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Quick refs for Russia’s genocidal acts in Ukraine:
- multiple independent reports have demonstrated that Russians have raped, murdered, tortured, and kidnapped Ukrainians, including children.
- western countries have accused Russia of genocide in Ukraine
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Another note for SpaceX attorneys and PR: There was no need to issue an alert at all. Your own internal data showed a safe 2km pass. But you issued a 400m collision alert anyway. Why? Because the alert itself is the weapon. Issuing it triggered FCC Cond 16, legally freezing ICEYE so it couldn't dodge. STARLINK-35856 didn't use its auto-evasion. It just parked there and kept the false alarm blaring while Russia sprinted in. It wasn't an accident.
SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses
The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see.
On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior)
Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable.
The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran.
SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon.
$SPCX $TSLA
Our full quantitative analysis below w/ @streetwiseprof
And people say MAGA isn’t a white nationalist project?
Also, he’s lying… an arab mathematician won the Fields Medal (not “prize” lol), multiple arab people have won Nobel Prizes, and the Wolf Prize as well.
Finally, yes, arabs write literature. Wtf is he smoking? 🤣
Stunning and brave, the invertebrate POTUS saved the ᵣussian war effort by dumping cash in their lap, stealing interceptors, throttling Starshield, and cutting ballistics early warning from the victims of ᵣussia’s genocide. Stop resisting, he screamed as he killed 🇺🇦 civilians.
Ukrainian drones struck a chemical plant in Russia, damaging the country's largest titanium production facility. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦
Both sides can inflict extraordinary damage on each other, and neither side can win. Two million military casualties, 30,000 Russians lost per month against recruitment of 27,000, Ukrainian civilians hit on 22 out of 30 days in September. Continuing to fund a war where both sides are bleeding out at catastrophic rates with no path to a decisive outcome is not supporting Ukraine, it is sentencing Ukrainians to die for a stalemate.
President Trump understands that, and history will record that he was the one who acted on it while everyone else was funding a war that can't be won.
Marcus the Joyful Bastard retweeted
Apparently the embassy that called Vučić and told him its over and he should concede was ...CANADA
MARK CARNEY COME TO SERBIA, WE'LL MAKE YOU A STATUE
Marcus the Joyful Bastard retweeted
Elon Musk says he wants to save russian conscripts. Then he should understand how the russian empire produces them.
russia crushed Chechnya. Now Chechen men are threatened, kidnapped and forced to fight russia's next war.
russia occupied Crimea. Now Crimeans are conscripted into the russian army.
russia occupied Donbas. Then Ukrainian men were rounded up and forced to fight against their own country.
The Buryats, an indigenous people absorbed into the russian empire centuries ago, are dying disproportionately in russia's war against Ukraine.
Even in Abkhazia, under russian military influence, young men with russian citizenship face the threat of conscription.
This is how empires work.
They conquer territories, subjugate their populations, turn them into military manpower, and use that manpower to conquer the next territory.
The cycle repeats.
Every new russian conquest creates another population that can be exploited for the next war.
If Elon Musk genuinely wants to save russian conscripts, he should focus on stopping the imperial expansion that keeps producing them.
Because the people russia conquers today become the soldiers it sends to conquer someone else tomorrow.
Marcus the Joyful Bastard retweeted
Oh nothing to see here.
Just the former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center spending time with not one--not two--but THREE members of the Russian psyops "supergroup" we exposed in September.
The stated objective of MKNE is to wage information warfare through the "family of podcasts" that shape American opinion.
@JoeKent do you even know what MKNE is?
Marcus the Joyful Bastard retweeted
Czech President: Trump And Putin’s Diesel Deal Derailed The Peace Process
Czech President Petr Pavel stated that a truce between Russia and Ukraine was “very close” — until White House head Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel fuel.
The Czech president said this in an interview with the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, which includes Politico.
Pavel noted that coordinated US and European sanctions on Russian oil, oligarchs, and other industries had put Russia “in a difficult position.”
However, the deal Trump announced earlier this month, under which Russia is to supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel to the US, gave the Kremlin “room to catch its breath.”
“Now it’s going to be much harder. Russia is using this momentum to get out from under pressure, and it’s a kind of moral boost for it,” Pavel is convinced.
On Wednesday, the White House stated that Trump “successfully negotiated” this deal to provide the global market with “huge volumes of diesel fuel and lower prices.”
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Russian mercenaries have turned African farmlands into rape sites, massacred villagers to seize gold, and tortured those who speak out. I’ve documented the crimes. They had me arrested and tortured for it. I won’t stop. Help me continue. Please donate
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How brave of him to demand one side surrender their sovereignty to a genocidal, imperialist invader. Wow, what a humanitarian. Of course this is just sophistry. Ukrainians don’t want to be at war, they have no choice b/c they were invaded & occupied. ᵣussia can stop at any time.
Very, very funny to describe the BC conservatives as MAGA. If they even joked about being pro Trump they would have been crushed in the election. They’re not the least bit MAGA friendly. Being pro-MAGA is about as popular as being pro-cancer up here.
Liar and he knows it. Starlink terminals are used within the StarShield network. Standard Starlink service won’t work at the speeds required. The midrange strike drones are on StarShield even if the hardware terminal on the device is Starlink.
Read this and remove the content farming from your smart tv. It has likely been hijacked by national security actors to profile and selectively target individuals. The era of easy to process mass data is here so assume malign actors are working everywhere.
If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be blocked in <15 min, wrote a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
xitter.cf/log4j/status/211376224…
It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/chart-of-t…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/new…
Marcus the Joyful Bastard retweeted
“On Feb. 5, 2025, her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, dismantled the department’s unit pursuing Russian oligarchs’ assets, and narrowed enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. CISA paused its election security work, abandoned the information sharing center that connected it to state and local election officials, and by mid-2025 had lost more than a third of its workforce. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard gutted the Foreign Malign Influence Center, the State Department closed its office for countering foreign disinformation, and National Security Council working groups on Russian sabotage and disinformation stopped meeting.
The next target was the people. In August 2025, Gabbard revoked the security clearances of 37 current and former officials, among them a senior Russia analyst who helped produce the 2017 assessment, citing the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence.” Comey was indicted on Sept. 25, 2025, over his 2020 Senate testimony, five days after Trump publicly demanded his prosecution. A judge dismissed the case, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is currently hearing the department’s appeal. CIA Director John Ratcliffe referred former Director Brennan for prosecution for alleged perjury in his congressional testimony, and Brennan has been subpoenaed to appear at a Florida grand jury examining whether officials who investigated Trump conspired against him.
The purge also reached below the senior level, and analysts who worked on the 2017 assessment also had their clearances stripped. The FBI forced out a veteran counterintelligence agent over his ties to an official in the original Russia investigation, and dozens of FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors were fired or demoted for work investigating Trump or Russia.”
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MAGA influencers are pouring into Serbia to defend Aleksandar Vucic's Russian-backed regime, and their pitch to American audiences is a barrage of lurid claims about Western Europe. Churches supposedly turned into mosques. Bacon supposedly banned. Rape gangs supposedly everywhere.
THE POLITICAL PURPOSE
Sell Americans an ugly caricature of Europe. Then use that fear to drive a wedge between the US and its European allies. Serbia becomes a stage for the same culture-war performance MAGA exports wherever it sees a friendly government under pressure.
THE NUMBERS THEY CANNOT SPIN
On 25 October, Polymarket's "Serbia Parliamentary Election Winner" market puts Student List, Students Win at 54% and Vucic, United Serbia at 47%, with more than $5.9 million traded. Those are betting-market odds, not election results or a voter poll. But they do put the opposition ahead by several points despite the influencer push to prop up Vucic.
A useful overview of ᵣussia’s recent history of using Serbia as a proxy to create chaos in the Balkans. 👇This is the new political wedge country chosen by the ᵣussian-MAGA alliance.
As American MAGA influencers pour into the Balkans to support Russian-backed regimes, here's a primer, as to what they're actually promoting and a preview of what Russia plans for the region.
In the 1990s, Serbian nationalist leaders, backed by arms and diplomatic support from Russia, sought to create a 'Greater Serbia' by seizing territory across the former Yugoslavia.
Their forces carried out systematic ethnic cleansing against Croatians beginning in 1991, Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croatians from 1992, and later Kosovo Albanians. The campaigns involved massacres, detention camps, mass expulsions, and property seizures, culminating in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
NATO finally intervened militarily against Bosnian Serb forces in 1995 and against Yugoslav forces in 1999, helping bring an end to these campaigns.
Laundering the image of Russian-backed regimes in the Balkans is just a small part of Moscow's plans, and they are putting the band back together.
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‼️ Les jeunes 🇫🇷 devraient méditer ces mots :
Zelensky :« Il y a des enfants 🇺🇦 en âge d’aller à l’école qui n’ont aucun souvenir significatif d’un pays en paix. Ils savent reconnaître les alertes aériennes, où se cacher pendant les bombardements, et ce que signifie perdre quelqu’un qu’ils aiment.
Ils n’ont jamais choisi cette guerre. Ils n’ont rien fait pour la mériter. Et pourtant, ils grandissent avec la conscience qu’un missile ou un drone 🇷🇺peut mettre fin à leur vie sans le moindre avertissement.
Quand un enfant est tué, sa famille perd tout ce qu’il aurait pu devenir : les anniversaires, les amitiés, les moments ordinaires de la croissance. Un avenir entier disparaît. »😔💔
— Président Volodymyr Zelensky✨
God damn I love the AFU. Brilliant. There’s no way in hell Trump even knows half the words needed to explain why this is just as bad as a burning refinery. 😂
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Ukrainian Nobel laureate Matviichuk: Russian occupiers abducted a woman for her pro-Ukrainian views. They tortured her and gang-raped her multiple times.
Then they took her to Russia and fabricated criminal charges against her.
I met her five-year-old daughter. She hugged me, started crying and begged: "Please return my mom."
I'm a human rights lawyer, but I have no legal tools to force Russia to return her mother. I felt broken.
I hugged her and promised we'd fight for her mother until she returned home.