rationalground

“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” - Marcus Aurelius

[rationalground @rationalground_]

@zerohedge @grok what’s the spread?

[rationalground @rationalground_]

@JLRGenX @TheInSneider “just the corporate office” is a lot of jobs you nitwit

[Miami Herald @MiamiHerald]

@safety @nikitabier Investigative reporter Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist), who has covered Jeffrey Epstein for years, has been locked out of her @X account since Saturday and has been unable to regain access. Any help getting her access back would be greatly appreciated.

[The Researcher @listen_2learn]

Bill Binney was a technical director at the NSA. In 2019 he said that the NSA monitors judges (including the Supreme Court justices), the senate, the House, and the joint chiefs of staff which the NSA uses as leverage against them.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Everyone caved but us

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

ICYMI: Our Epstein Files Transparency Act passed the House and Senate and is going to President Trump for his signature.

@Reprokhanna, Epstein sex trafficking survivors, and I joined @kaitlancollins to discuss the importance of releasing the files.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Wow! Epstein survivor Haley Robson just offered to hold Marjorie Taylor Greene’s hand if she decides to read the names on the floor.

And her powerful message to Donald Trump: “I am traumatized. I am not stupid.”
@RoKhanna
@RepThomasMassie
@mtgreenee

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I want u to hear these 2 doctors from Australia sending their last words, fully aware they could be killed any second.

What they’re describing is horror that defies belief.
70% of their patients are kids…

[BGivka @IG42884]

In the US, army veterans are arrested for speaking out against gen*oside.

One of them is Lt Col Tony Aguilar, a former Green Beret.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Part one of our interview with retired Green Beret Lt. Col. Tony Aguilar, who says he witnessed war crimes in Gaza. Next week, his detailed response to the attacks against him.

(0:00) What Is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
(8:52) Aguilar Details the Atrocities Taking Place in Gaza
(12:03) To What Extent Is the US Involved in the Destruction of Gaza?
(14:39) Is Israel Providing Any Aid to the Palestinians?
(20:34) What Is the Death Toll in Gaza?
(24:31) How Are People in Gaza Getting Food?
(29:20) Who Is Johnnie Moore?
(32:36) Who Is Funding the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?
(38:10) How Is Aguilar Treated by the IDF?
(43:17) How Does the IDF Treat Palestinian Civilians?
(46:04) The Killing of Palestinians at Aid Distribution Sites
(56:47) The Killing of Amir
(1:07:12) The Attempts to Discredit Aguilar
(1:13:30) What Should the Trump Administration Do About This?

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

The Washington Post has published the known names of the 18,500 children killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7th. At every 500th child, the Post tells you how many names of dead children you've read.
https://t.co/ibKBJnirFM

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“The IDF are sniping children in the head.”

British 'Journalist' : “Israel are one of our allies..”

“The IDF soldiers were ordered to shoot at Gazans who were waiting for food.”

British 'Journalist' : How can we not support our allies?

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

According to a new Economist/YouGov poll, nearly two-thirds of Americans - including a majority of Republicans - oppose getting militarily involved in the Israel-Iran war.

It is clear that the American people expect the "peace" president they thought they elected to remain true to his election promises.

Will Trump listen to his base, or will he listen to the same neocons who lied us into Iraq?

Watch @RonPaul & @DanielLMcAdams below:

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I keep seeing scores of people saying that unless China intervenes in the Middle-East, it will somehow be their end.

Meanwhile, fascinatingly, here’s what Oriana Skylar Mastro, who used to be the Pentagon's top strategic planner on China and is now a professor at Stanford, has to say about it 👇

In a nutshell, she says that the U.S. would love nothing more than to "drag" China into conflicts like that with Iran - and she herself has "often tried to articulate recommendations" to trap China in that way - but China never takes the bait, which in her view shows that they're "very strategically disciplined".

It also reflects the fact that China, unlike the U.S. obviously, "do not believe in foreign military intervention as a tool of power": they believe in "using political and economic tools."

She asks rhetorically: "the war in Afghanistan cost the equivalent of 10 Belt and Road initiatives. So which one is more impactful on the world?"

She is adamant that the U.S.'s renewed involvement in the Middle East is an unequivocal mistake. As she explains, not only it will prevent once more the mythical "pivot to Asia," which is obviously in itself in China's interests, but it will only further deplete U.S. resources without much to show for it in the end.

Effectively, according to her, China gets exactly what they want: the U.S. repeatedly getting baited and exhausting itself into costly military interventions with little strategic rationale. As she puts it: "that's how great powers decline." In fact, it's exactly the type of strategic overextension that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

So, who’s right? The Twitter crowd or Pentagon Oriana?

My answer to this very question in my new Substack article where I explain why I find myself surprisingly agreeing with a notorious Pentagon China hawk (link in next tweet)

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

For the past 30 years, Iran has been months away from a nuclear weapon...

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Video of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu for 30 years (1995-2025) saying that Iran is about to get nuclear weapons.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006–2009) published an op-ed in Haaretz on May 22, 2025, condemning Israel’s war in Gaza as a “war of extermination” and accusing the Netanyahu government of committing war crimes, including the deliberate starvation of civilians. Full English translation below.
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Ehud Olmert:

The Israeli government is currently waging a senseless war — without purpose, without clear planning, and with no chance of success. Since its founding, the State of Israel has never initiated such a war. In this too, the gang of criminals led by Benjamin Netanyahu has set an unprecedented example in the country’s history.

The clear outcome of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots” is, above all, chaos within army units deployed across the Gaza Strip. This is especially true in neighborhoods where our soldiers have already fought, been wounded, and fallen — and where they have killed many Hamas fighters, who deserved their fate, but also very many uninvolved civilians. The latter have become statistics in a monstrous toll of false victims among the Palestinian population.

What has happened in Gaza over recent weeks has nothing to do with a legitimate war objective. Our fighters are being sent by the country’s leadership — and by the military command that follows its orders — to fumble through the neighborhoods of Gaza City, Jabalia, and Khan Younis in an illegitimate military campaign. This has now become a private political war, and its immediate result is the transformation of the Gaza Strip into a humanitarian disaster zone.

Over the past year, serious accusations have been made globally against the conduct of the IDF and the Israeli government in Gaza, including allegations of genocide and war crimes. In both domestic and international media forums, I strongly opposed those accusations — even while offering harsh criticism of the government. International media hear all the voices from our public discourse. They can tell who parrots Netanyahu and his courtiers, and who opposes him — those who, as is now common in the media, call him the head of a crime family.

I did not hesitate to be interviewed in Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK, and other global venues. I often disappointed my hosts by firmly asserting that Israel was not committing war crimes in Gaza. Excessive killing? Yes. An unfathomable number of uninvolved victims — children, women, and the elderly? Certainly. But I claimed, with self-conviction, that there had never been a direct order from a political decision-maker to deliberately target civilians in Gaza.

The number of non-combatant civilians killed in Gaza was unreasonable, unjustified, unacceptable. But as I said in every media outlet worldwide — these were the outcomes of a brutal war.

This war should have ended in early 2024. It has continued without justification, without a defined goal, and without a political vision for Gaza or the broader Middle East. Even if the army — which is obligated to execute the decisions of the political echelon — often acted recklessly, carelessly, or with excessive aggression, it did so without any order, instruction, or directive from senior command to indiscriminately harm civilians. Therefore, I previously believed no war crimes were being committed.

Genocide and war crimes are legal definitions that depend heavily on the awareness and responsibility of those empowered to define the objectives, conduct, and limits of warfare. I tried, whenever possible, to distinguish between the crimes we were accused of — which I denied — and the carelessness and indifference toward Palestinian victims and the unbearable human cost. I denied the first charge, admitted the second.

In recent weeks…

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Photo: AP. 2007.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Almost five years ago, the entire planet became one giant insane asylum, practically overnight. 🤡

Never forget.

[Aaron Siri @AaronSiriSG]

CDC just published its 2025 vaccine schedules. We have now gone from 7 routine vaccine injections in 1986 to over 200 routine vaccine injections in 2025.

In 1986, before vaccine makers had broad immunity to liability for injuries, CDC's schedule had 7 routine childhood injections and none for adults or pregnant women.

CDC's 2025 schedule has 5 routine injections during pregnancy, over 70 routine childhood injections (birth to age 18), and over 130 routine adult injections (up to age 79). Counting non-routine injections, there are even more.

Here is an image comparing injections up to only 1 year of age between 1986 and 2024 (updated chart for 2025 and tweets about each of these vaccines to follow...):

1983 schedule: https://t.co/2XbE1gdqCC
1986 law: https://t.co/OlAFlxj5SV; https://t.co/JefD8Lxrj5
2025 childhood schedule: https://t.co/odUmPpvGOf
2025 adult schedule: https://t.co/h1YN1ooyU3
2025 pregnancy schedule: https://t.co/eILfr2FmU2

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Huge thank you to everyone who supported this platform and our mutual quest to support freedom of speech!