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Media-world retiree and damn glad to be out of that mess. My wife is the writer and performer Polly Frost. Check her out at https://teapaw.org/t.co/bhw0xHn7SC

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Joined June 2008
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California, where you’ll need i.d. to buy whey protein but voting in elections is open to anyone who shows up.
🚨 Gavin Newsom signs a new California law requiring ID to purchase creatine and protein powder, starting Jan. 1, 2027.
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Dems doing what Dems are gonna do: stand up for criminals and it easier for themselves to hide what they themselves have been up to.
🚨A new law went into effect in Virginia that makes it easier for accused criminals to seal their crimes from public view. Supporters insist the idea behind the law was to help accused and convicted criminals get jobs and housing. But the new law also makes it more difficult for the public to find out if prosecutors botched or dropped cases and allowed criminals to walk free. There have been some cases where 7News has shown Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and his office making major mistakes or dropping charges in cases like Abdul Jalloh, who is now accused of murdering a single mother – and a total stranger - earlier this year. But under this new Clean Slate law, those mistakes, dropped charges, or lenient plea deals can be hidden from the public. For instance, today, this new law blocked 7News from seeing what happened in a sexual assault case.
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Ray Sawhill retweeted
Our incoming Texas Governor would like to end school choice, remarkably, she would also like to bring back abortions. So....she'll fight for your right to abort your baby, but if you don't abort, you shouldn't be able to choose the best school to educate them in. Unless your wealthy, then you can. It's a strange world.
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Imagine demanding impeachment of Hegseth when this was your guy
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Why is Russel Brand in prison but Prince Andrew is not?
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For the record, as NYC comptroller, Brad Lander oversaw the distribution of billions of dollars in tax money to nonprofits employing his wife as a consultant. What was her role as consultant? How to secure grants from the city. I wish I was making that up, but that’s how out in the open corruption is in this city. Brad’s wife was/is well known as the queen of nonprofits. They made MILLIONS off this grift. Now he’s lecturing us about the oath of office? Please.
INCOMING DEM REP. BRAD LANDER (NY): "We can impeach Pete Hegseth and show those consequences for violating your oath of office." When asked who else: "I got a big list." Not even sworn in yet. This is what the New Democrat majority has planned.
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Ah, Paris, city of love, food and art.
Student rioters stormed a high school in Paris today and started launching fireworks in classrooms. One of the student rioters can be heard screaming: “In the name of Allah, have some fireworks”
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Ray Sawhill retweeted
Aside from breaking into your house, Raul didn’t break any laws once he was inside. In fact, after taking up residence in your basement, he was a dignified squatter— always picking up his cigarette butts and empty beer cans. And since bringing his welfare momma into your house, they now have six children (if you’re wondering where your food has been going)— do you really want to kick a family out onto the streets? It is our hope that the Dignity Act will give Raul and his family permanent legal residence and partial ownership of your house. And if you don’t like it, we’ll be sure to let your boss know you have a problem sharing your home with Mexicans!
Well done, Mr. President! What you described on 60 Minutes is what the Dignity Act is all about. A Republican-led immigration bill with BIPARTISAN support. “Get the killers out.” You said it. ABSOLUTELY! You said it: Keep “good people working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel” who have been contributing to America for years. You said it: Those who have been here for 10 or 15 years: “Work a deal for them.” That’s the core of the Dignity legislation. Immigration is not just border security. It’s about the ECONOMY and AFFORDABILITY: housing, groceries, healthcare, manufacturing. Mr. President, I have said it repeatedly. YOU can bring Republicans and Democrats together to finally fix our broken immigration system. A 40-year problem. You can surpass Reagan’s legacy by delivering a historic immigration reform. This is your moment.
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The country that stood around and watched 250,000 British girls get raped by Pakistani migrants draws the line at Russell Brand.
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How do you negotiate with a party that has gone insane? “Maybe a few years ago you could trust Dems to stick to any deal, but now they basically seem to feel any immigration controls are racist.”
The problem with any amnesty "deal" is it is unenforceable against Democrats. Suppose they agree that after 10 years illegals get to stay. The next time they get in power, Dems will pass a new law saying it's 3 years and they'll open the border, Biden-style. There is nothing to stop them. You can't control their future actions the way you can in an ordinary business deal, where one party promises they'll do X and if they renege and do anti-X you can take them to court. Maybe a few years ago you could trust Dems to stick to any deal, but now they basically seem to feel any immigration controls are racist. Note that it doesn't work the other way around. Dems don't have to trust Republicans to stick to any amnesty promise, because once people are amnestied they cannot be unamnestied. And once they are in the country it is very hard to get them out, as we have discovered.
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Conquest underway.
‼️CONQUERED - ISLAMIZATION OF COLORADO IS OFFICIALLY LOCKED IN Governor-elect Phil Weiser just ran straight to the group that helped deliver him the election. Colorado Muslim Vote hosted a “meaningful dialogue” with the new governor-elect, gathering Muslim leaders and organizations representing more than 50,000 Coloradans. The roster is long, deliberate, and dangerous: Colorado Muslim Society, Muslim Youth for Positive Impact, Hasan Family Foundation, Crescent View Academy, Islamic Center of Fort Collins, Colorado Sudanese Community, Islamic Center of Aurora, Highlands Ranch Islamic Association, South East Aurora Islamic Center, Masjid Khadeejah, Masjid Noor, Islamic Center of Castle Rock, Colorado Muslim Community Center, US Palestinian Action Network, Colorado Palestinian Coalition, Broomfield Mosque, Boulder Mosque, South Denver Islamic Society, Masjid Shuhadah, Masjid Salam, Masjid Ikhlas, African Leadership Group, Colorado Indonesian Muslim Community, Pakistani American community of Colorado. They organized. They showed up. They extracted the meeting. Weiser is already signaling he knows exactly who helped put him in office. Meanwhile, Christian and Jewish communities that dwarf them in raw numbers continue to sit on the sidelines. Mosques and Islamic centers keep multiplying across Denver, Colorado Springs, Aurora, Fort Collins, Castle Rock, and Highlands Ranch. Bloc voting on Islamophobia, open borders, and Palestine/Hamas First, attacking law enforcement agencies, hating America and turning her Islamic is now a proven path to access. If you’re still waiting for someone else to “stop the Islamization,” stop and GET INVOLVED! . Churches can register as polling stations tomorrow. Congregations can treat elections like the high-stakes contests they already are. A community that turns out in the 90th percentile will keep outmaneuvering one that treats voting as optional. Colorado just demonstrated the model. Organized, high-turnout Muslims set the terms. Everyone else can either match the engagement or keep posting about it after the fact. We BETTER start getting engaed - we are watching our takeover in real time
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Islam must be defined correctly: a political order of a foreign state with a religious component. Islam and every Islamic institution must be stripped of their tax benefits, and every faithful Muslim running for office in America must be seen as a foreign agent of a hostile foreign state. Islam must be criticized openly, and anyone pushing for Islamophobia laws must be seen as a traitor to the West.
When al-Qaeda struck on 9/11, why did Western academia know so little about jihadism? @DanielPipes, @DanBurmawy, @AndrewPessin, @Richard_Landes and @zriboua examined the question at the Nineteenth Annual #ASMEAConference. #ASMEAScholars
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“They are literally just giving our money away to people who shouldn’t even be here. They are funding your replacements.”
Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal announces the opening of a new ‘Immigrant Welcome Center ‘ in New York Here foreigners can come signup for “free legal assistance, healthcare benefit assistance” housing, EBT Food Stamps and more Paid for by taxpayers. American Taxpayers get nothing, foreigners get everything for free. This should make you furious. They are literally just giving our money away to people who shouldn’t even be here. They are funding your replacements Democrats talk about Americans not being able to afford healthcare then go force Americans to pay for foreigners to have free healthcare… which also drives up costs for all of us so it’s like we pay twice. Once with higher taxes and again with higher healthcare costs
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Patriots are the enemy!!! “The progressive left displays boundless empathy for criminal foreign invaders, yet treats a wounded American combat veteran with pure contempt. This is not justice. This is ideological revenge executed by an untouchable administrative elite.”
BREAKING: OBAMA STATE APPARAT ENFORCES SADISTIC RETRIBUTION AGAINST TRIPLE-AMPUTEE WAR HERO WHO EXPOSED FEDERAL BORDER COLLAPSE The administrative machinery of the progressive establishment has reached an absolute nadir of moral depravity. The partisan legal machine targeting conservative patriots has moved beyond lawfare into pure torment. Brian Kolfage, a decorated Air Force veteran who sacrificed three of his limbs on the battlefield in Iraq, is now the target of unadulterated state vengeance. His crime was demonstrating that private citizens could build a formidable border wall at half the cost and ten times the speed of the federal bureaucracy. Today, the Democrat-aligned federal justice apparatus is actively attempting to crush his physical body and financial future. State-Sponsored Degradation of a Triple Amputee The judicial ruling saddling Kolfage with seventy-five hundred hours of mandatory community service over three years exposes the chilling malice inside the federal enforcement regime. Under the explicit provisions of his supervised release, the federal government already recognized that Kolfage suffers from a permanent, severe physical disability, officially exempting him from ordinary employment requirements. Yet, probation handlers have aggressively rejected remote, computer-based volunteer options. Kolfage located accessible nonprofit opportunities where he could execute sophisticated web development and IT services from home with his single functional hand. Bureaucratic overseers flatly denied the accommodation. Instead, federal authorities ordered a triple amputee who relies on a wheelchair to report in person and carry out grueling manual labor. The grotesque nature of this enforcement reached absurdity when authorities directed him toward an animal shelter. For an individual lacking legs and utilizing only one arm, such an assignment demands shoveling waste, wrestling animals, and navigating hazardous conditions. Kolfage requires direct physical assistance from his children simply to exit his vehicle and transition into a wheelchair when not utilizing prosthetics. Enforcing in-person physical labor against a man who left three limbs in the sands of the Middle East is calculated degradation designed to humiliate an American hero. Weaponized Bankruptcy and Physical Humiliation This campaign of institutional cruelty is financial warfare. The Southern District of New York apparatus imposed an astronomical restitution debt approaching three million dollars. The federal machine is actively compounding that figure by bleeding Kolfage for one hundred twenty-eight thousand dollars per year in compounding interest alone. The intent is total financial liquidation to guarantee that an outspoken conservative voice dies in destitution. This sadism follows a pattern established during his confinement, when federal monitors fastened a bulky, heavy electronic ankle monitor directly to his remaining left arm. The sight of a war veteran forced to wear an ankle monitor on his last functional hand while attempting to manage basic human survival lays bare the soul of the left-wing administrative state. The Real Offense: Outperforming the Regime The left will never forgive Brian Kolfage because he destroyed their narrative of open borders. Founding We Build the Wall, Kolfage bypassed federal inertia and constructed monumental barriers along the southern border. The organization conquered rugged cliffs and bouldered mountain ridges in Sunland Park, New Mexico, where federal engineers declared construction impossible. That single private sector initiative choked off crossings by seven hundred illegal invaders per week and stopped an estimated million dollars in weekly cartel drug shipments. When the initiative poured millions more into constructing barriers directly against the Rio Grande in Mission, Texas, and prepared to expand operations into California, the Democrat establishment realized their agenda was compromised. Private American citizens were exposing the federal government as incompetent and complicit. The political class shut the operation down, imprisoned Kolfage for fifty-one months, and unleashed an army of ideological prosecutors. The progressive left displays boundless empathy for criminal foreign invaders, yet treats a wounded American combat veteran with pure contempt. This is not justice. This is ideological revenge executed by an untouchable administrative elite. The incoming administration must deliver an immediate presidential pardon to Brian Kolfage and dismantle the rogue apparatus that enacted this vengeance.
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If a Democrat wins in 2028, understand that tens of millions of illegals will pour across our borders. Most of them (like under Biden) will stay forever.
Hundreds of migrants, mostly Hondurans, left the Mexican border town of Metapa de Dominguez in a caravan and walked to the city of Tapachula in Chiapas state. Migrants told Reuters they foresaw a weakening of President Trump's anti-migrant policies after the midterm elections
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Islam has been trying to conquer the Christian West for centuries.
I was an Army Intel analyst for Special Forces and military police sergeant and I have spent over 40 collective months in Afghanistan over my 23 years of service. My background taught me how this actually works. I LIVED in their country. I SAW how they move and operate when they already hold power, and I STUDIED how they take a country when they don't. I saw girls beaten with fists and sticks. Kicked. I saw girls faces disfigured from acid attacks because they DARED to want to learn and have an education. I saw little boys as young as 9 years old treated as sexual entertainment through the accepted practice of bacha bazi (Chai Boys). I saw many a 'Man Love Thursday'. TOO MANY. I saw a culture where a woman accusing a powerful man of sexual abuse WOULD face shame, punishment and very likely DEATH because a man's word carried more weight than hers. Little girls are married off, bought and sold like livestock. These girls do not get a choice. It's either do it or DIE. They are controlled and hidden away underneath a burka. Inside a compound. No rights. No voice. They are OWNED by men. Five years after the Taliban returned to power, this isn't ancient history. Girls are still barred from school. Women are still hidden, abused and powerless. The Taliban has issued more than 100 decrees restricting women and girls and made child marriage and forced marriage even harder to escape. This is what I saw with my own eyes time and time again all over that country. This is what I KNOW. And this is what I see right now IN MY OWN COUNTRY, unfolding before our very eyes......and its f*cking terrifying. When Muslims are not the majority, they play a VERY different game. They label you an Islamaphobe. They demand tolerance. They demand their own rules. They build mosques and preach a 'Death to America' message from INSIDE our own country and make us pay them for it with our own tax dollars. They shame you for noticing. Then the second they see a path to power, they get bold. They see that path in America right now. An IMAM in TEXAS just said it out loud......he said on camera, now that the state 'turned blue', it's their chance to TAKE OVER. That's why they're getting more brazen by the day. Next, they'll build more mosques with Americans' tax dollars. They'll keep infiltrating our government so they can fight us from the inside. And once that foothold is strong enough, they WILL start implementing Sharia law. I've already seen that ending. We HAVE to REJECT this and KICK THEM THE F*CK OUT!!! We owe it to our daughters and our sons not to let that shit live here. 🇺🇸🪖 Spread this message like our kids' lives depend on it because they 100% DO!!!! Below is one of the many schools we built that the Taliban seized after we left country. I'm the one in the middle. 5'2 but locked and loaded. And thanking GOD every day that I took a breath in that country that- 1. I had guns and bullets 2. That I was an American 3. That I had the full force of the United States military on my side Seeing this very same religion and culture that's destroyed so many other countries come to MY America is even scarier than seeing it there. This is OUR home. But it will be unrecognizable if we don't stand up and FIGHT against this with everything we have!
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Elon: builds incredible companies, is singlehandedly stopping the world from giving up on space and sinking into the dismal mud of the global favela Democrats: doing everything possible to stop him because they desire the global favela above all else
Replying to @WSJPolitics
SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government. And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area. As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.
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Reminder of how a one-party state operates.
EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year. We went inside the system and exposed it all.
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Heroes!
History will remember two men as the ones who exposed the empire of lies: Javier Milei and Nayib Bukele. For decades, the same class of experts, NGOs, think tanks and international institutions told us two things were impossible. That you could kill inflation without destroying a country. That you could kill violent crime without "addressing root causes" for another 30 years. Milei took the first one. Argentina, December 2023: inflation over 200% a year, 25% in a single month. A central bank printing money to fund a state that had become a vote-buying machine. Every economist on TV predicted a social explosion if anyone touched it. He cut the number of ministries in half. He balanced the budget in his first year. Monthly inflation went from 25% to under 2%. Poverty, which peaked at 52.9% right after the devaluation, fell to 28%, the lowest since 2018. It's not a straight line, poverty ticked back up this year, and he says so himself. But the point is proven: the "impossible" was possible all along. The lesson is brutal. Endless money printing was never a technocratic necessity. It was a hidden tax on the poor, quietly paying for the people who designed the system and lived off it. Bukele took the second one. El Salvador, 2015: 106 homicides per 100,000 people. The most violent country on earth outside a war zone. Gangs ran neighborhoods, taxed every bus driver and every street vendor, and decided who lived and who died. El Salvador, 2025: 1.3 per 100,000. Lower than the United States. Every international expert said it couldn't be done. The NGOs called it barbaric. Salvadorans re-elected him with over 80% of the vote, because they're the ones who used to bury their kids. And now his helicopters are in Haiti, pulling his own soldiers out of gang territory, telling the gangs: we finished with ours, we can finish with you. So ask yourself the real question. If it was this simple, why didn't anyone do it? Because an entire ecosystem lived off the problem. Inflation funded the state that funded the clients that funded the elections. Crime created fear, and fear created demand for programs, consultants, studies, panels, subsidies and "experts" who never had to deliver a result. In Latin America it was the gangs. In the West it's mass immigration with no integration and crime with no consequences. Different symptom, same business model: the problem is never solved because too many people are paid to manage it. Milei and Bukele didn't just fix two countries. They published the proof. Every politician who still says "it's complicated" now has to explain why a guy with a chainsaw and a guy with a baseball cap did in two years what they couldn't do in forty. Thank you Javier Milei. Thank you Nayib Bukele. The world is going to heal with your solutions. Europe is next. We're waiting.
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