CEC

Founder, Anduin Strategies. DC based. Many formers.

[Wayne Hsiung @waynehhsiung]

James the ex-lab beagle is scared of a blueberry.

It's funny for a sec, then it hits you:

At Ridglan, new things meant pain.

We're teaching him that's no longer the case. And he makes progress every day!

[CEC @EdeCalton]

@HenrikLund13312 @RARohde God, please improve the agitprop on this platform.

[CEC @EdeCalton]

@RARohde Thanks..

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

It has been 160 days since Jan 13, when Trump told the Iranian protesters that “help was on its way” https://t.co/qrUy1TGc5T

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Greg called it early and correctly.

[CEC @EdeCalton]

@46_ColeTrickle @sentdefender 🤦‍♂️

[CEC @EdeCalton]

@KareemRifai Probably same for ZM

[Peter D Carter @PCarterClimate]

JUNE 2026 SUPER EL NINO-- WAY ABOVE PAST RECORD SUPER EL NINOS
20 June Nino 3.4 is way above 2015 and 1997 super El Niños
It will be a historic, devastating event in the El Nino vulnerable regions. Ignored by our governments, to shield the fossil fuel industry from blame, which will make it even worse.
Climate Reanalyzer.
#ElNino #climatechange #globalwarming

[CEC @EdeCalton]

Exactly:
The “antiwar” movement is a left-right capture play and has been on display at recent events such as “Rage Against the War Machine” and “Rally to Rescue the Republic” which are run by the Libertarian Party, the Schiller Institute, the Ron Paul network, and the RFK Jr network — as well as the full menagerie of RU/CN proxies. Gabbard is fully part of that network and has spoken at those events.

This network goes back decades in various forms and has been at the heart of the anti-war and anti-nuclear “movements” which have been fluffed by Russia, and more recently by China.

Gabbard isn’t some one-off whack-job proxy of a rogue cult leader: this is an assault by our adversaries in a long game of information warfare and state capture, and those adversaries now have every state secret she cared to locate and share. We are less secure now. Congrats.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

What no one is asking now is WHY Gabbard was being run by a cult? For decades, Russia has worked to inject itself into spiritual cults (Maharishi, ISKCON, SIF) to 1) get people staring at their navels instead of taking political or practical action, 2) bring about “world peace” by capturing and dismantling US capabilities.

The “antiwar” movement is a left-right capture play and has been on display at recent events such as “Rage Against the War Machine” and “Rally to Rescue the Republic” which are run by the Libertarian Party, the Schiller Institute, the Ron Paul network, and the RFK Jr network — as well as the full menagerie of RU/CN proxies. Gabbard is fully part of that network and has spoken at those events.

This network goes back decades in various forms and has been at the heart of the anti-war and anti-nuclear “movements” which have been fluffed by Russia, and more recently by China.

Gabbard isn’t some one-off whack-job proxy of a rogue cult leader: this is an assault by our adversaries in a long game of information warfare and state capture, and those adversaries now have every state secret she cared to locate and share. We are less secure now. Congrats.

I’m not telling you anything here that wasn’t known during her confirmation hearings. Which means the Senate was derelict of duty, and complicit.

Some will also remember when Tulsi was briefly chair of the DNC, a Sanders Institute fellow, and a darling of the left cheering on Julian Assange. She was always a snake and her goal was to infiltrate and destroy the Democratic Party.

Next time maybe more people will pay attention to those doing closer reads of the signals instead of flitting from scandal to scandal.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Folks need to understand that these cults have long been targets of KGB influence. Both things are true.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

This Tulsi Gabbard story is somehow both insane and not surprising. She was a literal flesh mannequin whose entire career is a sham: thousands of documents show her positions and "beliefs" were simply those of her "eat my toenails" cult leader. Let's dive into a thread.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

Hitting close to home: Putin Special Envoy Kirill Dmitriev is very upset about the Tulsi exposé and is calling me the deep state.

[CEC @EdeCalton]

RT @VanceNate: Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.

The visuals from Switzerland:

• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.

• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.

• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.

[CEC @EdeCalton]

@BenjaminDEKR They be conscripted into models that have no reasonable application for 99% of individuals but massive applications at the corporate, country or planetary scale

[CEC @EdeCalton]

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[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

Boden’s creativity framework is a useful starting point here. LLMs can do combinatorial and exploratory. Less clear on transformational.

[CEC @EdeCalton]

@NickADobos Best news I’ve heard about this.

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

The betrayal of the Iranian people is almost irrefutable now. 159 days since Trump said “help was on its way.” Shameful and disgraceful. This matters, as those of us who actually were/are practioners, who are tasked with speaking with/assisting/recruiting indig forces…well, there will be historic references any of our future potential partners will always bring up….the Afghan withdrawal under Biden, was terrible…gut wrenching abandonment….and now the abandonment of the Iranian people under Trump. Equally awful. If not worse. So…The word of the US ends up meaning, what? Now, Ukraine was a huge success, yes. In terms of my old world, and support to indig forces….but the overall scorecard as a reliable ally….our record is very very mixed. Makes job particularly hard for those that actually DO things in far away places…