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[Dave Troy @davetroy]

As I was saying, it looks like RFK Jr may follow Tulsi’s departure. The goal at this point is to build up the red/brown-Russia faction and isolate Trump/MAGA as a failing remnant.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

And his bid to become the world's richest man is rooted in his intentions to warp the political landscape and draw together all of the Russia-aligned political actors, across both 'left' and 'right.'

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Peas in a pod.
https://t.co/16rlWwMW2w

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Never forget how we got here: Rohrabacher created Musk.
https://t.co/UNj0sippWU

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

The really trippy thing will be when Elon comes out as formally allied with Putin. All the signs are there for anyone paying close attention.

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

OSC identified at least 75 sanctioned Russian entities using A7's services.

Among them is the GRU-backed Rustakt LLC, a primary provider of FPV drones to the Russian military, which successfully laundered millions of dollars through the network after EU sanctions were imposed.

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

At the centre of the web sits Ilan Shor, a fugitive Moldovan businessman convicted in absentia for a historic billion-dollar bank heist.

Backed by Russia’s sanctioned military bank, PSB, A7 operates a network of front companies around the world.

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

The A7 Network relied heavily on permissive jurisdictions to access international payment channels.

Specifically, it utilised the state-owned Trading Company of the Kyrgyz Republic to route transactions clandestinely via Bishkek.

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

The scale of the operation is immense. Leaked ledgers from a cache of 30,000 internal messages, contracts and SWIFT messages show A7 processed RUB 2.1 trillion – or $25 billion – between Sept 2024 and July 2025.

A7 claims this has now surpassed $84 billion by today's figures.

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

There has been significant focus on Russian cryptocurrency schemes.

But the A7 Network operates as a fiat-first system, leveraging conventional correspondent banking relationships to move hard currency through the world’s largest banks.

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

In reality, these fabricated goods were used to conceal Russian payments.

Discovered in a joint investigation by OSC and @trmlabs, this state-backed financial pipeline was built to secretly reconnect the Russian economy to the international banking system.

https://t.co/ETfrzlBYLo

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

NEW: How did A7 move billions of dollars in illicit Russian money through major Western banks?

The answer - contained in thousands of previously unseen documents - involves custom AI tools and fake shipments of tomatoes, carnival hats and thousands of pirate eye patches.

[Robert Young Pelton @RYP__]

Putin has multiple ways to launder money into the west. Hungary was a big part. Split trading was another. Futures bets on gas and oil was another.

[National Wildlife Federation Action Fund @wildlifeaction]

🚨BREAKING: @POTUS just opened three marine monuments to destructive industrial fishing. These areas are vital for protecting whales, sea turtles, sharks, and sensitive ocean ecosystems. This is an egregious attack on our public waters. #ProtectOurOcean #MonumentsForAll
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[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

UPDATE: USPS just opposed a pro-voting request to enforce the protection of your mail-in ballot.

In 2021, USPS agreed to safeguard mail-in voting.

Now, per Trump's executive order, it's proposing rules that would let it refuse to deliver certain ballots, potentially violating that very agreement. https://t.co/MGUnoWjpz2

[TheSteadyState @steadystate2025]

Steven Cash said “the network’s formation was a reaction to an official drive to reshape US security services in an image resembling historically notorious agencies like the KGB, the Gestapo or the Stasi, the secret police in communist East Germany…It’s an alarm bell ringing…The fact that they need a support group tells us that American democracy itself and law enforcement needs a support group.”

https://t.co/LjCY6wUyBb

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

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[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a “DEI” hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII.

His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General.

Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: Without China, Russia would have lost war in Ukraine.

North Korean troops and Iranian drones grab headlines. But what keeps Putin in Ukraine is China — chemicals for artillery shells, components for drones and missiles.

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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: ABC News Just Published Some Pretty Stunning ICE Data.

The administration says it is targeting the "worst of the worst."

But according to ABC's analysis of government data, only 3% of the more than 400,000 people detained by ICE between January 2025 and March 2026 had a violent felony conviction in the United States.

ABC reports that ICE apprehended more than 4,800 U.S. citizens and deported over 2,000 of them during the first eight months of 2025.