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The carousel just won’t fucking stop turning.

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen. American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint. The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed. The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second. So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse. Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands. MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed. And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with. Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, please follow Gandalv on Substack: @gandalv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@gandalv

MAGA, SHE JUST GAVE AWAY THE GAME. MTG just admitted that Trump demanded the files stay unreleased. NOW WHAT MAGA?!?! NOW WHAT?! She's lying, right? Nope, she's not. That thing that's absolutely unthinkable, it's true. You're defending PDFs.

Epstein used the tunnels under Central Park to snatch children. Watch.

JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term? Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…” Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term. Silence. Every single one of them refused to say it. Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face. Never stop connecting the dots.

They’re spying on you. In October 2025, Flock (a private company) added Raven microphones, marketed with the slogan "Safety you can see and now hear." High-powered microphones positioned across city streets, now listening for sounds that algorithms interpret as concerning.

Well it sounds like Trump and his Administration have lied again and this time it’s about the Downed Pilot in Iran that they allegedly rescued because there was no downed pilot and there was no rescue of a pilot according to Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar!

Grand Canyon National Park Rangers are working to identify the man in this photo. He may be a witness in the disappearance of Sandarsh Krishna. 👀 Grand Canyon National Park received a report that Krishna was missing. Krishna was last seen on the Rim Trail along Hermit Road between Bright Angel Lodge and Mohave Point between 4 p.m. on April 27 and 12 a.m. on April 28. Krishna is described as 5 feet 10 inches tall with a thin build, approximately 160 pounds, black hair, and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing athletic clothing. He has no known vehicle and investigators believe that he may have been dropped off by a rideshare service. Park Rangers believe Krishna was in possession of a black backpack prior to his disappearance. (Photo in comments) A black backpack believed to be associated with Krishna was later turned in to hotel personnel at Bright Angel Lodge on April 28 at approximately 7 a.m. Investigators are seeking to identify and speak with the individual who turned the backpack in to lodge staff (pictured here), as they may have information relevant to the investigation. The individual is not considered a suspect. Park Rangers would like to speak with anyone that visited the park on April 28th-29th. If you recognize the individual pictured here, or have information that could assist investigators, please call or text the NPS ISB Tip Line at 888-653-0009.

#BREAKING: A group of more than a dozen dwarfs has reportedly raided the Church of Scientology.

Germany is not hosting American troops. It is hosting American power. Amplifying it. Projecting it across three continents. And now, for the first time with real legal and political weight behind it, voices inside Germany are beginning to say out loud: Berlin could shut down every American base on German soil. A fiber-optic cable runs beneath Ramstein Air Base. It carries a signal from a drone pilot in Nevada to an armed aircraft over Yemen. Fraction of a second. Precision. Control. That cable sits on German soil. Cut it, and the strikes do not miss. They simply cannot happen. This week Washington punished Berlin for telling the truth about the Iran war. Five thousand troops withdrawn. A presidential post calling Germany a failure. The language of a tenant who has forgotten whose name is on the deed. Because Berlin can end all of it. Not the 5,000. All 36,436. Every soldier, every satellite dish, every signal passing through German soil on its way to a target over Africa or the Middle East. Spain tore it up. Italy said no. Germany has not moved yet. But it is thinking about it. And what it is thinking about is this: Germany holds the one thing that separates America from every other country on earth. The ability to project military force across three continents simultaneously. Take away the European staging ground and the United States becomes what every other nation in the Western Hemisphere already is. Large. Armed. And unable to reach anyone who does not live next door. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED THE FARMERS ARE IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW. The Agriculture Secretary just confirmed it publicly. 1 in 4 American farmers has NO fertilizer secured for spring planting. No fertilizer. No crops. No food. Farm bankruptcies are up 46% in 2025. 160,000 farms closed since 2017. Less than half of all farmers will even turn a profit this year. They're not struggling. They're being wiped out. And the media is busy covering everything else. The real story behind this hasn't been told yet.. follow me because i'm about to tell it 🚨

Hello. My name is Kendra Frazier, I am homeless and I live in a shelter. I have a chronic illness and I am exhausted and sick. I don’t have the energy to make a fancy flyer I don’t have the energy to come up with an urgent prompt I don’t have the energy to campaign I really need financial help in this situation and I have been afraid to ask. But that’s all I feel I can do at this point: Ask for help, despite the shame of judgement. So if you are able to help, my goal is $300. Then I will have $600 to my name to use for food and transportation. If you can donate, even a dollar, everything counts and I will be eternally thankful for any help from my community. I can’t do this on my own anymore Venmo: Kendrafrzr Paypal: knf@usf.edu Cashapp: Phenixfire99

🎗️🎗️🎗️Today marks three months since the abduction of Nancy Guthrie from her home in Tucson. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department is still asking for anyone with information to come forward. The combined reward stands at over $1.2 million. Do you know anything? However small. 1-800-CALL-FBI or remain anonymous with 88-CRIME

BREAKING NATIONAL NEWS: This is insane! The new chairman of the central bank, Kevin Warsh, is in the Epstein files. And his father-in-law, the owner of Estée Lauder, is in them over 500 times.

Shy'tyra Burton is 22 years old. She lives in Philadelphia with her dad, a city sanitation worker. Her IQ tests below seventy. After years of medical evaluations and a hearing in front of a federal judge, she qualifies for SSI — $994/month. Now Trump's people are writing a rule that would take up to $330 of that every single month, by assessing the dollar value of her bedroom and deducting it from her benefit. This is the second attempt. The first one was killed when ProPublica exposed it. Same people — Russell Vought at OMB and Frank Bisignano at SSA — are back with a new version, buried deeper in the regulatory process. Up to 400,000 disabled Americans could lose benefits. Forty Down syndrome organizations have already sent a letter opposing it. The National Association of Evangelicals — not a liberal group — has come out against it. When you've lost the evangelicals on a disability cut, you've lost the room. The man writing this rule had to Google what the Social Security Commissioner does when Trump offered him the job. A Republican congressman called his testimony "embarrassing for my side." Now he's deciding whether Shy'tyra keeps her check. The rule is in OMB review. A public comment window is coming. That's how it was stopped last time.

The sounds you hear living half a mile away from a Data centre. No one should have to live like this.

Witkoff and Kushner need to be replaced. Lutnick needs to resign. Patel needs to be fired. The US needs to publicly and regrettably admit THEY bombed the Iranian school. Congress needs to pass a War Powers resolution. The Gabbard/Kushner whistleblower complaint needs to be properly addressed. Maxwell needs to be returned to her prior facility. Cannon's ruling to hide the classified docs investigation needs to be overturned. Kelly and Slotkin and the other four need to make another video. Americans need to scream louder for tariff refunds. Bezos needs to sell the WaPo. Lindsey Graham needs a freakin' doctor. DHS needs to continue to NOT be funded. The ballroom should not be built. Communities need to continue to rally against - and reject - giant prisons. Dems need to better call out THE LIES. Lies of omission are still lies. And SOMEONE - anyone who knows - and there ARE people who know - needs to start revealing more information and naming more names.

🇺🇸BREAKING: Louisiana Republicans are cancelling an ongoing election to eliminate Black majority districts. The election already started. People have already voted. Republicans are about to cancel those votes. Never in American history has an election been cancelled this way.

Do not shop or work tomorrow. This may be our last opportunity to make our voice be heard by this corrupt administration. Tomorrow is MAYDAY and it is time they know who they are messing with! NATIONWIDE

Thank you, France, we won’t! 🇺🇸❤️🇫🇷

WTF folks