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1/ This breaking exclusive story from Reuters (sourced from her office) looks like an effort to retroactively justify and normalize Tulsi Gabbard's presence at the recent Georgia raid by framing it as part of a broader ODNI election security mission. I can explain:

https://twitter.com/phildstewart/status/2019193201064833487

2/ Between Feb 1–4, Gabbard told Congress her Georgia role falls under ODNI's election security authority and is tied to a long running assessment of electronic voting systems.

"Most of them"? Technically true—I suppose @EoinHiggins_ must missed this email from Soon Yi

#EpsteinFiles #WoodyAllen

*must have missed this email 😉

Tyler Shears is in the #EpsteinFiles because he directly worked PR for Epstein. He was also the CTO (and responsible for "deep dive due diligence on all new investments and company projects") at The Ingersoll Group during the time when Keith Ingersoll was committing crimes there. Keith Ingersoll is an associate of Matt Gaetz.

justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/o…

Me in 2023: "If Millennials think we're having a hard time now, the madness & the chaos that would be unleashed in a 2nd Trump presidency would be unmatched by any other point in American history, & I think that none of us want to live through that"

You can see my eye twitching.

Some stories wound me in the writing. The toll is a stress that burrows deep during research. When the weight grows unbearable, when it overwhelms, I step back, breathe, think. But I will not be ruled by fear. My allegiance is to democracy, and the stakes could not be higher. The cunning of fear is that it needs no chains. It merely suggests that tomorrow is soon enough, that someone else will speak, and that the risk outweighs the duty. Fear stops the hand before it writes, and closes the throat before it speaks.

For Your Consideration.
Note the date and time. lavanguardia.com/politica/20260…

1/ People who believe Nicole Good was "in the wrong" for trying to drive away from a federal officer are telling us something important about themselves: they value compliance over justice.

That mindset isn’t just misguided. It’s fundamentally un-American. I can explain. 🧵👇 2/ America’s founding story wasn’t about obeying the rules, it was about challenging unjust ones. The Boston Tea Party and civil rights marches are examples of acts of defiance against oppressive power structures.

Justice has always preceded legality in our moral code.

Look, man. I was deployed to Iraq 2003-2004. Our unit leadership would provide us highly specific instructions on the Rules of Engagement for any given mission. If we were stepping outside the wire, there was a standing RoE, and we were briefed pre-mission. We knew to obey it. My point is this: Yes, if you add a bunch of less-trained people to the force, there will be mistakes.

I believe this to be a convenient excuse which obscures reality which fails to account for the sheer number of violent incidents we are observing on American streets.

FACT: Sanctions are the most important method of global financial moderation to help keep us safe from the world's worst terrorists.

This key defensive tool is now converted to a weapon of state repression and censorship by Trump admin under false guise of defending free speech. We're not just talking the regular ol' domestic state repression, either.

The sanctions list has just become a global cleaver to financially terminate Trump's political enemies who are not U.S. citizens nor residents. He seeks to antagonize his targets and send a public message.

🧵 Authoritarians follow a predictable playbook, and you can often spot it before it is too late. THREAD of core behaviors of dictators who want to hold power at any cost 1. Aggressively centralize power.

They weaken parliaments, courts, and watchdogs, often by using "emergencies" or legal tweaks to concentrate authority in the executive while claiming to respect the rule of law.

nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/…

1/ Stockton’s mayor called this a gang-related incident.

WRONG! A lone gunman, not multiple as initially reported. Sheriff bungled initial response by wrongly assuming contours of the crime before arrival on scene, then failed to enter. Chased down victims while others bled out.

https://twitter.com/HackingButLegal/status/1996121168042979552

2/ Bc they’re habituated to community violence, not lone gunmen in mass shooter scenarios, they arrived fast yet unequipped, then failed to properly assess/secure the scene and find the gunman. The key witness who saw the shooter exited to seek a paramedic to help his dying son.

1/ Yesterday, Press Sec Karoline Leavitt appeared at the 78th annual National Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon wearing what can only be described as pilgrim cosplay 💀🦃

This wasn't an accident. A thread on political fashion as ideological theater. 🧵

https://twitter.com/doggintrump/status/1993539176621596711

2/ The outfit immediately drew comparisons to 17th-century Puritan dress, specifically the clothing women may have worn at the mythologized "First Thanksgiving" in 1621. Media called it "full cosplay" and "pilgrim-core." But dismissing it as a fashion miss understates the matter

I can tell you how they did it, because they tried to do it to me—

Be very careful with anyone new being joined to your Signal chats; be cautious with what you say in group chats where you don't explicitly know (IRL) and trust every member.

Most of all, beware group invites. 1/

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1991853132960399480

2/ They may try to use people of color to lure you in, or use some other commonality between you and their surveillance persona. They may appear on the surface to be genuine activists. Ask a lot of questions, act legally in your dealings, and follow your gut.

🚨 THREAD: NEW preprint paper by Cornell University researchers found that @elonmusk's @Grokipedia cited the white nationalist site VDare 107 times, the neo-Nazi site Stormfront 42 times, and the conspiracy site Infowars 34 times. 👀👇 1/🧵

#AdversarialML #AIethics 2/ Their analysis of over 880K articles revealed 12,522 citations to sources deemed low-credibility by academic research (3x higher than Wikipedia). They found ~5.5% of Grokipedia articles have citations to sources strictly blacklisted by the Wiki community for unreliability.

There are so many wild details in here, holy shit.

https://twitter.com/CJR/status/1991509199445193018

Legacy reporters ignored while the new MAGA-friendly press corps boasts of a direct hotline to officials. Access is now a reward for loyalty. The govt has created an information asymmetry where approved narratives get speed and access; critical inquiry gets the silent treatment.

We keep talking about "Russian hybrid warfare" but what we are facing is a deliberate pincer designed to break states without ever declaring war.​ Four blades close simultaneously: institutional capture, disinformation & psyops, legal attacks, and physical acts of sabotage.​ 1/🧵 2/ First axis: institutional capture.​

Moscow cultivates political parties, media outlets, churches, business lobbies, and "cultural" fronts that gradually bend key nodes of our own systems toward Russian interests while retaining plausible deniability.

Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 revealed a deeper problem: Boeing couldn't identify who reinstalled the door plug that blew off mid-flight. The NTSB found no names, no records, no footage.

Similar gaps echo across other airlines and incidents. 🧵 The 737 MAX-9 lost its door plug minutes after takeoff. Nine passengers sustained minor injuries. Boeing admitted it had no record of who performed the door work. 25 unidentified personnel, overwritten video, missing oversight.

THREAD: The Trump admin is systematically defying federal court orders at an unprecedented rate. Of 165 cases where judges ruled against Trump, approximately 57 cases (35%) involved the administration defying, ignoring, or circumventing judicial orders.

1/🧵 Unroll at the end👇 VENEZUELAN DEPORTATIONS: Judge Boasberg found probable cause of criminal contempt in April when Trump deported alleged Tren de Aragua gang members w/o due process despite a restraining order. The admin hastily sent them to CECOT prison before they could contest removals in court.

Let's talk about the government shutdown happening RIGHT NOW and who's REALLY shutting it down.

The GOP says Democrats are blocking it.

But here's what's actually happening... 🧵 FACT: Republicans control the House AND the Senate. They have the power to pass a budget. So if they truly don't need Democrats, they can pass one.

They're not. Why?

Because they've ENGINEERED this shutdown to accomplish things they couldn't do in normal times.

Everyone's busy debating past White House renovations; a distraction bad actors want!

But Trump's new ballroom more closely mirrors Hitler's Reich Chancellery: scale/timing/symbolism echo a dark legacy, not traditional American architecture.

What are we really looking at? 🧵👇 Built in record time by his architect Albert Speer, Hitler’s New Reich Chancellery was a monumental space made to impress/intimidate. Its ballroom was richly decorated w/ marble & fine woods. It was a grand diplomatic reception area symbolizing Nazi power.

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