Daniel, First of His Name

To master the self, one must understand the world;
to master the world, one must understand the self.

Existing only as a concept in people's minds.

[Daniel, First of His Name @HisNameIsVanity]

Millennial culture is having
3 different conversations
with the same person,
across multiple platforms, simultaneously.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 HUGE: Trump had a fiery, expletive-filled call with Netanyahu, calling him “fucking crazy” and yelling “What the fuck are you doing?”

Sources briefed on today's call tell Axios it was profanity heavy and one of the worst between the two men since Trump returned to office.

Per the officials, Trump told the Israeli leader, "You're fucking crazy.

You'd be in prison if it weren't for me," accused him of ingratitude, and warned that hitting Beirut would isolate Israel further.

Trump also objected to the civilian toll and to leveling buildings to kill one commander, then put the brakes on the Beirut operation.

His anger, the sources say, was driven by Netanyahu's escalation threatening to blow up the Iran talks.

Netanyahu's office says its position is unchanged.

A U.S. official claims Trump flattened him on the call.

Source: Axios

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Just imagine, imagine, if Obama had done anything like this.

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

Do not confuse "America" with the US-led "transatlantic empire."

America as a country may very well be in a state of internal decline, but the US-led transatlantic empire is not in decline. America as a country may very well burn to the ground today, but the current structure that is spreading Imperialism across the globe will not collapse with it. It doesn't matter how many wars America loses today; it doesn't matter how many times they get outmatched and humiliated in open combat settings; it doesn't matter if their domestic infrastructure crumbles into a third-world heap of rust. The US-led transatlantic empire will never collapse simply because a single host nation fails.

This is because this empire is not a "country." It is instead an elite club of conglomerates and mega-corporations that may or may not be in America. These corporations that make up the American empire are only in America today because America provides them with the consumer markets to buy their goods by toppling regimes in foreign nations around the world and opening up those countries to purchase their luxury goods and iPhones. These corporations are in America today because the U.S. Navy is still actively patrolling the world's oceans and choke points to protect the goods and raw materials produced by these corporations. These corporations are in America today because America is able to use invasions to seize a country’s oil fields and sea beds and offer them no-bid contracts that allow them to sustain their business models.

Furthermore, these corporations stay in America because the U.S. government provides them with the weaponized dollar, allowing them to bankrupt any rival nation that dares to challenge their monopoly. They stay because the American intelligence apparatus acts as a global corporate espionage agency, stealing trade secrets and crushing indigenous competitors before they can even launch.
They stay because the U.S. legal system has been twisted to protect intellectual property and patent rights over the basic human right to medicine, food, and survival.

But as soon as things get a little bit too spicy, as soon as Washington is unable to provide these corporations exclusive rights to rule over the whole of humanity and the high heavens, they will happily pack up their bags and move to whatever country has the capacity to provide them mining rights to all resources buried under planet Earth. Most of the entities that make up the US empire today all migrated from Nazi Germany and Colonial-era Britain. As soon as the Nazi party collapsed, as soon as the British government was unable to service and sustain their greed, they happily packed up their bags and moved to America, which happily spread its laps for them. They are parasites that switch hosts once the current one has been bled dry of its geopolitical utility.

So while you are watching and celebrating as the US military is dragged outside to the public and stripped naked, understand that this is not a sign of victory. True victory will only happen when the transatlantic empire itself collapses, and this is something that is unlikely to change in the near future. The reason is because this empire still has trillions of dollars in cash and billions in gold and resources to sustain their war machines and continue to spread Imperialism. But this money is not growing from trees or falling into their pockets from the skies like rain.

They are being sustained by our consumerism. So long as humanity is stupid enough to abandon their duties, storm out en masse to queue for the latest iPhone release that is worth a fortune, this empire will continue to have the capacity to buy entire government cabinets and regulators. This allows them to continue to use child labor and fund local militias to mine the cobalt necessary for the production of more iPhones and high-performance chips.

So long as you continue to pay monthly subscriptions for digital content that rots your brain and tracks your location, you are paying for the very drones that hover over foreign villages. So long as you demand fast fashion that requires the despoiling of rivers and the enslavement of garment workers in the Global South, you are the primary financier of the empire. So long as you allow yourself to be distracted by the "innovations" of Silicon Valley while they build data centers that drain the local water tables and bake the planet, you are an accomplice to your own colonization.

The empire does not need a capital city; it only needs your credit card number and your total lack of political consciousness.

[Daniel, First of His Name @HisNameIsVanity]

We’ve learned nothing.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

US President Donald Trump lands in Beijing, and with him he brings the following CEOs to request "deals" with Chinese President Xi Jinping:

– Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO
– Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO
– Tim Cook, Apple CEO
– Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO
– Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO
– Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO
– Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO
– Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO
– Larry Culp, General Electric CEO
– David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO
– Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO
– Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

He did this without cutting any social services, btw.

[Daniel, First of His Name @HisNameIsVanity]

@StealthMedical1 @WhiteHouse @SebGorka @dbongino @LauraLoomer @FBIDirectorKash @RapidResponse47 Shoulda let the dogs out and have them figure it out

[Merlin Capital 🧙‍♂️ @merlinscapital]

Hill staffers allegedly have sold the 2 out and have them on film

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Catholics all over the world call for Pope Leo to excommunicate J.D. Vance after it was revealed that the Trump Pentagon threatened the Vatican with the U.S. military.

This is a fate worse than death for a devout Catholic...

"Catholics around the globe are calling for JD Vance’s excommunication from the Catholic Church after he suggested Donald Trump could use nuclear weapons against Iran," Catholic commentator Christopher Hale of the "Letters from Leo" Substack reported yesterday.

He shared a clip of Vance referring to "tools in our toolkit," seemingly alluding to Trump's threat to commit nuclear genocide against Iran, a horrific eventuality that was ultimately avoided by the tenuous ceasefire.

Those calls for excommunication were then supercharged today when The Free Press revealed that Cardinal Christophe Pierre was summoned to the Pentagon in his role as the Holy See's Ambassador to the United States. During that meeting, Trump officials then berated him over the pope's criticisms of Trump's brutish foreign policy.

At one point, a Trump official raised the specter of the Avignon Papacy, a period in the 14th century when the French King exploited his military to force the pope to live in Avignon. The term now serves as shorthand for direct state control over the Vatican. The implication seemed to be that Trump could exploit the U.S. military to intimidate Pope Leo into submission.

When asked about the outrageous threat by a reporter earlier today, Vance first claimed not to know who Cardinal Pierre was, then insisted that he was not aware of the story and thus could not comment on it.

Vance makes a great show of his adult conversion to Catholicism but displays none of the kindness, compassion, or charity that is supposed to define a follower of Christ. He's a black hole of cruelty, entitlement, and nihilism.

If Leo did excommunicate Vance, it would bar the vice president from receiving the sacraments, most notably the Eucharist, the communion that Catholics believe to be the literal body and blood of Christ. He would be, in essence, exiled and removed from the Catholic faith.

The canon laws governing excommunication are rigid and specific but two possible reasons are "schism" or attempting violence against the pope. If Vance endorses Trump's implicit threat to use the military against Leo either explicitly or through a failure to condemn it — that would likely qualify for both categories of violation.

As Hale further reported, the bishops who have "direct authority over Vance’s canonical status in the Catholic Church" are Cardinal Robert McElroy and Archbishop Robert Casey. Both are capable of beginning excommunication proceedings.

Ultimately, we of course defer to Pope Leo's judgement on this issue as he has proven himself to be one of the world's leading moral voices in these dark times.

If you were the pope, how would you handle J.D. Vance and MAGA?

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Vance is a fake Catholic!

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

MTG just absolutely torched the Republican Party as corrupt “liars” and “failures.”

“Hold people accountable, for the love of God!”

“Put Anthony Fauci in jail.”

“Gut the deep state.”

“Republicans are going to get killed in the midterms.”

“And you know what?”

“You can’t blame people for refusing to want to vote for a party that has failed them over and over.”

“Why would you want to keep buying a product that is crap?”

“President Trump is going to be gone soon.”

“And we have to build a future for our children and our grandchildren.”

“I want moral, America First leaders that will put the American people first instead of their own interests or their friends.”

“We have to recognize what a failure the Republican Party is.”

@FmrRepMTG @mtgreenee @RealAlexJones

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Israel is going to end up bringing China into this conflict, and it will grow from there:

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨holy shit.. the CIA just used a tool called "Ghost Murmur" to find an American pilot hiding in a mountain crevice in Iran.. by detecting his heartbeat..

not his phone.. not a tracker.. not a radio signal.. his heartbeat..

Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works built it.. the same classified division that built the SR-71 Blackbird.. the stealth bomber.. the U-2 spy plane.. every secret aircraft America has ever denied existed until they didn't..

it uses quantum magnetometry to pick up the electromagnetic pulse your heart makes every time it beats.. then AI filters out everything else..

the pilot.. callsign "Dude 44 Bravo" was wounded.. alone for two days.. hiding in a crack in a mountain.. while Iranian forces searched for him on foot..

and America found him from the sky.. by listening to his chest..

here's the part that should rewrite everything you think about privacy and power.. this was Ghost Murmur's FIRST operational use.. meaning it's been sitting in a vault.. tested.. ready.. waiting for a moment important enough to reveal it..

they didn't show you this to impress you.. they showed you this because the next person they use it on won't be a rescue

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷 Iran has accepted Pakistan’s two-week cease-fire proposal.

The deal came after frantic diplomacy by Pakistan + last-minute pressure from China (a key ally) urging Tehran to show flexibility and avoid further economic damage.

According to Iranian officials, the new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei personally approved it.

After weeks of missiles and threats, both sides just hit pause.

Let's see whether this holds or is just a breather before round two.

Source: The New York Times

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

This should fucking terrify everyone.

[Iran In Deutschland @IraninBerlin]

It’s not America, it’s Trump, who was deceived by Netanyahu.

[The Fifth Column 🖐 @wethefifth]

Rahm Emanuel on how and why the Democrats have "lost the plot."

Our members-only episode with Rahm Emanuel is available now on Substack.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

China’s solar power plant in Dunhuang uses around 12,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central tower, heating molten salt to extreme temperatures.

That heat is stored and used to generate electricity on demand, including after sunset.