The Blackout Shade

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman

“The black flag comes in many colors.”
― Micha

[The Blackout Shade @blackoutshade]

@unusual_whales The impeachment trial next year is going to be one for the ages

[The Blackout Shade @blackoutshade]

@HFI_Research It took it a little longer tonight but it's getting it pushed down quite a bit

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: A US airstrike on Iran hit a wedding ceremony in Kuhestak, killing four people, including a child, and wounding more than 50 others, per NBC

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Government can lie to you.
Government has lied to you.
Government is lying to you.
Government will lie to you.

Live your life accordingly.

[The Blackout Shade @blackoutshade]

@RealSpikeCohen @KR3Wmatic How you can't hear how crazy this sounds is astonishing. God had to die?

[The Blackout Shade @blackoutshade]

@HFI_Research Trump making sure that he proves to everyone that he really is the fascist they accused him of being

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

We are teetering at the edge of major escalations in both our war against Iran and our proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. An unanticipated event could easily spark a major incident that would have catastrophic consequences for our nation & the world.

The tragedy of both these conflicts is that neither was necessary nor embarked upon for the sake of our national interest. Instead, the deeper we get sucked into chaos, the clearer it becomes that foreign lobbies & defense contractors have effectively captured our leaders, while the needs & wellbeing of the American people are flagrantly dismissed.

Right now, we have an ever-shrinking window of opportunity to end both conflicts, but it will take aggressive diplomacy and an honest & unapologetic revision of our own national security apparatus to achieve it.

In the Middle East, the Israelis remain dominant in driving our operations & policies. In Ukraine, our own intelligence & defense establishment created a behemoth to absorb all of the funding & career development that had previously flourished for them on the battlefields of the GWOT.

Ending the Israeli influence & military/intel industrial complex’s grip on our policy—at every level—is the fight we must have right now if we are going to avert disaster.

President Trump needs to look at who he’s surrounded by—who he’s taking advice from, who got him into these messes—and make major changes now, before it’s too late.

I discussed all of this with Tucker:

[Olivia Renee 🇺🇸 @rnautismmom]

Thomas Massie has been working on the Prime Act since 2015, which would allow smaller, rancher owned processors go through state inspections and then be able to sell to restaurants and stores.

Trump is taking Massie's plan and you know damn well that he wont give him a sort of credit.

This needs to go through Congress under the Prime Act.

[Melissa Blasek @MelissablasekNH]

The issue isn’t with processing. There isn’t some law that prevents a farmer from processing their own animals.

The issue is they can’t sell individual cuts of meat that they process.

All Trump has to do is endorse the Prime Act to actually fix this issue once and for all, but instead he will issue another meaningless executive order and pretend he fixed something he doesn’t even understand.

[Cucumberman @BersekEv]

Una pianista libanesa publicaba vídeos tocando desde su casa en Khiam, al sur del Líbano. El ejército israelí localizó la vivienda y la bombardeó.

Soldados se burlaron de la destrucción imitando sus propios vídeos entre las ruinas.

El Sionismo es profundamente despreciable.

[Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH® @P_McCulloughMD]

Documentary evidence that the US government pandemic response led by now disgraced Dr Anthony Fauci knew about damage to the fetus from genetic COVID-19 vaccination. Dr Peter McCullough® and investigative journalist John Leake from 2021 to 2026 expose the chain of evidence. McCullough® warned against this from the very beginning. @McCulloughFund @johnsearsleake @SenRonJohnson @RandPaul https://t.co/ISRBg45O08

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.

[Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2]

Aside from Fauci, Birx, Redfield, and Adams on the government side, no one was more complicit in stoking unnecessary panic and promoting untested and ineffective "mitigation" measures than Scott Gottlieb. Then he massively profited off all of it.

[SAVE BEEF 🇺🇸 BeefMaps.com @BeefMaps]

300,000 metric tons of foreign beef, tariff-free, for 90 days. No country of origin label required. No PRIME Act. Just dump it on the market and call it savings. Rep. Massie: "Worse than socialism." The rancher pays every time. 🇺🇸 https://t.co/ml7XAEF2qf

[Carissa @njoyzgrl81]

You want to lower beef prices for consumers?

Don’t flood the market, break up the JBS monopoly and let US cattle ranchers process and sell directly to their communities.

[Michael Malice @michaelmalice]

AI already has the capacity to replace government schooling but for the socialization and babysitting aspects, which can be made up for otherwise

Any LLM can walk a child through an individual given lesson better than the vast majority of schoolteachers in front of a room

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

THIS IS TERRIFYING

Palantir just released a new surveillance system that fuses satellites, radars and every camera into one real-time tracker of people and movement.

We are cooked.

[Tom Hennessy @Tomhennessey69]

Sammy Weaver
April 23, 1978 – August 21, 1992

This tribute from his sister, Sara Weaver, captures the heart of a 14-year-old boy who loved God, his family, his dog Striker, the outdoors.

Just one day later, their mother, Vicki Weaver, was killed by an FBI sniper. She was standing in the doorway of their cabin, holding her 10-month-old baby daughter in her arms, when the shot was fired.

Sara lost her little brother and her mother within 24 hours at Ruby Ridge.

Sara wrote:

Favorite color: Red
Favorite candy: Lemonheads

Loved: God, me, his family, his dog Striker, hiking, biking, fishing, planting radishes, building forts, history, ships, building model tanks, fixing anything of mine that broke and being right. Every time we had an argument… he won. 😊

Hated: Being called “Sammy”. Cheese. The fact he only weighed 80 lbs at age 14. Crying when he was super mad.

Sam desperately tried to defend his dog, a big yellow lab named Striker who was shot in the spine right in front of him yelping in agony. Shot by grown men hiding in the woods. Men he was completely unaware of, until it was too late.

His last words:
“You shot my dog you son of a bit*hes!”

And:
“I’m coming dad!”

Died: Shot twice in the back running away towards his dad and his home.

I carry you with me always ❤️
And I love you forever little brother ❤️

One day, every wrong will be set right by our Heavenly

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

So the “never seen before” economic sanctions to cripple Iran’s economy are going to be tariffs to other countries doing business with Iran? One year later the miserable failure of the US tariffs initiative?

[The Blackout Shade @blackoutshade]

Read this whole very important thread to understand what really happened

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

1/ Elon Musk, 5 hours after a data-free Pharma press release:

“mRNA… makes curing diseases a software problem.”
“Synthetic RNA will cure many diseases.”

Moderna stock: +174%. Merck: +12%.

Here’s what was actually in that release. 🧵👇