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alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
I have just spoken by phone with the leaders of the Students' List @studentblokade, who won the elections in Serbia, to congratulate them on their victory. I assured them of Hungary’s support. I was delighted to hear how much strength our victory in April had given them during this difficult struggle.
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Calls victims who fight because they don’t want to die helplessly "warmongers". How dare Ukraine refuse occupation and subjugation and disturb profitable deals with the genocidal Russian regime!
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Such important work!!!
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
No, @elonmusk, the U.S. stopped funding Ukraine last year. In fact, U.S. companies make money on American weapons for which we Europeans pay.
The more you meddle in our politics and the more you play politics with your products, the more you damage your brand.
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
The U.S. Department of Justice has notified at least six Democratic-friendly Georgia counties it intends to station monitors there on Election Day. #gapol
ajc.com/politics/2026/10/geo…
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Yes, exactly
Very useful insight from a portfolio founder: VCs are using Granola and feeding notes into a poorly prompted version of Claude to evaluate and pick apart what founders are saying mid-pitch. The frustrating thing is that AI tends toward groupthink...so "trends" on the internet (whether true or not) color how VCs respond even more today than historically. This founder is tracking those sometimes unfounded trends and turns of phrase and ensuring he rebuts them right out of the gate.
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
NEW!! GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer says he received a briefing today from Air Force Sec. Troy Meink on Starshield, raising concerns over U.S. reliance on SpaceX.
“Fighting wars” can’t be so dependent on private companies, he says.
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story here in @VanityFair
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
“Vance’s message differed from comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Musk had the authority to enforce his company’s terms of service without input from the administration.”wsj.com/world/trump-called-m…
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
It was a pleasant surprise to see my friend, @alex, give me (and my latest article) a shout-out in his excellent Cautious Optimism newsletter today! If you don't already, you should subscribe!
cautiousoptimism.news/thurs1
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
If you followed the Trump administration's jihad against Anthropic over restrictive terms of use for Claude, then you're not going to buy its Ukraine blame-shifting to Musk -- as if Starshield terms of use are none of the administration's business ... nationalreview.com/corner/no…
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
The White House counsel's office warned Politico in a Monday letter that it had 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories revolving around COS Susie Wiles — or it would suffer unspecified consequences.
axios.com/2026/10/21/white-h…
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Anthropic will be very surprised to learn that the US government can’t direct a private company to make or not make particular decisions.
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
ask + u shall receive @pitdesi
@harvey still has ~2x the ARR + ~1.8x the val but @WeAreLegora pricier on a multiple basis (~44x vs ~39x)
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
"Don't you dare build your own European satellite network. You must use the American one that can be shut off by a single deranged billionaire."
Quite the pitch from the US ambassador to the EU
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
HAPPENING NOW!! Rubio tells reporters Trump “has nothing to do with the decisions that are made by Starlink and Starshield and by Mr. Musk”
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
A firm created by Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini's family offered to pay @AlinaHabba $10m/yr while she was an administration advisor.
Weeks after she started at the company, Trump pardoned Herrera Velutini, who had been charged in a bribery case nytimes.com/2026/10/20/us/po…
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
For a long time there was an assumption that every state should have a publicly-owned research university offering graduate education in every field of scholarly inquiry. That assumption had been dying a slow death since 2008, but it is truly gone now.
"The University of Oregon is considering phasing out ... some or all of the master’s and doctoral programs offered in History, Romance Languages, Folklore, Comparative Literature, Classics, and German and Scandinavian" bit.ly/4eCYxvx
alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Incredible scoop by my @WSJ colleagues: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, a decision that sparked panic in Kyiv and confusion inside the Trump administration. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
