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#HumanRights girl. Independent. ◆ Interests: transnational repression, emerging threats, organized crime & corruption, intelligence & counterintelligence, AI.

Washington, DC
Joined September 2010
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As an Independent, I welcome Republicans’ newfound love for the rule of law. Other violent criminals whom we need to arrest: • George Walker Bush • Anthony Charles Lynton Blair • Benjamin Netanyahu • Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei • Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin • Xi Jinping
I want a witch hunt. I want every judge and DA who let this monster walk free arrested. I want them dragged in front of cameras in chains. I want their lives destroyed.
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Beautiful work by the more normie and sane of @MayeMusk’s two sons. Sacred… Divine… Ave Maria… ❤️‍🔥 🌹 😭
Thank Andrea Bocelli and Michelangelo for giving us the chance collaborate with you Watch video until the end. It will be worth it
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The first initials I identify with are USA and AMDG… but yeah, I do happen to be LGBT, too. I commend @WeHoCity for showing grace by lowering 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ flags to half mast to comply w/ @POTUS @realDonaldTrump’s order to lower 🇺🇸 flags to half mast. We are Americans, too.
This is an extraordinary development considering that West Hollywood refused to allow Trump to speak (in theory) just a few years ago. Maybe people are sobering up. “City of West Hollywood flags at half mast to honor Charlie Kirk” - WEHOonline.com wehoonline.com/city-west-hol…
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Xi Jinping, tear down this wall!
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) today experienced the largest internal document leak in its history. More than 500GB of source code, work logs, and internal communications have been exposed, revealing details about the development and operation of the GFW. The leak originated from a core technical force — Geedge Networks (with chief scientist Fang Binxing) and the MESA Lab in the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The company not only provides services to local governments in Xinjiang, Jiangsu, and Fujian, but also exports censorship and surveillance technology to countries such as Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan under the “Belt and Road” framework. Due to the massive volume of material, GFW Report will continue analyzing and updating on this page: gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_m…
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I’m very concerned about Uzbekistan’s plan to indoctrinate its youth w/ Maoism. This curriculum will likely be CCP-approved and taught by imported Chinese teachers. Last census was 1989 but there are 100s of thousands of Uyghur expats/refugees in UZ. @UZEmbassyDC @UsAmbUzbekistan
🚨China hasn’t occupied Uzbekistan—yet. By mandating Chinese in every school, Uzbekistan’s leaders (@president_uz) foolishly invite Beijing’s influence/rule, setting the stage to become the next "Xinjiang (New Territory)." Have they learned nothing from East Turkistan’s tragedy?
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“Cultural exchange” is great when most people say it, but when China’s Communist Party says it, it means espionage, indoctrination, genocide denial, and worse. I urge @UzbekMFA to turn towards India @Amb_Tashkent, @EmbUkraine, @Uzbek_Japan_ Taiwan, others for cultural enrichment.
Uzbekistan, China sign agreement to establish cultural centers The newly signed agreement on establishing cultural centers, the first of its kind between Uzbekistan and China, is regarded as a historic milestone that is expected to open the door to deeper cultural collaboration and greater people-to-people exchange. 👉 Details — daryo.uz/en/2025/09/04/uzbek… #Uzbekistan #China #CulturalCenters #BilateralRelations #PeopleToPeople #CulturalExchange #InternationalCooperation #Collaboration
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I often think of the Suwałki Gap leading from Königsberg to Belarus as the zipper on @NATO’s pants. I strongly urge @MoD_Russia against pushing that Iskander-M Tactical Ballistic Missile too far, because if we end up comparing arsenals, @KremlinRussia won’t like whose is bigger.
Russian Forces deployed Nuclear-capable Iskander-M Tactical Ballistic Missile on a highway in Kaliningrad. It looks like a message ...
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I applaud @PMOIndia for this @IndiaUNNewYork vote. As the world’s largest democracy, India has an important role to play in being a force for peace. While I remain disappointed in India’s refusal to end Russian oil purchases, I continue to support a permanent Indian UNSC seat.
Breaking: India votes in favour of 'New York Declaration' that calls for the establishment of the state of Palestine. India joined 142 states to vote in favour of the Declaration. 10 voted against, 12 abstained. PS: India was the first non arab state to recognise Palestine
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Criticism of genocidal war criminal @Netanyahu is not antisemitic. But claiming that Mossad/Israel was behind Charlie Kirk’s death? That’s 100% an antisemitic conspiracy theory and I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with my Jewish friends in condemning such vile disinformation.
Netanyahu: Israel was not behind the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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PS: this @Greta interview was good practice for @Netanyahu. He had better get used to talking to Dutch people… there will be a lot of that while he’s awaiting trial at the @IntlCrimCourt in The Hague.
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I’m deeply disturbed to see @MFA_Russia Spokeswoman Zakharova weaponizing the tragic death of Charlie Kirk to attack Ukraine… especially as Russia engages in its aggressive Zapad-2025 exercises on NATO’s Eastern flank. This dangerous rhetoric can ricochet in unpredictable ways.
💬 #Zakharova: On September 10, during a public event in the US, prominent American political figure Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Charlie’s murder sparked an unprecedented wave of joy among the fans of the Kiev regime... The gloating of its propaganda comes as no surprise.
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Russia’s state-run propaganda apparatus works hand-in-hand w/ Russian military planners. Zapad-2025 isn’t merely a physical military exercise… it’s a proving ground for Russia’s non-kinetic “#ActiveMeasures” across cyberspace, media, and more, inc. psyops. #активныемероприятия
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I’m very disturbed to see @KremlinRussia’s lead negotiator using QAnon language in reference to the death of Charlie Kirk. This is in no way helpful or conducive to the advancement of the peace process. The same goes for inflammatory posts by @MedvedevRussiaE and @AGDugin.
In memory of Charlie Kirk 🙏 His voice will not be forgotten. From Dark to Light! 🕊️
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.@PolandMFA @AWgovPL are smart to close the railways w/ Belarus for Zapad-2025. These routes are already major security threats since they’re part of the China-EU railway system. @DonaldTusk should consider keeping them closed indefinitely as leverage to force thru a peace deal.
🗣️ "Ze względu na bezpieczeństwo państwa zamkniemy granicę z Białorusią, w tym przejścia kolejowe, w związku z manewrami Zapad w nocy z czwartku na piątek" @donaldtusk reaguje na agresywne manewry rosyjsko-białoruskie ⤵️
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Russia was considered part of “the West” during the late 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great's westernization reforms, the period after the Napoleonic Wars, and again in the 1990s after the USSR collapsed. The Russian youth dying in Putin’s war? They are Westerners.
Rewriting history by minister of foreign affairs of 🇷🇺, sergei lavrov: The Berlin Wall was built by the West. ✅In fact, the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by the leadership of the GDR with political and military support from ussr to prevent residents from fleeing to the West
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It’s crazy is that THREE people are leaking about the fresh draft of the National Defense Strategy to @paulmcleary & @dlippman at @politico. (I’ll assume that Sober @SecWar and Drunk @PeteHegseth are counted as 2 different sources.) Can’t anybody keep a secret anymore? Sheesh!
Wow. The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy prioritizes the US homeland and Western Hemisphere over deterring China. For those still in denial… we are now in a multipolar world. US and China are 1A/1B. Monroe Doctrine is in full effect.
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I’ve been trying to grok how @ElonMusk and @Sama could both feel okay hiring Xuechen Li, given China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law and his CV, which reads like someone who’d be an ideal MOFCOM-directed/MSS-handled commercial espionage AI IP thief. I think I’ve figured it out.
Replying to @tenobrus
these are some questions off Peter's Delusion's Inventory (PDI) btw . as u can see this is pretty representative of like 50% of sf tech twitter. consider whether u are actually having world changing insights or u have simply consumed 3g of non-racemic ketamine in the last month
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Xi Jinping’s genocide of #Uyghurs and Putin’s mass abduction of #Ukraine’s children are among the most heinous, evil crimes of the 21st century. And despite all the intellectual property that China’s stolen from the West, somehow the CCP still doesn’t grok the Streisand Effect.
Longevity, according to Xi & Putin, comes from organ transplants. Yet #Beijing bans internal circulation of the remarks & seeks to censor the international press. Why is the #PRC so afraid of its leader’s own words?🧐🤔
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2026 midterms should be a slam dunk for Democrats, but Trump’s tough-on-crime strategy is painting many Dems as pro-crime… and that may depress turnout. Governors Newsom, Pritzker, & Wes Moore are taking the bait. @GovAndyBeshear, @GovernorShapiro, & @GovofCO, wisely, are not.
All of these protesters are white. @grok what is the percentage of African-American population in DC’s highest crime neighborhoods? What does it tell you that the most likely victims of DC violent crime aren’t marching in protest?
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I’m a socially progressive, economically conservative independent and, like most women, I hate feeling unsafe in major US cities. While Republicans turn me off w/ insane culture wars, Democrats turn me off w/ “defund the police” idiocy. #IrynaZarutska deserved better. We all do.
New video shows the moments leading up to and following the deadly stabbing of a woman on the Charlotte light rail. See footage here: bitl.to/51xE?utm_source=twit…  (WARNING: Content is graphic.)
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Hey @Grok, can you please explain to me why Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by Philippine Police and INTERPOL on an @IntlCrimCourt arrest warrant on March 11, 2025, and why he’s now a resident of the United Nations Detention Unit at Scheveningen Prison in The Hague, Netherlands?
Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.
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As a #HumanRights defender, I also believe in the right to self-defense. At a time when attacks against the LGBT community are on the rise, Trump’s efforts to strip vulnerable people of their 2nd Amendment right to self-defense isn’t merely unconstitutional… it’s un-American. 🇺🇸
The Second Amendment isn’t up for debate.
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