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United States v. Cole
(J6 Pipe Bomber case)
Looks like Brian J. Cole Jr. will spend Christmas in jail.
Prosecutors, at the request of defense counsel, filed a motion requesting a continuance of the detention hearing currently set for Dec 15 to Dec 30.
(J6 Pipe Bomber case)
Looks like Brian J. Cole Jr. will spend Christmas in jail.
Prosecutors, at the request of defense counsel, filed a motion requesting a continuance of the detention hearing currently set for Dec 15 to Dec 30.
Defense needs more time to review discovery.
Prosecutors do not oppose.
Urge the court to set aside the Speedy Trial Act.
Cole Jr. is currently detained on the complaint.
He has not entered a plea.
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Prosecutors do not oppose.
Urge the court to set aside the Speedy Trial Act.
Cole Jr. is currently detained on the complaint.
He has not entered a plea.
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Assistant United States Attorney Charles R. Jones filed onto the case yesterday.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "WHERE WILL MADURO GO?
The question has been asked — where can Venezuela President Maduro go if forced out? A number of places have been suggested.
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The question has been asked — where can Venezuela President Maduro go if forced out? A number of places have been suggested.
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I assume he will go to Spain to be protected by its currently leftist government. Other nations that have been suggested and seem welcoming — Türkiye and Qatar.
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Sorry, but I found the invitation from Qatar to be most interesting. I can picture Maduro at a big party with Tucker Carlson, Omeed Malik, Don Trump Jr., and maybe J. D. Vance."
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One of the Greats. Remembering Tom Petty.
So long, Mary Jane
The adventures of Eddie Rebel
Getting ready to report on the Finance Committee meeting at 7 PM. Follow along with the agenda here franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/V…
Oops, it really should be 6 PM not 7
To be broadcast to Comcast 9, and Verizon 29 subscribers and YouTube bit.ly/FTV-TownHall
"Human rights official says politicians are playing into the hands of the populist right as they seek to tackle migration"
Remember, you heard it from me first. Not just yesterday, but for the last year. I give you tomorrow's news today.
1/🧵theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/1…
Remember, you heard it from me first. Not just yesterday, but for the last year. I give you tomorrow's news today.
1/🧵theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/1…
It's so obvious that Starmer is playing right into the hands of Reform, that you have to wonder if Keir Starmer is a secret admirer of Nigel Farage, because if Starmer isn't aware of what he's doing, he's someone's useful idiot.
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Remember, I accurately predicted the downfall of Boris Johnson, in 2-3 years, at the time of his big win in 2019. I'm not some sort of clairvoyant, and I've repeatedly explained how I make these accurate political predictions.
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Inside the Irish Times Hit-Piece - THREAD 🧵
Yesterday I went on the Inside Politics Podcast with Hugh Linehan, ostensibly to talk about my book Vandalising Ireland.
The first 30 minutes went largely fine. Talk about the book a little over and back, all good.
I had an inkling of the direction the podcast was taking when the host on 29 minutes seemed to insinuate that my credibility to speak about events in Ireland was undermined because I have lived in Germany for a long time. I pushed past that fine, after all facts are facts and data is data no matter where one sleeps, and the thousands of sales of the book obviously showed I have the pulse of the nation down.
The interview got spirited talking about migration which was great entertainment for the audience I'm sure. And on 38 minutes there was an awkward segue when the host started talking about not using honorifics, my use of my academic title on social media and my books, as a lead-in to ask "your doctorate doesn't relate to anything we talked about here?". It again felt forced and a dig at my credibility in writing the book. As it turns out, and as I explained, my doctorate was ideal grounding as I researched migrant interactions in high migration, low income areas of Ulm, Germany observing key points of conflict.
This is where the change in the show happened. Rather than digging into my academic background - which he brought up - and which makes me perfectly suited to write the book, he seemed surprised. He immediately changed topic instead of digging into what could have been a fascinating conversation about my real credentials and just how reliable they make me as a source for writing the book.
That of course showed me I was not only facing a conversation that was about playing the man and not the ball, but that there was zero good-faith behind the questioning.
My impression from being in the moment was that he was disappointed that I dodged his first two attempts to chip away at my credibility.
So he reached for the nuclear option that derailed the podcast.
This is the background. The next tweets will explain why his next steps were, in my view, personal, deeply misleading and designed to cause personal as well as reputational harm.
Yesterday I went on the Inside Politics Podcast with Hugh Linehan, ostensibly to talk about my book Vandalising Ireland.
The first 30 minutes went largely fine. Talk about the book a little over and back, all good.
I had an inkling of the direction the podcast was taking when the host on 29 minutes seemed to insinuate that my credibility to speak about events in Ireland was undermined because I have lived in Germany for a long time. I pushed past that fine, after all facts are facts and data is data no matter where one sleeps, and the thousands of sales of the book obviously showed I have the pulse of the nation down.
The interview got spirited talking about migration which was great entertainment for the audience I'm sure. And on 38 minutes there was an awkward segue when the host started talking about not using honorifics, my use of my academic title on social media and my books, as a lead-in to ask "your doctorate doesn't relate to anything we talked about here?". It again felt forced and a dig at my credibility in writing the book. As it turns out, and as I explained, my doctorate was ideal grounding as I researched migrant interactions in high migration, low income areas of Ulm, Germany observing key points of conflict.
This is where the change in the show happened. Rather than digging into my academic background - which he brought up - and which makes me perfectly suited to write the book, he seemed surprised. He immediately changed topic instead of digging into what could have been a fascinating conversation about my real credentials and just how reliable they make me as a source for writing the book.
That of course showed me I was not only facing a conversation that was about playing the man and not the ball, but that there was zero good-faith behind the questioning.
My impression from being in the moment was that he was disappointed that I dodged his first two attempts to chip away at my credibility.
So he reached for the nuclear option that derailed the podcast.
This is the background. The next tweets will explain why his next steps were, in my view, personal, deeply misleading and designed to cause personal as well as reputational harm.
He turned to a niche that his own listenership, nevermind anyone else has any notion about - a comedy character I ran called Progressive Dad. It was a bizarre shoehorning that had nothing to do with the book.
I explained that it was a comedy character in the style of Andrew Doyle before Andrew Doyle, and I joked he stole my schtick. That was it really and I explained openly. I answered but it was clear he was not asking with good intentions.
He went on to say he found a fragment of an interview with Paul Nehlen, a former American political candidate, where I did a joke interview in character.
Linehan said that Nehlen "was even known then as a virulent anti-semite and more so now." This is false and a disgusting characterisation. I interviewed Nehlen before he veered into extreme anti-semitism to show him up as a joke character. I was instrumental in outing him and I lost my Progressive Dad account for making fun of one of his close friends and defenders at that time. Linehan inverted reality and in my view insinuated that I was an anti-semite.
They key point here is that the only fragments where Linehan's video can be found is from Antifa blogs or articles aimed at attacking me. Why would Linehan present it as fact when it comes from such a dubious source?
Linehan could have gone to my Medium account where I wrote all about my exploits as Progressive Dad, its evolution and how it brought me to extremism studies - left and right. It is all very clearly laid out.
I don't want to put my now friendly acquaintance @Glinner on blast but as Progressive Dad, I made fun of him just as I made fun of right wing figures like Paul Joseph Watson. I don't think Graham would consider Progressive Dad an extreme character looking back and would see the humour in our interactions now. The point of Progressive Dad was to bait left and right with the intention of making people who were very loud on social media realise how easy it was to get caught up in narratives with the ultimate aim of bringing down the temperature.
As for me being an anti-semite, @RonColeman, who was actually there at the time and knew me as Progressive Dad and since, will, I think, attest to the fact that I am not anti-semitic and that I take the insinuation very seriously.
Why didn't Linehan, looking back at those years from afar and with no first-hand experience, find and read my own account of Progressive Dad before presenting Antifa fragments he found online as holding any weight? It would be far easier to find my article than the video he did mention. The attached article explains in detail how what started as a funny account gave me a unique vehicle to access marginalised communities for extremism studies, an area I had explored in my role as a Dozent of education and which later allowed me to present at a conference in Berlin.
Being uninformed of the scene but willing to wade in anyway, Linehan seemed to not understand that the 'groyper nation' of 2017 is a very different movement from Nick Fuentes' groypers. Again an unkind insinuation against my character much like the the anti-semite insinuation. This is laundering the Antifa take on who I am. Dirty stuff.
So why did Antifa desperately look to snip old Progressive Dad clips and present anything they could that might reflect poorly on my reputation?
Next tweet.
medium.com/@eoin-lenihan/…
I explained that it was a comedy character in the style of Andrew Doyle before Andrew Doyle, and I joked he stole my schtick. That was it really and I explained openly. I answered but it was clear he was not asking with good intentions.
He went on to say he found a fragment of an interview with Paul Nehlen, a former American political candidate, where I did a joke interview in character.
Linehan said that Nehlen "was even known then as a virulent anti-semite and more so now." This is false and a disgusting characterisation. I interviewed Nehlen before he veered into extreme anti-semitism to show him up as a joke character. I was instrumental in outing him and I lost my Progressive Dad account for making fun of one of his close friends and defenders at that time. Linehan inverted reality and in my view insinuated that I was an anti-semite.
They key point here is that the only fragments where Linehan's video can be found is from Antifa blogs or articles aimed at attacking me. Why would Linehan present it as fact when it comes from such a dubious source?
Linehan could have gone to my Medium account where I wrote all about my exploits as Progressive Dad, its evolution and how it brought me to extremism studies - left and right. It is all very clearly laid out.
I don't want to put my now friendly acquaintance @Glinner on blast but as Progressive Dad, I made fun of him just as I made fun of right wing figures like Paul Joseph Watson. I don't think Graham would consider Progressive Dad an extreme character looking back and would see the humour in our interactions now. The point of Progressive Dad was to bait left and right with the intention of making people who were very loud on social media realise how easy it was to get caught up in narratives with the ultimate aim of bringing down the temperature.
As for me being an anti-semite, @RonColeman, who was actually there at the time and knew me as Progressive Dad and since, will, I think, attest to the fact that I am not anti-semitic and that I take the insinuation very seriously.
Why didn't Linehan, looking back at those years from afar and with no first-hand experience, find and read my own account of Progressive Dad before presenting Antifa fragments he found online as holding any weight? It would be far easier to find my article than the video he did mention. The attached article explains in detail how what started as a funny account gave me a unique vehicle to access marginalised communities for extremism studies, an area I had explored in my role as a Dozent of education and which later allowed me to present at a conference in Berlin.
Being uninformed of the scene but willing to wade in anyway, Linehan seemed to not understand that the 'groyper nation' of 2017 is a very different movement from Nick Fuentes' groypers. Again an unkind insinuation against my character much like the the anti-semite insinuation. This is laundering the Antifa take on who I am. Dirty stuff.
So why did Antifa desperately look to snip old Progressive Dad clips and present anything they could that might reflect poorly on my reputation?
Next tweet.
medium.com/@eoin-lenihan/…
As explained in the above linked Progressive Dad article, my experience being attacked by Antifa showed me that there was a relationship between certain Antifa accounts in the US and members of the media.
I stopped trying to have a fun time online as Progressive Dad, that was not being allowed, and I transitioned into extremism studies full time (writing on left and right extremism). I used my research skills to interrogate if there was a link between Antifa and US national level journalists beyond what I had personally experienced. I set up the largest empirical academic study of Antifa's social organisation on social media to date.
With my data and article submitted to an academic journal for peer review, I showed my research to Quillette and wrote an article for them that identified the journalists in the US that were most integrated into the Antifa social network. Having identified them I conducted manual reviews of their entire bodies of work to confirm pro-Antifa bias and further explicit connections to the group.
The article went viral. It led to the firing of numerous Antifa journalists and it is no exaggeration to say it helped to reshape numerous newsrooms around the US for the better. The irrefutable nature of the research brought an incredible amount of abuse and violence from Antifa and from the journalists themselves...
Next Tweet
I stopped trying to have a fun time online as Progressive Dad, that was not being allowed, and I transitioned into extremism studies full time (writing on left and right extremism). I used my research skills to interrogate if there was a link between Antifa and US national level journalists beyond what I had personally experienced. I set up the largest empirical academic study of Antifa's social organisation on social media to date.
With my data and article submitted to an academic journal for peer review, I showed my research to Quillette and wrote an article for them that identified the journalists in the US that were most integrated into the Antifa social network. Having identified them I conducted manual reviews of their entire bodies of work to confirm pro-Antifa bias and further explicit connections to the group.
The article went viral. It led to the firing of numerous Antifa journalists and it is no exaggeration to say it helped to reshape numerous newsrooms around the US for the better. The irrefutable nature of the research brought an incredible amount of abuse and violence from Antifa and from the journalists themselves...
Next Tweet
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@christogrozev @michaeldweiss @RonFilipkowski
„Maria Butina [1] Sought a Secret Kremlin Line to the U.S. A Rockefeller Heir George OʼNeill Jr. May Have Helped [2]
@christogrozev @michaeldweiss @RonFilipkowski
„Maria Butina [1] Sought a Secret Kremlin Line to the U.S. A Rockefeller Heir George OʼNeill Jr. May Have Helped [2]
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Russian invitees to the Jan. 31 [2017] dinner were also provided a list of a dozen Americans they could expect to meet there, complete with Russian-language biographical bullet points and color photos of most attendees. It’s unclear who compiled the guest list.
Russian invitees to the Jan. 31 [2017] dinner were also provided a list of a dozen Americans they could expect to meet there, complete with Russian-language biographical bullet points and color photos of most attendees. It’s unclear who compiled the guest list.
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Others on the list include Representative @RepThomasMassie, a Ky. Republican (»in favor of Russian-American dialogue«, the list noted),
Others on the list include Representative @RepThomasMassie, a Ky. Republican (»in favor of Russian-American dialogue«, the list noted),
Daily Ukraine map thread for Sunday 7th December to Wednesday 10th December 2025
Highlights: Large update today as we condense Sunday through Wednesday into one, due to lack of personnel. We'll do a full front round up to make up for it.
Vovchansk - Russian forces advanced slightly to Lyman (different one) in north Kharkiv, as well as being sighted in Vilcha.
Kupyansk - Ukrainian forces sighted in north Kupyansk, indicating Ukrainian pushback is succeeding in the city. Ukrainian forces also retook much of the territory back to Stepova Novoselivka (Map 1)
Lyman - Infiltration via the woodlands means Russian forces snuck through to Yarova. Heavy fighting continues here, in the tough forested area.
Siversk - Heavy fighting in Siversk itself as Russian forces try to breach the river. (Map 2)
Kostyantynivka - Heavy fighting as usual here, no significant changes as Russian forces continue to expend large amounts of manpower to advance a few yards.
Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad - Russian forces sighted in Myrnohrad as they try and capture the town, and the supply line is very very contested for Ukrainian forces coming in and out. There was a large Russian assault in west Pokrovsk towards Hryshyne, especially on quads, resulting in lots of burning wrecks along the road. (Map 3)
Dnipropetrovsk / East Zaporizhia -
Proof of the Ukrainian recapture of Ivanivka came in, showing numerous Russian KIA and PoWs taken. 67th Mech also released a video, undated, of the capture of numerous Russian PoWs across the river south of Orestopil. Russian forces press in on Hulyaipole, with drones striking Russian positions within the northeastern residential section. (Map 4)
Elsewhere, Ukrainian USVs struck the sanctioned Russian oil tanker 'Dashan' in the Black Sea today, seemingly disabling it. This is the third confirmed tanker hit over the past few weeks, discounting the one disabled near Senegal which was unconfirmed.
As this is being typed, a large Ukrainian UAV attack on Russia is underway.
Highlights: Large update today as we condense Sunday through Wednesday into one, due to lack of personnel. We'll do a full front round up to make up for it.
Vovchansk - Russian forces advanced slightly to Lyman (different one) in north Kharkiv, as well as being sighted in Vilcha.
Kupyansk - Ukrainian forces sighted in north Kupyansk, indicating Ukrainian pushback is succeeding in the city. Ukrainian forces also retook much of the territory back to Stepova Novoselivka (Map 1)
Lyman - Infiltration via the woodlands means Russian forces snuck through to Yarova. Heavy fighting continues here, in the tough forested area.
Siversk - Heavy fighting in Siversk itself as Russian forces try to breach the river. (Map 2)
Kostyantynivka - Heavy fighting as usual here, no significant changes as Russian forces continue to expend large amounts of manpower to advance a few yards.
Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad - Russian forces sighted in Myrnohrad as they try and capture the town, and the supply line is very very contested for Ukrainian forces coming in and out. There was a large Russian assault in west Pokrovsk towards Hryshyne, especially on quads, resulting in lots of burning wrecks along the road. (Map 3)
Dnipropetrovsk / East Zaporizhia -
Proof of the Ukrainian recapture of Ivanivka came in, showing numerous Russian KIA and PoWs taken. 67th Mech also released a video, undated, of the capture of numerous Russian PoWs across the river south of Orestopil. Russian forces press in on Hulyaipole, with drones striking Russian positions within the northeastern residential section. (Map 4)
Elsewhere, Ukrainian USVs struck the sanctioned Russian oil tanker 'Dashan' in the Black Sea today, seemingly disabling it. This is the third confirmed tanker hit over the past few weeks, discounting the one disabled near Senegal which was unconfirmed.
As this is being typed, a large Ukrainian UAV attack on Russia is underway.
2/ Russian shadow fleet oil tanker Dashan on the way to a Russian port was hit by Group 13 USVs and disabled (Rough location via AIS)
Coordinates: 43.05547, 33.92889
Source:
Coordinates: 43.05547, 33.92889
Source:
3/ Russian strike in Kramatorsk causes a blackout. PoV. Likely target was substation at 48.74708174675543, 37.610488542330934
Coordinates: 48.737812, 37.586195
Source:
Coordinates: 48.737812, 37.586195
Source:
Starting in this thread with the events from Aug 1st onwards. To make sure people (who tend to have minimal attention spans) understand properly, a short recap of what is most relevant:
I was in Vienna because of OP I started earlier this year: #MakeFascistsAFRAIDagain and had
I was in Vienna because of OP I started earlier this year: #MakeFascistsAFRAIDagain and had
"questions" for @MartinSellnerIB about possible connections of @IBPartei @IBDeutschland @IBOesterreich_ - #FCKNZS in general - with especially the "Red Light District" & about the rich fukks "sponsoring" their NeoNazi BS & questions about people in the #fckAfD & #fckFPÖ. BUT😏 he
was nowhere to be found, strange. 🙃 Erik Ahrens has been informed ahead of time about my intentions and seemed to have forwarded my WARNINGS that none of those IB muppets should get in my way playing hero or whatever, I mean even Smurf Sellner wouldn't have been physically hurt
$EOSE A thread on my analysis of NextEra’s Investor Day:
NextEra’s $NEE Investor Day was a masterclass on the energy industry and the base case for the next decade. Anyone interested in this sector, or with investments in any energy company, should listen and analyze every word that came out of here.
This is the biggest utility company in the world. They are the largest: gas, nuclear, renewable and storage operators IN THE WORLD. They've built more infrastructure than the next 20 biggest utilities COMBINED. If they speak, you listen.
They clearly stated that the real bottleneck in U.S. power isn’t generation - it’s capacity. And THE ONLY CAPACITY RESOURCE AVAILABLE AT SCALE THORUGH THE END OF THIS DECADE IS: ENERGY STORAGE.
They’re planning 8X more storage than gas through 2032, 53X more than nuclear, and highlighted that extending BESS duration to 8 hours doubles their opportunity set. This is the strongest, most detailed endorsement of grid-scale BESS we’ve ever seen from a major utility.
NextEra’s $NEE Investor Day was a masterclass on the energy industry and the base case for the next decade. Anyone interested in this sector, or with investments in any energy company, should listen and analyze every word that came out of here.
This is the biggest utility company in the world. They are the largest: gas, nuclear, renewable and storage operators IN THE WORLD. They've built more infrastructure than the next 20 biggest utilities COMBINED. If they speak, you listen.
They clearly stated that the real bottleneck in U.S. power isn’t generation - it’s capacity. And THE ONLY CAPACITY RESOURCE AVAILABLE AT SCALE THORUGH THE END OF THIS DECADE IS: ENERGY STORAGE.
They’re planning 8X more storage than gas through 2032, 53X more than nuclear, and highlighted that extending BESS duration to 8 hours doubles their opportunity set. This is the strongest, most detailed endorsement of grid-scale BESS we’ve ever seen from a major utility.
$NEE kicked off their investor day with multiple PRs. Among them:
- A 2.5GW contract with 2 energy-storage agreements with $META.
- An expansion with their $GOOG relationship, building on their 3.5GW in operation or contracted capacity they have in place. Particularly, developing three initial campuses for data-center hubs with a focus on clean energy capacity.
- A 2.5GW contract with 2 energy-storage agreements with $META.
- An expansion with their $GOOG relationship, building on their 3.5GW in operation or contracted capacity they have in place. Particularly, developing three initial campuses for data-center hubs with a focus on clean energy capacity.
Basically, $NEE has become the developer of choice of Hyperscalers data-centers.
Interesting tidbit here. If I was a hyperscaler wanting Eos’ batteries at my datacenters, NextEra is the top developers I am choosing. Nice to see Google and Meta putting the initialpieces together already:
Interesting tidbit here. If I was a hyperscaler wanting Eos’ batteries at my datacenters, NextEra is the top developers I am choosing. Nice to see Google and Meta putting the initialpieces together already:
House foreign affairs hearing on India: Dem leader @RepKamlagerDove rips into the Trump Admin for torching the India relationship. “Cutting our nose to spite our face.” Shows photo to Modi and Putin in the car from recent visit.
Witnesses to testify are Jeff Smith of Heritage, Dhruva Jaishankar @d_jaishankar of ORF and Sameer Lalwani @splalwani
@d_jaishankar @splalwani Jeff Smith says it would be “strategic malpractice” for the US to discard 25 years of work to build this “low cost, high benefit” relationship. #USIndia
Really felt guilty about including this video in DISPELLING BEAUTY LIES - it's the first step on a slippery slope. And, now that there's one ugly gray backsplash, Carmen thinks she can convince me to add a glamour photo with a gray couch. A gray couch! Sorry, but no way Jose.
Nope, definitely not.
Learn more about why it's so important to be sexy around the house in the "How To Initiate" section of DISPELLING BEAUTY LIES. Link below.
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