🧵 This is what buildup looks like when it’s happening in real time

Competing surveillance near the Strait of Hormuz isn’t a headline, it’s a data point. A US Navy MQ-4C on one side and an Iranian UAV on the other.

Same water. Same time. Different altitudes.

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https://twitter.com/TheIntelFrog/status/2016122025346015292

Surveillance is one of the first indicators that posture is shifting.

➡️Before forces move visibly.
➡️Before strikes are discussed.
➡️Before statements are made.

Sensors go up first to give commanders a view of the battle space.

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As regional tempo increases, three things usually scale together:

• Surveillance coverage
• Logistics flow
• Forward positioning

You rarely see just one without the others.

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https://x.com/TheIntelFrog/status/2017674760801382772?s=20

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„[...] WIRED review of gun enthusiast forums and Facebook groups for private militias and extremists reveals that the vast majority of Amendment II supporters in these online meeting spaces are willing to look past the president’s remarks, and lay the blame on Pretti himself”

https://twitter.com/daithaigilbert/status/2017593402343186558

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Jan. 30, 2026

@WIRED archive.ph/qBPri

@WIRED Please unroll @threadreaderapp. Thank you in advance 𓃠

nature.com/articles/s4146…
Amongst the scams that allowed the pandemic management to cause 27 millions of excess deaths globally possible:
➖"Every naive people is (equally) susceptible to the disease". This is just plainly wrong.
1/n x.com/sudokuvariante…

➖The consequence is that you can't divide population in compartments (susceptible, recovered or vaccinated). Some naive people have better protection than some other recovered or vaccinated. Thousands of modelling studies based on compartmental models are plainly wrong.
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➖The immunity in the population is not only driven by number of recovered or vaccinated, this is a scam. Transient innate immunity, seasonality and other many factors drive successive epidemic waves
3/n

@rothschildmd 1).
„Cybersecurity specialists, elections experts and many former top security officials who worked for Trump during his first term have maintained for years that there was no evidence of widespread tampering or fraud in the 2020 contest.

[...]

@rothschildmd 2).
@realDonaldTrump has been fixated on the 2020 election since losing, regularly raising it both publicly and with friends and aides. His second administration’s intent—and dedication of resources—to investigating the race has only recently begun to come into public view.

@rothschildmd @realDonaldTrump 3).
[...]

Gabbard’s focus on the election has kept her in Trump’s good stead, White House officials said.

12 Python libraries for free market data everyone should know:

yfinance

Data for stocks (historic, intraday, fundamental), FX, crypto, and options. Uses Yahoo Finance so any data available through Yahoo is available through yfinance.

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pandas-datareader

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pandas-datareader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The gap between natural deflation and forced inflation is the greatest wealth transfer in history. Let’s unpack why this not only impacts your wallet — but your future. 🧵

Technology is naturally deflationary. It lowers costs and increases productivity. Imagine if your smartphone got 10% cheaper every year. That’s the reality tech wants to create, but our monetary system won’t allow it.

Central banks target inflation to keep a debt-based system afloat. They print money, essentially taxing your future to sustain today’s economy. This forces inflation, making your purchasing power shrink over time.

In this 4th Debunk of the Day, we’ll refute an absolute classic of vatnik BS, the crown jewel of peak dishonesty: whataboutism.
Now, not everything that looks like whataboutism is wrong. Seeking consistency or comparing actions or responses is normal.
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But when someone pulls some completely unrelated event, that happened to completely different people, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, you know what you’re dealing with: a crass denial of the problem at hand, a bad-faith attempt to derail the topic.
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Logic or chronology plays no role here, nor your opinion on these other topics. You could be the staunchest critic or supporter of these other actions thrown into the discussion, it doesn’t matter. It is irrelevant whether these other things are true or not, or bad or not.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson held another chest-pounding press conference where he declared, “We are putting ICE on notice in our city.”  However, even a cursory examination reveals that, as before, there is less than meets the eye in Johnson’s theatrics... jonathanturley.org/2026/02/01/the…

...The order includes the alleged game-changing order that police should file “incident reports.” Actual incident reports! ICE officers are presumably fleeing en masse at the very threat of such CPD reports...

...The term “windy city” is not, as commonly believed, a reference to the wind off the lake. In the Nineteenth Century, it was a reference to how Chicago politicians were full of wind in their bragging and exaggerations. In that sense, Johnson is the very personification of the Windy City, but this order will not even rustle the leaves in Lincoln Park.

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„The Kraken [1]: What is it and why has @realDonaldTrump's ex-lawyer released it?

It's also become an internet meme representing a sprawling, unsubstantiated set of claims that purport to outline the case for widespread fraud in the US presidential election.

https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/2016952781681414508

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Pro-Trump groups including QAnon conspiracy theorists have amplified the idea under the hashtag # Release The Kraken, and it's being widely shared by those supporting the legal campaign to challenge the election results.”

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[1] Jan. 30, 2026 @rothschildmd x.com/i/status/20169…

[2] Nov. 28, 2020 @BBCBreaking bbc.com/news/election-…

Leisure centres across the country are becoming crime scenes as sexual predators take advantage of easy access to women and girls getting undressed in the changing room cubicle next to them.

Here we bring you four examples where men have filmed women and girls by sliding a phone under or over a cubicle partition - every one of which could have been prevented if the leisure centre provided single-sex changing rooms for swimmers. 🧵 1/5

In Wales, a man loitering in the unisex changing area at the LC2 in Swansea spotted his prey - a teenage girl - going into a cubicle and entered the one next to it to film her. She spotted his phone, kicked it away and the pervert ran away.

We know what happened because it was caught on CCTV and shown in court. The criminal received a six month jail sentence suspended for two years. 2/5

In Northern Ireland, a voyeur photographed a child at the South Lake Leisure Centre in Craigavon.

Upper Bann DUP MLA Jonathan Buckley said he was aware of the incident and would be seeking an urgent meeting with officials at Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council.

‘It has been brought to my attention by local parents that there are concerns with the safeguarding of children in the unisex changing facilities in South Lake Leisure Centre,’ he said.

‘In this day and age where photographic and video technology is so easily accessible, we really cannot underestimate the potential dangers posed to children when changing in these settings.’

We agree. 3/5

🧵 THREAD: This drop was not “price discovery.”
It was a test of your resolve and intellect.

What we just witnessed in silver was not a market accident.

It was a message.
And it was meant for March delivery holders. 👇

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📉 They smashed the paper price. Hard.
Right before delivery pressure builds.

Classic move.

The goal was simple:

👉 scare longs
👉 force rollovers
👉 delay physical stress

Not to “find a fair price.”
To buy time.

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📊 But here’s the part they didn’t like:

After a violent paper dump, March Open Interest dropped only ~6,100 contracts.

That’s it.

No mass capitulation.
No panic exodus.
No collapse.

Just… resistance.

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