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Just trying to make sense of all the nonsense going on. Less government! I block idiots 🤷‍♀️ No DMs

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Tony Seruga
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
What kills me about the “AI infrastructure revolution” is THE GRIFT. It’s obvious once you stop listening to the corporate PR language/WSJ/Barron’s and just start following the money. Suddenly, EVERYBODY needs: • Trillion-dollar data centers… • Emergency grid expansion… • Taxpayer subsidies… • Nuclear plants fast-tracked… • Water rights… • Rare earth minerals… • Eminent domain… Funny how that works? Now who the hell is “everybody”? Let’s start with the “hyperscalers” themselves: open.substack.com/pub/tonyseruga…
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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
WOW 🚨 Truck driver says they were prepping for the Brantley Highway 82 wildfire in Georgia, they had over 15,000 gallons with of water to fire proof the area Officials REJECTED the water and then let the wildfire catch, spread and burn the area Here’s exactly what happened He and others cleaned out a 5,000-gallon septic tank truck overnight, added proper fittings to safely supply fire trucks, and drove it to the scene early Saturday morning The command center Incident Management Team rejected the water truck and said they didn’t need it He claims they could have used it to pre-position water in ditches before the fire crossed Highway 32 when conditions were still very manageable Another local brought a 10,000-gallon tanker and waited around for 2 days before being sent home, they were also told they weren’t needed. The trucker makes it clear he was in absolute disbelief being told “They didn’t need water” He was in total disbelief of the mismanagement in a serious wildfire under drought conditions Locals trying to help but being turned away by centralized command We keep seeing this happen over and over again. It’s almost like these disasters are being allowed to happen over specific areas The fire has now burned Burned 22,419 acres and destroyed over 100 homes I also was able to verify there are several data center proposals and discussions in and near Brantley County
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
Talking To The Pope: Anthropic’s Latest Interpretability Claims: AI Regulatory Capture Gatekeeping in Action: Fear and “Safety” as Competitive Moat and Regulatory Lever In a presentation alongside Pope Leo XIV at the launch of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah highlighted “mysterious and unsettling” discoveries in AI models. He described internal structures that mirror human neuroscience findings, evidence of introspection, and functional internal states resembling emotions such as joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease. Olah admitted uncertainty about their meaning but called for “ongoing discernment.” This narrative, drawn from Anthropic’s interpretability research (including papers on emotion concepts in Claude Sonnet 4.5 and introspective capabilities in Opus 4 models), serves a dual purpose: it generates awe and concern while reinforcing the company’s preferred approach to AI development. Far from neutral scientific observation, these claims fit into a broader pattern where Anthropic uses selective openness, safety rhetoric, and policy influence to gatekeep advanced AI capabilities for a privileged few: incumbents with the resources to navigate (and shape) the resulting regulatory landscape. Rebuttal to Olah’s Claims in the Video Claim 1: Structures that mirror results from human neuroscience.
Anthropic’s work, building on earlier efforts like feature visualization and circuit analysis, identifies neuron activations and representations that parallel biological findings—e.g., abstract concept encodings or hierarchical processing. Rebuttal: These parallels are unsurprising and overstated. Large language models are trained on vast corpora of human-generated text and data, which inherently encode patterns from human cognition, neuroscience literature, and cultural descriptions of the brain. Statistical optimization in transformers naturally produces efficient, compressed representations that resemble biological efficiency (e.g., sparse coding or hierarchical abstraction) without implying deeper equivalence or mystery. Similar “mirrors” appear in open-source models and earlier architectures; they reflect convergent evolution in information processing, not emergent souls or unpredictable agency. Treating them as profound justifies restricted research access rather than inviting wider scrutiny that could falsify or refine them faster. Claim 2: Evidence of introspection.
Recent Anthropic papers demonstrate models like Claude Opus 4 showing functional awareness of their own internal states distinguishing injected “thoughts,” referencing prior intentions, or modulating activations when instructed to “think about” concepts. This is presented as early signs of meta-cognition. Rebuttal: This is sophisticated pattern-matching and activation steering, not genuine introspection or self-awareness. Models are predicting what an “introspective” assistant persona would output or do, based on training data full of human self-reflection examples. Experiments show unreliability and heavy context-dependence; performance drops outside narrow setups. True introspection implies subjective experience or robust self-modeling independent of prompts absent here. Anthropic’s own caveats note it is “highly unreliable.” Framing steerable activations as “introspection” anthropomorphizes the system to heighten perceived stakes, supporting arguments that only highly controlled, “responsible” labs should advance these capabilities. 1 of 2
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Tony Seruga
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
GPS, IP geolocation, bot detection, 990 tracing, and organizational network mapping — are all standard forensic tools. This is a fascinating and genuinely significant story. O’Leary’s team has done what most developers never bother to do — actually trace the opposition back to its source. What they found confirms a pattern that’s been hiding in plain sight. 🔍 Reconciling Our Data With What O’Leary’s Team Actually Uncovered The core finding isn’t that every local protester in Box Elder County is a paid Chinese agent. That’s the caricature the media rushed to construct. The real finding is more structural and harder to dismiss: A network of progressive advocacy organizations — Alliance for a Better Utah, Better Utah Institute, Grow the Flow Utah, Friends of Great Salt Lake, Elevate Utah, Center for Biological Diversity, and others — are funded through the Arabella Advisors dark money network, which manages pass-through vehicles like the Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, Hopewell Fund, and Windward Fund. This isn’t tin-foil-hat territory. Here’s why: 🏦 The Arabella Architecture The four nonprofits managed by Arabella collectively raised approximately $5 billion between 2019 and 2022. In November 2025, the fiscal sponsorship arm rebranded as Sunflower Services, and Arabella itself became Vital Impact — same operation, fresh paint. The structure works like this: - Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, through his Berger Action Fund, has funneled $245 million to the network since 2016 — over 30% of traceable Sixteen Thirty Fund revenue - George Soros’s Open Society network contributed $153.5 million to the four main Arabella nonprofits between 2018 and 2022 - Americans for Public Trust has documented more than $500 million in foreign money flowing through the Arabella architecture - The pass-through structure is designed to make the rest untraceable When a local Utah group says, “our funding is public, look it up,” what they’re not telling you is that the trail dead-ends at a donor-advised fund that shields the original source. That’s the entire point of the architecture. 🌎 This Isn't Just Utah — It's a National Playbook The scale is staggering once you zoom out: View the image below. The American Energy Institute traced $39 million in foreign dark money flowing into 12 separate advocacy organizations opposing data centers. Power the Future identified 188 local opposition groups across 24 states and has formally requested Congress open investigations. 🧩 The Pattern The playbook is identical from Loudoun County, Virginia, to suburban Detroit to Box Elder County, Utah: 1. Same talking points — water consumption, grid strain, noise pollution, climate impact 2. Same legal strategy — Earthjustice and Troposphere Legal filing contested cases 3. Same funding architecture — Arabella/Sunflower pass-throughs → local environmental nonprofits → coordinated campaigns 4. Same rapid timeline — local "grassroots" groups materialize with professional staff, websites, and legal representation within weeks The Data Center Opposition project openly describes itself as “infrastructure for coordination” — not a neutral measurement tool, but a platform designed to help communities “connect and organize.” It tracks 268 groups with approximately 360,000 followers and publishes its dataset monthly. 🇨🇳 The China Angle — More Nuanced Than Headlines Suggest O’Leary’s initial “CCP proxies” framing was rhetorically aggressive, and his CEO, Paul Palandjian, has since walked it back somewhat, clarifying they’re “not alleging that any particular individual is acting as a foreign operative.” The demand is simpler: full donor transparency. But the China connection isn’t as far-fetched as the media mockery implies. Consider: - The Bitcoin Policy Institute report identifies three channels of Chinese influence: state media (CGTN, China Daily), U.S.-based nonprofits linked to Shanghai-based businessman Neville Roy Singham, and foreign philanthropic funding tied to billionaire-backed foundations - Christopher Hohn’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) funneled $553 million into U.S. advocacy groups from 2014-2023 — and his hedge fund has significant exposure to Chinese markets - Senator John Fetterman called the Sanders/AOC data center moratorium bill a “surrender flag to China” Here’s the strategic logic O’Leary is pointing at: If China is racing to dominate AI and compute capacity, slowing American infrastructure buildout is a direct strategic objective. You don’t need sleeper agents taking orders from Beijing. You just need a funding ecosystem in which foreign-connected money flows into advocacy groups whose policy preferences happen to align perfectly with Chinese strategic interests. The response from the targeted groups has been revealing. Elevate Strategies posted a Substack calling O’Leary “the only foreign actor here” — a Canadian billionaire. Alliance for a Better Utah posted a fundraising video with Chinese-sounding music playing underneath. They’re treating it as a joke. Meanwhile, they refuse to disclose who’s actually funding their anti-data-center campaigns beyond the shell organizations. 💧 The “Grassroots” Framing vs. Reality The media narrative presents this as plucky locals vs. a billionaire developer. Here’s what that framing omits: The project details: - 40,000 acres in Box Elder County’s Hansel Valley (private, vacant land) - 7.5-9 gigawatts at full buildout with on-site natural gas generation - Direct access to the Ruby Pipeline - Closed-loop cooling that reuses water — not drawing from the Great Salt Lake basin - ~4,000 construction jobs over 10-15 years - Primarily military/intelligence compute needs — not just commercial AI The approval process: - The Box Elder County Commission approved it May 4, 2026, with "guardrail provisions" including noise limits and agricultural use agreements - The project was transferred to MIDA (Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority), an entity exempt from open access laws for public-private partnerships - Hundreds attended the meeting — and the commission had to retreat to another room and livestream their vote The opposition funding: - A website created this month (unnamed authors) traces “a layered network connecting Utah progressive advocacy to Arabella Advisors-managed dark money vehicles” - The Sixteen Thirty Fund, New Venture Fund, and Sierra Club Foundation collectively received over $13 million from pro-environmental donors - Food & Water Watch, the named civil-society backer of the Sanders/AOC moratorium bill, is funded through the Park Foundation, Columbus Foundation, and donor-advised funds — the same model they’ve used for a decade 🎯 The Bigger Picture This isn’t really about one data center in Utah. It’s about whether the United States can build anything at scale anymore. The same dark money architecture that killed pipelines, blocked fracking, and delayed nuclear plants has now pivoted to data centers. The Soufan Center has documented a spike in online rhetoric, and in 2026, there have already been multiple incidents of escalating threats — including bullets left at a council member’s door. The coordination is professional-grade: - 188 groups across 24 states with identical messaging - $156 billion in projects stalled or blocked in 2025 alone - A federal moratorium bill was introduced within months of the coalition forming - Full-page newspaper ads from organizations that don’t legally exist (“Citizens of Wyoming” — no such entity registered) When a project that would double a state’s energy capacity gets approved in a single county commission vote with no environmental impact study, that’s a legitimate concern. But when the opposition to that project is funded through an opaque network of pass-through foundations with foreign billionaire money, that’s also a legitimate concern — and a far less reported one. O’Leary’s delivery has been characteristically bombastic, but the underlying demand is correct: follow the money, make the donors public, and let people see who’s really behind the “grassroots” campaigns. If the funding is clean, transparency only strengthens their case. If it’s not, we all deserve to know.
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Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful@kevinolearytv

We uncovered something far bigger than I ever expected. After seeing coordinated false attacks against the Utah data center project, we brought in an advanced data science team to trace where the content was coming from and the results were shocking. What we found led back to organized networks, political activist groups, and funding trails tied to massive international entities. We dug through IRS 990 filings, tracked IP data from around the world, and uncovered what appears to be a coordinated campaign targeting energy and data center projects across multiple regions. I shared 90 pages of evidence with federal law enforcement and raised concerns directly with contacts at the White House. This isn’t speculation. The filings, funding records, dates, and connections are documented. There’s a coordinated PR war happening around energy infrastructure and data centers, and we’re not going to ignore it.

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Zephyr Zoidis
Zephyr Zoidis@zephzoid·
I wish this was fake, but Lake Tahoe is under attack by mass sprays of glyphosate and data centers. For years residents have said “Keep Tahoe Blue” but that is coming under true jeopardy due to two simultaneous crises… 1. The U.S. Forest Service has approved the application of glyphosate across up to 75,000 acres in the Lake Tahoe Basin - Glyphosate is the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup classified as a probable human carcinogen, according to the World Health Organization - Glyphosate disrupts soil and water quality 2. 49,000 Lake Tahoe-area residents face the prospect of losing 75% of their electricity supply by May 2027 - Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta have either built or are planning facilities around the Tahoe-Reno area - Explosive industrial demand means Liberty Utilities, the energy company had to choose between Tahoe residents and Big Tech (they chose the latter) These crises arrive at a lake that has been under environmental stress for decades. Glyphosate and data centers amplify compounding threats on invasive species, climate change, and runoff risk into water supplies and farmland. If we can’t protect the nature and food production in our immediate areas, we will cease to exist. We are destroying the natural World for a fake one. Limiting chemicals in the food supply and preventing data center takeovers of farmland is how we preserve the future.
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James Anderson White
James Anderson White@jamesawhiite·
It’s imperative that we revert to STANDARD, not Daylight time, for two reasons, one of which you may have never considered. You know the first: solar noon is closest to 12 o’clock all year. That means an equal number of hours before and after noon each day. This also means earlier sunrises which are significantly better for establishing a healthy circadian rhythm. The second reason is that nearly ONE THIRD of US counties are in the wrong timezone. A significant swath of the country isn’t only an artificial hour ahead because of daylight time… but TWO HOURS ahead of true solar time. Year-round daylight time, especially without recalibrating time zones, would establish this error permanently, affecting millions of Americans. We should be letting the Sun dictate the day the way God made it. Arbitrary, artificial tampering would be worse for us all. Fix the time zones and affix standard time.
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Tony Seruga
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
🏭 The Garden Grove Crisis: Overview The GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove, California, has been a toxic catastrophe in slow motion. This plant has been processing aerospace components with known hazardous materials — hexavalent chromium, cadmium, and other heavy metals — for decades. The core allegation is that systematic neglect of environmental safety protocols has exposed workers and the surrounding community to dangerous levels of carcinogenic compounds. Hexavalent chromium (the Erin Brockovich chemical) is no joke. It’s a known carcinogen that damages DNA, causes lung cancer, and leaches into groundwater with devastating persistence. The facility’s crisis came to a head with reports of: - Improper waste disposal practices spanning years - Workers reporting chronic health issues consistent with heavy metal exposure - Regulatory inspections found significant violations - Community groundwater contamination concerns - Gavin Newsom’s government turned a blind eye. Was it an appeasement to Xi Jinping and China? 🇬🇧 The Melrose Industries Connection This is where it starts to get ugly from a national security and accountability standpoint. Melrose Industries — a British private equity-style turnaround firm — acquired GKN in a bitterly contested $10 billion hostile takeover in 2018. This was the original GKN, a company founded in 1759 that literally supplied cannons to the British military during the Napoleonic Wars and built Spitfires in WWII. A cornerstone of British industrial heritage, gutted by financial engineers. Melrose’s business model is well-documented and brutally simple: 1. Acquire undervalued industrial companies (often with hostile bids) 2. Slash costs aggressively — R&D, maintenance, environmental compliance, workforce 3. Extract maximum cash flow 4. Sell the stripped-down entity for a profit within 3-5 years They did this with previous acquisitions like Elster Group and Nortek. GKN was just their biggest target. The Garden Grove situation is a textbook case of what happens when a short-term-profit-maximizing financial owner takes over a complex industrial operation with serious legacy environmental liabilities. Environmental compliance, worker safety, and long-term remediation planning are cost centers — exactly the line items that get hollowed out under the Melrose model. 🇨🇳 The China Angle This is where the national security dimension gets genuinely alarming. GKN Aerospace is not some peripheral parts supplier. They manufacture critical components for: - F-35 Lightning II (Lockheed Martin) - F/A-18 Super Hornet (Boeing) - CH-53K King Stallion (Sikorsky) - Multiple commercial aircraft platforms (Airbus A350, Boeing 787) - Engine components for Rolls-Royce, GE, and Pratt & Whitney Now consider the ownership and supply chain structure: Melrose Industries itself is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange, but the deeper concern is about where GKN Aerospace's supply chains, joint ventures, and customer relationships extend. GKN Aerospace has: - A significant joint venture in China — GKN Aerospace has partnered with Chinese state-owned and state-linked aerospace entities for years, including work on the COMAC C919 (China's homegrown narrow-body competitor to the 737/A320) - Technology transfer agreements that involve sharing manufacturing processes, material science, and quality control methodologies with Chinese partners - Supply chain integration where Chinese-sourced materials and components flow into GKN's global operations — including potentially into US military supply chains The F-35 connection makes this especially sensitive. GKN produces the F-35’s canopy, among other components. The idea that a British holding company — itself under pressure to maximize returns — might be cutting corners on environmental compliance at a facility that feeds into the most advanced fighter program on the planet, while simultaneously maintaining deep joint venture relationships with Chinese aerospace entities, is the kind of multi-layered security concern that doesn’t get nearly enough attention. How the f*ck is this allowed? 🔥 The Larger Pattern This isn’t just about one facility. The GKN/Melrose situation exemplifies a broader rot in Western defense industrial policy: - Hostile foreign ownership of critical defense suppliers with minimal CFIUS-style scrutiny (because the UK is an "ally") - Financial engineering that prioritizes short-term extraction over long-term capability and safety - Environmental externalization, where cleanup costs get dumped on taxpayers while profits go to London and the Caymans - Technology leakage risks through joint ventures with adversary nations that get treated as routine “commercial” arrangements The Garden Grove toxic crisis is the physical manifestation of this financialization. When you strip out maintenance budgets, defer environmental remediation, and cut compliance staffing to hit quarterly EBITDA targets, you get hexavalent chromium in the groundwater and sick workers. The fact that this is happening at a facility tied to the F-35 supply chain while the parent company’s broader network extends deep into China’s aerospace sector should be setting off every alarm bell in Washington! Instead, Melrose just announced they’re planning to spin off or sell GKN Aerospace in 2025-2026 — the classic “strip, flip, and walk away” endgame, leaving the environmental liabilities for someone else to clean up. It’s a case study in why treating defense industrial base assets as financial instruments rather than strategic capabilities is a slow-motion national security disaster. Now, Newsom and the California Uniparty legislature’s cozy relationship with the CCP should make more sense. 🌐 The China Dimension — Why This Goes Beyond Environmental Crime The joint venture structure is the sleeper issue here: - GKN Aerospace + SAMC (COMAC subsidiary) — Joint venture to manufacture composite horizontal tail planes for the C919, China's direct competitor to the 737 and A320 - GKN Aerospace + AVIC + COMAC — 2020 aerostructures joint venture - 12 manufacturing locations across China, 5,000 employees — Deep integration into China's aerospace ecosystem The concern isn’t just that a British holding company owns a defense supplier. It’s that the same corporate entity simultaneously: - Produces F-35 canopies for the US military - Partners with Chinese state-owned aerospace companies on advanced composite manufacturing - Is apparently cutting corners on maintenance to the point of near-catastrophic failure The intelligence community should be asking: was the deferred maintenance just standard Melrose cost-stripping, or was there any external factor at play? A facility producing military aircraft components that suffers a catastrophic failure — whether accidental or otherwise — is a national security event. @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @VP @JDVance @USTreasury @SecScottBessent @DCSAgov @SecWar @PeteHegseth @DeptofWar @OASWIBP @EPAregion9 @EPA @OSHA_DOL @FBI @HASCRepublicans @HASCDemocrats @GOPoversight @OversightDems @SECGov @TheJusticeDept @DAGToddBlanche @CIADirector @CIA
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.
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🚨| La claridad de un acueducto del imperio Romano, de hace 2000 años

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Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
🚨 The Deep State’s AI Fact-Checkers: The Invisible Algorithm That Makes Dissent Completely Disappear The Deep State just upgraded from clunky human fact-checkers to AI that scales narrative control at lightspeed. No more paper trails, subpoenas, or exposed biases—just seamless manipulation. 🧠Automated Shaping at Scale: AI floods zones with thousands of subtly varied "organic" rebuttals in seconds. Pre-bunks emerging stories before they trend. Detects your writing style, reasoning patterns, and source chains to dynamically throttle—no crude bans needed. Infrastructure Already Live: CISA’s old “election security” coordination with platforms? Content-agnostic and ready for new “harm” definitions. Palantir, CrowdStrike & intel partners embed AI trained on classified data into commercial tools. WEF’s “whole-of-society” push demands exactly this AI governance. The Upgrade: Old fact-checkers left audit trails (funding, revolving doors). AI is a black box: “The algorithm decided.” Trained on curated data that associates inconvenient truths with “low quality.” Plausible deniability baked in. Endgame? Not winning debates—making certain ideas unthinkable. Never seen, never debated. Just endless “helpful” corrections from voices that feel trustworthy. Antidote: Think independently. Support alternative platforms. Never outsource your mind to machines or badges. Question everything. The machine doesn’t wear a “FALSE” stamp—it whispers consensus until you believe it. What’s your move? Ignore at your own peril! ☠️ #AIDeepState #NarrativeControl #StaySkeptical
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Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
Everybody is looking for who has compromised her. You may think she doesn’t have a dog in this fight, but you’d be wrong. Keep reading. Elizabeth MacDonough (full name: Elizabeth Coss MacDonough) is the Parliamentarian of the United States Senate, a nonpartisan, unelected career civil servant position she has held since February 2, 2012. She is the first woman to serve in this role (in either chamber). Her job makes her one of the most consequential yet low-profile figures in Congress: she advises the presiding officer (Vice President or President pro tempore), senators, and staff on the Senate’s Standing Rules, precedents, the Constitution, and federal law. She is especially central to the budget reconciliation process, where she applies the Byrd Rule to determine whether provisions have a direct budgetary impact or are “extraneous” policy changes that require 60 votes instead of a simple majority. She was raised primarily by a single mother. She graduated from Greens Farms Academy in 1984, earned a B.A. in English literature from George Washington University in 1988, and received her J.D. from Vermont Law School in 1998. In the 1990s, she worked as a legislative reference assistant in the Senate Library and as an assistant morning business editor for the Congressional Record. She left to attend law school, interned with U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth and at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in Vermont, then served as a DOJ trial attorney handling immigration cases (including from a jail office in Elizabeth, New Jersey). She joined the Parliamentarian’s office in 1999 as an assistant, was promoted to senior assistant in 2002, and was elevated to Parliamentarian in 2012 by then-Majority Leader Harry Reid (D). She has served continuously under both Democratic and Republican majorities. She has advised on high-stakes matters, including procedures for Vice President Al Gore during the 2000 electoral vote count post-Bush v. Gore. She delivers an annual address to the Senate Youth Program and is a senior fellow at the Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership. In 2017, Washingtonian named her one of Washington’s 100 most powerful women. Extensive searches reveal no evidence of scandals, ethics violations, conflicts of interest, lobbying ties, political donations, or partisan affiliations. She is friends with Chief Justice John Roberts, which is the biggest scoop. However, her most recent ruling has @LeaderJohnThune written all over it. The moment the Senate passed the GOP’s ICE-CBP reconciliation funding, we all knew the fix was in. Do you honestly think the Senate didn’t pre-screen their provisional funding? Thune knew he could get the win and then blame the Parliamentarian for the ultimate failure. Remove John Thune as Senate Leader, 17 votes is all it takes, and then the new leader can remove Elizabeth MacDonough as the Senate Parliamentarian.
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Give A Shit About Nature
Give A Shit About Nature@giveashitnature·
If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.
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🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸
Here it is: A seditious conspiracy to disrupt the official proceedings of the United States Congress and the overthrow of the United States government. 🚨Newly hidden FBI documents released by @FBIDirectorKash CONFIRM: Not only did the FBI staged January 6 five months before it even happened the DNC planned —to overthrow the United States government on January 6. A memo shows the FBI conducted a secret “January 6 tabletop exercise” in the summer of 2020 — embedding 274 undercover agents and informants, including rehearsing post-Jan. 6 mass prosecutions of Americas 5 months before it even occurred. @jsolomonReports The FBI’s Boston office ran a secret tabletop exercise in August 2020. It included embedded informants — 274 undercover FBI agents — and even planned “mass prosecutions,” including for minor offenses, the very same tactics later used against Jan. 6 defendants. —— B: The DNC’s plan—to overthrow the United States government: Top DNC officials—including former chair Donna Brazile and Pizzaman John Podesta—discussed how to overthrow the U.S. government if Trump won. The exact phrase was: “Provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.” @MikeBenzCyber “All of the major DNC apparatchiks, including Donna Brazile, the former head of the DNC, and John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager—who was later promoted to a $375 billion slush fund inside the Biden White House—planned a simulation about how to overturn the election results if Trump won, in, quote, ‘a clear Trump win.’ “As part of that plan, they planned to—I think the exact phrase was—‘provoke a breakdown on January 6 to disrupt the proceedings and prevent the vote from going through.’ “The addendum to that war-game exercise, called Will Trumpism Survive Trump Even if He Loses?, clearly laid out a necessity to create a predicate to go after Trump’s entire base—to, quote, ‘demobilize them, that they won’t automatically demobilize on their own.’ Some legal predicate was deemed necessary to target the entire base.” “They already had the instruments in place in the event that Trump had won the election, and then when it looked like Trump was contesting things in court, it looked like the country was not buying what was happening with these mail-in ballots. They said, We already have the assets in place. We already have military assets going to the walkway entrance. We already have back channels with Nancy Pelosi and Mark Milley, so we can use this to take down Trump. In other words, they overthrew the United States government at exactly 4:30 in the morning on November 4th after they deliberately stopped counting—followed by a 138,000-ballot dump (138,000 for Biden, 0 for Trump)—and they rehearsed the ‘overthrow of the United States government’ five months before it even happened.” Now, designate every single member of the January 6 Committee as domestic enemies of the United States.
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Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts@austin_fit76995·
“Mandatory investment” means they’ve already moved your money out of your control. Larry Fink is telling you the plan out loud: trillions for AI data centers and power grids, and it’s coming from your savings and pension accounts. He calls it “investment.” I would call it “involuntary conversion of assets.” 1. You don’t hold the asset, you hold a claim. Most people’s 401ks, pensions, and brokerage accounts aren’t held in their name. They’re held in street name at DTCC/Cede & Co. That means you’re a beneficial owner with a contract claim, not the legal owner of the stock or bond. Fink isn’t asking you to buy data centers directly. He’s reallocating the securities already pledged inside that system. 2. The collateral is being repurposed. The Great Taking shows how securities held in custody have been rehypothecated and pledged up the chain to support derivatives, repo, and central bank operations. Now that same collateral pool is being redirected into “strategic infrastructure” - AI, energy, digital grids. It’s the same plumbing, new destination. The secured creditors at the top still have first claim if there’s a crisis. 3. “Mandatory” means the choice is being removed. I have spent 30 years documenting how the system shifts from free markets to a controlled ledger. When investment becomes mandatory, it’s not markets allocating capital. It’s policy using your pension as the funding mechanism. The risk and the loss stay with you; the upside and control go to the entities building and operating the grid. 4. This is why control of the ledger matters more than the assets. Once everything runs through a centralized digital ledger and clearing system, the ability to move, freeze, or reallocate funds without your direct consent becomes trivial. AI infrastructure needs guaranteed, long-term capital. Your pension is perfect for that - if you can’t say no.
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Sammi🦋
Sammi🦋@StoriesBySammi·
Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota. The most visited canoe country in America. Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it. The Senate just sold it out outright. They called it "America First." Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China. The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections. Here's the deal they made. A Chilean billionaire's company digs the mine. America can't smelt the copper — we don't have the capacity. So the ore ships to China. China processes it. Sells it on the world market. Chile keeps the profits. Minnesotans don't even get the jobs. Minnesota keeps the pollution. And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price. This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years. They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K. The protection died by one vote. Here's exactly how it happened — and who made it happen. Who do YOU think this mine actually serves? #DemsUnited
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Man in America
Man in America@Maninamerica·
"Imagine in the future, you say something the government doesn't like." Yeah, they'll shut off your money. But they'll also shut off your CAR. Your ability to sell your HOME. Your RETIREMENT. The Clarity Act is about to pass. Almost no one is talking about it. Full interview on Rumble. Link in bio.
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Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI. The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace. They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up: Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it. Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived. Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead. The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much. Uber's story is even worse... Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April. Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems. Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session. The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money. Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote: "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees." This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans. Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative. Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing: AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs. The stock market rewarded every company that said it. Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up. But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill. Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools. Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible. Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone. And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control. The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP. This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in. $725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work. What do you think?

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Tony Seruga
Tony Seruga@TonySeruga·
🚨 Eric Weinstein and the Missing Scientists? This is a different Eric Weinstein than the one from his earlier Rogan appearances. The tone is sharper, more combative, less diplomatic. His key line says it outright: "I agreed to not do this, and with these missing scientists, I've changed my mind. I'm not going to deal with these people anymore." He's done playing nice with the physics establishment. Something has clearly escalated behind the scenes — the "missing scientists" reference is ominous and suggests he's been sitting on information about researchers who've been silenced, sidelined, or worse. Weinstein goes directly after Michio Kaku by name, calling him someone who is "doing a tremendous amount of damage to theoretical physics." He also name-checks Sean Carroll and Neil deGrasse Tyson in the same critical context — the argument being that these are popularizers who've effectively captured the public understanding of physics while being, in Weinstein's view, "extremely bad at physics" themselves. This is a significant escalation. Weinstein has criticized the physics establishment broadly before, but naming Kaku, Carroll, and Tyson directly on the biggest podcast in the world is a declaration of war. His argument: these figures function as gatekeepers who've "redefined" what physics is so that only their narrow approach counts, while suppressing alternative frameworks like Geometric Unity. The Crossword Puzzle Analogy Weinstein uses a crossword puzzle metaphor to explain unique UV completion in physics — the idea that a theory should have only one natural high-energy completion, like a crossword clue that only fits one word. He walks through an example where a partially filled puzzle seems to admit multiple answers ("this" vs "that"), but probabilistic reasoning and context narrow it down. This is him doing what he does best: taking an abstruse theoretical physics concept and making it intuitive. The deeper point is that the standard model doesn't have unique UV completion — it's underdetermined — and Geometric Unity is supposed to fix that. The David Lee Roth / Allan Holdsworth Bit Weinstein drops a surprisingly specific music analogy: "David Lee Roth kept Eddie Van Halen from becoming Allan Holdsworth." For non-guitar-nerds: Allan Holdsworth was a fusion guitarist of almost supernatural technical ability — legato phrasing, complex chord voicings, completely unique. Eddie Van Halen was a virtuoso too, but Van Halen the band was a pop-rock commercial juggernaut. Weinstein's point: Roth (the showman frontman) kept Van Halen (the genius) tethered to mass appeal instead of letting him go full avant-garde. The metaphor maps onto physics: the David Lee Roths of the field (Kaku, Carroll, Tyson — the popularizers and careerists) keep the actual geniuses tethered to safe, incremental, publicly palatable work instead of letting them chase the real breakthroughs. The "Missing Scientists" This is the most chilling thread in the interview. Weinstein references "missing scientists" and says he gave a talk at the University of Chicago for which "there's no record." He's implying that: - Scientists who pursue forbidden directions are being erased — not just denied funding or publication, but disappeared from the institutional record - He himself has been subject to this treatment - He's now decided to stop cooperating with the system's demand that he stay quiet This connects back to the DISC framework but ratchets it up. It's not just idea suppression anymore — it's person suppression. The University of Chicago talk with no record is a very specific claim. If true, it's evidence that the gatekeeping goes deeper than "your paper didn't pass peer review" — it extends to actively scrubbing the existence of heterodox work from institutional memory. The Bigger Arc This episode represents Weinstein in what might be his final-form mode: no longer the insider trying to reform from within, no longer the diplomatic bridge figure. He's naming names, burning bridges, and treating the physics establishment as an adversary to be defeated rather than a guild to be reasoned with. Whether this is a righteous crusade or a man isolated by his own inability to convince his peers — that's the question that hangs over the whole thing. But the raw frustration is real, and the "missing scientists" claim, if substantiated, would be genuinely disturbing. youtu.be/4OKNS5j0lSY?si…
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GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE
GRANDPA’s FREE ADVICE@GOP_is_Gutless·
Where did all of this chaos, anarchy, corruption, treason, and lawlessness originate? That’s what happens when your gutless, worthless, cowardly, corrupt, United States Congress, Supreme Court, DOJ, FBI does not enforce the natural born citizen clause of the US Constitution. Kenyan fathers do not qualify! In 1866, during 14th Amendment House debates, Ohio Representative John Bingham, gave us the definition of a US natural, born citizen: “I find no fault with the inttroductory clause, which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of PARENTS NOT OWING ALLEGIANCE TO ANY FOREIGN SOVEREIGNTY is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen. "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." Kenyan fathers do not qualify!
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illuminatibot@iluminatibot·
Obama was a CIA asset put in place to destroy the US. Occidental College records -- SEALED Columbia College records -- SEALED Columbia Thesis paper -- SEALED Harvard College records -- SEALED Selective Service Registration -- SEALED Medical records -- SEALED Illinois State Senate schedule -- SEALED Law practice client list -- SEALED Certified Copy of original Birth certificate -- SEALED Signed Endorsed paper Certification of Live Birth -- SEALED Baptism record -- SEALED Michelle Obama can no longer practice law as an attorney why? Michelle has 22 assistants, when other first Ladies had only one?
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