Publius

Honest observer, citizen. Believer in the Enlightenment, science, freedom, tolerance, the benefits of business for society, and a secular State.

[Nima Tavallaey Roodsari @NimaTavRood]

So far at the 2026 FIFA Epstein Cup before a ball kicked:
- Senegal & Uzbekistan squads treated like criminals upon arrival given full cavity searches;
- Africa’s best referee sent back to Somalia despite having a diplomatic passport;
- Iraq team photographer sent back despite valid visa;
- AIPS (international sport journalist association) calling on FIFA to sort out unacceptable visa issues of African & Iranian journalists;
- 90% of Moroccan fans with tickets denied entry
- 14 members of Iran backroom staff denied visas

Not a word from Gianni ”today I feel black/gay/disabled etc” Infantino.

[Publius @VoiceofVerite]

@SixersAdam @JayShams The Love Guru had some great (and childish) scenes with Marissa Hargitay!

https://t.co/FKBquSlpRz

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

This claim in this NBC story is false.

Trump is now a shareholder in UFC’s parent company. Therefore, any financial benefit to UFC is a financial benefit to Trump.

https://t.co/KUnyykrmon

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

Former Trump administration adviser and intelligence official Amaryllis Fox Kennedy previously helped her father secure at least $12M from a Russian investment bank that cooperated with the Kremlin, leaked documents show.

Read the story: https://t.co/uzOx0PXXYT

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Todd Gilbert, the former Republican Speaker of the Virginia House, took a U.S. Attorney job from Trump and quit 37 days later. His only public comment was a "boy, that escalated quickly" meme.

Today, we learned why. He wouldn't manufacture the charges. Genuine courage, and rarer in his party than it should be.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

This is the Irish minister for foreign affairs pushing sanctions for Isreal while she remains silent about the huge scandal around the russian refinery that still sends 14 ships to St Petersburg per month.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

Gonna explain it so that even completely brain dead #MAGA cult members can understand it:

I live in Los Angeles. I am a moderate who can’t stand the ultra left and ultra right. Bass isn’t great and maybe she will lose to the progressive who will run against her? She would have much rather been running against Pratt in November! She would have had a 95% of winning against Pratt. Maybe a 60% chance now against Raman. Anyone who thinks there is fraud is happening is either incredibly stupid OR purposefully lying—no other choices. Statistically and indisputably, 75% of Los Angeles is either Democrats or independents who lean Democrat because the candidates who are Republican always end up being stupid MAGA clowns since 2016.

Trump got 26% of the vote in Los Angeles in 2024. Pratt will end up with slightly less than that, which makes sense, since he ran his campaign as an obnoxious MAGA asshole in an environment where Trump’s approval ratings are their lowest ever!

Most people in L.A. vote by mail, in a 100.00% legal way, and often wait until the last few days before/on election day to send their ballots in. Those mail-in ballots lean SUPER HEAVILY to Democrats, ironically because the same brainless MAGA cult members attack mail-in-voting and hurt what ever absolutely miniscule chance they have of winning!

So stop the fucking nonsense. Election deniers are among the dumbest organisms—and claiming fraud in this Los Angeles Mayoral election is the dumbest of the dumb.

[Footballogue @Footballogue]

🔴 Énorme DINGUERIE encore des États-Unis...

L'arbitre somalien Omar Artan 🇸🇴 s'est vu refuser son entrée aux États-Unis, alors qu'il est sensé officier pendant la Coupe du Monde ! 🙄

Malgré l'aide appuyée de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi, qui lui a fourni un PASSEPORT DIPLOMATIQUE, M. Artan a dû faire demi tour à son arrivée aux USA.

On parle d'une personne qui a été élue MEILLEUR ARBITRE AFRICAIN EN 2025 ! 🤦‍♂️

(@Romain_Molina)

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

The Trump Admin cut funding for screwworm detection and fired 25% of staff responsible for tracking the disease.

I’m embarrassed for the Secretary that her only answer is to blame the administration that left office a year and a half ago.

[Publius @VoiceofVerite]

Sometimes I just feel sorry for Leon 👇👇

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The real reason they don’t want voter ID is to commit voting fraud. That is the obvious truth.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Try again. California pays the bills for failed red states.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

I bet that trump is gonna hate this photograph, it’d be a shame if it went viral.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨Kash Patel has fired all FBI agents tasked with investigating right-wing extremism.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

BOOM! Jamie Raskin is UNSTOPPABLE: Constitutional scholar, lawyer, and competent congressman Jamie Raskin is looking healthier and more energized than ever.

He just drew a moral line on the House floor that the GOP can't cross: "We draw a line against the rape and sexual violation of children."

He named the banks that bankrolled Epstein's billion-dollar trafficking ring: JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, and Bank of New York Mellon.

He named Alex Acosta—Trump's Labor Secretary—who killed the investigation that could've brought down the entire network. He looked directly at the GOP and said: "You have children. Don't you want to know?" Then he mentioned college sports teams. You know who that is.

Jim Jordan—who had a locker two down from Dr. Richard Strauss at Ohio State, whom wrestlers say looked them in the face and dismissed their abuse as "that's just Strauss," and who they say KNEW and did NOTHING while 177 young men were violated.

And the files? They show Elon Musk emailing Epstein asking about the "wildest party" on his island and responding to Epstein's offer of "no one over 25 and all very cute." JPMorgan lawsuits allege Epstein referred to Musk as a client WHILE moving billions for his trafficking operation.

This isn't about party. This is about truth.

Conservatives: You scream about "protecting children" while voting for the men who covered up the largest child sex trafficking ring in American history.

How do you sleep? How do you vote? How do you look your kids in the eye?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This war has been humiliating for Trump and American power generally. And when Trump announces he is going to call Netanyahu and tell him not to retaliate, and within hours Netanyahu retaliates, the humiliation just compounds.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is trying to turn every federal grant into a political loyalty test.

Before any grant for things like medical research, housing, public health, and more gets approved, a political appointee would have to sign off that it serves Trump’s personal agenda. If they don’t like what you’re working on, the funding disappears.

The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of the purse precisely so no president could ever do what Donald Trump is trying to do right now. It is the most fundamental check in our entire system of government, and Republicans are forfeiting it without a fight.

Where on earth are my Republican colleagues on the Appropriations Committee? You and I spent the last year fighting for every single dollar of this funding. Every. Single. Dollar. And you are letting this president TRAMPLE all over Congress and your own job.
https://t.co/QCH17wANNb

[Mindcite💥 @Mindcite_US]

Since Trump is unable to bring a receipt of Democrats rigging elections, here's one of Arizona Republicans caught in the act of trying to rig the 2020 election, by signing fake elector forms for Trump.

It would be a shame to keep sharing this and other receipts...

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

This man is a troll who says that any election won by Democrats is "stolen." He also oversees national election security for Homeland Security.

He's been pushing the ridiculous "California fraud" narrative.

He studied at Moscow State University. 1/

[UnveiledChina @Unveiled_ChinaX]

A careless code blunder just blew the lid off Beijing’s multi-million dollar AI propaganda operation targeting the West. France's digital interference watchdog, Viginum, has officially exposed "Fawn Mianju," a covert network of 13 multilingual fake news sites running on advanced automation and generative AI. The sophisticated network was completely compromised after a computer engineer working as a Senior Project Manager at China's state-run CGTN Digital accidentally left his login credentials exposed in the code.

This operation, which expanded on findings first uncovered by U.S. cybersecurity firm Graphika in 2025, operated with deep financial backing. The domains were registered in Beijing, hosted on Alibaba Cloud, and utilized expensive infrastructure alongside paid plugins to artificially manipulate search engine rankings. Using digital keys linked directly to AI language models, the network automatically scraped CGTN articles, lightly rewrote them, and republished over 2,300 articles, often within less than an hour of the original state media broadcast.

Sites like the French-language "Actu Méridien" were weaponized to manipulate public opinion across 89 countries, heavily targeting Western audiences and Francophone African youth. The articles aggressively peddled pro-Beijing narratives, painting China as the undisputed leader of the Global South and green energy transition while explicitly telling Western readers that aligning with Chinese interests would bring them massive benefits.

Despite the cutting-edge tech and heavy state funding, the operation was an organic flop. The articles struggled to breach 15,000 views, with nearly 40 percent of its top social media engagement traced back to fake accounts in Burundi whose sole purpose was to artificially inflate the content. While the reach was limited, French authorities warn that the operation exposes Beijing’s rapidly escalating capability to launch fully automated, stealth disinformation campaigns designed to quietly erode Western democratic alignment.

#Disinformation #CyberSecurity #France #China #AIPropaganda #Geopolitics #Viginum #NationalSecurity