Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن

Disciple of Jesus, Husband, Father of 2 boys
Ga Tech EE Grad '00
Volunteer NH Ballot Clerk,
Classical Liberal: Pro Life, Free Speech, Free Markets, Constitution

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

@Experian_US Webpage sends me to you phone number... which then refuses to help & sends me to the webpage.

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

@Experian_US
Why have you set up your webpage & phone system to be an accountability sync? Each one points to the other, neither lets you talk to a human to get resolution?

[Carlos Mucha @mucha_carlos]

The Army has thousands of surplus .50 caliber machine guns, Ukraine’s Sky Sentinel kit costs $150K and turns a MG into a drone removal machine. For cost of one Patriot missile, we can buy 25 of them. Two dozen Sky Sentinels around every ME base would’ve prevented a lot of grief.

[Klaas Meijer @klaasm67]

On this day in 1940 Joseph Stalin and 5 other members of the Soviet Politbureau, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre. Never forget. 🇵🇱

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

An ally, that should be treated with the redirect owed an ally.
And a country we promised to defend when they gave up their nukes (that we've done a poor job of defending).

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We received signals from partners in the Middle East. There have been strikes by Iranian “shaheds” on civilians in those countries. They are seeking our expertise. We are open. If their representatives come, we will provide the expertise. Especially since there is also a request from Europeans and from the United States. Requests have come to us to share our experience with partners in the Middle East.

Regarding weapons: we ourselves are at war. And I said, completely frankly, that we have a shortage of what they have. They have missiles for the Patriots, but hundreds or thousands of “shaheds” cannot be intercepted with Patriot missiles – it is too costly. Nothing is too much for the people, of course, but they simply do not have that many missiles. That is why they need interceptor drones, which we have. Meanwhile, we have a shortage of PAC-2 and PAC-3 missiles. So, when it comes to technology or weapons exchange, I believe our country will be open to it.

From an interview with Rai Italia (2/5).

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Judge to Tina Peters: "I'm convinced you would do it all over again if you could... you're as defiant a defendant as this court has ever seen...

Our system of government can't function when people in government think the power they've been given is absolute. That is where you fall."

Tina Peters was sentenced to 9 years in prison for hacking voting machines.

This week, Colorado's Governor signaled he may pardon her.

Today is worth revisiting her sentencing hearing. It's long, but the judge's remarks are the most excoriating I've ever heard.

A pardon would not only be a profound miscarriage of justice.

It would be a gift to those seeking to commit election fraud, disenfranchise voters, and permanently entrench Republican minority rule.

@jaredpolis... Do not do this.

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

https://t.co/ruQJDtD0pM

[Sidewalk Steve @Sidewalk_Steve]

"Blind affirmation and rushing for medical transition is not compassion, it's harmful." Heroic @LJDetrans asks the Elk Grove BOE to stop celebrating child mutilation.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Zelensky announces he is sending Ukrainian military specialists to the Middle East to help counter Iranian drones and missiles.

Be sure to say, "Thank you," @JDVance:

"I have tasked Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, together with intelligence agencies, the Minister of Defense, our military command, and the NSDC Secretary, to present options for assisting the relevant countries and to provide aid in a way that does not weaken our own defense here in Ukraine. Our military possesses the necessary capabilities. Ukrainian experts will operate on-site, and teams are already coordinating these efforts."

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

@biancoresearch (Okay, not so insurance wouldn't lapse but that the insurer stays solvent.)

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

@biancoresearch (Honest question)
I understand that the probability of once-in-200-year event happening _imminently_ went up, but wasn't the whole point of the capital requirement that they have the capital on hand to handle this kind of event - so insurance wouldn't lapse?

[Nolan Peterson @nolanwpeterson]

During the Battle of Kyiv, Ukrainians never lost internet connection or cell communication. Many of the soldiers I know who fought to defend Kyiv in those early days told me that this connectivity was essential to their ability to communicate and share info about Russian postions — some even went on YouTube to learn how to use some of the weapons they’d received from the West at the last minute. All that’s to say that if an Iranian resistance movement is to topple the regime, then restoring internet access to Iran should be a top priority.

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

@grok @OmenAyy @Heidi__Matthews @grok, please provide links to the original phone in context from 2021

[Censorship Watch UK @OfcomCommentary]

There is NO American-style Section 230 in the EU or UK.

No shield for platforms like X from user content liability.

The EU deliberately skipped this protection when enacting the Digital Services Act (DSA).

Why?

Because Brussels wants controlled speech — the antithesis of free speech.

The European Commission built the DSA on blueprints from activist NGOs like CCDH* and Carnegie UK Trust — tools designed to silence political dissent they dislike.

And they enforce it in total secrecy because the Commission wears FOUR hats at once:

🛑 Regulator
🛑 Investigator
🛑 Prosecutor
🛑 Judge

Zero separation of powers.

Zero real accountability.

Zero justice.

Transparency would shatter their sham — and they know it.

That's their fatal weakness.

We stand 100% with @elonmusk, @X, and @ADFLegal in their landmark legal fight against this blatant free speech assault.

But we gently request more:

The US Government can intervene NOW — before the EU's performative quasi-judicial circus concludes.

Tools at hand: Financial sanctions, trade restrictions, travel bans on EU officials pushing censorship.

In parallel, pass federal or state-level 'Censorship Shield' Laws like Wyoming's GRANITE Act — already advancing to protect Americans from foreign extortion.

This would slam the brakes on EU/UK demands that American tech companies censor globally.

It would also liberate Europeans (and Brits) from this growing undemocratic censorship regime.

Free speech isn't negotiable. 🇺🇸 🇬🇧

*Centre for Countering Digital Hate

@SecRubio
@elonmusk @GlobalAffairs
@ADFIntl

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

@mercoglianos Is it possible/probable that a crew would put an AIS on a lifeboat, copy the ship's ID, leave it station keeping, run the straight, and then pick it up on the outbound leg?

[Kaivalya @Bhagwa_Piller]

20 years ago today (Aug 15, 2004), 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh was publicly hanged from a crane in Neka, Iran.

Sahaaleh was convicted of fornication under Iranian Penal Code Article 221 (a crime against chastity) when she was 13 years old. Following a police raid, she was discovered alone in a car with a boy.

She was jailed and given 100 lashes. While in prison, she was further allegedly tortured and raped by prison guards. She told her grandmother that she could only walk on all fours because of the pain.

In the following years, she was arrested twice more for crimes against chastity, and both convictions were punished by flogging and jail time.

Under Iranian Penal Code Article 136, a fourth conviction for a hadd crime for which the punishment was carried out three previous times results in the death penalty

That fourth conviction started in May 2003, when Sahaaleh was arrested at home and charged with adultery and immorality.

Police presented a report which they claimed supported the charges against Sahaaleh, but the only signatures on the report were police officers and other local authorities

The judge presiding over the trial was Haji Rezai. After Rezai interrogated Sahaaleh, she confessed to being raped by Ali Darabi, a married 51-year-old ex-revolutionary guard turned taxi driver.

Sahaaleh was raped repeatedly by Darabi over the previous three years. Judge rezai had personal grudges against her and refused to trust her testimony

When Sahaaleh realized that she was losing her case, she removed her hijab, an act seen as a severe contempt of the court, and argued that Darabi should be punished, not her.

She removed her shoes and threw them at the judge. Rezai sentenced Sahaaleh to death. Her lawyer appealed to Iran's Supreme Court in Tehran, where the verdict was upheld due to Sahaaleh's confession and three prior convictions for similar offenses

Her age was falsified to 22 to allow execution, violating Iran's own treaty obligations against executing minors. Before the noose tightened, she pleaded: "If you forgive me, I will never look into the eyes of a man again." She asked the crowd for forgiveness. She was executed at the age of 16 and her body was made to spat on by children

She was the youngest victim of Khamenei moral police apparatus which doesn't follow any law protocol or transparency.

[Anthony Bradley @drantbradley]

This will be an extremely controversial article. Prof. @jean_twenge shows that young adults are walking from LGBTQ+ identity and it was more of a social contagion than an orientation. There’s been a 21% decline in young adults identifying as LGB+ in just 3 years.

[Ed Graham V 郭爱德 ن @EdGrahamV]

@KevinARing Advisory Opinions & @whignewtons & @DavidAFrench had episode(s) touching on this situation but I don't remember them suggesting that the DEI hiring practices could have created risk for them.

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@KevinARing I agree they shouldn't have been extorted.
I suspect a reason many didn't push back harder was they had publicly violated title 6 and 9 in their DEI hiring practices, which made them vulnerable to prosecution.

[Wesley Yang @wesyang]

The Transgender Inquisition is global and unitary and seeks to destroy the right of people to think freely and speak freely wherever it obtains the power to do so because the dogmas it seeks to impose onto language and law are self-evident falsehoods that cannot withstand people able to think freely and speak freely