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Despite repeated & often hysterical public health warnings, COVID never overwhelmed our healthcare system. It's a claim now made in retrospect to justify the draconian response, but still a myth. The truth is we had ample hospital capacity available throughout the COVID era. 🧵
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Kara Swisher adds DOGE's "Big Balls" to the Democrat target list.
"They could just pick a few people. To me, that's the way you go. You pick like a Hegseth, a Musk, and I don't know, Big Balls."
"Rather than go for Trump, go for everybody."
"Make it so broad that exhausts people who just do want to move on."
They're now just casually naming random people that did things they didn't like.
The ever-growing investigation wishlist now includes Trump family, donors, friends, supporters, allies and DOGE employees.
And it won't stop there.
C'mon. Can't a guy who had his green card revoked after immigration fraud proceedings, was ordered removed by a judge, and was previously arrested for firearms, ammunition, drug & open-container offenses get a break?
To the young baseball players at a D.C. middle school, Amaury Monsalve is affectionately known as “Coach A.”
After he was detained by ICE, more than a dozen families wrote letters to support his case, and the community has raised more than $80,000. wapo.st/4zbGCEz
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El-Sayed dismisses this question as a side show, but it's actually very significant to Medicare for All.
His stance is that anything a doctor says is medically necessary (including puberty blockers for kids, etc.) would be covered by the taxpayer-funded system.
That's a slippery slope leading to huge costs, and probably rationing of other forms of health care at some point.
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I asked @AbdulElSayed what I imagine many undecided Michigan voters are wondering: Is he a woke 1.0 guy serving the activist class, or someone who wants to work for everybody?
Here’s our exchange on his Medicare 4 All plan covering puberty blockers for minors
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Not included in this headline is info that has been available for days now that this man is a Venezuelan illegal alien who had his green card revoked after immigration fraud proceedings, a deportation order was issued against him, and he was arrested on gun & drug charges.
It’s not even mentioned until deep into the article too.
To the young baseball players at a D.C. middle school, Amaury Monsalve is affectionately known as “Coach A.”
After he was detained by ICE, more than a dozen families wrote letters to support his case, and the community has raised more than $80,000. wapo.st/4zbGCEz
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Talarico in 2026: "I had 45 students in one classroom. There weren't enough desks...so I had students sitting on the air conditioning unit."
Obama in 2012: "She might have 45 students in a class. They don't have enough desks, so they've got some kids sitting on the floor."
He's just recycling..
Talarico's utopian "world without prisons" is also free of crime and criminals. That's why it's so hard for normal people to imagine.
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Holy smokes from NYT: "In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.....The plan worked."
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That would be great, but the statute of limitations is a real thing, and serious investigations and prosecutions don’t drag on forever, let deadlines expire on easy charges, in the hopes of possibly scrambling to build some kind of Rube Goldberg conspiracy theory that theoretically MIGHT be timely if a million complicated things fall exactly our way, and is almost impossible to successfully prosecute in court. See my pinned thread.
Rather than keeping the dream of a prosecution alive as rainbow/unicorn hopium for the political base, how about instead releasing key documents and transcripts that I and others foia’d many years ago so the truth can come out. At least then there would be more historical accountability.
PS. Sorry if this hurts people’s feelings. But reality doesn’t care about your feelings.
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If a ten year statute of limitations applies to Comey’s leaks, why only include the arguably time-barred leaks from October 2016 but not include the BIGGEST leaks from LESS than 10 years ago?!?
Brennan knew that the press had the dossier. It says so right in the addendum. Comey even wrote that CNN was looking for a “news” hook to report on the dossier.
AND somehow the press knew that it was summarized in a two-page addendum to the ICA. Not one page or three. Exactly two.
“Top Secret” my foot.
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i am coming to the conclusion that the reason that so many of these college students so rabidly hated charlie is not because of what he said when he was holding the mic but rather what he asked them to say when he handed the mic to them.
there's a stunning incoherence to their views. so angry, so confident, so entitled, and so completely, utterly unable to explain why or what they even believe.
never have so many known so little and yet felt so certain about so much.
there is no capacity for critical thinking or discourse, not even a basic semantic grasp of the concepts.
it's just an entitlement-flavored word salad spewed forth as some talismanic claim to deference and respect.
the greatest vulnerability of the marxist midwiped is being asked to explain what they are talking about.
ask what their magic words mean, why they use them, what they signify, how the problems and processes they posit work.
ask how they would do things.
ask what they are asking for.
the results are amazing.
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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar writes in her memoir, “I was eight years old when civil war broke out in Somalia. One day everything was okay, and the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings but also people.” While Somalia has suffered several civil wars, the chapter is entitled, “War: 1989-1991, Mogadishu, Somalia.” Mogadishu experienced severe riots in July 1989, including a mass execution that became known as the “Jazeera beach massacre.”
If, in her own words in her own autobiography, Omar was eight when this occurred in 1989, then she was born in 1981, and was 19 years old in the year 2000, when her father purportedly obtained his citizenship, not 1982 as she currently claims.
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In her memoir, Ilhan Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor, recounts feeling taken aback at the prospect of going to a church to receive charity in the US, given that she had never been near a church because of the severe persecution of Christians in Somalia by Muslims.
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If anyone believes this nonsense, here are the facts he is counting on you not knowing.
The deal did not end Iran's nuclear program. It rented a pause. Iran kept its centrifuges, kept Fordow buried in a mountain, kept enriching to 3.67%, and the key restrictions came with expiration dates. The sunset clauses began lifting in 2025. Obama's own answer at the time was that breakout time "would have shrunk almost down to zero" as the deal expired. His deal scheduled the problem for his successors.
The regime lied its way into the deal. The JCPOA was premised on Iran coming clean about past weapons work. In 2018 Israel pulled Iran's own nuclear archive out of a Tehran warehouse: tens of thousands of documents on the Amad Project, a crash program to build nuclear weapons, preserved and hidden while Iran certified it had no such program. The IAEA later found uranium traces at undeclared sites Iran never explained.
The deal paid for terror. Sanctions relief unfroze roughly $100 billion and the US delivered $1.7 billion in cash. That money flowed to the IRGC, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. Diplomacy with a regime at war with you is financing, not peace.
And the result? By 2025 Iran was enriching to 60%, a short technical step from weapons grade, with enough material for multiple bombs and the IAEA declaring it in violation of its obligations. That is what required military force this year. Iran marched to the threshold under the deal's cover and after it.
"I didn't have to fire a missile" is true. He handed the regime money, legitimacy, and a timetable, and left the missiles to be fired a decade later by someone else. Appeasing a dictatorship doesn't buy peace. It buys the dictatorship time.
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Flashback to when Obama went on Letterman a week after the Benghazi attack to lie to the American people.
Obama blamed the Benghazi attack on a video even though he had known for days that the video had nothing to do with the attack. It was terrorism.
The election was coming up and Obama wanted to make sure the Benghazi didn't hurt him, so he went on Letterman and lied.
Obama lying on TV before an election. Some things never change.
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By way of reminder: Elvis Chan was a primary liaison between the FBI’s FITF and social media companies. The obvious effect (and by inference, intent), was to silence unapproved political expression. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwgFl…
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WOW this exchange.
@BretBaier tried to give Abdul El-Sayed a chance to finally explain the 2012 letter in support of the Muslim Brotherhood and Abdul awkwardly tries to speak over him.
This flailing defensiveness is why we’re on week 3 on this issue.
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By the way, fake-marrying a gay guy to give him immigration status while still filing joint tax returns with your real husband is super illegal even if he's not your brother!
The facts associated with Ilhan Omar's marriage/immigration scandal have been known or knowable for years. Yet they seem to have largely escaped notice of the strangely incurious press & authorities until recently. It's odd that those dogs didn't bark earlier.
