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Interesting: the Washington Post says that Jensen Huang's downfall was Marco Rubio's doing (washingtonpost.com/technolog…), and it looks like the "spy" framing was directly his and not the CIA's.
As they write, Rubio took a CIA report and rewrote it in a memo "in his own more assertive terms."
Which fits neatly with CNN reporting that the CIA is "not yet convinced" that Alice Huang was a spy (edition.cnn.com/2026/11/12/p…): if the CIA is not convinced, yet a memo rewritten from the CIA’s own report presented her as a spy, then there’s only one person who could have turned "not convinced" into "spy": the man who did the "more assertive" rewriting, aka Marco Rubio 🤷
The WaPo article also mentions the motive: China hawks like Rubio had spent years trying to "destroy the influence Jensen had over the president", and WaPo calls his ouster "a huge victory" for them as it allows them to "seize on the moment to redirect the national agenda toward tougher policies on China."
And, as a matter of fact, they’re already pushing three new chip-restriction bills into the defense bill now that Jensen is no longer around to lobby against them.
If true, it means the real "influence operation" targeting Jensen was run out of Washington, not Beijing 🤷
This is the biggest irony of the whole Alice Huang / Nvidia saga: the Chinese government actually doesn't want Nvidia chips and is actively keeping them out of the country.
Last year it even ordered Alibaba and ByteDance to cancel their Nvidia orders (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…) and sent customs teams to the ports to check every advanced chip coming in (ng.investing.com/news/stock-…).
And right now 600,000 Nvidia H200s are stuck in Hong Kong because Beijing won’t let them into the country (reuters.com/world/china/nvid…)👇
Nvidia also explicitly frames this as a threat to its business in its latest annual report to the SEC: "The Chinese government has encouraged customers to purchase from our China-based competitors and discouraged customers from purchasing, importing, or using our data center products" (sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…).
Why does China do that? Because every Nvidia chip a Chinese company buys is one that Huawei or Cambricon doesn’t sell, and domestic chips can only catch up if people actually buy them (which means money for R&D, etc.).
Which means that the notion that Chinese intelligence was running honeytraps to get more Nvidia chips into China gets the whole thing exactly backwards.
In fact, it looks like Megaspeed - Alice Huang's company - was a counter-reaction to official Chinese policy: a private sector workaround to these efforts by the Chinese government to curtail Nvidia.
As was widely reported - including by Western media - Megaspeed built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented their computing power to Alibaba, which the New York Times called "a backdoor way of getting access" to Nvidia chips (nytimes.com/2026/11/06/us/po…).
That is a backdoor not only - allegedly - around Washington’s export controls, but also around China's own efforts to wean its companies off Nvidia.
I can’t believe the Chinese government was too thrilled about it: it'd make just about zero sense for it to run countless domestic measures to prevent Alibaba from using Nvidia chips, yet at the same time have its top spy agency help the same Alibaba get Nvidia chips through the back door in Southeast Asia 🤷
At the end of the day, as with all such stories, you always need to look at "cui bono?": who benefits? Who benefitted is pretty clear:
- Nvidia itself: it's in the business of selling chips so a customer willing to spend billions of dollars on chips in Southeast Asia is a godsend. Again, as they themselves state in their SEC filings, not being able to tap into Chinese demand would have "a material and adverse impact on our business" (sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…).
- Chinese companies like Alibaba: facts are, 1) Chinese chips haven't yet caught up, 2) Chinese chip companies' production capabilities are still limited and 3) Chinese tech firms' historical tech stack runs on Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem, and rewriting years of code for Huawei chips is painful. Renting Nvidia chips in Southeast Asia is the easy way to stay competitive and serve customer demand in the meantime.
- The US, according to core members of the Trump administration: back in July last year, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explained that the point of letting Nvidia sell more chips to China was to get Chinese developers "addicted to the American technology stack" (techradar.com/pro/china-coul…).
Who does NOT benefit, according to official Chinese policy, is the Chinese state, which has made tech self-reliance one of its foremost priorities.
Which means that, to believe the spy story, you have to believe that a person - Alice Huang - was effectively a spy paid by her own government while simultaneously sabotaging its tech self-reliance drive, which it has spent years and trillions of dollars on - pretty senseless.
Stranger things have happened, I guess, but it doesn't pass the smell test.
And there is another absolutely major contradiction in the media story. According to a Financial Times article published yesterday (ft.com/content/3238d92b-4074…), "a person who knows [Alice Huang] said they had been asked by MSS for information about her earlier this year after news emerged that Singapore was investigating the company in relation to chip-smuggling allegations. The agency wanted to find out more information about Huang, including the nature of her business and connections, the person said."
Which raises a damn obvious question: if she were indeed an MSS asset, why on earth would the MSS need to ask the people around her who she was and the nature of her business?
It's a complete contradiction with the spy story - but very much not a contradiction with what I described above: a private businesswoman running a workaround to Beijing’s own policy, which the Chinese security apparatus would naturally want to look into.
Especially since, around about the same time, Shanghai police detained her business partner, reportedly her husband, in a stock manipulation case (caixinglobal.com/2026-11-10/…): also coherent with Chinese authorities looking into her network, and much harder to square with her being a prized MSS asset.
And, to top it all, there is - to this day - not a shred of evidence that's been published that she is, in fact, a Chinese spy: just anonymous intelligence officials, repeated by journalists who never verified it, as I detailed here (xitter.cf/RnaudBertrand/status/2…) and here (xitter.cf/RnaudBertrand/status/2…) with one of the key FT journalists on this story actually admitting that he has no idea what evidence US intelligence actually has.
So the claim went to print without anyone seeing the evidence, without anyone being able to check it, and without anyone knowing whether it even exists.
And given everything above, from Beijing blocking the very chips she was supposedly recruited to help get into China, to the MSS asking around about her, to her partner being detained in Shanghai, my bet is that the evidence doesn’t exist at all. If anything, everything we can check points the other way.
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This stirring convo 🎧between @briebriejoy and @EbonyWarriorX is the truth serum we need. youtu.be/dEARw30UMIk?is=nJ5D…
We know what kind of veterans Congress prefers: xitter.cf/kenklippenstein/status…
On Veteran’s Day the House of Representatives just passed what the VFW considers the “largest net benefit cut since the Great Depression.”
To all the soldiers who have TBIs from Iranian ordinance - your hearing loss is no longer “service connected.”
How tf do y’all manage to still have pride in any of this when your elites clearly hate you?
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On Veteran’s Day the House of Representatives just passed what the VFW considers the “largest net benefit cut since the Great Depression.”
To all the soldiers who have TBIs from Iranian ordinance - your hearing loss is no longer “service connected.”
How tf do y’all manage to still have pride in any of this when your elites clearly hate you?
Who's arguing that people bribe politicians in order to take a tax deduction?
Seeing people making the argument that the $100M gift to SF is somehow a bad thing (ie a bribe, a way to reduce taxes, or some other villainous activity).
Thought it might be helpful to walk through tax-deductible donations and their net cost & impact:
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Always a day late and a dollar short. Almost as if it were designed that way.
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I’ve been arguing for this for years.
The Democrats impeached President Trump a second time and actually had a trial in the Senate when he was a private citizen. Therefore, I propose the impeachment of every past president who is still alive for military operations in which they never received a declaration of war -- impeach them all and try them all -- as this is the new standard. The same for every past, living SecDef and SecState.
So the School Board will be as segregated as our public schools after the new assignment system is implemented
In the new year, every SF school board member except one (Matt Alexander) will have been endorsed by tech billionaire PAC Gross AF (@growsf). There will be zero Black or Latino members.
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What's Airbnb getting in exchange?
Today, I stood with Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to announce his $100 million gift to San Francisco’s parks. This is the largest single-donor gift to the city in San Francisco’s history, and will support the development of new parks, upgrades to existing spaces, expanded hours at recreation facilities, and much more.
An initial $39 million will help unlock five projects in neighborhoods across our city. SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, and downtown will all see transformational projects finish sooner, bringing more welcoming public spaces to residents across San Francisco.
As Mayor, one of my top priorities is making San Francisco a city where families can put down roots and build their futures. Earlier this year, we launched our Family Opportunity Agenda—a citywide effort to bring down the cost of living and expand economic mobility for San Francisco families.
We're building more housing, protecting tenants, expanding access to affordable childcare, and keeping public transportation safe, reliable, and affordable. We're also investing in the public spaces families rely on every day.
Our parks are an essential part of what makes San Francisco such a special place to raise a family. Our recreation programs provide exceptional and affordable opportunities for San Francisco families. With this investment, we're bringing those opportunities to more neighborhoods across our city, expanding access to recreation, and making our parks even better for the families who use them.
San Francisco has created enormous opportunity for the people who have built their businesses here. And with that success comes a responsibility to give back to the city that helped make it possible. So, my ask to every leader who sees what Brian has done today is simple: help us create more opportunities for the people who call San Francisco home. Now is the time. Our city is coming back. Don’t just watch it from the sidelines. Be a part of it.
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Elon Musk’s pet demagogue, the serial fabricator and bigoted dummy Gad Saad, posted a 25-minute statement entitled “My Reaction to the 2026 Midterm Elections” on his YouTube channel. Link provided at the end of this post.
Those familiar with this insufferable narcissist will not be surprised to learn that it consists mainly of insane conspiracy theories about an imminent Muslim-communist takeover of the United States and extensive paeans to his own victimhood.
Suffice it to say that the image displayed during his statement is a screen split between Michigan’s Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed and Joseph Stalin.
In his statement Saad demonstrates, yet again, that he is a severely intellectually challenged far-right ideologue. A genuinely dumb bigot with zero substance, on a par with Laura Loomer and Brianna Wu. As disconnected from reality and at war with it as they are.
Saad’s torrent of unhinged conspiracy theories is out of this world. The guy was clearly having a psychotic meltdown.
On this particular occasion my favorite Saad conspiracy theory was not about El-Sayed and Muslims, but rather about Texas and its Senator-elect, James Talarico. It exceeds even that of his Nazi-saluting idol, Musk.
As Saad laments that the election of Talarico has destroyed “the Texas that you remember in the cowboy movies” and that it is no longer “the America of Clint Eastwood”, it becomes clear that this dumb, bigoted demagogue can’t distinguish between reality and the silver screen.
Not only is Saad’s knowledge of the Middle East, Islam, Muslims, and immigration limited to bullshit fabrications, crazy conspiracy theories, and a handful of endlessly repeated tropes and slogans, he knows even less about the United States.
A pretty big deal if you consider Saad was recently appointed to a university faculty position to teach about the United States.
Below I reproduce the text of his statement from minute 7:55 to minute 10:00. Judge for yourself:
[Begin Quote] Once you allow ideologies that couldn’t be any more antithetical to those [American] foundational principles to take over, then you still have America by name, it still is a country that has a northern border with Canada and it has a southern border with Mexico, but it ceases to be the America of Clint Eastwood and of The Mamas & the Papas and of the abundant churches in Mississippi where I moved to, right?
What makes America what it is, is, again, the unique reality that nowhere else could you find the First Amendment, the Second Amendment.
So now you elect a bunch of socialists and communists. Talarico in Texas. When the red-blooded Texas looks at various candidates and says, “You know what we want? We would love to have a guy who spends most of his days talking about trans kids, who argues that theologically God is non-binary and that we should defund the police and that the police should not have guns, they should be hugging, you know they should be social workers.” All of the woke stuff at its height in 2020 and so on.
And then Texans say, “Here is a great idea. Texas, the Texas Republic is best exemplified by bringing this guy and having him represent us in the Senate.”
Will Texas be the Texas that you remember in the cowboy movies? Will Texas be the Texas of the buckling cowboy that you think of [when you think of] Texas? No! You’ve altered the tapestry of what it means to be a Texan forevermore, because you are electing people that do not capture that ethos. [End Quote]
I’m eagerly awaiting the meltdown when Saad learns that his new home of Mississippi has elected its first African-American Senator since Reconstruction, who refused to accept funding from AIPAC.
youtube.com/watch?v=vkIocEvc…
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They're bragging about facilitating floods in Gaza that are washing out families. Let's remember than when they whine when a future president cuts them off.
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"~10 rainwater suction trucks have been held at the crossings for a year as the occupation blocks their entry, & by August municipalities said they had received no fuel for their heavy machinery since March."
Democrats have the power to defund genocide. But it's nowhere on Jeffries' priority list.
Electing Jeffries as speaker is complicity in genocide.
“Israel is pursuing and engineering death in Gaza. So do not be complicit.” Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, addresses the world after the first winter storm tore through the Strip on November 7, 2026, saying his crews lived through every scene of families flooded out of their tents but had no equipment, no machinery and no means to help them.
Within 12 hours, around 70,000 tents were flooded, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and dozens of walls of buildings already damaged by Israeli bombardment collapsed, injuring people, some of them seriously. Civil Defence and municipal crews say they could not pump out the water or open drainage channels because of fuel shortages and broken equipment. About ten rainwater suction trucks have been held at the crossings for a year as the occupation blocks their entry, and by August municipalities said they had received no fuel for their heavy machinery since March. Diesel has become so scarce and expensive that generator owners have resorted to burning cooking oil.
This is the fourth winter Gaza’s displaced have spent in tents, and a year into the ceasefire the Israeli occupation still restricts the entry of tents, tarps, caravans and building materials. “Don’t make us say that our blood didn’t move you to act,” Basal says. “So how are these scenes supposed to move you?”
Source: mahmoud_basal88 (IG)
No surprise from companies whose entire business model depends on reckless driving and ADA violations
An older woman was struck by a rented e-bike on Taraval Street between 39th and 40th avenues this afternoon. She was treated for a minor knee injury and taken to a local hospital. I’m wishing her a smooth recovery.
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Good. The death penalty should be abolished
Breaking News: California Governor Gavin Newsom spared the lives of everyone on death row in the state, commuting the sentences of 548 prisoners. nyti.ms/4zu9I2f
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Jeffries being speaker would be similar to Pelosi becoming speaker. She rhetorically opposed the invasion of Iraq while pushing the lies that made it happen. As she was positioning herself to be speaker, I challenged her in 2004 (this is at @PressClubDC which I am now banned from for confronting Schumer):
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For those too young to remember, not only is Glenn right about this, but Obama further enshrined Bush's worst civil liberties transgressions. And even took them a step further with extra-judicial killing.
In 2006, Dems won a massive midterm victory due to anger over the Iraq War and Bush's unpopularity.
The assumption was they'd end the war. Pelosi's first act when elected Speaker was to say they won't defund the war: in part due to cowardice over the political fallout, in part because so many Dems ideologically opposed ending the war, in part because they wanted to run in 2008 with the Iraq War still ongoing to help them win the WH.
Does anyone think the Dems will now use control of the Senate and House to just de-fund the war, as they clearly have the power to do?
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One of a million ways establishment institutions try to marginalize candidates fighting for positive change:
Media outlets don’t even publish our photos, effectively un-personing us. @NBCNews
