger retweeted
Charles Barkley on CBS tonight: “The way some of these immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace. What we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants is really unfortunate and really sad.” Charles Barkley is not a politician. Not an activist. Not a Democrat. He is one of the most beloved sports figures in American history saying this on national television.
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John Neffinger retweeted
Trump is just setting up fake companies then awarding them 10's of billions in state contracts. This even makes Russian corruption look quaint.
A three-year-old company operating out of a WeWork with reportedly fewer than five employees is being considered for up to $25 BILLION in nuclear energy funds from a trade deal Trump brokered with Japan. The company has never built a nuclear plant or completed a nuclear project of any kind. What does this company bring to the table? The father of its CEO donated $2 million to Trump and the GOP, and one of its advisors is a former RNC co-chair and Trump appointee. In this Administration, that’s apparently all you need.
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John Neffinger retweeted
What kind of policymaking process leads to bombing Iranian energy facilities with one hand and lifting sanctions on Iranian oil with the other?
WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. may soon remove sanctions from Iranian oil that is stranded on tankers to help lift global supplies and reduce prices, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Thursday.
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John Neffinger retweeted
Fox: I'm really, really not happy about this inflation report. This does not look good to me. Prices were up by 3.11%. You're up 4.3% year-over-year.
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John Neffinger retweeted
If you wonder why Europeans flinch from helping US in Gulf - in January, NATO allies were seriously preparing for a US sneak attack on Greenland, planning to blow up runways to prevent a Trump re-enactment of Putin's failed strike on Kyiv.
Denmark prepared for a possible U.S. attack: Flew blood supplies to Greenland and planned to blow up runways Key sources in Denmark and Europe are now revealing for the first time what happened during the most critical days, when Donald Trump threatened to take Greenland “the hard way.” When Danish soldiers were rapidly deployed to Greenland in January this year, they brought explosives with them. The plan was to destroy runways in Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq to prevent American military aircraft from landing troops on the island, should the U.S. president ultimately decide to seize Greenland by force. They also transported blood supplies from Danish blood banks so wounded personnel could be treated in case of combat. This is reported by DR, which over the past year has spoken with central sources in the Danish government, top military officers, and high-ranking officials and intelligence sources in Denmark, France, and Germany. All sources have played—and continue to play—key roles in the international crisis triggered by the United States’ demand for control over Greenland. Together, the sources describe an unprecedented year marked by sleepless nights. None of them had concrete intelligence of specific American attack plans against Greenland. Still, many feared in January that the historically important ally, the United States, could attack at any moment. At the same time, Denmark reached out to its European allies, leading to closer cooperation. “With the Greenland crisis, Europe realized once and for all that we must be able to handle our own security,” said a French senior official involved in the intense period. A rapid-response force consisting of Danish, French, German, Norwegian, and Swedish soldiers was first deployed to Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq. Shortly after, a main force followed, including: -Soldiers from the Danish Dragoon Regiment in Holstebro -Elite troops from the Jaeger Corps -French alpine troops trained for cold and mountainous warfare At the same time, Danish fighter jets and a French naval vessel were sent to the North Atlantic. According to several sources, the goal of having multinational troops on the ground was to ensure that any U.S. attempt to take Greenland would require a large-scale hostile action—thereby deterring such an attempt. “We have not been in such a situation since April 1940,” said a Danish defense source, referring to the days before Denmark’s occupation during World War II. Unlike in 1940, when Denmark chose not to resist militarily, the government and defense leadership this time decided—after extensive confidential discussions—to take the opposite approach: If the U.S. attempted an attack, Danish forces would be armed and ready to fight. Danish F-35 fighter jets deployed north were also fully armed. All this despite the understanding that Denmark could not realistically withstand a U.S. military attack. “The cost for the U.S. had to be raised. The U.S. would have to carry out a hostile act to take Greenland,” said a senior Danish defense source. Source: DR
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John Neffinger retweeted
This hate is exhausting. Democrats are just people man. Voters who don’t want unnecessary wars, or for citizens to get shot in the head by their government. Americans against concentration camps, pro healthcare and a living wage. The party NOT covering up child rape & torture.
Trump: "Democrats are terrible. These are bad people. These are not people that love our country, I can tell you that. Very sick people. Thank you very much, everybody."
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John Neffinger retweeted
This is a reference to Which Way Western Man, a 1978 book by William Gayley Simpson, one of America's most prominent Nazis. The book argues Hitler was right, claims there is a Jewish plot against white people and advocates violence against Jewish people
Which way, Greenland man?
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From NPR this morning to CNN tonight, I have trouble remembering a worse day of journalism since 2016. I heard many Republican accounts of Democrats' actions, and almost no Dem ones. Scattered, weak pushback on clear GOP lies. No sense of the stakes. x.com/i/status/1973431808030…

CNN's Dana Bash just got brutally fact-checked by Speaker Mike Johnson for ten minutes straight on the Schumer Shutdown. Johnson didn't waiver for a single second and delivered hard facts! Some of the key points: • Johnson crushed Bash’s claim the CR is partisan: "We didn’t add any Republican priorities or poison pills or gimmicks or tricks into that at all. It’s 24 pages... It simply continues the Biden-era spending levels that Chuck Schumer and the Democrats have already supported in the past." • On Bash’s subsidy urgency, Johnson snapped: "The benefits DO NOT expire until December 31 and insurance companies can make different decisions. Okay, there’s plenty of time on the clock... to have three months ahead of us to do that." • Against Bash’s $1.5 trillion spin, Johnson hit hard: "[They] would add $1.5 trillion in new spending on a seven-week stopgap measure. We’re not doing that. He wants to give health care to illegal aliens again... Go look at page 57 of the bill that he wrote." It's time to wake up, @DanaBashCNN, truth bites.
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Considering that this is an nspm-7 compliant account I would only like to point out that historically statements like this are made by fascists and dictators. Not that trump is either of those.
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Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within
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knew she was the real deal as a kid when she had a foreword in one of The Far Side volumes where she talked about being so tickled by this strip that she struck a lifelong friendship with Gary Larson and his shared love for the natural world. RIP
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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John Neffinger retweeted
In one of his last acts as president, @JoeBiden awarded Jane Goodall the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January. Back when these awards were actually given to folks who were worthy.
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Jill and I are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Jane Goodall whose activism, vision, and message of hope mobilized a global movement to protect the planet. Above all, Jane taught us that when we search for humanity in the natural world around us, we discover it within ourselves. We are sending our love and strength to the Goodall family and everyone who was touched by her remarkable life of service.
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