Jeffrey Michael Towe

Torah Believer: RigVeda & Quran Curious / Politics: “MYOB” / domus excedit familiam / Hometown Spiked with Metro + Pleasure Spiked with Pain / Perpetuate Nature

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

A DOZEN LOBBYISTS TOLD POLITICO:

“He eschews relationship-based favors. He doesn’t sway easily on issues. He’s ideologically driven and fiercely loyal to President Donald Trump.

“That makes his elevation to chief of staff difficult for lobbyists seeking to influence the administration in its last two years, a dozen GOP lobbyists told POLITICO.”

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: SpaceX, $SPCX, and Tesla, $TSLA, could merge as soon as December in what would be the largest merger of all time, per Bloomberg.

The companies’ boards and advisors are now reportedly “hammering out” the terms of the agreement.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

A scream.

June 9, 2012. A family ranch near Shiner, Texas.

A 23-year-old father hears his little girl scream.

He runs to her.

Behind a barn, he finds her.

She is 5 years old.

And a 47-year-old ranch hand is sexually assaulting her.

The father pulls the man off his daughter.

And he beats him with his fists.

Fists.
That is all he has.

The man dies.

Now stop and look at what this young father does next.

He does not run.
He does not hide anything.

He picks up the phone.
He calls 911 himself.

Authorities later released the recording.

On it, he asks for an ambulance.

And he says this:

"This guy was raping my daughter and I beat him up and I don't know what to do."

Read that one more time.

"I don't know what to do."

That is a 23-year-old father on the phone with 911, telling the truth, asking for help.

A medical examination confirmed the girl had been assaulted.

Then the case went to a Lavaca County grand jury.

In a lot of stories I tell you, this is where the system fails.
This is where a prosecutor goes on TV.
This is where a father ends up in a cell.

Not this time.

The grand jury declined to indict him.

District Attorney Heather McMinn explained why in plain terms.
Under Texas law, deadly force is justified to stop a sexual assault.

That is the law.
On the books.
Written for exactly this.

The father's name was never released.
It was withheld to protect his little girl.

So I can't tell you his name.

I am Japanese. I have read many stories like this one, and the part that stays with me is a young father who had just done the hardest thing a man can do, and then dialed 911 and told them everything.

No lawyer story.
No cover story.
Only the truth, on a recording, for anyone to hear.

Somewhere in Texas there is a man who will never be famous for this.

There is a little girl whose name the whole country was never told.

And there is a law that stood behind a father when he needed it.

The grand jury looked at all of it.

Texas sided with the father.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: An internal post urging Nvidia’s, $NVDA, board to reinstate Jensen Huang has drawn over 1,600 comments, with the majority in “full support” of reinstating him, per WIRED.

The post urges the Board of Directors to “consider employee sentiment” regarding Jensen Huang’s departure from the company.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

June 1942. Midway. Admiral Raymond Spruance, the quiet American commander, has just sunk four Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carriers in a single afternoon: Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu. It is the most catastrophic naval defeat in modern Japanese history.

Thousands of Japanese sailors are now in the water, clinging to debris, three thousand miles from home.

By the ruthless mathematics of total war, the correct American move is to let them drown. Sailors in the water are sailors who will not reinforce the enemy. The U.S. Navy's own cruisers are in range of a Japanese counterstrike.

Spruance refuses.

He orders his destroyers to stop and look for survivors. For hours. Among Japanese sailors who, days earlier, had been preparing to invade American islands.

His chief of staff objected on operational grounds. Spruance answered, in his usual quiet voice, "We have no quarrel with men in the water."

American destroyers pulled thirty-five Japanese sailors out of the Pacific after Midway. One of them later wrote a memoir describing, in careful detail, the American sailor who gave him the blanket off his own back.

Years after the war, Admiral Spruance, by then U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines, hosted a small private dinner at his residence. At the table were three former Imperial Japanese Navy officers.

One of them was Mitsuo Fuchida, the man who had led Pearl Harbor.

Another was Minoru Genda, Yamamoto's air staff officer who had designed the Pearl Harbor strike plan.

The third was a surviving Japanese destroyer captain who had fought at Midway.

Spruance, the quiet Indianan, poured tea for them himself. He talked about carrier operations. He talked about the Pacific weather patterns that had decided Midway. He did not talk about victory.

When he said goodbye at the door, he bowed to them in the Japanese fashion.

Fuchida said later, through tears, that it was the moment he understood the American naval officer class had considered them peers, not animals, even in the middle of the worst war.

Spruance died in 1969. At his memorial, letters arrived from the Japanese Navy veterans' association, in Japanese. They called him sensei. Teacher.

Because the American admiral who sank your carriers also made sure to pull your sailors out of the water. And bowed to your officers at his dinner table. And treated your war as what it was — a fight between warriors, not a verdict on your worth as human beings.

That is what distinguishes a great power from a brutal one.

America is a lot of things. At Midway, on that afternoon, she was Spruance saying, "We have no quarrel with men in the water."

Japan should say his name too.

[Jeffrey Michael Towe @sunroam]

@JulieLovesFluff String that rat up

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: Billionaire Nvidia $NVDA shareholder Leo KoGuan says he will not invest any more money in the company without Jensen Huang.

[Guillaume Herblot 🎖️ @Guigz75116]

Le charnier dit ce que les résolutions n’ont jamais dit : l’impuissance a un coût humain, et on le mesure désormais en crânes.

Le Stade Sylvio Cator temple du football haïtien, est un charnier. Des crânes humains y ont été trouvés après sa reprise aux gangs le 12 novembre 2026.
Depuis 2024, le principal stade du pays servait de fief aux groupes armés. Pendant ce temps, les missions ONU se succédaient : rapports, mandats, contingents sous-financés. Résultat : un terrain de football transformé en charnier.

L’ONU a eu le temps et la présence. Elle n’a pas empêché les gangs de prendre le stade ni d’y laisser des restes humains. Bukele a agi hors cadre ONU : le stade est repris en jours et les ossements sortent de l’ombre.

Le charnier n’est pas un accident. C’est le bilan et visible de l’impuissance internationale.

[Jeffrey Michael Towe @sunroam]

@numururetsupeo I love Japanese Whisky

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Yesterday, this soldier reprimanded Secretary Hegseth and those with him for getting too loud at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. He did his job well, and today, Secretary Hegseth awarded him for doing so.

Pete Hegseth is a class act.

[Israel Defense Forces @IDF]

‼️🏥 Hamas’ exploitation of the Nasser Hospital: The hospital’s second floor serves as a Hamas military HQ, where civilians are not permitted to enter, as it is used by Hamas commanders, including Muhammad Abu Ismail, the Khan Yunis Brigade Commander who was targeted in the strike earlier today.

Dozens of hostages were held captive at the Nasser Hospital, and Muhammad Abu Ismail was responsible for holding numerous of them, including: Nimrod Cohen, Matan Zangauker, Edan Alexander, Avera Mengistu, Colonel Asaf Hamami, Staff Sergeant Oz Daniel & Captain Omer Neutra.

The strike was specifically directed at the room from which the brigade commander & the other terrorist were conducting military activities. Prior to the strike, the IDF warned on several occasions that the military activity at the hospital be halted. Despite these warnings, the activity at the hospital did not cease.

[William Makis MD @MakisMedicine]

BREAKING NEWS: 57 year old Dr.Jennifer Cox Taylor who was "Physician of the Year" at Moffitt Cancer Center

died suddenly in her sleep at her home in Tampa, Florida on Oct.27, 2026.

This is the adult equivalent of SIDS, it has been called "SADS" Sudden Adult Death Syndrome and is seen almost exclusively in the COVID-19 Vaccinated since 2021.

This brings me back to 2023-2024 when we were seeing these "sudden deaths in sleep" several times a day, in people who just had their COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine booster shot.

The mystery of these "sudden deaths" could have been solved in 2021, if pathologists conducted proper autopsies with cardiac tissue staining for the spike protein.

[Make Gold Great @MakeGoldGreat]

SILVER COULD RISE 400% FROM $50 AND STILL FAIL TO BEAT ITS 1980 HIGH AFTER INFLATION.

And that’s using the government’s CP-lie inflation numbers.

We’re holding the floor of a 50 year breakout. And we have all this blue sky ahead of us. Happy days.

[César Moreno @CesarMorenoOK1]

🚨 REPORTE DE INTELIGENCIA DEL TERRENO | HAITÍ 🇭🇹🇸🇻
• Base salvadoreña bajo fuego: Bajo acuerdo oficial, las fuerzas armadas de El Salvador ya ocupan el Estadio Sylvio Cator dominando toda la tercera circunscripción, mientras planifican una nueva base en Croix-des-Bouquets y liberan la ruta sur hacia Carrefour. Durante la noche de hoy, la base en el estadio recibió intensos disparos por parte de las estructuras criminales que operan en los alrededores.

• Orden de avance sin tregua: Las tropas salvadoreñas y haitianas mantienen una postura de cero tolerancia contra pandilleros y cómplices que intenten frenar el despliegue, apoyados por ataques con drones explosivos en zonas como Montrouis y Casale que cortan el suministro de municiones.

• Guerra psicológica en Croix-des-Bouquets: Acorralados por el cerco militar, miembros de la pandilla 400 Mawozo reparten panfletos firmados por su estructura para presionar a la población a marchar pidiendo la salida de las tropas de Bukele bajo el pretexto de "resolver los problemas entre haitianos".

• Rastro de cabecillas: El líder de esta estructura cerró sus cuentas oficiales tras la ofensiva y reportes recientes de inteligencia señalan que estaría oculto junto a su madre para evadir el cerco.

• Respaldo ciudadano en Haití: Sectores de la población haitiana convocaron a una gran marcha de gratitud para respaldar al ejército salvadoreño y las acciones de Nayib Bukele, pidiendo que la ofensiva se extienda hacia la región de Artibonite.

📌 En resumen: A pesar de los hostigamientos armados contra su base en el estadio, las tropas de El Salvador consolidan posiciones clave en Puerto Príncipe bajo órdenes de avance total, mientras las pandillas recurren a la intimidación callejera y sus cabecillas se esconden ante el creciente apoyo popular a la misión de Bukele.
IMPORTANTE: Suscribete al conal de youtube para más 👇
https://t.co/95AIDTtQdR

[Christian Guevara 🇸🇻 @ChrisGuevaraG]

Presidente de Honduras dice que va a construir una cárcel inspirada en la de Costa Rica que a su vez se ha inspirado en la de El Salvador. En pocas palabras replicará el Modelo Bukele.

[LA GACETA @gaceta_es]

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Suecia reforma su Constitución para poder retirar la nacionalidad a inmigrantes condenados y a quienes la obtuvieron mediante fraude

https://t.co/8X64PMuVEi

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Jensen Huang reportedly had an “intimate relationship” with a second Nvidia, $NVDA, employee, per Reuters.

This marks the third alleged affair for the now-former Nvidia CEO.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Finland has refused to leave NATO after today's Russian demands and has said that Russia is testing the alliances strength.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯 @japan_nobunaga]

In Block 22 of the Manzanar camp in the California desert, a Japanese mother named Nawa Munemori hung a small Blue Star flag in her tar-paper barrack window.

Outside her window stood barbed wire and armed guard towers.

Inside her heart was her twenty-two-year-old son, Sadao, an auto mechanic born in Los Angeles who had volunteered for the U.S. Army while his own family was locked behind that fence.

On April 5, 1945, near Seravezza, Italy, Private First Class Sadao Munemori's squad of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was pinned down by murderous fire from two German machine-gun nests. His squad leader fell wounded. With no officer left to give orders, Sadao stood up into a hail of lead, crawled through frontal fire alone, and knocked out both machine guns with hand grenades.

He scrambled back into a shallow shell crater beside two of his buddies to catch his breath.

Then a live German grenade bounced off Sadao's steel helmet and rolled straight toward the two men beside him.

He did not hesitate for half a second. He did not look back at the sky. While his mother and three sisters were still living behind American barbed wire six thousand miles away, Sadao Munemori rose and threw his entire chest down onto the exploding grenade, smothering the blast with his own body so two fellow Americans would go home alive.

Eleven months later, in March 1946, the very month the last internment camp finally closed, the United States Army presented the Medal of Honor to his grieving mother at Fort MacArthur. He was the sole Japanese American awarded the Medal of Honor right after World War II.

As someone born in Japan, I still lose my breath thinking about that barrack window in Manzanar.

Patriotism is easy when your country applauds you. Sadao Munemori proved his love for America while his mother was behind barbed wire, and sealed it with his life.

[Dustin Kittle @dustinkittle]

Secretary Rollins: China has NO BUSINESS owning American farmland —

Also Secretary Rollins: [Brings in Glen Smith as the Under Secretary for Rural Development of the USDA]

Note: Glen Smith is the former Chairman of the U.S. Farm Credit System, which allows foreign agents to acquire American farmland through Farm Credit loans.

—

So which is it @SecRollins??