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The Epstein Files are an interesting resource. They're especially good value for those still trapped in the whole kabuki of liberal democracy, rule of law, just society, meritocracy, party politics, constitutional checks and balances, accountability for crimes, government legitimacy, finance capitalism, etc etc. "Everything you were brought up to believe and trust in turns out to have been a clever lie." Beyond question, the Epstein Files have revealed an extensive multinational cast of incestuous often psychopathic predators — many already known to be prominent players in (mostly criminal or above the law) networks of deeply entrenched insider privilege. Epstein is the tip of the iceberg. Public opinion and prurient social media notwithstanding, however, there's only so far these current archives of redacted (plus over half unreleased) files can go in a legal, criminal accountability sense. Real investigations, questioning, physical arrests, criminal charges, court trials, and eventual convictions need the police and justice officials to take up the task, backed by both executive and legislature, and in full possession of all unedited, uncovered, unredacted materials. At present, the U.S. DOJ and various intelligence agencies are obstructing justice in full public view; and many corrupt politicians and disingenuous journalists are helping them evade responsibility. Will public pressure force the so-called public servants to honestly do their jobs? #EpsteinFiles #HappyValentinesDay

This is my initial report from Iran. The first stop of our entourage, which includes Tim Anderson and Ahmad Saadaldin of Propaganda & Co., is the city of Tabriz, in the northern Iranian province of East Azerbaijan. #iran #Iranwar @timand2037 @propandco

@DropSiteNews And whats in it for Hamas?

💢 REPORT | U.S. mediators present Hamas with proposal to fully disarm in Gaza: NPR Mediators have delivered a formal proposal to Hamas calling for the “complete handover” and “full decommissioning” of all weapons in Gaza, a senior U.S. official told NPR. 🔹 The plan, reportedly presented in Cairo last week, would require Hamas and all armed groups to give up their weapons to a new governing authority, with officials saying acceptance would unlock large-scale reconstruction of Gaza. 🔹 NPR cited an anonymous Hamas official as describing the proposal as a “take it or leave it” offer and said the group would assess developments in the Iran war before responding. 🔹 Nickolay Mladenov, High Rep. for the Board of Peace and deeply involved in the talks, said the framework requires “one clear choice: full decommissioning by Hamas and every armed group, with no exceptions.” The proposal is part of Trump’s “Board of Peace” initiative, which aims to demilitarize Gaza, deploy a multinational force, and oversee Israeli withdrawal, though efforts have stalled amid the US-Israeli war with Iran.

@KellieMeyerNews Alex Karp, Palmer Luckey, Larry Fink... nightmarish crew

White House has provided the dinner guest list for tonight:  A dinner in honor of Her Excellency TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan Thursday, March 19, 2026 1The President of the United States 2Her Excellency TAKAICHI Sanae, Prime Minister of Japan 3Mr. Andrew Abboud 4Dr. Miriam Adelson 5Mr. AKAHORI Takeshi, Senior Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs 6His Excellency AKAZAWA Ryosei, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry 7Mr. Jim Allen 8Mr. Cristiano Amon 9Mr. ARAI Masayoshi, Director-General, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 10Mr. ARIMA Yutaka, Director-General, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 11The Honorable Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury 12The Honorable James Blair 13The Honorable Pam Bondi, Attorney General 14Mr. Greg Brockman and Mrs. Anna Brockman 15The Honorable Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior 16The Honorable Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor 17The Honorable Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation 18Mr. Larry Fink 19The Honorable George Glass, Ambassador of the United States to Japan and Mrs. Amy Glass 20Mr. David Goeckeler 21The Honorable Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative 22The Honorable Bill Hagerty, United States Senator from Tennessee and Mrs. Christine Hagerty 23Mr. HAYASHI Makoto, Executive Secretary to the Prime Minister 24The Honorable Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War 25Mr. ICHIKAWA Keiichi, National Security Advisor 26Mr. IIDA Yuji, Executive Secretary to the Prime Minister 27Mr. IIJIMA Isao, Special Advisor to the Cabinet 28Mr. Takajiro Ishikawa 29Mr. KANO Koji, Vice Minister of Defense for International Affairs 30Dr. Alex Karp 31Mr. Arvind Krishna 32Mr. KUMAGAI Naoki, Director General of the North American Affairs Bureau in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 33The Honorable Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration 34Mr. Palmer Luckey 35The Honorable Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce 36Mr. MATANO Motosada, Director-General, Economic Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 37Mr. Hideki Matsuyama 38The Honorable Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education 39Mr. Sanjay Mehrotra 40Mr. Michael Miebach 41Mr. Jason Miller 42Mr. Jeff Miller 43The Honorable Stephen Miller 44Mr. MIMURA Atsushi, Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance 45His Excellency MOTEGI Toshimitsu, Minister of Foreign Affairs 46Mr. NAMAZU Hiroyuki, Senior Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan 47Mr. Michael Needham 48Mr. Tetsuo Ogawa 49Mr. Kelly Ortberg 50Mr. OZAKI Masanao, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary 51Mr. Sundar Pichai 52Mr. Ted Pick 53The Honorable James Risch, United States Senator from Idaho and Mrs. Vicki Risch 54Mr. Horacio Rozanski 55The Honorable Marco Rubio, Secretary of State 56Mr. SAIKI Kozo, Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs 57Mr. Shyam Sankar 58Mr. Masayoshi Son 59Mr. James Taiclet 60Mr. TAKAZAWA Yoshinori, Director, First North America Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 61Mr. Charlie Takeuchi 62Mr. Hock Tan 63The Honorable Scott Turner, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 64The Vice President of the United States 65The Honorable Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget 66The Honorable Chris Wright, Secretary of Energy 67His Excellency YAMADA Shigeo, Ambassador of Japan to the United States of America 68The Honorable Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

@Econ_Marshall 85

What % of "the rise of the global far right" is simply an Israeli intelligence op?

@OneQuantumLeap @IlanBlock @SFaeze_Alavi 100%

@IlanBlock @SFaeze_Alavi Acting at the behest of MOSSAD, he murdered two police officers and was caught on camera doing this

Remembering Saleh Mohammadi, 19 years old, killed by the Islamic regime

@Ollie_Vargas_ It's a tragedy. Transformed so fucking fast too. 2017 under Correa, Ecuador was safest country in the Americas. What a shame that treacherous bastard Moreno suckered PAIS into handing over power. Blessed by Correa at the time too. LENIN Moreno, pfft.

Ecuador is also suffering electricity blackouts despite facing no sanctions or siege, and despite being an oil producer. The neoliberal regime there has turned the country into a failed state. It now has the highest crime rate in the region and can't keep the lights on.

@celticgibson @GeorgeSzamuely Interesting. Though I'm not sure that'll make it easier to get rid of them. The EU Parliament is almost completely subverted/corrupt

@MerfyMac @GeorgeSzamuely Nope. Voted in by the EU Parliament... europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-…

We must avoid escalation in the Middle East so that we can escalate in Ukraine. Each day, Kaja Kallas reaches new levels of inanity.

@AaronRDay Today's Regular @ Big Sur CA — $7.51 (Shell) $7.05 (Chevron)

How much is gas where you are? I just paid $3.79 in Tampa.

@_LuoFuli Slump

MiMo-V2-Pro & Omni & TTS is out. Our first full-stack model family built truly for the Agent era. I call this a quiet ambush — not because we planned it, but because the shift from Chat to Agent paradigm happened so fast, even we barely believed it. Somewhere in between was a process that was thrilling, painful, and fascinating all at once. The 1T base model started training months ago. The original goal was long-context reasoning efficiency. Hybrid Attention carries real innovation, without overreaching — and it turns out to be exactly the right foundation for the Agent era. 1M context window. MTP inference for ultra-low latency and cost. These architectural decisions weren't trendy. They were a structural advantage we built before we needed it. What changed everything was experiencing a complex agentic scaffold — what I'd call orchestrated Context — for the first time. I was shocked on day one. I tried to convince the team to use it. That didn't work. So I gave a hard mandate: anyone on MiMo Team with fewer than 100 conversations tomorrow can quit. It worked. Once the team's imagination was ignited by what agentic systems could do, that imagination converted directly into research velocity. People ask why we move so fast. I saw it firsthand building DeepSeek R1. My honest summary: — Backbone and Infra research has long cycles. You need strategic conviction a year before it pays off. — Posttrain agility is a different muscle: product intuition driving evaluation, iteration cycles compressed, paradigm shifts caught early. — And the constant: curiosity, sharp technical instinct, decisive execution, full commitment — and something that's easy to underestimate: a genuine love for the world you're building for. We will open-source — when the models are stable enough to deserve it. From Beijing, very late, not quite awake.

@WilliamRamseyIn Israel, like Gaza, is the perennial test case.

Oscar for the most deranged AI speech in history! Thanks, "Bibi."

@beard9982 @Lowkey0nline Good point

@MerfyMac @Lowkey0nline That was Israeli planes, not US ones.

After aiding Israel's genocide in Gaza, Keir Starmer is now aiding the illegal war on Iran.

@Macro_Jackb_ I think patience is a virtue

@MerfyMac Gold feeling a little sluggish, but a crash? Not so fast. What do you think?

Makes LITERALLY ZERO sense. GOLD the hedge for geopolitical instability is crashing in the face of geopolitical instability. Can’t make this up.

@celticgibson @GeorgeSzamuely VDL was appointed by the Commission I thought

@MerfyMac @GeorgeSzamuely Get rid of the politicians in the Parliament who voted for VDL

@mazzenilsson It's against international law to cut those cables. Law on a level I suspect Iran will treat as sacrosanct.

Forgotten about is the fact that the Iranians have a truly serious trump card: cutting cables in the Persian Gulf could inflict enormous financial damage on the monarchies. And restoring them while the war continues would be, to put it mildly, extremely difficult.

@richimedhurst @Stylissimo Heh heh Maybe the press corps was dead too. Press corpses you might say

@Stylissimo What's the source for this claim? They look like they're in the same room to me. Also what an irrelevant point. You can't answer questions from the press if you're bloody dead. You people have lost it lol

Told you

@TheCradleMedia Reports from where

BREAKING | Preliminary reports of a second F-35 aircraft being hit in Iran's Bandar Abbas, and landing at Al-Dhafra base in the UAE. Details to follow.

@SimonDixonTwitt It's triage

They call it growth and GDP. It’s a military industrial complex stimulus cheque.

@Aaron_Good_ It doesn't "destroy" the U.S. economy

How can Israel get away with such things if Israel is simply the dutiful vassal of the USA?

@ajcdeane Who got the £180m?

We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. The project is now scrapped. You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly). You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea. But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result. And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome. Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected. But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions. Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.

@DropSiteNews That's a long flight for a drone

💢 Israel says it struck Iranian naval infrastructure in the Caspian Sea for the first time The Israeli military said its air force struck targets on a naval port and base where dozens of vessels were stationed. Fighter jets hit missile ships, support vessels, and patrol boats, including platforms equipped with surveillance systems and anti-submarine weapons. It also said a naval command center and repair and maintenance infrastructure were struck. According to the statement, the port was used for ongoing Iranian naval operations, and the strike aimed to disrupt command and degrade operational capacity in the Caspian Sea. 🎥 Video from Israel’s military.