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BREAKING — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced the closure of major regional offices in Philly, LA and Chicago, per email shared with me. “5 alarm fire,” SEC employee tells me. Full email text:

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🇺🇸🚫 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, - The Record

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America’s withdrawal from Ukraine appears to be moving to warp speed now.

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These people are so deluded

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Remember: the televised punishment & humiliation meted out to Zelensky just now could be done to any NATO ally facing similar aggression. The sense of sneering hostility & contempt by Trump & Vance isn’t specific to Ukraine.

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This was 1000% a planned ambush by Vance, for Vance's own ugly personal and ideological reasons. This is now being claimed by "muh insiders" but is frankly obvious already just from watching the video and knowing a bit about Vance.

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Not that Gabbard would actually care about, “how do we keep intelligence operations in China secure” or “what is the North Korean angle putting troops on the ground in Russia” but firing employees because Chris Rufo told me to is on brand

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that he keeps talking about this and just does not give up on it is really uh not good

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/1. Russian oil refiner on Tuapse was targeted by drones tonight. Two drones targeted the territory of the enterprise. As a result, part of the ELOU-AVT-12 was damaged. The crude oil pipeline was also damaged.

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Leaking internal chats from the intelligence agency that spies on the spies?

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I fear there are going to be a lot more stars on this wall four years from now. I hope I’m wrong.

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“In the US Department of Agriculture, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ah yes, the unrealistic timeline of Cyberpunk 2020

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TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here? JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply? JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the 3rd anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The US envoys have reportedly objected to the phrase "Russian aggression" and similar descriptions that have been used by G7 leaders since 2022. www.ft.com/content/7380...

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An Islamic State plot was dismantled in a Moroccan Special Forces raid at dawn. Eight cities were raided (!). Morocco prepares for the inevitable with the rise of African Islamic State and pressure on Morocco itself from IS affiliates. The plot was serious. #Morocco

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NEW - The IRS is expecting a "purge" today of probationary employees, agency sources tell me. In a video posted last night, a National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) chapter president warned staff to download all their documents ASAP because other agencies only gave workers one hour to leave.

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NEW: We compiled and confirmed a list of some of the top people working inside the govt under the banner of DOGE. We even uncovered a DOGE-branded chatbot on one of the employees’ personal websites. As always, reach us if you have a tip or know what’s going on. ✌️ techcrunch.com/2025/02/18/t...

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REPORTER: Have you decided what the auto tariffs rate should be? TRUMP: It'll be in the neighborhood of 25 percent REPORTER: And what about semiconductors and pharmaceuticals? TRUMP: It'll be 25 percent and higher

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FOX: We're hearing that Russia wants to force Ukraine as a condition for a peace deal. Is that something the US would support? TRUMP: We have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law...the leader in Ukraine, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4% approval

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US President Trump says the Russians haven't fully destroyed the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, because they don't want to "shoot too many rockets in there." He added that if they wanted to, "it would probably happen very quickly."

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A cloud of black smoke rising over the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, following a Russian attack with Shahed-type long-range OWA-UAVs tonight.

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Well, here we go….https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/17/trump-cia-mexico-cartels/

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"European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics and perhaps further west, leaving the EU vulnerable to a Russian army that Nato governments warn is preparing for a larger conflict beyond Ukraine." Oof. @gideonrachman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/11f1...

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i think we are a few weeks to a few months away from finding out what a true mass panic looks like in a shattered and broken information environment

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One of the most horrifying stories to come out of this war of extermination. I posted the Hebrew reporting a few days ago, here it is in English. www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...

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new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE

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www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Low pass by a Ukrainian Air Force F-16AM Fighting Falcon on a strike mission. Armed with 8x GBU-39 SDB glide bombs, 1x AIM-9X Sidewinder, 1x AIM-9L Sidewinder, and 2x AIM-120C AMRAAMs.

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Idle thought. What meaningful counter terrorism work has the us government done in the last 3 weeks? With the chaos in the FBI, etc, I’m guessing it’s probably pretty low right? How long until ISIS tries the door handle and finds it’s unlocked?

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🇰🇵🇷🇺 | North Korean M-1989 Koksan 170mm self-propelled howitzers on the Russian side of the frontline.

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JUST IN: Elon Musk's DOGE team is aiming to cut 8% from next year's defense budget, officials tell NPR.

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Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

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A drone hit the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine early this morning, per the IAEA. The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement unit caught fire and was damaged, but the IAEA reports the inner structure was not breached and radiation levels have not risen outside.

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Holy shit. This is fucking nuts.

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Russians attacked the shelter of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

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NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

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1-2 Trump says he would sit down with Putin and Xi and agree to cut defence spending by half and cut nuclear arsenals. Trump also bashes Taiwan for having "taken" America's semiconductor industry and says he wants it back. Pre-emptive surrender for a concert of the great authoritarian powers.

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The DOJ is imploding because Trump gave them an openly corrupt order and it's radio silence from the Democratic Party and most media.

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another of Assad's Captagon labs geolocated on the border with Lebanon google.com/maps?ll=34.5...

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US President Trump: "GREAT TALKS WITH RUSSIA AND UKRAINE YESTERDAY. GOOD POSSIBILITY OF ENDING THAT HORRIBLE, VERY BLOODY WAR!!!"

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