Johnny BCCB

Geopolitics, space stuff, military tech and Notre Dame sports. British/American dual citizen.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

I think I need to pin this to the top.

[Seerut K. Chawla @seerutkchawla]

1/ This is what people who have actually lived under communism have to say.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@GirkeHanjo @HunterBiden Yeah he’s doing a great job for his own people.

I mean don’t mind much that he’s put a million of his country’s young people into shallow graves for no reason. Along with their collective economic future. But if I were Russian I’d probably be upset.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@anliakho @Amyamylloyd @SawyerMerritt @SpaceX That’s an insane perspective. The seasoning rules were obviously there for a reason. It makes zero sense to just waive them because someone subjectively considers a company to be “generational.” Innovative companies come along every day — that doesn’t mean we re-write the rules.

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your nose isn't badly designed. You're running stereo smell and never noticed.

At any given moment one nostril is doing about 3x the breathing of the other. The dominant side swaps every few hours, driven by erectile tissue in your turbinates that swells on one side and drains on the other. It's called the nasal cycle, and every mammal has it.

Here's why that matters. In 1999 Stanford neuroscientist Noam Sobel proved each nostril smells the world differently. The high-airflow side picks up odor molecules that absorb slowly. The low-airflow side grabs the ones that absorb fast. Two different chemical snapshots, sent to your brain at the same time, on every sniff.

One big hole gives you one airflow rate. One snapshot. A narrower range of smells.

It also kills the recovery loop. While one side works, the resting side re-humidifies, clears mucus, and lets the tissue de-swell. Merge them and there's no off-duty nostril to recover.

And you'd lose direction. Your brain figures out where a smell is coming from by comparing the two sides, the same way two ears give you stereo hearing. One hole, no triangulation.

Bigger airflow would cost you smell range, a self-cleaning cycle, and your sense of direction. The two-hole nose is doing far more work than the question gives it credit for.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Reporting from the Financial Times on Xinjiang remains incredibly grim:

* In some areas, 90% of children are taken from parents to be educated in boarding schools where they aren't allowed to speak Uyghur
* Officials monitor who eats during Ramadan and report those who skip meals
* Basic items like prayer mats and religious text are considered illegal contraband
* Adult Uyghur women are pressured to marry Han Chinese men, and there are official goals to sterilize a certain % of them.
* Xinjiang has the largest prison capacity in the world relative to population
* Huge numbers of Uyghur prisoners are now being shipped across the country in forced labor schemes, as a way to dodge Xinjiang sanctions/boycotts
* The CCP shut down all 10 existing Uyghur-language publishers, none remain. They fed one university's book collection into a shredder.

There's a lot going on the world, but it's worth remembering that China is still actively engaged in cultural genocide. They're barely even hiding it, they openly talk about the need to 'correct' Uyghur culture and create 'ethnic unity'. They are openly destroying an entire culture as efficiently as they can, cutting children off from parents, restricting language, restricting religious practice, forcing sterilizations and intermarriage, imprisoning anyone who resists the tiniest amount and shipping them out to forced labor factories. That is what the CCP is.

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[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@scarylawyerguy @jtw999000 Trump is side-stepping this requirement by making him an acting director only. He will presumably use this temporary posting to pursue Trump’s political enemies to the exclusion of all other activities.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

DOGE was just a cover for the largest robbery of the American people in history.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Private prison exec David Venturella saw his profits climb 700% after Trump gave his group $520 million in taxpayer dollars.

He now leads ICE.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@PhileasFoggs @Breaking911 Yeah, duh, but a bottle of ketchup lasts months. You ain’t drinking that entire thing in one goddamn sitting.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

Hunter Biden has plenty of his own baggage, but he absolutely nails it here.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@GrumpyBluEyeDvl @FrankyD1776 @NancyMace Fuck off you old fart bastard.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@GrumpyBluEyeDvl @NancyMace Who do you want to pay instead? Address them directly. Don’t be a coward.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@NancyMace No. This is an insane opinion. Seniors use public services just like everyone else, and we already soak our young people to benefit the old immeasurably. They have generous benefits that young people likely won’t have.

I know you’re trying to buy votes here, but this isn’t it.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@EricSpracklen My guess is that the average prospective buyer is a poor bastard young person while the average seller is some boomer ass who isn’t too bothered if they don’t sell. So obviously we should give the boomer a tax break and soak the young people more.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@EricSpracklen Sellers are always going to be delusional. They’ll only snap out of their delusion when they’re forced to. We’re obviously in an odd market environment where the aggregate prospective home buyer is suffering but aggregate prospective seller is in a position to be patient.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@AlejandraM78461 @Qantico_nxe Impressive.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Appointing Pulte, who has criminally targeted Trump's opponents and has zero experience, to be Director of National Intelligence, shows we have a mafia government.

The naked corruption is crazy and frightening.

[Johnny BCCB @JohnnyBCCB]

@PrettyBoyGMD @ChaseForLiberty I tend to agree. In a perfect world, we’d elect Brown. But in an imperfect one, where most people on Earth are clueless morons, the best option is to simply keep Paxton out of office and send a message that enough is enough with these corrupt pieces of trash.