Christopher Sweat

Co-Founder, CEO @ GrayStak | Political Risk as Velocity, Not Probability

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EXCLUSIVE: Earlier today ICE agents chase after a man in downtown Chicago after he made verbal comments but no physical or threatening contact. The man was able to get away.

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Obama’s record suggests something uncomfortable for both sides: immigration enforcement is only half the equation. The other half is whether you’re shrinking the opposition coalition or growing it.

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@HunterBiden You speak as if there is no reason to mention your family.

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@HunterBiden @SleepyManny I didn’t realize this was something to brag about.

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Additionally, here's the map nobody draws.

One interstate — I-25 — spans the entire U.S. national security state: New Mexico's nuclear labs, the Colorado Springs command cluster, and the contractor belt up to Fort Collins.

Separate headlines. One machine. ~450 miles, all on the public record.

Palantir is just one node on it. 👇

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Palantir said it left Colorado for Miami.

The filing moved. The workforce, the contracts, and the work didn't — its new "global HQ" is a coworking suite in Aventura.

The real story runs the length of I-25, and it moves $30B+ a year.

Full piece below.

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https://t.co/ZqQRWdtFLy

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Ryan Lazarus (@RyLazChiNY) captured this clip, which encapsulates the four-hour experience at the Israeli Day Parade last Sunday in New York City. The protest speaker was an NK member who opposed the parade.

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@EYakoby You didn’t provide any comparative data for falsifiability.

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@harlemedic @NerdeenKiswani Like all of the Zionists spitting on and cussing at other friends in the Jewish community… I've never seen Nerdeen do that.

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@Austin__Berg Some solid ideas here

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Law enforcement is reinforcing the perimeter around Delaney Hall with a fence as intermittent clashes between demonstrators and officers continue. Reports from the scene indicate that additional crowd control units may be deployed shortly.

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Reports from the ground at Delaney Hall indicate State Police are preparing to take a more active role on the ground, specifically tomorrow, to separate left/right groups as tensions continue to build. New Jersey State Police explained that the roadway diversion is to prevent traffic from intersecting with demonstrators. "protest zones" are going back into effect. You may remember these from Broadview in Illinois.

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According to our source on the ground at Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ, last night, one journalist had a camera lens smashed by ice, and another had a finger broken, both with batons.

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Though the mobilization at Delaney Hall is post-peak this week, the consensus is that there will be a large build-up on Saturday, a new high in the theater.

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From our on-the-ground sources: this evening, compared to last night at Delaney Hall, there is a higher ratio of ICE agents to demonstrators. This could indicate we are past the peak mobilization.

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@MarioNawfal It’s both.

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@FordFischer @LPNational Awesome speech, Ford. Thanks for your work and contributions to the field of journalism.

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@EricLevitz Yes, of course, all the leaders who seize power and do nothing, especially those who do not enrich themselves.

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The piece's strongest move is reading Iran's proxy network as constitutive of regime identity rather than bargaining leverage. Which leaves the real question: does Epic Fury degrade capability, or reach the posture it serves?

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

Several Arab governments signaled their willingness to normalize relations with Israel and move closer to Washington. What held them back was not a lack of political inclination. The obstacle came from the shadow cast by Iran’s network of armed proxies including Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen. That network made visible alignment with Israel a potentially dangerous gamble. Trump perhaps understood that incentives alone would not change the region’s calculations. Lowering the costs associated with alignment with the United States was essential.

https://t.co/lBnUs6Bf45

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@zriboua So no domestic considerations, only foreign.