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Jessica McGuire retweeted
Rogan nails something the health world gets wrong.
Junk food isn’t the enemy. Pretending it’s food is.
Doritos are mouth pleasure, not nutrition. Eat them knowing that. A bag during a movie now and then? Zero problem. A bag every day? That’s when it makes you sick.
And that’s exactly where most people are. According to the CDC, ultra-processed foods make up about 55% of the calories Americans eat, and close to 62% for kids.
The occasional treat isn’t the problem. Junk becoming the default is.
Jessica McGuire retweeted
A year ago yesterday, I wrote: “AI didn’t take your job. Offshoring did.”
A year later, I have even less patience for the corporate explanations.
In 2022, it was overhiring. Then restructuring. Now it’s AI and efficiency. 🙄
Companies are still eliminating positions in the US while building out similar capabilities offshore…
Of course AI is changing the workforce. But it’s also become a remarkably convenient explanation for decisions that were being made long before generative AI entered the conversation.
I’d pay considerably more attention to the workforce data than the corporate narratives.
Despite the intense ridicule, Nickelback sold over 50 million albums worldwide and Billboard named them the most successful rock group of the 2000s. They maintain a large, loyal fanbase that views the hatred as unearned musical snobbery.
In hindsight, many have asked was rock n' roll, heavy metal, and gangsta rap all part of psyops ran by the intelligence agencies?
“I think they purposefully dialed down the ability of rock stars to have a voice in the culture,” said Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins) on the suppression of rock in culture since the late nineties.
It was replaced by rap, an era in which the likes of Dr. Dre rightfully dominated, but then the entire bubble burst as music went digital.
It's incredible how much we've lost.
Jessica McGuire retweeted
For those of us, myself very much included, who are frustrated and angry about the complete lack of accountability for the lawfare abuses of the past decade, let me use the case of Andrii Telizhenko to illustrate just how firmly the deep state remains entrenched and how difficult it is to fight back.
A few months ago, I traveled to an undisclosed location to meet Andrii. He was, and remains, in fear for his safety. It was an altogether sobering experience, but also, in a strange way, an uplifting one. I spent two days with Andrii, listening to his full story, and came away absolutely convinced that he was a genuinely good man who had been telling the truth all along. What struck me just as much was his faith, which had somehow sustained him through a very dark period of his life, a period that, unfortunately, continues to this day.
After the Counterlawfare Institute aired our interview in July, I was contacted by someone who told me that there were official government documents that totally vindicated Andrii. I was also told that the people involved would make every effort to get those documents to the public, but that there were numerous impediments standing in the way, or what the government likes to call "equities."
It was incredibly frustrating. Here was an innocent man whose life had been destroyed by deep state lies. Documentary evidence existed showing that he had been telling the truth all along and that he had been deliberately set up. Yet somehow, getting that evidence into the open required navigating an elaborate bureaucratic process, while the man whose innocence it established remained trapped in the nightmare those lies had created.
Today, that truth finally came out, thanks to John Solomon, who persisted in pushing for the documents to be released, and, of course, President Trump, who appointed John in the first place.
Now, you might reasonably ask why any of this should be so difficult. President Trump was elected by the American people, and if he wants documents exposing government abuses released, why shouldn't they simply be released?
I agree entirely.
The problem is that just because the president wants something done does not mean it will happen. Even with Trump in the White House, there are still incredibly delicate games of bureaucratic Jenga that must be played, both with and against the deep state, just to get the truth into the public domain.
I wish it were otherwise, but unfortunately, this is the reality we are dealing with.
And the most disturbing lesson is that things will get worse. Trump is the most determined president in American history when it comes to exposing government abuses, yet even he must navigate a minefield of obstruction built from a century's accumulation of rules, regulations, and bureaucratic procedures that the deep state has mastered and relentlessly exploits.
As of this morning, the abuse against Andrii is documented on the official White House website, and yet there is still no guarantee that he will be freed. Just think how insane this is. The White House can publicly expose an injustice, and the machinery responsible for perpetuating it may still prevail.
And if this is how difficult it is to obtain justice under President Trump, imagine what happens when he is gone.
I'm not a fan of @SenatorSlotkin's recent comments or her framing of the issues, but in 2021 she supported a bill introduced by then Senator Abigail Spanberger.
"It is the sense of Congress that... diagnoses and determinations to treat personnel, dependents, and other appropriate individuals experiencing symptoms consistent with such injuries should be made by experienced medical professionals and made available by the Federal Government."
Did you catch that, @SecRubio @MarkWarner @FBI?
OTHER APPROPRIATE INDIVIDUALS.
It's an acknowledgment the CIA knew or at least highly suspected directed-energy weapons have been used to target more than CIA's own personnel and direct dependents. And if we are going for full transparency here, then we should acknowledge the civilians the CIA and DoD *made* dependents after years of gross misconduct and criminal negligence after real felonies occurred.
Funny, I never saw nor knew about this bill at the time. @MarkSZaidEsq
congress.gov/bill/117th-cong…
The Ukraine-Russia nexus:
While Clarabridge was headquartered in Reston, Virginia, before its $1.1 billion acquisition by Qualtrics, the company outsourced much of its software engineering and technical design to professional teams in Ukraine.
They accomplished this through partnerships with established IT outsourcing firms, such as EPAM Systems, which maintained dedicated development teams for Clarabridge out of their offices in Ukraine (including Kyiv and Dnipro).
Multiple senior developers, architects, and technical team leads operating in Kyiv worked directly on Clarabridge’s AI-powered conversational analytics, scalable search, and sentiment analysis platforms.
During the intense unrest of the Euromaidan Revolution in late 2013 and early 2014, the software developers in Kyiv faced profound personal disruptions, but their industry, technical infrastructure, and day-to-day employment remained largely resilient.
Client data for Clarabridge was hosted on cloud networks or servers outside of Ukraine, meaning code bases and deployment pipelines were never physically threatened. Power and internet grids in Kyiv stayed online during the revolution.
The tech community in Kyiv—largely comprised of young, Western-facing, educated professionals—overwhelmingly supported the Euromaidan movement's goal of European integration. Many developers balanced their day jobs with revolutionary activities:
• Local tech workers built live-streaming networks, coordination maps, and encrypted communication channels to help protesters navigate police movements.
• It was very common for software engineers, QA leads, and project managers to volunteer at the Maidan camp after work hours or during weekends—distributing food, working in field hospitals, or standing on the perimeters.
The true crisis for the developers began immediately after the revolution succeeded in late February 2014, when Russia retaliated by invading Crimea and sparking the war in the Donbas.
The interim Ukrainian government initiated national military call-ups. Some tech workers volunteered or were drafted into the Ukrainian Armed Forces to defend the country.
While Kyiv settled into relative stability after 2014, tech companies began proactively offering developers options to temporarily or permanently relocate to safer western Ukrainian cities (like Lviv) or neighboring European countries (like Poland) to guarantee delivery to American clients like Clarabridge.
In fact, the resilience shown by Ukrainian developers during 2014 solidified Ukraine's reputation as a highly reliable global tech hub, allowing teams to continue building software for Clarabridge all the way up through its 2021 sale to Qualtrics before the full-scale 2022 invasion.
EPAM is a global software firm originally founded by Belarusian-Americans, with vast tech hubs spanning Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Russia. Because outsourcing vendors often assign developers across shared, cross-border technical architectures, individual ethnic Russian software engineers or contractors routinely staffed projects alongside their Ukrainian colleagues.
At its corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia, Clarabridge hired a diverse pool of local and international AI, data science, and linguistic experts. Like most major American tech firms in the Washington, D.C. area, this internal talent pool included immigrants and visa holders from all over the world, including Russia, who relocated to work natively in the United States.
Federal projects involving sensitive, non-classified data or strict compliance frameworks require domestic, U.S.-citizen delivery. EPAM manages this by employing localized, domestic engineering talent operating out of their North American facilities—such as their main corporate office in Newtown, Pennsylvania—to ensure strict compliance with federal oversight while restricting foreign nationals from accessing restricted codebases.
Protesters relied heavily on open-source, civilian tools. They used public Facebook groups and Twitter hashtags (#Euromaidan) - the very public data that Clarabridge software captures via its API connectors.
While Clarabridge itself didn't actively run any public investigations, any major global airline or travel company that was a paying Clarabridge client would automatically ingest that data into their dashboard.
Clarabridge software was hooked up directly to massive firehose feeds of public internet data. It constantly scraped:
• Social Media: Public tweets, Facebook comments, and blog posts mentioning the airline's name or flight numbers.
• Customer Touchpoints: Direct emails, customer service chat logs, and help-desk tickets.
• News & Forums: Travel forums (like FlyerTalk) and mainstream news comments.
The core natural language processing (NLP) algorithms—the very ones built by the engineering teams—were designed to automatically categorize text based on sentiment and volume spikes.
The system would sound an automated alarm because the volume of mentions for keywords like "protest," "embassy," "lies," "safety," or "missing" would skyrocket past normal baseline levels by thousands of percent.
Clarabridge scored text sentiment on a scale (typically -5 to +5), so the system would automatically flag an influx of highly negative, high-intensity emotional text, moving it to the top of corporate dashboards.
The people reading this data would be the Crisis Management, Public Relations (PR), and Customer Experience (CX) teams working internally at the airlines.
Airlines flying into Ukraine used social data to gauge whether passengers were panicking about flight safety over Kyiv, allowing them to proactively update booking cancellation policies.
So while the EPAM developers in Kyiv were just building the engine, the engine itself was actively processing the chaotic, real-world data of those historic protests for the corporations using it.
BAE Systems (one of my Clarabridge clients in 2013) had no footprint during the actual street protests of late 2013 and early 2014. However, the company became profoundly impacted by the long-term geopolitical shift triggered by the Maidan Uprising.
BAE Systems reacted directly to the military needs of the post-revolution government and opened an official domestic office and established a local legal entity right in Kyiv. They signed extensive framework agreements with the Ukrainian Ministry of Strategic Industries to localize the production and repair of 105mm Light Artillery Guns and spare parts directly within Ukraine.
Using direct battlefield data from their assets in Ukraine, BAE Systems upgraded their indirect Fire Control Systems (FCS). They built new AI target identification algorithms directly into their platforms to instantly process data from frontline reconnaissance drones, allowing field operators to automatically reconfigure and adjust artillery fire within seconds.
And in March 2014, the MH370 crisis completely transformed how multi-billion dollar brands viewed risk management. Airlines and telecoms realized that a single PR disaster could erase hundreds of millions of dollars in corporate market value overnight.
This macro environment drove intense corporate demand for "Omnichannel Conversational Analytics".
Executive teams who previously viewed social listening as a luxury suddenly classified it as a mandatory risk-mitigation tool. Clarabridge used this momentum to rapidly expand its enterprise market footprint across the transportation, retail, and financial services sectors.
This steady scaling of enterprise clients and processing power ultimately proved highly lucrative. By the time the company reached 2021, its AI-powered text and voice analytics framework generated roughly $100 million in annual revenue with a 25% year-over-year sales growth rate.
This continuous valuation growth allowed Clarabridge’s founders and venture capital backers to execute a massive exit, selling the company to Qualtrics for $1.125 billion in stock. A $1.125 billion acquisition price gave them an 11.2x revenue multiple.
For an older SaaS company founded in 2006, securing a double-digit multiple on trailing revenue is incredibly efficient, especially considering they had only raised about $125 million in total venture capital prior to the sale.
Sid Banerjee (Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer and a former MicroStrategy executive) co-founded Clarabridge and served as CEO for a decade before moving to Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. Holding founder-level equity for 15 years made him one of the largest individual winners of the deal.
Even after subsequent venture rounds diluted early ownership, Banerjee held the largest slice of non-institutional equity at the time of the sale. Summit Partners and General Catalyst were the institutional winners.
My "UFO Contact" incident occurred in mid-November 2013, shortly after Clarabridge received $80 million Series D round on September 10th. By January, my then track coach had spoken to HR told me to look for another job, believing they were going to fire me - as HR did in mid-March 2014 against the wishes of my boss.
Jessica McGuire retweeted
they’re calling it “Black October” and i don’t think people realize how serious this is
in the last 48 hours there have been over 27 major cybersecurity incidents. not in a month. not in a week. in 48 hours
any ONE of these would normally be the biggest story of the year
PHP: critical vulnerability in the software running 80% of the web. severity 9.2 out of 10
Node.js: high-severity flaw letting attackers take over servers remotely. affects versions 22, 24, and 26
Java: also compromised. three of the most used programming languages on earth hit at the same time
GitLab: a perfect 10 out of 10 severity hole in every version since 2014
Railway: hosting platform compromised. API keys for OpenAI, Claude, Stripe potentially exposed
Signal: a bug that could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker’s keys and planted backdoors on websites
LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
and that’s not even half the list
thousands of AI agent swarms are reportedly scanning and attacking vulnerable servers right now. automated. around the clock
security researchers are saying this might be the early stages of a global cyber incident that nobody fully understands yet
if you run a website, use cloud services, store API keys on hosting platforms, or use any software built on PHP, Node.js, or Java you are potentially affected
update everything. rotate your API keys. change your passwords on critical services. enable 2FA everywhere you haven’t already
this is not a normal week on the internet. this is something different
Jessica McGuire retweeted
Jeffrey Tucker just declared the Covid era “shattered” the idea that government serves the public interest.
He admitted that he’s been forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about the “relationship between business and government” since 2020.
“It was revealed unto us just to what extent [corporations] are tied so intimately with government.”
“I’ve had many people tell me… when you see corporations becoming ever more powerful and exploitative, the answer is to turn to the public sector.”
“That view has also been shattered as people on the left saw what government was doing.”
“Stay-at-home orders.”
“Violations of free speech.”
“Even violating religious freedoms.”
“Freedom of association and travel, and so on.”
@jeffreytucker @DrPatrickNewman
Jessica McGuire retweeted
Liberation Times has previously reported details of alleged undersea UAP retrieval missions.
Among those allegedly involved are the Maritime Branch of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, the U.S. Navy, the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (jointly operated by the Navy and CIA), and the United States Special Operations Command.
liberationtimes.com/home/cia…
"His scheduled appearance [before the grand jury] was postponed, and a new date has not yet been publicly set."
John Brennan made no secret of his political agenda. It's not illegal for a former CIA officer or employee to support political candidates.
But prior to leaving office, Gabbard filed a criminal referral directly implicating Obama, over what she described as a "years-long coup and treasonous conspiracy against the American people".
"I think they do not want to talk about Jeffrey Epstein," Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly told reporters last year.
Or perhaps no one wants to talk about how the CIA knew Anomalous Health Incidents happened on U.S. soil as early as the fall of 2013, and how AHIs involve AI.
It matters because the CIA has long thought Russia is to blame.
Prominent national security attorneys, such as Mark Zaid, have publicly testified before Congress and filed legal actions alleging the CIA has crossed the line into obstructing justice by withholding AHI documents from sister agencies and downplaying the role of foreign adversaries.
If a CIA official lies under oath or intentionally hides evidence of a crime from Congress, that is illegal.
The tension over whether the government's "no credible evidence" stance is actually true has caused massive internal friction.
Under the National Security Act of 1947, the CIA is legally authorized to engage in deception, counter-intelligence, and information operations to protect "sources and methods."
Legally, the CIA does not owe the general public absolute transparency regarding ongoing national security threats or classified assessments. Issuing a public report that downplays a threat or masks the truth is viewed as an exercise of executive branch discretion.
But if officials intentionally suppress, shred, or alter intelligence reports to prevent internal watchdogs (like the ICIG) or federal courts from discovering the truth, they can be prosecuted for obstructing justice.
Since some officials HAVE obstructed my ability to speak with the FBI, Congress, or the VA governor's office while I lived in Virginia, I have taken it to the court.
DEVELOPING: Embattled Obama CIA Director John Brennan was scheduled last Thursday to finally testify before a federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Fla., as the "subject" of a criminal conspiracy against Trump, however, the interrogation was inexplicably postponed ... developing ... Brennan remains a "target" in a separate but related D.C. perjury investigation
Jessica McGuire retweeted
Another important release of historical records. Previous CIA Directors, including Gina Haspel, who was personally involved in destroying records, sought to sweep these events under the rug. Thanks to @CIADirector’s unprecedented commitment to greater transparency, Americans will better understand this period in American history.
Jessica McGuire retweeted
🚨 NEW: For the @WSJ, @Hartz_PhD and I expose the ideological takeover of the American Psychological Association.
The APA is facing the possible loss of its federal accreditation authority following allegations of widespread antisemitism.
But while the APA's antisemitism problem is serious, it's only a symptom of a much deeper ideological rot.
The organization has become so captured by radical left-wing political activism that its commitment to scientific objectivity competence is now in serious doubt.
We examined the program for this year's major APA Division 39 conference, which drew nearly 800 attendees and held 90 panels over four days.
By our count, roughly 70 of the 90 panels were overtly political, and always left-wing. Topics included abolishing the family, queer anarchist psychoanalysis, dismantling gender assessment guidelines, and white supremacy. One session even concluded with a drag show.
There was at least some hope that the threat of losing federal accreditation might prompt some institutional soul-searching. It didn't.
Instead, APA members just elected Candice Hargons as their next president. Her campaign identifies "systemic intersectional oppression" as the profession's "common enemy" and calls for rejecting the traditional scientific notions of objectivity.
Psychologists wield enormous influence over vulnerable patients, and the people seeking treatment deserve the peace of mind knowing that the care they're receiving care is evidence based and not tainted radical politics.
We believe most would agree that federal accreditation should actually mean something. If the APA cannot distinguish its scientific mission from its political activism, the Education Department should reconsider whether it deserves the government's endorsement as an authority over psychological training.
Read our full essay in the Wall Street Journal below:
🔗wsj.com/opinion/the-inmates-…
