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Jun 18 6 tweets 4 min read
Louis Bastien (Esperantist) - Wikipedia

In the belief that this fever (now known as malaria) was waterborne, soldiers were ordered to drink only boiled water.

It was not till three years later that Sir Ronald Ross conclusively determined that the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bas… cause of malaria is a parasite transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito.

In 2016, a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system was proposed to eradicate Anopheles gambiae, by deleting the dsx gene, causing female sterility.

Doublesex (dsx) is a gene that is involved in the sex determination
Jun 18 24 tweets 10 min read
A squad operating in a densely populated urban area might need to use a wedge formation to navigate a crowd while simultaneously monitoring for potential threats and using information warfare tactics to counter enemy propaganda. 

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immigrants in Detroit in 1976. She graduated from Southwestern High School in Detroit in 1994, from Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1998, and from Thomas M. Cooley Law School with a Juris Doctor in 2004.

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Jun 18 17 tweets 12 min read
Pentagon Official Removed From Joint Chiefs Of Staff For Anti-Israel Posts

“Along with the World Health Organization and United Nations, we (Department of Defense, Department of State and the U.S. Intelligence Community) consider the dailywire.com/news/pentagon-… Gaza Health Ministry figures to be generally reliable (though not precise),” he wrote, “but probably less so now than they were originally due to the general destruction and chaos in Gaza.”

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Jun 17 47 tweets 16 min read
Qassem Soleimani airstrike: Ring from corpse identified Iran's top general

The vehicle was struck by at least two missiles fired from a US MQ9 Reaper drone. nypost.com/2020/01/03/qas… U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O'Brieninsisted that Soleimani "was plotting to kill, to attack American facilities, and diplomats, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines were located at those facilities".

O'Brien was the California managing partner of the law firm
Jun 17 35 tweets 17 min read
Federal agents combating child exploitation must also grapple with public reluctance to talk about crisis - CBS News

The Justice Department, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino have launched cbsnews.com/news/combating… efforts to raise the profile of the crisis.

In a public campaign branded "Operation Restore Justice", the Justice Department executed a nationwide public campaign by federal agents and local law enforcement to track down offenders, execute arrests and file criminal charges. Image
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Jun 16 14 tweets 4 min read
The Museum of the Fur Trade is located near Chadron, at the site of the American Fur Company's former Bordeaux Trading Post.

Among the founders of the town were the businessman Charles Henry King and his wife Martha. King established retail and freight businesses and banks in Image towns along the railroad's route; he capitalized on the flow of settlers and pioneers to the region. Four of the five King children were born in Chadron, including their second son Leslie Lynch King. In 1908 the family moved to Omaha, the business center of the state.
Jun 5 30 tweets 17 min read
Joe Lonsdale - Wikipedia

Palantir received early investment from the CIA via its In-Q-Tel venture fund, and many of its first customers were intelligence agencies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lonsd… In 1999, George Tenet put forward "The Plan" for dealing with al-Qaeda.

In preparation, he selected new leadership for the CIA's Counterterrorist Center (CTC).

He placed Cofer Black in charge of the CTC, and Richard Blee (a "top-flight executive" from Tenet's own suite) in Image
Jun 4 28 tweets 15 min read
ImmunityBio Receives FDA Expanded Access Authorization for Landmark Treatment of Lymphopenia With ANKTIVA®, the Cancer BioShield™ Platform, in Patients With Solid Tumors - ImmunityBio, Inc. ir.immunitybio.com/news-releases/… Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States government has allocated nearly $50 billion to address the threat of biological weapons.

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Jun 2 35 tweets 21 min read
Jake Tapper - Wikipedia

In 2001, Tapper was the host of the CNN news talk show Take Five. He was also a columnist for TALK Magazine.

Tapper's reports about Enron were nominated for a 2002 Columbia University School of Journalism online award, and he was en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Tapp… an early questioner of the Bush administration's claims about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.

Talk Media was founded in July 1998 by Miramax Films, former New Yorker editor Tina Brown and Ron Galotti to publish books, the Talk magazine and to produce television Image
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Jun 1 55 tweets 20 min read
Nipper - Wikipedia

Nipper was born in 1884 in Bristol, England, and died in September 1895.

He was likely a mixed-breed dog, although most early sources suggest that he was a Smooth Fox Terrier, or perhaps a Jack Russell Terrier, or en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper possibly "part Bull Terrier".

He was named Nipper because he would often "nip" at the backs of visitors' legs.

Nipper died of natural causes in 1895 and was buried in Kingston upon Thames at Clarence Street, in a small park surrounded by magnolia trees.

In 1898, three years
Jun 1 66 tweets 26 min read
Felix Fuld - Wikipedia

Fuld's father was a partner in the New York City banking house of Sternberger, Sinn & Fuld.

Sternberger, Sinn & Fuld later became Gruntal & Co. Through his father, Fuld found a job at the Chesapeake Rubber Company in Baltimore en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Fuld where he met Louis Bamberger.

After graduating from college, Steve Feinberg worked as a trader at Drexel Burnham in 1982 and later at Gruntal & Co.

In 1992, at the age of 32, Feinberg co-founded Cerberus Capital Management with William L. Richter.

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May 29 45 tweets 14 min read
Richard L. Armitage

On 21st December, 1984, Doanald Gregg met with Felix Rodriguez and George H. W. Bush. This led to Gregg introducing Rodriguez to Oliver North. Later, Bush wrote a note to North where he thanked him for "your dedication and tireless spartacus-educational.com/JFKarmitage.htm work with the hostage thing and with Central America."

From 1984 to 1990, Stefan Halper was chairman and majority shareholder of the Palmer National Bank of Washington, D.C., the National Bank of Northern Virginia and the George Washington National Bank.

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May 28 20 tweets 9 min read
Arkham Intelligence - Wikipedia

Miggy Morel founded Arkham in 2020 and received investments from angel investors including Tim Draper, Joe Lonsdale of Palantir Technologies, and Sam Altman of OpenAI and Worldcoin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkham_In… Arkham Intelligence provided data in January 2023 that identified “an alleged nexus of money laundering” from a much smaller exchange called Bitzlato through intermediate wallets of Binance.

In July 2014, Tim Draper received wide coverage for his purchase at a US Marshals Image
May 11 7 tweets 2 min read
Ignition magneto - Wikipedia

In the late 1890s, English engineer Frederick Richard Simms collaborated with the German engineer Robert Bosch, and his staff of Arnold Zähringer, Young Rall, and Gottlob Honold, in developing the first practical high-tension en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_… magneto.

In 1900, the Bosch magneto ignition was used in the Gottlieb Daimler engines on the Zeppelin.

Robert Bosch's nephew was future Nobel laureate Carl Bosch.

The Bosch-Haber process was purchased by the German chemical company BASF.

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May 8 30 tweets 8 min read
Ex-Hunter Biden biz partners Devon Archer, Tony Bobulinski smile and hug at Milken Conference — steps away from Jill

The recently pardoned Archer and Bobulinski met on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Global Conference, where the latter had been nypost.com/2025/05/06/us-… introduced to Joe Biden in 2017

District Judge Ronnie Abrams threw out Archer’s jury conviction in 2018, declaring his innocence and citing insufficient evidence that he knew about or benefited from the fraud.

In 2016, Abrams was assigned to preside over a case in which
May 1 23 tweets 10 min read
Elon Musk fired back on X: 'Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks' and called him 'truly a moron.' He even dubbed the trade adviser as 'Peter Retarrdo.' But despite the hostilities playing out in public online, the White House dismissed the feud last week.

Axios reported in Image May 2018 that during the transition Trump top trade advisor Peter Navarro had recommended Stef Halper for an ambassadorship.

Halper acted as an FBI informant for Crossfire Hurricane.

Palmer National Bank was used to transfer money to Swiss Bank Accounts controlled by
Apr 28 26 tweets 9 min read
Bill Owens: ‘60 Minutes’ executive producer resigns, citing a loss of independence in the wake of Trump lawsuits | CNN Business

Tuesday’s announcement also comes as Shari Redstone — the media heiress who holds a controlling share of National Amusements, cnn.com/2025/04/22/med… Paramount Global’s parent company — continues to seek a merger between Paramount and David Ellison’s Skydance Media. During a February meeting, Redstone told Paramount’s board of directors that she wanted to resolve the “60 Minutes” lawsuit.

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Apr 26 6 tweets 3 min read
Woman who accused Britain's Prince Andrew in Epstein sex trafficking scandal has died wpbf.com/article/woman-… Virginia Giuffre died by suicide Friday at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed.

Boies Schiller Flexner sued Guo in Manhattan’s New York State court on Thanksgiving eve for $640,000 of unpaid legal fees. The law firm has already secured an arbitration ruling Image
Apr 24 55 tweets 30 min read
As many of you know, Karen Kingston fled to Mexico after believing that her life was in danger after a potential poisoning occurred in Florida. Given the abrupt nature of her disappearance and the GETTR video she posted begging for help after being told by her security team that Image
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her life was in danger.

Melissa Prober served as in-house counsel at the New York Genome Center, an academic research organization, and the Clinton Foundation. 

Before going in-house, Melissa was a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, and Image
Apr 8 8 tweets 6 min read
Richard Barrett (counter-terrorism expert) - Wikipedia

Barrett was a founding member of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), which was established in 2005 to promote the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy adopted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B… by the General Assembly in 2006.

Barrett has been designated as one of the Global Experts of the Alliance of Civilizations.

In May 2006, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Sampaio as his first Special Envoy for the Global Plan to Stop Tuberculosis. Image
Apr 8 20 tweets 6 min read
Rick Genow and Andrew Meyer (right) posed together at The Hollywood Reporter's Power Lawyer's Breakfast in March, 2019. They are pictured with lawyer and former presidential candidate Kamala Harris' husband Douglas Emhoff (left) and Patricia Wheeler (center, left) Image 22 July 2024 — Kamala Harris has overhauled her campaign's online presence by embracing a social media trend inspired by pop star Charli XCX's Brat album cover.

nt, renaming her profile Kamala HQ.
Her rebrand comes as Charli showed her support by tweeting "kamala IS brat"