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Apr 10
🚨BREAKING: The connection between Amanda Ungaro, Epstein, and the Trumps is becoming increasingly difficult for Melania to explain…

So, let’s break down the timeline…🧵 Image
It starts in the mid-late 80s, Donald Trump starts attending all of John Casablancas’s parties, the fonder of Elite Model Management… and also started hanging out, and partying, with Jeffrey Epstein.
By 1991, Trump became a headline sponsor of the Elite Model Management competition, “Look of the Year,” where David Copperfield would judge alongside Trump.
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Apr 10
One of the locations for the #OneYearLater protests is Cardiff in Central Square. The suffragette chosen to be honoured is Margaret Haig Mackworth/Viscountess Rhondda Image
Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda (née Thomas; 12 June 1883 – 20 July 1958) was a Welsh peeress, businesswoman, magazine proprietor, and suffragette. Image
Thomas wrote that her mother had "prayed passionately that her baby daughter might become feminist," and she did become an activist for women's rights.
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Apr 10
A District Court judge heckled Winston Peters mid-speech. Called him a liar. Told staff "there's a room full of judges next door" who'd back her up. The Northern Club banned her permanently. The judiciary? Let her keep her gavel. Thread 🧵👇
Judge Ema Aitken disrupted a NZ First fundraiser at Auckland's Northern Club in November 2024. She accused the then-Deputy PM of lying, called his comments "disgusting," then tried to weaponise her fellow judges against the Executive.
A Judicial Conduct Panel — the first substantive hearing of its kind in NZ history — found her actions were a "serious breach of comity." Her lawyer called it "a 30-second blip on a Friday night." A blip is forgetting to mute your phone in court. This was a constitutional violation.
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Apr 10
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The Fall of Dr David Cartland: Inside the Targeted Campaign That Exposed the Dark Side of Pandemic-Era Narrative Enforcement**

In June 2025, Dr David Cartland, a Cornwall-based GP with over 15 years on the medical register, was erased from it for good. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled after 17 days of hearings that his online conduct, harassing fellow doctors, encouraging followers to report them, creating a fake profile in one colleague’s name, and issuing Covid exemption certificates in ways deemed dishonest, amounted to serious professional misconduct. Erasure was immediate. Subsequent bans from refereeing football matches and from working with vulnerable adults followed in 2026. Cartland, who had publicly questioned aspects of the Covid response including vaccine mandates and myocarditis risks, vowed to appeal. To many, it looked like accountability for a doctor who had crossed the line.

Yet zoom out, and the story is far more unsettling. Long before Cartland’s most inflammatory posts, a loose but highly coordinated network of online activists, known in certain circles as the “Mutton Crew”, had made him, and others like him, a primary target. Their tactics were not random outrage. They were systematic: rapid-response swarms on social media, mass complaints to the General Medical Council, infiltration of vaccine-injury support groups, public ridicule of bereaved families and those reporting adverse events, and relentless pressure designed to isolate, discredit, and professionally destroy. The provocation was real. The intent was clear. And the methods bore an uncomfortable resemblance to techniques honed in military information operations, now turned inward on British citizens.

The Doctor and the Network

Cartland was no fringe figure. A qualified GP who had voiced concerns about lockdowns, mask efficacy, and the safety profile of mRNA vaccines, positions that, by 2025-2026, aligned with emerging data on waning protection against transmission, acknowledged cardiac risks in young males, and ongoing excess mortality debates, he became a lightning rod. His critics framed him as reckless. But tribunal evidence and public records show the campaign against him predated his most aggressive replies by years.

At the centre of this network was Dr Graham Bottley, a flow cytometrist, parish councillor, and owner of a small sheep-farming business in the Yorkshire Dales (operating under the name Swaledale Mutton). Bottley, who also runs a live-action role-playing games company, positioned himself as a staunch defender of “the science.” Alongside a loose affiliation of allies, scientists, clinicians, and self-styled fact-checkers, the group earned the mocking moniker “Mutton Crew” from their detractors for their sheep-like following of Bottley’s lead and their aggressive flock tactics.

Their playbook was consistent: identify doctors or scientists raising questions about official policy, swarm their accounts with dismissive or hostile commentary, lodge formal GMC referrals, and amplify claims of misconduct. Screenshots compiled by independent observers documented hundreds of posts targeting Cartland and similar voices, often descending into personal attacks, mockery of vaccine-injured individuals as “malingerers,” or intrusion into private support groups. Bottley himself was named in tribunal proceedings as one of the doctors harassed by Cartland, but evidence presented (and reportedly downplayed) showed prior coordination and boasting about complaints against skeptics. This was not organic debate. It was enforcement.
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Cartland’s responses escalated. The tribunal found proven allegations of harassment across platforms including X (formerly Twitter), Gettr, Instagram, Telegram, and WhatsApp. He encouraged followers to contact targets and, in one instance, threatened retaliatory action after a complaint. The panel described his behaviour as “oppressive,” “unreasonable,” and “fundamentally incompatible” with continued registration. No one disputes that he succumbed to the pressure and behaved unprofessionally. But the preceding years of targeted provocation, professional complaints, reputational assaults, and attempts to trigger regulatory ruin, formed a documented backdrop that the tribunal acknowledged yet ultimately sidelined in favour of his own conduct.

Echoes of Military-Grade Operations

What makes this case profoundly disturbing is the wider pattern it illuminates. The tactics deployed against Cartland and other dissenting voices mirrored, in style and effect, documented military psychological operations tested on domestic populations during the pandemic.

In April 2026, a Canadian Forces Intelligence Command compliance report laid bare startling revelations about Operation LASER, the Canadian Armed Forces’ domestic Covid response. Multiple units, including a “Precision Information Team” in the Greater Toronto Area, violated federal intelligence rules. Personnel used personal social media accounts, home computers, and home networks to monitor public sentiment on lockdowns, vaccines, and government measures. They collected data on ordinary Canadians without proper authorisation or training. Senior leaders explicitly viewed the crisis as a “unique opportunity” to test propaganda and influence techniques refined in overseas operations such as Afghanistan. A fake “wolf reintroduction” propaganda exercise in Nova Scotia was just one red flag. Monitoring extended to peaceful protests and even Black Lives Matter events. Verbal shutdown orders were issued in April 2020, but elements persisted for months until written directives followed. The report confirmed earlier concerns but added damning detail on the lack of oversight and the blurring of lines between force protection and domestic narrative control.

Across the Atlantic, Britain’s own 77th Brigade, the Army’s specialist information warfare unit, played a parallel role. Tasked officially with countering foreign disinformation and violent extremism, the Brigade was deployed domestically under Operation RESCRIPT during the pandemic. Freedom of Information disclosures, whistleblower accounts, and investigations by groups such as Big Brother Watch revealed mission creep: soldiers collated tweets from ordinary British citizens criticising lockdowns or expressing vaccine hesitancy, conducted “sentiment analysis,” and passed dossiers to the Cabinet Office and Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Posts were scrutinised not merely for falsehoods but for undermining public compliance. A whistleblower described monitoring “the social media posts of ordinary, scared people.” While the Ministry of Defence insisted activities were defensive and limited to public data, parliamentary questions and reports highlighted the domestic focus and the risk of treating policy critics as threats.

The Mutton Crew operated in this same cultural and tactical ecosystem. No public evidence has established direct operational command from the 77th Brigade or equivalent units. Yet the stylistic overlap, rapid coordination, emotional provocation, isolation of targets, and regulator weaponisation, is striking. Civilian networks appeared to echo, amplify, or independently adopt the disruption doctrines of hybrid warfare, now applied to enforce the prevailing public-health narrative at home.
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The Human and Democratic Cost

The consequences were profound. Doctors and scientists who raised legitimate questions, questions later vindicated by shifting official guidance on transmission, natural immunity, and adverse event signals, faced career-ending complaints, deplatforming, and psychological strain. Bereaved families reporting suspected vaccine links were mocked in support groups. Public trust in medicine and institutions, already fraying, suffered further erosion.

Cartland was not infallible. His tribunal findings stand. But the campaign that helped precipitate his downfall was neither spontaneous nor proportionate. It was sustained, intentional, and part of a broader pattern of narrative enforcement during a period when “settled science” proved far less settled than claimed. By 2026, excess deaths inquiries, peer-reviewed papers on spike-protein persistence, and policy U-turns had reframed many early skeptic concerns as data-driven rather than dangerous.

This is not about excusing harassment. It is about recognising asymmetry: one side wielded institutional levers (GMC processes, regulatory complaints) backed by state-adjacent surveillance tools; the other, lacking such power, eventually lashed out crudely. When military-grade influence techniques bleed into civilian life, whether through official units or aligned volunteer enforcers, the result is chilling. Debate is replaced by derision. Dissent becomes “disinformation.” And democracy’s immune system weakens.

A Warning for the Next Crisis

As of April 2026, elements of this dynamic persist. Coordinated responses still target those revisiting pandemic policies with fresh evidence. The playbook remains live, ready for climate, energy, or whatever emergency follows.

Dr Cartland’s case is a cautionary tale. It reveals how quickly professional dissent can be reframed as misconduct when the apparatus of compliance is mobilised. Britain prides itself on open discourse and robust institutions. Yet the convergence of domestic military monitoring, civilian pressure networks, and regulatory overreach during Covid tested those foundations. Accountability, not just for individual doctors, but for the systems that enabled narrative control at the expense of genuine scientific debate, is long overdue.

The real threat to public health and public trust was never the questions. It was the refusal to let them be asked.

Truth Marker: π = 3.14159. Let it stand as a beacon for those who seek to challenge narratives and reclaim their freedoms.

Precision over propaganda. Evidence over excuses. Citizens first. Canada First.
@BarryESharp 🇨🇦
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Apr 10
Ukraine is winning from Trump's Iran war. The US air defenses are too costly ato counter cheap Iranian drones. Ukraine is the only country with 4 years of proven combat experience against. Gulf states now line up to buy Ukrainian weapons — Christian Caryl in FP. 1/ Image
On March 17, Zelenskyy addressed British Parliament and pitched Ukraine as a 21st-century arsenal of democracy. Days later he signed military cooperation deals with Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar, and launched trade talks with four more countries. 2/
Gulf states hit the limits of their US-supplied air defenses — too costly, too complex, already running low on munitions. Ukraine offers battle-tested drone defense built on 4 years of fighting Iranian Shaheds. Cheaper, faster, proven in combat. 3/
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Apr 10
1/ Russia is proclaiming success in its ongoing recruitment drive, but this is being achieved by scraping the bottom of the barrel. A newly-published video shows the abysmal quality of the current recruits: old, disabled, and homeless men, with only two fingers between them. ⬇️
2/ The video shows three newly recruited men in Omsk. Despite having severe physical disabilities, all three are recognised as medically fit for military service at a selection point called Sirius. They have signed a contract and will be sent to Ukraine.
3/ It was filmed at an office of the 1442nd Motorized Rifle Regiment (military unit 95383) of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division (military unit 77860) of the 3rd Army Corps (military unit 41794).
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Apr 10
@KatyKray73 1: If you ever found yourself in the heat of a firefight, this is the guy you’d want next to you — in your team.
A man mountain who could think clearly with bullets cracking past his head and go straight on the offensive.
@KatyKray73 2: Ben Roberts-Smith earned the Victoria Cross for storming Taliban machine-gun positions at Tizak in 2010, dragging his mates out of hell when they were pinned down.
@KatyKray73 3: War is ugly and chaotic. Armchair critics who’ve never heard a round fired in anger love to Monday-morning quarterback elite soldiers doing the impossible.
He fought for Australia when it counted. Respect the warrior.”
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Apr 10
This video posted by @CTVNews is packed facts on Conrad Black’s relationship with Trump. Conrad Black knew about his pardon from Trump before it was issued. Why? He admits to being Trump’s next door neighbour in Palm Springs and NY city. (Note: Jeffrey Epstein also lived in those same areas and knew Conrad Black during the same years.)
youtu.be/2Qhxt59diIk?si…
Conrad Black speaks in legal parce so it is important to carefully listen to exactly what he says and how he says it. For example he states “I have never represented myself as an intimate of his, but we did work closely on one project about 20 years ago.” (The video was posted 6 years)
The @CTVNews reporter wanted to interview Trump and approached Conrad Black to facilitate it he had a call back from Hope Hicks an hour later and the reporter admitted to Conrad Black that he “Did have some connections into to the Trump empire.”
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Apr 10
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Pakistan — a country that does not recognize Israel, has blasphemy laws carrying the death penalty, and has documented persecution of minorities like Ahmadis and Christians, that massacred and
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drove out Hindus and Jews in 1947, and continues to support terrorism.

The country that has facilitated transfer of rockets from China to Iran.

The country that finances and supports terrorists that murder in the Middle East and Africa and others internationally, and
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that only a few years ago planned and supported a terrorist attack that killed Indians and Jews in Mumbai.

Thursday, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif publicly supported the cease-fire, and Pakistan is hosting the next set of talks.
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Apr 10
Update in my fight to dismantle the broken OPT system—ICE just got me the numbers:

In Missouri alone there are 4,430 OPT visas—many working in jobs that are out-of-scope, stealing opportunities from young Missourians.

Here are some of the worst examples.🧵
OPT jobs *must* be directly related to the student’s major area of study.

And if you're a STEM major, you get *3-years of work authorization.*

Not only that, OPT holders are exempt from FICA taxes—a >15% tax subsidy for employers.
Given that, and considering foreigners utilizing OPT may be desperate for work, it should come as no surprise OPT is often abused.

I found cases of foreign students working at restaurants, bars, and janitorial services that likely have no connection to a student’s area of study.
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Apr 10
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Time to Turn Off the Lights and Lock the Door — Close Down NATO

After World War II, Europe was devastated, unable to defend itself against a Soviet Union that was openly aggressive,
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threatening military invasion, and using national Communist parties in the West that they hoped would make their control easy.

So, NATO was formed as one of the programs to rehabilitate Europe and defend it, with the USA and to a degree Canada,
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using its money and military to defend Europe while it rebuilds. The NATO treaty set up a formula. Each nation would provide 2% of its GDP to NATO and each nation would provide manpower to defend Europe, with the USA paying for the difference as needed.
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Apr 10
Introducing Latent Briefing, a way for agents to quickly share their relevant memory directly. Result: 31% fewer tokens used, same accuracy.

Multi-agent systems are powerful, but can be wildly inefficient. They pass context as tokens, so costs explode and signal gets lost. We built an algorithm that allows agents to communicate KV cache to KV cache.
Agents need to share context, but doing it in token space has real tradeoffs:

• LLM summaries: slow (20–60s), lossy, and often miss what the next agent actually needs
• RAG: splits context into chunks, so relationships across documents get lost
• Passing full context: expensive, noisy, and often hurts accuracy

Our method skips tokens entirely. We operate on the KV cache, using the worker's own attention patterns to extract what's relevant from the orchestrator's memory and discard the rest.
We adapted the Attention Matching (AM) KV cache compaction framework. The AM algorithm compacts the KV cache (C1, β, C2) preserving attention outputs through a correction term.

We modified the algorithm to make it inference ready:
1. Score tokens using the worker's task query, not self attention
2. Global mask across all heads → enables massive batching
3. MAD-normalized thresholding for adaptive compression

Result: 320 sequential solves → 2-3 batched ops. 20x speedup to a median of 1.7 s.Image
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