Dirk Gently 🇿🇦

Here for Ukraine.
#NAFO

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

That investigation is gold.
A state employee, shilling for russia and sharing Nazi memes during work hours, while getting paid by the Kremlin. A state, that apart from committing war crimes on daily basis, has designated the United States as an enemy and vows to destroy it.

I’m not surprised, behind every Putin-loving shill there’s usually Kremlin money.

What I find even more unsettling is that the guy has 200k followers - I really don’t know what @X are thinking here, but at that point it is obvious that the algorithm rewards such accounts. Would be interesting to hear more about how such obvious troll accounts gain traction and popularity @nikitabier ?

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

💔 52,500 people, including nearly 4,500 children, took shelter in Kyiv’s metro during Russia’s overnight attack.

This was the highest number of people seeking refuge in the metro during a night-time air raid in recent years.

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

💔 The death toll from Russia’s attack on Kyiv has risen to 17.

Rescue teams continue searching through the rubble.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

They invaded us. They were “the magnificent empire”. We were the lowly “pig breeders”.

When we didn’t greet them with flowers and fought back, they called us “American proxies”.

When America said “it’s not our war”, they called us “war mongers”. As if we attacked them.

In the fifth year of bombarding our cities, they started calling their strikes “retaliation” and our strikes “provocation”.

Which doesn’t change the truth: their war is a geopolitical murder in plain view. It’s fascism pure.

“Never again” is now, again.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

Trump has run the same play his whole life: he gets rich while the people who believed in him go broke.
His financial disclosure was released today. All 927 pages of it.

Turns out, all of you who bought Trump's meme coin got wrecked while he cashed out big. Let's start with the crypto.

Part 1: Crypto

Crypto is now Trump's #1 source of income. Bigger than every hotel, tower, and golf course he owns COMBINED.

Last year Trump personally made ~ $1.4 BILLION from crypto, but the regular people got crushed:

- His $TRUMP meme coin collapsed from $75 to $1.68. In the first weeks alone, about 813,000 wallets lost roughly $2 BILLION.

- His World Liberty token fell 80%+, and most small buyers were LOCKED and couldn't even sell while insiders got out.

- For every $1 the insiders made in fees, small traders lost about $20.

Red flags identified so far:

🚩 He and his partners control ~80% of the meme coin supply. The house always wins. He's literally treating it like his bankrupted casinos.

🚩 He pocketed ~$320M in trading fees off the same people losing their money.

🚩 He personally deregulates the exact industry paying him a billion dollars a year.

🚩 And one of the most alarming ones to me. It's a foreign cash pipe. An Abu Dhabi state fund ran $2B through his stablecoin, and 3 of every 4 of his top coin holders are foreign. So, anyone, anywhere, can pay the president anonymously using this structure.

It's the same man with the same pattern as all previous bankruptcies, just new victims with a new scheme.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I had to double-check that this was a real Truth Social post by Donald Trump

It was.

He’s completely unhinged.

#TrumpIsUnhinged

[Dirk Gently 🇿🇦 @posthumus_johan]

@Scaramucci We've seen that in South Africa with our historically high Gini coefficient. Well... not pitchforks actually, but the lesson is as old as humanity itself and regardless of the political system.

It is not possible to live a happy life if your neighbour is living a hungry life.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Dirk Gently 🇿🇦 @posthumus_johan]

@mjfree Is a duck's bum watertight?

[Dirk Gently 🇿🇦 @posthumus_johan]

@The_FJC No. It is not

But why explain when you've swallowed Trump's nonsense hook,
line and sinker?

[Jarl Finland @jalle51]

Having closely analyzed the latest flight footage of Ukraine’s new FP-5 "Flamingo" missile, we can finally draw an obvious—and for the Kremlin, utterly humiliating—conclusion. Disregard any panic about some "hypersonic sci-fi wonder-weapon." The Flamingo is functionally a standard, subsonic, low-flying cruise missile running on technology rooted in the middle of the last century. 🚀🚜💥

Let’s be real: on a radar screen, this thing likely lights up like a massive farm tractor. Powered by a jet engine that leaves a thermal heat signature the size of an aircraft carrier, it can be seen and heard from miles away by radar, binoculars, monocles, or even a basic pair of reading glasses. But here is the absolute peak of the thriller: Despite this flying tractor slowly cruising through sovereign Russian airspace for two entire hours, Russia's entire air defense matrix completely fails to intercept it!

When smaller Ukrainian drones strike deep, pro-Kremlin mouthpieces love to cope by claiming they are made of carbon fiber and invisible to Pantsir batteries. But a massive, ten-meter steel tube packed with a screaming jet engine? Even if we assume every operational Pantsir has been deployed to the frontlines or buried around Putin's private bunker in Valdai, where on earth is the Russian Air Force? Where are the interceptor jets explicitly designed for this exact mission? ✈️🤷‍♂️

The strategic reality in mid-2026 is wild: Russia has been systematically degraded to a state where it cannot defend against mid-20th-century aviation tech. For the first time in military history, Russia's vast geographic size has mutated from an imperial advantage into a catastrophic air-defense liability. Their domestic sky is a total sieve.

This is a massive ace up Kyiv’s sleeve and a critical window of opportunity. Of course, this window will eventually close—just like it did for Bayraktars and HIMARS once tactics evolved. There is no need to over-celebrate; if Ukrainians learned to survive without electricity and fuel, the Russian machine will eventually adapt as well. But right now, on Day 2 of Ukraine’s aggressive 40-day campaign, the strategic gap is wide open. Kyiv needs to exploit this vulnerability to the absolute maximum before the Kremlin figures out a countermeasure. Grab a drink, the structural collapse is running in pure 4K! 😂🥃🍿

Source: Technical analysis of viral FP-5 "Flamingo" flight data and aerospace tracking via independent OSINT defense monitors (June 2026).

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Q: Does this force Putin to the negotiating table or does he continue while Ukraine gets stronger?

Kellogg: Whatever you may think about Putin — he is not a Jeffersonian democrat. He's trained and started his life as a KGB agent.

Once an agent, you're always an agent. He's realized he got himself in a box and he's looking at the United States to help get out of this fight. My attitude is — fight it out.

[Dirk Gently 🇿🇦 @posthumus_johan]

@Scaramucci This - right here - is where every constitution in the world fail

When the fathers and mothers of the nation sit down to write its constitution, they assume that all future Presidents will uphold the constitution

Then a Trump enters and fear paralize all checks and balances

[Dirk Gently 🇿🇦 @posthumus_johan]

@j_austincain You are embarrassing yourself man.

Don't be the caricature of the dumb American that's never been further than 50 miles away from the place where he was born.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Just saw this image going around:

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Ho-lee-shit!!!

Thanks to journalist Katie Phang and Trump's corrupt and incompetent acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Epstein files are about to explode into one of the biggest scandals in American history.

A federal judge dropped a bombshell ruling Thursday, ordering the Justice Department to stop protecting explosive documents that the Trump administration has desperately fought to keep hidden from the public.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan slammed the DOJ, siding with Katie Phang in the first-ever lawsuit enforcing the Epstein Files Transparency Act — a bill that passed Congress with near-unanimous support in 2025.

Now Acting AG Todd Blanche is forced to explain why he's been illegally blocking the release of shocking material, including:

ㆍ Names redacted from emails referencing a "torture video" and sexual activity with minors

ㆍ Identities of co-conspirators listed in a draft federal indictment

ㆍ FBI interview notes from a victim who says Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump when she was just 13 years old — and that Trump assaulted her

Instead of doing his job, Blanche arrogantly claimed the court had zero authority to even hear the case. That gamble just blew up in his face.

When you refuse to contest the allegations in federal court, those allegations are legally admitted. Judge Sullivan called it straight:

"The Attorney General has conceded that he is in violation of the Act."

Blanche also never reviewed foreign-language documents in the files and has blown past the legal deadline (December 19, 2025) to explain his shady redactions — by more than six months.

This ruling is massive because the original transparency law had no real teeth. Katie Phang's legal team cleverly used the Administrative Procedure Act to crack the door wide open. Now any journalist, researcher, or watchdog can walk through it.

The judge flat-out rejected the DOJ's excuses. "There is no competing harm to the government” from simply following the law," he wrote.

[Dirk Gently 🇿🇦 @posthumus_johan]

@KaterynaLis Putin supplied satelite targeting data on US positions to the Iranians.

That is not non-involvement.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: Ukraine's drone revolution is the equivalent of gunpowder ending feudalism.

A townsman trained with an arquebus could take down a knight from 50 meters — and the entire medieval vassal system collapsed. What we're witnessing now is a shift of the same magnitude. 1/

[Dirk Gently 🇿🇦 @posthumus_johan]

@USAmbRSA The US is making it awfully difficult to align with it hey

China and Iran look like sterling company compared to the US atm

You insult and extort your friends, you threaten to invade your allies, you abandoned Ukraine and you start idiotic wars

Consequences my friend

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Alexander Browder, a 17-year-old London teenager, has become Russia's youngest ever sanctions target. He has built a database exposing the crypto networks helping Russia and other rogue states dodge Western sanctions.

In March, @Alexbrowder_ published a report for the Henry Jackson Society think tank, describing money-laundering mechanisms involving cryptocurrencies and estimating the scale of such operations by Russia, Iran, and North Korea at around $350 billion.

▪️ Cryptocurrency as a sanctions-evasion tool

A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to a stable asset. This may be a currency, such as the ruble. This avoids the sharp price fluctuations typical of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, making the token convenient for payments and transfers.

According to Alexander Browder, this stability made the A7A5 stablecoin a useful instrument for sanctions evasion. The ruble-pegged token allowed payments to be conducted outside the banking system, which has been blocked for Russia by Western sanctions.

Alexander described A7A5 as one of the West's biggest challenges in the fight against money laundering. According to the British Foreign Office, more than $90 billion passed through the stablecoin network linked to the token in the past year alone.

That figure is comparable to roughly half of Russia's annual military spending. In late May, London imposed sanctions on 18 platforms in several countries, accusing them of creating shadow financial systems to circumvent restrictions.

▪️ Russia's response

On June 2, the Russian foreign ministry added Browder and four other British citizens to its sanctions list. They were accused of "slander and spreading false information." The teenager was banned from entering Russia.

Browder himself took the move calmly. According to him, the sanctions have become a badge of honor and proof that his investigation has "touched a nerve."

By the way, Alexander is the son of financier and human rights advocate William Browder @Billbrowder, CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital. His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian prison in 2009 after exposing a major tax fraud scheme. Browder Sr. is an outspoken critic of Putin and the initiator of the Magnitsky Act.

According to Alexander, it was his father's story that inspired him to pursue investigations. He believes that today's schemes for financing war through cryptocurrencies require a new, younger generation of analysts.

📹: DW