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We didn’t just get into the Signal rooms around Delaney Hall. We became admins within the groups.
Our people sat in the chairs that route the asks, approve the members, and push the supply lists out. We watched the operation from the inside of the operation.
I have the coordinators by name. The handoff patterns. The donation routes. The drop points. The staging locations. The choreography of how a “spontaneous” crowd actually gets built, hour by hour, message by message.
Concerned community member posts. Coordinator responds in minutes. Supplies move. Crowd appears on camera. You’ve been told that’s organic. It is operated.
This week, the full thread. Names. Money. Locations. The whole machine, mapped from the seat that runs it.
Our room for the coming days in Houston. I don’t even know what to say about this. This is just unreal. No words.
Huge huge thank you to JJ Watt for giving me and my friends the opportunity to stay at a place like this🙏🙏🙏
Sailors aboard USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) perform maintenance on MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters, keeping them mission-ready as the aircraft carrier transits the Arabian Sea and supports the U.S. blockade against Iran.