Robin

Kerala-born Catholic | US Citizen | Engineer | Waste Management | Maritime

[Robin @RobinFrancis]

My Church in Kerala, India. Almost 200 years older than U.S.

The parish itself is as old as Christendom!!!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The same guy throwing big fundraisers for Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul is linked to 2 massive Medicaid fraud cases totaling over $100M

Dr. Ijaz Ahmad hosted fancy events at his huge Nassau County mansion for Mamdani’s campaign and transition.

He’s deep in the Pakistani American healthcare scene, helping set up adult day care spots that pull in tons of Medicaid money.

1 guy who showed up right after an FBI raid? Now charged in a $38M scam.

Another associate already copped to $68M fraud.

Ahmad’s PAC has dropped serious cash on Hochul, Letitia James, and other top Dems over the years.

This is the kind of circle that makes you wonder how much is networking… and how much is just looking the other way while the system gets gamed.

Source: New York Post / Writer: Lucas

[Senator Dave McCormick @SenMcCormickPA]

.@Saronic's @MavrookasD is spot on.

China controls 57% of global shipbuilding capacity. America has 0.1%. We cannot optimize our way out of that gap.

We need new shipyards and a defense industrial base built to produce at scale. American strength depends on American capacity.

[Elana @ItsElanaGold]

$180M was just raised by SpaceX alumni in 48 hours.

@Senra_Systems: $65M for modernizing wire harnesses.
@TerraFirma_Inc: $115M for construction robotics.

The SpaceX mafia keeps growing.

[Jack Prescott @JackPrescottX]

I wish @Saronic was public so I could invest some money in them. I wouldn’t even care if I get an ROI.

I just want to be able to say I’m a shareholder.

A founder-led 8VC-backed acceleration-pilled Palantir-powered autonomous surface vessel company. Extremely based. Take my money.

[Atoms Not Bits @AtomsNotBits]

BREAKING: DoW signs a new framework with Anduril to buy Barracuda-500 cruise missiles at scale, under a program targeting up to 8,000 missiles per year.

[REKT Specialist is unbanned! (Parody?) /AFAO/ @GoatRoper911]

jews "you don't need a wall, let everyone in".

Meanwhile in their country...

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Isn't it weird how these communists are always scammers?

Probably nothing.

[Shadow Intel @TheShadowIntelX]

Remember Janet Ossebaard? The fearless Dutch researcher who dove headfirst into the deepest rabbit hole and dragged the global elite’s darkest secrets into the light.

In 2020 she dropped the bombshell documentary series “The Fall of the Cabal”, a relentless exposé that later expanded into over 30 parts. Janet didn’t hold back. She exposed the full spectrum of hidden control: central banks, shadow governments, media manipulation, and satanic networks at the highest levels.

But the part that hit like thunder? PIZZAGATE. In the explosive “Children, Art & Pizza” section, she laid bare what she called a worldwide child trafficking and ritual abuse machine. Coded symbols, elite “pizza parties,” disturbing “art,” underground networks, and patterns linking politicians, Hollywood, royalty, and billionaires to horrific crimes, including adrenochrome and satanic rituals. She backed it with documents and survivor testimonies that woke millions up to the nightmare.

Her calm narration made the unthinkable impossible to ignore. The series exploded across Bitchute and Rumble, fueling the Great Awakening like few others.

Then the tragedy. In late 2023, after publicly stating she would NEVER commit suicide, Janet was found dead in Sweden. Official ruling, overdose.

Janet risked everything to expose the monsters and fight for the children. Her work lives on.

[Bruce @FireNewz]

“We start wars then send our Christian slaves to clean our mess”

- a Jew, our ally 🤦🏼‍♂️

[Aakanksha @aakancvedi]

The whole point of India's defence push these last five years was to stop depending on foreigners but this week a US based private equity firm Carlyle took controlling stake in an Indian defence company which supplies to ISRO and DRDO!!!

What in the atmanirbhar?

1/3

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Right now I am writing this in tears. Thank you @SECNAV @HungCao_VA from the bottom of my heart.

The US Merchant Marine has been defunded, denigrated, and stripped of respect for decades.

The result? The Navy pulled 17 critical logistics ships manned by Merchant Mariners from the active fleet, and only 86 🇺🇸 cargo ships remain in international service against China’s thousands.

Over the last three years, what started as a tiny group with @brentdsadler @Heritage gained traction through @michaelgwaltz and snowballed into countless meetings with Senators, Admirals, and senior White House advisors.

Together with dozens of patriots, and with the personal support of President Trump, we wrote the SHIPS for America Act, the Maritime Executive Order & the Maritime Action Plan. We overturned the UN carbon tax that penalized shipping, fought for new USTR rules, stood up @JerryHendrixII’s White House shipbuilding office and a new Navy shipbuilding plan, won critical support from @SecWar & got an actual USMM Captain, Steve Carmel, nominated as Commandant of the USMM.

It hasn’t all been unicorns and rainbows. We are still fighting to get the SHIPS Act through Congress and to get the bureaucratic state to execute the executive orders.

But my biggest frustration, one I raised at EVERY SINGLE MEETING, was this: we are swinging for grand slams while nobody guards first base.

And the easiest bunt of all is the most basic sign of respect: a service ribbon for US Merchant Mariners who served in combat.

My wife displays a single ribbon from her service in Iraq. Everyone who enters our house asks about it, giving me the chance to be the proud service spouse I am.

But that combat ribbon, one of dozens on the books for Merchant Mariners, is the only one regularly issued to our service & was essentially forgotten during the Obama years.

@PeteButtigieg refused to issue it when the USMM returned to combat in the Red Sea.

That ribbon is what kept me pushing. At every meeting with the top people in DC, I asked for one simple bunt: issue the ribbon to our mariners in combat.

Nobody did. A few tried. A few made phone calls. Most ignored the request, and some rolled their eyes.

One even told me: “This is ridiculous, John. We are budgeting billions for ships and you won’t shut up about a ribbon. Ask any mariner if they’d rather have a new ship or a ribbon and 100% will say a ship.”

They aren’t wrong. The problem is ships take time, we are three years in and they don’t have a ship. A ribbon can be issued in days.

The bigger problem is they don’t understand Colonel John Boyd: “People, then ideas, then platforms & technology. In that order.”

The fact that nobody is asking for a ribbon is exactly what makes it powerful.

A few weeks ago I met with Hung Cao and opened with the same ask I’ve made hundreds of times: “Dust off an @MSCSealift medals & give one to the crews in combat off Iran.”

He said what most have said: “Give me a few weeks, I’ll look into it.”

I’ve heard that before, so I got mad. Madder still when @shesova told me a USMM World War II hero had been overlooked for a medal. I called my Commandant & said, “GD it Steve, we still have a WW2 veteran who’s been overlooked.”

“Give me a few weeks John, I’ll look into it.”

🙄

Well, I woke up today to an email from Sheila inviting me and @SecDuffy to a ceremony awarding Charles Mills, World War II USMM combat veteran the USMM Outstanding Achievement Medal. Wow!

Then @MikeSchuler published this today.

I asked for a simple USMM combat medal nobody would recognize.

Instead President Trump & Hung Cao delivered a Presidential Unit Citation, one of the most prestigious awards in the military.

Yesterday @HungCao_VA said the Navy’s top 3 priorities are people, shipbuilding & the homeland. Senior officers have said that for years.

The difference is Hung Cao means it.

“Acta Non Verba,” deeds not words, is USMM Acadmy’s motto & boy did Secretary Cao deliver!

PEOPLE FIRST 🇺🇸

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

BREAKING: The era of the autonomous dinghy fleet is over.

Until now, most autonomous naval drones have been tiny with minuscule payload, limited range, limited impact.

The Marauder changes that. It has the size to carry meaningful cargo, weapons, and fuel.

This is a major step toward building true ship-sized USVs the US Navy needs.

[Robin @RobinFrancis]

Amen to this. Hopefully this happens.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Tata Group proposes to invest over $1 billion to establish a major shipbuilding facility in Kerala.

[Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 @alexbruesewitz]

NEW: Vice President @JDVance and Joe Rogan discuss a TIME article detailing an alleged Israeli funded “influencer” and digital media campaign aimed at undermining U.S. negotiations with Iran.

No foreign country should be allowed to run influence operations like this inside the United States!

So wrong!

[Talky Chelle @chelle_talky]

Good catch here--those sleeves grew or shrank, depending on the timeline.

There were just so many Tyler Robinson's that day at UVU, and that my friends, is no coincidence.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

@benshapiro “I’m gonna get in there and pick up his blood soaked microphone”

-Ben Shapiro

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

This article is worth a read. Israel literally thought they could purchase our perception of them with money. Now they are angry because despite tens of millions of dollars spent on “influencers”, we hate them more than ever.
It really is a shame they didn’t offer me money to consult for them and explain why this campaign was never going to work.
It’s just a different world. Ad spend and crisis PR firms no longer equal results. In fact, they tend to have the exact opposite desired effect.
You can’t spend (or sue) your way into popularity anymore. Extreme power plays featuring limitless budgets, slick-talking lawyers, and DC connections makes people (left and right) resent you because you clearly resent them and think they are unworthy of an honest conversation.
Try articulating why they should support or believe you outside of “because we’re rich and powerful and will destroy you if you don’t”.
Free advice!

https://t.co/ysElq1s2uY

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Anduril's founder, Palmer Luckey, argues the U.S. had no choice but to take action in Iran:

"China provided Iran with manufacturing equipment and expertise that caused a steep curve upwards in their ballistic missile production capacity.

If you allowed them to continue for even 2 years, they would build an arsenal so vast that we could never afford to take action.

They could build nuclear weapons with impunity.

This is like the North Korea scenario; we could not let Iran turn into North Korea on steroids."

Writers: Mhedi, Michael