Retired Navy Captain, Cigar lover, @UF Gators fan, @USNA89, Former PM for DDG 51s and CO of @NSWCCarderock, @WHNSC45 Alumnus
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I extracted a promise from @chairmang to watch this when he had to leave early from #NavyCon CAPT Mark Vandroff discuss naval acquisition by the Galactic Empire youtu.be/0FRoN9mFnhQ via @YouTube @hughhewitt @DAUNow @robertcobrien
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8 years ago, 11 innocent people at the Tree of Life synagogue here in Western PA were brutally murdered in a vile, antisemitic attack.
Today and always, we remember Joyce, Richard, Rose, Jerry, Cecil, David, Bernice, Sylvan, Daniel, Melvin, and Irving.
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Doran makes the correct no-kidding case for a close US-Israel alliance.
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.
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American-made products are not impossible. Stories about iPhones costing $37,000 or laptops costing $100,000 are psy-ops, sometimes pushed by foreign adversaries but more commonly by American corporations that want anything but an upset to the status quo.
Palmer Luckey says companies are exaggerating the cost of American manufacturing to justify staying in China: “They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.” 🇺🇸🇨🇳
“I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people who pretend that manufacturing in the U.S. is this impossible, order-of-magnitude problem. A lot of it is very self-serving.
They want to justify why they’re in China. They want to justify why it’s OK for them to stay in China. They know that when sanctions hit as a result of a potential Taiwan conflict, they want to say, ‘Nobody could’ve predicted this, and I had no choice anyway.’
They don’t want to admit that it is a choice.
If Chinese subsidized steel is a third of the price of American unsubsidized steel, a tariff isn’t going to work. But if the price difference really is 30%, then a tariff could bring the American steel industry back.
It’s critically important to get this question right, and there aren’t enough people talking about it.”
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Hamas is demanding 3,500£ per truck and threatening Gaza’s merchants, prompting them to suspend coordination of goods deliveries.
Hamas must not be allowed to obstruct supplies to civilians and then blame Israel.
This has not been reported at all, actually it was reported exactly the opposite, media has accountability.
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Secretary of State @SecRubio today along with Secretary @howardlutnick
hosted a Memorial for the American Victims of October 7.
Listen to every word as he describes the horror of that day.
I am so grateful to be serving under this Administration—President @realDonaldTrump,
Sec. @marcorubio, @USAmbUN Waltz-great leaders who show the world what moral clarity looks like!
Thank you Amb. @michaelgwaltz for having me represent your amazing @usun team today! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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To all Gator Nation, its fans and supporters.
We need to stay positive and continue to have an optimistic outlook on our football program. What we can’t do and need to stop is this bickering, false rumor spreading, gossiping type of crap.
We need to understand that change takes time. Culture change within a program takes time. It doesn’t happen in one spring practice or training camp. I would recommend everyone watch the Saban documentary on ESPN. Especially the first 2 episodes. He talks about it and the players talk about changing the culture within the program. The mindset of the players and building the foundation for the future players so they understand the standard when they step foot on campus.
Sumrall and his staff are in the process of doing that. It takes time. Some players change and adapt quickly. Others take time. And some don’t change at all and those players find their way out of the program.
Like all Gator fans, I was excited after our first 4 games. It was great to truly be relevant again. To see a team play with a physicality and a fire that we hadn’t truly seen under Billy. A coach in Sumrall who doesn’t shy away from pointing out the obviously and exudes confidence. But to be honest, some of us saw the weakness. Sumrall told us we weren’t back yet. But lots of us didn’t want to see it or listen to it.
Here we are now, 2 bad loses after a 4-0 start and a couple good wins. We still have a team that is changing and adapting to what is being asked of them. Change takes time like I said. It’s easy to buy in to the changes, especially culture changes when we are winning. The true determinant is when shit starts hitting the fan. Do the plays quit because things start getting hard and fall back into the old ways of doing things or thinking. Or do they stick to the plan. Have the mental strength to push past these hard times, continue to work hard, and believe in their coaches and their leadership.
This is will the team is at. I believe we have the right guy captaining the ship and the players to follow his lead. We, as followers, fans, supporters, need to continue to show up and show our support. We have seen glimpses of what I believe will be our future. But as I said, change, full change takes time. And we need to give Sumrall and these players time to do it.
So what I ask, from one Gator to another, is stop this BS rumor mill going on social. It’s doing nobody any good. It’s only hurting us and our team. Let’s stick together and support these coaches and players.
In all kinds of weather, we all stick together!!!🐊🐊🐊 @GatorsFB
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What an amazing win by @NavyFB
I had the night of my life tonight.
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On this day—October 10, 1942
The Vatican told Washington it could neither confirm nor deny the Nazi systematic extermination of the Jews despite it being the one institution in Europe that still had contacts inside the Reich.
Confirmations from other sources had been arriving for two months.
On August 8, Gerhart Riegner’s cable reported that Hitler had ordered the Jews of Europe deported, concentrated, and killed. The State Department suppressed it. But the British passed it on to prominent American Jewish Rabbi Stephen Wise on August 28. Under Secretary Sumner Welles asked Wise to sit on it until reports could be confirmed.
Meanwhile, eight days earlier, on August 20, the State Department received a letter from an American YMCA official back from Vichy France describing how he watched as truckloads of Jewish children were bussed to forced labor or extermination as their parents could only watch and cry out.
On August 26, the U.S. ambassador to the Polish government-in-exile sent the White House a memo: “There is no precedent for such organized wholesale dying in all Jewish history, nor indeed in the whole history of mankind.”
On August 30, the Jewish Agency in Geneva forward the account of two non-Jewish eyewitnesses: the Warsaw Ghetto was being liquidated, 50,000 Jews had been killed in Lvov, and their corpses were being used for fertilizer.
More than four months after receiving the Riegner cable, the Allies finally issued a joint condemnation on December 17. Suggestions poured in for how to save the Jews of Europe. The Allies declined.
So many could have been saved. At that point, the crematoria at Auschwitz were not yet finished. Most of the one million Jews who would die at that camp alone were still alive.
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I love beginning each morning with Modeh Ani.
Before the noise of the world, before the worries of the day, I take a moment to thank G-d for returning my soul and giving me another day.
There is something powerful about starting your day with gratitude instead of expectations.
When you wake up thankful for what you have, you begin to see life through a different lens.
Every sunrise is a gift. Every breath is a blessing. Every day is another opportunity to do good.
Modeh Ani. Thank You, G-d. ✡️🙏
#Jewish #Jewishbychoice #Prayer
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Texas church in the Dallas area, Heritage Church, puts out 1200 Israeli flags for the victims of October 7 in a beautiful tribute. 💔
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Worse than Hamas propaganda. I have now seen the documentary NAZA in its entirety, and it is worse than I imagined. Over three years, I’ve tried not to be surprised by ignorance, disinformation, and distortions relating to war, but this is at the top for many reasons.
I will write a detailed analysis soon, but one of the worst, a massive claim displayed in the middle of the film, in bright yellow against a black screen: “Israel has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians in Gaza.”
Not even Hamas says this. Meaning not even Hamas claims Israel has killed every Palestinian that has died in Gaza since October 7th. Hamas has publicly killed Palestinians to maintain power in the Gaza. There have been battles between Hamas and anti-Hamas clans. Up to 20% of the 12,000 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad rockets fired at Israel fell inside Gaza. Recent Hamas reporting shows natural deaths on their list. To say every person that died in Gaza was killed by Israel is a vulgar lie.
There are a lot of other lies, lies by omission, and lies of ignorance in NAZA, but this claim is unique and follows the lies, damned lies, and statistics for accusations that go against the actual number put out by Hamas or reality.
More to follow on Naza.
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Israeli filmmakers have released 'NAZA: The Real Story' to answer the documentary 'NAZA'.
The Venice film, by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, rests on anonymous testimony that civilian deaths were built into Israeli targeting in Gaza.
The new film, by Lt. Col. Roi Danino, Hagai Gutman and Ariel Averbuch, uses on-the-record interviews with senior commanders and intelligence officers, plus combat footage and captured material. It argues that Hamas embedded fighters and weapons in homes, schools, mosques and hospitals, and that the IDF operated under strict rules of fire because of that.
The pushback has already started — attacks on the film and calls to boycott it. If it is buried before people watch it, only one version of the story will circulate.
Watch it, then share it as widely as you can — the link, the title, a short note on why it matters. Send it to family, friends, post it, forward it.
The film is free at nazadocumentary.com.
Do not let a boycott decide what others are allowed to see.
ALT #Naza #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Genocide
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The ppl who assert that the miracles of the hijacked plane were faked believe the earth is flat, the moon landing wasn’t real & the Holocaust never happened. God help us all!
𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗹𝗮𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲:
The co-pilot volunteered to be arrested and interrogated.
The captain volunteered to be stabbed.
Flightradar24 recorded a fake dive in real time.
ADS-B Exchange independently recorded the exact same fake dive.
Saudi ATC and radar logs recorded a fake emergency and landing.
UAE ATC records logged the departure of a flight supposedly involved in an incident that never happened.
Israeli ATC records logged the expected arrival of that same flight.
The flight data recorder recorded fake altitude and control inputs.
The cockpit voice recorder somehow matched the fake story too.
Saudi aviation authorities agreed to write a preliminary assessment confirming a fake incident.
UAE investigators agreed to open a real investigation into a staged event.
Roughly 174 passengers agreed to fake an emergency and film it from every angle.
Passengers agreed to storm the cockpit on cue and then give interviews afterward.
Tabuk Airport and Saudi air traffic control agreed to handle a fake emergency landing.
Saudi medical staff agreed to treat fake injuries and keep the secret.
Israeli officials agreed to publicly discuss an incident they knew was fake.
Ben Gurion Airport staff and ambulances agreed to wait for a plane that was never really in danger.
News outlets independently verified fake passenger videos and all somehow reached the same conclusion.
Passenger videos and photos from multiple phones all showed the same fake blood and chaos.
The aircraft itself was physically damaged as part of the fake story.
Saudi hospital records documented injuries from an attack that supposedly never happened.
Custody and transfer records were created to document the pilots being moved to the UAE.
Saudi authorities put the incident in writing in their preliminary assessment.
Multiple governments and organizations issued matching official statements.
Independent news organizations all separately reported the same fake event.
The FlyDubai flight crew agreed to fake the entire incident.
The cabin crew agreed to act terrified for the whole flight.
FlyDubai management agreed to issue statements about an incident they knew was fake.
So the theory requires hundreds of passengers, airline employees, medical staff, investigators, three countries’ aviation systems, flight-tracking services, journalists, physical aircraft damage, hospital records, radar data, and official documents to all be coordinated perfectly without anyone exposing it.
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Detailed research by FDD's Max Lesser & Maria Riofrio - this clearly demonstrates that Qatar is running an aggressive disinformation warfare campaign against western media and public, which is intended to hide Qatars illegal influence buying efforts
fdd.org/analysis/2026/10/01/…
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Probably the MOST incredible and well-made video I’ve seen in a long time. Wow. Wow. Wow🔥
It takes the slander they throw at us every day and runs it until the slander breaks. The people who actually filled the trains never dropped a warning, never opened a corridor, never paused a war to keep someone else’s children alive.
The @IDF who the haters keep dressing in that uniform does the entire list they just invented for a ghost.
You simply MUST watch this.
Credit: @stephenpowell33
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Today’s economic numbers:
— Q2 GDP revised up to 2.2% (was 1.5%).
— Core PCE 3.0% vs 3.3% expected.
— ADP private jobs +90k vs ~68k expected.
Growth beat. Inflation cooled. Jobs better than expected.
The Trump economy is strong.
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مسافرون إسرائيليون يتلقون الرعاية من طاقم سعودي بعد هبوطهم في المملكة العربية السعودية.
الإنسانية تجمعنا، وربما تفتح الطريق للسلام ? 🇮🇱🇸🇦
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Important conversation for all pro-Israel Americans to experience. @FDD and @mdubowitz should be commended for their foresight.
