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@kyuumaruTK Magnificent ship indeed!
Also a huge fan of the Mogami-class frigate! Such amazing craftsmanship Japan has!
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@Aviation_Intel Gotta block this AI chatbot slop engagement farming from my feed, annoying as hell
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Sigh
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
BREAKING: The E-4B Nightwatch, the aircraft the Pentagon calls the National Airborne Operations Center and the press calls the Doomsday Plane, landed at Joint Base Andrews on April 3 after departing Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. The President’s briefings were cancelled. National security meetings were convened. On the same day, the first American fighter jet was shot down over Iran, ceasefire talks collapsed, and the largest visible airlift of the war began crossing the Atlantic. The E-4B is a modified 747 hardened against electromagnetic pulse, carrying a battle staff of over 100, designed to serve as an airborne command post if ground communications are destroyed. Four exist. They rotate so one is always within minutes of the President. When one moves from Offutt to Andrews, it positions closer to the White House. The movement is technically routine. The timing is not. C-17 Globemaster transports are crossing the Atlantic in waves, supported by KC-135 Stratotankers, carrying troops, armoured vehicles, and heavy equipment to staging bases in Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. OSINT flight tracking confirms a second wave over Europe heading toward the Gulf. Over 100 C-17 sorties have been observed since the war began, but the April 3 movement is the largest single visible surge. The airlift predates the F-15E loss. The acceleration does not. Here is what the movement means when placed against the day it occurred. The F-15E was shot down and the weapons systems officer is missing. The A-10 took fire and crashed in Kuwait. The rescue helicopters were hit by small arms. Iran rejected the ceasefire and called US demands unacceptable. The Pakistan channel is dead. The 48-hour ceasefire proposal was rejected. Vance’s back-channel produced no breakthrough. The April 6 power-plant deadline expires Monday evening. Markets close today and do not reopen until Monday morning. And the Doomsday Plane is at Andrews. The E-4B does not mean nuclear escalation is imminent. It means the National Command Authority wants its airborne command post within range of the President during a weekend in which every variable in the war shifted simultaneously. The fighter is down. The diplomacy is dead. The deadline is live. The airlift is surging. And the aircraft designed to survive the end of communications is parked at the base closest to the man who decides what happens next. Three generals were fired this week. Twenty-six officers in fourteen months. The Army Chief was replaced without explanation by a general whose primary credential is carrying the nuclear briefcase. The chain of command was reshaped before the worst day of the war, not after. The E-4B landed after. The sequence matters: you clear the chain of command first, then you position the aircraft that executes through it. Nobody connects these threads because each has a routine explanation. The E-4B moves regularly. The C-17s have flown since February. The generals were fired for “efficiency.” The deadline has been postponed twice. But routine stops being routine when every thread converges on the same 72 hours in which an American pilot is missing, the ceasefire is dead, the power-plant strikes are scheduled, and the Doomsday Plane is at Andrews. The weekend has no market. The deadline has no extension. The pilot has no confirmed rescue. And the aircraft designed for the scenario nobody wants to name is closer to the President than it was yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@StLThrash @inside_IL_intel Impossible to remove all the dispersed mobile launchers and manpads.
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🔴 Fox News: The second American pilot has managed to make contact with the U.S. military through encrypted radio. Sources familiar with the matter say the pilot was someone who initially contacted the U.S. military via an encrypted radio. After that, a special forces unit was dispatched to find and rescue him. It is reported that the navigator managed to eject a little later, and the search for him is still ongoing. A senior Israeli official has also stated that Israel has assisted in the search and continues to help, both through intelligence and by canceling several attacks that were supposed to take place in these areas, to avoid endangering the crew and to not disrupt the search process. @iranpahlavi_ir
03 APR 2026 | 16:41 ET ET
SOURCE: ایران پهلوی (@iranpahlavi_ir)
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A restaurant doesn’t decide what you eat.
Your lending protocol shouldn’t either.
1. Select collateral
2. Set limits
3. Confirm
Choose which tokens you accept.
Set your USDC exposure per asset.
Update anytime.
@based_loans
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Absolute bombshell. Russian Chechen combat units officially declare they will deploy to Iran to fight alongside Iranian forces if the US launches a ground invasion. They are openly framing it as a holy Jihad against American power. The conflict is expanding globally.
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@NeelamDesai3000 @RyanSaavedra @BillAckman These governments still operate on the basis of survival, therefore can be deterred by Mutually assured destruction.
The Islamic republic is the only country where its leadership actively seeks to achieve martyrdom by engaging in a nuclear exchange with the United States.
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@RyanSaavedra @BillAckman When Pakistan, India, and North Korea got nukes, the US didn’t attack them. So why are we attacking Iran?
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gives an excellent explanation on why the U.S. needed to strike Iran
It's less than 2 minutes and is worth the watch
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@BowTiedNiners Jetzero’s Z4 looks a lot closer to field such a tanker than Boeing, no?
Boeing should fix KC-46 first before being awarded for another tanker program.
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I did my entire Masters thesis on this
This design has better aerodynamic efficiency and can carry more fuel
Those are the benefits
Keane Rara@GardaAramis
Boeing stealth air tanker proposal looks more like a bomber than its docile and benign role. It goes back to a question whether there's a neef for tankers to fly near high risk areas?
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Do you truly understand what Japan just gained? As a Japanese citizen, I’m telling you—this moment changed history.
Trump's Pearl Harbor joke wasn't an insult. It was the key that finally unlocked something buried deep in the Japanese soul.
For 80 long years, we've carried apology and guilt like a permanent shadow—haunted by the past, bound by the Constitution America wrote for us, forever in "reflection mode." He turned that raw wound into a shared laugh between equals.
No more endless atonement. No more vassal shadow.
The curse is broken. Japan is free now.
Thank you, Mr. President.
We're allowed to stand tall again—as true partners, not subordinates.
The strongest alliance in the world is rising—equals, brothers, ride-or-die.
#PhoenixRising
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🇺🇸🇯🇵 Japan's PM just yelled "JAPAN IS BACK" and Trump stood there grinning like a proud dad.
This woman studied the Trump formula and ran with it😂
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇺🇸🇯🇵 Japan's PM just complimented Barron Trump calling him a "very tall, good-looking gentleman." By the time she leaves, Trump will be giving Japan whatever they want😂
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@FoxNews @alinaghi2018 Who are these terrorists and why are they allowed to operate freely in the middle of Manhattan?
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FOREIGN INFLUENCE: A violent clash at a Manhattan Khamenei vigil reveals a network of far-left U.S. activist groups with direct ties to Iranian state media, according to a new report citing leaked Press TV records showing 83 calls to one organizer. foxnews.com/us/rapper-beat…
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🛸 Alien Base Weekly Update - February 27th, 2026
😶🌫️February came and went in a flash. This week brought major milestones: Dashboard redesign is complete and testing for next week's launch, plus we've made significant Mothership progress with frontend integration exploration kicking off. Here's the breakdown:
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Here at Alien Base, we are consistently building the best place for humans of @base to trade.
We have been on base since its inception in 2023 and we've fostered an incredible community of base traders that have come to enjoy their base trading experience with us.
We've brought DCA, Limit Orders, and Recurring trade orders to the base trading community, our esALB product that allows stakers to earn fees in ETH from the dex, and we're working towards launching our proprietary Mothership ALM product that will make liquidity management simple and secure.
Follow along with our weekly updates to keep track of our progress!
As always, Keep Your Eyes on the Skies! 👽🛸
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What are folks building on @base this week? Will check out a few projects
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@brcowboy1 @chamath Depends on what each individual’s feed looks like I suppose.
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@chamath any neuro nerds/anyone who read this paper: why doesn't scrolling twitter have the same effect?
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Reels make you retarded.
We should get our adversaries addicted to Reels.
Hey, wait a minute! 🤔
Nicholas Fabiano, MD@NTFabiano
Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.
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@brian_armstrong @base @AlienBaseDEX best trading DEX on @base!
Fast swaps, lowest fees, user friendly UX, limited order, DCA, re-occurring strategies, new Vaults, mothership ALM, awesome community, and so much more!
alienbase.xyz
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Introducing EVMbench—a new benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities. openai.com/index/introduc…
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We're making the Base app the best place to trade onchain.
Starting today, the feed will focus entirely on tradable assets. This means we're removing the Talk feed in favor of a feed of onchain activity.
As part of this shift, we're also sunsetting Creator Rewards. In the last six months, we've paid out over $450k to 17k creators. The program will wrap on Feb 15th, with final payouts on Feb 18th. We're grateful for all the creators who helped us build so far, and will be sharing new ways we'll reward the Base App community soon.
We're just getting started building the best trading experience onchain.
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