Mario Nawfal

🇺🇸 I asked Ron Paul a pretty cynical question: How many people in Congress actually care about the public, and how many are just there for themselves? His answer surprised me. He thinks most of them actually arrive with decent intentions. The problem, in his view, is the system they enter. Money, lobbying, political pressure and control over institutions gradually shape what politicians are willing to do. Paul’s point is almost painfully simple: We expect ordinary people not to lie, cheat, steal or kill. Then we create a government structure where power somehow makes those same rules negotiable. Maybe the problem isn’t that every politician is corrupt. Maybe the machine is just very good at teaching them how to become useful to it. @RonPaul

🇺🇸 Trump was asked about JD Vance saying he believes Trump will endorse him for the 2028 election. And Trump's answer was a little AWKWARD. “He's a very talented person, and he's a very good person, but we've literally... I don't think we've ever talked about it.” Trump then shifted straight to the midterms, saying they need to get through those first before seeing what happens. Writer: Sol t.co/QNp6TtfOdm

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel is warning of an October 7-style attack from the West Bank. But could the warning itself make things worse? I brought Shabbos Kestenbaum and Omar Baddar together after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned of a possible major attack from the West Bank ahead of Israel's elections. Their disagreement was intense. Omar argued that escalating settler violence and Israeli military operations are creating conditions for another explosion, and fears any Palestinian retaliation could become the justification for a much larger crackdown. Shabbos pushed back, pointing to armed Palestinian groups operating in the West Bank and arguing that Israel has every reason to take the threat seriously. But I challenged him on something specific. He cited an incident involving rocks thrown at a vehicle, injuring a pregnant woman, as evidence of the danger. That's a serious attack. But it's not October 7. And that's precisely what worries me. When officials start invoking October 7, the threshold for an extraordinary military response can become dangerously low. Both guests had plenty to say about who bears responsibility for decades of failed peace efforts. I kept coming back to what happens next. Because the West Bank is already tense enough without another incident becoming the spark for something far bigger. @ShabbosK @OmarBaddar

🇺🇸🇸🇴 Trump just suggested Dem Rep. Ilhan Omar could GO TO JAIL: “I think she's a sick, very dishonest person who hates our country.” He then went after her native Somalia, calling it “essentially not even a country, a real shithouse.” This comes as his administration investigates whether Omar obtained her U.S. citizenship through fraudulent immigration paperwork, including questions about her age. Writer: Sol t.co/uk4GK2PkeX

🇫🇷 CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, REJOICE! Key French Freemason Organization, the Grand Orient de France, has seen hundreds of internal documents leaked, including meeting minutes, budgets, and member contact details from a lodge. More than 9,000 pages spanning 2017-2026 are circulating, claimed by LunarisSec. The organization says its core systems were not compromised and has filed a complaint, but the source remains unknown, fueling theories. I just want to know when they will put them on a searchable, Google-like site similar to what they used for the JE-files. Source: Entrevue / Writer: Jamie

🇺🇸 Trump LOSES IT for THE THIRD TIME in one press conference “Wait, wait! Quiet! Quiet! You SICK person. I actually think there's something wrong with you.” The back-and-forth between Trump and the press has turned into a shouting match. I don't think this reporter was getting another question in. Writer: Oliver t.co/P12WqS6pc3

🇺🇸🇮🇷 In 2011, Ron Paul warned me that the biggest danger was a president overreacting and bombing Iran. 15 years later, I asked him about watching exactly that happen. His answer went much bigger than Iran. Paul sees war, monetary policy and the growth of government as part of the same long pattern: states promise security and prosperity, expand their power, weaken sound money, and eventually leave people with less liberty. What struck me is that he doesn’t really describe this as a prediction. More like history repeating itself because we keep ignoring the same incentives. His solution has barely changed either. Less faith in government power. More faith in individual liberty. @RonPaul

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rubio just compared Iran’s attacks on shipping to Nazi Germany. “They are doing Nazi U-boat tactics.” He says Iran is openly admitting it targets commercial ships, something the world hasn’t seen since World War 2, and that everyone should be uniting to condemn it. Nazi references, the final boss of diplomatic insults. Writer: Daniyal t.co/Z4hH2CTntH

🇺🇸 Trump just went on a BRUTAL rant about Gov. Newsom, repeatedly claiming the man CAN'T READ: “There's something wrong with him.” Then, somehow, the conversation shifted to voter ID laws and people potentially going to jail for asking voters to prove their citizenship. Just another perfectly normal Trump press conference 🤣 Writer: Sol t.co/V95xhhcnNF

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's national security chief Mohsen Rezaei has drawn an exceptionally hard line. Not one gram of enriched uranium leaves Iran. No negotiations until America starts fulfilling Tehran's conditions. Here's the problem. Washington wants Iran's nuclear stockpile reduced. Tehran insists on keeping it, including material enriched to 60%, dangerously close to weapons-grade levels. Meanwhile, Iran is demanding sanctions relief, an end to the U.S. blockade and broader regional de-escalation before talks can resume. 8 months of war, billions in damage, and the two sides still can't agree on what needs to happen before they can even sit down. Writer: Oliver

🇺🇸 Trump has a new prediction for Ilhan Omar, and it’s a rough one. “They keep talking about deportation. She could go to jail.” Omar’s options keep getting worse by the week. Writer: Daniyal t.co/syKmXVsb8c

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Rubio doesn’t see a deal with Iran coming anytime soon. “Unfortunately, they don’t know how to make a deal and they’re controlled by radical Shia clerics.” He says the regime is driven by theology, which makes any deal really hard to pull off. That’s a rough sign for anyone hoping this war ends soon. Writer: Daniyal t.co/YA74jbjwaP

🇷🇺🇪🇺 Ben Hodges doesn’t think NATO is slowly being dragged into confrontation with Russia. He thinks the confrontation is already happening. Not as tanks crossing borders, but through drones, sabotage, disinformation and attacks that keep creeping closer to NATO territory. His concern is that Russia is becoming more willing to take risks because the West still hasn’t found a way to impose meaningful consequences. And shooting down the occasional drone, he argues, doesn’t solve that. Hodges wants a much harder response: frozen assets, seized shadow-fleet vessels, visa restrictions and shutting down Russian footholds used for pressure operations. His warning is simple: Every time the West leaves space through inaction, Russia gets a little more comfortable filling it. @general_ben

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump has HAD IT with Ukraine, and he's not hiding it anymore. He says America and Europe have spent fortunes on the war, Europe is exhausted, and Kyiv needs to make a deal before things get even worse. His argument is that Russia is simply too big to keep fighting indefinitely. But there's a difficult question underneath all this: What kind of peace can Ukraine actually accept without inviting another war? Trump wants the fighting to stop. Kyiv wants to know what happens the day after. Writer: Oliver t.co/1OK4HIRlof

🇮🇷🇺🇦 Iran says Ukraine has been secretly sending thousands of tiny drones into Iraq. An Iranian security source told Tasnim that Ukrainian teams have brought drones into several countries around Iran, including thousands into Iraqi Kurdistan. And Tehran says it knows which countries are hosting these teams, but isn't naming them just yet. Iran sees this as part of a bigger push by Europe and NATO against it and is now deciding how to respond. It also claims Ukraine attacked one of its ships in the Caspian Sea before, but Iran let that one slide. Given that all this is coming from an unnamed Iranian source, probably best to take it with a grain of salt. Source: Tasnim / Writer: Daniyal

🇺🇸 Trump is running out of patience with reporters again. “Hey! I don't know who the hell you are but you better be careful.” The White House press corps really is the only workplace where a routine question can turn into a personal feud in under 5 seconds. Writer: Oliver t.co/wmF3bImZ9V

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Rubio says sanctions on Russia hit a lot more than just Russia. “People don’t realize that sanctions come at a consequence because sanctions aren’t just on Russia, they are on anyone who does business with Russia.” He calls it a balancing act, one that’s always there. Trump already waived new penalties on Russia’s biggest oil buyers last week, so the balancing is well underway. Writer: Daniyal t.co/HqQS9KkpGz

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽 Trump was asked whether cracking down on government fraud could help reduce the federal budget deficit next year. “Absolutely.” Then he started talking about trade deficits with Canada, Mexico, and the EU. The reporter meant the gap between what Washington spends and what it collects. Trump was talking about imports and exports. Two completely different deficits. Same word. Entirely different conversation. Writers: Sol, Oliver t.co/o7c1mjbxsv

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ben Hodges thinks Trump is deliberately squeezing Zelensky. Not through speeches. Through weapons, intelligence and support Ukraine actually needs. Asked whether delays involving Patriots, Starlink and intelligence are being used to pressure Kyiv into accepting a deal, Hodges was unequivocal: “That’s exactly what’s happening.” His fear is that Washington wants a settlement badly enough that Ukraine itself becomes secondary. Hodges points to talk of Trump, Putin and Xi discussing Ukraine without Ukraine at the table as the clearest warning sign. His comparison is brutal: Great powers carving up smaller countries as if we’re back in the 18th century. And if Europe can’t stop that, it may be the one left dealing with the consequences. @general_ben

🇮🇱🇱🇧🇮🇷 Netanyahu said he had discussed completing the elimination of Iran's regime with Trump, arguing that Hezbollah's defeat and peace with Lebanon would follow. He also boasted about destroying Hezbollah's infrastructure and transforming security along Israel's northern border. Apparently, the road to peace runs through a LOT MORE WAR. Writer: Sol t.co/AzgQR6p9hu

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇬🇱 Trump says Europe refused to help him. But apparently, there's a consolation prize. “But they were nice enough to give us Greenland, despite all the bad talk.” That's quite a sentence. After all the diplomatic drama over Greenland, Trump is now talking about it like the Europeans finally handed him the keys. Writer: Oliver t.co/A5oqvJdKxn

A Qatari delegation arrived in Iran and then left in less than an hour. WTF is going on?? t.co/I9nLduqCkS

🇺🇸 Trump just SHUSHED a female reporter in the middle of a press conference 🤣 It feels like high school all over again 😂 Writer: Sol t.co/aQRWekkJWa

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Ben Hodges thinks a third U.S. aircraft carrier would be very hard to explain as simple pressure. His point is that moving that much naval power into the region is enormously expensive, requires a much wider logistical buildup, and even pulls assets away from the Pacific. So while he stresses this is speculation, Hodges thinks the deployment would raise the odds of another U.S. military operation against Iran. And timing may be the key. He believes Washington could be waiting until after the election, partly because another strike now would risk sending oil and diesel prices even higher. His broader read is pretty stark: America may already be too committed to simply walk away. @general_ben

🇺🇸🇫🇷 Trump has had enough of watching what's happening in France. He's now calling on the French government to remove what he calls “insurrectionists” from the country. France has been dealing with scenes that would have seemed unimaginable in some of its most famous streets just a few years ago. Trump's essentially telling France to get its house in order. Writer: Oliver t.co/PgvRDFKWJ4

🇺🇸 Trump was asked why his proposed fraud whistleblower reward is just 1% when an existing federal law offers substantially more. His response: “At 1% people will make millions and millions of dollars.” And he's got a point about the money. If someone exposes $500 million in fraud, even 1% is a $5 million payday. But the reporter's question is fair too. Why offer 1% when the False Claims Act already allows eligible whistleblowers to collect much larger percentages? Paying people to expose fraud makes sense. Paying them less than they might already be entitled to makes considerably less sense. Writer: Oliver t.co/MCXLFGxgGS

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Zelensky says the missile warnings are finally coming through again. “We are thankful for the Americans. Now it works. It’s great.” He says the intelligence is working now, and Ukraine can hear ballistic missiles coming before they hit. Before this, he’d said several times that Ukraine was getting zero warning ahead of Russian ballistic strikes on Kyiv. At least one thing is working again. Writer: Daniyal t.co/bvFYhbKJFG

🇺🇸🇫🇷 Trump is coming to Marine Le Pen's defense: “I think she was badly treated. It looked like weaponization to me.” He also calls her “the conservative voice” in France. Le Pen's conviction over the misuse of European Parliament funds has already drawn criticism from Trump, who sees her legal troubles as politically motivated. Writer: Oliver t.co/aRTJNcXhJX

🇺🇸 Stephen Miller says Somali-Americans are buying Mercedes, BMWs and expensive homes, while their children fly first class around the world. The obvious subtext is Minnesota’s massive fraud scandals, where prosecutors have documented defendants spending public money on exactly these items. Writer: Oliver t.co/61072ZRCAo

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Zelensky says Ukraine is NOT LOSING THE WAR, then admits it's losing people, time, and an entire generation's childhood. If your people are dying, time is running out, and children are growing up surrounded by war, what exactly does winning look like? Writer: Sol t.co/cPxSAo9YeF