Jeffrey Kondas ☦️ 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇭🇺 🙏

NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist” Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that” NYT: *plays clip of him saying that*

The Lorenbahn is a one-of-a-kind narrow-gauge railway in northern Germany. It stretches about 3.6 km across the Wadden Sea from the mainland to the tiny Hallig island of Nordstrandischmoor. [📹allig_nordstrandischmoor]

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Behind the scenes in the Embassy kitchen. 👑🫖 Chef is preparing afternoon tea for 650 guests, including Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Four kinds of tea sandwiches, scones, desserts, and several British flavours from smoked Scottish salmon to British Beef! 🍰 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 #GreaterTogether #America250 #StateVisit2026 #UKUS

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

@SenTomCotton This clown wants to return to the drug war days where your life is ruined for smoking a joint. He's also owned by a foreign government.

Researchers are training AI models to be funny. A sense of humor is essential for AGI - we need a benchmark for this.

Tens of thousands of people in central Budapest are chanting “Russians, go home!”

@allenanalysis "Jd" looks sickly. @grok analyze:

It’s over. JD Vance just announced that the Iran-US negotiations are dead. “They have chosen not to accept our terms.” Both delegations are going home. No deal. No nuclear commitment. No Lebanon ceasefire. No Strait reopened. No frozen assets. No reparations. 21 hours of talks. A war that has killed thousands. A ceasefire that Israel bombed through from day one. A 30-nation coalition is being assembled. Two Navy destroyers are clearing mines right now. These next few weeks will be pivotal. Eyes peeled.

ZELENSKYY: I want American people to understand: we are your allies in Europe. World has no distance anymore — when drones already strike thousands of kilometers. One, two, three years — drones will strike ten, twenty thousand kilometers. With reactive engines, they will be very cheap. There will be swarms of these drones. You can’t defend that by yourself. The world has to help countries defend themselves and push the aggressor back. That’s why, i think, Americans need us, and we need the United States.

In Hungary 🇭🇺, elections are scheduled to take place on April 12. Now watch closely. February 25. A source sends a message to well-known Hungarian investigative journalist Balázs Kaufmann, warning him about a plan by Viktor Orbán to stage a provocative false flag attack. The message from February 25, addressed to the investigative journalist, reads: “Serbia. Serbs or Russians will carry out an ‘attack’ against Hungarian interests within the next three weeks. That’s all we know at this point. Orbán’s goal is to introduce a state of emergency. The idea of conducting the operation on domestic territory has been abandoned, but Orbán insists on it. Many have confirmed this version…” April 2. Hungarian Russia expert András Rácz wrote about a possible false flag provocation in Serbia, potentially supported by Russia, targeting a gas pipeline to Hungary. Today: Viktor Orbán stated that the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, informed him about “explosives of destructive power” discovered on a gas pipeline connecting the two countries. The Prime Minister has convened the security council; potentially, Orbán could declare a state of emergency and disrupt the elections.

Canadian Lauren Chen and her husband, who were recently allowed back into the United States by the Trump Administration after fleeing to Canada following their involvement in a Russian-backed intelligence operation which provided millions of dollars to Chen in order to spread Russian propaganda to American Conservatives via her now-defunct Tenet Media, was invited to today’s event celebrating Easter at the White House.

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These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

04.04.1949: NATO was founded. In 1988, Ronald Reagan recalled that NATO was created because the Soviets had broken their promise made at Yalta Conference to allow free elections in Eastern Europe. Instead, the opposite happened: the Soviet Union brutally suppressed those nations.

Trump: “I heard the head of Germany say, “This is not our war” for Iran. I said, well, Ukraine is not our war—we helped. I thought it was a very inappropriate statement to make, but he made it, and he can’t erase it”

83-year-old veteran randomly shoved onto NYC subway tracks dies from injuries, illegal migrant charged with murder trib.al/jSRje4o

What the fuck! At the UN, the Ukraine envoy revealed that Russia is providing Iran with highly classified satellite imagery to systematically target US military bases across the Middle East — and Trump continues to kiss Putin's ass! 😳👇

“Why are the russians doing this to Ukraine? Because they can, because the world has allowed them to.” Testimony of Taira (Yuliya Payevska) to the US Helsinki Commission. She was captured and imprisoned by russians on March 16, 2022 and released on June 17, 2022. ▪️ Taira about herself: "My name is Yuliya Payevska. By profession, I am a graphic designer, as well as the president of one of the Aikido federations of Ukraine. Russians call me a Nazi. This is what they call everyone who opposes them, or simply does not want to see russia in Ukraine. I spent the first 20 days of this war in Mariupol, which turned into hell. After that, I spent 3 months in russian captivity. And it was hell too." ▪️ About the proposal to commit suicide: "When my executioners suggested that I commit suicide, I said no. I wanted to see what would happen tomorrow, I wondered how far they would go in their madness and malice. And then one day, when it seemed that there was no hope, someone looked into the window and called my name. "Take your things and go out" — that's how my path to freedom began. ▪️About those who remained in russian captivity: "Pregnant prisoners whose fate is unknown neither to their families nor to the state. A soldier who was beaten for three hours and then thrown into the basement like a sack, and only a day later someone came to him." ▪️ About horrors in Mariupol: "A dead child in his mother's arms, a seven-year-old boy with a gunshot wound dying in my arms because I cannot stop his death. Prisoners screaming for weeks in their cells, dying of torture in hellish agony. I remember my friend's eyes, which I closed before his body went cold, and another friend, and another, and another... I saw half a million people dying under air strikes. Air strikes on hospitals and residential areas. A hospital full of wounded people, with no medicine. Surgeons and medical staff sleeping for three hours a day as operations followed one after another. Medical evacuation vehicles arriving every 5 to 10 minutes, with the living and the dead lying on top of each other. Cars that are on fire with people inside. Police officers pulling women and children from the rubble, mutilated beyond recognition. People collecting water from puddles. Dogs that were once pets dragging human limbs around the city." ▪️About questions from the executioner: "One of my executioners asked me: "Do you know why I do this to you?" I answered: "Because you can." He did not expect such an answer. But it is true. They do it because they can. Because their leaders told them they had the right to do so. Because once they were allowed to. Because the world gave them such permission. The world was silent, watching the crimes of the russians in Georgia, Syria and so on."

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