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Let's acrually think about this.
Russia, right now is trying to destroy Americas allies and Europe.
And someone dressed their children up like this. The boy in a russian military uniform and cap with a USSR badge and a real russian unit patch on his arm.
The patch is passed Halloween cos play. The tank patch matters not to the child, it mattered for the adult that stuck it on him.
Why not a patriotic USA military uniform? Why not dress as someone who won American independence?
The decision to send a child for a photo op with the president, dressed as people who are committing genocide in Europe is nothing but political trolling.
America, you are being laughed at by your enemies.
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Insane scene in North Hollywood….ICE Nazis kidnapping people in broad daylight and one takes out his gun pointing it at man walking his dogs….ICE needs to be abolished and all these thugs need to be rounded up at charged for all their crimes!
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The sad post-consumerist wreckage of the Jamestown Mall in St. Louis, Missouri, now demolished. Walking through a place that was probably thronging with people in 1985 or so can be a surreal and utterly depressing experience.
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Stanford University student Elsa Johnson became a target of the Chinese Communist Party in 2024.
Elsa attended a private school as a child with a heavy focus on foreign languages and became fluent in Mandarin Chinese while still in elementary school. Years later after she was accepted to Stanford, she studied international relations and researched Chinese industry and military tactics while working at the Hoover Institution on campus.
She soon came to the attention of members of the Chinese Communist Party, which has a heavy presence at Stanford and throughout Southern California. There are currently more than 1,000 Chinese students attending Stanford each year, and the university has received more than $64,000,000 in private donations from Chinese individuals and organizations since 2010.
In June 2024, a man claiming to be a fellow Stanford student named Charles Chen contacted her online. She was not initially suspicious as they had many mutual associates, and his photos and posts appeared to be centered on campus. But his questions and requests quickly put her on edge as he invited her on a paid trip to China. And he seemingly knew details about her that she had never shared with him.
When she tried to disengage with him, she began receiving threatening phone calls by Chinese speakers. Elsa contacted Stanford administrators and the FBI, who told her Charles was likely affiliated with the Ministry of State Security, had been posing as a Stanford student for years, and had targeted at least ten other female students since 2020 in a similar manner. They also told her she was under physical surveillance on campus by the Chinese Communist Party.
Elsa wrote articles in the Stanford Review and The Free Press about Chinese influence on campus, and in March 2026 testified about espionage threats on college campuses before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
For episode 270 of the Spycraft 101 podcast I spoke with Elsa about being targeted by a foreign government right in the middle of a US college campus. The episode is available now.
#stanford #college #student #china #hooverinstitute
open.spotify.com/episode/6KO…
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TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER
Fashion icon Emilio Pucci aka Emilio Paolo Pucci dei Marchese di Barsento, survived Gestapo torture to help Edda Ciano (Mussolini’s daughter) smuggle her husband’s diaries to Switzerland. Provided his own report to Allen Dulles of the OSS Allen Dulles.
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This photo shows “Basket Jim” Sainsbury, winner of the ‘All England Bushel Basket Carrying Championship’, an event that occurred intermittently from 1906 to 1939 in celebration of Covent Garden fruit porters’ skills in balancing baskets.
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Britain has put a temporary export bar on a 4,000-year-old stone battle-axe.
The Scarthingwell battle-axe head came out of a field near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire in the winter of 1974. It is speckled diorite, polished smooth, about 12 cm long, with an elegant waisted shape.
It was made around 2050 to 1850 BC, as Britain shifted from flint to metal. The committee’s expert says it would have taken hundreds of hours to craft.
Museums have until 22 December 2026 to raise £15,000 and keep it in the country.
ALT Two views of the Scarthingwell battle-axe head, a 4,000-year-old polished speckled stone axe with a round shaft hole and waisted profile.
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Satisfyingly self-referential: 200-year-old fragment, (“Wild Rose”) of two men in a boat on the Thames in Oxfordshire, found #mudlarking today on the #Thames #foreshore. The scene shows a ferry crossing near Nuneham Park (the seat of Earl Harcourt)
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Does anyone think it’s a little funny that there’s no way to report an account for being a bot account.
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Sheesh, no wonder the night skies appear to be less starry than when I was a kid. The entire Eastern half of America and Canada is lit up like a 24-hour truck stop.
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Hunebedden zijn prehistorische grafmonumenten, gemaakt van enorme zwerfstenen. Tijdens de voorlaatste ijstijd, zo’n 150.000 jaar geleden, voerde het landijs deze stenen vanuit Scandinavië naar Nederland. Toen het ijs smolt, bleven ze achter. 1/5
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Keppel’s Column at Wentworth Woodhouse S Yorks.
Designed by John Carr the Column is 115 feet high and was commissioned in 1773 by Charles Watson-Wentworth to commemorate the acquittal of Admiral Augustus Keppel following a courts martial at the Battle of Ushant. #Yorkshire
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“This simple bone plaque is unusual. It was made by a Viking in the image of a Viking, offering a rare chance to see how they viewed themselves on an object that was probably meant to be worn” 866-1066, Yorkshire Museum, ‘Viking North’ exhibition
