SleepWalker @AmbigDialogs

“My parents died years ago. I was very close to them. I still miss them terribly. I know I always will. I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about them, are - really and truly - still in existence somewhere. I wouldn't ask very much, just five or ten minutes a year, say, to tell them about their grandchildren, to catch them up on the latest news, to remind them that I love them. There's a part of me - no matter how childish it sounds - that wonders how they are. "Is everything all right?" I want to ask. The last words I found myself saying to my father, at the moment of his death, were "Take care." Sometimes I dream that I'm talking to my parents, and suddenly - still immersed in the dreamwork - I'm seized by the overpowering realization that they didn't really die, that it's all been some kind of horrible mistake. Why, here they are, alive and well, my father making wry jokes, my mother earnestly advising me to wear a muffler because the weather is chilly. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it. So I don't guffaw at the woman who visits her husband's grave and chats him up every now and then, maybe on the anniversary of his death. It's not hard to understand. And if I have difficulties with the ontological status of who she's talking to, that's all right. That's not what this is about. This is about humans being human.” ― Carl Sagan

Words of a patriot.

derek guy @dieworkwear

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When George Washington was inaugurated in 1789, he wore a relatively plain brown frock coat. To the modern eye, the garment may look fancy, but it was relatively constrained for a man of Washington's position. Affluent Americans at the time tended to wear European fabrics, as

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More Bond level villainy from elmo.

Lynx @LibertyLynx

3 days ago

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

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@LibertyLynx @JamesFLoveIV @davetroy

@rep_gray Glad we could be so accommodating. 😐

It’s not just Russia. It’s Putin personally. Novatek is his energy business.

Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC

4 days ago

Russia would apparently get a stake in Alaska gas venture through this deal which @FT reports was discussed during recent meeting to discuss Ukraine at the Kremlin.

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The @GOP must be thrilled that 11 days before elections, we learn that the Trump family secretly orchestrated a deal to allow Russians to drill Alaska in exchange for a $25 billion "investment" funneled through their proxies.

Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge

4 days ago

And another. Trump isn’t just betraying Ukraine to the Kremlin, he’s selling out America too.

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An organized disinformation campaign about Ukraine's Starlink access has dropped on Twitter. The richest man in the world needs bots and paid trolls for validation.

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"Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine."

Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv

4 days ago

US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska. According to investigations by The

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🇷🇺 🇺🇲 SCOOP: A company called Polar LNG presents itself as the "America's Arctic Advantage" project, flag and eagle on its homepage, pitching a plan to buy Russian technology and ship Alaskan gas to Asia. The NYT reports the company's start-up funding, routed through a UAE shell, actually traces back to Novatek, the sanctioned Russian energy giant that was also supposed to supply the equipment. The CEO who ran Polar LNG until September, Joel Riddle, says he was misled about where the money came from. The mechanism matters as much as the deception. Novatek wasn't just quietly bankrolling an American company, per texts Riddle shared with the Times, its deputy chairman discussed wiring up to $15 million directly to Polar LNG's parent, Tech Wave, with the first $5 million expected within days of an August meeting in Abu Dhabi. Two of Tech Wave's own executives previously worked at Novatek running LNG projects. Novatek itself confirmed to the Times it's moving to take a "minority shareholder" position in the project, meaning the same sanctioned Russian company would supply the technology, finance the venture, and own a stake in American gas production simultaneously. This isn't happening in a policy vacuum. Putin personally discussed Alaska LNG with Witkoff and Kushner last month, one thread in a broader set of energy talks that includes the Lukoil sale we covered days ago, also involving Gulf investors with ties to Witkoff and Kushner's business circles. Recently passed sanctions legislation, the Graham Act, specifically names Novatek and its Arctic LNG 2 project. Trump waived the law's Russia provisions last week, framed as necessary to keep peace talks alive. Whether or not that waiver was built with Polar LNG specifically in mind, it removes the exact legal obstacle this deal would otherwise face. Three senior Polar LNG executives have now resigned within weeks of each other, after raising sanctions concerns with the Energy Department. The company's response was to call Riddle a "disgruntled former employee" and claim he was terminated for cause, even though internal documents show he resigned six days before any termination letter arrived. A Baker Botts legal memo attached to his resignation already flagged that Treasury's own sanctions enforcement unit had raised concerns about Polar LNG's Novatek ties before any of this became public. Geoffrey Pyatt, a former Biden State Department energy official, put the stakes plainly: bringing Novatek into Arctic Alaska is bad on environmental, economic and geopolitical grounds, and "feeds the belief that Putin can get an out-of-jail-free card." Ilya Zaslavskiy goes further, calling any Novatek technology transfer a Kremlin attempt to use US energy policy to undermine US policy toward Ukraine. The Times found no evidence Witkoff or Kushner knew about the Novatek financing specifically, only that Alaska LNG came up in broad terms during their talks with Putin. What the reporting does establish is that a Russian sanctioned company spent months quietly building financial control over an American energy project marketed as a patriotic win, while the administration simultaneously removed the sanctions tool that would have stopped it.

US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska. According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary. Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine. The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives. The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia. According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate. The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing. The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company. Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same. ft.com/content/e9cfbf…

This was my favorite. Love

Stink Eye @thestinkeye

6 days ago

If you were in the military, what was the favorite weapon that they issued you? This was mine.

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@JoshuaBarzon Oklahoma is not part of the South in any way.

@LostWeapons Former, certainly not latter imho. The VDV was supposed to be technically and tactically proficient and they got their shit pushed in at Hostomel by reservists. So,…

@toellsnemesis @LostWeapons Not gonna ask if you’ve ever volunteered for service as think I know the answer.

I told you Jared was going to go through some things. vanityfair.com/story/jared-ku…

Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone. They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank. Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.

Ryan Grim @ryangrim

6 days ago

Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews): Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use. Iran-Contra 2 here (except

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@MitchSchwartz71 @RealMNchiefsfan @Conner_DKC He could’ve skirted the sideline and gotten close to #87 which would’ve put him out on the other side of the 25-yard line.

@MitchSchwartz71 Totally agree with you on the lost yards. He obviously was not aware of the opponents on the field relative to himself and the boundary as well as how much time was left. He made a beeline to the sideline to avoid contact.

Everyone should see this. Everything trump does in his administration is beginning to make a lot more sense...