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Escaping the birdsite, once and for all. Russia, sanctions, missiles, drones, and the global arms trade.
So I guess our question now is which members of the Admin weren’t emailing Epstein?
January 30, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread
www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...
January 24, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Is this Pervii Kanal? The insane grandfather is going to turn Canada into an adversary.
Bessent pushes Albertan independence from Canada: "Albertans are very independent people. There's a rumor they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. People are talking. People want sovereignty. They want what the US has got."
January 23, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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The power outages and freezing conditions in Ukraine right now are insane. Greenland news and war “coverage fatigue” not giving it the presence in headlines it deserves. The humanitarian impact is absolutely staggering.
January 21, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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Deploying essentially all of your available resources to terrorize one city at a time, in a very large country with many big cities scattered across a continent, is not a sound strategy for regime consolidation.
I've heard rumors that Philadelphia is next for the ICE invasion after Minneapolis.
Maybe I'm wrong, but
1) More than 11% of all ICE agents are in Minneapolis, and they've utterly failed to pacify the city.
2) Philly is 5x the size of Minneapolis.
3) "Minnesota nice" is a thing. We don't have that.
January 18, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Oh it’s deadly serious, but where is the political leadership organizing against this absolutely suicidal course of action?
January 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place
Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”
www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...
September 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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What was the Russian summer offensives in Ukraine in about? Did it achieve its goals based on its own merits? What can be expected from the Russian military's actions through the remainder of 2025 and into early 2026?
@erwoods.bsky.social for ridl.io
ridl.io/the-results-...
The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia
Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026
ridl.io
September 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
My latest article looking at the results of Russia's summer offensive. I argue the Sumy operation was a bit of a failure given the amount of elite forces involved, but Russia continues making progress in Donetsk Oblast. ridl.io/the-results-...
The Results of Russia’s Crawling Summer Offensives – Riddle Russia
Eric Woods on Military Developments Shaping Russian War Strategy for Late 2025-Early 2026
ridl.io
September 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The Trump administration is deporting anti-Putin political asylum seekers, where they face the threat of torture or worse... theins.press/en/news/284453
U.S. deports at least 30 people to Russia in a single day, Russian rights activists report
On August 27, the United States deported at least 30 Russian citizens back to Russia, Dmitry Valuyev, president of the group Russian America for Democracy in Russia, told The Insider
theins.press
August 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
There is no reason for armed troops to be in the nations capital. Full stop. Panhandlers in DuPont Circle are not a reason to do this. Are we looking at another Kent State?
August 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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If you are a hostile intelligence agency, you can get more out of a well-aimed rock at the right place and time today than entire Cold War expenditure of the KGB combined.
August 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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It's like a nesting doll of civil-military crises. Just today:

1. Head of DIA fired
2. Trump threatens to deploy Army to Chicago + NYC
3. Blurring of police + military in DC
4. Use of FBI in political attack on Bolton
5. Goons in DC curtailing basic civil rights
Trump says he's willing to deploy the "regular military" to American cities, the adds that "Chicago is next and then we'll help with New York"
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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I'm unhappy to report that Huntington did not tell the military what to do if they were coopted into prosecuting American citizens on American soil
August 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Note to self: start a “the Left is CENSORING me” grift to pay off student loans
This is insane. No wonder the grifters keep grifting.
Since Michael Shellenberger namechecked me in his latest fundraising appeal for his "Civilization Works" grift, I pulled up his 990. Last year, he pulled in $1.6 million to fight the censorship complex that *he made up* -- double what he got the year before.

These scam artists are raking it in.
August 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Putin "won", played Trump in #Alaska?

Fact is, despite the summit hype/optics, the Ukraine war remains a strategic cul de sac for Russia

Putin will it keep going - but he'll make Russia ill-prepared for an increasingly unruly Trumpian world, as I write:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
Opinion | Putin Should Be Careful What He Wishes For
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Thus, it appears Trump has dropped his earlier demand for an immediate ceasefire before peace talks—a position Ukraine had previously accepted—and now supports negotiations on a lasting peace while fighting continues, a stance the Kremlin has consistently pushed since the last Istanbul talks.
August 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Why are universities contemplating closing entire humanities and foreign language programs, you ask? This. This is why.

What? You haven't heard about this existential threat to these subjects across Every. Single. R1. Research. University. in the country?

No, I suspect that you haven't:
It’s not just FLAS. It’s all the Title VI area studies centers. And dozens of labs & postdocs & research opportunities for undergrads funded by NSF and NIH grants. All gone. But the public won’t be aware of the actual consequences unless our leaders loudly & collectively explain to them the crisis.
Again, you cannot unplug 1/4-1/5 of an R1 university's budget & expect the same quantity or quality of "things" on campus. The math simply doesn't work. And pretending it does & we can uphold our "core values," & not talking loudly & publicly about how it doesn't, is not a strategy. It's madness.
August 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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This is why I tell people not to look at splotches on the map. They don't tell you if it's a company sized element holding an area or a couple guys on motorcycles who will be dead before the map is updated.
August 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I see that territorial adjustments that Trump promised are already happening. Best of luck to Lisa Murkowski on Russia's Federation Council
Trump: “I’m going to Russia on Friday to meet with Putin.”

Where?
August 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Brief BDA of the strike on the Shahed-launching base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk:

Imagery shows 4 destroyed tent-like structures, likely used for storage. No signs of detonation, only burning. Launch rails and large storage facilities are intact. Drone launches appear to be continuing
August 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM