With Trump to be forever known as the POTUS who owns the greatest intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor, I'd expect that DNI Tulsi Gabbard will soon find herself under the bus. Unless, of course, Putin forbids it.

Do you know if the Dems have a candidate?

After foreign markets tanked, Wall Street is looking at opening lower. Oil and liquid gas prices spiking so the only things that Trump has had to claim he's a success is being tanked by starting a war for no particular reason besides diverting attention for Epstein.

I'm not a big fan of coincidences. Here's one I'm not buying. Trump and his Erdogan bagman Tom Barrack moved all our forces out of Syria just in time to put them in an Iranian bull's eye in Iraq. Did the Israeli intel get to Erdogan? Was it shared with Barrack?

Pete Hegseth's clownish North Korean announcer shtick makes Trump look foolish. @PressSec

US doesn't need a traditional force on the ground in Iran. It needs SOF and a logistics chains to supply indigenous fighters in Kurdistan and Balochistan. Air support that takes out all large regime force concentration then rapid establishment of control.

James Jeffrey is too close to Turkey that allies with Jihadists to trust with the lives of Kurds, Yazidis and Christians in Syria James Jeffrey’s Connections to Turkey: A Structured Assessment Jeffrey’s relationship with Turkey is not incidental—it is a defining feature of his diplomatic career…

For people wondering about the situation on the ground in northern Syria, where things stand and going forward, this is worth reading. The work towards a free and democratic Syria is not over. Its heart still beats in Rojava. www.numedya24.com/rojavada-dir...

Unconfirmed but disturbing reports that Julani is preparing to attack the Kurds in NE Syria. Ditch the phones and cars that could be tracked by Turkish drones. Stay armed and move between defendable positions and be prepared to defend.

If you liked the fact that Trump surrendering Syria to ISIS and al-Qaeda, you should love that he's surrendering Syria to Putin too. @SenateGOP @tedcruz @LindseyGrahamSC @SenatorRisch @PressSec

Maine's Democratic Senate primary was intense. Then ICE came. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/26/nation/janet-mills-graham-platner-susan-collins-ice/?s_campaign=sharetool_Twitter_view via @BostonGlobe

The Billionaires who control Trump will never feel safe when average American have guns. Trump @whitehouse actions against legal gun owners are both predicable and necessary to overthrow Liberty. It's not about the immigrants invading: It's about the rest of us living free.

Americans who believe Kurds, Christians and Yazidis should not be murdered and enslaved by ISIS, call your members of Congress and tell them you support the US in the war on terror against Jihadist murderers even if Trump is supporting ISIS and al-Qaeda. #Kobane @PressSec

I've seen reporting but nothing official from SDF saying that they have agreed to pull back to the Eastern side of the Euphrates. None of the reports show Mazlum Abdi making a statement despite the reports. With all the Jihadist disinformation, I'll believe it when I see it.

I guarantee Europe that, the jihadist al-Julani who the West welcomed knowing he's a former member of al-Qaeda now running the transitional Syrian government with Turkey's help, is infiltrating members of ISIS and al-Qaeda from Idlib into Europe. 100%.

I thought Trump said she was in charge?

As Trump gets back to the mike and started to riff, he lets on that "we're selling" their oil. That sounds like the operation was an act of aggressive war like Hitler's Lebensraum and if the World wants to charge Trump and the fools on stage with him, he just gave them all up.

It looks like the Delta force team fast roped into the compound seized the targets and left. General Caine reports that one helicopter was hit in an exchange of gun fire but remained flyable and returned.

With a number of GOP House members against this type of foreign intervention that was part of Trump's pitch to the MAGA base during the campaign, it makes Speaker Johnson's opening of the House on Monday fraught with risk if 9 GOP want him gone.

The late start and Trump looks bad. Trump rifting into going after Jimmy Carter. Rubio looking anxious. Says "We are going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition." Rambles and repeats the transition statement.

Don't see anything EDNY or SDNY dockets naming Maduro. Four sealed cases were filed in SDNY on Friday: 26-3, 26-4, 26-5 and 26-6.

🧵 What’s Wrong With Trump? 1/ Trump’s recent swings, attacking Venezuela one day, rambling about Greenland, attacking a dying woman, isn't strategy. It's erratic. It doesn't match any coherent doctrine, or plan, not even his own. Something's wrong with Donald.

1/ Why is Zelensky in Palm Beach? Russia is about to lose. Ukraine is attacking the rail lifeline that feeds Russian forces, turning Moscow’s dependence on rail into a vulnerability that now turning into a total logistics failure.

1/ Why did Putin need Zelensky to go to Palm Beach? Because Russia is in trouble. Russia’s rail network — the core of its national logistics — is failing across capacity, staffing, infrastructure, and security. These are systemic, not isolated, breakdowns.

Suspect Arrested in Inquiry Into Pipe Bombs in D.C. Ahead of Jan. 6 Riot www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

When he said, "He went cuckoo, he went nuts," did Trump give DC shooter a penal responsibility defense, meaning he could eventually walk free?

New Mar-a-Lago no-fly zone means endless plane noise for neighbors https://wapo.st/4itKjOu

Remember, she died trying to protect a country Donald Trump's Russian pals are trying to destroy.

I remember asking my late brother, who arguably had the highest clearance at DOJ, what would happen to him if he ever started blabbing in public about everything he knew. Without hesitation he said they'd lock him up for life in prison that doesn't permit visitors.

Trump admin's decisions to not grant asylum to Afghan CIA Zero Unit wet assets may not be a one-off now that he was foolish enough to announce that he's going to look at all the green cards. These aren't the kind of folks you want to announce to that you're about to betray.

Link to 1st Circuit order denying Trump regime’s motion for stay pending appeal. gov.uscourts.ca1.53495.00108364355.0Download

WAPO posted this: "It could take days for a final bill to move through the Senate. The House has been out of session since Sept. 19 and would also need to come back to Washington and vote on the measure." I don't see why they can't just vote up or down on the House measure.

Democrats need to cut out all the members who voted with the GOP from any political contributions. Wall them. If the party won't do it, we need to cut it off and set alternative funding mechanisms to impose discipline on OUR party. @SenSchumer @hakeemjeffries

BBC’s Director General and Chief Executive Quit Their Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

Oregon’s district judge the Honorable Karin J. Immergut torpedoes the SS Little Dictator. gov.uscourts.ord.189270.147.0_2Download

Reports that the lights are out in Moscow after Ukraine took out key power plants with their Neptune missiles. Also report that US will supply Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles but it will take Trump's signature and I'm skeptical that he will do it.

We're waiting for the 1st Circuit to rule. SCOTUS has advised they should act without delay because if they deny the stay pending appeal, the SCOTUS stay expires in 48 hours.

Here’s a link to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Order on the stay. It looks like they denied the administrative stay and are still looking at stay pending appeal. I also added the SCOTUS minute order and will look at it and comment. gov.uscourts.ca1.53495.00108364203.0_1Download The Minute…

Why hasn't Trump made the turnover of all Syrian chemical weapons a condition of easing sanctions? What are Trump and his new Al-Qaeda BFF planning to do with the Sarin?

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What if al-Julani aka al-Sharaa played the naïve Obama Clinton CIA team in Iraq in 2009 and is simply a clever Al-Qaeda mole now in control of all of Assad's chemical weapons stocks?

Can we all agree on one thing? If you thought your dementia test was an IQ test, you failed your dementia test.

Reclaiming Syria’s Moderate Legacy: Jamal Maarouf, the SRF, and the Rise of the 70th Division 🌐 This post is published in English, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish to support cross-regional understanding of Syria’s transitional dynamics and the strategic relevance of moderate opposition actors. 🇺🇸…

Who is the enemy that the Syrian army is supposed to fight? Certainly not the terrorists. Terrorists are in charge of the Government and the Army. The dialogue about folding the only force fighting terrorists, the SDF, into an army run by terrorists absurd and dangerous.

After blowing off the Government’s proposed protective order the judge in the Comey case enters his own protective order that gives Comey access. Link. gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.34.1_1Download