U.S. leadership thru soft power. Author of "The American Imperative". "Building the Future" podcast. Views are my own.
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College Republican attacked while peacefully tabling at the University of Utah.
Transgender man rips shirt off conservative student for affirming there are only 2 genders.
Why does this keep happening on college campuses?
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El Salvador is rightly famed for its strides on public order, but most people don’t grasp the brutal extent of previous gang rule or the complex dividends peace affords. All kinds of mundane and essential public goods re-materialize now that people can walk around, ride transit, and go about their lives without being terrorized.
This historic square used to be patrolled by warring gangs, and housed an informal economy of corrugated-tin shanties where subsistence street vendors forfeited much of their meager income to “protection” rackets. No formal economy is possible if thugs might burn or smash or sabotage any capital improvement you make. Now, there are ordinary shops lining this downtown area — and even early Christmas decorations.
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My biggest concern is that if there is a clean sweep by Democrats of the House, Senate and Presidency in 2028, they will:
1. Make DC and Puerto Rico states to gain a strong majority in the Senate.
2. Open the borders and legalize everyone living in America illegally to cement a permanent majority.
3. Increase the size of the Supreme Court to gain an immediate majority.
This would result in America becoming a permanent one-party state and the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word.
All that is needed to ensure this doesn’t happen is 51 Republican senators in 2029. That is why you should vote for Republican senators this election. Other reasons are irrelevant compared to this one.
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Léa Seydoux tries some of the finest French and British delicacies for ELLE UK.
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Strongly disagree. Very encouraging for global democracy to see @USAmbUN stand up to Cuba's gross human rights violations on the world's largest stage.
Performing for one man and doesn't care about the level of contempt he earns from pretty much everyone else on the planet. @USAmbUN
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DOJ should investigate whether this scheme to deceive Alaska voters violates 18 USC 241.
If these Democrat operatives acted in concert to put a candidate on the ballot with the same name as the incumbent with the intent to deceive voters who support Sen. Sullivan into wasting their votes, that could be an illegal conspiracy against rights.
BREAKING: NYT reports that operatives with Democratic Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign were behind the effort to find & recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters and peel votes from him.
Specifically, NYT says they have reviewed text messages and documents that reveal in summer 2025, a Peltola staffer received instructions from campaign staffers to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible.
The staffer complied, going through voter records, and compiled a list. The operation “involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”
Per NYT:
“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.”
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
Daniel Runde retweeted
Tomorrow we're releasing a full UATX course for free: all 19 lectures of Professor Isabella Reinhardt's Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome, filmed in class with our students.
It runs from Rome's mythical founding to the Third Century Crisis. It ends on a question the class spent a whole session arguing about: did Rome ever really fall?
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One of the Cuban regime’s “diplomats” tried to intimidate UN staff into cutting our microphones as I exposed the regime for the world to see.
When one of my American diplomats noticed what was happening, that same regime “diplomat” tried to intimidate him, too.
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Oh he studied at the Lenin school, wonder if he majored in seizing private property.
⚠️⚠️Identifican a diplomático cubano que intimidó a personal de la ONU
Se trata de Richard Tur de la Concepción, primer secretario de la misión del régimen cubano ante Naciones Unidas.
Con ayuda de fuentes que lo conocen personalmente, logramos identificar al funcionario que aparece en el video difundido por el embajador estadounidense Mike Waltz, actuando agresivamente e intentando arrebatar un teléfono a un integrante de su equipo. Waltz denunció además que intentó intimidar a trabajadores de la ONU para que desconectaran sus micrófonos.
Tur procede de una familia de diplomáticos del régimen. Antiguos compañeros de estudios revelaron que desde niño disfrutaba de privilegios excepcionales en Cuba, incluidos viajes al extranjero, clases de tenis y formación en una escuela internacional.
Estudió en la Lenin y posteriormente ingresó al Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales (ISRI). La Cancillería también lo presentó como candidato a una comisión presupuestaria de Naciones Unidas para el período 2027-2029.
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The Castro regime has profited at the expense of the Cuban people with luxury cars, expensive watches and a private island resort. As I shared this with the world, regime thugs rushed the stage to interrupt my speech.
They can intimidate their own people in Cuba but think again about trying that nonsense in the United States of America.
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It's Michele Tafoya. I'm on my way to my next campaign event to talk to voters. We'd love you on our team.
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Karen Finney went on CNN and chalked up Trump’s rise after Obama to “whitelash” and “hate groups,” as if opposing the far left is about bigotry.
Then riddle me this. Why is @AbdulElSayed's Democrat primary oppenent, Haley Stevens, refusing to campaign with her own party’s nominee?
It isn’t race. It isn’t hate. It’s that his policies are too crazy radical even for fellow Democrats. The left calls it bigotry because they can’t admit the truth. Voters are rejecting bad ideas. #MarketplaceOfIdeas
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An oldie but a goodie. In 1968 a bunch of entitled hippy bastards sent a letter detailing their specious demands to the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford. This was their letter of reply, which speaks to how far the academy has since fallen.
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Let’s make sure the entire world understands. In Brazil, judicial rulings in connection with federal elections are made by the court that has been in place for that very purpose, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE).
@LulaOficial requested to the TSE that the polls be extended by two more hours in the entire country, citing “transportation problems.” Who controls the transport system? Lula’s government surely more so than a senator running for president.
Instead of waiting for a TSE ruling. @LulaOficial immediately asked Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) justice @Cristianozaninm to order the polls remain open WITHOUT any TSE ruling. Within minutes (did Zanin even read the filing?), the polls were ordered to remain open by Zanin.
The STF has 11 justices. What did Zanin do before becoming an STF justice? Oh yes, he was Lula’s criminal defense lawyer in his corruption cases.
If this blatant rigging of the elections will be used to announce that Lula won, is Lula seriously expecting anyone in the international community to recognize that as a free and fair election? He knows nobody will.
Has the desperation reached a point that today is the day the mask fully comes off and Lula becomes the next Nicolas Maduro? For the sake of Brazil, I pray that is not the case.
Zanin, do STF, determina extensão da votação em todo o país até as 19h após problemas no transporte oglobo.globo.com/politica/no…
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Brazilian journalist Malu Gaspar says all Superior Electoral Court ministers were against the idea of extending the voting in Brazil by 2 hours.
Zanin, Lula’s former personal lawyer, appointed by Lula to Supreme Court Justice made that decision anyway
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ABC: María Corina Machado ya está en Venezuela y reaparecerá en minutos en el santuario de la Divina Pastora, en Barquisimeto. Su regreso ha sido posible gracias a una operación diplomática en la que han participado varios países y que ha contado con el conocimiento de Estados Unidos. Hace dos semanas pregunté a Trump por su regreso y me respondió que todo iba a salir bien. El plan ya estaba en marcha. Sin el visto bueno de Washington, esta operación no habría sido posible.
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To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.
The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.
Daniel Runde retweeted
Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes.
Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search.
greekdrama.johnhboyer.com
