29 thoughts on “News/Politics 4-18-26

  1. I’m thinking we now know who the millions smuggled out of Minnesota airports belonged to, and why it never raised a red flag.

    https://x.com/i/status/2045323253917327803

    “Rep. Ilhan Omar filed documents with Congress saying her wealth was between $6 million and $30 million. Now she says that was a mistake, and her wealth is actually between $18,000 and $95,000. That’s quite a difference. From @WSJ:”

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  2. “When a “charity” receives 96% of its income from the federal government, it is NOT A CHARITY, it is a GOVERNMENT AGENCY…

    Progressives hate the mixture of church and state, until it benefits their desire to import people who hate us.”

    https://x.com/i/status/2045111474314502572

    https://x.com/i/status/2044793684974039342

    “1/ This Catholic Charities shelter in Miami received 96% of its income ($29 million) from the federal government in 2022. It spent $14 million on “other salaries and wages.” Further, it was UNLICENSED by the state of Florida at the time, yet ORR still contracted with them.

    Source: 7th Presentment of the Florida Statewide Grand Jury on NGOs from 2024″

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    The 2nd tweet is a thread, click it for more…

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  3. People should be outraged by what these criminals have done.

    Not just Biden and Dems, that includes the Pope and his church’s human trafficking op.

    This and only this, is the reason these fraud Cardinals and their leader are speaking out and upset.

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    “Total funding during the Biden years $2B”

    https://x.com/i/status/2044835267106721852

    “The church is down about a billion since Trump came into office.”

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  4. Burn. It. Down.

    https://x.com/i/status/2044900302567231715

    “DEVELOPING: As @USATTYPIRRO Launches Swalwell Tip Line, @RepLuna Says Major “Purge” on Capitol Hill is Just Beginning; Calls Swalwell’s Potentially Criminal Conduct an Open Secret And Vows to Expose Taxpayer “Slush Fund” Used For Sexual Harassment Settlements”

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    The full interview between Rep Luna and Catherine Herridge can be viewed here 👇

    https://x.com/i/status/2044900305553252403

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  5. Everything she says is a lie.

    https://x.com/i/status/2044849875066421615

    “I think of war through the lens of someone who survived one. It means displacement and irreversible trauma.

    The continued war with Iran will mean more death, more suffering, and more chaos.

    End the war.”

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    Reality.

    https://x.com/i/status/2045218072735211605

    “Her father was a war lord who perpetrated a genocide.

    She didn’t “survive war.” Her family was the cause of it.”

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  6. Just a reminder, the parliamentarian is a democrat that Thune refuses to replace.

    https://x.com/i/status/2045157762145874246

    “Anna Paulina Luna is right. John Thune could simply remove the parliamentarian, place a republican in that spot who will motion that the SAVE act only needs 51 votes to pass.

    They have let a Democrat control how many votes a bill needs since 2012.”

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  7. Thune. MUST. Go.

    https://x.com/i/status/2045477662164951442

    “The GOP. Grand Old Procrastinators. DOJ could simply have subpoenaed the Senate months ago and gone to court to enforce it. Instead, the Thune Senate plays a tired game of parliamentary tactics with Democrats who aren’t interested in disclosure.”

    Protecting the NTer wing’s deep state lackeys…

    https://x.com/i/status/2045469900827681079

    “John Thune’s Senate has delayed weaponization prosecutors in John Brennan probe for two months”

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  8. Well thats odd…. 🤔

    The same media that helped RINOs, NTers, and Dems to push these lies, aren’t very eager to tell the truth now that it’s out.

    Because it implicates them as well.

    https://x.com/i/status/2044840685619028220

    “Update: ZERO coverage as of today by @WSJ @washingtonpost & @nytimes

    Guess we now know for sure who they all report to.

    “How likely is it that U.S. intelligence agencies are influencing news media coverage of political issues?”

    All Voters-38% Very likely

    27% Somewhat likely

    19% Not very likely

    9% Not at all likely

    7% Not sure”

    https://x.com/i/status/2045525853748998569

    “MONDAY: New @DNIGabbard Fraudulent Impeachment Disclosures

    A majority of all voters are apparently unaware of this new bombshell story, the highest number that we have seen.

    And why not? The news embargo on them from legacy media is almost complete.”

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  9. The Atlantic is about to be sued into oblivion.

    Can’t wait. 🙂

    https://x.com/i/status/2045571487361372525

    “The 10 Biggest Vulnerabilities in The Atlantic’s Patel Story

    1. Every source is anonymousNine people for the freak-out story, six for the drinking claims, all unnamed. Not one source has gone on record.

    2. The sources have concrete motive to leak

    Patel ordered polygraphs on roughly 40 senior FBI officials starting in early 2025 to identify leakers. Senior agent Michael Feinberg resigned rather than submit. The anonymous sources attacking Patel are, by definition, the people Patel has been trying to identify, polygraph, and fire.

    3. The reporter carries a patternFitzpatrick spent years as Senior Investigative Producer at NBC News and MSNBC.

    The FBI notes similarities between this piece and 2025 MSNBC allegations about Patel’s drinking, which are already in litigation. Same reporter ecosystem, same target, same kind of anonymous sourcing, now at a third outlet. The Atlantic version sits on top of a live legal dispute about the underlying sourcing.”

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  10. Been telling you for years, these people are not journalists.”

    https://x.com/i/status/2045301920739524797

    “The Atlantic’s @S_Fitzpatrick is fighting accusations that she is lying in her reporting.

    Multiple people are now claiming she makes stuff up despite factual evidence to the contrary.

    Multiple Republicans have had the same encounters.

    Who is her editor at @TheAtlantic?!

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  11. Huh. 🤔

    So we could end our “Karen” problem, and the Dems would have less protesters.

    https://x.com/i/status/2045299520632947037

    “Two weeks without mobile internet improved mental health more than antidepressants and reversed roughly 10 years of attentional decline.

    Screen time dropped 49% (314 to 161 min/day).”

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    https://x.com/i/status/2045314524962545861

    “Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks

    Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains”

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  12. Read the whole thing…

    https://x.com/i/status/2045735009374376070

    “Speaking as someone inside Iran who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to say this loud and clear:

    President Trump’s recent video on Truth Social — showing Iranian protesters writing “President Trump please help” on walls, waving Lion and Sun flags alongside American flags, replaying raw footage of the revolution and saying “I’m with you, I will fight for you and I will win for you” — is music to our ears.

    The flames of the Lion and Sun uprising have not died down. They are simply waiting for the right moment to roar again.

    It was @realDonaldTrump, alongside @netanyahu and @PahlaviReza who told us to stay in our homes, stay safe, and wait until help arrives and Operation Epic Fury is complete. That’s exactly what millions of us have been doing.

    There is enormous pent-up anger, grief, and anxiety inside Iran right now — but also real hope. All of it is ready to be unleashed the moment the opportunity comes.”

    “We tried to bring this regime down before, but we were mostly unarmed while they were armed to the teeth. Over 40,000 were slaughtered in cold blood, with many more executed, tortured, or thrown in prison. We need help to level the playing field. Then we will rise again—and this time, we will succeed. When we do, we will never forget who stood with us; our debt will be paid in full and more.

    Iranians are more pro-America than many Americans on X, because we have seen American values and said: “Yes, that is what we want too.” That includes the First Amendment — which needs no explanation — and the Second Amendment, which hits especially close to home. An armed Iranian people could never have been oppressed like this for so long. No one should ever have to surrender their guns, and no one should have to hide like a criminal just for having free internet. I should not be forced to run and conceal myself for simply owning @Starlink.”

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  13. For those looking for more of a deep dive into Trumps foreign policy plan, here’s a really good analysis.

    https://x.com/i/status/2045508417603727870

    “While the world fixates on Hormuz, the US has quietly locked power projection over all four critical chokepoint straits:

    Panama

    Hormuz

    Malacca

    Gibraltar

    Orchestrated within a mere 15 months of taking office, this is a massive realignment with global repercussions 🧵”

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  14. Lawmakers that aren’t impeaching judges like this are not doing their jobs. That goes for local, state, and federal…

    https://x.com/i/status/2045557945296118175

    “The judge who kept a criminal on the street — until he killed 26-year-old UT engineering grad Larissa Herold — was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Brazilian foreign exchange student living in her home.

    In 2006, Chantal Eldridge gave the student alcohol and asked him to play strip poker with her, before they had sex in his bedroom. Her 8-year-old son was in the house.

    The placement company banned her but the DA declined to prosecute, partly because the student had returned to Brazil. Eldridge won her judicial election that November.

    Her first trial as judge (in 2019) involved a man convicted by jury of raping his cleaning lady. Eldridge declined to issue a jail sentence. A visiting judge ordered her off the case, finding a reasonable person would question her impartiality on sexual assault. She also employed a registered sex offender as her court coordinator.

    As of now, Eldridge is running unopposed in November.”

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  15. “A judge in Austin had three separate chances to send Jaheim Neal to prison before he killed Larissa Herold. She denied every one.

    Neal was on plea-deal probation for a 2020 aggravated kidnapping and robbery. In the meantime, he picked up arrests for assault, drugs, and a bunch of other crimes. The DA filed three motions to revoke. Judge Chantal Eldridge denied all three.

    One Saturday last fall, 26-year-old Larissa was stopped at a red light at Parmer and Mopac, driving home from volunteering at a community garden. Neal was on the service road – speeding with no valid license, on alcohol and cocaine and pot. He jumped multiple barriers and slammed into her car. She died at the scene.

    Since 2021, Travis County judges have denied 68% (or 5,400) of motions to revoke probation or deferred adjudication. Occasionally, an Austin prosecutor will try to put away a violent offender, but it’s the judge who sends them back to the streets.

    Larissa was a mechanical engineer with two UT degrees. Her father still keeps her plants in the front room of his house. “She was my daughter, she was my friend,” he said.

    Great reporting by @BriHollisNEWS and @hueyjayd – link in replies.”

    https://x.com/i/status/2045307967520567652

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  16. Murphy is a traitor.

    He even brags about undermining his president and country.

    https://x.com/i/status/2045669232474791964

    “Many of these groups are fascist, anti-American, and Communists.

    Attending this event as a U.S. Senator while bashing America is very concerning to me.

    This was an error in judgment to legitimize these groups.

    The U.S. media have a responsibility to show America who these groups are.”

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    “I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.”

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  17. Noting Omar’s weird accounting, i wondered who was the richest people in Congress, its a bipartisan list and the wealth is astounding. No wonder, they don’t do anything for the ordinary American — the uni-party is definitely real.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_wealth

    I note Rick Scott is number 3. Say what you will about any other member of Congress, Republican or Democrat, Scott is the epitome of corruption. Start with him, when you throw stones.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott#Columbia/HCA

    hrw

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  18. 7-11 has been “restructuring” for the last decade. Most of their Canadian and overseas operations have ceased — they can’t compete against supermarkets open 24 hours with lower prices.

    Trying to sort out which Somali is guilty of a war crime is near impossible especially over 25 years ago. Civil wars are brutal that way. Given the recent spurt of war crimes attention should be given elsewhere

    Social media does increase depression and anxiety — its why tech bros won’t give their kids devices and instead enroll them in Montessori. Perhaps less Twitter might be helpful to some.

    The Economist is a neoliberal rag — if they approve of something, the policy will benefit the rich elite and the establishment.

    Right of centre to far right have united internationally under the banner International Democratic Union headed by former Canadian PM Harper. They were extremely active in the Hungarian elections as was Vance. They’ve also been involved in promoting right wing populist parties throughout in the world. Its about time the centre left and left have united to counter that threat but I don’t expect much — the left has far more internal divisions than the right (the latter is easily bought)

    hrw

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  19. I was amused to read of Patel’s drinking habits — they’ve long been rumoured — his frequent flights to Las Vegas, use of FBI aircraft to follow his girlfriend, parties with UFC, wrestling, etc. There appear to be a culture of heavy drinking with some members of Trump’s admin — Hesgeth for one. It’s odd because Trump is famously a non-drinker.

    Personally I thought Patel was more into coke or adderall or other stimulants, which also seem to be popular among the Trump admin (and with less consequences than alcohol use)

    I’ve already mentioned this the last time you posted a tweet about Trump’s overseas policies. Its not a major realignment — its the same it has been for almost 8 decades. To project power, the US is a naval power (unlike China and Russia which are land empires). In the post WW2 era it took over the control of the high seas from the UK. Although the UK has bases in Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus and thus projects power in the Mediterranean, the US has taken over elsewhere — Panama, Djibouti, Suez, Singapore and the naval picket fence in front of China, plus the land barrier on Russia by NATO. This is standard US policy — it ebbs and flows depending on president (notably ebbing with Carter) the naval overseas forces have always been present.

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  20. While I agree many in government are thieves Omar and Scott don’t even come close comparatively. He actually co owns a legit company ie capitalism and her sorry entitled foreigner fraudster self has robbed taxpayers for her “countrymen” and that would not be Americans! It’s interesting how many made millions on “investments” ie insider trading! Can you say Pelosi!!!?

    And 7-11’s are all owned by those from India around here….many if not most not citizens….I never patronize 7-11’s

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  21. I am sorry to hear about the 7-11’s closing. We don’t go to any and I am actually unsure if we have any around anymore. We just had another couple of businesses closing due to mines being closed for a while now. There is always a ripple effect from that happening. It is a very difficult time for anyone who loses a job and for their families.

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