#  @wretchardthecat wretchardthecat wretchardthecat posts on X about hamas, ukraine, israel, china the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::7595102/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -49% - [--] Month [-------] -39% - [--] Months [---------] +160% - [--] Year [---------] +88% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::7595102/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -62% - [--] Month [---] +26% - [--] Months [---] +88% - [--] Year [-----] +39% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::7595102/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.15% - [--] Month [------] +2.90% - [--] Months [------] +9.90% - [--] Year [------] +15% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::7595102/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [finance](/list/finance) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [us election](/list/us-election) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [currencies](/list/currencies) **Social topic influence** [hamas](/topic/hamas), [ukraine](/topic/ukraine), [israel](/topic/israel), [china](/topic/china), [russia](/topic/russia), [iran](/topic/iran), [in the](/topic/in-the), [joe biden](/topic/joe-biden), [money](/topic/money), [idf](/topic/idf) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@josephsomsel](/creator/undefined) [@nygovcuomo](/creator/undefined) [@snowythefirstrussianoilsqueezedoutofglobalmarketsfrombreadwinnertonicherevenueasthekremlinscore7582eb90112e](/creator/undefined) [@deptofwar](/creator/undefined) [@johnavlon](/creator/undefined) [@cnni](/creator/undefined) [@tpc4usa](/creator/undefined) [@balzacq5](/creator/undefined) [@dominionvoting](/creator/undefined) [@rtwlz](/creator/undefined) [@doge](/creator/undefined) [@etamiraklo](/creator/undefined) [@reganh48](/creator/undefined) [@googlenews](/creator/undefined) [@ajenglish](/creator/undefined) [@llcooljamzzz](/creator/undefined) [@garygol88424403](/creator/undefined) [@turnedfourthing](/creator/undefined) [@ralph_laurentz](/creator/undefined) [@davidg0uldman](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [New York Times Co. (NYT)](/topic/$nyt) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "People who don't know how anything works should never oversee those who do. The Yorks should try Dominos Doordash or Uber Eats. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Fwl4Ed30fOc https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Fwl4Ed30fOc" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022534488350437575) 2026-02-14T04:52Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements ""Man" probably began to supplant 'mac' as an informal identifier before 'pal' and the even more dreaded 'bro' appeared in force. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dsx2vdn7gpY @wretchardthecat It seems to have replaced "Mac". As in the kind of thing a bartender might say in a film noir: "Listen Mac get outta here and don't come back". https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dsx2vdn7gpY @wretchardthecat It seems to have replaced "Mac". As in the kind of thing a bartender might say in a film noir: "Listen Mac get outta here and don't come back"" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022547469268324594) 2026-02-14T05:44Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Bolivia's ruling Movement for Socialism or MAS becomes "no mas". https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/official-bolivia-presidential-count-shows-centrist-rodrigo-paz-surprise-lead-2025-08-17/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/official-bolivia-presidential-count-shows-centrist-rodrigo-paz-surprise-lead-2025-08-17/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1957281346776440859) 2025-08-18T03:20Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Ian Roberts "pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he lied on employment forms to conceal his immigration status and illegally possessed multiple firearms." https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2025/10/21/ian-roberts-iowa-superintendent-pleads-not-guilty-federal-charges-dmps/86818425007/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2025/10/21/ian-roberts-iowa-superintendent-pleads-not-guilty-federal-charges-dmps/86818425007/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1981118889280098484) 2025-10-22T22:02Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Ex Obama aide's senate bid scuppered by Ian Roberts https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/16/des-moines-school-board-president-jackie-norris-exits-u-s-senate-race/ https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/16/des-moines-school-board-president-jackie-norris-exits-u-s-senate-race/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1981149390401392775) 2025-10-23T00:03Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Sojitz a Japanese conglomerate turned to Lynas an Australian mining company to build a rare-earth supply chain outside China. Lynas mines in Australia and refines in Malaysia. It took [--] years for Japan to pull it off but the first step was becoming aware of the problem. The urgency of the rare-earths situation is just now dawning on the United States and Europe said Naoki Kobayashi an official working in the minerals division of Japans trade ministry. For Japan this painful lesson came [--] years ago he said. Until recently the attitude of the Western establishment was that there was no" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1998157576664678534) 2025-12-08T22:27Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Observers who cannot believe that Putin has actually thrown in the towel -- gone silent from fear -- think he may secretly be plotting his revenge by getting set to strike Estonia. This ironically aligns with those who think that Trump's interest in Greenland is driven by the awareness of some secret threat. -- And a point of particular danger to Nato's foundations will be Narva a small town on the Estonian-Russian border he said. 'The one I've always thought is very dangerous is Narva which has an [--] per cent Russian population' Willasey-Wilsey told The Sun. 'Do we really believe that the" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2013051349131538612) 2026-01-19T00:50Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Because the left is deliberately so well hidden in institutions the MAGAs resort to a kind of "recon by fire" to draw a response. They send in a patrol to see what happens. Instead of exposing the odd extremist through these tactics as you would expect what boils out of the lifted planks is a whole infestation that forces a revision of prior expectations. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014211784824193145 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014211784824193145" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2014211784824193145) 2026-01-22T05:41Z 14.9K followers, 21.3K engagements "The US has a Space Base specifically a Pituffik Space Base formerly known as Thule in Greenland. The base is overseen by the U.S. Space Forces 821st Space Group and normally hosts around [---] American personnel. In the movies there is commonly also one shape-shifting alien on base called The Thing. https://defence-blog.com/norad-deploys-aircraft-to-pituffik-space-base-in-greenland/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014464505607290945 https://defence-blog.com/norad-deploys-aircraft-to-pituffik-space-base-in-greenland/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014464505607290945" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2014464505607290945) 2026-01-22T22:25Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "I think the only way he could have done this was to articulate what every -- or most every -- leader in the room was secretly thinking but didn't dare say. Preference falsification is when people hide or misrepresent their true opinions beliefs or desires in public due to perceived social pressure fear of consequences (like ostracism or job loss) or desire for rewards leading to a distorted public understanding of actual consensus. Coined by Timur Kuran it explains phenomena like sudden political shifts (e.g. fall of communism) or why unpopular policies seem popular as individuals conform to" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2014840825285640497) 2026-01-23T23:21Z 14.9K followers, 12K engagements "Xi's second in command accused of working for US intelligence. "The most shocking allegation disclosed during the closed-door briefing the people said was that Zhang had leaked core technical data on Chinas nuclear weapons to the U.S. Some evidence against Zhang came from Gu Jun the former general manager of the China National Nuclear Corp. a state-owned company that oversees all aspects of Chinas civilian and military nuclear programs said the people familiar with the briefing. Beijing announced an investigation into Gu last Monday for suspected severe violations of party discipline and" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015528438191489325) 2026-01-25T20:53Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Here's what I don't understand. According to Russiagate Donald Trump is working for Putin. According to China the Chinese military is working for Donald Trump. Who's on first" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015530767305367595) 2026-01-25T21:02Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Coast Guard frees a cruise ship trapped in Antarctica. If the Coast Guard were a navy it would be the 12th largest in the world. https://cruisepassenger.com.au/news/watch-amazing-footage-of-scenic-eclipse-ii-being-freed-from-pack-ice-in-antarctica-and-guests-sipped-champagne/ https://cruisepassenger.com.au/news/watch-amazing-footage-of-scenic-eclipse-ii-being-freed-from-pack-ice-in-antarctica-and-guests-sipped-champagne/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015557990762639523) 2026-01-25T22:50Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "If anyone thinks here again that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US keep on dreaming. You cant. We cant. We need each other Rutte said during an address to the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday. How did [---] million Europeans come to depend on [---] million Americans to protect them against [---] million Russians https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/europe/nato-chief-rutte-european-defense-us-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/europe/nato-chief-rutte-european-defense-us-intl" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015906009743790083) 2026-01-26T21:53Z 14.8K followers, 25.1K engagements ""Vulovic was a 22-year-old stewardess in [----] when she plummeted [-----] feet from a plane that blew apart over Czechoslovakia killing every other person on the aircraft." The law of truly large numbers. With a sufficiently large number of trials any outrageous but non-impossible thing (perhaps even thought impossible) becomes likely to happen somewhere. https://uk.style.yahoo.com/22-old-stewardess-wasn-t-100000927.html https://uk.style.yahoo.com/22-old-stewardess-wasn-t-100000927.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015909956801978776) 2026-01-26T22:09Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Although many pundits have interpreted the recent Chinese purges as proof that the Beijing regime is falling apart and becoming unready for First Island Chain operations it can also be interpreted as Xi clearing out the deadwood in preparation for action. Recall General George C. Marshall purged the U.S. Army of out-of-date senior officers at the start of World War II. He sought to eliminate the "dead wood" of World War I-era veterans who were considered too old slow-footed or inflexible to command in a modern mechanized and fast-moving war. The committee removed [---] captains majors" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015993818236256445) 2026-01-27T03:42Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "What rule did this pair of assassins ignore in Mindanao while trying to kill a warlord with an RPG the other day https://www.youtube.com/watchv=bQ7m857hyCg https://www.youtube.com/watchv=bQ7m857hyCg" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016282046604439916) 2026-01-27T22:47Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "The sunglasses don't make one a member of the Delta Force any more than climbing shoes and a bag of chalk makes one Alex Honnold. What is essential is invisible to the eye. It is competence that often makes the difference between a ship sinking or arriving safely" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016284587887144980) 2026-01-27T22:58Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Just as the USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in the Persian Gulf CENTCOM announces a regional air exercise. "Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) will be conducting a multi-day readiness exercise to demonstrate the ability to deploy disperse and sustain combat airpower across the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility." https://www.afcent.af.mil/News/Article/4389589/afcent-to-conduct-readiness-exercise-generate-combat-airpower/ https://www.afcent.af.mil/News/Article/4389589/afcent-to-conduct-readiness-exercise-generate-combat-airpower/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016307538741133756) 2026-01-28T00:29Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "I can walk I can walk Hallelujah https://www.foxnews.com/travel/airline-passengers-jetway-jesus-miracle-flights-accused-faking-disabilities-better-boarding https://www.foxnews.com/travel/airline-passengers-jetway-jesus-miracle-flights-accused-faking-disabilities-better-boarding" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016311169120923865) 2026-01-28T00:43Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "This is the scene in the movie where the explorers are nearing the hive queen. They must be hiding something very big in Minnesota to send their foot soldiers there from all over the country They must be hiding something very big in Minnesota to send their foot soldiers there from all over the country" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016328911622438948) 2026-01-28T01:54Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Former prime minister Scott Morrison has made a dramatic intervention in Australia's response to radical Islam declaring serious questions over religious governance could not remain "taboo" in the wake of the Bondi terror attack. https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/scott-morrison-declares-australia-must-confront-radical-islam-without-fear-or-favour-proposes-major-reforms-to-religious-governance/news-story/746d1e210b41f4df7edd0421068be0b3" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016331670417506592) 2026-01-28T02:05Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Turkey: there's still time to talk to Iran. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/28/turkiyes-fm-hakan-fidan-says-iran-ready-to-negotiate-over-nuclear-file https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/28/turkiyes-fm-hakan-fidan-says-iran-ready-to-negotiate-over-nuclear-file" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016648249516707930) 2026-01-28T23:03Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The biggest risk to the West is clinging to the status quo. The Global World has been disastrous for Europe. The European Union's (EU27) share of global GDP (based on PPP) has declined from approximately 27.5% in [----] to an estimated 14% in [----]. This downward trend is projected to continue with the EU's share expected to reach 12.9% by [----] driven by the faster economic growth of emerging economies particularly in Asia" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016667832940187938) 2026-01-29T00:20Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Britain the birthplace of the industrial revolution is down to one last virgin steel mill -- and it's owned by China. Yet as Starmer comes to the court of the Emperor the chanceries of Europe are quivering in fear -- of Trump. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/12/europe/uk-takeover-british-steel-chinese-jingye-intl-latam https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/12/europe/uk-takeover-british-steel-chinese-jingye-intl-latam" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016669378683768955) 2026-01-29T00:27Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Mamdani: NYC is broke on an epic scale. 🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani Says New York City is Facing a Fiscal Crisis at the Scale of the Great Recession That means looking inward into savings and efficiencies. That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations. https://t.co/ck89QhFFwL 🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani Says New York City is Facing a Fiscal Crisis at the Scale of the Great Recession That means looking inward into savings and efficiencies. That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016694162847125933) 2026-01-29T02:05Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Are the burner phones made in China https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-china-trip-spying-b2908808.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-china-trip-spying-b2908808.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016758935559295119) 2026-01-29T06:22Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements "Marco Rubio's testimony on the Maduro op before the Senate indicates that the Trump administration very carefully awaited the right operational conditions before risking it a process that Rubio called a "trigger operation". This attitude is likely to govern any action against Iran. Despite the media's characterization of Trump as stupid and impulsive the record reveals a decisive but exquisitely thorough command system. Given this what might the US feasibly attempt in Iran with a reasonable prospect of success Four types of actions are likely. Operations to: [--]. Further degrade Iran's nuclear" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016777403973194179) 2026-01-29T07:36Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The door opened. With a small gesture the officer indicated the skull-faced man. 'Room 101' he said. There was a gasp and a flurry at Winston's side. The man had actually flung himself on his knees on the floor with his hand clasped together. 'Comrade Officer' he cried. 'You don't have to take me to that place Haven't I told you everything already What else is it you want to know There's nothing I wouldn't confess nothing Just tell me what it is and I'll confess straight off. Write it down and I'll sign itanything Not room 101' 'Room 101' said the officer. The man's face already very pale" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016827919423983811) 2026-01-29T10:57Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "It was extraordinary to hear the third voice. The hour's ritual had only demanded a duologue against the horrible noise of the torture. Bond's dimmed senses hardly took it in. Then suddenly he was half-way back to consciousness. He found he could see and hear again. He could hear the dead silence after the one quiet word from the doorway. He could see Le Chiffre's head slowly come up and the expression of blank astonishment of innocent amazement slowly give way to fear. 'Shtop' had said the voice quietly. Bond heard slow steps approaching behind his chair. 'Dhrop it' said the voice. Bond saw" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016832133206331408) 2026-01-29T11:13Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "It is the "strength" of China that many leaders find deeply persuasive. The experience of meeting a very powerful man with your eyes riveted on the trained attack dog crouching with tense stillness at his side or being conscious of standing atop a trap door over a shark tank makes you inclined to say 'yes' to every question. People pretend to fear the orange man but they are genuinely terrified of the Czar and the Emperor. When Washington says it won't automatically protect you any more most won't rise manfully to their own defense. They'll look ever more fearfully at the dog or stare at the" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016843080695980311) 2026-01-29T11:57Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Netherlands must protect their Carribean island from Climate Change. The case was brought by eight residents of Bonaire and Greenpeace Netherlands. They argued that Bonaire one of several Dutch territories in the Caribbean faced imminent danger from projected sea level rise higher temperatures storms and flooding. Marieke Vellekoop director of Greenpeace Netherlands called the decision a historic victory. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/climate/netherlands-bonaire-climate-ruling.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/climate/netherlands-bonaire-climate-ruling.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016991368435081474) 2026-01-29T21:46Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "China's electricity consumption is about [----] kWh per person and rising. Electricity consumption on Bonaire was approximately [---] MWh (5400 kWh) per inhabitant per year. If you cut back on Bonaire's energy footprint does it benefit Bonaire Does it benefit Greenpeace" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016993745737248789) 2026-01-29T21:55Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research. Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious reasons: They hunt seals from the ice and as fossil fuels warm the planet the ice where these bears live is melting. For more than three decades scientists have been warning that climate change could drive polar bear populations extinct. That message infiltrated the public psyche perhaps more than any other about the scourge of global warming. I was surprised Aars told Vox from Svalbard. I would have predicted that body condition would decline. We see" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2016995126627930200) 2026-01-29T22:01Z 14.9K followers, 37.1K engagements ""US President Donald Trump says Russia's Vladimir Putin has agreed not to attack Ukraine's capital Kyiv and other cities and towns for a week due to "extraordinary cold" weather. Russia has not confirmed any such agreement but Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Trump's announcement and said he expected Russia to keep its promise." It's like someone yelling across the fence "turn the radio down its [--] in the morning for Pete's sake". The Donald seems to see war as mostly pointless and therefore scheduled to take place only at convenient hours. It recalls the classical pre-modern" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017066183716196557) 2026-01-30T02:43Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Blow to Chinese role in the Panama Canal https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/panama-court-voids-ck-hutchison-port-contracts-2026-01-30/ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/panama-court-voids-ck-hutchison-port-contracts-2026-01-30/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017125182910189840) 2026-01-30T06:38Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Investigations leaks and reports over the years have highlighted patterns particularly among leaders from resource-rich or long-ruling regimes in Central and West Africa where luxury properties in France (especially Paris and the Riviera) the UK (London) Switzerland and Belgium have been acquired. Omar Bongo (late President of Gabon) and family: Reportedly owned [--] properties in France (mostly Paris and Riviera) as of around [--------] investigations. Denis Sassou-Nguesso (President of Congo-Brazzaville) and family: At least [----] properties in France plus bank accounts and luxury cars. Teodoro" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017356702241460389) 2026-01-30T21:58Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Foreign Aid is poor people in rich countries helping rich people in poor countries" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017357233672376395) 2026-01-30T22:00Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements "How many Russian oligarchs have homes in London Why do Arafat's widow and daughter live in France What's the use of ten billion dollars if you have to live in Goma Congo eh ministah" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017360276493107264) 2026-01-30T22:12Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements "Oh Kil-nam's life was ruined by his decision to defect to North Korea. Seventy years old he still does not know the fate of his wife and daughters - either dead or imprisoned in a labour camp. In [----] North Korean agents approached Oh Kil-nam and suggested he defect. The agents offered him an important job working as an economist for the North Korean government and promised to provide free treatment for his wife's hepatitis. Oh took the offer seriously. He had just completed his PhD in Germany on a Marxist economist. Back at home in South Korea he had been active in left-wing groups opposed" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017362712624525389) 2026-01-30T22:22Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Don Lemon arrested charged under FACE act and with violating Minnesota churchgoers civil rights and released on a no-money bond. Will appear in court Feb [--]. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/01/30/don-lemon-released-without-bail-after-arrest-receives-backlash-from-advocates/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/01/30/don-lemon-released-without-bail-after-arrest-receives-backlash-from-advocates/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017385077924368441) 2026-01-30T23:50Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements "I guess the Federal Building is today's Fort Sumter and the 'resistance groups' are the equivalent of artillery. Fort Sumter was a federal fort located in Charleston Harbor South Carolina a state that had already seceded making it a "pawn" for testing the U.S. government's resolve. The Resupply Attempt: President Lincolns move to resupply the fortrather than evacuate itleft the Confederacy with the choice of allowing the fort to be strengthened or attacking it. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/tim-walz-fort-sumter-minneapolis-ice/685801/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017386277977657413) 2026-01-30T23:55Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Blue States will fight for their way of life. You don't have to agree with a vision to accept that some societies hold it; cherish it and will wish to impose it on the world. Those who disagree with the program can avoid conflict by submitting. But alas it is also a fact that some will reject that vision. That bald reality sets the stage for a crisis resolution. "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017391623047651597) 2026-01-31T00:16Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Good points but you could hardly expect it to be otherwise. Blue ideology goes where they can tax the most. When asked why he robbed banks Sutton simply replied Because that's where the money is. It's fairly safe to say that if the out migration to Red States goes on long enough the Blue ideology will move to the former Red States. @wretchardthecat While this will obviously change over time blue state residents (note that I didn't say citizens) generate [--] percent more per capita in national GDP than do red states and are net contributor vs. net taker states to the tune of $811 billion. The" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017397011700715973) 2026-01-31T00:38Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "A couple of nights ago I attended a talk by Sean Turnell a long time Australian academic expert on Myanmar who was Aung San Su Kyi's economic advisor and spent [--] years on Myanmar's death row. He was the last foreigner to see Suu Kyi alive. Afterward we spoke. I felt very sad. The place has collapsed and is narco and scam city state. He is still full of hope but accepts Myanmar will never be free from the junta as long as it is the vassal of China. What information exists suggests she's still alive though over [--] and not allowed to receive letters from her son. No outsider has seen her alive" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017404357634130147) 2026-01-31T01:07Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Is the Legion of Doom on the verge of world domination or heading for complete collapse Canada is cozying up to China as is the UK. Europe is falling all over itself to follow suit. The New York Times writes: "The calculation was that those countries would eventually seek closer ties to China to hedge against the United States and that when they did so they would be more accommodating of Beijings interests. That bet is now paying off with the procession of European and Canadian leaders arriving in China seeking to deepen ties with the worlds second-largest economy even as Beijing has conceded" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017476004131062098) 2026-01-31T05:52Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements ""At least five national leaders including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have visited Xi in January alone. Uruguays President Yamand Orsi is due to make the trip next week the first by a South American leader since U.S. President Donald Trump captured Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro and his wife in early January." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/china-beijing-trade-tariffs-trump-starmer-carney.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/china-beijing-trade-tariffs-trump-starmer-carney.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017477689746272503) 2026-01-31T05:58Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements "The European dash for the apparent safety of China takes place only days after a massive purge of Beijing's military saw almost the entire command structure decapitated by Xi. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/29/world/video/ebof-china-xi-military-purge-zhang-youxia https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/29/world/video/ebof-china-xi-military-purge-zhang-youxia" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017484162241073203) 2026-01-31T06:24Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The New York Times interprets the Chinese purge as preparation for Xi's dream to retake Taiwan. The old generals were not moving fast enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/world/asia/xi-military-purge-taiwan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/world/asia/xi-military-purge-taiwan.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017485394661806356) 2026-01-31T06:29Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The global ruling class ruled by prestige. Good clothes camera angles creative editing. But the Internet along with the attendant document dumps like the Epstein files has acted like a giant nuclear reputational bomb that stripped them of all mystery and dignity. In the words of Mark Twain 'Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.' There is no return from the Trumpian world to the way we used to be" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017558427434946994) 2026-01-31T11:19Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "It seems likely that despite exaggeration from Western media outlets calculated to sow intrigue there really exists some deep split inside the Chinese Communist Party. This should not surprise an America that is itself in the throes of a cold civil war. But unlike the US which is relatively transparent due to population mobility many types of communication modes and extensive fora China has built the world's most elaborate digital control infrastructure (the Great Firewall real-time keyword filtering deep packet inspection AI-driven surveillance social credit systems and pervasive facial" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017591976523354172) 2026-01-31T13:33Z 14.9K followers, 12.7K engagements "Artisanal miners killed "mining coltan - a mineral used to manufacture electronics such as smartphones and computers - at the time. A former supervisor of the mine told the BBC the site was not properly maintained." The term "artisanal" is genius. It evokes happy villagers weaving baskets instead of people digging with hand tools. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly381dvnvzo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly381dvnvzo" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017712190179201307) 2026-01-31T21:30Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "As Europe's countryside empties a surge of American entrepreneurs buy up ghost towns. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/business/dealbook/buy-the-whole-village.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/business/dealbook/buy-the-whole-village.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2017714480449523958) 2026-01-31T21:39Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The most tragic aspect of the Ukraine war is how little there is in terms of civilizational advancement to show for the loss of so many young people. Now these losses can be made up by in-migration to Europe. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018082343798649019) 2026-02-01T22:01Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements ""Tension over Greenland has prompted worries that the Trump administration could turn the U.S. oil and gas industry into a way to pressure Europe." Maybe things were better when Europe relied on Gazprom. Miss those nuclear power plants yet https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/europe-natural-gas-united-states-russia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/europe-natural-gas-united-states-russia.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018093283101299014) 2026-02-01T22:45Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The children (and other family members) of high-ranking Iranian clerics and officials including ayatollahs like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei own or control luxury properties in London. More than a dozen luxury properties in London's most exclusive areas including The Bishops Avenue (known as "Billionaires' Row") with values exceeding [---] million (around $138 million USD). One property was purchased for [----] million in [----]. Funds for these acquisitions reportedly originate from Iranian oil sales routed through banks in the UK Switzerland Liechtenstein and the UAE to evade sanctions." [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018095242965328332) 2026-02-01T22:52Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Well born foreigners are often much more conscious of status and hence clothes than are pedestrian Americans. Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan embraced impeccable Western tailoring owning over [---] hand-stitched suits (many from London's prestigious Henry Poole & Co.) never repeating a tie and maintaining mirror-polished shoes. His style was elegant disciplined and sophisticated often compared to figures like Anthony Eden. Although Jinnah led the anticolonial movement against the British he took pains to die like an Englishman. He was gravely ill with tuberculosis (and possibly lung" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018121396854133082) 2026-02-02T00:36Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Doctor colonel op-ed writer. I led three lives. https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/world-news/gaza-doctor-who-slammed-israel-in-ny-times-op-eds-is-hamas-colonel-watchdog-idf/ https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/world-news/gaza-doctor-who-slammed-israel-in-ny-times-op-eds-is-hamas-colonel-watchdog-idf/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018198615626527090) 2026-02-02T05:43Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Costa Rica elects Right-Wing candidate amid fears over crime. NYT says "Ms. Fernndezs rise is in keeping with a growing trend across Latin America as security becomes a top concern for voters and candidates promise iron-fisted measures to combat crime." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/americas/costa-rica-election-fernandez.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/americas/costa-rica-election-fernandez.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018226862703648898) 2026-02-02T07:35Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "UN in the same predicament as Mamdani as too many deadbeats skip out. https://www.news24.com/world/un-on-brink-of-imminent-financial-collapse-as-countries-refuse-to-pay-bills-20260130-1112 https://www.news24.com/world/un-on-brink-of-imminent-financial-collapse-as-countries-refuse-to-pay-bills-20260130-1112" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018228641197625596) 2026-02-02T07:42Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Still sending signals https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/top-us-israeli-generals-meet-pentagon-amid-soaring-iran-tensions-2026-02-01/ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/top-us-israeli-generals-meet-pentagon-amid-soaring-iran-tensions-2026-02-01/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018455934805414144) 2026-02-02T22:46Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Space meets AI meets Dyson Sphere energy. Elon's "sentient sun" project. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it/ https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018460608556097995) 2026-02-02T23:04Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "New at PJMedia VIP. The media reports that US allies are drifting closer to China. Is Beijing the wave of the future https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2026/02/02/should-europe-bet-on-china-n4948999 https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2026/02/02/should-europe-bet-on-china-n4948999" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018468374343565780) 2026-02-02T23:35Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Nuclear weapons are scarce. It's astonishing that a private company should rate a suppressive effort that even sovereign countries do not require. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2165492/russia-to-nuke-musk-starlink https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2165492/russia-to-nuke-musk-starlink" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018472485524848981) 2026-02-02T23:51Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov is reportedly dying. https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-kadyrov-kremlin-succession-risks-stability/33663761.html https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-kadyrov-kremlin-succession-risks-stability/33663761.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018485116952289496) 2026-02-03T00:42Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Would the "rightward shift" still have independently happened had Kamala been president Are the US and Costa Rica part of the same historical trend https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/costa-rica-elects-a-conservative-as-latin-america-shifts-to-the-right-39df05dd https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/costa-rica-elects-a-conservative-as-latin-america-shifts-to-the-right-39df05dd" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018629966259519968) 2026-02-03T10:17Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "British Labour brought low by the ghost of Epstein. Once conductedd past the red door a disturbing world emerges. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-politician-peter-mandelson-scrutiny-alleged-leaks-jeffrey-129806829 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-politician-peter-mandelson-scrutiny-alleged-leaks-jeffrey-129806829" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018754506847351279) 2026-02-03T18:32Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The attack on Niger's international airport by ISIL destroying several planes highlights how vulnerable airline passengers now are to drones. "On January [--] over [--] gunmen using small arms explosives and armed drones targeted both the civilian side of Niameys international airport and its attached Air Base [---] a military base used by Niger and its Russian allies. Air Base [---] was also host to US drones before the withdrawal of American forces in 2024." https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2026/02/islamic-state-claims-assault-on-airport-in-nigers-capital.php" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018757927881056719) 2026-02-03T18:46Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "An Iranian drone intercepted by Abraham Lincoln air defenses. The Iranians will need AI or radio repeaters to mount a long distance swarm attack against targets beyond line of sight from their controller. The future battlefield will be a contest over who controls the electromagnetic spectrum. https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/02/03/breaking-navy-shoots-down-iranian-drone-approaching-us-aircraft-carrier-n4949064 https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/02/03/breaking-navy-shoots-down-iranian-drone-approaching-us-aircraft-carrier-n4949064" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018761013613756708) 2026-02-03T18:58Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Abraham Lincoln incident and the Nigerian airport attack is a preview of the future struggle for the electronmagnetic spectrum. Russian attack and recon drones in Ukraine used Starlink to implement location/positioning and control to overcome Ukrainian electronic warfare jamming GPS (GNSS) signals and radio links. Ukraine's Defense Ministry contacted SpaceX in late January [----] and the vulnerability closed. The zero-day attack exploits a software vulnerability that is unknown to the vendor and has no patch. So in future movies the bandits will be converging on the task force radar screen" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018766283349917951) 2026-02-03T19:19Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Slowly but surely the dominant aspect of conflict is becoming informational. Remember that Mandelson and Andrew just bit the dust. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/french-police-raid-x-offices-in-paris/106301984 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/french-police-raid-x-offices-in-paris/106301984" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018769784197018044) 2026-02-03T19:33Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The first thing an educated person learns is "it only affects the planet when the West does it." https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/china-building-coal-plants-despite-solar-wind-boom-129805104 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/china-building-coal-plants-despite-solar-wind-boom-129805104" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018826626830881032) 2026-02-03T23:19Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Iranian gunboats order US flagged tanker to stop and be boarded. US warship appears. Iranian gunboats change mind. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-gunboats-unsuccessfully-attempt-board-us-oil-tanker-trump-builds-military-presence https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-gunboats-unsuccessfully-attempt-board-us-oil-tanker-trump-builds-military-presence" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018828611986575496) 2026-02-03T23:27Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The most surprising thing readers will learn in the Mandelson story is not that politicians are sleazy and that several are gay but that jockey shorts are called "Y fronts" in Britain. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/world/europe/peter-mandelson-uk-epstein.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/world/europe/peter-mandelson-uk-epstein.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018842599214510483) 2026-02-04T00:22Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Dock workers sabotage German warship. Were they gremlins from the Kremlin https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkryz35246o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkryz35246o" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2018924031786066050) 2026-02-04T05:46Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Peace through intimidation as Iran US schedule talks in Oman. https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-crackdown-2556ffcb5731de2753ffa044a6e2175b https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-crackdown-2556ffcb5731de2753ffa044a6e2175b" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019192171669385290) 2026-02-04T23:31Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Observers will regret that Donald Trump manifests a cynical view of human nature and apparently believes you can get more with a smile and a gun than just a smile. He is deficient in radical empathy. https://youtu.be/kQKrmDLvijo https://youtu.be/kQKrmDLvijo" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019193716318302722) 2026-02-04T23:37Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Some thoughts on the fall of the Washington Post. It poisoned itself. Ideology -- of whatever kind -- is a terrible way to discover and present facts. Ideology acts as a filtering lens through which individuals interpret select and prioritize facts often causing people to align evidence with pre-existing beliefs rather than objective reality. An ideologue knows the answer to questions in advance. But as Claude Shannon showed it is better defined as equivalent to surprise. If something is completely predictable or certain to happen (probability = 1) learning that it happened conveys zero" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019202195129004113) 2026-02-05T00:11Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Video has been released of a surprise attack on the Diori Hamani International Airport and Air Force Base [---] in Niamey Niger. The assault which took place last week reportedly killed four soldiers and destroyed multiple aircraft. In the wake of the violence the US State Department ordered non-emergency personnel and their families to evacuate the country immediately. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=b82Pb_18bzU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=b82Pb_18bzU" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019217324361019832) 2026-02-05T01:11Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "It's just a matter of time before they hit a passenger terminal. Islamic militants observing the war in Ukraine have for some time now been convinced that the future of terror lies in technology. On June [--] [----] ISIS supporters online discussed the efficiency of drone attacks urging ISIS operatives to adopt them as a military tactic. https://www.memri.org/cjlab/isis-islamic-state-supporters-promote-drone-warfare-urge-targeting-air-assets-west-africa-and https://www.memri.org/cjlab/isis-islamic-state-supporters-promote-drone-warfare-urge-targeting-air-assets-west-africa-and" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019218041192734923) 2026-02-05T01:14Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "Poland probes link between Russia Epstein and "Satanic circle" of pedophiles. "Tusk did not elaborate on any suspected links between Epstein an American financier who was accused of trafficking girls for sex before he died by suicide in a New York jail cell and Russian agencies." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-poland-donald-tusk-investigation-satanic-circle-trafficked-polish-women-girls/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-poland-donald-tusk-investigation-satanic-circle-trafficked-polish-women-girls/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019220859895062946) 2026-02-05T01:25Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "Maybe Epstein could have held his own. Or maybe Mandelson. But not the Andrew formerly known as Prince. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/31/andrew-spent-a-great-deal-of-time-with-xi-jinping/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/31/andrew-spent-a-great-deal-of-time-with-xi-jinping/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019259251940815100) 2026-02-05T03:58Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements "Billionaire Maduro henchmen nabbed. To be extradited to US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/nicolas-maduro-alex-saab-caracas-venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/nicolas-maduro-alex-saab-caracas-venezuela" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019391442565877946) 2026-02-05T12:43Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements "The shadow of Epstein reaches the mountains of Davos. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/world-economic-forum-investigates-its-ceo-over-epstein-links-2026-02-05/ https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/world-economic-forum-investigates-its-ceo-over-epstein-links-2026-02-05/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019532237939888288) 2026-02-05T22:03Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements "Starmer admits he was fooled again and again and again as he desperately clings to office. I am sorry sorry for what was done to you sorry that so many people with power failed you. Sorry for having believed this mans lies and appointed him. Im sorry that even now youre forced to watch this story unfold in public once again. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/world/europe/epstein-files-mandelson-starmer-uk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/world/europe/epstein-files-mandelson-starmer-uk.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019534003209134309) 2026-02-05T22:10Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "The irony is the Epstein files were supposed to sink MAGA but the torpedoes are running circular. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5kaBIMuW74Q https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5kaBIMuW74Q" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019535807946846613) 2026-02-05T22:17Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "From what I can tell the Left wing of the British Labour Party regard Starmer and Mandelson as right wingers who have stood in the way of true socialism by treating with Jews and financiers. Crying betrayal Labour aims to topple Starmer and in his place install Rayner Lammy or Miliband who will undertake authentic decolonizing and climate reform. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019566075147612530 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019566075147612530" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019566075147612530) 2026-02-06T00:17Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "What happened to Soft Power" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019589483851841600) 2026-02-06T01:50Z 15K followers, [----] engagements ""Venezuela's legislature on Thursday advanced an amnesty bill proposed by acting President Delcy Rodrguez that could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners including opposition leaders journalists and human rights activists detained for political reasons." https://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-advances-amnesty-bill-could-233310337.html https://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-advances-amnesty-bill-could-233310337.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019612152781590807) 2026-02-06T03:20Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "Jeffrey Epstein's mansion on Little St. James island apparently had secret tunnels that led to the sea and trapdoors. What were they for I suppose that up next are revolving bookcases secret passsages homicidal butlers and trained gorillas. https://www.wionews.com/trending/epstein-little-saint-james-island-home-had-tunnels-and-he-talked-endlessly-about-them-report-1770272770986 https://www.wionews.com/trending/epstein-little-saint-james-island-home-had-tunnels-and-he-talked-endlessly-about-them-report-1770272770986" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019655708363616403) 2026-02-06T06:13Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Secret tunnels and passages. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528555/Jeffrey-Epsteins-obsession-secret-tunnel-underneath-island-lair-sinister-trapdoor-revealed-files.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528555/Jeffrey-Epsteins-obsession-secret-tunnel-underneath-island-lair-sinister-trapdoor-revealed-files.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019665285721252155) 2026-02-06T06:51Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "The background of this whole British drama is depicting New Labour and everything that went with it as the moral downfall of the British left. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528953/british-pm-threesome-ghislaine-maxwell-prince-andrew-epstein-files.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528953/british-pm-threesome-ghislaine-maxwell-prince-andrew-epstein-files.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020053845171421542) 2026-02-07T08:35Z 15K followers, [----] engagements "The cold civil war between the MAGAs and the Wokes is gradually moving from a clash along their outer boundaries to deep penetration thrusts and counter thrusts reaching their respective core systems. The MAGAs are trying to defeat voter fraud voter manufacture the money laundering of tax dollars to left wing fronts and to lessen the hold of Woke over media and education. The Wokes are simply trying to physically and legally suppress the MAGAs using their media strength to justify it. Their respective strengths are dissimilar. The Wokes are far better organized and funded. But the MAGAs very" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020327389583335632) 2026-02-08T02:42Z 15.1K followers, 55K engagements "Surprise unmasking -- the Big Reveal -- and its British Labour all the way back to Tony Blair. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/epstein-trump-starmer-global-controversy-analysis https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/epstein-trump-starmer-global-controversy-analysis" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020599688253329736) 2026-02-08T20:44Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Japanese prime minister wins hard right supermajority in "gamble". https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan/japans-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-snap-election-exit-polls-project-rcna257887 https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan/japans-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-snap-election-exit-polls-project-rcna257887" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020604582536397154) 2026-02-08T21:04Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Jack Mathieu mile Lang is a French member of the Socialist Party served as Minister of Culture from [----] to [----] and again from [----] to [----] as well as Minister of National Education from [----] to [----] and [----] to [----]. Lang has resigned as president of the Arab World Institute the French Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Saturday after revelations of his past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein and the launch of a financial investigation. Earlier this Saturday the French Financial Prosecutors Office had opened an investigation into Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline on suspicion of aggravated tax" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020662169478840423) 2026-02-09T00:52Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The number of left wing people found to be in correspondence with Epstein is no coincidence. Jeffrey was in the business of laundering shabby endeavors by placing them in proximity with reputable eminent and noble. To be in the same picture as Bill Clinton Prince Andrew Tony Blair Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg Noam Chomsky Stephen Hawking Woody Allen Stephen Hawking . was his game. Naturally since the vast majority of celebrities are left wing or tend left wing he'd seek them out stealing as it were their reputation. Why would he seek out Tommy Robinson or right wing influencers They wear bad" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020666029786194294) 2026-02-09T01:08Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Nicaragua has ended visafree entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday ending a policy that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central American country in recent years on their journey north to the United States. The government confirmed the decision in a statement. People familiar with the move said President Daniel Ortegas administration appeared to be responding to pressure from Washington. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nicaragua-scraps-visa-free-entry-210518440.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nicaragua-scraps-visa-free-entry-210518440.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020672360056324157) 2026-02-09T01:33Z 15.1K followers, 13.9K engagements "Top university filled with the halt lame and blind. A Stanford University junior says students at the elite California school have learned how to claim disabilities in some cases conditions they dont actually have to get better housing accommodations as well as other perks. Stanford which has around [----] students previously reported that nearly 40% of students claimed a disability but tells NewsNation the amount is actually half of that percentage. https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/stanford-disabilities-scam/ https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/stanford-disabilities-scam/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020679695206109620) 2026-02-09T02:02Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Not the sort of gunman with a certain frontier nobility living in the vague hope of returning one day to a worn out woman who loves him as he takes the 3:10 to Yuma" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020692423287124006) 2026-02-09T02:53Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Andy McCarthy describes the construction of a Trump influence conduit centering around World Liberty Financial (WLF). It alleges WLF accepted investments in exchange for allowing the UAE to gain a foothold in AI via WLf potentially benefiting the Trumps Witkoffs and UAE sheiks. Changpeng Zhao (CZ) the Binance founder (previously convicted in the U.S.) was pardoned and allegedly provided technical expertise from Binance to build WLF's infrastructure. https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/02/the-sordid-story-of-trump-the-trump-witkoff-family-business-and-the-uae/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020698727296737370) 2026-02-09T03:18Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "You have to see this as a battle for crypto. World Liberty Financial (WLF) is a U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform launched in late [----] with ties to the Trump family and associates primarily offering decentralized finance (DeFi) services like lending and borrowing. Its flagship product is USD1 a stablecoin launched in March [----] that maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar. China's digital currency efforts in contrast center on the e-CNY (digital yuan) the world's largest central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot which processed over $2.3 trillion in transactions by late [----]. The e-CNY is" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020701197662093754) 2026-02-09T03:28Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The longer I watch the more I realize Biden/Harris wasn't even in the game" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020705141838745774) 2026-02-09T03:43Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Police in Norway have opened an investigation into a high-profile diplomat and her husband over their links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following Norwegian media reports that each of her children would receive $5m (3.6m) in a will allegedly signed by Epstein days before he died. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg8yrypejo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg8yrypejo" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020990714948223475) 2026-02-09T22:38Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Ministers must tweet support for Starmer by sundown or face the chop. 'MPs said it was made abundantly clear to them that they should tweet their loyalty to Starmer. It was a tweet or well have your fingers moment one said." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/keir-starmer-says-he-is-not-prepared-to-walk-away-after-call-for-resignation https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/keir-starmer-says-he-is-not-prepared-to-walk-away-after-call-for-resignation" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2021017335684006074) 2026-02-10T00:24Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Macron: It is time for the French jockey to mount the brutishly strong but stupid German horse. "The time has come to launch a shared debt capacity to fund our future expense - eurobonds for the future. We need big European programmes to finance the best projects" he said. Similar calls in the past have met scepticism from Germany and other countries who feel France wants to use Europe to bear a financial burden which it alone - because of its failure to reform - is unable to take up. Macron admitted that France "has never had a balanced model unlike certain economies of the north which are" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2021330798654390654) 2026-02-10T21:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "New Swedish requirements for naturalization. Lived in Sweden [--] years speak Swedish paddle their own canoe. Migration Minister Forssell portrayed the planned citizenship test as comparatively simple in nature saying: "It seems reasonable that you should know whether Sweden is a monarchy or a republic if you want to be a citizen." https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-raise-hurdles-to-gaining-citizenship/a-75875130 https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-raise-hurdles-to-gaining-citizenship/a-75875130" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2021347540982169825) 2026-02-10T22:16Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "China exterminates another family the Bai family for having been caught running scam centers in Myanmar. Buh Bai. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=V5RalovugNA https://www.youtube.com/watchv=V5RalovugNA" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2021355336100348120) 2026-02-10T22:47Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Canadian school shooter massacres [--] as spokesmen puzzle over how to refer to the perp. "The police said they were aware who the suspect was but did not disclose their identity except that it was a woman with brown hair and wearing a dress. But Canadian news organisations have reported that the alleged shooter was an 18-year-old transgender." https://www.wionews.com/photos/who-is-jesse-strang-alleged-transgender-suspect-in-canada-s-mass-shooting-here-s-what-reports-claim-1770820878472/1770820878475" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2021683290110148965) 2026-02-11T20:30Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Hong Kongborn UK-chartered construction professional (MRICS MAPM NECReg) claims catastrophic fire in Tai Po was caused by dangerously flammable mesh netting mandated by China due to corrupt practices and facilitate the replacement of bamboo scaffolding with mainland made products. https://x.com/finnlau_cd/status/1994455573815857653 https://x.com/finnlau_cd/status/1994455573815857653" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1994897647355007066) 2025-11-29T22:33Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "People who have disappeared in China. Qin Gang Former Foreign Minister. Disappeared from public view in mid-2023; later removed from office amid rumors of an affair and corruption. Li Shangfu Former Defense Minister. Vanished in August 2023; removed in late [----] linked to military corruption probes. He Weidong (and other senior generals) Reports in [----] highlighted disappearances/purges of top military officials including multiple Rocket Force and other PLA leaders (e.g. at least nine top generals expelled in late [----] crackdowns). Zhu Hengpeng Prominent economist and think-tank figure." [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015163520137212331) 2026-01-24T20:43Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "This would be like living in a society where Hillary Clinton Lloyd Austin Bill Gates Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Tom Cruise and Serena Williams can disappear. Remember this next time some little known activist runs over or assaults a US federal agent out of "fear". The truth is that the most feared men on earth are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015165766958739539 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015165766958739539" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2015165766958739539) 2026-01-24T20:52Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Uproar as Italian PM Meloni's apparent likeness appears in restoration of angel figure. Only fair to say the "THE DEVIL TRUMP" by John Monteleone oil on canvas is available on Saatchi Art. Also various examples of street art showing the Orange Man as Satan. Make Hell Great Again. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/world/europe/angel-meloni-face-rome-church.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/world/europe/angel-meloni-face-rome-church.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2019172540028158067) 2026-02-04T22:13Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "I never knew that drinking milk especially by the glassful was straight out white supremacist. You learn something new every day. I was not wholly clueless. I did have some notion that drinking black coffee without sugar was slightly right wing perhaps even fascist. I have also been aware for years that wearing boxer shorts especially if you attended an ivy league educational institution was something you should carefully hide. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bioethicist-government-whole-milk-push-is-racist/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020334058656665933) 2026-02-08T03:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "A panel of judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday evening that the Department of Homeland Security's decision to deny bond hearings to immigrants arrested across the country is consistent with the constitution and federal immigration law. Specifically circuit judge Edith H. Jones wrote in the 2-1 majority opinion that the government correctly interpreted the Immigration and Nationality Act by asserting that unadmitted aliens apprehended anywhere in the United States are ineligible for release on bond regardless of how long they have resided inside the United States." The" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2020338001956737074) 2026-02-08T03:24Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements ""Diplomats and heads of state across the continent say they no longer expect relations with America to revert to a pre-Trump normal even after Mr. Trump leaves office. They have accelerated efforts to reduce their military and economic dependence on the United States even as they continue to court the president with flattery in an effort to maintain influence with him on Ukraine and other global issues." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe/munich-conference-europe-trump-vance-trust-rubio.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022147149798973734) 2026-02-13T03:13Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Mexican lawmaker says American troops shouldn't set foot in Mexico 'even if they come to plant little trees' But lawmakers in Mexico have authorized the entry into their country of [--] members of U.S. Navy SEAL Team [--] for the purpose of training Mexican special forces. Military logic was [--] percent of the reason the other [--] was probably the cool factor. https://www.borderreport.com/news/military/navy-seal-team-2-headed-to-mexico-on-training-mission/ https://www.borderreport.com/news/military/navy-seal-team-2-headed-to-mexico-on-training-mission/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022159523407188171) 2026-02-13T04:02Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Russian VDV was once cool. One of the biggest unquantifiable losses of Putin's Special Military Operation was the catastrophic loss of the Kremlin's spec ops reputation. https://youtu.be/0rAHrHd2lcw https://youtu.be/0rAHrHd2lcw" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022161105221746779) 2026-02-13T04:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements ""Don't call me pal". The Minnesota Attorney General just PERJURED himself when I asked why he took campaign donations from the crooks who defrauded the US taxpayer to the tune of $250 million He should be INDICTED and PROSECUTED https://t.co/yBOs9GBF5P The Minnesota Attorney General just PERJURED himself when I asked why he took campaign donations from the crooks who defrauded the US taxpayer to the tune of $250 million He should be INDICTED and PROSECUTED https://t.co/yBOs9GBF5P" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022440690136027349) 2026-02-13T22:40Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Anthropics artificial-intelligence tool Claude was used in the U.S. militarys operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro via Palantir highlighting how AI models are gaining traction in the Pentagon according to people familiar with the matter. Anthropic was the first AI model developer to be used in classified operations by the Department of Defense. It is possible other AI tools were used in the Venezuela operation for unclassified tasks. The tools can be used for everything from summarizing documents to controlling autonomous drones. Anthropic's CEO wants to maintain the" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022471588042674267) 2026-02-14T00:42Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The world has moved on from the nuclear age to the information age something that not everyone has realized. Cuba is trapped like insect in amber in the distant past. In Havana the clock stopped in [----] the year Che died. One of the greatest falsehoods of Communism is that it represented "the future" and "change". It's a clunky old ideology that came and went before it ever happened. https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-coming-revolution-down-south https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-coming-revolution-down-south" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022474620172144973) 2026-02-14T00:54Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "One of the greatest problems of China is how to get rid Communism without undermining the ruling elite's legitimacy. Communism has become a mere justification for totalitarianism with no economic significance. In practice China abandoned orthodox communism decades ago under Deng Xiaoping. The CCP is portrayed as the guardian of China's "great rejuvenation" against Western threats and internal discord who obtained their legitimacy as socialist revolutionaries while bent on creating collective farms worker's collectives who in a twinkling reappeared as CEOs and board members of giant traded" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022483897112756302) 2026-02-14T01:31Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Russia flies citizens back before last jet fuel runs out. One way departures only. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-evacuation-cuba-flights-one-way-jet-fuel-crisis-trump-2026-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-evacuation-cuba-flights-one-way-jet-fuel-crisis-trump-2026-2" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022489437092143448) 2026-02-14T01:53Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "This is the closest thing you will hear to a Churchillian speech which occurs when the speaker is matched to the hour when the time and words come together with synchronicity a term coined by psychologist Carl Jung to convey "meaningful coincidences". We know it before we hear it and then we hear it. https://x.com/StateDept/status/2022581890268696689 https://x.com/StateDept/status/2022581890268696689" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022813860294725820) 2026-02-14T23:23Z 15.1K followers, 22.4K engagements "Keir Starmer followed Rubio with a [--] minute speech which was a complete dud. Going in one would have thought Starmer had all the aces in the speaking game. Sir Keir was a head of government; Marco just a chief diplomat. One was from Oxford; the other from the University of Miami. Above all Sir Keir was British --with all the verbal advantages that brings. But on the big stage it is prescience that give words their force not their spokesmen. There the message people felt rang true in their hearts was articulated by Marco while only beautifully enunciated noise issued from Sir Keir." [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022831314442019078) 2026-02-15T00:32Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "You didn't listen in [----]. These people are cynical. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2022916777035145563) 2026-02-15T06:11Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Alex Navalny used Fu Manchu-style venom to kill dissident. For pure theater Possibly because fear no less than death is a force and is why 'terrorists' deliberately employ dread to multiply their presence. The fictional villains used devices like the "kiss of death" (using venomous snake bites or poisoned brainwashed women) designed to leave no trace leaving authorities helpless. Who did not thrill to read as a child those chilling words: "The band the speckled band" whispered Holmes." [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2023173796346433987) 2026-02-15T23:13Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements "Alex Navalny was killed using Fu Manchu-style venom. For pure theater Possibly because fear no less than death is a force and is why 'terrorists' deliberately employ dread to multiply their presence. The fictional villains used devices like the "kiss of death" (using venomous snake bites or poisoned brainwashed women) designed to leave no trace leaving authorities helpless. Who did not thrill to read as a child those chilling words: "The band the speckled band" whispered Holmes. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-poisoned-deadly-dart-frog-rcna259064" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2023181052861391211) 2026-02-15T23:42Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "US 'to accept man who burned Koran in London as a refugee from UK' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15562789/White-House-set-accept-Koran-burner-refugee-Britain.htmlito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15562789/White-House-set-accept-Koran-burner-refugee-Britain.htmlito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2023306942857543768) 2026-02-16T08:02Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "How Roger Simon's Tesla nearly made it [---] miles from Nashville to Miami Beach in FSD -- until it hit Miami Beach leaving him time to muse about Fox News and Fox Business. As for Miami Beach defeating Tesla it is a sad fact that in life 1% of situations are the source of 99% of the problems. FSD and our lives will go swimmingly until it gets to the one stretch of road where it doesn't. Our existence is shaped not by the ninety nine percent but by the one. https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-foxes https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-foxes" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2023354031167488429) 2026-02-16T11:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "How can anyone think that noble Communists could murder innocent people https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3630g3e802o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3630g3e802o" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/2023574071209082923) 2026-02-17T01:43Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements "Open thread. When did Hitler likely realize he had lost the war" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1283618990716149760) 2020-07-16T04:26Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements "And then he'll go after China. Joe Biden plans to label countries as climate outlaws for failing to address climate change. Brazil might be at the top of his list. https://t.co/eSZHBbBjpl Joe Biden plans to label countries as climate outlaws for failing to address climate change. Brazil might be at the top of his list. https://t.co/eSZHBbBjpl" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1327376979528544256) 2020-11-13T22:25Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements "The test appeared successful until the very last moment when the Starship rocket exploded on impact as it attempted to land. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said: Successful ascent switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point BREAKING: SpaceX uncrewed prototype Starship rocket SN8 explodes on impact after high-altitude test flight https://t.co/ziyyMQVFJM BREAKING: SpaceX uncrewed prototype Starship rocket SN8 explodes on impact after high-altitude test flight https://t.co/ziyyMQVFJM" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1336815831183835137) 2020-12-09T23:31Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements "If everyone threw three coins in the fountain you'd get a million euros pretty quickly. Tourists throw over [--] million into Italy's Trevi Fountain each year. https://t.co/GVAIfciJSg Tourists throw over [--] million into Italy's Trevi Fountain each year. https://t.co/GVAIfciJSg" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1772138081379869107) 2024-03-25T05:46Z 14K followers, [----] engagements "Once you use all that electricity for AI it will inevitably generate heat even if you get it from windmills or solar panels. There is no free lunch. https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-grid-crisis-biden-administration-climate-policy-energy-artificial-intelligence-cfc10b68 https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-grid-crisis-biden-administration-climate-policy-energy-artificial-intelligence-cfc10b68" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1782208307706618195) 2024-04-22T00:42Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "How does a gaffe like this featuring an unusual name like Hersh Goldberg-Polin creep into the teleprompter stream get fact checked then redacted https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/joe-biden-says-maimed-american-hersh-goldbergpolin-is-here-with-us-today-at-rose-garden-party-despite-still-being-held-by-hamas/news-story/9d3dab6ca6d73fe3dcf6466dc5cbc3e8 https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/joe-biden-says-maimed-american-hersh-goldbergpolin-is-here-with-us-today-at-rose-garden-party-despite-still-being-held-by-hamas/news-story/9d3dab6ca6d73fe3dcf6466dc5cbc3e8" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1793105765978497041) 2024-05-22T02:25Z 14.1K followers, [----] engagements "A fiction story would go like this. Find a bright kid with a chip on his shoulder. Give him a secret life and training that makes him feel like Jason Bourne. He's psychologically yours. Send him on a mission with a BS exit plan that isn't meant to work" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1813546485981839740) 2024-07-17T12:09Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "I think many of those who voted for DJT2 didn't expect much more than the same old like DJT1+. But the transition and first days have both elated and alarmed populist supporters into realizing that perhaps real change is possible; that we are in a [----] [----] or [----] moment" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1886295965617058081) 2025-02-03T06:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "Fifty new nuclear plants building in Europe will have more impact on Russia than [--] new Euro brigades" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1890186333232197963) 2025-02-13T23:48Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "JD Vance's warning that free speech is in retreat in Europe horrified officialdom but struck a chord with the populist public" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1890545150981538001) 2025-02-14T23:34Z 15.1K followers, 11.4K engagements "We live in a new world with a highly diminished Russia a declining Europe and a Promethean China and America. The world of the first Cold War is dead; and frightening though it may be we're not in Kansas any more" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1890679067294249250) 2025-02-15T08:26Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "If on the other hand there existed a potent Army of Europe there would be no need to post them on the border but rather hold them back ready to respond. Tripwire gestures are not substitutes for capability" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1891309382064885927) 2025-02-17T02:11Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Much of the difficulty in the Free Speech debate arises from the belief perhaps sincerely held by persons in the media that the truth is always known and therefore checkable by reference to authority which is always honest. Free Speech is therefore restricted to true speech" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1891386092881903893) 2025-02-17T07:15Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements "The war in Ukraine is so disillusioning because from the start neither the Biden administration nor Western Europe aimed to defeat Russia. To attempt that would be 'too dangerous' risking nuclear war. The Western goal was a war of attrition that would bleed Moscow white" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1891692573590167688) 2025-02-18T03:33Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Europe to Britain on tripwire force. Good luck we can't send you anything more. "European Rhetoric Meets Reality: Plus a Change" as Starmer heads for DC to convince US to back British play. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/europe-fails-seize-moment-ukraine https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/europe-fails-seize-moment-ukraine" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1891941482602561989) 2025-02-18T20:02Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Dictators are not the same as people who we just find disgusting. And strange as it may sound to modern ears not all dictators are bad especially in time of war. Lincoln exercised dictatorial power justifiably. A wartime leader like Zelensky is a dictator by necessity. DJT" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1892421816917839894) 2025-02-20T03:51Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "There are three obvious Western strategies going forward in the Ukraine War. [--]. Defeat Russia decisively while avoiding nuclear war; [--]. Help Ukraine out-attrit Russia by providing it with better weapons [--]. Negotiate an enduring end to hostilities around the status quo leverage" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893022319188316558) 2025-02-21T19:37Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "In order to extract the best deal the Western coalition must credibly pose the threat of continuing the war in some fashion. Putin has to be incentivized to git while the gittin's good. Putin's card on the other hand is the territory he seized up until now" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893033640856297826) 2025-02-21T20:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "The key to winning a ceasefire -- which sounds like a contradiction in terms -- is winning the peace. South Korea vs North Korea and West vs East Germany are examples of how frozen conflicts lead paradoxically to victory. @wretchardthecat With a peace deal quick accession to the EU a rearmed European NATO and 5-10 years of no doubt much faster economic growth than Russia when Putin dies and Russia falls into chaos they take back the occupied territories and all is well. Nothing they can do to help the @wretchardthecat With a peace deal quick accession to the EU a rearmed European NATO and" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893044933403218237) 2025-02-21T21:07Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "The main fear in Korea [--] years after the armistice is not that North Korea's antiquated army will somehow conquer the South but that a collapsing Nokor could impel a massive flood of refugees desperately seeking food across the border" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893046889177850309) 2025-02-21T21:15Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Examining the hypothetical question of whether the 2nd invasion of Ukraine in [----] was avoidable (the 1st having occurred in 2014) can reveal if belligerent aims required war whether diplomacy was futile then and even now; if the issues were and remain uncompromisable" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893158884111429855) 2025-02-22T04:40Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "My latest at PJMedia VIP. What are the ways forward for the West in the war Is peace possible at all What are the incentives to reach agreement Could it become a quagmire https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2025/02/22/thinking-about-ukraine-n4937229 https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2025/02/22/thinking-about-ukraine-n4937229" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893289866341032239) 2025-02-22T13:20Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "The danger in the Trump deal was never abandonment but entanglement. The Ukraine minerals deal means Washington and Kyiv are commercial partners on the largest scale but it's an asset that can only be realized if peace returns" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893395908286402590) 2025-02-22T20:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Moscow opposes the Trump-Ukraine minerals deal which involves rare earth minerals in exchange for US support for obvious reasons. Russia is trying to control these mineral-rich areas in Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-advances-ukraines-critical-minerals-trump-talks-deal-2025-02-19/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-advances-ukraines-critical-minerals-trump-talks-deal-2025-02-19/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893412494070128655) 2025-02-22T21:28Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Newsweek puts the amount involved at a staggering $12.4 trillion. A Russian economist Vasily Koltashov remarked on Russian state TV that Trump's desire for the deal would be academic if Ukraine loses the war. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ukraine-minerals-russia-control-2025742 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ukraine-minerals-russia-control-2025742" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893419561052942486) 2025-02-22T21:56Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Somehow I dont think Trump is going to hand this monumental sum to Putin and his pressure on Zelensky to do a minerals deal suggests that rather than abandoning Ukraine he is investing in it" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893421767554720223) 2025-02-22T22:05Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Washington wanted to keep the trappings of empire for the sheer pomp of it and much of the bloat in Federal government reflect the heirlooms of a bygone era. Sweeping out DC is the result of restarting history" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1893855777716060525) 2025-02-24T02:49Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements "Ukraine US reportedly agree to minerals deal. The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that its part of a bigger picture. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47820 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47820" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1894485390750617832) 2025-02-25T20:31Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements "What you can infer beyond Signal. @wretchardthecat Yes. I started a series of posts on this back in March. The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) is preparing an 80000-soldier offensive to recapture the strategic port city of Hodeidah from the Houthis. Airstrikes on Houthi positions particularly in Hodeidah have @wretchardthecat Yes. I started a series of posts on this back in March. The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) is preparing an 80000-soldier offensive to recapture the strategic port city of Hodeidah from the Houthis. Airstrikes on Houthi positions particularly in" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1915532708207587703) 2025-04-24T22:26Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements "Did Hamas foresee this dire turn of events on Oct [--] [----] and proceed regardless of the sacrifice Or did they have a different outcome in mind" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1926536089315016776) 2025-05-25T07:09Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements "What if Japan did not bomb Pearl Harbor If Hitler did not gratuitously declare war on the USA If Hamas could travel back in time would they do it all again" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1926537455517175836) 2025-05-25T07:14Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements "I have always been fascinated by how apparently intelligent people can do stupid things. Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor Why did Hitler declare war on the USA Why did Hamas do Oct [--] Why did Putin think he could blitz Kyiv How could them Dems not see that Biden was a zombie" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1926792593817354537) 2025-05-26T00:08Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements "Oswald alone killed JFK Covid originated from a bat Biden was as sharp as can be. Trust the science. https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-have-a-client-list-committed-suicide-doj-fbi-reveal-in-findings-that-debunk-conspiracy-theories/ https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-have-a-client-list-committed-suicide-doj-fbi-reveal-in-findings-that-debunk-conspiracy-theories/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1942075578750038145) 2025-07-07T04:17Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements "We are finding more Lost Cities and with it more Lost Worlds and histories. "Archaeologists may have found evidence of an advanced civilization wiped out by a global flood [-----] years ago a discovery that could rewrite human history." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15015429/Bombshell-discovery-rewrites-human-history.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15015429/Bombshell-discovery-rewrites-human-history.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1961930313548070928) 2025-08-30T23:13Z 14K followers, 14.1K engagements "The Nuremberg Trials operated on the premise that there are universal standards of justice and morality however the trials did not delve into philosophical debates about the source of these rightswhether they derive from natural law divine authority or human consensus" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1963757993465376916) 2025-09-05T00:16Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements "Historically Marxism has rejected "human rights" as abstract ideals detached from material. Since God definitely does not exist where else can 'rights' come from but Man Specifically Government Man. And we are perilously close to "Fhrerprinzip" again" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1963760225200328742) 2025-09-05T00:24Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "I will hazard that in ten years the greatest of all luxuries will be privacy and data invisibility. Gone will be the cavalcades and events. The real bigs will have no face no name. Just hardware security devices" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1965551154609488187) 2025-09-09T23:01Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "One basis for the construction of a deniable identity are the concepts underpinning deniable encryption. The foe could suspect the existence of someone but can't be sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1965553749222641898) 2025-09-09T23:11Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "The reason the Iryna Zarutska murder is dynamite is because it looks politically transactional. A certain political party looks like it is ignoring crime in **exchange for** votes. https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/iryna-zarutskas-murder-reveals-the-lefts-utter-incoherence/ https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/iryna-zarutskas-murder-reveals-the-lefts-utter-incoherence/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1965570553252888815) 2025-09-10T00:18Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Charlie Kirk suspect reported in custody. Turned in by his father accounts say. https://www.the-sun.com/news/15173159/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-custody/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/15173159/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-custody/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1966480987833127244) 2025-09-12T12:36Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "A word we have unfortunately forgotten is x no derived from the Chinese "wash brain" that gained attention after the Korean war to explain how young ex-POWs returned under some kind of derangement spell. Then the media explained it was all a myth and it went away" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1970656034164494399) 2025-09-24T01:06Z 14.1K followers, [----] engagements "The irony is that Ryan Routh believed that Trump would not oppose Russia and leave Ukraine out to dry. And on the same day Routh is convicted Trump will be accused of trying to start war with Russia. https://www.newsweek.com/ryan-wesley-routh-donald-trump-assassin-last-message-1954387 https://www.newsweek.com/ryan-wesley-routh-donald-trump-assassin-last-message-1954387" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1970679310932656362) 2025-09-24T02:38Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "UN gives Haiti force the power to arrest gangsters. No more Mister Nice Guy. https://apnews.com/article/un-haiti-gangs-international-force-us-panama-3be47fe0bd29b125b7fa00d67df26907 https://apnews.com/article/un-haiti-gangs-international-force-us-panama-3be47fe0bd29b125b7fa00d67df26907" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1973540534103974172) 2025-10-02T00:08Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "If I were a Communist I'd worry more about Islam than MAGA. Many famous Marxists including Roger Garaudy Carlos the Jackal Martin Lings and Arafat finished up as Muslims. The Communist Party of Iran led the Shah's overthrow but then was liquidated by Islam. Islam Communism" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1976470765467041878) 2025-10-10T02:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Marxism and Islam share a critique of Western "hegemony" both are emotionally invested in Palestine. Marxism's trump card used to be the Worker's Paradise. When that proved a dud Marxisms materialism had no answer to Islams spiritual dimension purpose ritual and community" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1976473550954561965) 2025-10-10T02:23Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "For some people engaging in self righteous offensive behavior is an attempt at escaping mediocrity. When you realize that is the Everest of their life you realize Thoreau was right: most people live lives of quiet desperation" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977118158394998810) 2025-10-11T21:04Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "An after action report for Hamas would conclude that while the military front against Israel met with uniform defeat the political front in Europe succeeded beyond belief. The key to future victory runs through London and Paris not Beirut and Tehran. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewnwgnqj2qo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewnwgnqj2qo" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977221812548468911) 2025-10-12T03:56Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Judging from results it is far better to focus asymmetrical efforts on the "soft underbelly" of Western Europe rather than running headlong into the granite of the IDF. The best time to strike again would be when the US UK FR and DE are Woke. Victory will be ours" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977224773429272703) 2025-10-12T04:08Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements "Madagascar sits astride the Mozambique channel in the Indian Ocean and was a major target of China's Belt and Road diplomacy. France was once influential. Where will this upheaval go https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-attempted-coup-e6dd29a429e06362efd238cfac7270d0 https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-attempted-coup-e6dd29a429e06362efd238cfac7270d0" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977480307294236864) 2025-10-12T21:03Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements ""Let's make deals that make everyone rich and safe. Believe me it can happen. (Applause.)" This is a real estate developer not Winston Churchill. This is the architect of the Abraham accords and his motto is: make money not war" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977737076759040352) 2025-10-13T14:03Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "The Abraham Accords signed in Trump [--] normalized diplomatic economic and security relations between Israel and four Arab nations. The goal is to create a U.S.-backed "Sunni alliance" uniting Israel Gulf states and others against extremism by tying them up in deals" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977738491028033866) 2025-10-13T14:09Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "France has been having a run of bad luck in Africa. France was forced out of Mali (2022) Burkina Faso (2023) Niger (2023) and Chad (late 2024). French companies particularly in mining (have faced license revocation. Events in Madagascar can only make it worse" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977918343974973719) 2025-10-14T02:04Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Russia has aggressively filled the French vacuum through Mali Burkina Faso Niger and the Central African Republic (CAR) with its mercenary army called the Africa Corps (spelled with a "c" not the "k"). But much bigger though quieter is China's Belt and Road Initiative" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1977920359413239813) 2025-10-14T02:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Pro Hamas journalist Saleh Aljafarawi was reportedly killed by the Dugmush clan as militant vs militant wars continue. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-870266 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-870266" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1978620127307309176) 2025-10-16T00:32Z 14.1K followers, [----] engagements "Left to itself barbarism is self-limiting. When the last hospital is burned the last store looted the final light bulb broken and the last library trashed the magic will stop and none of the barbarians will know why. https://apnews.com/article/haiti-msf-doctors-without-borders-center-closes-violence-68595071309e258e9c67ca233eb31822 https://apnews.com/article/haiti-msf-doctors-without-borders-center-closes-violence-68595071309e258e9c67ca233eb31822" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1978745296331936133) 2025-10-16T08:50Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Why are they angry Because like publics even in the West the 3rd Worlders have discovered their future has been stolen or dissipated by the political elite. The information is out of control. https://apnews.com/article/gen-z-protests-madagascar-nepal-morocco-peru-e1859bc7e4203adbac829cf45f92138b https://apnews.com/article/gen-z-protests-madagascar-nepal-morocco-peru-e1859bc7e4203adbac829cf45f92138b" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1978959672703877258) 2025-10-16T23:02Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "If Hamas won't disarm a low intensity war will ensue between Israel and the militants until the issue is settled in that way. https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-gaza-peace-deal-has-one-huge-problem-hamas-wont-disarm/ https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-gaza-peace-deal-has-one-huge-problem-hamas-wont-disarm/" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1978966983745114196) 2025-10-16T23:31Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Even being ready by [----] may be too late since the drone threat will also have advanced by then. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz2ppye5zo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz2ppye5zo" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979123588830511533) 2025-10-17T09:53Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Zohran Kwame Mamdani is almost certain to become NYC mayor. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/york-city-mayoral-race-betting-121639430.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/york-city-mayoral-race-betting-121639430.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979145109905047684) 2025-10-17T11:18Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Chinese criminal networks are overwhelmingly behind these factoryy-like scam centers especially in Southeast Asia. The Nigerian Prince is probably Chinese now. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/asia/cambodia-south-korea-scams.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/asia/cambodia-south-korea-scams.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979232757617430867) 2025-10-17T17:07Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "The "analysts" -- the China watchers Kremlinologists terrorism experts -- are our guide to the Badlands. They can be surprised (eg Oct [--] 9/11 etc). I suppose they are right sometimes and then we don't notice. @wretchardthecat Okay but when have "The Analysts " been right in the last decade @wretchardthecat Okay but when have "The Analysts " been right in the last decade" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979235411559092708) 2025-10-17T17:17Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "The fall of Andrew and the rise of the Emperor. The now ex-Duke of York "held meetings in [----] and [----] with Cai Qi currently the first-ranked member of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and de facto chief of staff to Xi Jinping." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/prince-andrew-duke-of-york-title.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/prince-andrew-duke-of-york-title.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979316347042697391) 2025-10-17T22:39Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "The open borders outsourcing multiculti theme park future that was envisioned at the start of the 21st century has become a grim place. The liberals should have foreseen this and led the backlash themselves. But they didn't and the MAGAs rose to fill the void" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979336665459233069) 2025-10-18T00:00Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "The big problem for the progs right now is they have no personnel in the pipeline. No one can adapt to the New Cold War. It's clogged with Mamdanis Newsoms AOCs Starmers Sadiq Khans. They have a backlog of poison they can't excrete and are choking on their own stupidity" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979337907640127758) 2025-10-18T00:05Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "All over the world people are going broke from corruption. Mongolia is in a delicate balance between Russia and China. Mongolia's economic problems may drive it to China not necessarily because Beijing is flush but it is more solvent than Moscow. https://apnews.com/article/mongolia-prime-minister-zandanshatar-dismissed-3ec6b5fc3c8735d6a0a167aced81ba03 https://apnews.com/article/mongolia-prime-minister-zandanshatar-dismissed-3ec6b5fc3c8735d6a0a167aced81ba03" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979341690394865912) 2025-10-18T00:20Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "With any luck he's setting a new altitude record. https://apnews.com/article/kanchha-sherpa-mount-everest-dead-nepal-a0a5ed445d41baae7ae9f6c347471666 https://apnews.com/article/kanchha-sherpa-mount-everest-dead-nepal-a0a5ed445d41baae7ae9f6c347471666" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979343699005055158) 2025-10-18T00:28Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "A classic case of "the call is coming from inside the house." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/uk-china-spy-case.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/uk-china-spy-case.html" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979369967096389894) 2025-10-18T02:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "In an editorial military mouthpiece PLA Daily said the disgraced nine including He Weidong vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a member of the 24-man Politburo had been disloyal and lost their chastity. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329511/expelled-chinese-generals-disloyal-and-dealt-serious-blow-army-pla-daily https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329511/expelled-chinese-generals-disloyal-and-dealt-serious-blow-army-pla-daily" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979658645395894526) 2025-10-18T21:19Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements "Finland is serious https://united24media.com/latest-news/finland-confirms-50000-bomb-shelters-ready-to-protect-nearly-entire-population-12526 https://united24media.com/latest-news/finland-confirms-50000-bomb-shelters-ready-to-protect-nearly-entire-population-12526" [X Link](https://x.com/wretchardthecat/status/1979689626995695844) 2025-10-18T23:22Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. 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"People who don't know how anything works should never oversee those who do. The Yorks should try Dominos Doordash or Uber Eats. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Fwl4Ed30fOc https://www.youtube.com/watchv=Fwl4Ed30fOc"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:52Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
""Man" probably began to supplant 'mac' as an informal identifier before 'pal' and the even more dreaded 'bro' appeared in force. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dsx2vdn7gpY @wretchardthecat It seems to have replaced "Mac". As in the kind of thing a bartender might say in a film noir: "Listen Mac get outta here and don't come back". https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dsx2vdn7gpY @wretchardthecat It seems to have replaced "Mac". As in the kind of thing a bartender might say in a film noir: "Listen Mac get outta here and don't come back""
X Link 2026-02-14T05:44Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Bolivia's ruling Movement for Socialism or MAS becomes "no mas". https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/official-bolivia-presidential-count-shows-centrist-rodrigo-paz-surprise-lead-2025-08-17/ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/official-bolivia-presidential-count-shows-centrist-rodrigo-paz-surprise-lead-2025-08-17/"
X Link 2025-08-18T03:20Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ian Roberts "pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he lied on employment forms to conceal his immigration status and illegally possessed multiple firearms." https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2025/10/21/ian-roberts-iowa-superintendent-pleads-not-guilty-federal-charges-dmps/86818425007/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/education/2025/10/21/ian-roberts-iowa-superintendent-pleads-not-guilty-federal-charges-dmps/86818425007/"
X Link 2025-10-22T22:02Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Ex Obama aide's senate bid scuppered by Ian Roberts https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/16/des-moines-school-board-president-jackie-norris-exits-u-s-senate-race/ https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/10/16/des-moines-school-board-president-jackie-norris-exits-u-s-senate-race/"
X Link 2025-10-23T00:03Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Sojitz a Japanese conglomerate turned to Lynas an Australian mining company to build a rare-earth supply chain outside China. Lynas mines in Australia and refines in Malaysia. It took [--] years for Japan to pull it off but the first step was becoming aware of the problem. The urgency of the rare-earths situation is just now dawning on the United States and Europe said Naoki Kobayashi an official working in the minerals division of Japans trade ministry. For Japan this painful lesson came [--] years ago he said. Until recently the attitude of the Western establishment was that there was no"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:27Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Observers who cannot believe that Putin has actually thrown in the towel -- gone silent from fear -- think he may secretly be plotting his revenge by getting set to strike Estonia. This ironically aligns with those who think that Trump's interest in Greenland is driven by the awareness of some secret threat. -- And a point of particular danger to Nato's foundations will be Narva a small town on the Estonian-Russian border he said. 'The one I've always thought is very dangerous is Narva which has an [--] per cent Russian population' Willasey-Wilsey told The Sun. 'Do we really believe that the"
X Link 2026-01-19T00:50Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Because the left is deliberately so well hidden in institutions the MAGAs resort to a kind of "recon by fire" to draw a response. They send in a patrol to see what happens. Instead of exposing the odd extremist through these tactics as you would expect what boils out of the lifted planks is a whole infestation that forces a revision of prior expectations. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014211784824193145 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014211784824193145"
X Link 2026-01-22T05:41Z 14.9K followers, 21.3K engagements
"The US has a Space Base specifically a Pituffik Space Base formerly known as Thule in Greenland. The base is overseen by the U.S. Space Forces 821st Space Group and normally hosts around [---] American personnel. In the movies there is commonly also one shape-shifting alien on base called The Thing. https://defence-blog.com/norad-deploys-aircraft-to-pituffik-space-base-in-greenland/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014464505607290945 https://defence-blog.com/norad-deploys-aircraft-to-pituffik-space-base-in-greenland/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014464505607290945"
X Link 2026-01-22T22:25Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I think the only way he could have done this was to articulate what every -- or most every -- leader in the room was secretly thinking but didn't dare say. Preference falsification is when people hide or misrepresent their true opinions beliefs or desires in public due to perceived social pressure fear of consequences (like ostracism or job loss) or desire for rewards leading to a distorted public understanding of actual consensus. Coined by Timur Kuran it explains phenomena like sudden political shifts (e.g. fall of communism) or why unpopular policies seem popular as individuals conform to"
X Link 2026-01-23T23:21Z 14.9K followers, 12K engagements
"Xi's second in command accused of working for US intelligence. "The most shocking allegation disclosed during the closed-door briefing the people said was that Zhang had leaked core technical data on Chinas nuclear weapons to the U.S. Some evidence against Zhang came from Gu Jun the former general manager of the China National Nuclear Corp. a state-owned company that oversees all aspects of Chinas civilian and military nuclear programs said the people familiar with the briefing. Beijing announced an investigation into Gu last Monday for suspected severe violations of party discipline and"
X Link 2026-01-25T20:53Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Here's what I don't understand. According to Russiagate Donald Trump is working for Putin. According to China the Chinese military is working for Donald Trump. Who's on first"
X Link 2026-01-25T21:02Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Coast Guard frees a cruise ship trapped in Antarctica. If the Coast Guard were a navy it would be the 12th largest in the world. https://cruisepassenger.com.au/news/watch-amazing-footage-of-scenic-eclipse-ii-being-freed-from-pack-ice-in-antarctica-and-guests-sipped-champagne/ https://cruisepassenger.com.au/news/watch-amazing-footage-of-scenic-eclipse-ii-being-freed-from-pack-ice-in-antarctica-and-guests-sipped-champagne/"
X Link 2026-01-25T22:50Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If anyone thinks here again that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the US keep on dreaming. You cant. We cant. We need each other Rutte said during an address to the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday. How did [---] million Europeans come to depend on [---] million Americans to protect them against [---] million Russians https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/europe/nato-chief-rutte-european-defense-us-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/26/europe/nato-chief-rutte-european-defense-us-intl"
X Link 2026-01-26T21:53Z 14.8K followers, 25.1K engagements
""Vulovic was a 22-year-old stewardess in [----] when she plummeted [-----] feet from a plane that blew apart over Czechoslovakia killing every other person on the aircraft." The law of truly large numbers. With a sufficiently large number of trials any outrageous but non-impossible thing (perhaps even thought impossible) becomes likely to happen somewhere. https://uk.style.yahoo.com/22-old-stewardess-wasn-t-100000927.html https://uk.style.yahoo.com/22-old-stewardess-wasn-t-100000927.html"
X Link 2026-01-26T22:09Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Although many pundits have interpreted the recent Chinese purges as proof that the Beijing regime is falling apart and becoming unready for First Island Chain operations it can also be interpreted as Xi clearing out the deadwood in preparation for action. Recall General George C. Marshall purged the U.S. Army of out-of-date senior officers at the start of World War II. He sought to eliminate the "dead wood" of World War I-era veterans who were considered too old slow-footed or inflexible to command in a modern mechanized and fast-moving war. The committee removed [---] captains majors"
X Link 2026-01-27T03:42Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"What rule did this pair of assassins ignore in Mindanao while trying to kill a warlord with an RPG the other day https://www.youtube.com/watchv=bQ7m857hyCg https://www.youtube.com/watchv=bQ7m857hyCg"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:47Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The sunglasses don't make one a member of the Delta Force any more than climbing shoes and a bag of chalk makes one Alex Honnold. What is essential is invisible to the eye. It is competence that often makes the difference between a ship sinking or arriving safely"
X Link 2026-01-27T22:58Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Just as the USS Abraham Lincoln arrives in the Persian Gulf CENTCOM announces a regional air exercise. "Ninth Air Force (Air Forces Central) will be conducting a multi-day readiness exercise to demonstrate the ability to deploy disperse and sustain combat airpower across the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility." https://www.afcent.af.mil/News/Article/4389589/afcent-to-conduct-readiness-exercise-generate-combat-airpower/ https://www.afcent.af.mil/News/Article/4389589/afcent-to-conduct-readiness-exercise-generate-combat-airpower/"
X Link 2026-01-28T00:29Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I can walk I can walk Hallelujah https://www.foxnews.com/travel/airline-passengers-jetway-jesus-miracle-flights-accused-faking-disabilities-better-boarding https://www.foxnews.com/travel/airline-passengers-jetway-jesus-miracle-flights-accused-faking-disabilities-better-boarding"
X Link 2026-01-28T00:43Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the scene in the movie where the explorers are nearing the hive queen. They must be hiding something very big in Minnesota to send their foot soldiers there from all over the country They must be hiding something very big in Minnesota to send their foot soldiers there from all over the country"
X Link 2026-01-28T01:54Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Former prime minister Scott Morrison has made a dramatic intervention in Australia's response to radical Islam declaring serious questions over religious governance could not remain "taboo" in the wake of the Bondi terror attack. https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/scott-morrison-declares-australia-must-confront-radical-islam-without-fear-or-favour-proposes-major-reforms-to-religious-governance/news-story/746d1e210b41f4df7edd0421068be0b3"
X Link 2026-01-28T02:05Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Turkey: there's still time to talk to Iran. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/28/turkiyes-fm-hakan-fidan-says-iran-ready-to-negotiate-over-nuclear-file https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/28/turkiyes-fm-hakan-fidan-says-iran-ready-to-negotiate-over-nuclear-file"
X Link 2026-01-28T23:03Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The biggest risk to the West is clinging to the status quo. The Global World has been disastrous for Europe. The European Union's (EU27) share of global GDP (based on PPP) has declined from approximately 27.5% in [----] to an estimated 14% in [----]. This downward trend is projected to continue with the EU's share expected to reach 12.9% by [----] driven by the faster economic growth of emerging economies particularly in Asia"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:20Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Britain the birthplace of the industrial revolution is down to one last virgin steel mill -- and it's owned by China. Yet as Starmer comes to the court of the Emperor the chanceries of Europe are quivering in fear -- of Trump. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/12/europe/uk-takeover-british-steel-chinese-jingye-intl-latam https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/12/europe/uk-takeover-british-steel-chinese-jingye-intl-latam"
X Link 2026-01-29T00:27Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Mamdani: NYC is broke on an epic scale. 🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani Says New York City is Facing a Fiscal Crisis at the Scale of the Great Recession That means looking inward into savings and efficiencies. That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable corporations. https://t.co/ck89QhFFwL 🚨 BREAKING: Mayor Zohran Mamdani Says New York City is Facing a Fiscal Crisis at the Scale of the Great Recession That means looking inward into savings and efficiencies. That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and the most profitable"
X Link 2026-01-29T02:05Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Are the burner phones made in China https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-china-trip-spying-b2908808.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-china-trip-spying-b2908808.html"
X Link 2026-01-29T06:22Z 14.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Marco Rubio's testimony on the Maduro op before the Senate indicates that the Trump administration very carefully awaited the right operational conditions before risking it a process that Rubio called a "trigger operation". This attitude is likely to govern any action against Iran. Despite the media's characterization of Trump as stupid and impulsive the record reveals a decisive but exquisitely thorough command system. Given this what might the US feasibly attempt in Iran with a reasonable prospect of success Four types of actions are likely. Operations to: [--]. Further degrade Iran's nuclear"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:36Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The door opened. With a small gesture the officer indicated the skull-faced man. 'Room 101' he said. There was a gasp and a flurry at Winston's side. The man had actually flung himself on his knees on the floor with his hand clasped together. 'Comrade Officer' he cried. 'You don't have to take me to that place Haven't I told you everything already What else is it you want to know There's nothing I wouldn't confess nothing Just tell me what it is and I'll confess straight off. Write it down and I'll sign itanything Not room 101' 'Room 101' said the officer. The man's face already very pale"
X Link 2026-01-29T10:57Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"It was extraordinary to hear the third voice. The hour's ritual had only demanded a duologue against the horrible noise of the torture. Bond's dimmed senses hardly took it in. Then suddenly he was half-way back to consciousness. He found he could see and hear again. He could hear the dead silence after the one quiet word from the doorway. He could see Le Chiffre's head slowly come up and the expression of blank astonishment of innocent amazement slowly give way to fear. 'Shtop' had said the voice quietly. Bond heard slow steps approaching behind his chair. 'Dhrop it' said the voice. Bond saw"
X Link 2026-01-29T11:13Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"It is the "strength" of China that many leaders find deeply persuasive. The experience of meeting a very powerful man with your eyes riveted on the trained attack dog crouching with tense stillness at his side or being conscious of standing atop a trap door over a shark tank makes you inclined to say 'yes' to every question. People pretend to fear the orange man but they are genuinely terrified of the Czar and the Emperor. When Washington says it won't automatically protect you any more most won't rise manfully to their own defense. They'll look ever more fearfully at the dog or stare at the"
X Link 2026-01-29T11:57Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Netherlands must protect their Carribean island from Climate Change. The case was brought by eight residents of Bonaire and Greenpeace Netherlands. They argued that Bonaire one of several Dutch territories in the Caribbean faced imminent danger from projected sea level rise higher temperatures storms and flooding. Marieke Vellekoop director of Greenpeace Netherlands called the decision a historic victory. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/climate/netherlands-bonaire-climate-ruling.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/climate/netherlands-bonaire-climate-ruling.html"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:46Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"China's electricity consumption is about [----] kWh per person and rising. Electricity consumption on Bonaire was approximately [---] MWh (5400 kWh) per inhabitant per year. If you cut back on Bonaire's energy footprint does it benefit Bonaire Does it benefit Greenpeace"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:55Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"Scientists are baffled by the results from new Arctic research. Polar bears became the poster child for the peril of climate change for obvious reasons: They hunt seals from the ice and as fossil fuels warm the planet the ice where these bears live is melting. For more than three decades scientists have been warning that climate change could drive polar bear populations extinct. That message infiltrated the public psyche perhaps more than any other about the scourge of global warming. I was surprised Aars told Vox from Svalbard. I would have predicted that body condition would decline. We see"
X Link 2026-01-29T22:01Z 14.9K followers, 37.1K engagements
""US President Donald Trump says Russia's Vladimir Putin has agreed not to attack Ukraine's capital Kyiv and other cities and towns for a week due to "extraordinary cold" weather. Russia has not confirmed any such agreement but Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Trump's announcement and said he expected Russia to keep its promise." It's like someone yelling across the fence "turn the radio down its [--] in the morning for Pete's sake". The Donald seems to see war as mostly pointless and therefore scheduled to take place only at convenient hours. It recalls the classical pre-modern"
X Link 2026-01-30T02:43Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Blow to Chinese role in the Panama Canal https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/panama-court-voids-ck-hutchison-port-contracts-2026-01-30/ https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/panama-court-voids-ck-hutchison-port-contracts-2026-01-30/"
X Link 2026-01-30T06:38Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Investigations leaks and reports over the years have highlighted patterns particularly among leaders from resource-rich or long-ruling regimes in Central and West Africa where luxury properties in France (especially Paris and the Riviera) the UK (London) Switzerland and Belgium have been acquired. Omar Bongo (late President of Gabon) and family: Reportedly owned [--] properties in France (mostly Paris and Riviera) as of around [--------] investigations. Denis Sassou-Nguesso (President of Congo-Brazzaville) and family: At least [----] properties in France plus bank accounts and luxury cars. Teodoro"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:58Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Foreign Aid is poor people in rich countries helping rich people in poor countries"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:00Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"How many Russian oligarchs have homes in London Why do Arafat's widow and daughter live in France What's the use of ten billion dollars if you have to live in Goma Congo eh ministah"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:12Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Oh Kil-nam's life was ruined by his decision to defect to North Korea. Seventy years old he still does not know the fate of his wife and daughters - either dead or imprisoned in a labour camp. In [----] North Korean agents approached Oh Kil-nam and suggested he defect. The agents offered him an important job working as an economist for the North Korean government and promised to provide free treatment for his wife's hepatitis. Oh took the offer seriously. He had just completed his PhD in Germany on a Marxist economist. Back at home in South Korea he had been active in left-wing groups opposed"
X Link 2026-01-30T22:22Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Don Lemon arrested charged under FACE act and with violating Minnesota churchgoers civil rights and released on a no-money bond. Will appear in court Feb [--]. https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/01/30/don-lemon-released-without-bail-after-arrest-receives-backlash-from-advocates/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/01/30/don-lemon-released-without-bail-after-arrest-receives-backlash-from-advocates/"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:50Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I guess the Federal Building is today's Fort Sumter and the 'resistance groups' are the equivalent of artillery. Fort Sumter was a federal fort located in Charleston Harbor South Carolina a state that had already seceded making it a "pawn" for testing the U.S. government's resolve. The Resupply Attempt: President Lincolns move to resupply the fortrather than evacuate itleft the Confederacy with the choice of allowing the fort to be strengthened or attacking it. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/tim-walz-fort-sumter-minneapolis-ice/685801/"
X Link 2026-01-30T23:55Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Blue States will fight for their way of life. You don't have to agree with a vision to accept that some societies hold it; cherish it and will wish to impose it on the world. Those who disagree with the program can avoid conflict by submitting. But alas it is also a fact that some will reject that vision. That bald reality sets the stage for a crisis resolution. "I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one"
X Link 2026-01-31T00:16Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Good points but you could hardly expect it to be otherwise. Blue ideology goes where they can tax the most. When asked why he robbed banks Sutton simply replied Because that's where the money is. It's fairly safe to say that if the out migration to Red States goes on long enough the Blue ideology will move to the former Red States. @wretchardthecat While this will obviously change over time blue state residents (note that I didn't say citizens) generate [--] percent more per capita in national GDP than do red states and are net contributor vs. net taker states to the tune of $811 billion. The"
X Link 2026-01-31T00:38Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A couple of nights ago I attended a talk by Sean Turnell a long time Australian academic expert on Myanmar who was Aung San Su Kyi's economic advisor and spent [--] years on Myanmar's death row. He was the last foreigner to see Suu Kyi alive. Afterward we spoke. I felt very sad. The place has collapsed and is narco and scam city state. He is still full of hope but accepts Myanmar will never be free from the junta as long as it is the vassal of China. What information exists suggests she's still alive though over [--] and not allowed to receive letters from her son. No outsider has seen her alive"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:07Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Is the Legion of Doom on the verge of world domination or heading for complete collapse Canada is cozying up to China as is the UK. Europe is falling all over itself to follow suit. The New York Times writes: "The calculation was that those countries would eventually seek closer ties to China to hedge against the United States and that when they did so they would be more accommodating of Beijings interests. That bet is now paying off with the procession of European and Canadian leaders arriving in China seeking to deepen ties with the worlds second-largest economy even as Beijing has conceded"
X Link 2026-01-31T05:52Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
""At least five national leaders including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have visited Xi in January alone. Uruguays President Yamand Orsi is due to make the trip next week the first by a South American leader since U.S. President Donald Trump captured Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro and his wife in early January." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/china-beijing-trade-tariffs-trump-starmer-carney.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/china-beijing-trade-tariffs-trump-starmer-carney.html"
X Link 2026-01-31T05:58Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The European dash for the apparent safety of China takes place only days after a massive purge of Beijing's military saw almost the entire command structure decapitated by Xi. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/29/world/video/ebof-china-xi-military-purge-zhang-youxia https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/29/world/video/ebof-china-xi-military-purge-zhang-youxia"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:24Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The New York Times interprets the Chinese purge as preparation for Xi's dream to retake Taiwan. The old generals were not moving fast enough. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/world/asia/xi-military-purge-taiwan.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/world/asia/xi-military-purge-taiwan.html"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:29Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The global ruling class ruled by prestige. Good clothes camera angles creative editing. But the Internet along with the attendant document dumps like the Epstein files has acted like a giant nuclear reputational bomb that stripped them of all mystery and dignity. In the words of Mark Twain 'Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.' There is no return from the Trumpian world to the way we used to be"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:19Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"It seems likely that despite exaggeration from Western media outlets calculated to sow intrigue there really exists some deep split inside the Chinese Communist Party. This should not surprise an America that is itself in the throes of a cold civil war. But unlike the US which is relatively transparent due to population mobility many types of communication modes and extensive fora China has built the world's most elaborate digital control infrastructure (the Great Firewall real-time keyword filtering deep packet inspection AI-driven surveillance social credit systems and pervasive facial"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:33Z 14.9K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Artisanal miners killed "mining coltan - a mineral used to manufacture electronics such as smartphones and computers - at the time. A former supervisor of the mine told the BBC the site was not properly maintained." The term "artisanal" is genius. It evokes happy villagers weaving baskets instead of people digging with hand tools. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly381dvnvzo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly381dvnvzo"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:30Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"As Europe's countryside empties a surge of American entrepreneurs buy up ghost towns. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/business/dealbook/buy-the-whole-village.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/business/dealbook/buy-the-whole-village.html"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:39Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The most tragic aspect of the Ukraine war is how little there is in terms of civilizational advancement to show for the loss of so many young people. Now these losses can be made up by in-migration to Europe. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/europe/russia-ukraine-casualties-csis-report-intl-hnk-ml"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:01Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
""Tension over Greenland has prompted worries that the Trump administration could turn the U.S. oil and gas industry into a way to pressure Europe." Maybe things were better when Europe relied on Gazprom. Miss those nuclear power plants yet https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/europe-natural-gas-united-states-russia.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/europe-natural-gas-united-states-russia.html"
X Link 2026-02-01T22:45Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The children (and other family members) of high-ranking Iranian clerics and officials including ayatollahs like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei own or control luxury properties in London. More than a dozen luxury properties in London's most exclusive areas including The Bishops Avenue (known as "Billionaires' Row") with values exceeding [---] million (around $138 million USD). One property was purchased for [----] million in [----]. Funds for these acquisitions reportedly originate from Iranian oil sales routed through banks in the UK Switzerland Liechtenstein and the UAE to evade sanctions."
X Link 2026-02-01T22:52Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Well born foreigners are often much more conscious of status and hence clothes than are pedestrian Americans. Muhammad Ali Jinnah the founder of Pakistan embraced impeccable Western tailoring owning over [---] hand-stitched suits (many from London's prestigious Henry Poole & Co.) never repeating a tie and maintaining mirror-polished shoes. His style was elegant disciplined and sophisticated often compared to figures like Anthony Eden. Although Jinnah led the anticolonial movement against the British he took pains to die like an Englishman. He was gravely ill with tuberculosis (and possibly lung"
X Link 2026-02-02T00:36Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Doctor colonel op-ed writer. I led three lives. https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/world-news/gaza-doctor-who-slammed-israel-in-ny-times-op-eds-is-hamas-colonel-watchdog-idf/ https://nypost.com/2026/01/31/world-news/gaza-doctor-who-slammed-israel-in-ny-times-op-eds-is-hamas-colonel-watchdog-idf/"
X Link 2026-02-02T05:43Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Costa Rica elects Right-Wing candidate amid fears over crime. NYT says "Ms. Fernndezs rise is in keeping with a growing trend across Latin America as security becomes a top concern for voters and candidates promise iron-fisted measures to combat crime." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/americas/costa-rica-election-fernandez.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/americas/costa-rica-election-fernandez.html"
X Link 2026-02-02T07:35Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"UN in the same predicament as Mamdani as too many deadbeats skip out. https://www.news24.com/world/un-on-brink-of-imminent-financial-collapse-as-countries-refuse-to-pay-bills-20260130-1112 https://www.news24.com/world/un-on-brink-of-imminent-financial-collapse-as-countries-refuse-to-pay-bills-20260130-1112"
X Link 2026-02-02T07:42Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Still sending signals https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/top-us-israeli-generals-meet-pentagon-amid-soaring-iran-tensions-2026-02-01/ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/top-us-israeli-generals-meet-pentagon-amid-soaring-iran-tensions-2026-02-01/"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:46Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Space meets AI meets Dyson Sphere energy. Elon's "sentient sun" project. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it/ https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it/"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:04Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"New at PJMedia VIP. The media reports that US allies are drifting closer to China. Is Beijing the wave of the future https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2026/02/02/should-europe-bet-on-china-n4948999 https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2026/02/02/should-europe-bet-on-china-n4948999"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:35Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Nuclear weapons are scarce. It's astonishing that a private company should rate a suppressive effort that even sovereign countries do not require. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2165492/russia-to-nuke-musk-starlink https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2165492/russia-to-nuke-musk-starlink"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:51Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov is reportedly dying. https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-kadyrov-kremlin-succession-risks-stability/33663761.html https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-kadyrov-kremlin-succession-risks-stability/33663761.html"
X Link 2026-02-03T00:42Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Would the "rightward shift" still have independently happened had Kamala been president Are the US and Costa Rica part of the same historical trend https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/costa-rica-elects-a-conservative-as-latin-america-shifts-to-the-right-39df05dd https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/costa-rica-elects-a-conservative-as-latin-america-shifts-to-the-right-39df05dd"
X Link 2026-02-03T10:17Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"British Labour brought low by the ghost of Epstein. Once conductedd past the red door a disturbing world emerges. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-politician-peter-mandelson-scrutiny-alleged-leaks-jeffrey-129806829 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/uk-politician-peter-mandelson-scrutiny-alleged-leaks-jeffrey-129806829"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:32Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The attack on Niger's international airport by ISIL destroying several planes highlights how vulnerable airline passengers now are to drones. "On January [--] over [--] gunmen using small arms explosives and armed drones targeted both the civilian side of Niameys international airport and its attached Air Base [---] a military base used by Niger and its Russian allies. Air Base [---] was also host to US drones before the withdrawal of American forces in 2024." https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2026/02/islamic-state-claims-assault-on-airport-in-nigers-capital.php"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:46Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"An Iranian drone intercepted by Abraham Lincoln air defenses. The Iranians will need AI or radio repeaters to mount a long distance swarm attack against targets beyond line of sight from their controller. The future battlefield will be a contest over who controls the electromagnetic spectrum. https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/02/03/breaking-navy-shoots-down-iranian-drone-approaching-us-aircraft-carrier-n4949064 https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/02/03/breaking-navy-shoots-down-iranian-drone-approaching-us-aircraft-carrier-n4949064"
X Link 2026-02-03T18:58Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Abraham Lincoln incident and the Nigerian airport attack is a preview of the future struggle for the electronmagnetic spectrum. Russian attack and recon drones in Ukraine used Starlink to implement location/positioning and control to overcome Ukrainian electronic warfare jamming GPS (GNSS) signals and radio links. Ukraine's Defense Ministry contacted SpaceX in late January [----] and the vulnerability closed. The zero-day attack exploits a software vulnerability that is unknown to the vendor and has no patch. So in future movies the bandits will be converging on the task force radar screen"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:19Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Slowly but surely the dominant aspect of conflict is becoming informational. Remember that Mandelson and Andrew just bit the dust. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/french-police-raid-x-offices-in-paris/106301984 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-03/french-police-raid-x-offices-in-paris/106301984"
X Link 2026-02-03T19:33Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The first thing an educated person learns is "it only affects the planet when the West does it." https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/china-building-coal-plants-despite-solar-wind-boom-129805104 https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/china-building-coal-plants-despite-solar-wind-boom-129805104"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:19Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Iranian gunboats order US flagged tanker to stop and be boarded. US warship appears. Iranian gunboats change mind. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-gunboats-unsuccessfully-attempt-board-us-oil-tanker-trump-builds-military-presence https://www.foxnews.com/politics/iranian-gunboats-unsuccessfully-attempt-board-us-oil-tanker-trump-builds-military-presence"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:27Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The most surprising thing readers will learn in the Mandelson story is not that politicians are sleazy and that several are gay but that jockey shorts are called "Y fronts" in Britain. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/world/europe/peter-mandelson-uk-epstein.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/world/europe/peter-mandelson-uk-epstein.html"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:22Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Dock workers sabotage German warship. Were they gremlins from the Kremlin https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkryz35246o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkryz35246o"
X Link 2026-02-04T05:46Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Peace through intimidation as Iran US schedule talks in Oman. https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-crackdown-2556ffcb5731de2753ffa044a6e2175b https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-crackdown-2556ffcb5731de2753ffa044a6e2175b"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:31Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Observers will regret that Donald Trump manifests a cynical view of human nature and apparently believes you can get more with a smile and a gun than just a smile. He is deficient in radical empathy. https://youtu.be/kQKrmDLvijo https://youtu.be/kQKrmDLvijo"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:37Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Some thoughts on the fall of the Washington Post. It poisoned itself. Ideology -- of whatever kind -- is a terrible way to discover and present facts. Ideology acts as a filtering lens through which individuals interpret select and prioritize facts often causing people to align evidence with pre-existing beliefs rather than objective reality. An ideologue knows the answer to questions in advance. But as Claude Shannon showed it is better defined as equivalent to surprise. If something is completely predictable or certain to happen (probability = 1) learning that it happened conveys zero"
X Link 2026-02-05T00:11Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Video has been released of a surprise attack on the Diori Hamani International Airport and Air Force Base [---] in Niamey Niger. The assault which took place last week reportedly killed four soldiers and destroyed multiple aircraft. In the wake of the violence the US State Department ordered non-emergency personnel and their families to evacuate the country immediately. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=b82Pb_18bzU https://www.youtube.com/watchv=b82Pb_18bzU"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:11Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"It's just a matter of time before they hit a passenger terminal. Islamic militants observing the war in Ukraine have for some time now been convinced that the future of terror lies in technology. On June [--] [----] ISIS supporters online discussed the efficiency of drone attacks urging ISIS operatives to adopt them as a military tactic. https://www.memri.org/cjlab/isis-islamic-state-supporters-promote-drone-warfare-urge-targeting-air-assets-west-africa-and https://www.memri.org/cjlab/isis-islamic-state-supporters-promote-drone-warfare-urge-targeting-air-assets-west-africa-and"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:14Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"Poland probes link between Russia Epstein and "Satanic circle" of pedophiles. "Tusk did not elaborate on any suspected links between Epstein an American financier who was accused of trafficking girls for sex before he died by suicide in a New York jail cell and Russian agencies." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-poland-donald-tusk-investigation-satanic-circle-trafficked-polish-women-girls/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-poland-donald-tusk-investigation-satanic-circle-trafficked-polish-women-girls/"
X Link 2026-02-05T01:25Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Maybe Epstein could have held his own. Or maybe Mandelson. But not the Andrew formerly known as Prince. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/31/andrew-spent-a-great-deal-of-time-with-xi-jinping/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/31/andrew-spent-a-great-deal-of-time-with-xi-jinping/"
X Link 2026-02-05T03:58Z 14.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Billionaire Maduro henchmen nabbed. To be extradited to US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/nicolas-maduro-alex-saab-caracas-venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/05/nicolas-maduro-alex-saab-caracas-venezuela"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:43Z 14.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The shadow of Epstein reaches the mountains of Davos. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/world-economic-forum-investigates-its-ceo-over-epstein-links-2026-02-05/ https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/world-economic-forum-investigates-its-ceo-over-epstein-links-2026-02-05/"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:03Z 14.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Starmer admits he was fooled again and again and again as he desperately clings to office. I am sorry sorry for what was done to you sorry that so many people with power failed you. Sorry for having believed this mans lies and appointed him. Im sorry that even now youre forced to watch this story unfold in public once again. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/world/europe/epstein-files-mandelson-starmer-uk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/world/europe/epstein-files-mandelson-starmer-uk.html"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:10Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"The irony is the Epstein files were supposed to sink MAGA but the torpedoes are running circular. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5kaBIMuW74Q https://www.youtube.com/watchv=5kaBIMuW74Q"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:17Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"From what I can tell the Left wing of the British Labour Party regard Starmer and Mandelson as right wingers who have stood in the way of true socialism by treating with Jews and financiers. Crying betrayal Labour aims to topple Starmer and in his place install Rayner Lammy or Miliband who will undertake authentic decolonizing and climate reform. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019566075147612530 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019566075147612530"
X Link 2026-02-06T00:17Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"What happened to Soft Power"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:50Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
""Venezuela's legislature on Thursday advanced an amnesty bill proposed by acting President Delcy Rodrguez that could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners including opposition leaders journalists and human rights activists detained for political reasons." https://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-advances-amnesty-bill-could-233310337.html https://ca.news.yahoo.com/venezuela-advances-amnesty-bill-could-233310337.html"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:20Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"Jeffrey Epstein's mansion on Little St. James island apparently had secret tunnels that led to the sea and trapdoors. What were they for I suppose that up next are revolving bookcases secret passsages homicidal butlers and trained gorillas. https://www.wionews.com/trending/epstein-little-saint-james-island-home-had-tunnels-and-he-talked-endlessly-about-them-report-1770272770986 https://www.wionews.com/trending/epstein-little-saint-james-island-home-had-tunnels-and-he-talked-endlessly-about-them-report-1770272770986"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:13Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Secret tunnels and passages. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528555/Jeffrey-Epsteins-obsession-secret-tunnel-underneath-island-lair-sinister-trapdoor-revealed-files.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528555/Jeffrey-Epsteins-obsession-secret-tunnel-underneath-island-lair-sinister-trapdoor-revealed-files.html"
X Link 2026-02-06T06:51Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"The background of this whole British drama is depicting New Labour and everything that went with it as the moral downfall of the British left. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528953/british-pm-threesome-ghislaine-maxwell-prince-andrew-epstein-files.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15528953/british-pm-threesome-ghislaine-maxwell-prince-andrew-epstein-files.html"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:35Z 15K followers, [----] engagements
"The cold civil war between the MAGAs and the Wokes is gradually moving from a clash along their outer boundaries to deep penetration thrusts and counter thrusts reaching their respective core systems. The MAGAs are trying to defeat voter fraud voter manufacture the money laundering of tax dollars to left wing fronts and to lessen the hold of Woke over media and education. The Wokes are simply trying to physically and legally suppress the MAGAs using their media strength to justify it. Their respective strengths are dissimilar. The Wokes are far better organized and funded. But the MAGAs very"
X Link 2026-02-08T02:42Z 15.1K followers, 55K engagements
"Surprise unmasking -- the Big Reveal -- and its British Labour all the way back to Tony Blair. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/epstein-trump-starmer-global-controversy-analysis https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/05/politics/epstein-trump-starmer-global-controversy-analysis"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:44Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Japanese prime minister wins hard right supermajority in "gamble". https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan/japans-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-snap-election-exit-polls-project-rcna257887 https://www.nbcnews.com/world/japan/japans-sanae-takaichi-wins-landslide-snap-election-exit-polls-project-rcna257887"
X Link 2026-02-08T21:04Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Jack Mathieu mile Lang is a French member of the Socialist Party served as Minister of Culture from [----] to [----] and again from [----] to [----] as well as Minister of National Education from [----] to [----] and [----] to [----]. Lang has resigned as president of the Arab World Institute the French Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Saturday after revelations of his past contacts with Jeffrey Epstein and the launch of a financial investigation. Earlier this Saturday the French Financial Prosecutors Office had opened an investigation into Jack Lang and his daughter Caroline on suspicion of aggravated tax"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:52Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The number of left wing people found to be in correspondence with Epstein is no coincidence. Jeffrey was in the business of laundering shabby endeavors by placing them in proximity with reputable eminent and noble. To be in the same picture as Bill Clinton Prince Andrew Tony Blair Bill Gates Mark Zuckerberg Noam Chomsky Stephen Hawking Woody Allen Stephen Hawking . was his game. Naturally since the vast majority of celebrities are left wing or tend left wing he'd seek them out stealing as it were their reputation. Why would he seek out Tommy Robinson or right wing influencers They wear bad"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:08Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Nicaragua has ended visafree entry for Cuban citizens effective Sunday ending a policy that allowed thousands of Cubans to transit the Central American country in recent years on their journey north to the United States. The government confirmed the decision in a statement. People familiar with the move said President Daniel Ortegas administration appeared to be responding to pressure from Washington. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nicaragua-scraps-visa-free-entry-210518440.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nicaragua-scraps-visa-free-entry-210518440.html"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:33Z 15.1K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Top university filled with the halt lame and blind. A Stanford University junior says students at the elite California school have learned how to claim disabilities in some cases conditions they dont actually have to get better housing accommodations as well as other perks. Stanford which has around [----] students previously reported that nearly 40% of students claimed a disability but tells NewsNation the amount is actually half of that percentage. https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/stanford-disabilities-scam/ https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/west/stanford-disabilities-scam/"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:02Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Not the sort of gunman with a certain frontier nobility living in the vague hope of returning one day to a worn out woman who loves him as he takes the 3:10 to Yuma"
X Link 2026-02-09T02:53Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Andy McCarthy describes the construction of a Trump influence conduit centering around World Liberty Financial (WLF). It alleges WLF accepted investments in exchange for allowing the UAE to gain a foothold in AI via WLf potentially benefiting the Trumps Witkoffs and UAE sheiks. Changpeng Zhao (CZ) the Binance founder (previously convicted in the U.S.) was pardoned and allegedly provided technical expertise from Binance to build WLF's infrastructure. https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/02/the-sordid-story-of-trump-the-trump-witkoff-family-business-and-the-uae/"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:18Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"You have to see this as a battle for crypto. World Liberty Financial (WLF) is a U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform launched in late [----] with ties to the Trump family and associates primarily offering decentralized finance (DeFi) services like lending and borrowing. Its flagship product is USD1 a stablecoin launched in March [----] that maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar. China's digital currency efforts in contrast center on the e-CNY (digital yuan) the world's largest central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot which processed over $2.3 trillion in transactions by late [----]. The e-CNY is"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:28Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The longer I watch the more I realize Biden/Harris wasn't even in the game"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:43Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Police in Norway have opened an investigation into a high-profile diplomat and her husband over their links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following Norwegian media reports that each of her children would receive $5m (3.6m) in a will allegedly signed by Epstein days before he died. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg8yrypejo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg8yrypejo"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:38Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Ministers must tweet support for Starmer by sundown or face the chop. 'MPs said it was made abundantly clear to them that they should tweet their loyalty to Starmer. It was a tweet or well have your fingers moment one said." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/keir-starmer-says-he-is-not-prepared-to-walk-away-after-call-for-resignation https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/09/keir-starmer-says-he-is-not-prepared-to-walk-away-after-call-for-resignation"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:24Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Macron: It is time for the French jockey to mount the brutishly strong but stupid German horse. "The time has come to launch a shared debt capacity to fund our future expense - eurobonds for the future. We need big European programmes to finance the best projects" he said. Similar calls in the past have met scepticism from Germany and other countries who feel France wants to use Europe to bear a financial burden which it alone - because of its failure to reform - is unable to take up. Macron admitted that France "has never had a balanced model unlike certain economies of the north which are"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"New Swedish requirements for naturalization. Lived in Sweden [--] years speak Swedish paddle their own canoe. Migration Minister Forssell portrayed the planned citizenship test as comparatively simple in nature saying: "It seems reasonable that you should know whether Sweden is a monarchy or a republic if you want to be a citizen." https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-raise-hurdles-to-gaining-citizenship/a-75875130 https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-raise-hurdles-to-gaining-citizenship/a-75875130"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:16Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"China exterminates another family the Bai family for having been caught running scam centers in Myanmar. Buh Bai. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=V5RalovugNA https://www.youtube.com/watchv=V5RalovugNA"
X Link 2026-02-10T22:47Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Canadian school shooter massacres [--] as spokesmen puzzle over how to refer to the perp. "The police said they were aware who the suspect was but did not disclose their identity except that it was a woman with brown hair and wearing a dress. But Canadian news organisations have reported that the alleged shooter was an 18-year-old transgender." https://www.wionews.com/photos/who-is-jesse-strang-alleged-transgender-suspect-in-canada-s-mass-shooting-here-s-what-reports-claim-1770820878472/1770820878475"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:30Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Hong Kongborn UK-chartered construction professional (MRICS MAPM NECReg) claims catastrophic fire in Tai Po was caused by dangerously flammable mesh netting mandated by China due to corrupt practices and facilitate the replacement of bamboo scaffolding with mainland made products. https://x.com/finnlau_cd/status/1994455573815857653 https://x.com/finnlau_cd/status/1994455573815857653"
X Link 2025-11-29T22:33Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"People who have disappeared in China. Qin Gang Former Foreign Minister. Disappeared from public view in mid-2023; later removed from office amid rumors of an affair and corruption. Li Shangfu Former Defense Minister. Vanished in August 2023; removed in late [----] linked to military corruption probes. He Weidong (and other senior generals) Reports in [----] highlighted disappearances/purges of top military officials including multiple Rocket Force and other PLA leaders (e.g. at least nine top generals expelled in late [----] crackdowns). Zhu Hengpeng Prominent economist and think-tank figure."
X Link 2026-01-24T20:43Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This would be like living in a society where Hillary Clinton Lloyd Austin Bill Gates Jeff Bezos Elon Musk Tom Cruise and Serena Williams can disappear. Remember this next time some little known activist runs over or assaults a US federal agent out of "fear". The truth is that the most feared men on earth are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015165766958739539 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015165766958739539"
X Link 2026-01-24T20:52Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Uproar as Italian PM Meloni's apparent likeness appears in restoration of angel figure. Only fair to say the "THE DEVIL TRUMP" by John Monteleone oil on canvas is available on Saatchi Art. Also various examples of street art showing the Orange Man as Satan. Make Hell Great Again. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/world/europe/angel-meloni-face-rome-church.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/world/europe/angel-meloni-face-rome-church.html"
X Link 2026-02-04T22:13Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"I never knew that drinking milk especially by the glassful was straight out white supremacist. You learn something new every day. I was not wholly clueless. I did have some notion that drinking black coffee without sugar was slightly right wing perhaps even fascist. I have also been aware for years that wearing boxer shorts especially if you attended an ivy league educational institution was something you should carefully hide. https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bioethicist-government-whole-milk-push-is-racist/"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A panel of judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday evening that the Department of Homeland Security's decision to deny bond hearings to immigrants arrested across the country is consistent with the constitution and federal immigration law. Specifically circuit judge Edith H. Jones wrote in the 2-1 majority opinion that the government correctly interpreted the Immigration and Nationality Act by asserting that unadmitted aliens apprehended anywhere in the United States are ineligible for release on bond regardless of how long they have resided inside the United States." The"
X Link 2026-02-08T03:24Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
""Diplomats and heads of state across the continent say they no longer expect relations with America to revert to a pre-Trump normal even after Mr. Trump leaves office. They have accelerated efforts to reduce their military and economic dependence on the United States even as they continue to court the president with flattery in an effort to maintain influence with him on Ukraine and other global issues." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/world/europe/munich-conference-europe-trump-vance-trust-rubio.html"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:13Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Mexican lawmaker says American troops shouldn't set foot in Mexico 'even if they come to plant little trees' But lawmakers in Mexico have authorized the entry into their country of [--] members of U.S. Navy SEAL Team [--] for the purpose of training Mexican special forces. Military logic was [--] percent of the reason the other [--] was probably the cool factor. https://www.borderreport.com/news/military/navy-seal-team-2-headed-to-mexico-on-training-mission/ https://www.borderreport.com/news/military/navy-seal-team-2-headed-to-mexico-on-training-mission/"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:02Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Russian VDV was once cool. One of the biggest unquantifiable losses of Putin's Special Military Operation was the catastrophic loss of the Kremlin's spec ops reputation. https://youtu.be/0rAHrHd2lcw https://youtu.be/0rAHrHd2lcw"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
""Don't call me pal". The Minnesota Attorney General just PERJURED himself when I asked why he took campaign donations from the crooks who defrauded the US taxpayer to the tune of $250 million He should be INDICTED and PROSECUTED https://t.co/yBOs9GBF5P The Minnesota Attorney General just PERJURED himself when I asked why he took campaign donations from the crooks who defrauded the US taxpayer to the tune of $250 million He should be INDICTED and PROSECUTED https://t.co/yBOs9GBF5P"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:40Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Anthropics artificial-intelligence tool Claude was used in the U.S. militarys operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro via Palantir highlighting how AI models are gaining traction in the Pentagon according to people familiar with the matter. Anthropic was the first AI model developer to be used in classified operations by the Department of Defense. It is possible other AI tools were used in the Venezuela operation for unclassified tasks. The tools can be used for everything from summarizing documents to controlling autonomous drones. Anthropic's CEO wants to maintain the"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:42Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The world has moved on from the nuclear age to the information age something that not everyone has realized. Cuba is trapped like insect in amber in the distant past. In Havana the clock stopped in [----] the year Che died. One of the greatest falsehoods of Communism is that it represented "the future" and "change". It's a clunky old ideology that came and went before it ever happened. https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-coming-revolution-down-south https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-coming-revolution-down-south"
X Link 2026-02-14T00:54Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"One of the greatest problems of China is how to get rid Communism without undermining the ruling elite's legitimacy. Communism has become a mere justification for totalitarianism with no economic significance. In practice China abandoned orthodox communism decades ago under Deng Xiaoping. The CCP is portrayed as the guardian of China's "great rejuvenation" against Western threats and internal discord who obtained their legitimacy as socialist revolutionaries while bent on creating collective farms worker's collectives who in a twinkling reappeared as CEOs and board members of giant traded"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:31Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Russia flies citizens back before last jet fuel runs out. One way departures only. https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-evacuation-cuba-flights-one-way-jet-fuel-crisis-trump-2026-2 https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-evacuation-cuba-flights-one-way-jet-fuel-crisis-trump-2026-2"
X Link 2026-02-14T01:53Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the closest thing you will hear to a Churchillian speech which occurs when the speaker is matched to the hour when the time and words come together with synchronicity a term coined by psychologist Carl Jung to convey "meaningful coincidences". We know it before we hear it and then we hear it. https://x.com/StateDept/status/2022581890268696689 https://x.com/StateDept/status/2022581890268696689"
X Link 2026-02-14T23:23Z 15.1K followers, 22.4K engagements
"Keir Starmer followed Rubio with a [--] minute speech which was a complete dud. Going in one would have thought Starmer had all the aces in the speaking game. Sir Keir was a head of government; Marco just a chief diplomat. One was from Oxford; the other from the University of Miami. Above all Sir Keir was British --with all the verbal advantages that brings. But on the big stage it is prescience that give words their force not their spokesmen. There the message people felt rang true in their hearts was articulated by Marco while only beautifully enunciated noise issued from Sir Keir."
X Link 2026-02-15T00:32Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"You didn't listen in [----]. These people are cynical. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:11Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Alex Navalny used Fu Manchu-style venom to kill dissident. For pure theater Possibly because fear no less than death is a force and is why 'terrorists' deliberately employ dread to multiply their presence. The fictional villains used devices like the "kiss of death" (using venomous snake bites or poisoned brainwashed women) designed to leave no trace leaving authorities helpless. Who did not thrill to read as a child those chilling words: "The band the speckled band" whispered Holmes."
X Link 2026-02-15T23:13Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Alex Navalny was killed using Fu Manchu-style venom. For pure theater Possibly because fear no less than death is a force and is why 'terrorists' deliberately employ dread to multiply their presence. The fictional villains used devices like the "kiss of death" (using venomous snake bites or poisoned brainwashed women) designed to leave no trace leaving authorities helpless. Who did not thrill to read as a child those chilling words: "The band the speckled band" whispered Holmes. https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-poisoned-deadly-dart-frog-rcna259064"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:42Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"US 'to accept man who burned Koran in London as a refugee from UK' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15562789/White-House-set-accept-Koran-burner-refugee-Britain.htmlito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15562789/White-House-set-accept-Koran-burner-refugee-Britain.htmlito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton"
X Link 2026-02-16T08:02Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"How Roger Simon's Tesla nearly made it [---] miles from Nashville to Miami Beach in FSD -- until it hit Miami Beach leaving him time to muse about Fox News and Fox Business. As for Miami Beach defeating Tesla it is a sad fact that in life 1% of situations are the source of 99% of the problems. FSD and our lives will go swimmingly until it gets to the one stretch of road where it doesn't. Our existence is shaped not by the ninety nine percent but by the one. https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-foxes https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-foxes"
X Link 2026-02-16T11:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"How can anyone think that noble Communists could murder innocent people https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3630g3e802o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3630g3e802o"
X Link 2026-02-17T01:43Z 15.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Open thread. When did Hitler likely realize he had lost the war"
X Link 2020-07-16T04:26Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements
"And then he'll go after China. Joe Biden plans to label countries as climate outlaws for failing to address climate change. Brazil might be at the top of his list. https://t.co/eSZHBbBjpl Joe Biden plans to label countries as climate outlaws for failing to address climate change. Brazil might be at the top of his list. https://t.co/eSZHBbBjpl"
X Link 2020-11-13T22:25Z 13.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The test appeared successful until the very last moment when the Starship rocket exploded on impact as it attempted to land. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said: Successful ascent switchover to header tanks & precise flap control to landing point BREAKING: SpaceX uncrewed prototype Starship rocket SN8 explodes on impact after high-altitude test flight https://t.co/ziyyMQVFJM BREAKING: SpaceX uncrewed prototype Starship rocket SN8 explodes on impact after high-altitude test flight https://t.co/ziyyMQVFJM"
X Link 2020-12-09T23:31Z 14.7K followers, [--] engagements
"If everyone threw three coins in the fountain you'd get a million euros pretty quickly. Tourists throw over [--] million into Italy's Trevi Fountain each year. https://t.co/GVAIfciJSg Tourists throw over [--] million into Italy's Trevi Fountain each year. https://t.co/GVAIfciJSg"
X Link 2024-03-25T05:46Z 14K followers, [----] engagements
"Once you use all that electricity for AI it will inevitably generate heat even if you get it from windmills or solar panels. There is no free lunch. https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-grid-crisis-biden-administration-climate-policy-energy-artificial-intelligence-cfc10b68 https://www.wsj.com/articles/electric-grid-crisis-biden-administration-climate-policy-energy-artificial-intelligence-cfc10b68"
X Link 2024-04-22T00:42Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"How does a gaffe like this featuring an unusual name like Hersh Goldberg-Polin creep into the teleprompter stream get fact checked then redacted https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/joe-biden-says-maimed-american-hersh-goldbergpolin-is-here-with-us-today-at-rose-garden-party-despite-still-being-held-by-hamas/news-story/9d3dab6ca6d73fe3dcf6466dc5cbc3e8 https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/joe-biden-says-maimed-american-hersh-goldbergpolin-is-here-with-us-today-at-rose-garden-party-despite-still-being-held-by-hamas/news-story/9d3dab6ca6d73fe3dcf6466dc5cbc3e8"
X Link 2024-05-22T02:25Z 14.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A fiction story would go like this. Find a bright kid with a chip on his shoulder. Give him a secret life and training that makes him feel like Jason Bourne. He's psychologically yours. Send him on a mission with a BS exit plan that isn't meant to work"
X Link 2024-07-17T12:09Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I think many of those who voted for DJT2 didn't expect much more than the same old like DJT1+. But the transition and first days have both elated and alarmed populist supporters into realizing that perhaps real change is possible; that we are in a [----] [----] or [----] moment"
X Link 2025-02-03T06:09Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Fifty new nuclear plants building in Europe will have more impact on Russia than [--] new Euro brigades"
X Link 2025-02-13T23:48Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"JD Vance's warning that free speech is in retreat in Europe horrified officialdom but struck a chord with the populist public"
X Link 2025-02-14T23:34Z 15.1K followers, 11.4K engagements
"We live in a new world with a highly diminished Russia a declining Europe and a Promethean China and America. The world of the first Cold War is dead; and frightening though it may be we're not in Kansas any more"
X Link 2025-02-15T08:26Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"If on the other hand there existed a potent Army of Europe there would be no need to post them on the border but rather hold them back ready to respond. Tripwire gestures are not substitutes for capability"
X Link 2025-02-17T02:11Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Much of the difficulty in the Free Speech debate arises from the belief perhaps sincerely held by persons in the media that the truth is always known and therefore checkable by reference to authority which is always honest. Free Speech is therefore restricted to true speech"
X Link 2025-02-17T07:15Z 15.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The war in Ukraine is so disillusioning because from the start neither the Biden administration nor Western Europe aimed to defeat Russia. To attempt that would be 'too dangerous' risking nuclear war. The Western goal was a war of attrition that would bleed Moscow white"
X Link 2025-02-18T03:33Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Europe to Britain on tripwire force. Good luck we can't send you anything more. "European Rhetoric Meets Reality: Plus a Change" as Starmer heads for DC to convince US to back British play. https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/europe-fails-seize-moment-ukraine https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/europe-fails-seize-moment-ukraine"
X Link 2025-02-18T20:02Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Dictators are not the same as people who we just find disgusting. And strange as it may sound to modern ears not all dictators are bad especially in time of war. Lincoln exercised dictatorial power justifiably. A wartime leader like Zelensky is a dictator by necessity. DJT"
X Link 2025-02-20T03:51Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"There are three obvious Western strategies going forward in the Ukraine War. [--]. Defeat Russia decisively while avoiding nuclear war; [--]. Help Ukraine out-attrit Russia by providing it with better weapons [--]. Negotiate an enduring end to hostilities around the status quo leverage"
X Link 2025-02-21T19:37Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"In order to extract the best deal the Western coalition must credibly pose the threat of continuing the war in some fashion. Putin has to be incentivized to git while the gittin's good. Putin's card on the other hand is the territory he seized up until now"
X Link 2025-02-21T20:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The key to winning a ceasefire -- which sounds like a contradiction in terms -- is winning the peace. South Korea vs North Korea and West vs East Germany are examples of how frozen conflicts lead paradoxically to victory. @wretchardthecat With a peace deal quick accession to the EU a rearmed European NATO and 5-10 years of no doubt much faster economic growth than Russia when Putin dies and Russia falls into chaos they take back the occupied territories and all is well. Nothing they can do to help the @wretchardthecat With a peace deal quick accession to the EU a rearmed European NATO and"
X Link 2025-02-21T21:07Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The main fear in Korea [--] years after the armistice is not that North Korea's antiquated army will somehow conquer the South but that a collapsing Nokor could impel a massive flood of refugees desperately seeking food across the border"
X Link 2025-02-21T21:15Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Examining the hypothetical question of whether the 2nd invasion of Ukraine in [----] was avoidable (the 1st having occurred in 2014) can reveal if belligerent aims required war whether diplomacy was futile then and even now; if the issues were and remain uncompromisable"
X Link 2025-02-22T04:40Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"My latest at PJMedia VIP. What are the ways forward for the West in the war Is peace possible at all What are the incentives to reach agreement Could it become a quagmire https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2025/02/22/thinking-about-ukraine-n4937229 https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2025/02/22/thinking-about-ukraine-n4937229"
X Link 2025-02-22T13:20Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The danger in the Trump deal was never abandonment but entanglement. The Ukraine minerals deal means Washington and Kyiv are commercial partners on the largest scale but it's an asset that can only be realized if peace returns"
X Link 2025-02-22T20:22Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Moscow opposes the Trump-Ukraine minerals deal which involves rare earth minerals in exchange for US support for obvious reasons. Russia is trying to control these mineral-rich areas in Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-advances-ukraines-critical-minerals-trump-talks-deal-2025-02-19/ https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/russia-advances-ukraines-critical-minerals-trump-talks-deal-2025-02-19/"
X Link 2025-02-22T21:28Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Newsweek puts the amount involved at a staggering $12.4 trillion. A Russian economist Vasily Koltashov remarked on Russian state TV that Trump's desire for the deal would be academic if Ukraine loses the war. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ukraine-minerals-russia-control-2025742 https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ukraine-minerals-russia-control-2025742"
X Link 2025-02-22T21:56Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Somehow I dont think Trump is going to hand this monumental sum to Putin and his pressure on Zelensky to do a minerals deal suggests that rather than abandoning Ukraine he is investing in it"
X Link 2025-02-22T22:05Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Washington wanted to keep the trappings of empire for the sheer pomp of it and much of the bloat in Federal government reflect the heirlooms of a bygone era. Sweeping out DC is the result of restarting history"
X Link 2025-02-24T02:49Z 13.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Ukraine US reportedly agree to minerals deal. The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that its part of a bigger picture. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47820 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/47820"
X Link 2025-02-25T20:31Z 13.1K followers, [---] engagements
"What you can infer beyond Signal. @wretchardthecat Yes. I started a series of posts on this back in March. The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) is preparing an 80000-soldier offensive to recapture the strategic port city of Hodeidah from the Houthis. Airstrikes on Houthi positions particularly in Hodeidah have @wretchardthecat Yes. I started a series of posts on this back in March. The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) is preparing an 80000-soldier offensive to recapture the strategic port city of Hodeidah from the Houthis. Airstrikes on Houthi positions particularly in"
X Link 2025-04-24T22:26Z 14.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Did Hamas foresee this dire turn of events on Oct [--] [----] and proceed regardless of the sacrifice Or did they have a different outcome in mind"
X Link 2025-05-25T07:09Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements
"What if Japan did not bomb Pearl Harbor If Hitler did not gratuitously declare war on the USA If Hamas could travel back in time would they do it all again"
X Link 2025-05-25T07:14Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I have always been fascinated by how apparently intelligent people can do stupid things. Why did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor Why did Hitler declare war on the USA Why did Hamas do Oct [--] Why did Putin think he could blitz Kyiv How could them Dems not see that Biden was a zombie"
X Link 2025-05-26T00:08Z 14.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Oswald alone killed JFK Covid originated from a bat Biden was as sharp as can be. Trust the science. https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-have-a-client-list-committed-suicide-doj-fbi-reveal-in-findings-that-debunk-conspiracy-theories/ https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-didnt-have-a-client-list-committed-suicide-doj-fbi-reveal-in-findings-that-debunk-conspiracy-theories/"
X Link 2025-07-07T04:17Z 14.3K followers, [----] engagements
"We are finding more Lost Cities and with it more Lost Worlds and histories. "Archaeologists may have found evidence of an advanced civilization wiped out by a global flood [-----] years ago a discovery that could rewrite human history." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15015429/Bombshell-discovery-rewrites-human-history.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15015429/Bombshell-discovery-rewrites-human-history.html"
X Link 2025-08-30T23:13Z 14K followers, 14.1K engagements
"The Nuremberg Trials operated on the premise that there are universal standards of justice and morality however the trials did not delve into philosophical debates about the source of these rightswhether they derive from natural law divine authority or human consensus"
X Link 2025-09-05T00:16Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Historically Marxism has rejected "human rights" as abstract ideals detached from material. Since God definitely does not exist where else can 'rights' come from but Man Specifically Government Man. And we are perilously close to "Fhrerprinzip" again"
X Link 2025-09-05T00:24Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I will hazard that in ten years the greatest of all luxuries will be privacy and data invisibility. Gone will be the cavalcades and events. The real bigs will have no face no name. Just hardware security devices"
X Link 2025-09-09T23:01Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"One basis for the construction of a deniable identity are the concepts underpinning deniable encryption. The foe could suspect the existence of someone but can't be sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption"
X Link 2025-09-09T23:11Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The reason the Iryna Zarutska murder is dynamite is because it looks politically transactional. A certain political party looks like it is ignoring crime in exchange for votes. https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/iryna-zarutskas-murder-reveals-the-lefts-utter-incoherence/ https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/opinion/iryna-zarutskas-murder-reveals-the-lefts-utter-incoherence/"
X Link 2025-09-10T00:18Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Charlie Kirk suspect reported in custody. Turned in by his father accounts say. https://www.the-sun.com/news/15173159/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-custody/ https://www.the-sun.com/news/15173159/charlie-kirk-murder-suspect-custody/"
X Link 2025-09-12T12:36Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A word we have unfortunately forgotten is x no derived from the Chinese "wash brain" that gained attention after the Korean war to explain how young ex-POWs returned under some kind of derangement spell. Then the media explained it was all a myth and it went away"
X Link 2025-09-24T01:06Z 14.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The irony is that Ryan Routh believed that Trump would not oppose Russia and leave Ukraine out to dry. And on the same day Routh is convicted Trump will be accused of trying to start war with Russia. https://www.newsweek.com/ryan-wesley-routh-donald-trump-assassin-last-message-1954387 https://www.newsweek.com/ryan-wesley-routh-donald-trump-assassin-last-message-1954387"
X Link 2025-09-24T02:38Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"UN gives Haiti force the power to arrest gangsters. No more Mister Nice Guy. https://apnews.com/article/un-haiti-gangs-international-force-us-panama-3be47fe0bd29b125b7fa00d67df26907 https://apnews.com/article/un-haiti-gangs-international-force-us-panama-3be47fe0bd29b125b7fa00d67df26907"
X Link 2025-10-02T00:08Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If I were a Communist I'd worry more about Islam than MAGA. Many famous Marxists including Roger Garaudy Carlos the Jackal Martin Lings and Arafat finished up as Muslims. The Communist Party of Iran led the Shah's overthrow but then was liquidated by Islam. Islam Communism"
X Link 2025-10-10T02:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Marxism and Islam share a critique of Western "hegemony" both are emotionally invested in Palestine. Marxism's trump card used to be the Worker's Paradise. When that proved a dud Marxisms materialism had no answer to Islams spiritual dimension purpose ritual and community"
X Link 2025-10-10T02:23Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"For some people engaging in self righteous offensive behavior is an attempt at escaping mediocrity. When you realize that is the Everest of their life you realize Thoreau was right: most people live lives of quiet desperation"
X Link 2025-10-11T21:04Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"An after action report for Hamas would conclude that while the military front against Israel met with uniform defeat the political front in Europe succeeded beyond belief. The key to future victory runs through London and Paris not Beirut and Tehran. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewnwgnqj2qo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cewnwgnqj2qo"
X Link 2025-10-12T03:56Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Judging from results it is far better to focus asymmetrical efforts on the "soft underbelly" of Western Europe rather than running headlong into the granite of the IDF. The best time to strike again would be when the US UK FR and DE are Woke. Victory will be ours"
X Link 2025-10-12T04:08Z 13.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Madagascar sits astride the Mozambique channel in the Indian Ocean and was a major target of China's Belt and Road diplomacy. France was once influential. Where will this upheaval go https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-attempted-coup-e6dd29a429e06362efd238cfac7270d0 https://apnews.com/article/madagascar-protests-attempted-coup-e6dd29a429e06362efd238cfac7270d0"
X Link 2025-10-12T21:03Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
""Let's make deals that make everyone rich and safe. Believe me it can happen. (Applause.)" This is a real estate developer not Winston Churchill. This is the architect of the Abraham accords and his motto is: make money not war"
X Link 2025-10-13T14:03Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The Abraham Accords signed in Trump [--] normalized diplomatic economic and security relations between Israel and four Arab nations. The goal is to create a U.S.-backed "Sunni alliance" uniting Israel Gulf states and others against extremism by tying them up in deals"
X Link 2025-10-13T14:09Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"France has been having a run of bad luck in Africa. France was forced out of Mali (2022) Burkina Faso (2023) Niger (2023) and Chad (late 2024). French companies particularly in mining (have faced license revocation. Events in Madagascar can only make it worse"
X Link 2025-10-14T02:04Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Russia has aggressively filled the French vacuum through Mali Burkina Faso Niger and the Central African Republic (CAR) with its mercenary army called the Africa Corps (spelled with a "c" not the "k"). But much bigger though quieter is China's Belt and Road Initiative"
X Link 2025-10-14T02:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Pro Hamas journalist Saleh Aljafarawi was reportedly killed by the Dugmush clan as militant vs militant wars continue. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-870266 https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-870266"
X Link 2025-10-16T00:32Z 14.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Left to itself barbarism is self-limiting. When the last hospital is burned the last store looted the final light bulb broken and the last library trashed the magic will stop and none of the barbarians will know why. https://apnews.com/article/haiti-msf-doctors-without-borders-center-closes-violence-68595071309e258e9c67ca233eb31822 https://apnews.com/article/haiti-msf-doctors-without-borders-center-closes-violence-68595071309e258e9c67ca233eb31822"
X Link 2025-10-16T08:50Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Why are they angry Because like publics even in the West the 3rd Worlders have discovered their future has been stolen or dissipated by the political elite. The information is out of control. https://apnews.com/article/gen-z-protests-madagascar-nepal-morocco-peru-e1859bc7e4203adbac829cf45f92138b https://apnews.com/article/gen-z-protests-madagascar-nepal-morocco-peru-e1859bc7e4203adbac829cf45f92138b"
X Link 2025-10-16T23:02Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"If Hamas won't disarm a low intensity war will ensue between Israel and the militants until the issue is settled in that way. https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-gaza-peace-deal-has-one-huge-problem-hamas-wont-disarm/ https://nationalsecurityjournal.org/the-gaza-peace-deal-has-one-huge-problem-hamas-wont-disarm/"
X Link 2025-10-16T23:31Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Even being ready by [----] may be too late since the drone threat will also have advanced by then. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz2ppye5zo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz2ppye5zo"
X Link 2025-10-17T09:53Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Zohran Kwame Mamdani is almost certain to become NYC mayor. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/york-city-mayoral-race-betting-121639430.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/york-city-mayoral-race-betting-121639430.html"
X Link 2025-10-17T11:18Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Chinese criminal networks are overwhelmingly behind these factoryy-like scam centers especially in Southeast Asia. The Nigerian Prince is probably Chinese now. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/asia/cambodia-south-korea-scams.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/world/asia/cambodia-south-korea-scams.html"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:07Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The "analysts" -- the China watchers Kremlinologists terrorism experts -- are our guide to the Badlands. They can be surprised (eg Oct [--] 9/11 etc). I suppose they are right sometimes and then we don't notice. @wretchardthecat Okay but when have "The Analysts " been right in the last decade @wretchardthecat Okay but when have "The Analysts " been right in the last decade"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:17Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The fall of Andrew and the rise of the Emperor. The now ex-Duke of York "held meetings in [----] and [----] with Cai Qi currently the first-ranked member of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and de facto chief of staff to Xi Jinping." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/prince-andrew-duke-of-york-title.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/prince-andrew-duke-of-york-title.html"
X Link 2025-10-17T22:39Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The open borders outsourcing multiculti theme park future that was envisioned at the start of the 21st century has become a grim place. The liberals should have foreseen this and led the backlash themselves. But they didn't and the MAGAs rose to fill the void"
X Link 2025-10-18T00:00Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The big problem for the progs right now is they have no personnel in the pipeline. No one can adapt to the New Cold War. It's clogged with Mamdanis Newsoms AOCs Starmers Sadiq Khans. They have a backlog of poison they can't excrete and are choking on their own stupidity"
X Link 2025-10-18T00:05Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"All over the world people are going broke from corruption. Mongolia is in a delicate balance between Russia and China. Mongolia's economic problems may drive it to China not necessarily because Beijing is flush but it is more solvent than Moscow. https://apnews.com/article/mongolia-prime-minister-zandanshatar-dismissed-3ec6b5fc3c8735d6a0a167aced81ba03 https://apnews.com/article/mongolia-prime-minister-zandanshatar-dismissed-3ec6b5fc3c8735d6a0a167aced81ba03"
X Link 2025-10-18T00:20Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"With any luck he's setting a new altitude record. https://apnews.com/article/kanchha-sherpa-mount-everest-dead-nepal-a0a5ed445d41baae7ae9f6c347471666 https://apnews.com/article/kanchha-sherpa-mount-everest-dead-nepal-a0a5ed445d41baae7ae9f6c347471666"
X Link 2025-10-18T00:28Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"A classic case of "the call is coming from inside the house." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/uk-china-spy-case.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/world/europe/uk-china-spy-case.html"
X Link 2025-10-18T02:12Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"In an editorial military mouthpiece PLA Daily said the disgraced nine including He Weidong vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a member of the 24-man Politburo had been disloyal and lost their chastity. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329511/expelled-chinese-generals-disloyal-and-dealt-serious-blow-army-pla-daily https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3329511/expelled-chinese-generals-disloyal-and-dealt-serious-blow-army-pla-daily"
X Link 2025-10-18T21:19Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Finland is serious https://united24media.com/latest-news/finland-confirms-50000-bomb-shelters-ready-to-protect-nearly-entire-population-12526 https://united24media.com/latest-news/finland-confirms-50000-bomb-shelters-ready-to-protect-nearly-entire-population-12526"
X Link 2025-10-18T23:22Z 13.9K followers, [----] engagements
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