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It seems to me that all Conservatives & Libertarians can agree with the following basic Conservative principles: Pro Life Unfettered 1st & 2nd Amendments Small government less wasteful Strong Law Enforcement and fair Criminal Justice Strong military Strong borders 1/3
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Trump 1.0 built an Iran Sanctions Wall that blocked Rob Malley and team Biden from reentering the fatally flawed JCPOA. Trump 2.0 should remember: economic normalization and IRGC-backed terrorism are incompatible. As long as the regime funds and arms terrorists, there is no path to serious sanctions relief or investment.
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Refuel energy markets. Rest and rearm the military. Develop a plan to support Iranians to cripple the regime. Enforce sanctions with relentless pressure. Don’t get played at the negotiating table. Test Tehran early. Give little. Demand results. Walk away fast. Hit harder.
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The mark of a real realist is that he takes into account the ideology of the enemy. There are plenty of self-styled realists who are profoundly idealist because they believe people are fundamentally motivated by the same things. Idealists are dangerous.
SCOOP: CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Trump and other senior officials that intelligence gathered by the U.S. raised serious doubts about Iran's willingness to make the nuclear concessions the U.S. is seeking in a final deal axios.com/2026/06/15/us-iran…
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Accurate as stated @AGHamilton29
Yikes. Either this is just an attempt at public spin or demonstrates an astonishing level of ignorance about the Islamic Republic and their goals. The Islamists who just murdered 40K of their own people earlier this year and have spent almost 5 decades terrorizing the world aren’t suddenly repentant and peace-seeking. Their goals haven’t changed because they are driven by an extreme ideology that requires the destruction of western civilization and complete control. You can make short-term deals with them to avoid immediate conflict, but it is not helpful to anyone to ignore the reality of the enemy we face.
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Dear Friends, We were deeply moved when Krystal and Jeremy shared this testimony with us and humbled they'd trust us to share it with you. Please take a moment to read their full testimony in the photos below. We had the honor of walking with Veya Hope's family through one of the hardest seasons imaginable. Our medical advocacy team fought for her, a hospital was ready to receive her — and though that door closed for reasons beyond our control, Veya's life left an eternal mark. Krystal and Jeremy chose to give to Team Iron Will in her memory, because — as they put it — our mission reflects what she taught them: the beauty, worth, strength, and joy every life carries. This is why our medical advocacy work matters. Too many families are told their child isn't worth treating. We're building a place where parents are believed, supported, and equipped to fight for their kids. Will you join us as a monthly partner to help us expand our medical advocacy efforts and walk alongside more families like Veya's? Even $5/month helps. teamironwill.app.neoncrm.com… #TeamIronWill #DownSyndromeAdvocacy 1/2
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This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800 different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.
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☢️ IF TEHRAN HAD ANY DOUBTS ABOUT WHETHER IT NEEDED A NUCLEAR DETERRENT, THOSE DOUBTS ARE GONE Anyone who thinks the Iranian regime will simply give up its nuclear ambitions is delusional. Maybe they won’t manufacture the weapon inside Iran. But they have allies. Pakistan has nuclear weapons. China has nuclear weapons. Russia has nuclear weapons. North Korea has nuclear weapons. And after this war, if Tehran had any doubts about whether it needed a nuclear deterrent, those doubts are gone. The regime now believes it faces an existential threat. And regimes that believe they face an existential threat do everything in their power to survive. That is the North Korea model. Nobody is seriously talking about overthrowing North Korea anymore. Why? Because it has nuclear weapons. That is exactly the lesson Tehran will take from this war. And that is the danger of this “deal.” One day, the world may wake up to the announcement that the Iranian regime has tested its first nuclear weapon — and by then, they may already have a hidden stockpile behind it. That will be the legacy of pretending the regime can be negotiated out of its survival strategy.
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I don’t know if this report is accurate. But these are exactly the kinds of secret side deals and underhanded financial maneuvers that the Obama and Biden administrations used to funnel resources to the regime in Iran. The Trump administration should make it unmistakably clear: Gulf countries—or anyone else—should not expect Washington to tolerate efforts to enrich the regime through back channel shenanigans.
"The US secretly approved a financial and maritime arrangement between #Qatar and #Iran, under which billions of dollars were paid to Tehran in exchange for free passage for Qatari tankers and ships through the Strait of Hormuz, three diplomatic officials now confirm." "The secret US approval, which the sources said was granted about a month ago, dovetailed with Doha's interest in opening a direct channel of communication with Tehran, which began to tighten after the ceasefire. Qatar, fearing a renewed Iranian attack on its facilities after one of its gas installations was attacked during the war, sought to buy security quiet." "Some of the payments were disguised as fees for tankers passing through Hormuz, and a broad credit line of up to $1 billion was also opened for the purchase of goods through Qatar." israelhayom.com/2026/06/15/t…
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We shouldn’t be surprised. In 1987 Stanford began doing away with the Western Civilization requirement in favor of one that was focused on multiculturalism.
Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly
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A basketball team wins a game. Thousands gather to celebrate. A 17-year-old ends up shot in the middle of the Democrat crowd. Ambulances can’t get through because the streets are packed with savages. Police have to personally transport the victim to the hospital. Think about how insane that is. A celebration should end with people going home smiling. Instead, too many American cities have normalized chaos, fights, and criminal behavior wherever large crowds gather. The overwhelming majority of fans came to celebrate a victory. It only takes a handful of savage democrats to turn a celebration into a crime scene. Praying for the young victim, his family, and the officers who ran toward the danger while everyone else was running away. #AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks x.com/NY_Scoop/status/206631…

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Where are "Poso" and all the boys who needed fainting couches when Israel closed a church during Iranian ballistic missile attacks? They're going to be absolutely furious at Putin and Russia, right? Because they really care about Christian holy sites?
Local authorities confirm that Kyiv’s iconic Lavra Monastery was significantly damaged during tonight’s Russian drone and missile raid. Firefighting efforts to preserve the structure are ongoing.
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Quick question, would the Nazis have stuck to a deal if we made one? No. What makes you think Iran will?
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Every single item put out by the various propaganda arms of the rump regime in Iran about the MOU is directly opposite of what a senior Administration official briefed about the MOU on background Friday. The only things we know for sure is that President Trump has said the Strait reopens Friday and that Israel has loudly rejected the MOU’s applicability to it and its battle plans in Lebanon, Syria or Gaza and its intent to respond to any attack from Iran. That’s it for now. We just don’t know. Until the MOU is actually released everything is speculation untethered to an actual agreement and the best source on the details of the interim agreement remains the senior Administration official’s description Friday.
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Two hundred years after Mohammed's death, a Muslim army got half way up France before it was defeated Islamic armies had already invaded North Africa and Spain and large swathes of the Middle East Do you really think that was achieved by friendly persuasion ?
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Trump can’t get into his head that he’s not negotiating with a real estate developer or lender, he’s negotiating with an Islamist terror state religiously devoted to obtaining a nuke at all costs including lying to his face. They’ll agree to your deal on paper, take the money you give them, and immediately violate every single part of your meaningless “agreement”. They don’t care. It’s a religious devotion.
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“Trump said the agreement was supposed to be signed this morning but was delayed by the Israeli strike in Beirut.” Iran has said for days it wouldn’t sign today. Trump is getting dicked around by Iran and blaming Israel for him being gullible.
Trump told Israel’s Channel 12 that he passed a message to Netanyahu saying he was “very unhappy” with Israel’s strike in Beirut, which he said came shortly before the expected signing of the Iran agreement. “Why did Bibi do this attack?” Trump said, according to Barak Ravid. “Hezbollah fired and hit the middle of nowhere. No one was hurt. And then he had to do this fucking attack — and in Beirut. It made me very angry.” Trump said he received a call saying Israel was attacking Beirut “an hour before we were supposed to sign the agreement,” adding: “I couldn’t believe this was happening. This is very bad.” Trump also said Netanyahu showed “no fucking judgment,” and said he made clear to him that he was “very unhappy.” Despite the delay, Trump said he still believes the Iran agreement is good for Israel, saying it would ensure Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon, allow visits to suspicious Iranian sites with 24 hours’ notice, and eliminate Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile. Trump said the agreement was supposed to be signed this morning but was delayed by the Israeli strike in Beirut. “I think the signing will still happen today, in a few hours,” he said. “But the Israeli strike shook things up.” Source: Barak Ravid / Channel 12
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Can we debunk this nonsense? Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc. The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun. End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously. And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it. The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year) On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach. So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.
Elon Musk was given tens of billions in government contracts and tax breaks and was able to take a company that’s lost $41 billion and somehow become a “trillionaire.” You will pay social security your whole life and they’ll tell you it’s an “entitlement” when you try to collect
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Absolutely outstanding!
Chris Nikic, the first person with Down syndrome to complete an Ironman, completes Ironman 70.3 Massachusetts. Shortly before the race, Nikic announced that he needed a guide to run alongside him for the race. That's when Dr. Tommy Martin decided to step up. ⁠ "I learned more in this race than almost any other I have competed in, and none of it was about race tactics or how to PR. It was about life, perspective, determination, and grit. I owe all of that to Chris," Martin said. "I hope every finish line Chris crosses serves as a reminder to the world: your diagnosis, your situation, your circumstances do not define your potential!" Congrats, Chris! Video: dr.tommymartin / ig.
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No genius, the poem simply describes what preexisted the Statue of Liberty. If your ancestors came on the Mayflower you’re descended from boat people. This country was founded by the wretched and refuse of the world — the riff raff who had no chance to rise above their station in the lands of their birth and came here for freedom and opportunity. That was as true in the 17th and 18th centuries as in the 20th and 21st. You know nothing of what it means to be American.
You’re basing Americanism on a poem that was retrofitted onto a gift from France to promote mass immigration. Your ignorance is showing.
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