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Republicans, especially @SenateGOP @LeaderJohnThune, stuck the shiv in The Save Act as well as blowing off voters at large, after that there is nothing Republicans can do to get my votes ever again. The Republican Party is DEAD to many of us burned voters. 🖕bye Republicant’s.
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Just a peaceful Paris café moment: drinks, conversation and a street blazing nearby. 🔥😂
The contrast is wild.
It’s almost like there’s a coordinated attack on freedom by globalist forces… nah… that couldn’t be. We should just go back to sleep and watch Fox News.
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I asked these questions about Biden.
These numbers are much worse.
Corruption is a subplot to the 2026 midterms.
72% of Independents believe that Donald Trump is using the presidency to enrich himself. And even one-third of Republican votes feel that way.
And you see it defining races in TX & IA. @jamestalarico and @turek4iowa are defining their opponents -- Ken Paxton and Ashley Hinson on ethics and corruption.
More from the @washingtonpost poll here: bit.ly/4i26Dif
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Things are going exactly as Macron planned when he let the immigrants in. He is pleased.
Macron Bids ‘Au Revoir‘ to Burning France and Lands in Kuwait for Middle East Tour breitbart.com/europe/2026/10…
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Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sent a criminal referral on Obama to the Department of Justice in July of 2025.
The Department of Justice are where criminal referrals go to die.
So no, nothing is ever going to happen to Obama
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If we were serious about stopping future border invasions, we would have gone a step further than just closing the border.
How about holding people accountable who caused it?
At the very LEAST, let's disclose the organizations who funded it and pull their nonprofit status.
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Pat Buchanan, 1999:
“By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first century confrontation. … America will face a hellish dilemma: risk confrontation with a nuclear-armed Russia determined to recreate its old sphere of influence, or renege on solemn commitments and see NATO collapse.”
Therefore, he said, “Offering NATO memberships to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and, as some urge, Ukraine is rashness bordering on madness.” Referring to maps the Clinton team must have ignored, Buchanan warned, “This would put the Russian base at Kaliningrad behind NATO lines and bring into a U.S.-led alliance three nations with huge Russian minorities.” Foreseeing future conflict, he observed that “Latvia is almost half Russian; eastern Ukraine, almost entirely Russian. America could neither defend nor liberate these nations without the risk of nuclear war.”
Pat Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny (New York: Regnery, 1999), 17–18, 22.
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Thousands of Clues practically self-assemble into fact-patterns. Think iron dust and horseshoe magnet.
Another problem to be aware of in the medical expense bankruptcy issue.
My coworker's mother passed away last November.
She left her modest $190,000 house to him clear and free, no mortgage, completely paid off after thirty years of factory work.
He moved into the home in January to finally settle the estate.
Two weeks ago, a letter arrived from the state Medicaid estate recovery office.
Because his mother spent four months in a rehabilitation facility before she passed, the state quietly slapped a retroactive $114,000 lien against the property title.
He called the state health department, frantic, asking how a hospital stay could bankrupt an inherited home that had no mortgage balance.
The caseworker sighed and told him:
"Federal law requires state programs to claw back healthcare costs from deceased estates. The house cannot be sold or transferred until the balance is cleared in full."
He offered to pay a monthly settlement.
They said no. The full $114,000 is due in 60 days, or they foreclose on the property at a public auction.
A lifetime of working-class savings, wiped out overnight by a retroactive healthcare lien.
You don't own generational wealth.
You're just holding a property title until the state finds a legal mechanism to repossess it the moment you die.
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Because the house is worth $190,000 and the average house sale price is over$440,000, the house likely qualifies for the "modest value" exemption. (Check county values)
YOU MUST APPLY FOR THIS WITHIN 60 DAYS OF GETTING THE NOTICE!!!
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Thank you Brad, great post. Ppl have no idea what happens behind the scenes and @ShawnRyan762 should be closely watched for who he has on and more importantly, who he doesn't. No one likes ppl who actually name names. Sarah Adams blocked me the very first interaction I had with her after someone forwarded me one of her posts. She wants to silence anyone that tells the truth about the CIA. Both @leahfiles and @bx_on_x are excellent researchers and the ppl critical of them have an agenda. You don't have to like everyone in the information space, but if you attack those exposing evil, it puts you in the bed with evil.
I follow you and @bx_on_x and think the similarities & differences between your experiences with Shawn Ryan are interesting.
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Similarities:
Both Leah Files and Bx (@bx_on_x) describe being booked or invited onto the Shawn Ryan Show, only for the appearance to be blocked or canceled after interference from someone in the show’s orbit who allegedly attacked their credibility with false claims.
• Leah Files says she flew out to film an episode that never aired. She posted screenshots of messages in which Sarah Adams allegedly told the producer Leah was a “complete fraud” whose background was in bank fraud rather than intelligence work, and noted the producer describing Adams as “oddly pushing” to keep her off.
• Bx says she was invited by a producer to discuss the 764 network (an online group linked to child exploitation, sextortion, and radicalization toward violence). The appearance was canceled with short notice. She released a voice message in which Kyle Seraphin allegedly admitted lying to the producer about her credibility and downplaying or denying the seriousness of 764 to get her blacklisted. She has also described a broader smear campaign involving accusations about her personal life, threats to her job, and other harassment.
In both cases the women present themselves as independent researchers on sensitive topics whose voices were suppressed, criticize the show’s production for not addressing the interference, and frame the situation as part of a larger pattern of gatekeeping or smear tactics. Both have expressed disappointment that Shawn Ryan did not publicly resolve or clarify the issues.
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Differences:
The specific people involved and the topics differ:
• Leah points to Sarah Adams (a frequent prior guest known for CIA-targeter claims and counterterrorism commentary, later associated with Daily Wire). Her planned topics involved following the money on the surveillance state, TPUSA, and Israel-related ties. Her evidence is primarily text-message screenshots.
• Bx points to Kyle Seraphin (an ex-FBI figure associated with certain conservative and anti-“deep state” circles). Her topic was the 764 network and related online child-protection issues. Her key evidence is a voice recording of Seraphin, and she describes more extensive real-world targeting (job/CPS threats, doxxing claims) after the cancellation. The show later covered related material with a different guest.
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Timing also differs: Bx’s incidents center on early-to-mid 2025, while Leah’s account is more recent (filming around October 2026). The alleged motives and wider networks implicated (intel/geopolitical commentary circles versus ex-FBI/online child-exploitation coverage) are distinct.
In short, the core pattern claimed is similar—an invited appearance blocked via credibility attacks from a connected figure, followed by criticism of the show’s response—but the actors, subject matter, and supporting details are different. These remain the accounts of the people involved; Shawn Ryan and the named intermediaries have not publicly addressed the specific allegations in detail in the material reviewed.
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Did the whole world agree to lose it at the same time???
France and Italy are burning, Albania is on day 6+ of clashes, and the list of countries joining in keeps getting longer.
8 countries, 11 seconds, 1 very angry planet.
Writer: Julie
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If this is proven to be true, then I imagine a great many retired vets will have interest in speaking with prosecutors.
Things like this have teammates that went along.
Maidan needs a full review and every nickel and bullet shipped since that day needs examination.
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I have been working on an investigation since June 2026.
You will NOT want to miss this.
I will reveal WHY Albania is SO important for the Trump family? How Albania is connected to Syria's government being overthrown and WHY the sanctions were removed so quickly...
They are ALL connected and I have the full investigation, will be releasing it soon.
But until then, Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump had no F**kin idea what they got themselves into when they entered Albania to try to take their beloved "un-inhabited", natural reserve Sazan Island.
I grew up with Albanias in my school, these people are PROUD people and will NOT bend over for anyone. They have been fighters and warriors for a lot of their history...
They will go ALLL the way. Albania and this video is in Europe across the water from Italy... They are not messing around.
The Albanians will NOT give up that Sazan island.
Trump put an ISIS --> Al Nusra --> HTS terrorist in charge of Syria expecting the island to be the kickback payment for de-sanctioning Syria... it did NOT work out like they planned at all because these Albanians have spine and will burn their country down before they give that up.
Rama's government will fall as a result of this.
Will be releasing another deep dive investigation on this shortly
𝗣𝗮𝘆-𝘁𝗼-𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆. 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀-𝗴𝗼-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽'𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱.
For the past several weeks I tracked one chain of dealings, from a 2021 yacht introduction in the Adriatic to a US sanctions repeal signed into law in December 2025 to a $4 billion resort that broke ground six months later on a former Soviet military island. EVERY fact is on the public record. Every actor is named. The dates line up in ways that are difficult to call coincidence and expensive to defend. Bookmark this as this could collapse governments...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵
Three Syrian-born Qatari billionaires with a $12 billion Syrian reconstruction portfolio sat behind a US sanctions wall called the Caesar Act for six years waiting patiently for the right moment. This Act served as a wall that blocked access to their financing and sanctioned nearly ALL their wealth. They lobbied and partnered with president Trump's son-in-law (Jared Kushner) on a $4 billion Albanian resort. Kushner through convinced his father-in-law POTUS Donald Trump to sign the law that brought the wall down by removing all the sanctions on Syria. Six months later, the resort broke ground. The brothers' Syrian reconstruction portfolio became financeable. The Trump family took a position. The Albanian government rolled out the carpet. No registered lobbyist appears in any filing. Read that again. This could collapse governments...
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗹𝘀
Jared Kushner. Sole owner of Affinity Partners per SEC filing. Son-in-law of the sitting US president, Donald Trump.
Ivanka Trump. Public-facing partner on the Albanian project. Daughter of the sitting US president.
The Khayyat brothers. Moutaz, Ramez, and Mohamad al-Khayyat. Doha-based but Syrian-born nationals, Qatari-naturalised billionaires. Their conglomerate Power International Holding holds a reported $12 billion in Syrian reconstruction contracts that were unbankable under the Caesar Act.
Edi Rama. Prime Minister of Albania. Personally chaired the committee that granted strategic investor status for their island project.
Nathaniel Rothschild. British financier. Introduced Kushner to Rama on his yacht in the summer of 2021. Kushner has stated this on the public record.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Kushner, three months out of the White House, vacations in the Adriatic on Nat Rothschild's yacht. Rothschild introduces him to PM Rama. Rama is called aboard the boat. The Albanian project begins as a private conversation between private individuals with ties to the president of the USA.
𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund commits $2 billion to seed Affinity Partners. The PIF's own screening committee had recommended REJECTING the proposal over Kushner's inexperience and excessive fees. MBS, who chairs the board, overruled them and sent the money.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Qatar Investment Authority and Abu Dhabi-based Lunate inject an additional $1.5 billion into Affinity. Total assets under management reach $4.8 billion. Kushner publicly states the round closed BEFORE the election so he would not have to raise capital during a second Trump term.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Bashar al-Assad's regime falls. Ahmed al-Sharaa's (Ex-Al Qaeda and ISIS leader in Syria is magically rebranded as a changed man) transitional government takes power. The Caesar Act, which existed to punish Assad, becomes a wall blocking "reconstruction" money and investment in Ivanka Trumps favourite Island. The Khayyats sit directly behind that wall with their money sanctioned.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰. Albania grants strategic investor status to Atlantic Incubation Partners LLC, a Kushner-linked Delaware entity. Three weeks BEFORE Trump's second inauguration.
𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟯-𝟭𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Trump announces from Riyadh that he WILL lift US sanctions on Syria as a complete surprise to the entire world only months after Syrian regime falls and while the world is still trying to understand how an ISIS leader "got his legitimacy" so quickly from the USA government. The very next day he meets Syrian interim president al-Sharaa alongside MBS. First US-Syria leader meeting in 25 years.
𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Mohamad Al-Khayyat meets Republican Congressman Joe Wilson. Pitches a Syrian coastal megaproject. Wilson likes the idea but suggests re-branding the golf course as "Trump" to attract Trump's attention in the White House. Khayyat replies a Trump-branded resort is already planned. Weeks later Khayyat returns to Washington with a "foundation stone" engraved with the Trump family crest reading "Trump International Golf Club, Syria." He presents it to Wilson for delivery to the White House which is eventually delivered to Donald Trump in the White House.
𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Congressman Joe Wilson travel to Syria and meet the new President of Syria who by now has a new suit, trimmed beard and is now called al-Sharaa (from his previous named which was Golani) in Damascus, accompanied by US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack. Same day, OFAC removes the Syria sanctions regulations from the federal code taking Syria on the road to recovery post-sanctions.
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. UCC Holding (Khayyat-controlled company) signs a $4 billion concession to redevelop Damascus International Airport. The first major reconstruction deal financeable in the new environment.
𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟴, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Trump signs the FY2026 NDAA into law and interestingly, section 8369 repeals the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019. The Senate vote was 77-20. Most interestingly and unlike Trump, he signs this law away from media attention with no ceremony, and just like that, the wall is gone.
𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟭-𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Ivanka and Kushner tour Albania. Ivanka dines with Rama in Vlora. Approximately 60 architects and businesspeople attend the working dinner. Ivanka meets Rama in both Tirana and Vlora.
𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Trump hosts the Board of Peace charter signing at Davos. Kushner presents a Gaza Timeline on stage. Albania is among the founding signatories and Rama is also in attendance and this is excellent brand building for Rama in Albania.
𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Rama attends the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the renamed Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington. Photographed presenting funding documents beside Trump, Vance, Azerbaijan's Aliyev, and Saudi and Jordanian officials. Trump pledges a $10 billion US contribution. Kushner speaks.
𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. The implementing company Sazan Operations is registered in Albania, controlled through six foreign companies ultimately linked to the Khayyat brothers per filings reviewed numerous sources.
𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟭𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Eric Lipton's @nytimes investigation publishes. Ramez Al-Khayyat confirms the partnership on the record: "We are investing in the holding company to make sure it has sufficient capital. So it is a joint venture between the two companies, and we are actually managing it together." Meaning the sanctions were removed by Trump, at the request of Kushner, whose wife, Ivanka wanted to buy an island in Albania so that it can be developed. The Khayyats, promised to invest at least $4 billion of their $12 billion that was seized and that was now freed by Trump.
𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Heavy machinery clears the protected coastline. BirdLife International and EuroNatur report no permits, no environmental assessment, no public consultation. Barbed-wire fencing seals off beaches families have used for generations.
𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Video shows private security guards beating protesters. Local police chief is dismissed. Two private security companies have licences revoked.
𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Thousands protest in Tirana. Albania's Special Prosecution Against Corruption (SPAK) freezes the bank accounts of Albania Land Development, the Khayyat-owned landholding company. Approximately €200 million frozen pending fraud investigation.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺
Four moving parts ran in parallel inside a single 18-month window.
1. A Trump family business venture (Affinity Partners, Atlantic Incubation Partners, Sazan Operations).
2. Foreign sovereign capital from Saudi PIF, Qatar QIA, Abu Dhabi Lunate and Al Khayyat brothers.
3. A US sanctions policy change (Caesar Act repeal December 2025) that directly benefitted the foreign capital partners' $12 billion Syrian reconstruction portfolio and who ultimately agree to directly enabled Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trumps dream island project.
4. A soft-power vehicle (Trump's Board of Peace) providing diplomatic cover and bringing the Albanian PM to Washington at the exact window of the deals.
Each part is legally distinct. Each is documented openly. I've just connected the dots, and the only question is whether they were INTENDED to operate as a single integrated mechanism, or whether they happened to align in the same window by coincidence.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆
The exact equity split has NOT been disclosed publicly. Industry standard for development partnerships of this size and structure is 50-50 or 60-40 between the lead developer (Affinity) and the local capital partner (Khayyat entities). Applied to a $4 billion project at conventional luxury resort developer margins of 15 to 25 percent, the developer profit pool is $600 million to $1 billion. Kushner family share at a 50 percent position would be $300 million to $500 million over the development cycle.
That is the direct number. The indirect numbers are larger and harder to estimate publicly. However, based on the comments made by the Khayyat brothers, it is likely that the brothers may have put up either the entire money or a significant share themselves as a thank you for Trump releasing the sanctioned assets.
Affinity AUM revaluation. Performance fees. Follow-on Balkan deals. Syrian reconstruction contract flows that may run back through the joint venture structure. The Khayyat family's $12 billion Syrian portfolio is the silent multiplier sitting on top or perhaps beneath the Albanian deal.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴
The Khayyat brothers were NEVER personally on a sanctions list. They are Syrian-Qatari nationals, free to enter the United States on Qatari passports. What the Caesar Act blocked was the FINANCING of their Syrian reconstruction work, not the brothers themselves. International lenders would not touch deals that could trigger US secondary sanctions. So the $12 billion portfolio was stranded NOT because the brothers were designated, but because the financing environment around post-Assad Syria was radioactive.
The repeal cleared the radiation. The portfolio became viable. The brothers were already partners with the Trump family on a $4 billion resort on the day the radiation cleared. You could say they paid $4 billion dollars to free $12 billion or 33% pay to play fee.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲
The Iran-Israel war is generating identical structural conditions across multiple countries simultaneously. Sanctions regimes that can be lifted. Reconstruction zones that need capital. Gulf sovereign wealth funds with policy-sensitive interests. Allied governments willing to fast-track approvals.
Watch which Iranian assets are unfrozen in any settlement. Watch the Gaza reconstruction tenders. Watch the Lebanon post-war allocations. Watch which Iraqi infrastructure projects suddenly attract US-aligned private equity. The Sazan Circuit is the template. The applications are multiplying.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸
Three questions deserve formal answers under oath.
1. What is the exact equity structure of the Affinity-Khayyat joint venture, and what percentage of returns flow to entities controlled by Trump family members?
2. What was the timeline of communications between the Khayyat brothers, members of Congress, the White House, and the Trump family regarding the Caesar Act repeal between summer 2025 and December 2025?
3. What additional reconstruction projects in Syria, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Iraq, and Gulf states are currently being negotiated by Affinity Partners or entities directly affiliated with the Trump family, and what US policy decisions are pending that would materially affect the financial returns of those projects?
4. These are NOT speculative questions. They are the standard transparency questions that would be asked of any other administration whose family was running an active private equity firm taking foreign sovereign capital while making policy decisions that affected the value of that capital.
Without answers, the precedent stands. Foreign sovereign money flows into Trump family businesses. Trump family businesses partner with foreign actors whose financial interests depend on US policy. US policy moves to benefit those actors. The Trump family takes a share of the upside. Repeat for the next war, the next reconstruction zone, the next sanctions regime.
A 540-hectare former Soviet military island designed to shelter 3,000 troops in a nuclear war is the latest asset in the chain. There will be more. The clock is running.
I look beyond the headlines and make sense of the nuances. If this gave you signal worth keeping, like and consider following 🙏🙏
𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!
#Albania #USA
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Interesting @leahfiles - I was interviewed as well by Shawn, right after he did a 90 min interview with @Michael_Yon when we had just returned from Panama in 2023 during #OperationBurningEdge where we were exposing the Biden open borders and the weaponized mass migration.
My portion of the interview was all about naming names, who funded that operation and what was their motiviation.
All I did was change seats with Michael and attach the same lapel mic he was wearing.
You know what I was told? Sorry Ann, we had an audio failure...
So your story certainly sounds familiar. At least they told you up front not to name names... I will give them that for honesty.
Part 2, and my last post about my Shawn Ryan Show episode.
Last I heard, it had been edited. Then Shawn went on Diary of a CEO and described a woman whose interview he’d never release. That woman wasn’t me, unless he was lying.
But I never expected it to air, and here’s why:
I spent weeks prepping with Shawn’s team. I was booked to follow the money on TPUSA and the surveillance state, and naming names is what I do. I’m meticulous, and I never say anything I can’t prove. Then, right before we started filming, I was told I couldn’t name names. When I brought up who funds Flock Safety, the license plate cameras now in thousands of American towns, I was told not to say Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. You can’t follow the money without showing where the money flows. That’s when I realized this episode would never air, before we had even started.
So when I got home, I did what I do. I followed the money. And, turns out Shawn Ryan is invested in companies backed by the exact people I was told not to name, plus Israel.
(1) Anduril Industries: Ryan has been an investor since October 2025. Anduril started with surveillance towers and now builds drones and autonomous weapons. Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund led its June 2025 round, and Andreessen Horowitz co-led its $5 billion round in May 2026. Those are the two names I was told to leave out. In February 2026, Anduril’s founder, Palmer Luckey, made an undisclosed trip to Israel and met with Netanyahu and senior defense officials. By June, Anduril was setting up an Israel operation to sell to Israel’s Ministry of Defense. Shawn had Palmer on his show in February 2025 and invested eight months later.
(2) Shield AI: Ryan has been an investor since November 2025. It builds AI-piloted drones and fighter jets. Andreessen Horowitz led its first major round and has kept investing ever since. Shawn had its co-founder on the show the same season he invested.
(3) Sesh: Ryan has been an investor since August 2025. Its $40 million round was led by 8VC, the venture firm of Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded Palantir with Peter Thiel. Lonsdale was a guest on Shawn’s show on May 7, 2026, less than three months before I taped. Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense in 2024.
And Flock Safety, the company I came to talk about, is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, which led two of its rounds, and by Founders Fund, Peter Thiel’s fund.
So I was booked to expose who funds the surveillance state. I was told not to name Andreessen Horowitz or Peter Thiel. And the host has money in companies backed by Andreessen Horowitz, by Thiel’s fund, and by Thiel’s Palantir co-founder, including one that is building its business in Israel.
Then there’s the rest of it. Sarah Adams, his former network host, was messaging his team to keep me off (see Part 1 if you missed it). An IDF settlement contractor tagged the two of them together. Pro-Israel groups passed around her clip from his show as proof that Israel didn’t drive the war. And after his Diary of a CEO interview, accounts from the same network that spent the summer smearing me told everyone his “CIA woman” was me, citing “sources.” It wasn’t me. I never discussed a polygraph with Shawn Ryan, and it was never why I went on. So either he was talking about someone else, or somebody turned his story into a weapon against me.
Honestly, I don’t want the episode to air, and I told them so right after we taped, because it was a watered-down version of my work. How it all happened was a tough lesson learned for me in this industry. Now you know what was going on behind the scenes. If this episode doesn’t air, I can assure you it’s not because I’m a fraud. It’s because I won’t water down who funds the surveillance state, and I won’t sell out to protect anyone’s investments.
So there you have it.
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🚨 #BREAKING: Since Lindsay Clancy not being found guilty, 82 mothers in America have murdered 123 of their children.
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Lindsay Clancy's trial ended in a mistrial (hung jury) on Sept. 4, 2026, not a not-guilty verdict. Charges remain.
The 82 mothers/123 children figure is from a video of cases since Jan. 2023, not the ~6 weeks since. No data shows that rate recently.
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