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[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

REVEALED: China-Linked Influence Group Paid to Cultivate Dozens of U.S. Journalists and Manufacture “Positive” Coverage of the Chinese Communist Party.

CNN. NPR. NYT. WaPo. Reuters. NBC. Bloomberg. Politico. Vox.

Here are their names. 🧵

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I was one of 300,000 people who solved the WHCA shooting in 40 minutes. None of us were right. But we were fast, and that night, fast felt like the same thing.

I need to tell you about a tweet.

Not because it matters. Because I thought it did. Because for 3 hours on the night of April 25, 2026, I was certain it was the most important thing on the internet, and I need to tell you what that certainty felt like before I explain why I was wrong.

December 21, 2023. An account called Henry Martinez. @HenryMa79561893. Pepe the Frog avatar. Glitched rainbow banner, the kind of pixel corruption art that looks generated, or found, or planted. Zero following. No bio. No replies. No likes. No history. Created that month and immediately abandoned.

1 post. 2 words. No context. No hashtag. No thread.

Cole Allen.

Just a name dropped into the algorithm like a coin into a well. Then silence. 2.5 years of silence.

I found it at 11:47 PM. I know the exact time because I screenshotted the screenshot. 21 million views by then. 27,000 likes. 12,000 bookmarks. 2,000 replies and climbing. The account had 2,100 followers it never asked for. The only people who follow it found it after the shooting.

One post. 0 engagement for 868 days. Then a man with that name charges a Secret Service checkpoint with a shotgun, and the dead account becomes the most analyzed two words on the internet.

I screenshotted it. I saved it to a folder. I sent it to my group chat with no caption, just the image, because no caption was needed. Everyone already had it. Everyone was already doing what I was doing.

Research.

That's what I called it.

Here is what I built in 40 minutes.

Cole Tomas Allen. 31. Torrance, California. CalTech, class of 2017. Mechanical engineering. Cal State Dominguez Hills, master's in computer science, 2025. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory summer fellow, 2014. C2 Education tutor. Teacher of the month, 2024.

I typed faster than I've ever typed at work.

Indie game developer. Published a game on Steam called Bohrdom. Non-violent. Skill-based. Inspired by chemistry models. Self-propelled pinballs, bullet hell without the bullets. He trademarked the name. He was working on another game: a top-down shooter set in outer space. A person who designed fictional violence for a living and removed the violence.

I didn't stop to think about that. I was looking for the next connection.

CalTech Nerf Club. Christian Fellowship. Registered to vote with no party preference. 1 political donation on record: $25 to Kamala Harris via ActBlue. October 2024. $25. The price of lunch.

And then I found it.

The JPL 2014 summer fellowship program lists a co-author on a published research paper: Henry Martinez.

Cole Allen was a 2014 JPL Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Both names. Same program. Same year.

I had 3 tabs open. I was cross-referencing a dormant Pepe account with a 10-year-old academic paper. I told my group chat I'd found something. I hadn't found anything. I'd followed the same trail 300,000 other people were following at the same speed, and the speed felt like intelligence.

40 minutes. That's how long it took. Before the Secret Service finished their incident report. Before the Acting AG drafted a statement. Before a single journalist filed a story. 300,000 people had already built the board, pinned the photos, drawn the string.

I was one of them. I was fast. I was thorough. I was wrong about what those words meant.

Then somebody ran the Pepe avatar through a face comparison. The frog holding a glass of whiskey in a bow tie. Next to a photo from inside the ballroom. A man at Trump's table holding a glass. Same angle. Same tilt. Arrows drawn between them. "LOOK AT THE GLASS. LOOK AT THE TIE." Shared 40,000 times before anyone asked what it proved.

I shared it. I didn't ask either.

Then somebody found the banner image on the Henry Martinez account. Glitched pixel art. Rainbow static. And somebody else found an EU research project from May 2022, "Study on Quality in 3D Digitisation of Tangible Cultural Heritage," that used the exact same visual aesthetic in its branding. "TIME MACHINE" was the project name. Time Machine.

A tweet from 2023. A project called Time Machine. A man from the future.

I could feel the board filling in. Every piece clicking against the next like magnets. My brain building the room before I'd checked whether the foundation was real. That feeling, the one where the pattern assembles itself faster than your skepticism can keep up?

That's not research. That's gravity. And I was falling.

Here is what the people with followers did while the rest of us were building their evidence for free.

Karoline Leavitt, hours before the dinner, in a recorded interview: "There will be some shots fired tonight." She was talking about jokes. She says. The clip was timestamped, captioned, and circulating to 6 million people within 90 seconds of the first gunshot. 90 seconds. That's not reaction time. That's preparation.

Fox News, mid-broadcast. Their White House correspondent's phone cuts out after her husband tells her "you need to be very safe." She later explains that the Washington Hilton has notoriously bad cell service. The internet doesn't believe in bad cell service. Not when it has a better story. I didn't believe in bad cell service either. Not that night.

Then the word. Both sides. Simultaneously. The fastest bipartisan agreement in American history:

STAGED.

The left said staged to distract from the Iran war and the cratering approval ratings. The right said staged because a Harris donor did it. Both sides said it within the same minute. Both were certain. Neither had evidence. Neither needed any.

I recognized this. I'd seen it before. Butler, Pennsylvania. The same pattern. The same speed. The same certainty arriving before the facts. I recognized it and I kept scrolling.

Alex Jones called it staged at 9:14 PM. By 11:30 PM he said it wasn't. By midnight he was "investigating." By morning he was selling supplements about it. 3 positions in 6 hours. Every one of them monetized. I know his timestamps because I was tracking them. I called that research too.

Marjorie Taylor Greene posted "many questions about Cole Allen" at 12:47 AM like she was peer-reviewing a doctoral thesis she'd never read. I liked the tweet. Then I unliked it. Then I screenshotted it.

Brooklyn Dad, 1.3 million followers, asked "Staged or not staged?" like he was running a poll on pizza toppings. 800,000 impressions on that question. He didn't investigate anything. He didn't have to. He just asked the question and let 300,000 people do his research for free. People like me.

That's content creation. That's what we call it now. A question with no intention of finding the answer. A prompt designed to generate engagement, not information. Brooklyn Dad didn't need to know if it was staged. He needed you to reply.

Jack Posobiec. Libs of TikTok. Tom Fitton. All posted within minutes of each other. Not about the shooting. Not about the agent who took a round to the chest. Not about the 1,000 people who crawled under banquet tables in formal wear. About building a new White House ballroom. The president referenced the ballroom in his press conference that night. He posted about it on Truth Social the next morning.

They don't need the conspiracy to be true. They need it to be first. They need the narrative shaped before you've finished processing the sound of the gunshot. By the time you look up from under the table, the story is already written, the merch is already printing, and the thread is already pinned.

That is the machine. It doesn't run on truth. It runs on speed. And the people who operate it have more followers than the Secret Service has agents.

I fed it for 3 hours. I called it staying informed.

I need to tell you about a train.

Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. 3,000 miles. Roughly 50 hours, if you take the southern route through Texas and up the coast. Maybe longer.

Cole Tomas Allen boarded that train with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. He sat in a seat. Or a sleeper car. We don't know yet. And he watched the country pass outside the window for 2 days. The Mojave. The Rio Grande. The Appalachian foothills. The Potomac.

What does a person think about for 50 hours when they have decided to charge a federal checkpoint?

Does he sleep? Does he eat in the dining car? Does he look at his phone? Does he read the news about the dinner he's traveling toward? Does he think about the game he published, the one where he deliberately removed the guns? Does he think about his students? Does he think about the fellowship, the summer at JPL, the paper with the name that would end up on a dead Pepe account 2.5 years before he ended up on the ground in a hotel lobby?

I don't know. Nobody knows. Nobody is asking. I wasn't asking. I was looking at a Pepe avatar through a face-matching overlay at 2 AM and calling it evidence.

40 minutes to build the board. 3 hours to fill it. 0 seconds on the train ride.

The internet found the tweet in 40 minutes. The NASA paper in 45. The ActBlue receipt in 3. The Fox News clip in 90 seconds. The face-match Pepe theory in 20. The Time Machine banner connection in 30.

Nobody found the train ride.

Because the train ride doesn't have engagement value. It doesn't confirm anything. It doesn't fit a board. It doesn't go viral. It doesn't have a ratio. It's just a man, a window, and a decision that nobody can explain by cross-referencing a tweet with a 10-year-old PDF. Not me. Not the researchers. Not the influencers. Not the politicians. Not the algorithm.

The tweet has 21 million views.

The train ride has none.

And the Secret Service agent who caught a shotgun round in his vest went home to his family that night. He is not trending. He is not a thread. He has no Pepe avatar. No one is drawing arrows to his face. He is alive because Kevlar works, and that is the least interesting thing that happened on April 25, 2026, according to every platform that covered it.

According to me. I covered it too. I just didn't know that's what I was doing.

I deleted the board.

I kept the screenshot.

I don't know what the tweet means. But I know what it doesn't mean. It doesn't mean what the people with the biggest megaphones need it to mean. It doesn't mean what the algorithms want to amplify. It doesn't mean what I decided it meant at 11:47 PM, when I was still falling, still reaching for the pattern because the pattern felt safer than the silence.

The glass in the Pepe's hand is not the glass on the table.

The banner is just pixel art.

The tweet is still there.

Sometimes a name is just a name. And sometimes a man gets on a train, and the only conspiracy is that we'll never understand why, and we'll build 1,000 theories to avoid sitting with that.

40 minutes to build the board. 50 hours on that train. I spent my time on the wrong one.

I know because I'm still thinking about it. Not the train. The board. That's the part I can't stop replaying. Not the silence. The speed.

That's the conspiracy. Not the tweet. Not the Pepe. Not the Time Machine.

The conspiracy is that speed felt like intelligence. And I fell for it. And I'll fall for it again.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The boy drifted the car perfectly, impressed the girl next to him, and gave his friend a pat on the back.
An absolute legend!

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

"I’m asking you to hold the line. Not because the President is infallible... he’s not, nobody is... but because the logic is sound. You cannot build a fortress of peace on a foundation of unresolved threats. You have to clear the ground first. That’s what’s happening."

The question you have to ask... the honest question, not the Tucker question, not the Marjorie question, the real question... is this... Could Donald Trump have achieved a permanent, lasting America First posture... the real doctrine, the thing we all voted for... without first clearing the board of the existential threats that previous administrations allowed to metastasize for decades?

The answer is no. And everybody who is being honest with themselves knows it’s no

Let me take you through it, because the details matter. They always matter with this President. He doesn’t do anything by accident. People think he’s impulsive... the media loves that narrative, “Trump is impulsive, Trump is chaotic”... but look at the timeline. Look at how this actually played out.

Venezuela: The Western Hemisphere First

Trump didn’t wake up one morning and decide to grab Maduro. This was months in the making. Years, actually, if you go back to his first term, when the Justice Department indicted Maduro on narco-terrorism charges in March 2020. Nobody did anything about it then. The indictment just sat there. Biden recognized the opposition candidate Edmundo González as the legitimate president after the stolen 2024 election, and then did absolutely nothing about it. Nothing. Just a statement.

Trump came back and started squeezing. Designated Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on Day One. Designated the Cartel of the Suns... which Maduro basically ran... as an FTO in July. Started a maritime blockade of sanctioned oil tankers in December 2025. And the whole time, by the way, he was offering Maduro off-ramps. Multiple off-ramps. Rubio was negotiating. There were back channels through Qatar. The Rodríguez siblings... Delcy and Jorge... were apparently trying to work out a deal where Maduro would go into exile. But Maduro wouldn’t go. He thought he could wait it out. He was wrong.

January 2, 2026... the operation launched. Special forces went in under cover of night. Army Warrant Officer 5 Eric Slover flew the lead Chinook into Maduro’s military fortress. Eighty-three people died, including thirty-two Cuban soldiers who were stationed there... and by the way, what were Cuban soldiers doing in Venezuela? Think about that. Cuban soldiers protecting a Venezuelan dictator. That tells you everything about the network that had to be broken.

Maduro is now in federal custody in New York. Delcy Rodríguez is the interim president, cooperating with our government. We’re marketing Venezuelan oil on global markets. The largest proven oil reserves on the planet... three hundred billion barrels, bigger than Saudi Arabia... are no longer being used to fund narco-terrorism and Cuban communism. They’re being used to benefit the American people and the Venezuelan people.

Now. Was that regime change? Technically? Yes. But here’s the critical difference... and this is what separates what Trump did from what Bush did in Iraq, what Obama did in Libya, what the whole rotten establishment has done for twenty-five years. Trump did not invade Venezuela. He did not send a hundred and fifty thousand troops. He did not dissolve the Venezuelan state. He did not fire every government employee and disband the security forces like Paul Bremer did in Iraq, which was the single stupidest decision in the history of American foreign policy, by the way. Single stupidest decision. Created ISIS. Created the entire insurgency. Because they took a million armed, trained men, humiliated them, and set them loose with nothing to do but fight.

Trump did the opposite. He took the head. Left the body. Made a deal with the body. That’s not nation-building. That’s not a forever war. That’s a surgical correction of a threat that had been allowed to fester for over two decades. Get in, remove the problem, arrange the pieces, get out. The Venezuelan state is still functioning. The military is still intact. The oil is flowing. And America is no longer dealing with a hostile narco-state in its own backyard.

We’re not building schools in Caracas. We’re not training a Venezuelan national police force. We’re not spending a trillion dollars over ten years trying to turn Venezuela into Vermont. We’re leaving. That is the doctrine. But you can’t leave a problem you haven’t solved.

Iran: The Nuclear Sword of Damocles

Iran is the harder case, and I’ll be straight with you... it’s the one that bothers people the most, and I understand why. Because Iran looks like exactly what we said we wouldn’t do. It looks like Iraq 2003. It looks like the neocons got what they always wanted. John Bolton is happy. Bill Kristol is happy. When John Bolton and Bill Kristol are happy about something you did, you should be nervous. I get it.

But Iran is not Iraq, and here is why.

Iraq in 2003 was a contained threat. Saddam didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence was either wrong or fabricated. The threat was manufactured to justify a war that certain people in Washington wanted for ideological reasons that had nothing to do with American security. The entire premise was a lie.

Iran in 2025-2026 was an uncontained, accelerating, existential threat. This is not debatable. After Biden let the JCPOA collapse without replacing it with anything... because Biden couldn’t negotiate his way out of a parking garage... Iran was enriching uranium to near-weapons-grade levels. The IAEA confirmed it. Four hundred kilograms of uranium enriched to sixty percent. They were, by every credible estimate, within weeks of breakout capability. The regime was simultaneously funding Hamas... which carried out October 7, the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust... funding Hezbollah, funding the Houthis who were attacking global shipping in the Red Sea, and funding proxy wars across the entire Middle East.

Trump tried diplomacy first. And this is the part that everyone who’s screaming “betrayal” conveniently forgets. He wrote a letter to Khamenei in March 2025 offering negotiations. He sent Steve Witkoff to Oman for multiple rounds of talks. Five rounds of talks. Five. Khamenei wouldn’t take the deal. They were offered sanctions relief, normalization, the whole package... in exchange for dismantling the nuclear program. They said no. They kept enriching.

So in June 2025, during the Twelve-Day War with Israel, Trump sent B-2 bombers... seven of them, flying eighteen hours straight from Missouri... and dropped bunker-buster bombs on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The three main enrichment sites. Obliterated. Set the program back years. And then he said... “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE.”

And what did Iran do? They tried to rebuild. They kicked out the IAEA inspectors. They refused to let anyone verify what happened to their uranium stockpiles. They kept developing missiles. The regime... Khamenei specifically... made the calculation that he could outlast Trump, rebuild the program, and eventually get the bomb anyway.

That calculation ended on February 28, 2026, when a precision strike killed Khamenei at his own residence during a meeting of senior officials. Gone. The defense minister, the IRGC commander, the secretary of the Security Council... all gone. Forty-eight senior leaders taken out, according to the President. And in the streets of Tehran... this is the part the media doesn’t want to show you... people were celebrating. Dancing. Cheering. Because the Iranian people have been hostages of this regime since 1979, and they know exactly what it is.

The cost of war is horrific and anyone who pretends there’s a way to do this without innocent people dying is lying to you. This President didn’t lie about it. He said, in his own address, “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties... that often happens in war.” He’s telling you the truth. The question isn’t whether people will die. People were already dying... under the regime, in the protests the regime crushed by killing over seven thousand people in January alone. The question is whether the outcome justifies the cost. And the outcome... the permanent elimination of the Iranian nuclear threat, the destruction of the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, the liberation of eighty-eight million people from a medieval theocracy... is worth it. It has to be. Because the alternative was a nuclear-armed Iran, and a nuclear-armed Iran means the end of everything we’re trying to build.

Cuba: Gravity Does the Work

Cuba is the proof that the doctrine works even when you don’t fire a shot. Nobody invaded Cuba. Nobody bombed Havana. Trump simply cut the lifeline. When Maduro fell, the Venezuelan oil that kept Cuba alive disappeared. When Trump signed the executive order on January 29 threatening tariffs on any country that sells oil to Cuba, Mexico... which supplied forty-four percent of Cuba’s oil... suspended shipments. Russia called the situation “truly critical” but hasn’t sent a tanker. China made sympathetic noises but hasn’t delivered fuel.

And now Cuba is collapsing under its own weight. Eighty-nine percent of families in extreme poverty. Schools suspended. Hospitals losing power. Airlines canceling flights because there’s no jet fuel. The regime can’t even run garbage trucks. This is what sixty-seven years of communism looks like when nobody’s willing to subsidize it anymore.

Trump’s approach? “Make a deal before it’s too late.” He’s talking to people inside the Cuban system... including, reportedly, Raúl Castro’s grandson. Rubio, who understands Cuba better than anyone in government, is leading the effort. The terms haven’t been made public, but the logic is obvious... open the economy, release political prisoners, hold elections, or watch the lights go out for good. No Marines. No occupation. Just leverage, applied from a position of absolute economic dominance, and the patience to let gravity do what gravity does.

So here is where it all comes together. Here is the part where you have to step back and look at the board... the whole board, not just the square you’re standing on.

Before January 2025, the Western Hemisphere contained a hostile narco-state with the world’s largest oil reserves, a communist holdout that served as a forward base for Russian and Chinese influence ninety miles from Florida, and a Middle Eastern theocracy with an active nuclear weapons program that was funding terror organizations across three continents. Those were not theoretical threats. They were active, operational, escalating threats that any future president... of either party... would have had to deal with eventually.

The question was never whether to deal with them. The question was how. And the twenty-five-year answer from the foreign policy establishment... sanctions that didn’t work, diplomacy that got played, nation-building that wasted trillions, forever wars that killed thousands... had been tried and had failed catastrophically. Iraq proved it. Afghanistan proved it. Libya proved it.

What Trump has done in sixty days... Maduro captured, Khamenei killed, Cuba strangled into negotiation... is not a betrayal of the America First doctrine. It is the precondition for the doctrine. It’s the thing that has to happen once so that it never has to happen again.

Think of it this way. If you inherit a house with a flooded basement, a collapsing roof, and a gas leak, you don’t get to say “I’m a low-maintenance homeowner” and sit on the porch. You have to fix the emergencies first. Rip out the pipes. Replace the roof. Seal the gas line. It’s expensive. It’s messy. People are going to say “I thought you said this would be a quiet house.” And you say... “It will be. After I fix the things that are about to kill us.”

That’s what the second term has been. Emergency triage on a world that was handed to this President in a state of active decay. Not by accident, not by fate, but by the deliberate incompetence of everyone who came before.

The Trump Doctrine... the real, permanent version... is still coming. And it will look exactly like what you voted for. No permanent troop deployments in Caracas. No American military governor in Tehran. No nation-building, no democracy-exporting, no trillion-dollar reconstruction funds. Get in. Fix the emergency. Arrange cooperative locals to run things in a direction that doesn’t threaten America. Get out.

Venezuela is already on that track. The oil deal was signed within days of Maduro’s capture. Delcy Rodríguez is cooperating. American companies are investing. The troops are not staying.

Iran is going to be harder and take longer... there’s active combat right now, this weekend, as you’re reading this. Three Americans are dead. More will follow, the President himself said so. But the objective is not to occupy Iran. The objective is to break the regime’s capacity to threaten the United States and its allies, support whatever transition the Iranian people choose... and they’re already in the streets, they’ve been in the streets since December... and then leave. This is not Afghanistan. There will not be twenty years of patrols in Isfahan. There will not be a democratic transition monitored by USAID consultants who’ve never been outside the Green Zone. There will be a broken regime, a liberated population, and an American exit.

Cuba will fold without a single American boot on the ground. It’s already happening.

And when it’s done... when the threats that took decades to build have been eliminated in months... the doctrine takes hold. Not as a slogan on a hat. Not as a campaign promise that sounds good in a rally and dissolves on contact with reality. As an actual, operational, strategic posture that future presidents will inherit and maintain, because the conditions that required intervention will no longer exist.

No Iranian nuclear program to contain. No Venezuelan narco-pipeline to interdict. No Cuban forward base to monitor. No justification for the next generation of neocons to drag us into the next Iraq.

That’s the vision. That’s what the second term is building toward. And I know it’s painful right now. I know three families are grieving tonight. I know more will grieve before this is over. And I know it looks, from the outside, like everything we were promised has been broken.

But I’m asking you to hold the line. Not because the President is infallible... he’s not, nobody is... but because the logic is sound. You cannot build a fortress of peace on a foundation of unresolved threats. You have to clear the ground first. That’s what’s happening. It’s ugly and it’s costly and it was never going to look the way anyone wanted it to look.

But the house will be clean. And then we maintain it. And then... finally, for the first time in a generation... we stop sending our kids to die in countries that hate us.

That’s the Trump Doctrine. Not the opening act. The final destination. And we’re almost there.

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James Hong is 97 today so let’s celebrate when this legend showed up to a con as Lo Pan from ‘Big Trouble In Little China’

[Speaker @HoosierSpeaker]

How do you find out you’re good at this? What’s the conversation look like

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.

It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.

That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.

[John Goddard @nonestlex]

Travelling to America as an Australian is terrifying.

Because living in Australia, we're sheltered. We're far from the rest of the world.

Our State Sponsored Media tells you that Australia has the best of everything in the world. That our culture and lifestyle is unmatched.

But as soon as you arrive in America it is blindingly obvious how false that is. America feels explosive, alive, chaotic, rich. It's loud, obnoxious, unapologetic.

There's no hint of tall poppy syndrome. And no constant nagging of the Nanny State.

America is accelerating into an unknown future without fear.

There are so many technological innovations here that would never see the light of day in Australia, because they would be strangled by regulation.

Australia is beautiful, sure. But it's safe, quiet, controlled.

Media and society tell you to conform, comply, be seen and not heard. Take the safe option. Be fearful of new things. Be fearful of the future.

The spark of innovation is stifled. The light of creativity is discouraged. The warmth of the collective is more important than the rugged individual.

And as time goes on, one of the two countries is going to be left behind. It's pretty clear which country that is.

So, it's terrifying.

And before I came here, everyone said I should be terrified of America. That I wouldn't be let it the country. That everyone is rioting. That Hitler runs the country.

That couldn't be further from the truth.

Their brains have been absolutely fried by Australian State Sponsored media.

[Just Another Pod Guy @TMTLongShort]

Greenland is a sideshow. But there is signal.

You should be asking… why is the admin willing to piss off the Europeans to this extent over something that while strategically valuable is far from a core priority?

The answer is that the Trump admin knows something you don’t.

They are going to be pissing off europeans much more aggressively over the next 12 -18 months anyways.

Because they plan to enforce the transshipment clause in all those trade deals to force Europe to shut out China.

And that is going to throw Europes economy into a tailspin.

So what the admin is now doing is preemptively showing it doesn’t give a flying fuck about the “rules based order”

If you don’t want Greenland in the hands of the Americans you clearly don’t take the long term threat from China and Russia seriously.

And if that’s the case then fuck you. We don’t need you, Europe.

And they are going to do a hundred things to show they mean it.

Because remember what I said a year ago.

Bessent wants to salvage the system. But if that fails the backup is the Vance doctrine.

And that entails walking away and letting it all burn.

When you start with a lens of strategic decoupling everything makes a lot more sense.

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[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

Denmark lost its sovereignty long ago.

In practice, its autonomy is narrowly bounded by structures it does not control and capabilities it has chosen not to develop.

For decades, Danish security has rested almost entirely on external guarantees. Defense spending remained structurally low until very recently, expeditionary capabilities were limited, and territorial defense—particularly in the Arctic—was underinvested despite Denmark holding formal responsibility for Greenland and the Faroe Islands. Surveillance, deterrence, and rapid response in the High North have depended overwhelmingly on U.S. assets.

This is not a temporary imbalance but a long-standing model: political sovereignty paired with outsourced hard power.

This asymmetry extends beyond defense. Denmark benefits from access to collective markets, security frameworks, and political capital generated by larger actors, while contributing selectively and cautiously when costs rise. The state has been adept at moral positioning and normative diplomacy, but far less willing to bear proportional material burdens. In strategic terms, influence has been decoupled from responsibility.

The Greenland question exposes this gap clearly. Copenhagen asserts sovereignty, yet lacks the independent capacity to secure, monitor, or develop the territory without American infrastructure and presence. Strategic decisions affecting Greenland are therefore shaped in Washington long before they are formalized in Copenhagen. Legal authority exists; operational control does not.

This is sovereignty in form, not in substance.

In geopolitical reality, states that systematically externalize their security and risk accept a reduced claim to strategic agency. Denmark remains a recognized sovereign state under international law, but its posture illustrates how sovereignty can be hollowed out by prolonged dependence.

What is presented as principled restraint is, in practice, a choice to live under guarantees provided—and ultimately conditioned—by others.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Never-before-seen footage of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe has been released by author Paul Rosolie on Lex Fridman's show.

The tribe was seen lowering their weapons before they were given a canoe of food.

Rosolie is a conservationist who has reportedly spent two decades working in the Amazon.

Video: Lex Clips / YouTube

[Andrew T. Walker @AndrewTWalker]

Communism and Christianity stand at fundamentally irreconcilable odds because they rest on rival accounts of the human person, freedom, and authority.

Where Christ sets man free—liberating the conscience from sin and ordering freedom toward truth and love—communism operates by coercion, subordinating the individual to the collective and enforcing conformity through compulsion. Christianity understands freedom as moral and spiritual: the capacity to live in accordance with reality as God has made it. Communism, by contrast, treats freedom as a problem to be managed, something to be engineered away in the pursuit of an abstract vision of equality.

At the heart of the conflict is authority. Christianity locates ultimate authority in God, limits the claims of the state, and affirms the dignity of the person as prior to political power. Communism collapses those distinctions. It absolutizes the state, denies transcendent moral limits, and reduces persons to economic units whose worth is measured by their utility to the system. Where Christianity calls for voluntary charity, communism mandates redistribution. Where Christianity relies on conversion of the heart, communism relies on force. Where Christianity produces ordered liberty, communism produces fear, surveillance, and dependency.

This is not merely a historical observation but a philosophical one. Christianity can survive persecution because it appeals to conscience; communism cannot survive dissent because it demands total unbending allegiance. One is built on grace and truth; the other on power and control. The two are not competing paths to the same end. They are rival moral universes and they point in opposite directions.

[kjlovercio @kjlovercio]

I asked Grok to generate this image description.:

A 1960s groovy sci-fi futuristic advanced spaceship dock in outer space orbiting Earth with 1960s groovy sci-fi theme rockets and saucers flying by with a groovy nebula with bright sparkling colors.

https://t.co/c4dwnMjYHO

[Green Lives Matter @Ultrafrog17]

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In the spirit of unity, before the biggest election of our lifetime, consider following them and adding your own account in the comments if I missed you. 🧵

Unique Clip Finders:
@TheStormRedux
@Patri0tContr0l
@EricAbbenante
@dotconnectinga

OG Red Pill Truthers:
@ItsJuliansRum
@truestormyjoe
@bradcgz
@RPPharmacist
@realjusthuman
@Nevstv
@patel_patriot
@reBurningBright
@_AlphaAnon
@RedPill78
@DrC_IET17
@SunTzusWar
@Misty_G_17
@TruthHammer4EVA
@realmflynnJR
@TheParasiteGuy
@TruePatriotAU
@vigilantnews777
@deluxe_pepe
@Qtimekennedy
@realtinapeters
@badhombre
@canncon
@taraleerodas
@UngaTheGreat
@8Notables

[KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat]

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Wesley Clark disclosed that, following 9/11, the United States had formulated plans "to take out 7 countries in 5 years."

The corrupt corporate media portrayed each new war as a battle for democracy against an evil dictator.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Incredible mash-up of Tropic Thunder and Super Mario Bros

[Pier Pets @PierPets]

This is mesmerizing!

[E @ElijahSchaffer]

This is how to deal with shoplifters

[kjlovercio @kjlovercio]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/7obAxZEYUO

[kjlovercio @kjlovercio]

Just posted a photo @ Boise, Idaho https://t.co/qaeiSZllWg