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Richard Williams retweeted
If any part of this is true, Trump, Vance, Witkoff, and Kushner should all be rung up on treason charges.
🚨 Pakistan has published what it claims are the key terms of the U.S.-Iran agreement: ➡️ U.S. sanctions on Iran would be lifted. ➡️ Frozen Iranian funds would be partially released. ➡️ A ceasefire would take effect across all fronts, alongside an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. ➡️ Iran’s uranium stockpile and nuclear facilities would remain inside Iran. ➡️ A $300 billion compensation fund would be established for Iran. ➡️ The U.S. embargo on Iran would be removed. ➡️ Iran would assume responsibility for managing the Strait of Hormuz and collecting transit fees. The terms are unconfirmed by Washington or Tehran.
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Replying to @DrNeilStone
I hate to say it, but there’s a reason I backed Ron DeSantis in the primary. Everyone who voted for Trump in the last primary is complicit in this traitorous deal.
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The TRUMP meme coin generated about $616 million for the Trump family, while buyers lost more than $700 million, according to Reuters' estimates. The coin has dropped 97% from its January 2025 peak
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The entire Apollo program from 1960-1973 cost $317 billion in 2026 dollars. SpaceX has lost $41.3 billion since 2002, receiving as much as $22 billion in government subsidies. They look to spend another $49 billion in 2026....and haven't even approached the success of a program from 66 years ago. This is not a success worth $2.1 trillion. It is a failure and complete misallocation of capital. It's existence massively limits progress/discovery
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The most positive news on this site in awhile
JUST IN: 57 Planned Parenthood abortion facilities across 20 states have CLOSED since January 2025 due to federal funding cuts Defund Planned Parenthood permanently!
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Richard Williams retweeted
Russia is pleased.
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All the usual suspects are promoting Tulsi Gabbard "bio lab" agitprop today. Know the op, reject the op
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Richard Williams retweeted
No. The story was not overlooked or buried. Israel immediately informed us the attack happened. There were numerous investigations. The Captain of the USS Liberty was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Israel apologized and paid reparations. The truth is, it's just not a big story. It's a tragic story, and no doubt. But it isn't a big story. 34 Americans died on the USS Liberty in 1967. 11,363 Americans died in the jungles of Vietnam in 1967. Friendly Fire is horrific, but not uncommon. There is very little reason for a sixty-year old friendly fire incident to be widely known about, much less widely discussed. For example, that same year, 1967, a US Marine Corp jet attacked a US Army position on Hill 875 in Vietnam, killing 42 American soldiers. 59 years later, not many remember Hill 875, not because it wasn't horrific -- it killed more Americans than the attack on the USS Liberty -- but because it isn't useful as a talking point to implicate the US/Israel relationship. As to the second part of your question, we aren't discussing the USS Liberty today because of new information. We are discussing the USS Liberty today because of old -- even ancient -- grudges.
Replying to @JeremyDBoreing
Jeremy, do you believe this story was overlooked or buried for a period of time? And from a broader perspective, how do you think Israel’s actions and response will be viewed as more information becomes public? Genuinely interested in hearing different perspectives on this.
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Richard Williams retweeted
Mormonism was based on the belief that the Apostles’ Creed is an abomination to God. Joseph Smith said this is what God told him. Yet they want to be called “Christian.” Come out of Mormonism and come to Jesus.
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You aren’t ready for this. You really aren’t 😆
What’s going on at Mormon Stake Conference in Oklahoma?
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Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb. Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God. Every creed. That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc.. Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians. Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both. When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119) The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….” Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said… “Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230). “The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171). I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things. Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.
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Fifty-nine years ago today, an American Naval vessel, the USS Liberty, was attacked by air and sea by the State of Israel. Of the 234 men on the ship, 34 Americans were killed. 171 were wounded. Today, Thomas Massie will take to the House floor to memorialize the worst interpretation of the event, an interpretation that suggests Israel attacked the American ship on purpose and that our own government either coordinated with them to do, or is complicit in the cover up. The USS Liberty has become a rallying cry for many of the worst voices in public life. From the Groyper Wars against Charlie Kirk, to Tucker Carlson’s blackpill-and-despair political project, to Candace Owens’ global jihad of grift and Jew hared, the Conspiracy Theories surrounding the USS Liberty have become one of the most respectable ways to advance anti-Israel and anti-American sentiment. But what really happened on that terrible day in 1967? How can we know what’s true? And what does it mean for us six decades later? Conspiracy Theorists love to overwhelm you with the sheer volume of their claims, but there are 8 claims which makeup the core of the argument. We thoroughly address those eight in this episode, and shine a light on the phenomena that undergird these Conspiracy Theories in the first place. Here's an honest accounting of what happened on June 8, 1967, and how — and why — bad actors are lying to you about it:
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Richard Williams retweeted
Joe Kent wants Iran to be Trump's Afghanistan. What a scumbag.
No deal is required for us to just walk away. It’s evident that we can’t stop either side from attacking the other. There is only one realistic choice we have—stay & get sucked further into the war or look out for our interests & just walk.
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Timely reminder from Marco Rubio, in case anyone still wondering why Israel fired BACK at Iran:

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No one. No one will restrain the State of Israel from defending itself.
The Israeli Air Force struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran a short while ago.
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Israel is to Iran what Ukraine is to Russia.
It's amazing how many people have zero clue about Iran spending billions a year to destroy Israel, and then they say Israel is an aggressor when they defend themselves.
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God bless them, every one. Our freedom is built on their sacrifice
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Richard Williams retweeted
The Democrats are absolutely married to the transgender issue, and we should all be making as much of that as possible this year.
A 78-page plan reviewed by The Daily Wire shows how the Biden administration was planning to make affirming transgenderism the national standard within child welfare services without having to pass a single law.
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Anthropic is questioning whether AI may turn out to be altogether useless. This is the single most honest thing Anthropic has ever written. “But achieving recursive improvement alone does not suggest an immediate change in how industrial production occurs, societies organize, or markets function. More intelligence can’t learn what a drug does over decades of use, can’t hold elections sooner than a constitution dictates, and can’t turn a stranger into an old friend in a weekend. For most people, the felt pace of this future will still be set by the bottlenecks, even if the laboratory upstream runs at the speed of compute. That collision, where recursive intelligence building itself ever faster meets the world of humans, relationships, and governance, is another part of this future we can’t predict.”
Our internal data shows Claude is accelerating AI development—a possible path to recursive self-improvement, or AI autonomously building a more capable successor. It’s happening faster than we thought, and the implications deserve greater attention. anthropic.com/institute/recu…
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Richard Williams retweeted
Israelis believe it was Erdogan via Vance who put the kibosh on the plan to topple the IRGC.
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