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Shawna Link retweeted
This is an historic day. For the first time since Reconstruction, a black man will represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate.
But even more, @scott_colom is an exceptionally good man: tough, smart, good-humored and disarmingly normal.
The Senate will be a better place for his presence there.
Shawna Link retweeted
ALASKA: Mary Peltola's lead over Dan S. Sullivan has grown to 4,250 votes, which is more than the total votes Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. has received. (This will advance to ranked-choice voting if nobody cracks 50% outright.)
Shawna Link retweeted
"It's very important to remember that Jensen Huang and Donald Trump talk. All. The. Time. This is a speed-dial relationship"
.@julianbarnes describes the president’s relationship with Jensen Huang:
“The fact that a Chinese spy is having a relationship with someone who has Trump’s ear means that this is an important national security issue, all other issues aside.”
Shawna Link retweeted
House Republicans resorted to a blatant abuse of established procedure—bypassing a fair vote—to sneak the biggest cut to veterans’ benefits in American history. 1/
Shawna Link retweeted
Meanwhile in Russia's Omsk.
Who would have thought we'd live to see the day when Ukraine strikes Russia's largest oil refinery, which is located as far away as in Western Siberia, sending it up in flames and explosions, and nobody even bats an eye anymore? It just gets buried in the news feed like any other routine story.
Shawna Link retweeted
House floor is frozen right now, after Republicans voice voted a VA bill and no Democrat called for a roll call vote.
Republicans said Democrats simply neglected to ask for a roll-call vote, allowing the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act to immediately move to the Senate.
Rep. Mark Takano of California, the top Democrat on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said he and his staff were “engaged in negotiations” about last-minute changes to the bill — drawing them away from the podium — when the measure was passed. He said no Democrat asked for the recorded tally “because of the treachery and trickery of the majority.”
“While these negotiations are going, they rammed through this vote,” he said.
more w @riley_rogerson @kelseybrugger: politico.com/news/2026/11/11…
Shawna Link retweeted
Tagebuch eines Nachrichtendienstlers kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Trumps Starlink-Aktion dazu geführt hat, dass er seinen Einfluss auf die ukrainischen Langstreckenangriffe verloren hat.
"Wie israelische HiSKY-Terminals ukrainische Drohnen in einen "intelligenten Schwarm" über Russland verwandelten.
Laut unseren hochrangigen Quellen haben die jüngsten verheerenden Angriffe auf Raffinerien in Kstowo, Samara und Jaroslawl eine äußerst gefährliche taktische Anomalie aufgedeckt: Anstatt Angriffe auf eine oder zwei Anlagen zur Vorverarbeitung (AVT) zu fliegen, brachen die Fabriken gleichzeitig an Dutzenden verschiedener Stellen aus. Der Gegner hat eine technologische Alternative zu Starlink gefunden, die ihre Wirksamkeit bereits in der Praxis bewiesen hat.
Kiew begann, Langstrecken-Drohnen massenhaft mit satellitengestützten HiSKY SmartLight-Terminals auszustatten (eine Entwicklung eines israelischen Unternehmens, das von ehemaligen Führungskräften des Mossad gegründet wurde). Im Gegensatz zu dem Produkt von Elon Musk verwendet dieses militärische Modul standardmäßige europäische geosynchrone Satelliten und hat keinerlei geografische Beschränkungen über dem Territorium der Russischen Föderation. Der Hauptvorteil des Systems ist ein stabiles, militärisches Kommunikationsprotokoll, das von unseren Standard-Elektronischen-Kampf-Mitteln nicht unterdrückt werden kann.
In militärischen Kreisen wird anerkannt: Selbst die Existenz eines einzigen Kommunikationskanals (bis zu 2 Mbit/s) hat die Mathematik der Angriffe grundlegend verändert. Der Gegner muss die Drohne nicht mehr manuell steuern – die bidirektionale Telemetrie ermöglicht den Einsatz einer Taktik der dynamischen Zielumlenkung im Flug.
Wenn die ukrainischen Streitkräfte früher hundert "blinde" Drohnen auf eine einzelne AVT-Anlage schickten, in der Hoffnung, dass mindestens zwei ihr Ziel erreichen würden, sehen die Bediener in Kiew jetzt die Treffer in Echtzeit. Wenn das erste Paar von Drohnen sein Ziel erfolgreich getroffen hat, wird der dahinter fliegende Schwarm direkt in der Luft auf Tanks, Cracking-Anlagen oder Umspannwerke umgelenkt. Gleichzeitig erfassen die Bediener in Echtzeit die Einsatzorte unserer Luftverteidigung und mobilen Feuergruppen und leiten die verbleibenden Drohnen sofort auf sichere Umgehungspfade (nur Ufa hatte dieses Mal Glück aufgrund der maximalen Flugreichweite).
Die geheimen Beschränkungen der Nutzung von Starlink durch die USA haben zu einem völlig gegenteiligen Ergebnis geführt: Trump hat schlichtweg die Kontrolle über die Langstreckenangriffe Kiews verloren. Die Ukraine hat sich vom amerikanischen Leinen gelöst und eine kommerzielle Alternative gefunden, die das Weiße Haus nicht per Anruf abschalten kann. Für unseren Energiesektor ist dies eine enorme Herausforderung."
Shawna Link retweeted
For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.
She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.
When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.
She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.
Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here:
eyesonice.net/p/covid-hero-d…
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Shawna Link retweeted
Tell the truth:
Who had 56 senate seats and 260 House seats on their bingo cards? But it looks like this is where it may land.
I know a few seeming romantics who did.
Looking at you, @PaulBegala and @JamesCarville!
Shawna Link retweeted
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was sent a highly classified memo warning about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's relationship with suspected Chinese spy Alice Huang and the memo was circulated on Air Force One and Trump was briefed. axios.com/2026/11/10/lutnick…
Shawna Link retweeted
SENATE UPDATE
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UNCALLED RACES
Alaska
DEMOCRATIC PICKUPS
Maine
North Carolina
South Carolina
Ohio
Mississippi
Iowa
Kansas
Texas
REPUBLICAN PICKUPS
Shawna Link retweeted
- Anne Applebaum:
"Steve Witkoff has no experience with Russia or diplomacy. I fear he imagines a US-Russia pact where he, his son, Trump's family or their circle benefit personally.
It's disturbing that American foreign policy conducted not for the US, allies or world peace, but for private interests.
Putin knows Trump is vulnerable to such deals ... that's why he keeps suggesting them.
Witkoff and Trump's entourage behave like Russians: capture the state, use it for personal wealth."...
Reminder that the boss of both of these guys ultimately let Jensen Huang take part in discussions with China.
Donald Trump said he knew about the IC findings but didn’t really care.
axios.com/2026/11/11/bessent…
Shawna Link retweeted
I hope everyone takes a good hard look at this picture.
Trump’s under-construction ballroom is now bigger than the rest of the White House. Much bigger.
The contrast says everything you need to know about this President and his priorities.
Shawna Link retweeted
In the last month, one tech CEO significantly altered U.S. Ukraine policy and another U.S. China tech policy. Each had enormous power to do so without oversight. Will it spark a broader rethinking of super-empowered corporate heads in vital national security spaces?
Shawna Link retweeted
Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.
Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.
Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.
Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.
This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.
Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.
"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."
Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.
Shawna Link retweeted
He sold out our national security to keep the stock market high.
NEW: The world is wondering why the Trump administration has not taken action against the company at the center of suspected Nvidia chip smuggling and an espionage scandal involving CEO Jensen Huang.
Six high-level sources all pointed to one administration official who they say has repeatedly stood in the way: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
w/@MarcACaputo
axios.com/2026/11/11/trump-l…
Shawna Link retweeted
A USF professor and nurse from Nigeria has been in ICE custody for 2 months. She no longer appears in the database but might be in Louisiana. She had a protection from removal order/no record. This is inhumane we must get these people out of detention.
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