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🧵THREAD: Iranian influence in US far-left protests

A Jewish rapper got beaten bloody at a Khamenei vigil in Washington Square Park. What happened next exposed something much bigger: a documented pipeline connecting Iran's sanctioned state TV directly to far-left protest organizers on American soil.

The receipts are extraordinary.

As always, patience as I pull the thread together. 👇
Rapper Kosha Dillz walked up to a vigil for Ayatollah Khamenei. He looked for images of the tens of thousands of protesters Iran killed. Organizers tackled him, punched him in the head, and kicked him on the ground. He was arrested alongside his attacker. Image
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The vigil drew only a few dozen people, but from five far-left organizations, including the Workers World Party. A new report by @ncri_io obtained leaked internal records from Iran's Press TV found something stunning: hundreds of communications between Press TV officials and the very same organizers.Image
@ncri_io The numbers: 83 calls from Press TV to one senior figure tied to the protest network. Researchers found this outreach "far exceeded contact with other individuals based in the U.S.," indicating sustained engagement, not routine media calls. The leaked records span 2019 to 2022. Image
@ncri_io The timing pattern is damning. Spikes in Press TV contact with these organizers repeatedly occurred in the weeks before increased protest activity in the United States. Researchers say the synchronization is "unlikely to be coincidental." Image
@ncri_io Here's how the amplification loop works: activists appear on Iranian state broadcasts → they share and repost Iranian state media content → they organize protests → Iranian outlets pick up the protest footage and amplify it globally. Image
@ncri_io Now here's where it gets bigger. Fox News identified 75+ organizations that have protested in support of Iran's regime since the conflict began. 50 identify as far-left/Marxist/socialist/communist. 22 are Islamist-aligned. Many connect through CCP-connected Neville Roy Singham. Image
Singham-linked groups include the People's Forum, ANSWER Coalition, PSL, CODEPINK, and Palestinian Youth Movement. They didn't organize the Khamenei vigil... but they participated in the follow-up Al-Quds Day protest. Same "anti-imperialist" framing that treats the Iranian regime as a victim.Image
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@ncri_io The report calls this a "repeatable influence pipeline." Iranian state media contacts U.S. organizers. Organizers stage events. Events get amplified back through Iranian media. Sanctioned propaganda becomes "grassroots American protest." Image
THREAD CONCLUSION:
You don't have to support the Trump administration's efforts in Iran to understand that we aren't fighting domestic enemies. This is a global war that has been waged for a long time on multiple fronts.

Congress didn't decide mass migration was a winning strategy; UN and technocrats did.
Grassroots didn't create those protests; foreign-trained revolutionaries did.
Activist judges didn't develop their ideology on their own; they were cultivated through pipelines set up by globalist technocrats. (Much more on that coming.)
Rogue officials didn't start get obsessed with censoring us; it is a transatlantic project as @pepesgrandma has been demonstrating.

Regardless of your feelings on the Iran conflict - we will have to confront the world in order to take back our country.

Thread end.
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Mar 22
🧵 THREAD: Democrats TEACH voter identification and election integrity ... just not in America

The Democratic Party has an international arm called the National Democratic Institute (NDI). It's funded by $181M/year in US tax dollars. Its board includes Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Tom Daschle.

But in regards to today's SAVE America Act debate... did you know that the NDI has taught and supervised election processes all over the world?

For 40 years, NDI has told every developing country on earth that voter ID is essential for election integrity. They've recommended biometric systems... yes, that's right, NDI recommended biometric systems, which goes way beyond SAVE America Act! They praised fingerprint verification. Tracked ID card issuance rates.

Meanwhile, Democrats call the SAVE Act "Jim Crow 2.0."

Same party. Same people. Opposite positions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread 👇Image
NDI's own 2001 guide emphasizes the importance of only citizens voting. It further says voter ID cards "introduce an additional safeguard into the system" and describes photo ID and fingerprints as standard election infrastructure. Image
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In one of their PDFs, the complaint in Nicaragua wasn't that voter ID existed. It was that the government wasn't issuing ID cards FAST ENOUGH. They even called the issuance of temporary IDs as ignoring "the far more fundamental problem." Image
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. @DOGE_GSA FYI, seems like our taxpayer money pays for Punchbowl News subscriptions? Image
@DOGE_GSA Punchbowl News ads brag about 65,000 weekly impressions. That is laughably low.

That also means: they literally launder access between corporations and Congress / other policymakers. Image
@DOGE_GSA What does it cost to place an ad in their newsletter? A mere $210,000 !

To show how ridiculous this is ... the "Promote" button right here on X says I can achieve 75,000 impressions for $500.

This is access laundering. Plain and simple. Image
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Mar 10
. @PunchbowlNews would you like to comment on this business model I've reversed engineered of how you keep @LeaderJohnThune in line? Image
@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? Image
@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.

John Thune is your paid influencer.

This is the mother of all projections.
Read 11 tweets
Mar 10
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 .Image
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. @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? Image
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."
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Mar 9
🛰️ 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.

Link in next post 👇
Have fun spotting the Tom Nichols mention!
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Feb 27
🧵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.Image
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." Image
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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.
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