Your government is doing things in your name that you don't know about. Marine. Naval Academy. Desert Storm veteran. I have receipts.
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Congress just dishonored every American veteran.
I served in the U.S. Marine Corps. I dedicated years of my life to this country, our way of life, and our beliefs. I lost friends. I watched wives hold their babies and choke back tears at my friends' funerals.
For that sacrifice, our country recognizes service members. They can proudly say "I served" and carry the title of Veteran.
Now Congress wants to grant that same recognition to service in a foreign military, for the sole benefit of that foreign country, in an ongoing military action being investigated for war crimes against civilians.
That cheapens every veteran's sacrifice. It undermines the honor of military service. And it dishonors this country.
Repost this. Americans need to know. Veterans need to know. The families of service members and veterans need to know. And Congress needs to know we are not ok with this.
AIPAC announced Wednesday it will stop endorsing candidates, stop giving directly through its PAC, and stop earmarking member donations.
DON'T BE FOOLED. This is brand protection, not a change in strategy.
The PAC was the small change. It could give a candidate $5,000. Their super PAC, United Democracy Project (UDP), keeps running. It has spent more than $83 million this cycle, including over $30 million in a single Michigan Senate primary.
A super PAC has no spending limit and doesn't need the candidate's permission. Its attack ads often never mention Israel. Voters see a hit piece on crime or taxes and never learn why it was paid for.
That's the point. An AIPAC endorsement has become a liability now that people are seeing what it stands for. Now a candidate can say "AIPAC didn't endorse me and didn't give me a dime" while UDP spends millions on threir behalf.
It's the same money, just with fewer fingerprints and harder to trace.
AIPAC's own spokesperson told JTA: "Our mission and strategy remain the same."
Believe them.
The bigger shift is earmarking. AIPAC says its members gave over $90 million to candidates this cycle, much of it routed through its portal, which put AIPAC's name on the FEC filing. Staff will keep recommending candidates and coordinating the giving. The checks will now show up as ordinary individual donations.
The money still goes to the same candidates. It just won't say AIPAC on it anymore.
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Power lives in the shadows.
Everyone, including myself, talks about AIPAC. Almost nobody talks about 𝐉𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐀 .
The 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 (𝐉𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐀) has been around since 1976. It doesn’t need $100 million election cycles. It goes after something more valuable. Trust.
The American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF) flies members of Congress to Israel to sell them Israel’s version of reality. JINSA does the same thing, but with retired U.S. generals and admirals. They meet Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, IDF chief of staff, and the head of Mossad.
Then they come home. At least 55 of 83 recent program alumni have held defense industry jobs. Gen. Frank McKenzie went on the trip, became a JINSA fellow, and now appears on CBS as a supposedly neutral “retired CENTCOM commander” with no mention of JINSA.
Now JINSA runs programs for congressional staffers too. These are the people who write defense and foreign policy language. This August, JINSA publicly took credit for shaping multiple provisions in this year’s NDAA. That includes Section 219 of the House bill, which creates a single executive agent to synchronize U.S.-Israel military cooperation across nine categories, from AI and quantum tech to virtually every category of weapons.
Let that sink in. An organization built to advance a foreign country’s interests inside the American government openly takes credit for writing American defense policy. And that policy just happens to favor the foreign country .
All of this is under a 501(c)(3). It’s tax-deductible, with no foreign agent registration.
AIPAC works Congress. JINSA works the Pentagon.
I spent my career in uniform. I know how much weight a retired general’s opinion carries. That’s exactly why this matters.
I covered much of this at length in Chapter 30 of my book, 𝑊𝑒 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑑 𝐺𝑢𝑦𝑠 .
Meet the U.S. Generals and Admirals advancing Israel's Policy
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The ultimate litmus test of a person’s/group’s/country’s character/ethics/morality is how they act when no one is watching or when no external force holds them responsible for their actions.
The ultimate litmus test of an individual's character is how equally they consider this.
In the military, in business, and in life, accountability matters.
Hold whatever beliefs you want. Act on them. But own those actions and be ready to justify them.
The ultimate cowardice, and obstruction, is blocking others from even asking questions.
Yesterday, 51 senators voted, on almost strict party lines, against requiring a report on human rights abuses and American deaths in the West Bank. One said they must "stand with our ally Israel as they beat back the scourge of Iranian-backed terrorism."
That isn't a defense. It's blind allegiance. They don’t even want to see a report, not even one on the deaths of Americans.
Accountability? Apparently not for some.
If you get the opportunity, Watch 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫.
I did.
Even if you think you know what is going on in Gaza, you will be shocked. Forget the propaganda and the arguments about who was where first, or 10/7, or 10/6, or 1948, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Just see what is being done today, and ask yourself if you agree with that.
This is the real character litmus of our times.
Many people will choose not to see it because once you do, you can't claim you didn't know. And once you know, if you do nothing, you tacitly support what is happening and you are complicit. It's easier to just not know, but it's also cowardly.
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Trump signed an executive order in September designating Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
Antifa has no leader, no membership roster, no bank account. It's not an organization. It's a label.
Three days later, a separate directive spelled out what actually counts as terroristic now: anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity, opposing the current administration, holding views on family and morality the government doesn't share.
None of that is violence. All of it is now on the list.
I flew CH-53s in a war against people who actually planted bombs. This isn't that. This is a government defining which beliefs are dangerous based on their party.
What happens when the party in power changes again and they redefine the list, and it's your beliefs on the list?
Which worries you more?
50 Joint Staff officers and civilian officials were polygraphed polygraphed in August, over leaks that U.S. munitions stockpiles were running thin from arming Ukraine and fighting Iran.
This isn't Hegseth's first polygraph tantrum. In 2025 he screamed at Adm. Christopher Grady, "I'll hook you up to a f---ing polygraph," over a leaked Musk briefing. His own aides then ran polygraphs on Pentagon colleagues this spring, at least one without Hegseth's knowledge, to undercut internal rivals, not to catch leakers.
Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican, has publicly called Hegseth's management destructive and asked Trump to reconsider his position.
The leak itself was accountability journalism. Congress and the public learned the U.S. is burning through a finite category of weapons faster than anyone was told. The response to that leak has been fifty polygraphs, a chairman exempted, and a pattern of loyalty tests dressed up as counterintelligence.
So, which worries you more: the government hiding how fast it's running out of weapons, or the Defense Secretary running lie detectors on people who tell you it is?
Ever wonder what $104 Million could buy?
AIPAC and its super PAC spent $104.3 million in this election cycle, so apparently that is what controlling congress costs.
Yesterday the House paid back their benefactors using your rights as currency.
The House passed a bill that strips all federal aid from any university that boycotts Israel, and here's what that actually means. You can organize a boycott against Ford. Against Bud Light. Against Target. Against any American company, against any American state, against any other country on this earth, or even against the United States itself, and the First Amendment protects your right to do so. The Supreme Court in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware said so unanimously in 1982.
But if you try that against Israel while touching one dollar of federal money (your tax money), Congress just voted to take that dollar back.
No other country gets this. Not Russia. Not Saudi Arabia. Not China. One country in the world has a federal law built specifically to punish American institutions for boycotting it. That's what $104 million buys.
The Constitution doesn't have a carve-out for foreign policy lobbies, but our Congress just wrote one anyway.
I would ask: “whose interests is that bill actually protecting?” but that is pretty obvious. Instead I’ll ask, how long do we keep letting other countries buy our politicians and allow our rights to be subordinated?
Canada just spent $500 million to lure 48 researchers from Harvard, Yale, MIT, and UMass.
They aren't immigrants fleeing poverty. They're tenured professors fleeing their home.
Scientists don't run from strength. They run from rot they can see before the rest of us can.
64 scientists total. 48 American. 21 Canadian universities cashing in on research this country trained and funded for decades.
Germany's top scientists ran the same way in the 1930s. They didn't leave because Germany got poor. They left because they saw what was coming before everyone else did. Einstein left in 1933. Most of the country didn't understand what was happening until 1939.
64 just ran. Is anyone paying attention?
Israel just threatened to retaliate against Britain for objecting to new illegal settlements.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar told Israeli media this week: "If Britain acts against the State of Israel, the State of Israel will act against Britain."
Israel announced E1, 1,234 illegal housing units as part of a larger 3,401-unit project. E1 would connect Ma'ale Adumim to Jerusalem and cut the West Bank in two. No corridor, no contiguous territory, no two-state solution possible...forever.
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband called it a threat to the two-state solution and promised sanctions within weeks. Prime Minister Andy Burnham called it a red line.
Britain isn't a hostile power, and has given Israel decades of diplomatic cover second only to that which the U.S. gave them. Israel's answer to a policy objection from an ally was a threat.
Friends that are only friends when you agree with them aren't friends. They're users.
The pattern is clear. How long until they openly turn on the U.S.?
Propaganda isn't even hiding anymore. It's getting applause.
Orwell gave us a warning: 'Who controls the past controls the future.' Pompeo just said it out loud as a strategy.
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Netanyahu appeals to Israeli voters by boasting that he manipulated Trump:
“it took a long time to get the US to come to its senses” but I finally got it to attack Iran due to my “influence” over its leaders through “1000 hours on American television”
History is interesting because it is like watching the same movie plot with different actors and a different set. The storyline is the same and you know what's going to happen. You're just curious to see how they portray it.
Iran, 1953
Guatemala, 1954
Chile, 1973
Panama, 1989
Iraq, 2003
Libya, 2011
Venezuela, 2026
Plot synopsis :
Leader resists U.S. terms on a resource 🡪 Leader gets recast domestically as a criminal, dictator, or security threat, usually regarding something other than the wanted resource 🡪 Military or covert action removes them 🡪 The U.S. installs a friendlier, more subservient successor 🡪 The new government signs the resource deal the predecessor wouldn't.
Venezuela already finished the sequel. Nicolás Maduro was captured January 3, not deposed, captured, and shipped to New York on narcoterrorism charges the DOJ built around a cartel label. Delcy Rodríguez took over as interim president. Three days ago she signed the deal: 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, a 25-year project, and $19 a barrel flowing back to Caracas while a U.S.-controlled joint venture keeps the rest.
Marco Rubio called it a win for both countries. Watch the movie again and tell me which country wins more.
I told you Iran was next.
I told you Turkiye was after that.
Watch it happen in real time.
Israel just bombed an airbase in Idlib, on the Turkish border, over a Turkish troop movement US intelligence says never happened.
Syria. Lebanon. Iraq. Iran. Now Turkiye.
Netanyahu wants a superpower. He is going to force Washington to choose between a NATO ally and Israel. It will not be pretty.