📊Data analyst by trade, political scientist by mistake. Fluent in democracy, sarcasm, and spotting dictators from a mile away
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PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Only 54 days remain before The No Tax Dollars For Terrorists Act expires in the Senate. This bill would stop U.S. cash shipments to the Taliban. It has been stalled in the Senate for two years. Tell your Senators to bring it to the floor for a vote. I am grateful for your support.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
As wild as it gets. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi is accused of helping direct from a New York jail a failed plot to attack #RAF #Fairford.
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DOJ unseals indictment charging 3 #Iran-backed operatives over a foiled September 2026 plot targeting RAF Fairford, the #UK base that hosted US B-1 bombers.
- Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a dual Iranian-Iraqi national, already jailed in New York on prior Kata’ib Hezbollah material-support charges, allegedly used coded messages in recorded phone calls to family to direct two others.
- They are Mohsen Mohajeri (#IRGC-linked Iranian) and Mohammad Ali Al-Hassani, national of #Iraq.
- They were in Iran while directing the Fairford plot and coordinating with Al-Saadi via coded messages.
- Prosecutors say the group arranged surveillance, vans fitted with fuel barrels, chemical accelerants, and metal for shrapnel.
- UK police stopped the vans near the base on Sept. 26–27. US bombers were later withdrawn.
- Eight men were arrested in total in relation to the case and two have been charged under the National Security Act 2023.
- Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24 (British national from London): charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service (police believe this is Iran).
- Nouman Essghir, 24 (British national from London; dual British-Iranian in some reports): charged with entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK.
- The charges are part of a broader case linking the Al-Saadi, Mohajeri, and Al-Hassani to nearly 20 alleged attacks/plots across Europe and the US on behalf of IRGC/Kata’ib Hezbollah networks.
- Many of the European attacks were claimed by Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (#HAYI), which the DOJ describes as a front for Kata’ib Hezbollah. Al-Saadi has pleaded not guilty to earlier counts. justice.gov/opa/pr/three-ira…
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
U.S. Army Member Arrested in Britain on Suspicion of Spying for Russia... A reminder that our adversaries never relent and are tireless in targeting us!
I always comment with foreign and U.S. media that any U.S. service member of ANY rank or position is a major recruitment "scalp" and win for Russian intelligence, or for the Chinese for that matter...and most of our NATO allies fit that profile as well.
Access to classified is not a pre-condition, the Russian services consider this and every U.S. military espionage case a WIN!
⚠️Our adversaries never let up and press their intelligence outreach via social media...when they are not busy honey-trapping our CEO's!
Kudos to the FBI and Army Counterintelligence! And please consider my Tradecraft Brief on my Substack for more insights on Russian, Chinese and other espionage against us...
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PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
The Trump administration moved to cut millions of Americans from the nation's largest food assistance program: bit.ly/4kJTGfV
Under the proposed change by USDA, nearly 18% of SNAP recipients, roughly 6.3 million people, would lose their benefits.
ALT A sign reads "EBT Accepted Here" next to a display of oranges and apples. Overlaid text reads: "New Trump Admin. Rule Could Take 6.3 Million People Off Food Assistance."
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨#BREAKING: MULTIPLE FATALITIES reported in a vehicle-pedestrian incident in North Hollywood, California.
According to the Los Angeles Fire Department, the incident occurred around 5:55 p.m. near 5350 N. Lankershim Boulevard.
Three people have been pronounced dead at the scene. At least three additional patients are in critical condition and are being transported by LAFD paramedics to local hospitals.
One vehicle was reportedly involved.
The exact circumstances of the incident remain unconfirmed...
🚨#BreakingNews/#NorthHollywood: Los Angeles City Firefighters are working a mass casualty incident involving a vehicle crash on a sidewalk in the 5300 block of E Lankershim Blvd. LAPD has already requested 3 canopies.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨HOLY SH*T: Mark Kelly just showed Tulsi Gabbard a Trump email to donors promising he’d let them in national security briefings for cash.
"Do you think (his) supporters should be able to pay and receive private national security briefings?"
Gabbard: …
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
A spa and waxing company valued at just $3 million walked away with nearly $40 million in federal Ebola contracts. Months earlier, an investment fund tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had put roughly $30 million into its struggling parent company, XWELL, rescuing it from the edge of bankruptcy.
The CDC handed the firm’s XpresTest unit an $18.8 million deal for Ebola screening at American airports. The State Department added $20 million for outbreak response work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded in the country has killed more than 5,000 people this year. XpresTest has never worked with Ebola and has never operated overseas. Even its own CEO told ProPublica he is not sure the company can do the job.
Experienced organizations like Save the Children and the International Medical Corps were right there, with decades of outbreak response behind them. Instead, the money went to a company whose new contracts quietly boosted the price of its pending sale, a windfall that flows back toward the fund tied to the president’s sons.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Her background “smells like a legend to me, which is what we do in the CIA,” said Dennis Wilder, a former top China analyst for the CIA, who questioned whether parts of Huang’s résumé were embellished. “This is all a little too mysterious,” Wilder said. “If she weren’t under suspicion, why take everything down?”
The phantom life of Alice Huang, alleged Chinese spy who had affair with Nvidia CEO wapo.st/3UQEHqa
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Don Jr., who appears to be very high, thinks that Russel Brand was unfairly sentenced for 10 years.
He thinks the rape charges are BS because the allegations date to the 90s. He says they charged him because he's a conservative. Sounds familiar?
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
While Alice Huang was having an extramarital affair with Nvidia CEO, her husband Kang Wei was behind the scenes supporting her fundraise and secure chips. This was a family project, which also involved her sister.
He was her former boss at a private equity firm that she joined after a meteoric rise in finance, having first started as an assistant to a senior executive following a journalism career.
Lots more details, including on Kang Wei’s stock market violations and fall from grace at the @FT
ft.com/content/3238d92b-4074…
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
I was in the pool on that trip to China. Here are my pics from the refuel in Alaska where Jensen Huang boarded Air Force One. He flew via his private jet to Anchorage to join the trip
NEW: Trump was told aboard AF1 en route to China but before he picked up Jensen Huang about the US intelligence about the Nvidia chief and a woman assessed to be a Chinese spy @jonathanvswan @julianbarnes @AnaSwanson me nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/po…
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Trump consistently ignores intelligence from his own agencies (often obtained at substantial risk) when it just doesn't suit him or his enterprises. National security be damned. And you wonder why we continue to find ourselves behind the curve on crucial foreign policy issues.
"Trump was told aboard Air Force One in May en route to China that the U.S. had obtained sensitive intelligence showing Nvidia’s chief executive was in a relationship with a woman believed to be a Chinese spy...The message was delivered by Marco Rubio."
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PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
So a new book lays out the financial and covert road map used by Kushner to push MBS', MBz's and Bibi's personal agendas. Kushner was paid by foreign nations to go against U.S. policy and keep murderers close to the White House. What's happening in Abu Dhabi now is no different.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Wesley Clark makes the point that the US can't help Ukraine while the entire Trump family has their tongues deep in Putin's ass.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Let’s put this talking point to bed right now.
Holding Pete Hegseth accountable is NOT damaging our military or the men and women who serve.
Quite the opposite. It’s standing up for them.
Accountability is not an attack on the military. It’s a responsibility of leadership.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is speaking live from the Pentagon, calling Representative Thomas Massie's move to impeach him is "a political spectacle" and a "farce" saying that Massie is trying to do damage to "this President, this country, and most irresponsibly, the warriors who defend it" while laying out his accomplishments.
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
NY Times: "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently moved out of his home and onto a military base after Iranian threats against his life, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. U.S. officials concluded in recent weeks that Iranian plotting against current and former American officials had reached a more advanced stage, based in part on intelligence about threats to Mr. Bessent... The severity of the threats to him is unclear. Iran’s ability to carry out large-scale attacks in the United States and other territories overseas is limited, U.S. officials have noted. But there have been specific, targeted threats made by Iran against individuals that U.S. officials have deemed serious... Mr. Bessent is the latest senior Trump administration official to leave a Washington-area home for a military base or other protected housing. At least half a dozen did so last year, including Stephen Miller, now the White House chief of staff, and Pam Bondi, then the attorney general. The administration has not disclosed the scope of the threats against top officials, not all of which involve Iran. In Ms. Bondi’s case, it was said to relate in part to an uptick in threats she received after the United States military snatched the former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from a hide-out in Caracas..."
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/po…
PNWNic 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
New: American contractors have been gathering data in the frigid Beaufort Sea for a natural gas project off Alaska’s coast. But the CEO of the firm resigned, claiming it’s all a Russian ploy to gain control of Alaska’s natural gas reserves. propub.li/4j9XJks
