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𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐃 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝟓𝟏 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏’𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓𝐒 𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐀𝐅𝐄, 𝐍𝐎𝐍-𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐒
President Trump’s Department of Transportation announced the results of Operation Highway Shield on Tuesday, a crackdown that started in Florida and has since spread across the Midwest into Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Ohio, according to the New York Post and Fox News.
The numbers are staggering. Officials ran 3,487 enforcement stops, pulling 𝟕𝟔𝟔 𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 and logging 51 immigration detentions, 47 criminal charges, 39 incarcerations, 36 English-language-proficiency violations and three cargo-theft recoveries totaling roughly $1 million in stolen freight.
Florida troopers reported that up to 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 at some weigh stations could not meet English requirements. When one officer asked a driver what a road sign meant, the trucker answered 𝘕𝘰.
Asked what a driver should do when he saw it, the trucker again replied 𝘕𝘰.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety administrator Derek Barrs called it a matter of life and death.
𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘸 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦, he said. 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘥.
The push follows a string of 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 involving drivers the Department of Homeland Security says were in the country illegally or holding commercial licenses they never should have been granted.
𝐀 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐚𝐭 𝟕𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐬. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐲𝐬 — 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝.
https://nitter.net/MichaelARothman/status/2084956088995393673#m
Whatever state granted the license should have DOT funds withheld
𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑 𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐍: 𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐍’𝐒 𝐖𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏
The midterms are now about 90 days out, and Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) says Iran already knows exactly what it’s doing. It isn’t negotiating.
It’s 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤. Hanson lays out the pattern with contempt: 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬, 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘭𝘧, 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬, 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵, 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘩, 𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘦, 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘯.
Every round of “talks” is theater. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘺, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘺, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘺, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘺 — sporadic strikes, a moderate face on TV, and hardliners buying time behind it.
The endgame isn’t peace. It’s an election.
Iran is betting Donald Trump loses the House to what Hanson calls a 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 that would cut off funds for the pressure campaign, then 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵.
In other words, Tehran’s real strategy runs through 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐭𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 — stall long enough for our own left to hand them the win they can’t take on the battlefield.
Hanson’s counter is simple: turn time back into America’s weapon, not Iran’s.
𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬, 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭
https://nitter.net/MichaelARothman/status/2084953822322204998#m
You can’t tell the man, he will just not listen unless you are negotiating team trio.
Do you think perhaps the Arab allies that supposedly keep asking President Trump to stop the bombings are part of the plan?
“The world’s number one women’s tennis player Aryna Sabalenka just went to WAR with the transgender cult: “Men are stronger than women. It would not be fair for women to compete against biological men.”….
Good for her! Surprised this isn’t across the board with all women athletes. Can’t believe this isn’t a 99/1 issue.
Common sense!
The Persecution of Catherine Herridge Is an Assault on the First Amendment
Catherine Herridge is one of the finest investigative journalists of her generation.
Roger Stone
Aug 05, 2026
“…Her legal ordeal began with a 2017 investigation she reported while at Fox News concerning Yanping Chen, a Chinese American scientist whose Virginia institution had received Department of Defense, now Department of War, funding while also attracting FBI counterintelligence scrutiny over alleged ties to China’s People’s Liberation Army. Chen was never charged with a crime but later sued the federal government, claiming officials had improperly leaked information about the investigation. When years of litigation failed to identify the alleged government source, the lawyers turned their attention to Herridge herself, demanding that she reveal the confidential sources who entrusted her with information. She refused, honoring the most fundamental obligation of any serious investigative journalist.
That refusal has come at afinancially debilitating personal cost which Herridge described publicly on X. Rather than accept the principle that reporters must be able to protect confidential sources, the courts have attempted to force Herridge into submission through financial punishment. She was held in civil contempt and ordered to pay $800 a day every single day until she agrees to betray the people who placed their trust in her. Imagine that. Do you have $800 a day? Now there are efforts to increase those penalties dramatically into $5000 a day while preventing outside organizations from helping pay them. The strategy is as transparent as it is reprehensible. If they cannot force her to surrender voluntarily, they intend to bankrupt her into compliance. That is not justice. It is persecution….”
https://open.substack.com/pub/rogerstone/p/the-persecution-of-catherine-herridge
🧐 It begins . . . A first delivery of Islamists to Spain’s mainland.
Hundreds of thousands to follow.
Future voters.
👇 . . . 👇
https://rumble.com/shorts/v7dr0kc?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v4_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_user-profile-page-shorts%2Csrc_v1_upp_s
“Voters” is a much over used word. We never voted for our invasion. Yet here we are.
The Communist vs Whatever Democrat State primaries are such a massive hype and joke.
It is nothing more than a focus group assessment as to which tribe from the Democrat Big Tent will rule within each specific democrat fiefdom.
ALL the democrats of every “declared” social order type vote in lock step.
Every democrat has publicly declared acceptance of the each Tribe under the Big Tent. They look and act exactly like the Coalition of “Leftist” and “Left of Center” parties in the EU. Meanwhile the “disjointed” Republicans look and act just like the disjointed “Right” and “Center right” parties in the EU who can just never seem to gain that unified 51% to take over the Parliaments in their nations or EU in Brussels.
The end game shape of the political landscape, by the Uni-Party, is a Government that looks like, smells like and acts like an EU Parliament … all legally done under the existing U.S. Constitution.
Once the leftist coalition nukes the filibuster and 60-vote rule they control ALL and can: neuter or expand authority as needed among the other branches of the Government and make the appointments necessary to “properly man” the government.
Don’t bore me with 67 Vote stuff in the senate because how many 1st Choice appointments were ever denied Obama or the JoeBama Auto-pen, the republicans??? NONE
NO Amendments to the Constitution will even be needed.
“Trump-backed Wisconsin warrior Tom Tiffany just DESTROYED socialist Francesca Hong after she openly supported CANCELING THANKSGIVING.”…
Isn’t today the last day that would provide the Gov of KY the opportunity to appoint McConnell’s replacement? I think after today that it would be a special election. “Under a Kentucky statute, if a U.S. Senate vacancy occurs more than a certain threshold of months before an upcoming general election (with political discussions targeting early August as a crucial marker), a special election must be evaluated or triggered rather than relying solely on a gubernatorial appointment.”
I don’t like McConnell at all but RIP tomorrow Mitch.
The lack of any live, in person interview (even if it’s just a couple of quick questoins and answers) by the Turtle tells us that he will be having an “unforseeen, sudden change” in his medical condition.
There’s no other explanation for his sudden camera shyness.
A legal Iranian immigrant goes to the gym wearing a Trump shirt and gets
Confronted
Video…..
Or
https://xcancel.com/Milajoy/status/2084703493785571648
😃 Israel improving World aviation!
Innovation.
👇 . 👇 . 👇
https://rumble.com/v7dr0yk-israel-improving-world-aviation.-innovation..html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v4_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_upp_v
Mila Joy
@Milajoy
This is shocking!
A guy asks college students if they identify as Republican or Democrat, and then asks them questions about their beliefs.
Though they say they are Democrats, their beliefs tell another story.
Video linked…
Or
https://xcancel.com/Milajoy/status/2084759218436112747