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Ron Hebron retweeted
Something big is about to happen with deportations in America. You should be ready for this… I just spoke with a senior DHS official. They shared deportation numbers with me that frankly stunned me. +27,000 deportations. Last week. +3,600 a day average. Tracking for 1.4 million deportations across the calendar year. +69,000 illegals are in DHS jails waiting to be deported at this moment. And you haven’t heard a blip about it in the corporate press. Why? My DHS source says “stealth tactics.” “We’re everywhere in every major city. We tell no one. Plain clothes. Beat up old cars. Quick work. Tactical strikes. No one sees anything. No drama. No tears. No media circus. You’re just going back home where you belong.” And here’s where it gets insane… DHS tells me blue states are quietly and very secretly working with the Trump administration to assist in the mass deportation of criminals. The criminal alien issue has become so “politically toxic” and “costly” that Democrat Governors have given the green light to Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in major blue cities to drop their illegals off with undercover ICE for removal. It’s happening. You just don’t see it. We can track if these numbers hold, but as for now this is a historic white pill and exactly what MAGA voted for.
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One of the reasons I dropped Seattle Times after decades. Follow his link.
After 11 years as a sports columnist at the Seattle Times, I have decided to resign. It was entirely my choice, and it was not an easy one. The impetus was the Times declining to run a column I wrote from the perspective of two female student athletes who were opposed to competing against biological males. It was one of several pieces of mine that had been spiked, and I no longer felt like I could properly do my job as a columnist. I lay out the situation in greater detail in the link below, but I want to say that I enjoyed my time with the paper, find the talent there to be immense, and have no animosity toward anyone who works there. It was just time for a change. mattycee.substack.com/p/i-wa…
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Ron Hebron retweeted
Rhino baby teaches 10 Lions that he's the King Of The Road 😂
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Ron Hebron retweeted
My thoughts after 3 months in the US/Texas🇺🇸: - Americans are way more extroverted than Europeans - Talking to strangers is normal here - My first H-E-B trip felt like Boris Yeltsin seeing an American grocery store - Some food is more artificial, but the amount of choices is insane - You can still eat healthy. You just have to choose it - High risk, high reward is real - Way more people are entrepreneurial - People dream bigger than in Europe, and they actually execute - Obv not everyone is smarter, but the smart people are world-class - Successful people here are way more down-to-earth. In Europe, successful people care about status and can be arrogant - Cars. Enough said - Americans have perfected artificial sweets - There’s still more freedom here than in Europe - One thing I didn’t expect: some Americans talk down on America - As an outsider, that’s weird, because imo it’s still the greatest country on Earth🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Ron Hebron retweeted
Bosnia’s got the song of the summer
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I discovered someone who is shining light on the conflicts of interest in Seattle and Washington politicians. Sunshine Docket sunshinedocket.org/reports/b…
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My state is leading the race to perversion!?
OMG "Wink Wink" an adult sex toy shop in Bellingham, Washington, is hosting "inclusive sex education" classes for children as young as 9-YEARS-OLD. Why tf is a sex shop inviting children to their store?!?! Extremely disturbing 🚩🚩🚩
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Seattle Mayor said — Like Bye!
BREAKING: Janicki Industries, which previously said it is expanding out of Washington into "a more business-friendly environment," is expanding to Great Falls, Montana, with an $800 million investment of 2 million sqft of production space & over 2,000 jobs over the next decade.
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Tom Brady reveals the overlooked reason practice squad players never succeed in the NFL It’s not a lack of talent. Brady watched it happen for 20 years. The pattern was undeniable. As soon as a practice squad player got promoted and had to perform under real pressure, they crumbled. It took years for Brady to understand why. “There’s 53 guys on the active roster and there’s now 15 guys on the practice squad. So there’s 68 players. But those practice squad players are important because if anybody on the active roster gets hurt, they can get elevated to the squad.” “These scout team receivers would come in and practice with the scout team and they do really well. And I’d be watching. I’m like, ‘Man, we got to get that guy. Let’s get him up on offense. He’s making a lot of plays.’” “Then all of a sudden, we’re like, ‘Hey man, you’re doing really well. You got to come over here and deal with the pressure of succeeding now that you have expectation.’” “And these guys are like, they weren’t prepared for it. So whatever we saw in practice against where there was not a lot of pressure, now when they’re put in a situation where there’s an expectation for performance, they’ve never had to personally deal with that and then they fail.” “And then what I realized was a lot of guys on those practice squads, they don’t want to be elevated to the roster.” “They’re very happy living this life where they could tell their family and friends, which I have no problem with that. But the reality is a lot of guys don’t want the pressure of dealing with top.” Twenty years in the league and seven Super Bowl rings later, Brady learned that talent wasn’t the hardest thing to find. It was people who actually wanted the pressure that comes with being great.
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Ron Hebron retweeted
🧵Justice Clarence Thomas just explained why Progressivism is collapsing — and why the only fight that now matters is what will replace it. One of the rare speeches that's truly important. This thread breaks it down. 🧵
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I saw it firsthand at the White House: AI is winning in reality but losing in perception. A growing comms crisis has turned a breakthrough technology into a political liability, just in time for the midterms. Is AI the next Big Tobacco? Read my debut Op-Ed: newsweek.com/ai-communicatio… #AI
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Seattle would have been built on a grand plan. Voters nixed it.
🚨 HISTORY THREAD: In 1911, engineer Virgil Bogue delivered a 268-page plan for Seattle. A civic center at 4th and Blanchard covering 14 city blocks. It consisted of a Campanile tower, a domed courthouse, a federal building, a library, and an art museum. In addition to a 120-foot boulevard running north to a railroad terminal on Lake Union. Voters killed it. That land is now Amazon's headquarters. This is page 55 of the original report, and what it would have looked like:
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Truth from a Democrat!? Thanks, ex-Gov. Will they listen to you!?
DAMN. Former Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, a Democrat, goes scorched earth on the current Democrats leading the state. Says they have no clue how bad their policies are for the economy.
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Forgive Victoria for being blonde. She is sharp, informed, articulate and gets good people on
Iran's actions tend to make a strong case for necessary regime change to counter its destabilizing influence. #IranRegime #Geopolitics #WorldNews #HumanRights #ForeignPolicy
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Problem is they move money around all day. DON’T CREATE.
Our smartest people are still scary smart but they aren’t professors or in politics. They work in finance or software. A smart private equity guy is SMART. Before fiat went crazy, they’d be in chemical engineering. Jane Street quants would be working on the manhattan project.
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Tryin to understand goth and emo. Not to endorse. Place marker. dictionary.com/articles/goth…
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Ron Hebron retweeted
🚨 While the media skimmed right past it, Trump just quietly launched a HUGE shift in global finance. The goal? PERMANENT DOLLAR DOMINANCE. His Treasury is rolling out direct dollar swap lines with key Gulf and Asian allies — starting with the UAE, following the Argentina deal last year. Sounds arcane? It’s not. And it may be the biggest shift in global finance since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. The IMF is learning the same lesson NATO did: Trump is DONE letting multilateral institutions dilute American power. Crisis finance is moving in-house to the U.S. Treasury. Direct. Fast. Profitable. American. And POWER moves with it, to Washington. These aren’t bailouts or foreign aid. A swap line is collateralized dollar power: the Fed provides dollars to a foreign central bank, takes their currency as collateral, and reverses it later at the same rate. No risk to us. Pure leverage. And now the people who need it need to go to Trump, not our surly deadbeat "allies". Everyone loves to claim something's going to replace the dollar. But the dollar isn’t just a currency. It’s a strategic weapon — diplomatic tool, sanctions platform, military enabler. It's backed by the U.S. Navy controlling every critical chokepoint on Earth. Trump understands what the foreign policy elite forgot: America built this system and defends it. It enriches the world. So America should command it. Trump is building a direct American dollar network for exactly the energy producers and nations China wants to peel away. No more middlemen. The IMF will continue to exist. It won't continue to control. Already, it's reshaping the world. Yesterday, the UAE announced its sudden departure from OPEC. That's an earthquake. Beijing’s “petroyuan” dream? Pure fantasy, and even more so now. The yuan can’t deliver trust, rule of law, or deep liquid markets. But Trump isn’t passively waiting for that to fail — he's pushing it off the cliff. He’s making dollar access unavoidable. A club. Membership has privileges. Exclusion has consequences. No more begging Brussels, cajoling European votes, or letting multilateral committees water down U.S. leverage while America foots the bill. Trump and Bessent just cut out the middleman. Dollar power now runs through Washington. That’s not just “America First.” That’s America in charge. 🔥 If you want to learn how this all really works, I wrote a Deep Dive you can read on my site. Link in my bio. (What do you think — biggest financial power move of the century?)
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townhall.com/columnists/terr…. King Charles came and reinforced the special relationship of his UK and our US. Common interests. Common Christian faith. History of working together.
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Ron Hebron retweeted
🚨 The end of Iran’s Islamic Republic is in sight. It’s not coming from outside bombs. It’s coming from a brutal internal fracture and a collapsing bank account. The IRGC has effectively taken over. They’ve sidelined the President, Parliament Speaker, and Foreign Minister — the very men trying to negotiate with Trump. The Foreign Minister opened the Strait of Hormuz… the IRGC Navy attacked ships the same day and shut it down. Civilian leaders want a deal to stop the bleeding. Hardliners call it treason. Trump just extended the ceasefire indefinitely, citing Iran’s “seriously fractured” government. Why rush? The blockade is devastating them more every single day. Oil revenue: near zero. Payrolls: failing. Police paid late multiple times. Soldiers unpaid for months. Defections surging at all levels. The IRGC is now recruiting 12-year-olds. The Basij is using seventh-graders. When your enforcers start bringing children to the fight, you’re not winning. The IRGC seized the government… but they cannot fund the government they seized. That contradiction ends one way: a palace coup. Pragmatists inside the Guard — the ones who moved their money out years ago — will eventually sacrifice the Supreme Leader and the clerics, cut a deal, and save themselves. True believers won’t surrender; their Shia martyrdom theology (Imam Husayn) forbids it. History doesn’t lie. Regimes fall fast once they can’t pay the men with guns: Soviet Union ’91, Gaddafi ’11, Assad ’24. The clock is financial. The mechanism is payroll. The exit is betrayal from within. That's why Trump is enforcing the blockade. And that's why he's negotiating. He's not "making a deal" in the normal sense. He's presenting surrender terms and offering these guys an exit from Iran. The Islamic Republic is finished. It’s only a matter of time. Who do you think makes the first move? 👇
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