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Iowa City: Nov 3rd vote NO on letting the county spend 94 million for a bigger jail. The current jail could be completely redone for 1/5th that. Crazy that while our school district is considering closing 3-5 schools for funding reasons we would entertain such a wasteful proposal
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Why in the holy fuck are multiple cops pulling weapons on someone *accused* by a rando of shoplifting diapers. It says a lot about cop culture this happened. And even more pathetic the AG says “legitimate shooting!” None of it is ok. Law enforcement culture is broken.
Bodycam footage of the police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley has leaked through Dark Horse Press.
Mississippi DPS claimed the Senatobia officer who fired the fatal shot feared for his life. His bodycam has not been released.
Background: mississippifreepress.org/pol…
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"The number of marine animals plummeted by about 60% in the years following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion...and those populations haven’t come close to recovering, the study found."
Marine life dramatically declined in Gulf of Mexico in years after BP oil spill, study finds apnews.com/article/fish-dead…
What are the specific ways that Israel is an ally of the United States? I understand that the U.S. is an ally of Israel: we fight many of their wars with them and now even without them, in the case of Iran.
And I understand that Israel provides the U.S. with intelligence, but according to our own intelligence community, that intel is often flawed and is shared to advance Israel's geopolitical interests. It's not them helping us.
Is Israel helping us in Ukraine? Helping us counter China or any of our other goals? In fact, they routinely share sensitive tech with China and Russia despite our pleas not to. Genuine question, how are they an ally?
He says Israel is NOT our ally. NOT our ally. Look, hate Netanyahu all you want, oppose the current Israeli government all you want, but if you don’t believe Israel is our ally, you don’t belong in the U.S. Senate. No Jew in Michigan who supports the state of Israel should vote for him. He just plain hates Israel. Fuck him.
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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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Trump's net worth has skyrocketed by billions of dollars since he retook the White House mostly driven by his crypto scams. Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of America and it's not close. JD Vance's comments here are utterly preposterous and embarrassing.
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-Patriot interceptors delivered to the US Army over 225 months (Sep 2001–May 2020): 1,795
-Patriot interceptors fired in the Iran War’s first 7 months (Feb 28–Sep 30, 2026): ~1,800

ALT US fired 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptors in 7 months. One line shows the cumulative number of PAC-3/MSE interceptors delivered to the US Army from September 1, 2001 through September 30, 2026. The other shows the estimated number of PAC-3/MSE interceptors fired by the US Army in the Iran War, from February 28 through September 30, 2026. The estimated 1,800 Patriot interceptors fired in the Iran War exceeds the 1,795 delivered to the US Army from September 2001 through May 2020. Data: Army procurement budget materials (P-21 schedules, fiscal years 2001 to 2027); media reports. Chart and analysis by Stephen Semler.
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U.S. job numbers keep getting revised lower, per Bloomberg.
Since the start of 2025, initial jobs reports have been revised down in 16 of 20 months, cutting a total of 793,000 jobs.
That’s an average of nearly 40,000 jobs a month that were reported, then quietly erased.
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Asked about the Iran War's effect on defense stocks, Lockheed Martin CEO says: "Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it's permanent."
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They are burying Gaza
This is what the US did to the Natives
This is extermination, genocide and replacement
Some IDF renovation work going on in Rafah, Gaza.
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This video was not filmed in Rafah. It was filmed in Jabalia.
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X has suspended the account of academic and researcher @MujammaHaraket whose writings and translation projects about Palestine are essential historical works that fall clearly within the public interest. This ban should be reversed immediately.
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MAGA men beating a woman publicly to protect a pedophile is quite an accurate microcosm for America 2026
Every time you think the MAGA cult can't get any more disgusting, they find new ways to surprise you.
A woman wearing a "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES" shirt at the rally was violently beaten by several men.
The woman was then thrown out of the event, after which Trump berated her about her weight and referred to her as a man. Nobody was arrested, and the guys who beat her were cheered on.
MAGA is just a bunch of pedophile supporters who have no problem beating up women.
one day you’ll all realize great thunberg sacrificed her entire youth for a better world she might never see and she’s barely an adult. meanwhile the adults in her world can’t even be bothered to imagine it, let alone fight for it. brave soul.
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US-owned steel plant with a plant in Middletown OH begins mass layoffs amid Trump tariffs:
In a memo sent by Cleveland-Cliffs to workers, the company explicitly linked the move to Trump's steel tariffs on Canada, which it said had "significantly shrunk the market" for its products.
yahoo.com/news/us/articles/u…
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Cleveland-Cliffs' layoffs (up to 500 workers) are at its Stelco plant in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, due to US tariffs on Canadian steel imports. Its Middletown, Ohio plant has no such layoffs and is receiving a $1B upgrade investment.
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Is there a reason for the complete death of kids media? Like growing up we had 3 juggernauts pumping out great shows. No wonder kids are addicted to slop, they have nothing else to watch
































