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From this proud vet to all of you! Happy Veterans Day!
It was an honor and privilege to serve with all of you! Every Service, specialty, all over the globe! We’re the best in the world! No doubt! Thank you! 🫡 🇺🇸
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Just one more reason why my appeal at the Supreme Court is so important. Jeff Clark is as good a lawyer as it gets - and the bastards took away his bar card. So read this and pass it on.
The White House Counsel's Office has now put the incoming Oversight Chair on written notice, and the letter goes straight to the controlling law. Quoting the Supreme Court in Watkins, investigations "conducted solely for the personal aggrandizement of the investigators or to 'punish' those investigated are indefensible." Congress, it says, cannot use investigations "to exercise powers of criminal prosecution assigned to the Executive and the Judiciary."
That is the heart of what I've been calling Silly Subpoena Season. "Lawyer up" is not the language of legislating. It's the language of a unchecked prosecutor. And when members brag about handing out subpoenas like "candy" and "Mardi Gras beads," as the letter notes, they are building the record a court will read later when it asks whether a subpoena serves a valid legislative purpose. Mazars tells courts to look hard at exactly that, and at breadth, when Congress comes after the President's information.
Don't misread the letter as a refusal to deal. It's the opening move in the accommodation process, which is the Constitution's actual structural answer here. Name the legislation you're considering, tailor the request to it, and negotiate. If that fails, the fight belongs in a civil case.
What it doesn't belong in is a grand jury. That's why Licavoli has to go and why the Navarro case matters now. Oversight is a serious constitutional power. A subpoena is a tool for legislating, not a party favor or a frivolous festival bead.
@RealPNavarro
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Michel Houellebecq, one of France's best-known novelists and the author of Submission, is under formal investigation over a 2022 interview predicting a violent backlash against Muslims in France.
He spoke of "Bataclans in reverse" and said native French wanted Muslims to stop "robbing and attacking them", or leave. His lawyers say the remarks contain no call to action, even implied, and that "his place is not in a courtroom".
The reports don't identify which words the judge is relying on, but you don't have to like Houellebecq's language to worry about where this leaves writers tackling subjects polite society would rather they avoided.
ALT Guillaume Nicloux (left) and Michel Houellebecq (right) promoting the film L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq in July 2014. Photo: ActuaLitté, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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An important meeting with Speaker of the Danish Folketing Henrik Frandsen and the leaders of all 12 political parties. Yesterday, Denmark allocated its 32nd defense assistance package for Ukraine, worth €645 million. Parliament voted unanimously in favor of the decision – an example of just how strong the unity around Ukraine is within Denmark. I thanked them for all the support and every decision that makes us stronger and brings peace closer.
Today, I also addressed Danish parliamentarians and thanked each and every one of them personally. It is a great honor for me to be the first foreign leader to have this opportunity – to speak from the rostrum of the Folketing. This is recognition of the courage of the entire Ukrainian people and, above all, our warriors who defend their home and all of Europe. Thank you, Denmark!
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New group dedicated to fighting ‘jihadism’ says ‘jihadism’ has nothing to do with Islam
Some people will defy reason, logic, the contents of Islamic teaching and the historical record in order to avoid being called “racist,” “bigoted” and “Islamophobic.”
Back in the real world, “jihadism” doesn’t even exist. It’s just one element of Islam. Go to any Muslim country and you won’t find a single person who will say “Those people are jihadists, not Muslims.” The people who are doing this are just trying to exonerate Islam from the crimes done in its name and in accord with its teachings, and trying to preserve their own self-image as tolerant and non-bigoted.
Read more at the link in the next post.
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Not even slightly!
(Qatar is batting for the other team)
It is reported that Qatar wants us to give $8 billion to Iran as an opening amount to get them to talk. That would be more than twice what Israel receives over a 2-year period, the vast majority of which never leaves our defense contractors. And Iran has killed and maimed thousands of our people.
Make sense?
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With Mohsen Rezaei now leading the Islamic Republic’s so-called negotiating track and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf relegated, the regime is unlikely to retreat from its maximalist demands.
Both men are longtime Islamic Republic insiders with deep IRGC backgrounds. The difference is how they operate.
Ghalibaf is a political operator with experience managing parliament, civilian institutions and external negotiations. He is not a moderate, but his approach left some room for sequencing, political management and limited compromise within the regime’s red lines.
Rezaei represents the security establishment in its purest form.
The former IRGC commander treats negotiations as a zero-sum confrontation. He demands that the United States “surrender” to seven conditions before talks begin or the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
Those demands include lifting the naval blockade and sanctions, releasing frozen assets, reducing the American military presence, paying reparations and ending hostilities against the regime’s proxies.
Rezaei has also rejected transferring the Islamic Republic’s 60-percent-enriched uranium to Russia.
The regime therefore expects the United States to surrender its pressure while it retains its enriched uranium, Hormuz leverage, missile capabilities and proxy network.
Officials deny that Ghalibaf has been formally removed, but Rezaei now dominates the messaging, receives foreign outreach and publicly defines the conditions.
The shift from Ghalibaf to Rezaei signals that the military-security establishment has tightened its control over the process.
Under Rezaei, compromise becomes capitulation and every demand becomes an inviolable right.
That makes an Islamic Republic retreat far less likely and a serious agreement far more difficult.
The Islamic Republic has rejected transferring its stockpile of 60%-enriched uranium to Russia, deepening the fundamental divide with the United States and undermining prospects for a quick diplomatic breakthrough.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the regime’s Supreme National Security Council, stated:
“We informed our Russian friends that the enriched material will remain in Iran, and we will use it ourselves.”
The message is unambiguous. The Islamic Republic will not allow Russia to hold roughly 440 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent as part of a negotiated settlement.
Russia has repeatedly proposed taking custody of the material, similar to the arrangement used under the 2015 nuclear agreement. Removing it from Iran would create distance between the regime and a potential nuclear weapon while providing negotiators with an immediate confidence-building measure.
The Islamic Republic has refused.
Rezaei has repeated that no enriched material will leave Iran and claims the stockpile is needed for nuclear-powered ships and submarines. More importantly, the regime considers it strategic leverage that can be exchanged only for sweeping American concessions.
The statement also suggests the issue was raised through recent high-level discussions with Russia. Rezaei met Vladimir Putin in early November while carrying a message from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. He has now publicly confirmed that Russia was told the stockpile will remain inside Iran.
This directly reinforces the Islamic Republic’s seven conditions.
The regime is demanding an end to hostilities across the region, the lifting of the American naval blockade, sanctions relief, the release of frozen assets, the withdrawal of American forces, war reparations and an end to external pressure.
Its sequencing is equally important.
The United States must satisfy or guarantee these conditions first. Only then will the Islamic Republic consider reopening the Strait of Hormuz and entering negotiations.
The nuclear issue would come afterward.
That is fundamentally incompatible with the American position.
President Trump has declared that the Islamic Republic will never be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapon. Any serious agreement would therefore need to address the 60-percent stockpile, enrichment capacity and the regime’s ability to rapidly rebuild its program.
The Islamic Republic is instead demanding economic, military and strategic relief while retaining both its enriched uranium and Hormuz leverage.
That is not an offer to exchange nuclear restraint for sanctions relief. It is a demand that the United States surrender its pressure before the regime begins negotiating over the capabilities that created the crisis.
Qatar may have secured a two-week diplomatic window, but it has not narrowed the central disagreement.
The United States wants the nuclear threat reduced before surrendering leverage. The Islamic Republic wants American leverage dismantled before discussing the nuclear threat.
Rezaei’s statement shows that the regime is not preparing an early nuclear concession. It is preserving its most dangerous asset while demanding payment merely to enter negotiations.
Unless one side abandons its sequencing, the diplomatic window will delay the confrontation rather than resolve it.
Well, yes…so what are we going to do about it besides waiting for financial measures & oil blockade to bring it down…some day…?
SECRETARY RUBIO: Behind every single one of these destabilizing activities in the Middle East there's one common denominator — the Iranian regime. They are behind all the instability in the region. They are the source of instability in the region. I think the countries of the region realize that as well.
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امیر فخرآور در نیوزمکس:
جی دی ونس گول قطر و رسانه های چپ را خورد. جنگ ایران دلیل شکست انتخابات نبود چون آمریکا و اسرائیل جنگ را برده اند. مدیریت پس از پیروزی در جنگ مهم است. آمریکا باید اجازه دهد ارتش اسرائیل پسمانده های رژیم را حذف کند و دولت آمریکا از سران اپوزیسیون ایرانی (نه چوپان دروغگو) دعوت کند مجلس موسسان برای ایجاد آلترناتیو را تشکیل دهند.
IRGC regime has told us ‘what next’ - openly declaring intent to be a nuclear power - because they believe destroying Israel & unleashing Armageddon will bring back 12th Imam (Mahdi for them) to usher in End Times & 1,000 yrs of Islamic rule over earth
How long will the Iranian regime hang on? I remember when the question used to be asked about the North Korean government. The people suffer in the most inhumane ways. The regime not only survives but continues to kill and torture. In the case of Iran, the regime believes it is acting for Allah, the appearance of the 12th imam, etc. If it is not eliminated, if it survives, it will not be contained after President Trump leaves office, despite our Western mindset, elections, and isolationists. I believe the public is weary from the constant negotiations and the increase in gas prices (never as high as the Biden years), but that was not the single biggest issue in this election. I see the data. I will never convince the ideologues. So be it. There has not been sustained military action for half a year and no casualties during the same period either. That is not a typical war.
Arlington National Cemetery is filled with Americans who were killed by the Iranian regime and its proxies. They and thousands of others have lost their lives from the forever war against us. President Trump has had the courage to take them on. And history will praise him.
The issue the isolationists never answer is what they would do. Nothing? Get out, they say. The regime would certainly take over the Strait and drive up gas and oil prices. It would certainly continue building thousands of long-range ballistic missiles. It would finish the development of nuclear weapons with the help of China, Russia, and North Korea. Then what?
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BREAKING: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has moved to a military base after Iranian threats against his life reached “more than an advanced stage,” a senior administration official tells Fox News Digital.
The official says the threats prompted Bessent and his family to make the move.
The Treasury Department confirms his relocation and says he will “not be deterred by the Iranian regime’s threats” as he leads efforts to isolate Iran financially through sanctions and trade restrictions.
He’s not the only senior administration official moving into protected housing. See the latest developments: foxnews.com/category/person/…
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This is BS. No foreign country should be allowed to get away with doing this to our government.
I hope President Trump stands up to Iran. He knows what needs to be done. I hope.
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A country does not have to be large to be a leader for the force of good.
Haiti PM praises Bukele after Salvadoran troops help destroy gang headquarters
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BREAKING: House Republicans block Rep. Thomas Massie's effort to impeach War Secretary Pete Hegseth, with Massie the lone Republican opposing the move.
The House votes 211-204 to send his impeachment resolution to the GOP-controlled Judiciary Committee, where it is unlikely to advance.
Democrats joined Massie in opposing the move, while the other Republicans who voted support sending it to committee.
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Jensen Huang’s mistress, Alice Huang 黄乐, is most likely an agent for the CCP’s International (Liaison) Department, which is the Leninist entity controlling the professional “underground agents (地下党)” including sleeper cells.
She could have multiple public identities and fabricated CV/stories, and collaborate with MSS/MPS/UFWD.
#NVDA
Desmond's distinction explained:
Alice Huang looks more like a commercial fixer (掮客) who may also have served as a clean-handed front (白手套) for business interests than like a dedicated Ministry of State Security-style intelligence operative.
That distinction is meaningful in Chinese political-commercial jargon: one emphasizes deal facilitation and possible fronting for private or elite commercial interests; the other would emphasize formal intelligence collection and reporting to the state security apparatus. Both roles can overlap in practice, but they are not the same thing.
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If there's no victory and the Iranian regime survives, it will continue its pursuit of nuclear weapons and more intercontinental ballistic missiles. And the consequences for our country will be disastrous on many levels. Some people here can jump up and down and shout their isolationist and Israel-hating propaganda all they want, but the enemy will not be contained nor dissuaded. In fact, it will be openly aided by China, Russia, and the North Korea. The real debate should be over the manner in which the military operations have been and are being executed, which is absolutely legitimate.
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General Keane should come out of retirement and head the Joint Chiefs. He can achieve victory and end this.
🚨 TRUTH BOMB JUST DROPPED 🚨
Gen. Jack Keane went nuclear on Fox this morning — and what he revealed should make every American’s blood boil.
Our own intelligence services know the Pakistani and Qatari “mediators” are COMPROMISED.
They favor Iran.
They have been deliberately misleading the Trump administration about Tehran’s real intentions.
But Keane didn’t stop there.
He tore into Saudi Arabia — exposing how the Kingdom has repeatedly pulled the United States back from decisive military action.
When America was ready to force open the Strait… the Saudis denied us their airbases, denied us their airspace, and actively tried to stop the operation — even though they had zero knowledge of the plan and zero right to interfere.
Keane’s words were brutal:
They are not willing to sacrifice a single life or a drop of their oil to stop Iranian aggression.
But they’re more than happy for America to bleed.
More than happy for Israel to bleed.
This is the gratitude we get after decades of putting them under our nuclear and security umbrella.
Keane’s final judgment:
“It is shameful that they lack the spine to stand up for their people and the region.”
This is not diplomacy.
This is betrayal.
Watch the full 3+ minute clip. You won’t believe what you’re hearing. 👇
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A model for Iran’s other minorities as well: local autonomy in an overall democratic federal system, governed from the center
NCRI’s Kurdistan Autonomy Plan at 43: A Blueprint for a United, Democratic Iran
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The NCRI’s plan for Kurdish self-governance is a cornerstone of its vision for a democratic Iran, where national unity rests on equality, autonomy, and popular sovereignty.
