Debra 🌵

Transplanted Texan living in Colorado, Engineer, Mother
Engineers Lead the Way!

[U.S. Marines @USMC]

Happy birthday, Chesty!

#OTD, we celebrate the 128th birthday of Lt. Gen Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, the most decorated Marine in history.

Chesty served 37 years in the Corps, leaving his mark on campaigns in China, Haiti, Nicaragua, World War II, and Korea.

“Old breed? New breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference as long as it’s the Marine breed.”

#USMC #Military #SemperFidelis

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

My feature on CBS news today.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Big update to the fraud we discussed in this video. The largest homeless NGO in LA, Weingart Center is under FEDERAL investigation and the court just REJECTED all of Weingart's attempts to dismiss the fraud and waste claims regarding their shady property deal in Cheviot Hills.

What happened? Karen Bass and Nithya Raman laundered YOUR tax dollars through the Weingart NGO to pay 2x cost on a homeless housing project from a scammer middleman; a $16M flip, for a dubious homeless project, all while evicting the seniors who lived there.

Big hat tip to Samantha Nussbaum for doing the leg work on this case and bringing some accountability to the rampant fraud in LA's Homeless Industrial Complex. Are you starting to see how the scams work?

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

STUNNING:  USAID + THE BIG GRIFT

Looks like USAID supported college tuition for Anwar Aulaqi (Awlaki) who later became a high level al Qaeda terrorist.

Aulaqi falsely claimed he was born in Yemen to secure the financial help via the State Dept. when he was actually a US citizen, born in Las Cruces New Mexico.

Aulaqi would later develop close ties with several 9/11 hijackers and attain leadership status in AQ's Yemen affiliate.

Aulaqi was the godfather of the digital jihad that leveraged his writings and the web to radicalize Americans to AQ's cause.

Aulaqi became the first American targeted for death by the CIA. In 2011, he was killed in a US drone strike.

This 1997 Aulaqi mugshot is for soliciting prostitutes.

Good catch first flagged Feb. 2025 via
@browne_pamela
@intelwire

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Greta is upset that a female terrorist received a life sentence for her role in an attack that killed a paramilitary soldier. Women who participate in terrorism should be prosecuted exactly the same as men. The idea that female extremists deserve special treatment is one of the reasons terrorist networks continue to exploit women for recruitment, support, and operational roles.

Two things Greta leaves out of this video:

First, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) is training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and is now designated as a terrorist organization because it chose the path of terrorism.

Second, the BLA has repeatedly used a tactic of claiming individuals are "missing" to inflame local sentiment and accuse security forces of secretly detaining them, only for some of those same individuals to later emerge as attackers or suicide bombers.

Context matters, and leaving out these facts presents an incomplete picture. Greta is like one year away from ISIS bride status.

[💥Texas Girl💥 @Ilegvm]

This is actually hilarious and the difference between generations. 🤣🤣🤣

Love @natebargatze

[RxCKSTxR @therxckstxr]

Little Dog Got Big Game! 😂 Wow I’m Almost At 40k on “X” . That’s a Big Deal on This Platform! Thank you to everyone out here who’ve liked commented and shared me with their world. I really appreciate it! 🫶🏾 RxCKSTxR

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

This is one of his most succinct works - the simple word “Za,” or “I’m for it,” on a list of proposed executions. Number 12 here is one of my favorite authors, Isaac Babel:

[CRAZY DAYS AND NIGHTS @CrazyDaysPoster]

Monday, June 22, 2026
Blind Item #14

The city A++ lister is not saying anything bad about the owners of the building that is currently poisoning everyone in LA and beyond, because the owners are some of the biggest contributors to her reelection campaign.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Ro Khanna pleads, “Don’t smear me,” while using James Macinko’s “research” to smear @elonmusk with millions of dead children.

Macinko, a self-described social justice warrior whose NGO-funded career is turning social sciences into academic-looking papers then bragging about it👇

[Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum]

.@FortMcHenryNPS commemorates the events that inspired America's national anthem.

As we celebrate @Freedom250, we honor the generations of patriots who have defended our liberty and fought for our flag.

[Anish Koka, MD @anish_koka]

We already spend close to $1 trillion / year on Medicaid, and $1 trillion/ year on Medicare.

Intellectual nonsense is giving even more dollars to a government that takes those dollars and funnels it to industries that know which hands to grease.

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

This young lady is such an incredible talent and I am so glad her talent was on display on a National Stage at the Freedom 250 UFC Event 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

For Father’s Day, I’ll share this letter to Karl Marx from his dad

[Dale Brisby @dalebrisby]

Rule # 11 don’t put your hat on the bed

[Ms.Shelton Ŧ @GruvyGurl]

To all who have prayed for me, shared my post, & contributed in any way, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I feel like I have so many guardian angels out there. I can't say what a relief it is not to have to face this alone. I love my #FanFamily. https://t.co/9bZu9fgwuY

[PBR @PBR]

𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐕𝐄 🇺🇸✈️

#SpaceCowboys | @gospaceforce

[Seth Cohen @OverReactor1776]

Now that I’m out of government, I can finally respond for myself: Get bent, soyboy. We didn’t do this for “Silicon Valley . . . companies.” We did this for you, for your family, your community, your state, your nation, and your species.

Nuclear energy provides the safest, highest density, reliable power available on our planet. My career colleagues at DOE and NRC inspired me to think about nuclear as a way to forge American steel and electrolyze aluminum without releasing particulate matter, to desalinate water in the Middle East and save humanity from resource wars. By rejecting the false narratives and Cold War hysteria, we can secure the next American century while raising whole countries out of poverty.

Do you really think I left an incredible career at Kirkland, paid out of pocket for an apartment in DC and dozens of cross-country trips, and left my family on the west coast because I wanted to enrich people I never met before taking this job? I came to D.C. to do something that mattered, to satisfy a driving curiosity (more on that later), and, most importantly, to serve.

As I learned more about nuclear energy and its history, I developed a conviction that one nuclear’s biggest issues was a culture of cynicism: nothing new or exciting could happen because it would end in disappointment, and that militated against rocking the boat even a tiny bit. The career staff in government and their industry counterparts lived through dark winters before and stopped believing that warm springs could bloom into summers.

I have two core philosophies. First, I believe in ruthless optimism. Rational decision making requires detached risk analysis. But we also cannot win if we believe we can lose. Merging the two requires orienting teams around driving missions. That way, when a real opportunity presents itself, you can take a huge swing.

If I take credit for anything—honestly, almost all of the success belongs to the incredible and dedicated people at @ENERGY and @NRCgov—it’s countering the cultural rot and morass that risked forfeiting American excellence. My colleagues and I gave cover to the scientists and engineers, which freed them up to focus on delivering safe power. And, as success materialized, they started to dream again. That’s why the pilot program succeeded, and why I feel confident about the future of NLICs and NRC reform. Nobody needs me anymore because they can innovate on their own.

My second core philosophy is to assume positive intent. Avi, I know that you heard about my real motivations from multiple people you interviewed when preparing your hit piece on me. Rather than telling that story, one which could help inspire another generation of people to use their talents for the greater good, you ignored them. Instead, you implied that Peter Thiel recruited me for nefarious purposes. (I’ve never met him, but, @peterthiel, if you’re reading this, I’m a huge fan!)

Nuclear regulation starts and ends with safety. I promised everyone I worked with that I would resign before doing or pushing for anything that could compromise public safety. But I also distinguished between real safety and performative bullshit. That’s what the careers came to embrace, too. We love nuclear, why would we do anything that could risk threatening its future?

America faces a crossroads. We can either trod a road of cultural decay or hike our way back to the peak of global innovation. Join me on the latter path. Correct the fear mongering and conspiracies and tell the story of America’s great reindustrialization. Tell the story of our public servants, our great entrepreneurs, our scientific dominance. Tell the real story about how DOGE went nuclear.