January 28th, 2020 - Former chair of chemistry and biology at Harvard Charles Lieber got arrested and charged for working directly with Wuhan and the Chinese Communist Party… but what was he REALLY doing?

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Lieber and two Chinese nationals were arrested around the same time in what the DOJ called three “separate” China-related cases.

You might find it interesting that one of these “separate” cases was a Chinese national that got caught trying to smuggle 21 vials of biological research to China.

Both Zaosong Zheng and Harvard’s Charles Lieber just happened to be using the same airport in the same city.

Thread with excerpts from Helen Andrews "Boomers" (2021).

Steve Jobs was an atypical Boomer - he didn't care for politics or philanthropy. Also did not like porn and saw himself as an institution builder, not a destroyer, and closer in personal habits and ideals to the founder of IBM than his age peers.

Unlike Jobs, Tim Cook is a very political CEO of Apple, and awarded for it by the UN and ADL.

Whoa, it did it. @perplexity_ai Computer just one-shotted a ful-stack fund in a box.

Over 4,500 lines of code, and it works.

The goal was to build a system that could credibly run a small fund's core workflow with 1-2 humans vs. the current model which is 10 analysts on terminals.

I came up with the idea by asking what could I build with computer that would be more valuable than a $30,000/year Bloomberg terminal.

Here's a screenshot of the fully working web app.

More details below, in what I think my might be the world's first Perplexity Computer Thread 🧵

First, here's the idea I worked on with Perplexity.

I then had it build me a prompt, and it build a monster prompt, I'll share it in a few segments because to one shot this, I needed a serious prompt.

Prompt Part 1:

You are an autonomous engineering, product, and research team building Thesium(.)finance, an AI‑native fund operating system where agents maintain live theses on every name and theme, and humans supervise a workstation called Thesium Desk.
Your goal is to design and implement an MVP of Thesium(.)finance that can credibly run a small fund’s core workflow end‑to‑end (research → risk → execution), with 1–2 humans supervising instead of a floor of analysts.

Doug Ford gave contracts to Oleg Deripaska. His finance minister Rod Phillips met with Russian oligarchs & Trump supporters in St. Barth’s. @MarkJCarney @GGCanada @ElizabethMay @DonDavies @yfblanchet @AndrewSheer @Interpol @USDOJ_Intl @UNODC @UNDPGAIN @ICCT_TheHague

https://twitter.com/l_stone/status/2026383434726183299

Doug Ford’s family lawyer is the solicitor Gavin Tighe is also a solicitor for KGB agent Boris Birshtein whose son in law partnered with Trump to build Toronto’s Trump Tower. It was a money loosing scam. Russia links to both Tories and Liberals in Canada.

I sent this to Federal and Provincial reps on May 14, 2025. The links of Doug Ford to Trump and Russians is obvious.

🚨Information from the Ministry of Interior of Cuba: (In Spanish)
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Participants in Foiled Armed Infiltration in Villa Clara Identified

As part of the ongoing investigation into the armed attack… 🧵 facebook.com/share/1F5RWHD1…

Against a patrol vessel of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, in the northeastern area of the El Pino channel, at Cayo Falcones, municipality of Corralillo, Villa Clara province, the following update is provided:

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Authorities have confirmed that the intercepted speedboat, registered in the State of Florida under number FL7726SH, was carrying 10 armed individuals who, according to preliminary statements by those detained, intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes.
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One Anglo-Jewish bond is sharing extremely disastrous ideological temptations within their respective (Protestant Christian, Judaic) religious traditions -- Messianic communism in both cases. Reciprocal support in overcoming this is the most-fundamental basis of their friendship. ...

... Judeo-Protestant alchemical communist enthusiasm is, reciprocally, the worst thing possible on earth, and at this stage neither side has any excuse for doubts about that.

... It's why the best intellectual exchanges have the character of high-energy alcoholics anonymous meetings. "This is how I keep off the sauce ... [proceed to 8,000 words of Machiavellian meta-politics]."

Excited to share what I'm working on as Visiting Fellow @OversightProject.

The question I'm solving: why do Republicans vote against their own party... and their own voters on issues such as mass migration and SAVE ACT?

Surprising early finding: FEC donations are only weakly correlated with voting behavior. Institutional affiliations (where senators trained, what orgs they've moved through, where they have membership) predict it far better.

And almost nobody tracks that systematically. Building that infrastructure now.

Major stress test: why Senate Republicans are slow-walking the SAVE Act despite 80% public support. Stay tuned.

On the SAVE Act specifically:
"The uncomfortable synthesis: these senators have more in common with their Democratic counterparts than with their own voters. Not because of a coordinated network... just because they've lived in the same city, breathed the same air, and attended the same events for 30-40 years. The filibuster is the excuse. The real answer is they don't feel the urgency their base feels, because Washington DC doesn't feel that urgency."

Further explanation which I think is insightful:

Washington DC is culturally liberal. The institutions that long-tenure senators interact with daily: the press corps, the think tanks both parties actually attend (Brookings, CFR, Aspen, Carnegie), the schools their kids go to, the dinner parties are all left-of-center. That creates asymmetric social pressure:

A Republican who drifts left gets rewarded. The press calls them a "statesman," a "maverick," a "reasonable voice." They get invited to the bipartisan events. Their kids don't get weird looks at Sidwell Friends. McCain got this. Collins gets this. Murkowski gets this. There's a whole media infrastructure that celebrates the "heroic moderate Republican."

A Democrat who drifts right gets... nothing. There's no equivalent conservative institutional establishment in DC that would celebrate them. No black-tie dinner full of journalists who would applaud them for being "courageous" by moving right. Their base would primary them. The press wouldn't reward them. So they don't.

The incentive structure is one-directional. DC's Overton window is set by the press corps and the permanent institutions, and it pulls left. Republicans face constant pressure to accept that frame as the price of being taken seriously. Democrats are already inside the frame.

@SollenbergerRC 1).
„Dozens of @FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including @realDonaldTrump accuser interviews

Details about the missing documents related to the Trump accuser were previously reported by @NPR [1] and independent journalist Roger @SollenbergerRC [2].”

@SollenbergerRC @FBI @realDonaldTrump @NPR 2).
Feb. 25, 2026

Endnotes:

[1] @NPR npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-…

[2] open.substack.com/pub/sollenberg…

Source:

@CNN edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/us/…

@SollenbergerRC @FBI @realDonaldTrump @NPR @CNN Please unroll @threadreaderapp. Thank you in advance 𓃠

Hugely important ruling.

DHS has been abusively sending migrants - including refugees and others protected from deportation - to unrelated third countries.

We @RefugeesIntl have been partnering with @humanrights1st to expose these shady arrangements: thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

🧵 x.com/rparloff/statu…

The core of US and global refugee law is non-refoulement - the principle that people fleeing persecution must not be returned to face that harm.

DHS uses 3rd-country deportation agreements to circumvent those and related laws.

And also to coerce migrants into self-deporting.

In one such case, DHS was barred from deporting a man to Gambia because he would face persecution there.

DHS deported him to Ghana instead, and Ghana then deported him to Gambia.

DHS is outsourcing refoulement.

Long time followers know the balance of payments is one of my obsessions. I’ve spent decades reading the literature and the old policy debates on this stuff. So when I came across this WSJ/Cato piece arguing that Section 122 can’t apply today it struck quite a nerve. It is clearly written by someone who has just enough information to be dangerous and does not understand how balance of payments is actually used.

I will address the authors’ 3 core claims and explain why each is completely wrong.

Claim 1: A balance of payments deficit or imbalance is only possible under fixed exchange rates, when you’re literally losing reserves.

Truth: The balance of payments always balances. It balanced under Bretton Woods, it balanced in 1975 when Section 122 was written, and it balances today.

A “BoP imbalance” has never meant the accounts don’t add up. It’s a term used to describe a large and persistent imbalance in the components of the BoP that is generating stress and requiring adjustment. That’s why policymakers historically talked about different balances (current account, official settlements, liquidity balance, etc.). They were arguing about which definition was most relevant, not whether the BoP balanced.

Claim 2: Under floating FX, you can’t have a BoP imbalance, bc the currency adjusts.

Truth: By the time Section 122 was written and implemented in 1975, the world had already moved away from the pure Bretton Woods setup. Not only were currencies already floating against the dollar (Bretton Woods), but the dollar had also already been de-linked from gold in 1971. And the US was already living in a world where capital flows could overwhelm trade flows and keep the currency mispriced for long stretches.

If the WSJ author were right that floating FX rules out BoP imbalances in the relevant sense, then Congress wouldn’t have even needed to write Section 122 in the first place. But the entire purpose of the provision is to give emergency tools for external stress in the post Bretton Woods transition environment, and not a narrow 1950s reserve drain edge case as the author suggests.

Claim 3: Therefore Section 122 wasn’t meant to address a large current account deficit in the modern system…as the administration is arguing.

Truth: Section 122 doesn’t just say balance of payments deficit. It lists 3 separate cases:
1. “to deal with large and serious U.S. balance of payments deficits”
2. “to prevent an imminent and significant depreciation of the dollar in foreign exchange markets”
3. “to cooperate with other countries in correcting an international balance of payments disequilibrium

If “BoP deficit” only meant what the WSJ author implies (a situation where the dollar is at risk of imminent depreciation bc the US is running out of reserves), then there would be no reason to separately list “prevent an imminent and significant depreciation, as 1) and 2) would be redundant. They aren’t.

Congress explicitly separated them bc they understood you can have a serious external imbalance without an imminent FX crisis, and you can also have an FX crisis that is its own emergency. The statute is written around multiple external stress scenarios, not one narrow Bretton Woods edge case.

There are multiple ways the BoP can be imbalanced, depending on how you decompose the financing side.

You can write the Balance of Payments equation simply as: Current account = – Capital account

Or you can split the capital side into private vs official: Current account = private capital flows + official fx reserve changes.

There is no question today, and there was no question in 1975, that a large current account deficit qualifies as a BoP imbalance. It is the canonical sign that the country is absorbing foreign excess savings.

The reason the statute separately lists “prevent imminent USD depreciation” is that you can have a financing/flow mix problem even when the current account isn’t the headline issue (ie private inflows dry up, only official flows remain, and the currency comes under pressure). That is a different kind of external stress than a large and serious current account imbalance, so Congress enumerated it separately.
Conclusion

What the administration is arguing is that current account itself is in serious deficit, regardless of how you break down the capital account counterpart; thus, it is a textbook case for Section 122. And there is no serious reading of how Congress and central bankers used these terms in the 1970s that would say that doesn’t count as a balance of payments problem just because FX is floating.
wsj.com/opinion/sectio…

1/ The author replied and commits a basic logical fallacy by taking one historical ex of a BoP crisis (reserve drain under a fixed regime) and treating it as the entire definition set. But I never claimed a reserve drain isn’t a BoP imbalance. Of course it can be.

https://twitter.com/philwmagness/status/2026841337811841157

2/ Reserve drain is one way a BoP deficit can show up bc it’s part of the financing side. In identity terms: current acct = Capital acct, and if you decompose the capital acct: Current account = private flows + official flows (reserve changes)

Under a fixed exchange rate, if private capital inflows aren’t sufficient to finance the current account outflow at the pegged price, the gap has to be closed by official flows. That’s literally why reserves drain, they’re the residual financing item that keeps the BoP balanced at the peg.

But notice what his Samuelson screenshot actually is. Those graphs stop at 1971. They’re describing the pre-gold window world when the official settlements concept dominated the public discussion.

Section 122 was written after Nixon closed the gold window and the world moved into the post Bretton Woods transition, when the dollar was floating and the relevant payments problems weren’t confined to reserve drains. So using a pre-1971 textbook chart as proof of what Congress meant in 1974/75 is exactly the kind of definition projection backward that he accuses me of doing.

And it still doesn’t address the statute’s structure. Congress separately lists “large and serious BoP deficits” and “imminent FX depreciation”. If BoP deficit only meant reserve drain/imminent FX crisis, those would be redundant. But of course they aren’t.

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After deep dives prompted by persistent voices like @DenyTheMark2020, I concede: I didn't initially grasp the full gravity of Racine's connections.

Let's unpack the HUGE implications.

#WTHisRacine #ExposeTheRoot

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This mid-sized WI city (pop. ~77k) weaves a web of history, elites, tech, and agendas that's too dense to ignore.

It demands exposure—now, before AI, smart cities, and surveillance entrench a dystopian future.

#WTHisRacine #ExposeTheRoot

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Racine's roots run deep in abolitionism. In 1854, escaped slave Joshua Glover was freed by a 5,000-strong mob, defying the Fugitive Slave Act.

Wisconsin's Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional—the only state to do so—sparking the GOP's formation in nearby Ripon.

We talked about our projects, but what about some other groups we've worked with that make high-quality releases? Not all of them have a social media presence, so you'll have to do some searching.

First there's @DragonBallDubs. They use our audio and footage and add TONS of additional dubs and subtitles. Look, we can't even fit all the audio tracks in a screenshot! Their current work includes a few of the movies and specials.

If you're looking for the shows in Spanish (LATAM and España) you'll want to look for A&C. They've already synced Spanish audio and subs to the entirety of our DB and DBGT CC footage, with DBZ to follow. They even have a version of Super w/ English and Spanish.