“No fighting in the war room!”
On June 10, FBI and our law enforcement partners became aware of a potential threat to the UFC America 250 event in Washington, D.C. involving individuals outside of the National Capital Region – and thanks to the rapid action of this FBI, our partners, and the Department of Justice in a multi-state operation, multiple individuals are now in custody and allegedly planned attacks were stopped cold.
While the result represented the best of investigative work, it was also nothing out of the ordinary for this law enforcement team – we are built to detect, respond to, and bring to justice those who threaten the lives of American citizens - particularly during large gatherings like the historic UFC 250 fight. That’s exactly what we did here. I want to thank our great agents and partners, this work remains ongoing and we will continue to update the public as permitted.
We continue to encourage any American to report anything suspicious at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov.”
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Oliver Staley retweeted
It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.
I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:
There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.
The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.
This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:
A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.
The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.
Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.
State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.
Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.
Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.
Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.
What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?
Ask The Heritage Foundation.
For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”
The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”
It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.
That’s billions and billions of American votes.
Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:
1620.
That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:
1. Some individuals commit election fraud.
2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.
The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.
It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.
Stop trying to subvert our democracy.
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This held up well
Oliver Staley retweeted
We didn’t care about how much protein we ate. We used drugstore shampoo and conditioner. We drank out of plastic bottles. We touched receipts. We could wait in a line without needing to check our phones. We could watch a 3-hour movie without even flinching. No one knew what was happening in our lives because we didn’t have social media to tell them. We could get to places without using GPS. We didn’t even know how powerful we were.
Shameful, really, that the Paraguayan American community can't be bothered to support their team
nytimes.com/athletic/7317155…
I remember going to parties in high school when the ONLY song they played was It Takes Two. RIP, Rob Base, who wasn’t internationally known but knew how to rock a microphone.
Oliver Staley retweeted
The 3 factors that changed debt levels the most since CBO's 2001 projections:
1. The series of tax cuts in 2001, 2003, & 2017 (inc. extensions in 2010, 2012, & 2025)
2. 3 recessions + economic relief (inc. ARRA, CARES, & ARP)
3. Iraq & Afghanistan (most of "discretionary" here)
Oliver Staley retweeted
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
It really doesn’t get discussed enough how little credit people give Black NFL players for thinking for themselves, as if they weren’t grown men capable of drawing their own conclusions.
