Disinformation & propaganda degrade our ability to self-govern. Agitprop is propaganda that incites weak-minded individuals to commit acts of violence.
Ireland’s alleged “military neutrality” is a blatant lie.
In the first quarter of 2026, 83 percent of Ireland’s alumina exports went to Russia. This is not a “neutral” economic relationship; it is active complicity in a war of aggression against Ukraine.
The Irish government knows this full well. Investigations by The Irish Times, the OCCRP, and others have conclusively traced the supply chain all the way to Russian arms manufacturers.
Ireland—once a symbol of independence and moral clarity—has made itself Putin’s useful idiot.
While Ukrainian children die, the Irish elite counts profits and votes. This is not neutrality—it is cowardice, greed, and a betrayal of European values.
In timing that suggests an immediate reward, Flynn's brother, Joe, formed a Wyoming corp a few days later that has already received a $1.8B multi-year development contract to build a natural gas pipeline and airport project in the Balkans. The Flynn family has no known development or construction experience. https://t.co/pW3Bl5geb3
Part of the intent of this foreign agent arrangement was for Flynn to lobby for a lifting of sanctions on Dodik's government.
Flynn quickly succeeded, as Trump did lift sanctions in late October, just weeks after Flynn's FARA registration.
🧵Mike Flynn @genflynn is officially a foreign agent of the Republic of Srpska, headed by Milorad Dodik, who is Putin's most vocal ally in the Balkans.
I first reported on this about a month ago.
Here is the registration doc from https://t.co/9lEWOQ8evx. According to the document, Flynn is being paid $100K per month.
So what does a $3,000,000 payoff buy you?
Just weeks before the 2023 impeachment trial, a pro-Ken Paxton PAC handed Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick $3M in campaign cash and loans.
Coincidentally, Patrick and the Senate rewrote the rules to ensure Paxton walked free.
Here is how the trial was engineered from day one:
The "Wife Math" Trick
* Senator Angela Paxton (Ken’s wife) was banned from voting due to conflict of interest.
* Yet, Patrick's rules forced her to sit in the chamber during the vote anyway.
* By counting her as "present," the 2/3 conviction threshold stayed at 21 votes.
* Her silent seat mathematically functioned as an automatic "No" vote.
The 6-Month Jail Threat
* Patrick slapped an aggressive, unprecedented gag order on the entire Capitol.
* Any senator or witness who spoke out faced up to 6 months in a county jail.
* He even banned live floor debate—senators voted in total, mandated silence.
The Fifth Amendment Shield
* Impeachment is a political process, meaning defendants usually must take the stand.
* Patrick broke precedent and ruled that Paxton could skip testifying entirely.
* This completely shielded the Attorney General from hostile cross-examination.
The Hidden Charges
* The Texas House sent over 20 serious articles of impeachment.
* Senate rules immediately sliced off 4 of the most damaging felony securities fraud charges.
* The moment the rigged trial ended, those 4 remaining charges were quietly erased.
The Bottom Line
When the umpire rewrites the rulebook and banks a multimillion-dollar check from your biggest fans, the game is over before it even starts. The 2023 trial wasn't an execution of justice—it was a masterclass in institutional corruption that paved the exact runway Paxton is using to run for the U.S. Senate today.
Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.
The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.
It had fewer than 50 employees.
And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.
Here is the part the administration tried to bury.
Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.
One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.
Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.
A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.
This is public money. Your money.
Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.
And there is more coming.
A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.
This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.
https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE
Oh no problem, I’ll explain: I’m not looking for Republican friendly Dems. And never have been. I’m looking for Dems (and Republicans, but they’re gone) who will stand up and forcefully defend America from Trump’s corrupt, destructive forces. Hope that helps.
American soldiers die in Trump's war, not a word from Donald. Gas and food prices skyrocket, not a word from Donald. People demand the Epstein files, not a word from Donald. But the minute you take his fat name off a building, Donald writes Mein Kampf for Morons.
Lost in the "Talarico has a lobbyist girlfriend and she's VEGAN" story is a detail that apparently Brianna Menard is descended from Michel Branamour Menard the Canadian Fur Trader who founded Galveston, Texas and signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, who Menard County is named after lol
This week alone:
DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.
The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.
The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.
Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.
It’s just Thursday.
The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.
Judge Mehta doesn’t want to quietly dismiss the seditious conspiracy conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. He’s asking the Trump administration to justify its decision to try to erase the case.
A federal judge is probing whether Trump’s lawyers made the court a “victim of a fraud” by colluding through President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to create his “anti-weaponization” fund. https://t.co/YG5Xuing7U
Not enough people are talking about this.
A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.
But the story of how he got it is even worse.
County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.
That is absolutely insane.
Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8
It's the reason the "Board of Peace" is "rebuilding Gaza" - as a port on the India Middle East Europe Corridor (IMEC) or as Witkoff calls it, "The Master Plan". The Board of Peace is a cartel that used U.S. blood and treasure to further their plan.
🧿The Hormuz Crisis is not an oil crisis. It cannot be compared to past oil shocks.
🧿It is not an energy crisis. It cannot be compared to what the US experienced in 1972-1973 or any other in Europe.
🧿It is not a lockdown crisis. It cannot be compared to COVID-19.
🧿The Hormuz Crisis is a manufactured global crisis — the largest since World War II, intended to change the global economic and financial system and trade patterns. Its ramifications across every sector, every industry, and every field are beyond our current comprehension. We will learn as we go.
🧿The innocence is gone forever.
🧿The Hormuz Crisis is not an oil crisis. It cannot be compared to past oil shocks.
🧿It is not an energy crisis. It cannot be compared to what the US experienced in 1972-1973 or any other in Europe.
🧿It is not a lockdown crisis. It cannot be compared to COVID-19.
🧿The Hormuz Crisis is a manufactured global crisis — the largest since World War II, intended to change the global economic and financial system and trade patterns. Its ramifications across every sector, every industry, and every field are beyond our current comprehension. We will learn as we go.
🧿The innocence is gone forever.
Trump says the Presidential Medal of Freedom is “much better” than the Congressional Medal of Honor because the Medal of Honor is for people who are “in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead” while the Medal of Freedom is for “healthy, beautiful” people
@anders_aslund Or he did "understand that the Iranians could seize control of the Hormus Strait" and Jared somehow ends up owning a piece of the IMEC corridor infrastuctur and cypto payment scheme for insurance on cargo.