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This is an excerpt from UNELECTED. I didn't promote it at the time because it is a radical chapter written after 350 pages of buildup. The Truth About DOGE. americanmind.org/salvo/the-t…
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We don't need to eliminate disagreement. We need to make disagreement productive again. Because when we stop challenging ideas and start attacking people, we lose one of our greatest tools for finding better answers. The goal isn't agreement. The goal is better-informed disagreement that leads to stronger solutions. Matt Davis
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When are we going to wake up and realize the Chinese Communist Party is the mortal enemy of the west? How many more stories about hacking, cyberattacks, bribery, coercion, theft, cheating, etc do we have to experience before we completely cut the cord? #China #Spies
Millions of Android TV boxes left the factory already backdoored and sold to criminals. Google just exposed that Shenzhen manufacturer Videostrong deliberately pre-installed a persistent backdoor into more than 1.3 million Android TV boxes, including MECOOL models. Partners saw roughly 1.47 million infected devices across 206 models in 170+ countries. It sold access to criminals who used the devices as residential proxies, ran ad fraud, and stole data, all without owners knowing. The malware runs with system privileges, can silently install apps, disable Google Play Protect, and reinstalls itself from a protected partition if you delete it. Google and partners took down the command servers (cutting off access to at least 10 million more devices) and permanently banned Videostrong from certified Android. The company had slipped the malware past testing by activating it after first boot. Servers are offline, but the firmware backdoor is still on the devices already sold. Simple deletion will not fix it. When a certified maker ships malware from the factory into living rooms across 170+ countries, cheap streaming boxes can quietly turn your home internet into someone else’s tool.
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BREAKING: In a 2-1 vote, the Ninth Circuit lifted restrictions on the Trump administration's efforts to have states set aside ballots from suspected noncitizens, allowing it to resume such requests, warn election officials of prosecution, and pursue related investigative steps.
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🚨 Inside the Largest Government Funded Human Trafficking Ring in History: Your tax dollars trafficked over 300,000 children across the United States while NGOs enriched themselves with millions of dollars. One NGO received $895 million to traffic children across the US. Others got $100+ million, and NGOs in areas like Tucson, Arizona pocketed millions but now receive nothing since the border shut down. In this video we break down the contracts, speak with former Border Patrol, and confront the NGOs. It’s a must watch, like it and share it. Make sure no one forgets the hundreds of children lost in the government’s hands.
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We are finally pushing China's state-run telecom spy operations out of the United States. @BrendanCarrFCC has been relentless in confronting these malign operations. Salt Typhoon remains a serious U.S. national security threat. It's time to ban every Chinese telecom company from our networks. #China #Spy
The United States plans to bar Chinese telecommunications companies from direct access to American phone numbers on national security grounds, a move aimed at curbing scam-related robocalls. The Federal Communications Commission announced it will vote on Nov. 19 on a proposal to block China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, and other IP-enabled service providers from obtaining direct access. Direct number access serves as a cost-effective channel for Voice over Internet Protocol providers, allowing them to route digital voice data over broadband networks while deploying advanced calling features. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr stated that the decision will reinforce the agency's frontline defenses against fraudulent operators and malicious callers. China's foreign ministry firmly condemned the impending restrictions, accusing Washington of overstretching the concept of national security and misusing state authority to suppress Chinese firms. Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun warned that Beijing will take necessary countermeasures to resolutely protect its legitimate commercial rights and interests. The FCC also intends to bar IP-enabled service providers that incorporate hardware from blacklisted suppliers deemed security risks, including Huawei and ZTE. The agency separately plans to ban all Chinese laboratories from testing U.S. electronics beginning in December 2028, while weighing the revocation of existing number authorizations for Chinese companies flagged as risks. The proposal follows prior regulatory crackdowns in which the FCC revoked the operating licenses of China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom to provide international telecommunications services in the United States. Regulators are considering further sanctions, including barring Chinese carriers from connecting to domestic networks and prohibiting them from operating data centers on U.S. soil. Espionage concerns have intensified following revelations in late 2024 that the Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage group Salt Typhoon breached U.S. telecommunications infrastructure and exfiltrated consumer call data. The FBI warned earlier this year that threats stemming from the Salt Typhoon campaign remain active and ongoing. In July, the FCC added California-based Digitalsystem Technology to its national security risk list, citing its ownership by a Chinese national and direct ties to Chinese telecommunications firms. China has consistently denied any wrongdoing or involvement in state-directed cyber operations. reuters.com/world/asia-pacif…
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Tucker, a deal with terrorists is unlikely to ever be made. The world's largest state sponsor of terrorism holds enough highly enriched uranium to build at least 11 nuclear bombs. We will not relent until that uranium is in our hands or permanently sealed. The feverish construction around Pickaxe Mountain, documented by CSIS, should concern every citizen of the world, Islamist extremists excepted.
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Holy Jesus. They are pulling all of the stops. @DallasXCEO @DallasExpress
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A Cambridge academic @haugejostein is whitewashing Mao, whose policies killed tens of millions of Chinese (40 million+). @haugejostein deleted the tweets and shut off replies rather than defend them (Hillary Clinton style). The historical record doesn't change because a cowardly sinophilic professor wishes it would. @Cambridge_Uni @CambridgeUP
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You are a disservice to the historical record. It is difficult to understand how anyone pays you to teach. @Cambridge_Uni @CambridgeUP Mao killed 40 million+ of his own people.
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Great list. My family and I have been and are continuing to aggressively pursue all 10 of these points.
Gemini advice for next 10 years.
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As someone on a plane weekly, this is is incredibly hilarious and relatable. Made me laugh.
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Replying to @DrOzCMS @USTreasury
Hay man, trying to muster a bit of supoort myself. Just putting this out there among my compatriots.
One year in, the Scam Center Strike Force is hitting Chinese organized crime syndicates where it hurts—disrupting industrial-scale scam compounds and protecting Americans.   Launched by @USAttyPirro in November 2025, the Strike Force has delivered results through a whole-of-government response and strong public-private collaborations:
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Earlier this month, CMS and @USTreasury signed an MOU to help track where the money is going and identify fraudsters operating in the shadows. We’re working together more closely than ever before.
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“For 17 years I was maligned as the person ruining Palantir because I created this horrible concept of the FDE, and then it became the coolest thing ever.” "It's a product strategy, not a role." "The atomic unit of the enterprise is the workflow." "It made the enterprise programmable." "It's not about bench-maxxing, it's about bench-making." There is SO much good stuff in this interview from FDE prime @ssankar
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If you look closely enough, breakthroughs in everything are accelerating exponentially. An exponential always starts off looking small.
this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now. it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them the last 6 months alone: - a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months) - a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months - a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year - a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3 - retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3 - an ai-designed drug entered phase 3 - a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3 - an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved - a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney - human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday stick around, it's going to get weird bio/acc
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Like I've already stated, my archives are VERY expansive and I am unmasking all of the Trojan Horse agents of destruction and wickedness in the United States. Screenshot 1: Grover Norquist with his Islamic USAID Palestinian wife Samah Alrayyes Norquist. Samah Alrayyes Norquist with her antisemitic, anti-Israel extremist brother-in-law Khaled Elkhatib at a terrorism-linked Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) event. Khaled Elkhatib at PCRF fundraiser. Many of the groups raising money for Gaza are brand-name charities like OxFam or Save the Children. Others have the imprimatur of the United Nations like UN Crisis Relief or UNRWA USA. Still others are longstanding donors to this cause like the Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). It was made clear by a report published by Bloomberg, which noted that the Hamas terrorist organization has been receiving between $8 million to $12 million in donations raised in the United States since the war began. Ties between charities and terrorists: In the NGO Monitor's report about PCRF, the ties between the charities and the terrorists are undeniable. Just like the way the Hamas terrorist organization had effective control of UNRWA-the U.N. refugee agency for the Palestinians-with many of its employees belonging to the Islamist Hamas terror group, the point where Palestinian nonprofits end and Hamas begins isn't clear. In 2019, PCRF partnered with the Gaza Ministry of Health to open a pediatric cancer department. This is a Hamas entity. American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is a Chicago-based 501(c)(3) advocacy nonprofit founded in 2006. Critics, congressional committees, and state officials allege that AMP has organizational, financial, and leadership ties to the Hamas terrorist organization and acts as a successor or "alter ego" to earlier groups linked to Hamas. Since 2013 (at least), AMP has been a regular supporter and fundraising host for PCRF's "run for peace" fundraising event. Since 2016 (at least), PCRF has participated in AMP's conventions, distributing leaflets, artwork, and shirts, and raising funds. Screenshot 2: Khaled Elkhatib and his wife, Sarah Airayyes (Grover Norquist's sister-in-law via his wife Samah Alrayyes Norquist), participating in a notorious Team Palestine for PCRF charity bike fundraiser. PCRF has partnered with the Zakat Foundation of America (ZFA). Khalil Demir serves as the Executive Director of ZFA. Demir formerly worked at the Benevolence International Foundation. According to an IRS tax filing of the Benevolence International Foundation from 2000, "The books are in care of Halil I. Demir." The Benevolence International Foundation was designated by the Treasury Department as a financier of terrorism in 2002. Screenshot 3: Khaled Elkhatib ans his wife Sarah Airayyes participating in another PCRF fundraising event. Screenshot 4: Since the October 7th Hamas terrorist massacre of 1,200 Jews in Israel, Khaled Elkhatib has operated as a relentless antisemitic, anti-Israel propagandist, smearing Israel with well-proven lies while spreading vile anti-Jewish tropes and far-left falsehoods about "genocide" in Gaza and other verbal trash designed to delegitimize Israel and prop up the Palestinian war to remove Jews from their homeland in Israel. These ARE Grover Norquist's in-laws. Oh, but it's all about reforming taxes - riiiiiiiiiiight.
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zero hedge picked up my piece. it's about the fortune wall street is paying to insure against the ai meltdown, and why i'd rather be the one selling the policy. coreweave's 5-year cds touched a record 1,194 basis points on 15 october. at around 1,000, insuring $10m of its debt costs about $1m a year. that's paying a tenth of what your house is worth, every year, for the fire cover. the timeline calls this smart money. it makes me laugh. i ran a very large cds book from 2010, buying protection on japanese cyclicals because i thought china would slow and dump its surplus capacity on the rest of asia. china didn't slow. i spent 2 or 3 years listening to the meter run and wore a drawdown of roughly 30% for the privilege. the cost nobody screenshots is the roll. your risk department insists the book stays on the run, the freshly minted 5-year contract, because that's where the liquidity lives. so every roll you sell the aged contract cheap and buy the fresh one dear. the dealer, naturally, takes his cut both ways. it's the natural gas etf all over again. perpetual contango. you can be right on direction and still get eaten alive by the cost of staying in the trade. run the chart everyone's passing around. buy coreweave protection near 375, sell near 980, and the spread move is worth about 27% on paper. premium and rolls take back roughly 15 points and you keep something near 12. a huge move in coreweave, a far less heroic one in your p&l. the screenshot crowd thinks it's holding a lottery ticket when it's holding a fucking utility bill. so i'd rather sell it. selling protection pays close to 10% a year, and unlike shorting a stock your loss is capped at the amount insured. capped isn't safe. but it's a very different animal. then there's the calendar. buy the s&p on midterm election day, hold it for a year, and since 1946 you've been higher 20 times out of 20, by close to 15% on average. the puke comes before the vote. this year the vote is 3 november. maybe this year is different. if it isn't, i suspect the man selling the fire alarm does better than the 15% the s&p is likely to hand you. i've already paid for that education once. this time i'd rather sell the alarm than rent it. renting the fire alarm 👇
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Color Revolution Leaders Left Their Homework in a Public Google Drive 312 gigabytes of planning, an AI note-taker nobody remembered to switch off, and a White House smart enough to shut up until November 4. tonyseruga.substack.com/p/co…
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The next five years will see a wave of emerging technology disruptors that will redefine how businesses operate, compete and innovate ‼️ Product leaders can no longer afford to ignore these trends, because these technologies will impact every enterprise, in every industry, to varying degrees. Read on: gtnr.it/4hOLKs1
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