I’m beginning to understand why the @FloridaGOP isn’t interested in having debates.

It’s why Speaker Renner and Lt. Governor Collins have been given time to present their cases directly to the voters at the event

I wasn't appointed because I spent my career climbing the political ladder. I was appointed because I served, led, and delivered. I was appointed because I'm Florida first. Florida needs more problem-solvers and fewer politicians. Florida voters deserve a governor who was handpicked by Ron DeSantis, not an 'engineered outcome.'

In a nation of plummeting pride and MAGA hats, “patriotism just isn’t cool anymore,” Arthur Krystal writes. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

FL's @GovRonDeSantis criticizes the @FloridaGOP's debate criteria, saying the party should not “engineer an outcome” in the governor’s primary: “There should be a debate... having an open process and having people be able to have their say is always better.”

🚨I just got off the phone with a former Iraqi Sahwa commander who served with the Desert Brigade from its founding in 2005 until 2010. During that time, he frequently operated alongside Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 8th Marines in Ramadi, the capital of Al Anbar Province in western Iraq. He shared some disturbing details about a Marine named Graham Planter. According to the commander, there was a recurring pattern involving their interpreter, who would arrange visits to a local woman running a prostitution house. She had several underage daughters. Planter and a couple of other Marines would go to the house, often setting up an observation point with their Iraqi counterparts. The story took a darker turn when he described how it started. During what was supposed to be a routine raid on the home, they discovered it wasn’t a terrorist hideout — it was a brothel operated by a single mother who had lost her husband. After that first encounter, the visits became regular. Two or three Marines including the interpreter would disappear inside the house for an hour, sometimes up to an hour and a half. The Iraqi Sahwa fighters were always positioned outside, securing the area between the roof and the front gate. They were never allowed inside. The commander was emphatic. He said he was 110% certain that Graham Planter and one or two others were paying for sex with both the mother and her underage daughters.

Politics is a team effort and @ByronDonalds has done the work and is leaving nothing on the table trying to win. I’m proud of the work of our thousands of volunteers and staff working to get him elected Governor.

As a Japanese watching the UK right now, I have one simple question. A Sudanese asylum seeker just tried to behead a local man in Belfast. The victim lost an eye. This comes after years of grooming gangs raping thousands of British girls — gangs that police and councils deliberately ignored because they were afraid of being called racist. In Japan, even one case like this would have triggered national outrage and immediate policy reversal. But in Britain, the conversation is still about “not being far-right.” British people, at what point does protecting your own children become more important than protecting your reputation? We genuinely do not understand this.