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Abolishing ICE and the Senate: a look at the socialist platform
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Reader question on Iran’s military
WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
💥 Trump to give explosive primetime address. Two White House officials reported that the Thursday speech will cover newly declassified intelligence on foreign election interference in 2020. CIA Director Ratcliffe, FBI Director Patel, and other intelligence chiefs will reportedly join him. A Washington Reporter claims Trump may also declare Georgia's two Democrat senators illegitimate due to fraud.
🏛️ Lindsey Graham's sister appointed to fill his seat. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) appointed Darline Graham Nordone to replace her late brother after President Trump pushed for the pick on Truth Social. She'll serve through January while Republicans scramble to protect their fragile majority.
👀 Democrat who vetted Platner also accused of sexual misconduct. Daniel Moraff, the strategist who recruited disgraced Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner, was reportedly barred from Rep. Summer Lee's (D-PA) 2022 congressional campaign after multiple sexual harassment complaints.
🔥 Anti-ICE protesters storm Susan Collins' office. Following an ICE-involved shooting in Maine that killed a 26-year-old Colombian man, agitators descended on the senator's office, where one protester struck a journalist with a skateboard. Sen. Angus King (I-ME) claimed the victim was not the target of the warrant, but ICE officers were pursuing someone else.
WORLD NEWS
Murder investigation of Reform UK lawmaker
Behind the paywall: The murder of a populist-right British lawmaker, a massive new project to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, and Japan departs from post-WWII restrictions.
MEDIA BIAS SPOTTER
What the media is hiding today
_LEFT BURIED GRAHAM TRIBUTE SOCIALISTS
_RIGHT SKIPPED_ TRUMP REMARKS OIL PRICES
HOAX TRACKER
Big Tech buried over 100 Graham Platner scandal stories
Apple News and Google News suppressed at least 112 negative stories about Graham Platner…
QUICK AND IMPORTANT
Disney's live-action "Moana" bombed at the box office with a $43M opening weekend against a $250M budget.
More than 350 people have been rescued from severe flash flooding in southern Missouri.
Thousands of Costco employees have become millionaires through the company's high wages and 401(k) benefits.
The most clicked link in our last newsletter was the Waymo driverless car delivering two drunk 15-year-olds to the police.
THE MAIN STORY
Abolishing ICE and the Senate: a look at the socialist platform
_WHAT’S HAPPENING_
The rapidly growing Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is preparing to release an updated policy platform that would dismantle and fundamentally reshape the US government and economy…
_IN THIS ARTICLE, WE COVER:_
How socialists want to completely transform the US government
The enormous economic items they want to implement
How they are discussing mass amnesty, open prisons, and open borders
And our analysis of why their agenda amounts to a breakdown of the constitutional order
ASK THE EDITORS
How does Iran still have military capabilities?
Q: “How is Iran striking back? I thought their military was decimated, but clearly that's not the case.” — Kristina from Massachusetts
A: Though we may hear one story from Washington, it’s not true that Iran's military has been totally decimated. Iran still maintains an enormous military with hundreds of thousands of personnel, vast missile inventories, drone swarms, and underground facilities that are tricky to eliminate completely.
Russia and China are also helping Iran restock drones, missile components, anti-ship weapons, and more through back-channel networks that the US can’t fully choke off.
On top of that, the regime uses what's called a "mosaic defense" strategy, which means that instead of a centralized military that can be taken out in a few big airstrikes, they spread their weapons and command structures across dozens of dispersed locations. And Iran is a big country. That's how they're still able to launch missile and drone strikes on American bases in Bahrain and Kuwait and keep causing trouble in the Strait of Hormuz even after taking hits.
Degrading Iran's military is one thing, but totally destroying it is another. That would require a commitment far beyond anything the US has undertaken so far.
THE COMMUNITY SECTION
TODAY’S POLL
📊 Do you support Trump still focusing on 2020 election fraud?
POP QUIZ
POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY
Where do you believe Trump’s foreign policy is the strongest?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🌎 Latin America (813)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🇪🇺 Europe (40)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🐪 Middle East (166)
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🤔 Unsure/None of the above (80)
🌎 Latin America: “The greatest improvements have been in Latin America, without a doubt. There are still too many hurdles to clear in Europe and the Middle East for the US to have the same level of success.” — Michael
🐪 Middle East: “Trump has done miracles in the Middle East, aligning nations that once hated each other and bringing peace.” — Terry
🤔 Unsure: “He has destroyed the rules based order established after WW2 and returned to a might-makes-right order…while alienating every Western ally. This is not a strong foreign policy.” — Mark
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