Mars Subdirectorate of Jinns
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Mars Subdirectorate of Jinns
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CIA whistleblower’s written testimony just dropped. It’s worth reading in full but here is the short version: By March 2021, before Biden’s 90-day COVID-origin review, FBI and DOE were already leaning towards lab origin. CIA analysts were leaning the same way, but CIA management didn’t like where the evidence was pointing and were actively obstructing their own people. Then, once the 90-day review kicked off in May 2021, Fauci personally fed the interagency team a curated list of experts. The same ones who wrote “Proximal Origin,” along with others, all part of the same ecosystem shaped by the same overlapping incentives. Basically, the same people involved in funding, defending, or advising on risky virological research were now tasked with assessing and informing official analyses on whether that research caused the pandemic. And then towards the end of the 90-day review period, someone at the CIA management flipped the agency’s assessment from lab-origin to non-consensus. Between 2022-2023, the bureaucratic ecosystem at CIA was stil working overtime to block its own analysts and technical experts. Internal emails even admitted analysts would have called a lab origin if management had let them. Not just that, the analysts who pushed back saw their careers wrecked. And those who buried it got promoted. All this comes from a career intelligence officer on Gabbard's DIG task force, the group literally tasked with declassifying COVID origins. His position gave him direct access to the documents and communications they were trying to hide. So why was the lab-leak conclusion resisted, delayed, and obscured for years? Groupthink. Political pressure. Fear of anything geopolitically inconvenient about China. Reluctance to implicate a research infrastructure funded for decades with American taxpayer money. Motives would be hard to prove, but the result was a textbook cover-up, intentional or otherwise. The real question now is whether Congress, DOJ and the powers that be will follow this wherever it leads.

A Gallup poll found that seven out of 10 Americans said they would oppose a data center being built near them. Opposition is so intense, the poll found, that more Americans would rather live near a nuclear power plant than a data center. wapo.st/48ZtSpE







There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. That’s all over now, writes political columnist Ross Barkan. Shapiro’s company, ‘The Daily Wire,’ is instituting significant layoffs. Its YouTube channel’s subscriber base is starting to shrink, and its website has emerged as one of the great traffic losers in conservative media. There are ‘Daily Wire’ YouTube videos that now, after a few days online, have less than 10,000 views, a catastrophically small number for a channel with more than 3 million subscribers. The top comments all mock the low view counts. “If a variety of poor business decisions can be blamed, in part, for the ‘Daily Wire’’s fall from grace — ill-fated investments in feature films, an epic fantasy series, and peculiar merchandise — the greater story is the collapse of Shapiro’s constituency,” writes Barkan. “There are two realities to Shapiro conservatism in 2026: It retains a significant foothold among Republican elites, and it is fast being rejected by the future grassroots of the party.” Read more: nymag.visitlink.me/KtpIKV

LA mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman proposes backyard BBQ ban trib.al/qaHiUo7












