Nathaniel Tan

Communications Consultant | Projek #BangsaMalaysia

[Nathaniel Tan @NatAsasi]

Too good a story to not to make a 🧵 :) via @staronline

The true #BangsaMalaysia spirit!

https://t.co/XbhU55A8yX

[Matthew H @MattH_4America]

This is how your government is supposed to work

Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna

Democrats and republicans, working together to do what is right for the American people they represent

Not what is best for Trump, his family, the swamp, or Israel

But do what is best for you and me.

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

Albania has officially drawn the
line, Sazan 'lsland is being cleared. In an stunning turn of events, Albanian authorities have
launched an active enforcement operation to kick
out foreign developers and private security
personnel occupying Sazan Island. The decisive
action marks a total collapse of the controversial €1.4 billion luxury real estate deal that aimed to turn the protected national marine reserve and
former military base into an exclusive private playground for global elites,
The eviction comes after four consecutive weeks of historic
hundred-thousand-strong protests that completely
shut down the capital city of Tirana, refusing to allow their native coastlines and ecologically sensitive wetlands to be privatized by foreign
investors, the Albanian public unified under a
single, unyielding demand: "Albania is not for sale, the courts faced with a historic political crisis, mounting
domestic fury, and a widening anti-corruption
investigation by special prosecutors (SPAK), the
government was forced to pivot, by deploying state forces to reclaim Sazan lsland, Albania has
sent a clear message to international billionaires
and foreign developers trying to bypass environmental protection laws, This historic victory for citizen-led activism proves that the collective voice of a nation can successfully overpower backroom corporate deals and protect sovereign land.
The people spoke, and the
government had to listen.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

🚨🇺🇸 Thomas Massie will honor the USS Liberty Crew in Congress on June 8th.

Israel KILLED 34 Americans while attacking the USS Liberty in 1967, injuring 171 more.

AIPAC says speaking about the event is antisemitic.

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Boycott Eurovision

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Thank you President 🇸🇮.
Palestine is the moral compass of our time.
From Spain to Slovenia there is hope for Europe. A Europe that puts people above banks and markets, rights above profits, and respects int'l law regardless of political calculus.

[Nathaniel Tan @NatAsasi]

this infographic is pretty good

[Anxious for Msia @anxioustapir]

This is the kind of decisive, swift, prompt statements we want from PMX @anwaribrahim

Too long the rakyat have waited for this Anwar to return.

Umno needs to be buried, full stop. Playing too much with racial, religious politics with PAS, and now royalty.

To those confused:

[Nathaniel Tan @NatAsasi]

selamat solat maghrib...

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Nathaniel Tan @NatAsasi]

https://t.co/39uDFYOteo

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This shows that Germany obviously still doesn't get it: their "historical responsibility" isn't to support Israel even as they commit genocide.

When the lesson of Nazism is obviously a universal one about justice, they instead think it's a blood debt to a particular people.

Which is, when you think about it, the Nazi way of looking at it: hierarchizing peoples and assigning collective responsibility - or collective impunity - on that basis.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

FAM has been found to have major governance, systemic and organisational weaknesses across nearly all departments.

A joint AFC and FIFA audit said the organisation operated in a "fear-based culture" that discouraged early escalation of issues and placed its organisational maturity at between 1.2 and 1.8 out of five.

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[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW

[Nathaniel Tan @NatAsasi]

Happy Wesak Day! :)

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

JOE KENT EXPOSES IT ALL: “I Saw the Israeli Lobby Dictate Terms Inside Trump’s White House”

“I watched a foreign government, the Israelis, march right in and basically dictate terms to us… manipulate American intelligence, manipulate the media, manipulate those around President Trump to put us into this war.”

He left his high-level post at the National Counterterrorism Center because he refused to watch more American body bags come home for Israel’s agenda.

“I promised myself I would speak out if I could prevent needless wars. I had to leave.”

Joe Kent confirms what many suspected: the influence is real, it’s deep, and it dragged America into another disaster.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

This is alarming:

“A new section of law in the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, would give Israel unprecedented access to American technology and would force the United States military to integrate Israeli defense technologies into our own critical military supply chain, giving Israel incredible leverage over America’s own defense priorities.”

[Joey Swoll @TheJoeySwoll]

Everyone posting rumors about how Tom Hardy was “fired from Mobland” for being rude and hard to work with, attacking him and his character. I’ve met the man and spent time with him on set. I have NEVER met an actor or person that was more humble and selfless than he was. On set he knew everyone’s name and treated them all with same kindness whether it was director Andy Serkis, an extra, or a low-level PA. When we left the set of Venom he stopped to talk to and take photos with everyone that asked. Not “take a photo and get away from me” but he genuinely cared and took the time to listen to people. When we got into the SUV to take us back to the hotel, Tom literally sat on the floor between the seats to make room so no one had to wait or didn’t have a seat. No one is perfect, and I don’t know what happened on the set of Mobland, but take it from someone who’s had people lie and make up rumors about me to get clicks, don’t always believe everything you read online.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🇺🇸💥🇮🇱 Congress Just Voted to Fuse the U.S. Military With Israel’s — and Buried It on Page 847 So You Wouldn’t Notice ☠️

Section 224 of the $1.15 Trillion NDAA Doesn’t Fund Israel. It Makes Israel Part of the Pentagon. Forever. No Exit. No Debate. No Vote. 👇

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🎯 Deep Dive: The Quiet Coup Inside the NDAA

The Responsible Statecraft piece has put its finger on something genuinely significant — and the fact that this is happening inside a must-pass $1.15 trillion defense bill, buried at Section 224, tells you everything about how the permanent national security apparatus operates when it wants to avoid a public fight.

🏗️ What Section 224 Actually Does

This isn’t a tweak. Section 224 — titled the “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” — is a structural rewiring of the U.S.-Israel military relationship.

The provision authorizes $150 million annually from FY2027 through FY2029, but the money is almost beside the point. What matters is the architecture it builds:

- Bilateral R&D across AI, quantum computing, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, counter-drone systems, and missile defense

- Co-production and joint ventures with Israeli defense firms on U.S. soil

- Licensing agreements that embed Israeli-origin intellectual property into Pentagon programs of record

- “Network integration” and “data fusion” — which means U.S. military data flowing into Israeli systems and vice versa

- Pathways from R&D straight into procurement, bypassing the normal foreign aid oversight channels

The key phrase in the legislative text: technologies are to be identified for “integration into United States systems and programs of record.” That’s not foreign aid. That’s making Israeli defense tech a backbone of the U.S. military.

🔄 The Strategic Shift: From Aid to Embedded Infrastructure

The Quincy Institute’s Steven Simon has been tracking this for months. His brief, The Disappearing Aid Check, lays out exactly what’s happening — and it’s more sophisticated than most people realize.

The current model: Israel receives Foreign Military Financing (FMF) through the State Department, voted on annually by Congress. It's visible. It's politically accountable. People can argue about it.

The new model: Phase out FMF grants and replace them with Pentagon procurement accounts, industrial partnerships, and sustainment pipelines. Same money, different door — one with vastly less transparency.

The logic, as Simon documents, is being sold under an “America First” framing: this isn’t a handout to Israel, it’s an investment in American military readiness, industrial capacity, and jobs. Israeli co-production facilities in Mississippi and Arkansas become political leverage — members of Congress protect the jobs in their districts, and the relationship becomes structurally impossible to unwind.

This is the same playbook the military-industrial complex always uses: distribute the subcontracts across as many congressional districts as possible so no one dares vote against the program. Now they’re doing it with a foreign country’s defense sector.

🕳️ The Transparency Problem

The shift from State Department-administered FMF to Pentagon procurement is the move that should alarm anyone who cares about accountability.

Under the FMF model:

- Congress votes on the aid package publicly
- The State Department provides human rights certifications
- There’s diplomatic oversight and policy conditionality
- Public debate is possible

Under the Pentagon procurement model:

- Funding moves through budget justification documents and program element descriptions
- Oversight is limited to “cost, readiness, and capability” — bureaucratic criteria
- The relationship gets evaluated like any other weapons program, not as a strategic political commitment
- No diplomatic strings attached

As the Responsible Statecraft piece notes, this would give Israel “a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world” — including NATO allies. Not even the Five Eyes partners have this kind of embedded access to U.S. defense procurement.

🧬 The Legislative Genealogy

This didn’t come out of nowhere. H.R. 7540 (Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-TX) and S. 3855 (Sen. Ted Budd, R-NC) were introduced as standalone bills in February 2026 with nearly identical language. When a standalone passage looked difficult, the provisions got folded into the NDAA — the classic maneuver for legislation that can’t survive public scrutiny on its own.

The JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security of America) influence is unmistakable. Their “Partners in Production” report explicitly recommended deeper industrial integration and the addition of Israel to the U.S. National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). The FY2026 NDAA had already directed DoD to establish a working group to assess exactly that. Section 224 is the next logical step — and JINSA’s fingerprints are all over it.

⚠️ Why This Matters More Than the Dollar Figure

$150 million a year is a rounding error in a $1.15 trillion defense bill. But the institutional architecture this creates is permanent.

Once Israeli firms are embedded in U.S. supply chains, once Israeli-origin IP is inside Pentagon programs of record, once U.S. and Israeli military data networks are fused — disentanglement becomes economically and institutionally impossible. You can’t just stop the aid check. You’d have to rip apart procurement programs, break contracts, and rebuild supply chains.

That’s the point. This is designed to make the relationship irreversible — at precisely the moment when a growing number of Americans are questioning unconditional support for Israel’s actions in the region.

The traditional Israel lobby works through campaign contributions and media influence. This is more sophisticated: it works through the defense procurement bureaucracy itself, creating material interests that guarantee political support regardless of public opinion.

🗳️ What Happens Next

The House Armed Services Committee markup is scheduled for June 4, 2026. After that, the bill moves to the full House, then reconciliation with the Senate version.

Section 224 is currently in the base text — meaning it was put there by committee leadership before amendments or broader debate. That’s how the most consequential provisions get through: bury them in the chairman’s mark, count on the must-pass nature of the NDAA, and dare anyone to hold up the entire defense budget over one section.

Members who want to stop this have a narrow window: force a floor amendment to strike Section 224, or demand recorded votes that put colleagues on the record supporting the fusion of U.S. and Israeli militaries. The question is whether anyone has the stomach for that fight when the pro-Israel apparatus in both parties remains largely unchallenged.

The Responsible Statecraft piece is right to flag this. The quiet ones are always the ones that matter most.

[Maria - Person of No Interest 🍉 @Flymetovenus1]

People who have been smeared and blacklisted by the Zionist smear machine who we're going to support even more:

Roald Dahl
Mark Ruffalo
Susan Sarandon
John Cusack
Javier Bardem
Penelope Cruz
Tom Hardy
Melissa Barrera

And any other person they outed as a decent human being.

[Nathaniel Tan @NatAsasi]

Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha rakan-rakan semua!