@threadreaderapp @TheHat2 > unpacking the status quo So she's referring to deconstruction - to use post-structuralist terms though Gramsci never used it (and Anita is a Gramscian Marxist).
> Gloria Jean Watkin (nom de plume bell hooks) To mention hooks is to imply influence by Paulo Freire.

@threadreaderapp @TheHat2 This inspiration by Anita's by Gloria Watkins, who in turn was inspired by Paulo Freire, the father of "engaged pedagogy" - where education is a vector for teaching, not didactic subjects of the arts and sciences, but Marxism (again influenced by Gramsci)

@threadreaderapp @TheHat2 Johnathan McIntosh was also fellow traveler (still is) with being a pop culture critic but, like John, was identified immediately for having a distant, almost nonsensical description that seems articulate and knowledgeable of the subject, but twists via half-truths/white lies.

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🧵 THREAD: Spielberg’s ‘Taken’ Just Got Real – The Chilling Synchronicities with Trump’s Department of War UFO Files Drop 🛸

“Taken wasn’t fiction. It was a dress rehearsal.
The main event just dropped on war.gov/ufo.
Buckle up, humanity… the sky isn’t the limit anymore.
What are you going to do with the truth? 👀🛸”

I’m halfway through Steven Spielberg’s 2002 miniseries Taken right now… and my jaw is on the floor.

Last week (May 8, 2026), President Trump’s Department of War dropped the FIRST tranche of never-before-seen UAP files on war.gov/ufo. Historical DoW documents, pilot reports, flying-disc photos, incident summaries from the exact 1940s era Taken dramatizes.

Fiction and declassified reality just collided. Here’s why this matters more than you think. 👇

Quick Taken primer (Spielberg executive-produced, 10 gripping hours):

It follows three American families across 58 years (1944–2002): The Keys – multi-generational abductees haunted by WWII “foo fighters,” missing time, implants, and experiments.

The Crawfords – ruthless military brass who seize the 1947 Roswell crash, bury it, and run a lifelong shadow-government reverse-engineering operation. The Clarkes – everyday folks who shelter an alien survivor… triggering hybrid programs and the birth of a pivotal “bridge” “hybrid”child. Roswell cover-up. Generational contact. Government lies. Grey aliens. The whole lore, humanized.

Now zoom to May 8, 2026.

Trump’s directive (from his February Truth Social post) launches PURSUE – the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters. The Department of War (yes, they’re using the historic name) floods war.gov/ufo with 160+ raw files:

1946–47 DoW volumes
1948 incident summaries
1949 “Flying Discs” reports
Pilot & astronaut accounts, Apollo-era anomalies, unresolved cases. No spin. No conclusions. Just the documents. More tranches coming every two weeks. 👀

Trump’s message: “The people can decide for themselves, ‘WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?” ✨

The synchronicities hit like a saucer at Roswell:

Taken opens with WWII foo fighters and the 1947 crash/cover-up. The files start in the exact same window – late-1940s DoW records, flying discs, post-WWII intelligence. Fiction shows military turning alien tech into black projects and silencing witnesses.

Reality now hands us the raw historical paperwork those projects supposedly created. Spielberg’s 24-year-old series suddenly reads like it was based on tomorrow’s leaks.

This isn’t just “fun coincidence.” It’s paradigm-shifting.
For decades the story was “conspiracy theory.” Now the government itself is saying: here are the files—judge for yourselves. No more gatekeeping. No more “nothing to see here.” 👀

It validates the human cost “Taken” portrayed so powerfully: families torn apart, generations carrying trauma and wonder, ordinary people caught in something vastly bigger than national security.

Why it’s urgent today?

Transparency wins. Decades of drip-feed briefings end with public access. Americans finally get to see the raw data instead of filtered narratives.

Worldview reset. If even a fraction points to non-human intelligence, everything—history, tech, religion, our place in the cosmos—changes.

Cultural prophecy. Spielberg has been dropping breadcrumbs since Close Encounters. Taken + his upcoming Disclosure Day film feel less like entertainment and more like preparation. The veil isn’t just lifting. It’s being handed to us on a government website.

Watch Taken (full series remastered on YouTube|Rumble) while the files are fresh. Then generate your own commentary @ war.gov/ufo yourself.
You’ll see the parallels jump off the screen.

The series ends with hope, connection, and a new generation inheriting truth.

Maybe that’s exactly where we are right now.
What synchronicities are you noticing? Drop them below. Have you compared specific episodes to the 1940s docs yet?

The truth isn’t coming. It’s already here.
#UAPDisclosure #Taken #Spielberg #DepartmentOfWar #TrumpUFOFiles #Roswell #PURSUE
war.gov/ufo ← start here.

End thread. What do you see? 🧬

My mom said that one of her friends saw an amazon box outside and suggested they should use other vendors. Her words: "Bezos isn't doing us any favors."

Bezos has personally added more value to my life than almost anyone alive.

https://twitter.com/user84829272/status/2051450696201891937

I sometimes consider moving to other countries, but have held off in part because it's so annoying to get the physical things that I need.

In that limited sense, Amazon's value-add to me is greater than the differences in governance (in the first world).

There are few CEOs that have so clearly made my life better.

Thank you @JeffBezos for making Amazon!

1/🚨A 2011 peer-reviewed trial: 2.5g/day of black sesame meal lowered systolic BP by 8.2 mmHg in 4 weeks.

Pharmaceutical-magnitude therapeutic effect. Same range as ACE inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers.

From a food. Pennies a day. Zero detected side effects.
You haven't heard of it. Here's why. 🧵👇

2/ It didn't just lower BP. The upstream biomarkers moved like a root-cause intervention should:

→ MDA (lipid peroxidation) dropped 33%
→ Vitamin E rose 30%
→ Sesame lignans upregulate endogenous vitamin C synthesis (animal data)

The body's own antioxidant machinery switched on.

Study details: sayerji.substack.com/p/the-black-se…

3/ Drugs cannot do this. Their mechanism forbids it.

ACE inhibitors block bradykinin → cough.
Beta-blockers suppress sympathetic tone → fatigue, ED.
Diuretics force excretion → gout, glucose intolerance.

The "side effects" ARE the mechanism, seen from another angle.

The Israeli propaganda machine on social media is showing clear signs of failing to win over the vast majority of real online users (not Israeli bots or apparatchiks who are on 24 Hours desperately trying to convince us they are ordinary reasonable minded people. Here’s why! 👇

The release from Israeli prison of two prominent Global Flotilla activists and the lifting of sanctions against the UN Special Rapporteur are markers that the Israel is aware its treatment of those falsely accused of crimes is having the opposite effect on global opinion.

The previous dropping of charges against pro-Palestine activists in London as well as the hardening of relations between Israel’s US backer and supplier of arms, Trump by Italy & Spain in particular plus boycotts of the Eurovision by 5 EU states are all more clear signs.

I watched @Cisco convert from a strong diverse workforce of Americans from around the world and transform into Punjabi Mumbai Lite in the Raleigh Durham area. I have no issue with Indians or their culture, but when it came to tech, I found working with them to be tolerating ...

https://twitter.com/xrp369creator/status/2054729944970785134

... overt racism against every other racial demographic known to man-kind. I was Romanian by birth and American by upbringing, and I faced discrimination by this exact account by @HBNEWS and @StevenEdginton bring up. @Cisco went from being a strong organization to a weak one.

Now @meraki is plagued with low skill talent held together with AI and woke policies that have personally interfered with my ability to do business to the degree that I switched networking providers after 21+ years of being an Advanced Services veteran of @Cisco.

Slokas which a Hindu should know

Important prarthana slokas which everyone should know & to be taught to our kids.

1. Morning sloka

When you wake up, look at your hands & chant

कराग्रे वसते लक्ष्मीः करमध्ये सरस्वती
करमूले तु गोविन्दः प्रभाते करदर्शनम्

2. Morning prayers to Bhoomi Devi

समुद्रवसने देवि पर्वतस्तनमण्डले ।
विष्णुपत्नि नमस्तुभ्यं पादस्पर्शं क्षमस्वमे ॥

3. During bath

गङ्गे च यमुने चैव गोदावरि सरस्वति ।
नर्मदे सिन्धु कावेरी जलेऽस्मिन् संनिधिं कुरु ॥

4. Tulasi Devi pradakshina 3 times

प्रसीदा तुलसी देवी
प्रसीदा हरि वल्लभ
क्षीरोदा मदनोबुधे
तुलसी त्वाम नमम्यहम्

5. Pradakshina to Ashwattha tree 7 times

Below is what's actually happening in Lake Tahoe. Liberty Utilities delivers energy. It needs a new wholesale supplier. It has asked the CPUC for permission to conduct an RFP.

The doc reveals Liberty has a peak load of 141 MW.

Here's how that relates to data centers --

https://twitter.com/tau18analytics/status/2054608625164034127

The new/xt generation of data centers consume a startling amount of energy. The are city-sized in terms of energy consumption. When it was initially announced in 2024, Meta's Louisiana data center was set to consume twice as much energy as New Orleans does on a hot summer day.

The newer version (announced in 2026) will be closer to 5 x New Orleans peak.

Anyway, last year a company called Vantage announced a 224 MW data center in Storey County, NV, not far from Lake Tahoe.

The wildest payouts in sales almost never comes from landing the obvious company at the obvious time.

It comes from getting there first.

Here are the 4 signals I use to spot high-comp companies 12-18 months out:

This isn't about finding who's hiring right now.

It's about finding who will 3x your comp 18 months from now when you get there.

Huge difference.

The obvious move is always 12 months late (like Samsara in 2023)

🐲 Signal 1: Revenue growth outpacing headcount growth

When revenue grows faster than headcount - every new rep is MORE productive, not less.

That's a company investing in quality.

Find it: LinkedIn headcount growth tab + their latest earnings or funding announcement.

It’s been almost two months since President Trump took the bold step of officially forming the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.

We’ve already uncovered tens of billions of dollars in defrauded taxpayer money, prosecuted dozens of fraudsters, and stopped billions in suspicious payments. And we’re just getting started.

So why has it taken the federal government until now to finally tackle fraud? Because Andrew Ferguson and I are taking a new approach. Here’s how.

Until President Trump’s inauguration, federal anti-fraud efforts have been defined by a “pay-and-chase” approach: federal agencies like HHS issue payments and then only take steps to identify fraud on the back-end. The federal government might prosecute the alleged fraudsters—but only if the fraud is big enough.

It’s a flawed approach that’s predictably exploited. Every year, the United States loses about $250B to fraud but recovers only about $10B.

Plain and simple, “pay-and-chase” does not stop fraud.

Our new approach starts will close coordination. We are orchestrating all federal agencies’ anti-fraud efforts from the White House. Rather than haphazard fraud mitigation, the Task Force is focusing agencies’ efforts on target programs where spending is high, but anti-fraud protections are low.

We’re already uncovering major fraud scandals across a range of federal programs:

Kelly Loeffler has referred $22.B in fraudulent loans for collection.

Linda McMahon has identified $1B in fraudulent student loans from “ghost students.”

Brooke Rollins has identified 14,000 luxury-car owners receiving SNAP benefits in just one state.

Project Milk Carton and The Constitutional Republic will release a detailed 7-part investigative series breaking down one of the most overlooked education stories in America: how Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), billionaire-funded nonprofit networks, federal COVID relief money, and ideological education standards became deeply connected inside America’s schools.

This series is based on publicly available records, financial filings, curriculum alignment documents, government funding reports, and organizational partnerships that most parents have never seen explained in one place.

At the center of the investigation is a critical question:

When schools purchased “Social-Emotional Learning” programs, did parents and communities fully understand what frameworks, organizations, and political ideologies were connected to them?

That question has become even more important as national attention surrounding the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) continues to grow.

Fox News recently reported that SPLC-linked “anti-racism” curriculum materials connected to Learning for Justice were found being used in classrooms as early as kindergarten. The report raised concerns about how deeply these frameworks have entered schools and whether parents fully understood the political and ideological content tied to them.

At the same time, the SPLC is now facing major federal scrutiny unrelated to school curriculum but directly tied to its organizational operations and funding practices.

On April 21, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center.

According to the DOJ:

The SPLC faces 6 counts of wire fraud
4 counts of false statements to a federally insured bank
And 1 count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering

Federal prosecutors allege that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals connected to violent extremist organizations through informant and shell-company arrangements while allegedly misleading donors and financial institutions about how the money was being used.

The DOJ has also filed forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds connected to the case.

The SPLC has denied the allegations and described the investigation as politically motivated. The organization argues the payments were tied to intelligence-gathering operations designed to prevent violence and assist law enforcement. At this stage, the indictment targets the organization itself and not individual executives, though reports indicate a superseding indictment may still be possible as the case develops.

This criminal case is separate from the Learning for Justice curriculum discussion. However, it has intensified public scrutiny surrounding the SPLC’s broader operations, influence networks, funding pipelines, and educational partnerships.

The investigation series will follow the trail from:

The SPLC’s Learning for Justice program
CASEL and the redefinition of “Transformative SEL”
Second Step curriculum alignment documents
Billionaire-backed nonprofit funding networks
Tides Foundation pass-through funding
ESSER COVID education funding
School counselor standards
State education pipelines
And finally into classrooms across America.