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Last week I showed how I used AI to analyze 500GB of raw Italy footage.

Last night, my @OpenClaw assistant Vanessa turned all of it into 16 story-edited films. Narrative arcs, emotional beats, editor notes on every clip. Took about 90 minutes.

Then it built the landing page while I was brushing my teeth.

I'm launching it as a product. 🧵

The wild part: the whole thing was orchestrated by @OpenClaw.

It coordinated @GeminiApp for video analysis, @MistralAI Voxtral for transcription, and @claudeai Opus for the story editing. 16 parallel AI agents, each one independently building a narrative arc for one day of our trip.

Total AI cost: about $25.

What you get back:

- A timeline per day (10-15 min, actual story structure)
- Story treatment for each day
- Editor notes on every clip explaining why it's there
- Highlight markers for trailer-worthy shots
- Full transcripts of every conversation
- Quality and story scores for every clip

All as FCPXML. Opens right in Final Cut Pro or DaVinci.

The Gotō islands are a very unique place in Japan. It is by far the most demographically Catholic region in the country. This thread will cover basic information, history, and modern problems pertaining to Christianity on the Gotō islands. 1/10

The name "Gotō" means "five islands". However, the archipelago is actually made up of 140 of them. They are filled with craggy cliffs, dense forests, and sandy beaches, and only a fraction are populated with the less than 80,000 inhabitants. 2/10

Around 5-15% of Gotō's population is Christian, the vast majority being Catholic. This is in stark contrast to the national rate of 1-2%. But as I will later address more thoroughly, this number is decreasing, and the Church is dying. 3/10

Molti non lo sanno, ma ci sono state diverse raccolte fondi per il #poliziotto arrestato oggi, #Cinturrino . Una di queste ha raccolto ben 15.000 euro da parte di una serie di idioti che hanno creduto alla propaganda di #Salvini e soci.
Wanna Marchi aveva ragione.
Fatta da #Sap

Il Sap è il sindacato autonomo di polizia, ma non è il solo. Questa raccolta fondi è stata poi sostenuta , guarda caso, dal #ilGiornale dopo che all'inizio era stata bloccata. Una raccolta fondi che dimostra quanto sia impressionante l'influenza del populismo sulle persone.

Prima erano "tutti al fianco del poliziotto di #Rogoredo", per poi dire che "c'erano parecchie cose che si sapevano". Per fortuna il 99 % della #polizia non è così. Ma anche queste campagne populiste fanno dei danni enormi alle forze dell'ordine

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„No matter how much @realDonaldTrump talks about peace talks, European leaders are wary of a deal that rewards Pootin and heightens the danger from Russia. They want to inflict more pain on Pootin, not ease the pressure at the negotiating table.

[...]

https://twitter.com/smh/status/2026015676130037765

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There can be no agreement on the war in Ukraine without considering the broader impact on Europe, for the simple reason that Pootin has tried to justify his war by seeking a new security regime across the continent.”

Feb. 24, 2026

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𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖞𝖉𝖓𝖊𝖞 𝕸𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖆𝖑𝖉 (@smh) archive.is/20260223192648…

🔥🔥🔥Breaking! Ex CIA and ex Gov officials are massively linked to British censorship org operating in the United States!

The Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a Labour Together linked org going after Elon Musk, is heavily linked to US intelligence and ex government staff, especially the CIA! Part 3!

These are the folks censoring US conservatives, “protecting” the 2020 election, and linked to the Trump resistance. (You’ll be seeing even more on this.)

Previously I showed how Imran Ahmed worked with FOUR former CIA at IssueOne. Today I showed that ex CIA even WORKED AT CCDH.

Now, here we go again, we have TWO more ex CIA linked to CCDH folks, and it’s a whopper! (There will be more in the future too. But this brings us up to SEVEN EX CIA TO DATE.)

Simon Clark belonged to Foreign Policy for America (FP4 America) after he fled back to the US to join the Trump resistance. Has anyone looked into this? They even endorsed electing two of the Seditious Six (Elissa Slotkin, ex CIA Abigail Spanberger). Along with Eugene Vindman, Rashida Tlaib, Andy Kim, and others. Yeah some extremely far leftists.

Even holding events for folks such as Susan Rice, Spanberger, Slotkin, and Jodi Herman Vice President for Government Relations and Public Affairs at the National Endowment for Democracy.

💥 Now recall that APCO from the Labour Together journalist scandal advises International Crisis Group.

This report shows additional linkage between CCDH (Labour Together), APCO and International Crisis Group. On top of intelligence assets and gov officials galore.

International Crisis Group was created by Malloch Brown and seed funded by Soros.

This is who all has worked at Simon Clark’s FP4 America.

- Ned price, spokesperson and senior analyst CIA
- Avril Haines, Deputy Director of the CIA
- Robert Malley, CEO International Crisis group
- Jake Sullivan, International Crisis group
- Jen Psaki, Carnegie Endowments
- Simon Clark, CCDH
- Antony Blinkon, State Dept
- Tons of ex gov officials and more

Here’s some of the orgs that FP4 America partners with at Scoville Peace Fellowship.

- International Crisis Group ( APCO advises then)
- Brookings
- Carnegie Endowments
- Truman Center (Hunter Biden)
- Stimpson Center
- etc

Foreign Policy For America was even involved with the George Floyd riots by backing involved groups.

“ Following the 2020 death of George Floyd, FP4A partnered with left-of-center Equal Justice Initiative, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Fair Fight, and Reclaim the Block to support left-of-center advocacy efforts on race-based issues.”

And they even had have a resistance page on the Resistance Toolkit website.

Sources to follow.

https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/2025950663608254956

Wait until you see where this is leading. Straight to the organization of the major Trump resistance. Imran should leave the US with his tail between his legs. Seriously, it gets much worse than this,

In this thread, Imran Ahmed worked at an org called Issue One which was listed in the fortifying the election article at The Times.

By the time I reached the end of posting my 🧵, I realized that FOUR EX CIA AGENTS WERE INVOLVED THERE.

https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/1996450174500020239

Here’s more on Jake Sullivan and International Crisis Group. Which is advised by APCO. The same org from the Labour Together journalist scandal.

Jake Sullivan was also a special guest in Simon Clark’s home for an Andy Kim fundraiser. Yeah the same Andy Kim that Foreign Policy for America endorsed. 😏

Everything I posted here had a reason. 👇🏻😬

https://x.com/pepesgrandma/status/2025280319276933409

Cesare Terranova è nato a Palermo nell'agosto del 1921.
Tornato dalla guerra e dalla prigionia era entrato in magistratura.
Poi pretore a Messina.
Nel 1958 si era trasferito al tribunale di Palermo, avviando i celebri processi di mafia contro Liggio e altri boss mafiosi.

Poi a Marsala è Procuratore della Repubblica e svolge numerose indagini.
Eletto deputato, diviene componente della Commissione parlamentare antimafia.
Alcune sentenze di condanna di mafiosi vengono annullate.
Molti tornano liberi e alzano il livello di scontro contro lo Stato.

Nel 1979, terminato il mandato parlamentare, Cesare Terranova decide di tornare a Palermo "per terminare il lavoro che aveva cominciato".
Diventa così Consigliere della Corte di Appello a Palermo.

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„British police have arrested former cabinet minister Peter Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office because of his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, days after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was detained on similar grounds.

https://twitter.com/smh/status/2026015609130283119

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The @UKLabour insider, who was elevated to the House of Lords after decades of senior roles in public life, was seen being arrested at his London home and taken for questioning by police.

[...]

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While Mandelson’s ties to Epstein were known for years, this did not stop UK Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer from appointing him as ambassador to the US in Dec. 2024, in a decision seen as a way to smooth relations with @POTUS @realDonaldTrump.

Feb. 24, 2026

🔴🔵BARÇA 3 - LEVANTE 0

No soy muy de Cancelo pero puede ser la mejor opción para intentar la remontada ante el Atlético de Madrid en Copa

Lo argumento aquí

Con @KlipDraw + @Effmatch + @gusfop + @adnaaan433

HILO 👇👇👇

BERNAL AL LADO DE FDJ: Flick sacó un 11 con novedades pero todas con explicación futbolística. En defensa, dio entrada a Cancelo para tener un lateral muy ofensivo. Arriba, Lewa y Olmo ya que el encuentro pedía un rematador y un MP con capacidad en espacios reducidos
@Effmatch

Y en el medio, Flick introdució el cambio más diferencial, el equipo ganó un mediocampista puro y un socio cercano para De Jong. Bernal jugó por delante de Frenkie pero, en muchos momentos, estuvieron en paralelo formando una base muy asociativa.

How to Gain an Unfair Advantage Over The Left So Extreme Their Parasitic Bureaucracy Anticipate Your Next Move (THREAD)

Save the American Republic by Internalizing These 7 Ruthless Rules. Weaponize Them Against the Leftist Scum. Learn to Show Absolutely No Mercy to the Forces of the Evil Leftist Baby Eater...

The Fairy Tale of Equity and the Reality of Power

Fairness is a fairy tale we tell children to get them to share their toys. In the real world, fairness is a coping mechanism for the defeated. This singular, unapologetic truth serves as the ultimate dividing line between the individuals who dictate the course of history and the masses who are merely subjected to it. The contemporary political and corporate arenas are entirely saturated with a suffocating, left-wing narrative regarding equity, structural reform, and social justice. Modern leftist ideologues obsess over manufacturing a utopian "fair equality of opportunity," demanding that institutions dismantle themselves to achieve an impossible equality of outcome. They whine endlessly about systemic oppression, treating meritocracy as either a flawed ideal that must be perfected or a tool of hierarchy that must be abolished. Both factions of this debate completely miss the fundamental nature of reality. They operate under the naive, arrogant assumption that a perfectly just system is somehow achievable through endless government regulation and forced wealth redistribution.

Look at the people who actually run the world, the billionaires, the generals, the shadow brokers. Do you think they got there by playing fair? Do you think they waited for their turn? No. They cut the line. They rigged the game. They understood that while the masses are fighting for scraps using the rules of morality, the masters are operating on a completely different set of physics. The realist perspective, deeply rooted in the cold, clinical philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli, obliterates the utopian delusion of the left. Political realism dictates that human organization is not a gentle exercise in moral perfection, but rather a perpetual, bloody struggle for power and security. Machiavelli himself astutely observed that any given populace is irrevocably divided into two distinct humors: the few who fiercely desire to dominate, and the many who merely desire not to be dominated. Plutocracy, in this unvarnished framework, is not a temporary aberration that can be fixed by progressive tax policies; it is a permanent, immutable fixture of the human condition.

You are watching this because you are tired. You are tired of working hard and seeing lazy people get promoted in environments that prioritize diversity quotas over actual competence. You are tired of being the good guy and finishing last while watching the ruthless ascend. You sense that there is a hidden back door to success that no one is showing you. You are right. There is. I am going to hand you the keys to that back door. I am going to give you seven ruthless rules of asymmetric warfare. These are not superficial life hacks designed by corporate human resources departments. These are psychological weapons. They will give you an advantage so severe that people will call it luck. They will call it talent. They will call it unfair. Good. Let them.

Rule One: The Senigallia Strategy and the Total Elimination of Resistance

The traditional leftist approach to conflict is heavily regulated. It demands that individuals engage in exhausting daily struggles on an artificially leveled playing field. Most men fight wars of attrition. They argue. They compete. They struggle against their rivals day after day, wearing themselves down. This is the strategy of the fool. The true master of power does not fight wars of attrition; they engineer decisive, unfair battles that completely neutralize the threat before the competition even officially begins.

The historical archetype for this ruthless efficiency is Cesare Borgia, the son of the pope and the primary model for Machiavelli's prince. Borgia did not fight attrition. He fought decisive unfair battles. In 1502, Borgia faced a catastrophic threat. His mercenary captains revolted against him. They were powerful, dangerous men. They had armies. The geopolitical climate was incredibly volatile. The Borgias were Spaniards, and the Italians hated that, causing all possible regional tensions to be hyper-inflamed as the family attempted to carve out a permanent personal duchy in the middle of Italy and transform the papacy into a hereditary monarchy. Borgia could have gone to war with them. He could have fought them on the battlefield, risking his money, his men, and his reputation. It would have been fair.

He didn't. Instead, he initiated a masterclass in psychological manipulation. He offered them a truce. He offered them money. He offered them higher ranks. He played the role of the forgiving, weakened leader. He soothed their egos. He made them feel safe. He invited them to a feast in the city of Senigallia to celebrate their new alliance. The moment they walked into the room, smiling and unguarded, Borgia gave a signal. His guards stepped out of the shadows, he strangled every single one of them. In one hour, he accomplished what would have taken 10 years of war.

This is the lesson. Never fight a battle you can win by deception. You are trying to outwork your competition. You are trying to be better than them. Stop. You need to identify the threat and neutralize it before the competition even begins.

How does this apply to you in a modern office in a business? If you have a rival, do not argue with them in meetings. Do not try to outshine them with louder ideas. That is the battlefield. Instead, make them feel safe. Agree with them. Praise them. Draw them close. Let them lower their guard. The modern corporate environment is filled with fragile egos that crave validation. Exploit this vulnerability relentlessly. And then when they are comfortable, you let them make the mistake. You let them overextend. You let them take the project that is destined to fail. And you encourage them to do it. You hand them the rope and you watch them hang themselves. You do not need to push them. Gravity will do the work. But gravity only works if they are standing on the edge. Your job is to guide them there smiling the whole time. This is the unfair advantage of the smile. The enemy you can see is dangerous. The friend who is secretly an enemy is lethal. Be the friend.

Rule Two: The Law of Information Asymmetry

In the age of the internet, everyone thinks they know everything. This is your greatest opportunity because while everyone is drowning in data, almost no one has intelligence. The progressive left believes that democratizing information creates a perfectly egalitarian society. This is entirely false. Data is merely ambient noise. Intelligence is the specific secret that changes the outcome.

Nathan Rothschild, the legendary banking tycoon, understood this intimately. Legend says that during the battle of Waterloo, he didn't rely on the public news couriers. He had his own network of private boats and riders. He knew Napoleon had lost a full day before the British government did. While the London Stock Exchange was crashing in panic, everyone thinking Napoleon had won, Rothschild was buying. He bought everything for pennies. When the official news arrived the next day, the market skyrocketed. He didn't just make money. He bought the British economy. He had an unfair advantage because he had the information first.

While historical archives suggest that the exact financial figures of his Waterloo gains may be less than the mythological "millions" often cited, the structural reality of his method is absolute. He recognized the unparalleled value of inside information applied to securities trading. To fully grasp the superiority of Rothschild's method, contrast it with the bumbling efforts of his competitors just a year prior. In 1814, a concert party of speculators, including Lord Cochrane, attempted a clumsy pantomime hoax. Facing massive losses in Gilts, they sent an officer dressed as a French Royalist to Dover in the middle of the night, claiming Napoleon was dead, hoping the port admiral would use the Admiralty's semaphore relay stations to broadcast the false news. The plan failed spectacularly because it was simply too foggy for the semaphore system to operate, resulting in the perpetrators being jailed for fraud. Rothschild did not rely on such foolish public hoaxes or weather-dependent government systems; he built a proprietary machine for information gathering.

You are operating with the same information as everyone else. That is why you are average. You read the same news. You watch the same tutorials. You have the same degrees. To become an outlier, you must cultivate the spy network in your company. Do you know the secretary, not just hello, do you know her? Do you know what the CEO is stressed about? Do you know which department is getting budget cuts before the memo goes out? In your market, do you know what your competitors are terrified of? You must become a vacuum of secrets.

People love to talk. They love to feel important. If you learn to listen, really listen, with a silence that invites them to fill the void, they will tell you everything. They will tell you their weaknesses. They will tell you their plans. Machiavelli said, "A wise prince should gather information from all sides, but keep his own counsel." Know more than you speak. When you enter a negotiation, you should already know the other person's breaking point. You should know what they need versus what they say they want. When you know the cards in their hand, you are not gambling, you are collecting.

The human heart is a Turing Machine.

Researchers figured it out with an Xbox 360.

I realize how fake that sounds...but it’s real research published in Elsevier's Computational Biology and Chemistry journal in 2009.

Hearts are electrically excitable media.

The author figured out you can build a NOR gate from heart cells.

NOR is a universal gate, so you can build all the other gates out of NORs.

Thus, arbitrary logic circuits, plus time…boom you have a computer.

But wait! Computers have interesting properties:

Now that you’ve proven cardiac tissue is Turing complete, uh oh, it’s vulnerable to the Halting problem.

Thus, there is no general algorithm that can look at the state of cardiac tissue and decide if it will ever stop.

Arrhythmias are fundamentally uncomputable!

Czas na część 3cią naszego małego cyklu "Soumission", w której przyjrzymy się, kto lepiej chapie jankeską knagę i co z tego wynika. Od razu może zaznaczmy, że płaszczenie się przed Amerykanami nie jest specjalnością prawicy; pionierem byli tu wszak postkomuniści. Zapraszam👇

Krzyczycie o moskiewskiej pożyczce, ale jak starałem się pokazać w części 1szej, niespecjalnie ona wpłynęła na politykę SLD. Wzięli, nie pokwitowali, obrali kurs na UE i NATO. Pomijając gaz, Rosja nie ugrała na elitach postkomunistycznych nic, sporo natomiast ugrali Amerykanie.

Jak zwykle, ważny jest kontekst: o ile Rosja po 1989 staje się wrakiem, to USA są u szczytu potęgi. Działają spójnie, wiedzą czego chcą i umieją nacisnąć gdzie trzeba, żeby to dostać. Na początku transformacji chcą np. Jaruzelskiego na prezydenta Polski i dostają go bez problemu

Afyon'da "Kudret" adlı yerel gazeteyi çıkarmakta olan Cüneyt Mollaoğlu, 1950 yılının Mayıs ayında bir trene binerek Eskişehir'e doğru yola çıkar..
Cumhuriyet'in ilk yıllarından beri çalışan bir trenin kompartımanında, Cüneyt Bey'in yanına Kütahya Garı'nda bir kız çocuğu
oturur.

Cüneyt Bey cebinden gazetesini çıkarır, okumaya başlar; kız çocuğunun gözü de gazete sayfalarındadır..

Akrabası sinirlenerek dirseğiyle dürter, "Evladım ayıptır başkasının gazetesi okunmaz, yapma etme.." Ama çocuk gazeteyi okumaya devam eder, üstelik bununla da kalmaz,
Cüneyt Bey'e dönüp "Siz bitirdikten sonra gazetenizi ben okuyabilir miyim?" diye de sorar..

SCOTUS nerd material: Gorsuch (cheered on online by the Right) ID's 4 opinions where he says liberals' positions were inconsistent with the position they took on tariffs-- greenhouse gases, vaccine mandates, student loans, and eviction moratoria.

He's wrong on 3 and right on 1.

The greenhouse gas, vaccine mandate, and student loan cases all involved statutory language that really did seem to authorize what the government was doing. So unless you thought the major questions doctrine should exist, the government should have won.

And of course, the liberals don't think the major questions doctrine should exist.

I stopped targeting keywords 6 months ago.

Started targeting semantic concepts instead.

Rankings went up 40% across 200 articles.

Google's algorithm understands meaning now, not just keywords.

Here's how to optimize for it: 🧵👇

1/ What is semantic SEO?

Old way: Target "best CRM software"
New way: Cover the entire concept of "CRM selection"

Related concepts:

- Contact management
- Sales pipeline stages
- Integration capabilities
- Data migration
- User permissions
- Reporting dashboards

Google connects these automatically.

2/ The keyword targeting failure:

Wrote article targeting "CRM software for small business"

Included keyword 18 times.
Got keyword synonyms.
Checked keyword density.

Result: Ranked #52

Problem: Covered keyword, not concept.

1/🚨 BREAKING: Peter Mandelson has been arrested.

The man Keir Starmer called "Britain's greatest diplomat."

The man who mentored the founder of CCDH — the organization that helped silence American voices during COVID.

The man who was routing classified government intelligence to Jeffrey Epstein. 🧵👇

2/Let me give you the context the mainstream press won't.

I have been reporting on this network for years.

What is happening tonight is not a surprise.

It is a confirmation.

3/ Mandelson was not merely a social contact of Epstein's.

Released DOJ documents show he was transmitting real-time British government intelligence to a convicted sex offender — while sitting inside Downing Street. [Details here: sayerji.substack.com/p/the-british-…]

Classified economic briefings. Tax strategy. Bailout timing. Leadership resignations.

This is documented. In his own words.

Ao reagir à polêmica do desfile eleitoral na Sapucaí, o PT fez mais um movimento errado.

Enquanto todos se distraíam no final de semana, o Centrão reagiu. Publicamente.

E o sinal de alerta acendeu outra vez em Brasília.

Quer entender?
Segue o fio. 🧵

1⃣ Não resta dúvida que a "homenagem" na Sapucaí deu muito errado. O prejuízo foi alto.

E prejuízo alto em eleição presidencial significa falta de controle.
Quando o time está desnorteado atirando pra todos os lados, a culpa é da liderança.

É imperdoável. E custa caro.

2⃣ As críticas óbvias vieram. O evento se consagrou: um dos piores atos de campanha da história do marketing político.
Case acadêmico indelével.

Na esquerda o fundo do poço tem subsolo.

O partido não se retratou? Não. Dobrou a aposta. Investiu contra a opinião pública.

I give up ngl. Will deactivate this account. But before I go this post will be up for a while.

The Modi administration has completely crippled military readiness. Everyone knows about the air force because it is the most crippled out of the 3 arms of the military. But it's not..

...the only one.

But let's summarise what went wrong with the IAF.

Historically, India has always been an importer of military aircraft. HAL has always been less of a "manufacturer" and more of an "assembler". This did change briefly with the HF-24 Marut, but we were back...

...to importing military aircraft and abandoning the successor of HF-24 that was HF-73.

Anyways, after two decades of work starting from the 1980s, involving HAL and ADA (Aeronautical Development Agency), the LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) codename "Tejas" took flight in 2001.

Måndagsrörelsens möte #199 på ett Norrmalmstorg, för första gången på flera veckor i plusgrader, leddes av Fredrik Malm och Gunnar Hökmark.
Imorgon är det 4 år sedan den fullskaliga invasionen då en ny 😱 värld öppnades. Ryssland är den part som eskalerat detta krig gång på gång.

Putins 3-dagarsplan misslyckades. Ukraina kommer aldrig kunna besegras så länge vi står bakom dem. Putin för ett krig också mot det egna folket med enorma förlustsiffror varje dag.

STFU Tacticats och Kvartyrnyk kör ett insamlingsevent på Sigtunagatan på lördag till minne av poeten Maksym Kryvtsov.
stfutacticats.com/campaigns/kvar…

@PierrePoilievre is taking a little run at "fake refugees" and "non-citizens and foreign nationals who do crime". Bravo and all. Bit late but a welcome start. 1/

https://x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/2025914217182761206

Meanwhile, over the weekend, the Globe and Mail discovered that Canada's GDP per capita is lower than Alabama's. Yikes! How can this be? (Fortunately, without evidence, the elbows up crowd firmly maintained Canadians have a better "quality of life".) 2/

The CPC's capture by the Party of Toronto means it will continue to ignore the possibility that Canada's crappy economic performance over the last decade might have something to do with "per capita". Of course it also had a lot to do with COVID and net zero. 3/

🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING: The Pentagon has finally released their spending plan for the $153.3 billion in additional defense spending that was included in the reconciliation package. Highlights include:

🚢 $29.2 billion for shipbuilding
🚀 $24.4 billion for air & missile defense
🏭 $24.8 billion for munitions procurement/industrial base
📈 $15.4 billion for scaling production of low cost weapons
✈️ $8.5 billion for air superiority
☢️ $10.8 billion for nuclear forces
🌏 $12.3 billion for INDOPACOM
🛠️ $16.2 billion for readiness

Will add additional details below in a thread 🧵 ⬇️

1/xx

Shipbuilding section. Big ticket items are 2 additional Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and an additional Virginia-class submarine.

2/xx

Homeland Missile Defense/Golden Dome. Big ticket items are AMTI satellites ($2bn), space-based and boost phase interceptors ($5.6bn), space-based sensors ($7.2bn), missile defense integration ($2.55bn), acceleration of hypersonic defense ($2.2bn), & GMD radars ($1.98bn).

3/xx

NEW: Documents from two anonymous whistlebowers obtained by Sen. Blumenthal's office shed light on how DHS has lowered training & testing standards for new recruits to meet ambitious hiring targets for ICE Enforcement Removal Operations officers ahead of public forum today 🧵

Docs from July 2021 vs Oct 2025 seem to show that ICE eliminated over a dozen exams previously required by ERO officers, including:

- Judgement Pistol Shooting
- Determine Removability
- Encounters to Detention
- Detention to Removal
- Criminal Encounters

A comparison of syllabi pre-hiring surge in July '25 vs. Feb '26—appears to show ICE also cut many classes from ERO officer training, incl Use of Force Simulation Training and legal ones on topics such as US govt structure, ERO Authority, and criminal vs removal Proceedings