Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "This year the USA is celebrating its 250th year since the Declaration of Independence was signed and published.

But I want to point out another part of US history.
1) This is also the 225th year since George Washington’s final address to the American people and Congress was read.

There were two important warnings in Washington’s written remarks upon ending his term in office that are relevant today—relevant for Americans and
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The Telegraph article reported on a Trump administration proposal for the US to directly purchase the Chagos Islands from Mauritius, securing full control of the Diego Garcia military base while bypassing the stalled UK-Mauritius sovereignty transfer deal.
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https://twitter.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2063669499304587733

Diego Garcia is a critical US-UK strategic asset in the Indian Ocean, supporting bomber operations, surveillance, and logistics from the Gulf Wars to Yemen strikes, with US concerns over potential future Chinese influence via Mauritius prompting the direct-buy idea.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have been asked to write something again about the issue of non-citizens voting, so here it is.

I believe in the law, and in the U.S. Constitution as being the basis of all federal law.
1) And as such, only citizens of the USA should be allowed to vote in federal elections.

Fact: All references to the vote in the Constitution of the USA restrict the right to vote to citizens of the USA.

Can't get it more simple than that.
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And now, for the facts.
The proposed Section 224 of the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act, titled the “United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,” is best understood as...
1) an expansion of existing U.S. defense cooperation frameworks with close allies. The United States already maintains similar agreements with partners such as the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and NATO countries.
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain.
1) Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center, because a Highly Conflicted, Crooked Federal Judge, said that I should not be allowed to spend my time and money in order to MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Understanding Iran’s Islamic Regime - The Story of Karbala

There is an element in the psychology of the Islamic Republic of Iran that the West, including the USA Administration, seems not to understand, and
1) and that is the way Shi’i Twelver ideology sees the story of Karbala.

Karbala was the site of war between Husayn ibn Ali (the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad) and his small band of followers who made a final stand against the forces of Yazid, the Umayyad caliph.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I find this interesting about international politics

Cuba. - Hates and responds to anyone who opposes it, and provides many benefits to those in charge of the political system and its military, encourages terrorist movements and
1) provides them with shelter, but except for the United States, the rest of the world continues to treat the Cuban regime as an okay one. No condemnation. There is no criticism. There is no effort to condemn or boycott or even judge.
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Daniel Grand, an Orthodox Jewish resident of University Heights, Ohio, who received a cease-and-desist order in 2021 for hosting a small home minyan prayer gathering without a special use permit.
1) Grand sued the city under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), alleging zoning enforcement discriminated against religious assemblies compared to similar-sized secular home gatherings, with claims of surveillance, withheld services,
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JNS article reports on a May 29, 2026 House Judiciary Committee Republican memo alleging Biden administration grants from USAID, State Department, and Defense flowed to NGOs like Tides Network, Rockefeller entities,
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https://twitter.com/GREENESJ333/status/2060456166266896462

and Abraham Initiatives that supported anti-Netanyahu protests in Israel.

The memo details over $5 million routed through these groups to fund judicial reform opposition and some anti-Israel activism in the US, with specific donations linked to Jewish Voice for Peace,
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The person in the clip is U.S. Navy Admiral Brad Cooper, Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).

He is the one testifying, responding to a question about his experience with Iran and noting that in the roughly 30 months before Operation Epic Fury
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youtube.com/shorts/h06DhIh… (the U.S.-led military operation against Iran that began on February 28, 2026), Iran and its proxies (in Iraq, Syria, and the Houthis) attacked U.S. service members and diplomats about 350 times—roughly every third day.
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Garcia defeated Galindo in the Texas 35th Congressional District Democratic primary runoff held on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.

Key Results:
Winner: Johnny Garcia (approx. 60% of the vote)
Loser: Maureen Galindo (approx. 40% of the vote)
1) The race drew national attention due to Galindo's controversial comments regarding Israel and Zionism, which led to widespread condemnation from Democratic leaders and significant spending by party groups to support Garcia.
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Rep. Chip Roy lost the Republican primary runoff for Texas attorney general to Texas state Sen. Mayes Middleton. Multiple outlets projected Middleton as the winner on May 26, 2026.
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texastribune.org/2026/05/26/may… Reports indicate Middleton won by roughly a 56%–44% margin after campaigning as the more MAGA-aligned candidate in the race to replace outgoing Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is running for the U.S. Senate.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "A serious warning about Iran and the future

As I am writing this, I have no idea how the drama with Iran, the USA, and that region will come out in the next few months,
1) but there are some things about which I do know without doubt, and people should be worried.

Any result, any deal, any arrangement that is not inclusive of regime change will not last more than a few years before war, a multi-front war, will break out again.
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Fla Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 484 on May 7, 2026, regulating large AI data centers by prohibiting utilities from passing their electricity & infrastructure costs to residential ratepayers while requiring stricter water use permits during droughts.
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flgov.com/eog/news/press… The law emphasizes protecting public water resources by mandating public hearings for consumptive use permits, prioritizing reclaimed water for data centers, and giving local governments authority over land use decisions for hyperscale facilities.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Everyone waiting for an Iran peace deal. --- There is none.

Fact: Within hours of one another -- two statements from the US. One saying the deal is almost done, the other saying the deal is still far away.
1) And Iran -- its foreign minister saying a deal is close, and the IRGC saying there is no deal.

So, what is my guess? There is no deal. There will be no deal in the near future, if at all. What there is, is delay, delay, delay,
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Has Trump saved Iran????

Just thinking, but people do not realize that Trump has actually saved Iran.

Had Iran achieved building nuclear weapons, using them to blackmail their neighbors and the Europeans, and
1) because of their cultic Shi’i 12er theology gone forward, first threatening and then possibly launching a missile with a nuclear warhead at Israel, and while the odds are that Israel could have defeated the limited number of missiles of the number and
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Questions About Iran and the Deal

I admit I do not know all the details of the deal that President Trump has worked out with the Iranian leadership, which today is mostly the IRGC leaders — yes,
1) the same people that recently murdered 45,000 of their own people for protesting.

And I understand that Israel and all the Arabs have agreed with what Trump has worked out.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Let’s consider a radical change in immigration and ex-migration for the USA

Here is a really useful common-sense idea for the USA. I want people to be happy.
1) A. Let’s deport all those activists that say they want to leave America and who claim other places are better for them.

Those walls were not built to keep them in, let them leave. Heck, help them leave.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Democracy Died Yesterday in Turkey

When the Appeals Court decided, under pressure from Erdoğan, to disallow the leaders of the major opposition party that polls show would win in a presidential contest with Erdoğan.
1) This after another leader, the mayor of Istanbul, who polls show could beat Erdoğan, has been jailed and accused, without evidence, of all sorts of crimes.

In short, Erdoğan is systematically turning his nation into an Islamic dictatorship, while...
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have been asked to write something again about the issue of non-citizens voting, so here it is.

I believe in the law, and in the US Constitution as being the basis of all federal law.
1) And as such, only citizens of the USA should be allowed to vote in federal elections.

Fact: All references to the vote in the Constitution of the USA restrict the right to vote to citizens of the USA.

Can’t get it more simple than that.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "FLOTILLAS AND FOOLISHNESS

I have not written much about the Flotillas to Gaza, nor about Israel’s handling of the problem. I’m correcting that now.
1) The Flotillas. The claim of these Flotillas for Gaza, that started in 2008, by the way, has been that they, subsidized by Western leftist interests and by Turkey, want to show their solidarity to the people of Gaza and
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