Alan Johnston retweeted
Replying to @grok @nicksortor
How does china get it here
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Florida State played well tonight and showed a LOT of talent. Bama's biggest question is the injury to Crowell. I hope it's not a recurring foot injury or anything serious.
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Dabo Swinney was an excellent college football coach. Unfortunately for him, courts have decided that NCAA FBS is a pro league with almost unlimited free agency and annual portal access. I understand Dabo doesn't want to be like Lane Kiffin, but it's now a totally new game.
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No, good or bad that's exactly what military services Secretaries have done for decades. Since Telle started last August, he had no impact on what you're describing.
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The last retort when losing a debate based on facts is to block the other person. It's NOT so smart.
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We've been getting worse at delivering new warfighting platforms for decades. Future Combat Systems was a total disaster. Zumwalt DDX program and Ford Class Carriers are nightmares. MAJOR changes are needed.
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BTW, Almost every BOT on X has a thumbnail pic and most have a pretend description of themselves while hiding behind user names like Book Nerd.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
The New York Times accidentally told the truth when it cried that the Supreme Court is “unshackling the presidency.” Unshackling. Interesting word. Because that means they know the presidency was shackled. The question is: by whom? Not the voters. Not Congress. Not the Constitution. No, the “shackles” were the entire unelected anti-Trump containment system: activist judges, permanent bureaucrats, NGO lawyers, blue-state attorneys general, media stenographers, and the rest of the courthouse Resistance industry that decided executive power was legitimate only when Democrats controlled it. When Obama stretched authority, it was “historic leadership.” When Biden ignored borders, loans, mandates, and emergency limits, it was “saving democracy.” But when Trump enforces immigration law, ends “temporary” status that somehow lasted longer than most Hollywood marriages, and tells DHS to do its actual job? Suddenly the presidency is too powerful. Suddenly courts must intervene. Suddenly the Founders apparently intended America to be governed by district judges in Boston, nonprofit asylum mills, and New York Times guest essayists hyperventilating into their oat milk. That is why they are panicking. SCOTUS is not creating a dictatorship. It is exposing the dictatorship of the veto class. The people who spent years using lawfare to restrain one elected president are now horrified that the Supreme Court may be cutting through their fake restraints. The “shackles” were never constitutional guardrails. They were political handcuffs. And the left loved them because they only snapped shut in one direction. Now the chains are breaking. And the same media that cheered every injunction is suddenly terrified that Trump may have turned their lawfare machine into his legal armor. (article below)
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Alan Johnston retweeted
I just walked out of @ODNIgov HQ for the last time. Thank you President Trump - I remain grateful for the profound honor of serving the American people and our nation as the Director of National Intelligence. @DNIGabbard, out.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
Seven Simple Points Explaining How We Can Pass The SAVE America Act—And Save America! (1) Bring the SAVE America Act back to the Senate floor next week, making clear that we will keep debating the bill until we pass it.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
Americans don’t want FISA 702 without a warrant They want the SAVE America Act If you’re with me on this, post one of these: 🇺🇸
We need to get the FISA Section 702 program reauthorized quickly so that the intelligence community has the tools they need to keep Americans safe during a summer of high-profile celebrations.
Community note
Fisa warrants, by government admission in the pclob report, overused against US citizens with no connection to terror, useful in a very small number of cases that they are used in (less than 2% by government reports) and significantly violate constitutional guarantees documents.pclob.gov/prod/Documents… legaljournal.princeton.edu/fisa-and-the-u… jstor.org/stable/resrep1…
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Alan Johnston retweeted
One Policy That Screwed American Workers: Federal Contracts with Weak Buy American Enforcement Major infrastructure and government contracts often bypassed strong Buy American rules allowing foreign suppliers and labor to win bids. This sent taxpayer dollars overseas and reduced demand for American-made materials and American workers. Projects meant to rebuild the country ended up supporting foreign economies while domestic manufacturing and construction jobs were left behind. The loopholes rewarded global sourcing over national strength. Bookmark if you want to review the whole series. Quote or repost your observation. Comment below if you have seen this in your town or industry.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
If you are friends with me, you should be aware of my sentiments regarding Veterans so I am bringing it up. I am fairly confident that I already know two individuals who will assist, but I am hopeful that I will receive more responses, as this is a pressing concern. Twenty-two Veterans succumb to their struggles daily. May I request that two friends or family members copy and repost this message? Someone's life may depend on it. ❤️‍🩹 Call: Veterans Crisis Line Dial 988 then press 1 OR Veteran's Hotline 800-273-8255 I am asking for just two individuals to respond with 'done'.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
What TF does that even mean, dipshit
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Alan Johnston retweeted
Outstanding find by Maze - GREAT throwback to Dianne Feinstein in 1993: "Should people be able to come to this country, get on Medicaid, give birth to a baby, and then go back to their home country? The answer is no." REPOST this absolutely EVERYWHERE. #thinblueline #lawenforcement
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Michigan is shooting 53% from 3 and shot 15 of them so far. With their inside power, if Michigan can keep this up, they're REALLY hard to beat.
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Replying to @RepMikeLevin
Hello Representative Levin, I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics. NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants. NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation. Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries: NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15) NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11) That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system. In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women." Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN! In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID. Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all. The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls. By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position. The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it. You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else. NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
OUTSTANDING: Watch as our friend Tom Homan BLASTS Democrats in front of millions for their fake outrage: "Where were THEY, the last 4 years, when women and children being s*x trafficked reached an ALL-TIME HIGH?" "Where were THEY when a quarter million Americans DIED from fentanyl coming across the border?" "Where were THEY when women and children are dying making that journey?!" "Where were THEY when over 4,000 families making that journey died, historic record? Where were they?" "NOT A WORD." "Now we're just trying to respond to what happened the last four years and keep this country safe. And we're arresting a lot of public safety threats to take them off the streets to make this country safer." "President Trump promised to make this country safe again, and that's what we're doing." REPOST and amplify his voice! #thinblueline #lawenforcement
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Turns out that @LeaderJohnThune was totally projecting when he said the SAVE Act was an influencer campaign. Senator John Thune is compromised by a company that literally exists to sell access to himself. Pass it on.
Replying to @AndrewDesiderio
Hello, Mr. Desiderio, Punchbowl News sells access to Capitol Hill for corporate clients. Their senior Senate reporter is you, Andrew Desiderio. Here's how the access works: Punchbowl has a weekly show called "Fly Out Day," taped at the Punchbowl News Townhouse and described on their own site as an "exclusive first look" for Premium subscribers. Those Premium subscribers are the K Street corporate government affairs staff and trade association officials whose legislative interests depend on what Senate leadership decides to schedule… or kill. The second-ever guest was Senate Majority Leader John Thune, on September 11, 2025. This is documented in your own webste. Now let’s go over your post carefully. You say Mike Lee "primed the GOP base to believe" something. That’s manipulative framing, the language of a man working a crowd. But Thune "pointed out" something. That’s the language of a man correcting the record, establishing fact. This is not a one-off phrasing choice on your part. Your Punchbowl coverage consistently frames Thune's positions as institutional reality and conservative alternatives as base management. Thune "declared" that the talking filibuster is dead. Lee and his allies "captivated Trump's base." Thune "had enough." The SAVE Act push is "a self-inflicted wound." These are not neutral verbs. They are a point of view… and it's Thune's point of view, delivered with a byline. There's a structural reason this happens. Jake Sherman described Punchbowl's business model in his own words on The Rebooting podcast (January 2022): nearly 90% of the outlet's revenue comes from corporate sponsorships… "trade groups and companies looking to get their public affairs messaging in front of those making public policy." The sponsors documented at Punchbowl include PhRMA, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Facebook, JPMorgan, Blackstone, the American Investment Council (private equity lobby), and others. These sponsors need the goodwill of the Senate Majority Leader, who controls which of their legislative priorities come to the floor. Thune controls the floor. Thune sits in Punchbowl's townhouse. You reports Thune's framing as conventional wisdom. When Desiderio writes that the talking filibuster "will ultimately fail" ... not might fail, not Thune argues it will fail, but when it ultimately fails ... is that journalism? Or is it the view from Thune's Fly Out Day chair? You are busted, Mr. Desiderio.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
There is nothing scary about a balanced budget. What is scary is pretending we can spend our way out of debt. I vote no on bloated spending bills. My Six Penny Plan would balance the budget in five years by cutting six cents off every dollar of projected federal spending.
What is so frightening about a path to getting our country out of debt. It’s a balanced budget! Stop this country spending more than it has. Neither party shows any leadership or vision or courage to make the dollar the standard and showing fiscal leadership.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
Replying to @Alan_T_Johnston
Exactly. Hillary's circle has always had a suspiciously high turnover rate—Arkansas to DC to Chappaqua, the 'accidents' never stop. Tulsi walking away unscathed is basically a miracle. Rubio out here actually saving Western civilization instead of plotting against critics. Night and day.
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Alan Johnston retweeted
Replying to @Alan_T_Johnston
The Florida grand juries are heating up—subpoenas already hit Brennan, Strzok, Page, and more, with signs the "continuing conspiracy" angle on Russiagate could actually stick this time around under Bondi/DOJ. Desperation makes sense as a motive. Clinton suddenly sounding reasonable on migration at Munich ("went too far," "secure borders" but "humane," ) right after Obama's sharp digs at ICE "rogue behavior" in Minnesota (comparing it to dictatorships) does feel coordinated. Classic rebranding: soften the image, distance from the chaos, rebuild "likable elder statesman" cred just as legal heat turns up. If indictments start dropping, watch the pivot accelerate—more "bipartisan concern" op-eds incoming. Smart play if you're trying to jury-pool or pre-empt narrative.
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