🧵🚨 MAJOR BREAKING 2: The 2025 May Day trip of SLC Armed Queers to Cuba: "Well, if we're terrorists, we're proud to be terrorists"
I've obtained a now-deleted video.
In it, Ermiya Fanaeian and an unidentified man named Connor talk openly about:
👉 Palestinian students at Cuba’s ELAM “studying revolution” alongside medicine
👉 Brigadistas from around the world being brought for “revolutionary orientation”
👉 How every aspect of Cuban society is dedicated to training "organizers" and are open about the terrorist label to the point they lament US institutions do not allow them to "to speak in such a way"
The trip was run through the National Network on Cuba (NNOC), linked to the Cuban state, with has U.S. NGOs as members, many of whom are linked to Neville Singham NGOs.
SLC Armed Queers is currently under federal investigation for advanced knowledge of the Charlie Kirk assassination.
And remember: Fanaeian was honored by Utah Global Diplomacy, a State Dept–connected NGO.
These are the people who are handpicked to run our state department.
As always, patience as I put together the thread.
In the above video, SLC Armed Queers describe how Palestinian med students in Cuba "studied revolution" alongside medicine, and how brigadistas from around the world were recruited for "revolutionary orientation" to learn how to fight the U.S. blockade. But there's more.
In the same deleted video, SLC Armed Queers recount Cuban med students declaring “If we’re terrorists, we’re proud to be terrorists” at an official school event. They also praise Cuba’s president for sounding like a U.S. street organizer and openly backing a “liberated Palestine.”
There's a jump in the clip above (I'll try and figure out how to post the clip in its entirety tomorrow) -- but the transcript is:
"And they were saying, "Well, if we're terrorists, we're proud to be terrorists, because we're sending doctors around the world.And if that's our terror, then, then so be it," right? And I thought that was so beautiful, because even their students are at that level of consciousness. Mm-hmm. And I don't think you could ever hear a medical school or any institution in our current country, in our current conditions in America, allowing for their students to speak in such a way at an official institutional event."
In other words, they want to be able to train in revolutionary tactics in the open.
Before I go, I am using @jsolomonReports and @JustTheNews heavily on this . I am trying to provide new material. justthenews.com/nation/extremi…
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews The May 2025 trip was part of National Network on Cuba, which is very closely linked to the Cuban state government itself via ICAP (Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples).
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews This is not the first time I've discussed the ICAP; Global Exchange (founded by CODE Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin) is affiliated with them.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews National Network on Cuba has a member of US organizations that readers of my feed will find familiar -- including Code Pink, Alliance for Global Justice, Democratic Socialists for America, and of course, Armed Queers of SLC.
What I found shocking was Armed Queer's outright admission that Cuba trains Palestinian medical students in revolution, to the point where they describe themselves as terrorists.
Cuban provides free scholarships for Palestinian students to study medicine. And now it's a lot more clear why.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews And the Cuban government itself announced and organized the May 2025 trip that SLC Armed Queers went on. cubaminrex.cu/es/cuba-convoc…
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews Of course, the Cuban government is notoriously poor and shouldn't be able to subsidize scholarships.
Who gives them financial aid? Well.... Venezuela and Russia subsidize oil for them, but we are one of their top financial aid providers.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews NNOC, the umbrella organization which includes US-affiliated NGOs with Cuba, is one of only two "solidarity" organizations with the Cuban government.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews In the video, Ermiya Fanaeian is full of praise for Cuban's progressive trans policies. In another clip elsewhere, they say Cuba is the most safe place they've ever been in.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews Fanaeian and Connor openly talk about how the May 2025 trip inspired them as to their chances of a successful revolution in the United States and in the world.
Did this impact the Charlie Kirk assassination?
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews There could be a nonzero chance that SLC Armed Queers influenced Tyler Robinson.
Remember, Discord said specifically Robinson did not plan violence. They did not say whether others had planned violence.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews It was Barack Obama who started official, government sponsored cultural missions to Cuba (although the "private" NNOC predates this)
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews And don't forget to read the earlier linked report by John Solomon. The entire point of Armed Queers is to train "gay, queer, and transgender people to arm themselves and fight against capitalism and the American system."
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews So:
Armed Queers SLC went to Cuba for training in revolutionary tactics.
Armed Queers SLC talked about being inspired in bringing home the revolution.
Armed Queers SLC is a NGO dedicated to training other gay, transgender, and queer people.
Seeing the big picture?
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews . @lamps_apple sent me a video but I can't share because it's on X DM - she posted a video to recruit others to the Cuban cause. Unclear if this video was posted before or after May Day. If after May Day, it shows that the trip itself was a radicalizing factor.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews @lamps_apple Some more receipts:
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews @lamps_apple The May Day Brigade was one of its largest ever in Cuba. The official state newspaper tied it directly to a "tightening of the blockade" ... which I interpret that loosely to mean foreign assistance and other punitive measures the US is putting on their allies.
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews @lamps_apple Here is the video from @lamps_apple - this is Ermiya Fanaeian allegedly dated to September 3rd 2025, just one week before the assassination, promoting the Cuban revolution.
It seems more likely she was radicalized by the trip.
Who else was also radicalized?
@jsolomonReports @JustTheNews @lamps_apple I am going to end the thread for now and get some sleep.
Safe to say: Communist subversion is alive and well in the United States.
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. @PunchbowlNews would you like to comment on this business model I've reversed engineered of how you keep @LeaderJohnThune in line?
@PunchbowlNews @LeaderJohnThune Punchbowl, would you also like to comment on how virtually every major sponsor of yours has donated to John Thune for a total of 1.2 million?
@AndrewDesiderio , any comments?
@PunchbowlNews @LeaderJohnThune @AndrewDesiderio By the way ... the only people who are sponsoring me on this are my $3/month subscribers. I don't know any heavy hitter here who's been approached to go against SAVE America Act.
I'd been looking at PAC contributions when I should have been looking at the people who actually have daily access to the Capitol - the media. The true lobbyists.
Punchbowl News represents a whole lot of powerful industries and they are unflinching admirers of Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
John Thune is the "paid influencer ecosystem." 𝕏 merely exposed how that machinery works in the Senate.
Just look at the posts of @AndrewDesiderio , their senior Senate "correspondent." Almost every single one is about defeating the SAVE America Act and praising Thune.
Punchbowl isn't shy about where their money comes from. Founder Jack Sherman himself admitted that 90% of Punchbowl's revenue is from "corporate sponsorships." They made 10 million dollars in revenue their first year... what kind of "journalist" company pulls that off?
The podcast featuring them outright describes their business model as getting their money from "sponsorships bought by trade groups and companies looking to get their public affairs messaging in front of those making and influencing policy."
Punchbowl got in ethical hot water when they treated a whole bunch of lobbyists to luxury box seats at a NFL game.
If you want to know why SAVE America Act is being slow-walked...
Start with @PunchbowlNews .
. @AndrewDesiderio do you want to share which of your employer's clients are against the SAVE America Act, or should I figure it out myself?
Thune access timeline documented: Five distinct confirmed Punchbowl-Thune interactions between Sept. 2025 and March 2026, including two Fly Out Day appearances. Punchbowl's Feb. 26, 2026 piece declaring the "talking filibuster dead" was the key conventional wisdom-setting event, published before Trump's March 9 ultimatum, using Thune's framing and characterizing SAVE Act supporters as a caucus "tearing itself apart."
🛰️ New Article: Building an OSINT Pipeline to Cut Through the Iranian Conflict Noise.
SPOILER ALERT: We're winning.
I just published a long-form analysis on the Iran conflict and the strategic dynamics around it. Sorry for the Substack-only publication; the article itself was far too long and complex in formatting to publish with 𝕏 tooling. (Feedback to the 𝕏 team - if you can just make full Markdown capability, I would be thrilled.)
Before anything else: I'm only a civilian data analyst, not a military officer or intelligence professional. This piece is the result of two weeks of intensive work where I did something unusual.... I built and experimented with an AI-assisted OSINT synthesis pipeline using military doctrine, think tank research, and public reporting.
Part of the goal was to produce something useful for readers.
But honestly, the bigger goal was education for myself, forcing a structured process to sort signal from noise in an information environment that's chaotic right now.
The pipeline pulls from sources like CSIS, ISW, CEPA, ISIS nuclear reporting, CENTCOM and IDF briefings, plus open-source economic and energy data. Where I step beyond what those sources explicitly state, I mark it clearly as [ASSESSED] and try to show the reasoning.
This article is the first full output of that process.
If you have expertise in:
🔹 air campaign planning
🔹 nuclear nonproliferation
🔹 Middle East security policy
🔹 energy markets
🔹 OSINT methodology
I would genuinely welcome corrections, critiques, or improvements. The entire point is to make the analytical process more rigorous over time.
The pipeline itself will keep evolving. Bring on the rotten tomatoes.
🧵WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: Meet David Pascoe, candidate for SC Attorney General. He's running as a Republican. But is he actually a Democrat?
Joe Biden is in South Carolina today.
Which makes this the perfect moment to introduce you to David Pascoe, candidate for SC Attorney General, running as a Republican, and what he said about Joe Biden in January 2020:
"He is the most decent man I have ever met in American politics. Joe has been a role model of mine for many years. He is someone my sons look up to. Joe is the first and only candidate I have ever endorsed for public office."
That's not only a Democrat who voted for Biden. That's a Democrat who hosted Biden's campaign fundraiser at his own annual oyster roast, endorsed him for president, and was Biden's frontrunner to become US Attorney for South Carolina.
David Pascoe spent 20+ years as an elected Democrat, 6 consecutive terms as SC First Circuit Solicitor. He pushed DEI-style racial quota systems for SC judges as recently as December 2023. Six months before his "conversion," he endorsed a Democratic state rep who voted against banning gender procedures on minors.
And here are the receipts. 👇
As always, patience as I pull together this thread.
David Pascoe spent 20+ years as an elected Democrat, 6 consecutive terms as SC First Circuit Solicitor. On April 10, 2025, he switched to the GOP. SC Dem Chair Christale Spain says he "has been trying to find a lane to run for higher office."
Pascoe switched parties in April 2025.
Pascoe launched his AG campaign in August 2025.
That's 4 months, in a state where no Democrat has won a statewide race since 2006.
You do the math.
If you're a subscriber, enter your oppo research request below! I haven't scaled it out yet, so can only do about 3 a day. It also helps if you pair a name with a focus (e.g., investigate connections to so-and-so entity)