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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 32m

oh yeah for sure, and there will be zero way to guarantee her safety if & when it happens. no way in hell she's going to be safe from some form of mob justice if she's let out early, absent another country offering to give her safe harbor (which I have a really difficult time imagining).

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 2h

I think everyone needs to start girding themselves for a pardon or commutation or Ghislaine Maxwell. I don't think it's guaranteed at this point, but his willingness to completely flout the law in such a way is obviously accelerating. This possibility is growing by the week.

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MORBO, GUEST HOST OF CNBC’S SQUAWK BOX @morbo.business · 13h

THE TWO MARKETS ARE VERY DISTINCT AND WILL NOT MEANINGFULLY IMPACT EACH OTHER DIRECTLY

THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE IN COMMON IS SUPPLY CONSTRAINTS, BUT THE DEMAND FOR HOUSING WILL NOT GO AWAY REGARDLESS OF BROADER MARKET CONDITIONS

NOW BACK TO CLOSING BELL

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looking forward to having both the genAl bubble _and_ the housing bubble burst at the same time (they're probably the same bubble tbh

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U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history

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Chris Tebbens @christebbens.bsky.social · 13h

Forgot-to-bring-a-quarter-to-Aldi-ass squirrel

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 13h

seasonal repost of this squirrel i saw

a gray squirrel walking on green grass while holding three big nuts in its arms

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 13h

I am someone who has worked within a close capacity with MANY ex security contractors a la Blackwater, and they are all bad hombres, every. single. one. There are zero exceptions to this. Believe me when I say all those companies all practically screen *to make sure* they only hire psychos.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 13h

I posted this yesterday, and I will emphasize it again: there is NO SUCH THING as a good man who willingly signs up to work for a Blackwater-like security contractor; whatever you've heard about some firms being "better" and hiring more discerning folks, it's all propaganda. They're ALL bad dudes!

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1d

ngl tho, I've worked around enough of those guys in a couple of different rules to be able to say that one of my iron clad personal rules is that THAT is a disqualifier, full stop, no questions asked. there's no such thing as a good man that goes into that line of work.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 20h

big corporate actors & security firms keep their own watchlists for malicious actors, and I'd bet he was on probably every single one of them. they are extremely public with their criming on Telegram and other chat services. *very* good chance that he's been banned from a lot of big services.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 20h

oh, the RUSSIAN? of course it was him. I should've assumed lol. *extremely* high probability his devices were/are compromised by actors from within that group.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 20h

they pretty much exclusively recruit teen boys here in the US but also the UK & other Western countries to do most of their footwork because they're extremely dumb, extremely impressionable, extremely bored, and sometimes extremely skilled at the crimes they want accomplished.

CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 20h

which one? I don't remember reading that anywhere, but that's a pretty alarming thing to hear. it means there's a VERY high chance he was already coopted by an actor with some kind of connection to hostile foreign intelligence services because several states have their hands all over the Com.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 21h

I've got a younger chat buddy who lives in one of the most "gay friendly" countries in the EU with regards to the laws protecting LGBT folks, but he's absolutely terrified to walk out his front door in the biggest city in the country in a way that young gay men aren't here. the homophobia is INTENSE

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 22h

yeah, I've also had to explain to many of my gay friends before they've travelled there that their legal protections for LGBT folks, which often predate ours by decades!, pretty commonly only exist as a technicality and that *social acceptance* of LGBTs is still lagging the US by decades

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 22h

like yeah, MOST—but not all!—European countries have some form of universal healthcare that is easy to access (tho the tax rates are often astonishingly high), but the people engaging in this discourse would be floored to hear normie Euro rhetoric on immigration & LGBT rights! it's bad, you guys!

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 22h

this is why the 'Dems are center-right in Europe' discourse has always been so laughably dumb to me. like, you people DO know that several of us have been to Europe for work, for pleasure, that we have friends from there, that we have actually talked to normie Europeans while traveling, right??

vanagonHATER @vanagonfan.bsky.social · 1d

People in America do not understand that normie Europeans talking about the dangers of woke or immigrants love to use the US Dems as an example of "bleeding heart liberalism gone too far".

This is what Biden's tenure was about, here.

The Dems are not "center-right" in Europe.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 22h

during the closing months of the Biden administration, the FBI & our agencies responsible for cybercrime performed some really targeted actions against the Com and their offshoots, they were decimated and mostly presumed to be nearly dead, but this would prove that they've still got some juice.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 22h

they recruit teens & young adults in the US and the UK to do their dirty work for them by lying to them and telling them that juveniles can't be prosecuted for the types of crimes they use them to commit. they are almost certainly the primary players behind the worst swatting rings online, too.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 22h

ugh, the Com. I know it's very tempting to indulge in schadenfreude when it comes to doxxing US LEOs, but these are absolutely the last people on Earth that anyone needs to be applauding. these fucks almost certainly have their hands in several of the worst human trafficking schemes in SE Asia.

Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa 🤯

It ain’t no fun when the rabbit has the gun.

This is wild. It was only a matter of time before this happened though.

I don’t know why these people didn’t think folks wouldn’t push back on having their pockets picked.

Good luck 🤷🏾‍♀️

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 22h

pheeeeew, this is bad. also TIL that Zions Bancorp owns Amegy Bank here in Texas, which is definitely a bank that has a reputation for catering to a pretty elite clientele—including *a lot* of corporate actors in energy down in Houston, where it's the city's top bank.

New Credit Fraud Fears Raise More Worries About Regional Banks

Bank shares were hammered Thursday after ties emerged between several banks and borrowers accused of fraud.

www.wsj.com

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mike 😵‍💫 @schneider.coffee · 1d

the full interview is really interesting!
media.defense.gov/2025/Sep/17/...

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

senator at my confirmation hearing: but how do we know the american people can trust your judgement?

me: well senator, I've never let will stancil make me mad online

senator: *turns to legislative aide*

legislative aide: *quick, firm shake of the head*

senator: very well sir, moving along

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1d

I remember hearing a lot of criticism at the time along the lines of, "Obama gave up on the two state solution," and really, in hindsight, it's pretty clear that what he really did was understand that it simply wasn't possible with a bad faith operator like Netanyahu. He got that earlier than most.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, absolutely. No love lost between those two, that's for sure. Obama was apparently the first POTUS to ever tell him no, and he raged over it for years. It's why he went so all-in on Trump in 2016.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1d

Obama absolutely pushed back hard on the pro Israeli voices in his White House, he personally *hated* Netanyahu and told everyone he did, he got SO MUCH grief for it for years, and he was light years ahead of where the party should've been the whole time.

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @drensteppur.bsky.social · 1d

True story, and this is 100% something I predicted while a lot of people called me clueless: Obama's decision to hold Israel & especially Netanyahu at arm's length during his entire time in office was definitely the correct decision and the model the party will have to follow in the future.

Captain Suba boo baja blast: the falafel lobbyist @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 1d

he should have been way tougher on Syria among other things but he was more progressive than Biden regarding immigration policies and Israel?

Heck Porter’s TRUE Holy War @heckthewakeful.bsky.social · 1d

It’s delusional to think Obama was a “center right” politician, whatever that means.
The Democratic Party is not center right nor are you compromising on your morals if you voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.

We live in the real world, not left twitter with fake charts and bad theory.

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