🇺🇸🇺🇦Marc Johnson blogguero.bsky.social

$NVDA - Holy Crap...this is right out of a movie!

A whale with $19,000,000+ in profits is going short on Oil. He has opened a $43,000,000 Brent Crude oil short with 5x leverage. This guy is betting on US and Iran de-escalation.

Satellite imagery and capacity analysis reveal that Beijing is expanding its uninspected Emeishan centrifuge facility—a move suggesting an end to China's nearly 40-year pause on producing weapon-grade highly enriched uranium to fuel its nuclear arsenal. buff.ly/bZjtwNQ

It’s still extraordinarily anomalous and strange for the Department of Defense to routinely engage in agit-prop aimed at the American public and for aggressively partisan purposes.

Trump’s new Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller: America’s doors are closed fully to asylum seekers. It’s a very simple, a very elegant, a very… complete solution.

According to the Times Irans health ministry has confirmed handing out Iodine tablets.

One of the biggest signs of a vibe shift? Donations from ZIP code 22101, home to the CIA headquarters in Langley and defense contractors in McLean, were overwhelmingly Democratic in 2024. They had a massive Republican shift this year. reason.com/2026/11/05/langle…

The White House warned more than 3,000 conservative groups that it is monitoring their public statements following Republicans’ crushing midterm defeat. The warning comes as prominent Republicans blame Trump’s tariffs and the Iran war for losing control of Congress. The administration says the memo is not a threat but an effort to keep its increasingly divided conservative coalition united. Source: WSJ

Vice President Vance is mistaken.  The reason we Republicans lost yesterday is not just the war in Iran.  Yes, the resulting higher fuel prices contributed to the inflation that infuriated Americans who were promised lower prices by this administration.  But the war is not the only cause.  Arbitrary and capricious tariffs directly raised costs for all American consumers.  Lower income Americans can least afford them. Many voted for Democrats yesterday. Tariffs should be a central part, but only part, of the “honest conversation” VP Vance wants Republicans to have about the future of our party.  For instance, we all seem to oppose government-owned grocery stores.  But are we ok with government ownership of semiconductors companies and rare earth miners?  We oppose rent controls.  But do we support price controls on medicines and credit cards? The bigger question is does the Republican party now agree with the left that we need a large, powerful central government to run the economy, allocate capital and control prices? Or, do we believe that free men and women should be able to engage in commerce as they see fit and that a free enterprise system will create a higher standard of living and the greatest opportunities for the most people as it always has? Let’s have an “honest conversation.”

Democrats frame their midterm victory as a mandate for change but already disagree on how far voters want them to go, including if they have license to investigate President Trump and his family, pursue impeachment or embrace 'Medicare for All' healthcare reut.rs/4Aa6twF

It’s here. My most ambitious project yet: I built 3D models of embassies across Washington—and a digital atlas of the world’s diplomacy with the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, this is what 10 billion Astra tokens buys. 🧵 1/10 chanceries.org

BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed is expected to require ALL Michigan Elementary school students to learn ARABIC numerals. As a Jewish American I still support this 100%.

Ted Cruz: Texas will be red again. Texas is still Texas. We will rebuild as a true blue-collar party, not by embracing socialism, but by being real free-market conservatives, the way we built the Texas economic miracle in the first place.

Putin: It is especially important now that people understand that Russia has never threatened anyone and does not threaten anyone.

👀 Spotted outside Commerce Department headquarters this morning:

Declassified photos from Polish government archives show a team of safecrackers inside the vault of the US consulate in Poznan one night in the early 1980s. The men were specialists from Section IX, Department II of the Secret Service of the Polish People’s Republic. Throughout the Cold War they regularly penetrated foreign embassies and consulates throughout Poland at night when they were unoccupied. The team didn’t just break in once but entered many of the supposedly secure facilities on a weekly basis, disabling security systems, picking locks, and photographing documents. One of the keys to their success was also their greatest danger: radiation. Section IX built powerful, portable x-ray machines to bombard vault doors and reveal their inner workings. Team members were exposed to radiation 500x greater than was safe, and many succumbed to cancer later in life. In the case of the consulate pictured here, a curved steel rod holding a radioactive isotope was inserted through a tiny hole drilled below the vault door. X-ray film was then placed in front of the Mosler combination lock, and the isotope would reveal the inner workings of the wheel mechanism within approximately 90 minutes, all while bombarding the Section IX men with radiation as well. Once they were inside, the Mosler file cabinet was not bolted to the floor so it could be tilted forward and the isotope again placed behind it, and the x-ray film in front. They only needed to use these methods once until the combination was changed. Section IX was so good at their craft that Polish records show they broke into the US consulates in Krakow and Poznan 44 times in 1982 alone. For episode 122 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I spoke with Tomasz Awlasewicz, author of Invisible: The Greatest Secret of the Secret Services of the Polish People’s Republic. We discussed the methods used to access the most secure rooms of foreign embassies and consulates inside Poland, and the heavy price the technicians and operatives of Section IX paid for their groundbreaking work. The episode is available now. #coldwar #consulate #safecracker #radiation #xray youtube.com/watch?v=Xp0IbveH…