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NEW: Abdul El-Sayed raised *$2.4 million* on Sunday — shattering the campaign’s single day fundraising record.
Average contribution of $36.74 from more than 65,000 donors, per campaign.
29,602 people donated for the first time.
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@Mpolymer any thoughts on this info from Lynx?
Major Update: Hegseth, Emil Michael, and Musk Helped Russia Cripple Ukraine and Destroyed Our Most Valuable U.S. and NATO Space Asset in the Process by Turning Our Most Expensive Defense Contract Into an Early-Warning Tripwire Endangering U.S. Troops and Allies Entering Iran Round 2 $SPCX $TSLA Trillions of Dollars Burned
Earlier this week, we proved how SpaceX throttled Ukraine's air defenses (-23% hits; 2,000 European-funded counter-Shahed drones grounded) while a SpaceX Starlink alert pinned U.S.-licensed, NATO-allied radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit for 40 hours.
Today, we release the rest of the orbital and RF audit. What happened during and after those 40 hours is a five-alarm national security failure:
1. The Silent ASAT Kill Over Ukraine: You do not need a missile to destroy a multi-billion-dollar U.S. and NATO reconnaissance architecture. When SpaceX's Oct 15 conjunction alert suppressed X36's avoidance burn by 96.6%, Russian inspector satellite COSMOS 2612 locked at 640 meters for 40 hours (22-25 orbits). That close hold gave Russia a 616,000x (+57.9 dB) stronger signal to capture X36's radar waveform and pulse-timing parameters - burning the asset's operational anonymity in a single weekend.
2. Inverted Into a 66-Second Gulf Tripwire: Immediately after the 40-hour hold ended on Oct 18, COSMOS 2612 maneuvered into X36's exact orbital plane trailing 502 km (66 seconds) behind it. Armed with the close-range calibration, Russia's narrowband receiver can now cue X36's pulse timing from 502 km away and alert Iranian ground jammers and mobile launchers across 22 passes over the Strait of Hormuz and 26 passes over Prince Sultan Air Base. Sister radar satellite ICEYE-X37 is now bracketed by COSMOS 2611 and 2613.
3. Entering Iran Round 2 With Empty Magazines and No Guardrails: The U.S. is preparing for Round 2 against Iran with only 3.7 to 5.5 Patriot raids of usable depth left above the global reserve floor (after holding NATO PURL Patriots meant for Ukraine). Because Iranian strikes on Bahrain knocked out forward pier reloading, U.S. Navy destroyers must steam 14-18 days round-trip to Diego Garcia to reload VLS cells - leaving warships off-station 74%-86% of the cycle. Firing Joint Staff J-5 planner LTG Brett Sylvia 24 hours before the White House Iran strike briefing removed the statutory officer (10 U.S.C. 153) who enforces global reserve limits for Taiwan and NATO.
4. What This Means for Oil and Refined Products: Administration claims that Hormuz escorts have "stabilized" energy markets are a mirage. Because the U.S. Navy lacks the VLS depth to protect all shipping, coalition escorts prioritize crude tankers (13.5 mb/d) while refined-product flows through Hormuz have collapsed by 81.2% (-2.92 mb/d). Worse, pressuring Ukraine in Oslo to pause Russian refinery strikes and easing Russian sanctions backfired: it increased Moscow's fiscal room to fund its military while Russian satellites surge passes over U.S. Gulf bases (9.8/day) - and it did nothing to fix the global diesel/gasoil and clean-freight squeeze.
Full 3-Page Institutional Audit Brief:
* Page 1: Orbital RF Compromise and the 66-Second Gulf Tripwire (June Solo Evasion vs. Oct 15-18 40-Hour Pin and Oct 30-Nov 16 CENTCOM Pass Ledger)
* Page 2: Joint Munitions Depletion (57.7x-77.8x Daily Patriot Burn; 13.8-18.0+ Destroyer VLS Magazines Expended), the 14-18 Day Diego Garcia Reload Bottleneck, and the Statutory J-5 Purge
* Page 3: Where the Readiness Deficit Prices - The -81.2% Hormuz Refined-Product Collapse, Clean Tanker Freight (TC20/TD28 = 1.51x), Prompt Gasoil Backwardation, and Why Russian Sanctions Relief Backfired (Alpha Calibration Complete | OQD Gate Locked -> No Order Fired)
Economic Framework: Craig Pirrong, Ph.D. (@streetwiseprof) | Data & Forensics: RAB (@libertylynx)
Link to full brief in reply.
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🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has DISMISSED Trump’s defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal over its reporting on his alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein.
The judge dismissed the case WITH PREJUDICE, meaning Trump cannot simply refile the lawsuit in the same court.
In a major First Amendment ruling, the judge rejected Trump’s argument that his denials should have prevented the newspaper from publishing its reporting, warning that such a standard would run afoul of the Constitution.
The judge also described the Journal’s reporting as a “thoughtful and detailed investigation” and concluded that Trump’s defamation claims “lack merit.”
The judge left open the possibility that Trump could be ordered to pay the newspaper’s attorneys’ fees.
Trump can appeal, but for now, this is a major legal defeat.
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A vote for Mike Rogers is a vote for a national abortion ban. Let me say that again. A vote for Mike Rogers is a vote for a national abortion ban.
Sweet: “when the rally people called, he said yes”
The guy who compared a Trump rally to Jonestown on live Fox News was invited by the Trump campaign. They called his work phone on Monday and asked him to come.
His name is Tom Hoyle. He's 57 and runs a small custom printing shop in Charlotte called MadPark Designs with his business partner. He's hated Trump since 1989, back when he was a sophomore in college. And he really, really doesn't like getting sales calls on the shop line, from anybody.
So when the rally people called, he said yes. He even signed up with his real name and contact info, because he wanted it on the record that they invited him.
Then he had to get through the door. A private security guy asked him straight up if he was a Trump supporter. Tom told him he supports the Constitution, then started talking about his shirt, which was for an old death metal band called Death. He kept going about the history of Florida death metal until the guard gave up and let him in.
His plan going in was honestly pretty juvenile. He and a buddy he grew up with figured he'd wait a few minutes into the speech and yell something filthy.
Then a Fox News reporter, Lucas Tomlinson, found him standing off by himself and asked if he could interview him live. Tom thinks a white guy with a big beard and a ball cap was pretty much exactly what they were looking for.
He told himself he wasn't going to cuss on national TV, so he made it up on the spot. He says the first line and then just waits. The reporter goes "Wait, the Jonestown Massacre?" and that's when he finishes it.
He told The Handbasket he picked that up from Billy Crystal, who said on Letterman back in the '80s that you always let the other guy set up your punchline. Tomlinson set it up for him perfectly.
A few minutes later some men who said they were Secret Service pulled him aside. He asked if this was about the concession stand, because it closed early and he was starving. They didn't love that and walked him out. On his way out he passed the guard from the front door and told him, hey man, you didn't vet me too well.
Think about how many people had a shot at stopping this. The campaign's call list found him. The signup form had his name. A guard questioned him to his face. A Fox crew put him on live TV. Every one of them took one look at the beard and the hat and filled in the rest.
That's how almost all of this screening works. Asking somebody what they actually believe takes time, and looking at them takes a second, so everybody just looks.
The one check that actually caught him came after he'd already said it on national TV.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I did not do the Jeffrey Epstein investigation alone. I had the support of @MiamiHerald —it’s then executive editor, Mindy Marques; and these two incredible journalists, investigations editor Casey Frank and visual journalist Emily Michot. Thank you to all the courageous victims who shared their stories with me, and to those on the Pulitzer Board who made this honor of a lifetime happen. #pulitzerprizes
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Oh, this should do it. Any chance we can get these three to all the battleground states before Tuesday? I’d hate for Republicans to miss out on this kind of help.
Our Turning Point Action team joined forces with @ScottPresler to knock on doors in Manchester, New Hampshire today for @SununuSenator and @DiLorenzo4NH .
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“Nearly one in 10 adults hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection died in the hospital or within 30 days of discharge, according to a CDC analysis of eight RSV seasons.” medpagetoday.com/meetingcove…
maybe crippling optimism
“I am optimistic this is going to go well,” Sean Locke, who heads the NH Attorney General’s Election Law Unit, said in an interview last week. “I suffer from maybe crippling optimism. But we have no indications that anything should kind of go awry.” nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-10-26/…
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Critics love to say that twenty-year-old American Marines on New Year's Eve liberty in Japan only care about partying.
On December 31, 2016, four young U.S. Marines were walking in Yokosuka when an SUV plunged five stories off a garage.
The vehicle slammed upside down onto the pavement with a Japanese family of five inside. Eight local bystanders and two U.S. Navy Sailors pulled on the doors, but the crushed roof jammed the steel shut.
Waiting ten minutes for hydraulic rescue jaws meant the children trapped upside down inside the compressed cabin would suffocate or bleed out.
Marine Lance Corporal James Flores shouted that they had to flip the heavy vehicle upright by hand, and Lance Corporal Raheem Gilliam used the Japanese numbers he had just practiced in his barracks to unite the crowd.
"Ichi, ni, san!" Gilliam roared.
Four Marines, two Sailors, and eight Japanese citizens locked their fingers under the twisted frame and deadlifted the SUV upright in one heave.
The Marines crawled into the glass, pulled two young Japanese boys out alive, and used their Combat Lifesaver training to stop the bleeding until ambulances arrived.
Walking to the emergency room afterward to get his own cut hands checked, Gilliam did not brag. He quietly called Oklahoma just to tell his mother he loved her.
Honor needs no translator when good men lift together.
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Must read thread 🧵
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🚨 9 DAYS TO GO!
📣 #NEWHAMPSHIRE Dems need help!
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Donate today! #Blue26
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2/ woman living in a car with a bunch of cats in a parking lot. How much coaching did Vivek have to give her? Did she even remember she had a daughter? It’s bad enough for @VivekGRamaswamy to take the side of a child rapist over his victim just to save his dying campaign.
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Thread from a reporter for a conservative (and news-breaking) NH outlet, kept out of the Kamala event
🧵I report for @NewHampJournal, New Hampshire's only right-of-center political news publication. I've covered @AndyBeshearKY, @ReverendWarnock, @MikieSherrill and @GavinNewsom, who happily answered my question.
And here's what it's like covering @KamalaHarris in New Hampshire
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How cool is this!
Today is a mathematical date we won't see again for 78 years.
10/24/26
10² + 24² = 26²
It's called a Pythagorean Triple Day. There are infinitely many Pythagorean triples, but only 12 dates this century satisfy the equation.Today is the last.
Next one: March 4, 2105.
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Most people know Dr. Peter Hotez from his television appearances during COVID, his defense of vaccination, and the relentless attacks directed at him on social media.
I know Peter as a friend. And I want to tell you about another part of his life that rarely enters those arguments.
For more than four decades, Peter has devoted much of his scientific career to diseases that afflict some of the poorest people on Earth. Diseases that cause enormous suffering but attract relatively little commercial investment because the people who need treatment often cannot afford to pay for it.
Hookworm. Schistosomiasis. Chagas disease. Leishmaniasis.
These are hardly household names. Their victims rarely make headlines, and the scientists working on them seldom become celebrities.
Peter chose this field long before COVID, long before the cable news appearances, and long before strangers began calling him a pharmaceutical industry shill.
His career deserves a closer look.
Because the work tells a story that is almost entirely absent from the accusations made against him.
god help us
“the student has no family and lives in a group home for adults with developmental disabilities.
After the agents released him, the student walked to school, crying and in pain. His teacher saw him and dialed 911”
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