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Tony Badran retweeted
Today would have been Jimmy Heath's birthday. I am grateful for everything the talented Mr. Heath has given our community.
Help me honor his legacy by listening to a piece we recorded together... youtu.be/Lzz-KOxfkp4
#planetelegance #roncarter #jazz #jimmyheath
Tony Badran retweeted
In what I'm sure is a total coincidence, The Atlantic's report on the CIA role in Ukraine has prompted Joe Kent and Mike Flynn to begin pushing "IC reform" that would weaken the CIA and give the DNI full visibility into all covert action across every agency. This is necessary, Kent argues, to reduce "Mossad" influence over the government and allow the U.S. intelligence agencies to focus on important stuff, like investigating Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories.
To be clear: this is a Russian information operation targeting CIA, reframed as an effort to counter Israeli influence over the "Deep State"
The “DeepState” clearly defined and broken down into simple language with concrete solutions.
If @realDonaldTrump doesn’t reform this massive bureaucracy of misfits, our nation will fall into further decline.
At some point and very soon, America needs to unwind the empire we’ve built before we collapse under its weight.
Tony Badran retweeted
Now that’s the absolutely elite opsec you’d expect from a graduate of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service
🚨 NEW: Meet Ian Brinksman, 42, a Washington, DC-based government contractor arrested by the FBI today for allegedly leaking TOP SECRET national defense information to a romantic partner who published classified material on Substack.
His LinkedIn lists Deloitte, national security consulting, and a current reserve intelligence officer for the US Navy.
NYC Council quietly passes bill that forces owners to give nonprofits first dibs on buying their properties for 90 days trib.al/6gNEct0
Tony Badran retweeted
The Iranian regime is a Third World clown regime. Its info ops are things that seem smart to dumb people.
For America, $11 billion is roughly 0.00035 of our GDP and 0.0015 of annual federal spending.
Rounding error for defeating a dipshit Death to America enemy.
Tony Badran retweeted
43 years ago, Hezbollah terrorists attacked U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, and killed 241 Americans. We will never forget their sacrifice. 🇺🇸
The attack was directed, financed and ordered by the same evil Iranian regime that President Trump is fighting today.
Tony Badran retweeted
We’ve mastered how to build efficiently, but have we forgotten how to build beautifully?
Architecture should do more than meet codes, maximize space, and serve a function. It should inspire belonging, stir the soul, and make us feel at home.
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Fucking imbecile
U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack on Iran:
It's very difficult for the average Iranian to survive. Once they get out of a chokehold of that, over time they can change their own regime.
We've changed it three times, right? We installed the Shah. We installed Khomeini in 1979. We took out the Shah.
Source: @MarioNawfal
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‼️ A senior administration official on the West Bank following Netanyahu statement:
“A stable West Bank keeps Israel secure and is in line with this administration’s goal to achieve peace in the region. We have clearly communicated that to all parties. The President does not believe a crisis in the West Bank serves anyone’s interests, and we are in constant communication with Israel on maintaining peace and stability in the region”.
Tony Badran retweeted
If your “America First” politics weaken America’s allies and treat Jewish Americans as foreigners, what exactly are you putting first?
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Tony Badran retweeted
Highest GDP growth in OECD
Highest R&D spend in OECD
Highest birthrate in OECD
Other than that, we’re a failing country.
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Tony Badran retweeted
Apropos of nothing, shoutout to @tabletmag.
I subscribe to the physical edition and no where else can you find such an eclectic + interesting range of articles and musings. The Jewish perspective is always a plus, but the secret is that it’s great regardless.
Tony Badran retweeted
If you were an enemy of the United States, you would use the info warfare capabilities you have to create distance between America and a longtime ally full of smart, pro-American people that happens to be a technological, financial, and military powerhouse.
Tony Badran retweeted
In my latest article in Tablet Magazine I make the case for the alliance with Israel that the NatCon conference in Jerusalem should have made.
I make the case for a real America First position on Israel: treating a capable ally as a force multiplier against the China-Russia-Iran-North Korea axis. Weakening the partnership doesn’t make America safer. It hands adversaries openings and erodes U.S. influence.
I also argue that the right’s growing flirtation with antisemitic conspiracy theories (Carlson, Fuentes, etc) divides Trump's coalition and substitutes ethnic score-settling for strategic judgment. It undercuts the equal citizenship the Founders actually defended.
Tony Badran retweeted
In fact I mentioned Hany Saqr in my written testimony for @SenTedCruz's hearing on the Muslim Brotherhood. And I count at least an additional 6 MB linked individuals on the list.
At least six men who joined Abdul El-Sayed in signing a notorious 2012 letter calling for a Muslim Brotherhood “purge” of the media and police have also donated handsomely to his two runs for office, mostly to his current Senate campaign, records reviewed by @LevineJonathan show.
Tony Badran retweeted
America First doesn’t mean America alone. Israel strengthens American power, while antisemitism undermines it—and America’s founding principles.
@doranimated on the growing divide within the American right.
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"In several countries covered by the project, the team proposed creating online communities “for whiners,” where people could vent about whatever had annoyed them that day. “People post, others sympathize. Later, political topics will fit in nicely — complaints about prices, clashes with refugees, and so on,” the idea’s author noted."
Read about how @JDVance and others fell for a lie about Volodymyr Zelensky concocted by agents of Russia's Presidential Administration. And how the Vice President's falling for it was collected in a file sent directly to the Kremlin. Inside Putin's "Doppelgänger" operation, based on leaked correspondence between the PA and Russia's Agency for Social Design: theins.press/en/inv/298359
Tony Badran retweeted
Yet another proof that losing is the most addictive substance on earth. These losers caved on the Iran Deal, and they haven’t stopped losing since.
SCOOP @jewishinsider via @marcrod97: "AIPAC to end candidate endorsements, PAC contributions to allies"
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