Yesterday, Rep. Cory Mills (@RepMillsPress) voted against censuring Ilhan Omar for suggesting Charlie Kirk was to blame for his own murder.

Rep. Mills must resign. He has a conflict of interest and cannot represent his constituents faithfully.

A thread.
Ilhan Omar is loathed by Republican voters, and her comments about Charlie were beyond the pale. This should have been straightforward.

But Rep. Mills claimed that First Amendment concerns guided his vote - and implied that Charlie himself would agree.

Took my toddler to the local library today, and look at this absolute nonsense that was among the BOARD BOOKS for PRESCHOOLERS


It gets worse

With Kilmar Abrego Garcia back in the news, we are already seeing a mountain of bull coming from lefty immigration advocates.

Let's go back into the weeds a bit, and go through some of the falsehoods put into the press by his lawyers and agitators.

🧵 First, there were claims that Abrego Garcia had legal status in the United States. These were always false. Abrego Garcia only had withholding of removal to El Salvador. He is an illegal alien whose asylum claim was denied.

https://x.com/willchamberlain/status/1907130213512659297

Under @RepMariaSalazar's bill, the wife-beating illegal alien MS-13 gang banging human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be granted citizenship by a future Democrat administration, with no further changes to American law.

A thread with citations explaining how. Let's start with the basics of his admissibility. Abrego Garcia entered the United States in 2011 at the age of 16.

That makes him eligible for the Dreamer program under the bill. It doesn't matter that he came on his own volition.

Let's tell YET ANOTHER story about Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and his alleged membership in MS-13 - and his lawyer playing fast and loose with the facts.

In last night's thread, I explained how Abrego-Garcia's lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, underplayed the evidence that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 contained in the Gang Field Interview Sheet (GFIS).

One of the key parts of the GFIS was the assertion of a confidential informant that Abrego-Garcia was a member of the "Westerns clique" of MS-13, including his rank and moniker. This would be pretty definitive, if true. How did Sandoval-Moshenberg deal with this in his complaint? Well, he asserted, without equivocation, that the Westerns Clique of MS-13 "operates in Brentwood Long Island, in New York, a state that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia has never lived in."

If true, that would be pretty devastating to the credibility of the confidential informant! And indeed, both Judge Thacker's 4th Circuit opinion and Judge Xinis' district court opinion cite this specific point to discredit the evidence that Abrego-Garcia is in MS-13.

Let's tell another story about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This one has to do with his lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, and how a 4th Circuit judge (and the entire media) effectively got duped into underplaying the evidence that Abrego-Garcia was in MS-13. Today, AG Bondi released the underlying Gang Field Interview Sheet (GFIS) related to Abrego Garcia's detainment in 2019, along with other documents.

In the GFIS, the police officer attests that when Abrego-Garcia was arrested, he was hanging out with multiple confirmed MS-13 members, that he was wearing apparel associated with MS-13, and that a confidential source independently identified Abrego-Garcia's membership in MS-13 along with his rank and moniker in the organization.

Let's tell the story of Kilmer Armado Abrego-Garcia, the "Maryland Father" (read: likely member of MS-13) who was removed to El Salvador, and who The Atlantic (and apparently the entire political left) are demanding be returned to the United States. First: his detention. He was detained in March 2019 and charged with removability. Abrego Garcia is a "native and citizen" of El Salvador. He crossed the border illegally in 2012, and was thus removable - totally independently of whether he was in MS-13.

There’s nothing complicated about where happening in Yemen. A tiny, broke country shoots missiles and drones at American military vessels and refuses to allow freedom of navigation to American military ships.

We aren’t some trivial power. We are THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. There is no piddling little country that gets to shoot at our ships and not face an overwhelming military response. Not under a competent President.

I like allies who win their wars

Israelis take American aid and use it to kill the terrorists that murdered our Marines in Beirut

Ukrainians take American aid and embezzle it to buy yachts and London real estate Like objectively - is there a more obvious national interest than in seeing terrorists on our own most wanted list for murdering our Marines killed?

That’s America First.

A white pill:

The stolen valor revelations put the Harris/Walz campaign in an untenable position.

Team Harris delayed doing any interviews/press conferences because they wanted to get their ducks in a row on the VP front and the policy front. But now they *can’t* do interviews or press conferences because Walz’ stolen valor is indefensible. Walz can’t defend his lies, and Harris can’t defend selecting him.

So they are going to have to keep the campaign running on the high of Dem relief at Biden being replaced. But the election is three months away. Media frustration will grow, coverage will get less rosy, pressure on both Harris and Walz will increase.

I’d be long Trump. Understand too that this is the downside for Dems of Harris coming in as the nominee at the last minute.

A Presidential candidate would normally have a year and a half to build a policy platform out - with brainstorming, talking to stakeholders, revisions, approvals, and all that entails. Team Harris has to do that in about four weeks.

Trump had six months to do VP vetting after effectively securing the nomination. Harris had two weeks.

So you have a campaign that wasn’t ready to do interviews or press conferences and one that couldn’t do thorough, considered VP vetting. This is the result.

Really simple, underdiscussed reason why Kamala Harris shouldn’t be President

No children And no, becoming a step-parent to older teenagers doesn’t count

You might have missed it, but Florida won a solid victory for election integrity yesterday in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals

The left tried to strike down Florida's election integrity law, SB 90

They already lost on appeal, and now rehearing en banc has been denied Just to quickly explain:

When a case is first appealed to a federal circuit court, it is heard by a three-judge panel

The party that loses that appeal can ask the entire circuit court to rehear the case "en banc," with all active judges on the circuit presiding

Earlier today we highlighted some individual prosecution decisions made by the now-suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell.

Now, let’s take a broader look at @GovRonDeSantis’ executive order to see how Worrell was derelict in her duty.

We’ll start with gun crime. Florida has mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes.

The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office referred 58 non-homicide Robbery with a Firearm cases to Worrell’s office in 2021 and 2022.

As of May 2023, only one mandatory minimum sentence had been imposed in any of those cases.

Today, @GovRonDeSantis suspended State Attorney Monique Worrell for dereliction of duty and incompetence.

Here are some examples of her policies or practices in action. Daton Viel was arrested in March 2023 for sexual battery on a minor, as well as Lewd and Lascivious Molestation.

That arrest was made while Viel was on probation for another offense. Viel was still let out on bond.

This past weekend, Viel shot two Orlando Police Officers.

Oppenheimer was a great movie…for two hours

How do you take a movie about something as consequential as the Manhattan Project and make it about things as picayune and trivial as the denial of a security clearance and the failed confirmation of a minor cabinet secretary Yes I watched the movie and understood the plot, I’m saying that portion of the story was simply uninteresting

https://twitter.com/Chris9902051/status/1682996108119736320

Trump has put out a slew of very good scripted policy videos

But I won't take him seriously until he actually demonstrates that he *cares* about policy more than Maggie Haberman's approval All the scripted policy videos prove is that he has some good, based policy advisers

But he had good, based policy advisers in his first term who found themselves fired within a year

Meanwhile Kim Kardashian waltzed into the White House and got criminal justice reform through

In case it wasn't obvious: Trump might not be "the establishment," but he has built an establishment around him that behaves almost exactly the way the old establishment did There's a reason that the vast majority of Trump's endorsements are coming from sitting legislators - and particularly House members

They are the people he can threaten with primary challenges

Trump 2024's current strategy is supposedly to try to bully DeSantis out of declaring

It won't work for a few reasons

First, every poll shows DeSantis in a solid second, with anywhere from 20-40% of the vote. No other candidate gets more than single digit support. Second, that base of support puts DeSantis in a much stronger position than he had in his first runs for Congress and for Governor.

If you read his book, he didn't come into politics with a strong network or institutional support.

New rule: if you did not end up holding the office that you ran for, then you didn't win the election for that office "Trump won."

No, he didn't. You can argue that he got cheated. But he lost.

I know I’m behind on this but she’s completely right

https://twitter.com/bonethirty/status/1636261276312809474

You’ll improve your cooking dramatically if you just use enough salt and make sure there’s something acidic to balance things out

Roger is a among the many pro-Trump commentators spreading this falsehood.

Ron DeSantis is not violating Florida's Resign to Run law - and he couldn't possibly do so before he officially announced his campaign and made the requisite filings in Florida.🧵

https://twitter.com/RogerJStoneJr/status/1636028330423074817

First, let's look at the Resign to Run law.

It requires officeholders who "qualify for federal office" to resign if any part of their terms would run concurrently.

And it mandates that such a resignation occur 10 days before the first day of "qualifying for the office."