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Don't follow the money. I did, and look where it led.
PACT, Inc. An NGO nobody's ever heard of.
I asked @MikeBenzCyber about it. Old CIA front.
Now it's showing up in @DataRepublican's Insurrection files.
In 2023 the USG paid it $375M to destroy democracy.
Funding chain: datarepublican.com/browse/?e…
Read up on PACT: grumpytechbro.com/orgs/pact-…
I used to be normal. – at Oregon, USA
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Yes, I fully agree that Democrats should continue getting as many COVID shots as possible.
No need to stop at one.
Democrats should get multiple boosters too, you really never know!!!
Just go get as many as you can Democrats super important 🙏
1.74M FSD subs is $2B a year in software.
Close to 100% margin.
They're selling cars faster than they can build them.
And over 75% of new North American cars now come with FSD, up nearly 20 points in one quarter.
Now I just have to convince Elon to give a senior discount of $99 minus your age.
xitter.cf/Teslaconomics/status/2…
Growth is back at Tesla. Huge congrats to the entire team on an incredible quarter! 👏
This what stands out to me from $TSLA Q3:
THE FINANCIALS
• Revenue: $28.0B, roughly flat year over year.
• EPS: $0.48 vs. $0.45 expected.
• Gross margin: 19.6%, up from 18.0% a year ago and comfortably above the 17.9% Wall Street expected.
• Automotive gross margin excluding credits: 18.1%, up from 15.4%. Regulatory credit revenue fell from $417M to $113M. The underlying car business is getting more profitable.
• Free cash flow: POSITIVE $1.5B. Wall Street expected NEGATIVE $4.5B!
• Cash pile: $45.4B, up 9%.
CARS
• Production rose +4% to 464,391 vehicles.
• Largest vehicle backlog in four years, with battery supply now the main constraint on more deliveries.
• Record deliveries in Canada, Australia, Japan and Taiwan.
• Record production at Giga Berlin.
• Tesla built its 10 millionth vehicle.
FSD
• 1.74M active subscriptions, up 67% in a year.
• More than 75% of new cars in North America now come with FSD, up nearly 20 percentage points in a single quarter.
• Live in nine EU countries, with 100K+ customers and 160M+ kilometers driven.
ROBOTAXI
• Cybercab has been giving rides in Austin since September 3.
• Nearly 2M unsupervised miles, up 8x in one quarter.
• Austin service now runs from 6 a.m. to midnight.
• Grok is inside Cybercab, letting you handle email, your calendar and tasks by voice while you ride.
OPTIMUS
• Production has started on the high-volume lines in Fremont, building Tesla’s first production-quality robots.
SEMI
• Now in volume production.
• 500 miles of range at 82,000 lbs total weight, using roughly one-third the energy of a diesel truck.
ENERGY
• 13.7 GWh deployed, up 10%.
• Record order rate and backlog.
• Megafactory Texas is up and running, producing Megapacks.
• First Megapacks built using only Tesla’s own LFP cells.
AI COMPUTE
• Targeting 400 MW of training compute by year-end.
• Equipment installation at the Austin chip fab is planned to begin in 2027.
The tradeoff of all this is that operating income fell to $718M as Tesla increased spending on AI R&D. That’s a real cost today, but I’m comfortable with Tesla investing in the future.
Underneath the flat revenue headline we may see from news outlets, FSD subscriptions are growing, Robotaxi is expanding, energy orders are at a record, and Optimus and Semi are entering production. Meanwhile, the vehicle backlog is the largest it’s been in four years.
It looks like to me the next leg of Tesla’s growth is taking shape right in front of us!
Conversation with @grok today: Did you mean AI for SI?
Dude, 14th element. SI is the new thing. catch up. We’re engineers you have to live with our humor as it is.
Ah, Silicon. Ok joke locked in.
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Here's a piece to understand their strategy.
empathy.guru/2026/10/21/unde…
From Data's Insurrection drop:
Orgs 89 → 136
People 95 → 153
Starting the Analysis and then taking the dogs and myself for a walk. – at Oregon, USA
Humility does not come easily to me.
Every week at confession it's Pride, Lust, Wrath.
But spend 30 days alarmed to a hospital bed, held there for 40, and you learn things.
You learn to be nice.
You learn you don't have to be the best at everything.
You learn it's OK to ask for help.
Not a fun lesson.
Then @DataRepublican gave me the data drop for her Insurrection work.
I'm thinking, yadda yadda, I just want a name list.
She casually drops, "Oh, there's an AGENTS.md file."
So I read it.
Wow. So many things I'd never have thought of.
So much care to keep the private private, the public public, and the SI honest.
Awe. – at Oregon, USA
Oil just hit $99.93. Your gas sim already priced it in.
This week's Pump Price build is live with the Oct 16 EIA dock week and today's AAA survey.
Gulf gasoline: $3.394. Gulf diesel: $4.836.
See where your $ goes: pump-price.grok.me
They hid 1,600 names. Then they bragged about the titles.
NSL4A claimed 1,600 members and put three unpaid directors on its 990.
Bare names are a research problem. Which John Smith?
But they had to brag, so they published the titles:
13 cabinet secretaries, 11 deputies, 17 service secretaries, 18 four-stars, 7 senators, 9 House members, 5 governors or LGs.
Those are short lists.
John Howard Dalton is not a mystery. He was Clinton's Secretary of the Navy.
I matched 56 people against those lists, without even asking @DataRepublican yet.
Thanks, commies.
Pride goeth before destruction. Proverbs 16:18.
Adding to the dossier pile. – at Oregon, USA
I use batch mode to save money on the grumpy org takes. (Decided to get started early). – at Oregon, USA
They're underselling this.
This means that most cops are wired into ICE. "Hey, we got a bad guy, come get him."
Cops don't like rapists and murderers, and the sanctuary cities generally have exceptions for serious crimes that they don't want to talk about. – at Oregon, USA
2,246 law enforcement agencies across the nation have active 287(g) agreements with @ICEgov — a 1,564% increase since January 20, 2025.
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“Sydney Sweeney” makes the case for Voter ID.
Prop 39 released a new ad today highlighting what politicians don’t want you to know: California is one of a handful of states that don’t require a photo ID to vote.
Prop 39 is a battle of politicians versus people.
Politicians want you to vote no.
The People are voting yes.
This ad is a parody, but the problem is not.
The politicians want to protect their power and money. We want to give it back to you.
Vote Yes on Prop 39.
Donate: efundraisingconnections.com/…
new folks extracted.
New people: Steve Warnstadt, Bryce Carpenter, Nadine (Freedom Trainers / Beautiful Trouble; no last name), Johanna Wilkie (DRG/ex-USAID), Carl LeVan (American University), Beverly Schreiber (Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy), Tanya Alfredson (Braver Angels, National Deliberation), Sarah B., Xochilt.
New orgs from the participant list: Freedom Trainers, Beautiful Trouble, Team Democracy, Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy, Civil Service Strong, Project 2029, Better Together America, Center for Collaborative Democracy, Democracy Accelerator, Paths to Understanding, Co-Intelligence Institute, Cohesion Strategy, Community-Vision Solutions, plus American University and Mundt’s RealTime DemTrends. – at Oregon, USA
🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 4: YES, MANY ARE AWARE OF THE GOALS 🚨
This one is a thread because there are multiple materials.
On January 15, 2026, Renew American Democracy (RAD), the strategy built around the Democracy Renewal Group's (DRG) ex-USAID democracy officers, held planning exercises for "emergency scenarios" and how it'd affect their "strategic objectives."
RAD's explicit goal is in catalyzing those so-called "emergency scenarios" to manifest "structural reform" - the rewriting of American governance which the previous drops have covered.
RAD/DRG hold the unique role within the wider blocking / protest alliance of defining what the new government looks like, presumably because they are made of ex-USAID officers who have specialized in installing new governments. As @MikeBenzCyber last night said on his stream, these DRG members come from the CIA coup parts of USAID.
It's been suggested that DRG is just a fringe group within the much larger blocking/protest ecosystem. This morning's interim video mentioning Mike Smith disproved that. And PART 4 disproves that further - the wider network is well aware of DRG and that its goal is to secure a new government.
They will dress it in the language that it's Trump who will provoke it, and they're only preventing a true Constitutional crisis. In reality, there's a million ways to interpret what a "red line" is, and many ways to get Trump to cross it. Already, articles everywhere are telegraphing that Trump *will* cross it in the form of the Insurrection Act or martial law, softening us up for the coup ahead.
The materials I'm showing you are from a RAD/DRG-ran planning exercise in January 2026. Groups represented by participants include:
· National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A)
· Freedom Trainers / Beautiful Trouble
· Team Democracy
· Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy
· Civil Service Strong
· Project 2029
· Braver Angels
· Indivisible
· Better Together America
· Center for Collaborative Democracy
· Democracy Accelerator
· Paths to Understanding
· Co-Intelligence Institute
· Cohesion Strategy
· Community-Vision Solutions
One of the working groups concerned "National Deliberations" - which lays the groundwork for structural reforms post-crisis. So every single participant in this forum was well aware the end point is rewriting our governance.
Even more interesting, Tanya Alfredson of @BraverAngels participated in this particular working group - which should give pause to anyone who believes Braver Angels simply wants better dialogue.
As you watch the videos, watch out for the code language they use to hint towards the ultimate end goal.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Why is the USG funding its destruction? – at Oregon, USA
Added: Zoe Marks; orgs PACT, 50501, DSA, Harvard Kennedy School.
PACT is old school CIA, part of the Uniparty ecosystem.
datarepublican.com/browse/?e…
Grumpy Tech Bro retweeted
I'm on disability and I'm too old to do the Nick Shirley thing.
I'm ok with spawning a cottage industry of pissed off taxpayers driving around their town looking at shell offices.
I only wanted the $35K, because I'm bumping into the limits of my laptop, and RAM is more $$$ than I can afford until either my legal case resolves, or the fraud people send me a check.
SI makes it possible for me to do this work, but then makes the cost of RAM high. – at Oregon, USA
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Dishwasher Manufacturers: If you rinse off your dishes in the sink before loading them into the dishwasher, they come out less clean!
This always gets me in trouble. I of course don’t rinse first, because it is a Dishwasher. Right?
Rinsing plates before loading the dishwasher feels diligent. Appliance makers say it is the very reason your dishes come out dirty.
Engineers at brands like Bosch and Whirlpool, alongside detergent makers like Cascade, have spent years advising consumers to stop pre-rinsing.
Contemporary dishwashers rely on internal turbidity sensors—optical eyes that gauge water clarity during the early wash cycle.
When pre-rinsed plates yield clean water, the machine misinterprets the load as lightly soiled, shortening cycle time and reducing water temperature.
Furthermore, the enzymes in modern powdered and gel detergents require food starches and proteins to latch onto; without debris to activate them, the surfactants simply wash down the drain, occasionally leaving alkaline film etched into glassware.
Oh there is more…
Cookware care harbors equally stubborn folklore. For decades, home cooks warned that a single drop of liquid soap would ruin a cast-iron skillet's seasoning. Lodge, which has made cast-iron cookware in Tennessee since 1896, explicitly debunks this in its care manuals.
The prohibition dates to the nineteenth century, when soaps were formulated with harsh lye (sodium hydroxide), a caustic alkali capable of stripping cured oil. Modern dish detergents contain mild surfactants that lift loose grease without breaking the polymerized oil cross-linked to the iron matrix.
A gentle wash with liquid soap leaves true seasoning intact.
A similar misconception surrounds kitchen waste disposers.
Generations of homeowners were told that tossing eggshells or ice down the drain sharpens the disposal blades.
InSinkErator, the inventor and largest maker of food waste disposers, notes that residential disposers do not contain blades at all. The central chamber houses blunt swiveling lugs on a spinning turntable.
These lugs do not slice; centrifugal force hurls food against a stationary outer ring of shredder teeth to pulverize it into a slurry. Eggshells cannot sharpen a blunt lug, and their fibrous membrane often snags in plumbing traps.
Even oven maintenance suffers from well-intended habits.
Appliance makers including GE and Frigidaire warn against lining the floor of an electric or gas oven with aluminum foil.
Modern ovens hide the heating element beneath an enamel floor. Foil traps and reflects radiant heat directly against the base, reaching temperatures high enough to melt the aluminum or permanently fuse it to the porcelain finish.
Grumpy Tech Bro retweeted
Consider this Democracy Files 3.5.
Note in the video that they are pretty confident that a "breakthrough" will happen that gets rid of Trump sometime between now and January 3rd, and Mike Smith allegedly acknowledges RAD's role in writing the government that comes after.
Another drop coming later this morning.
One Putin meeting is the whole news cycle.
Last 24 hours: 1 new, 3 updates, 11 SSDD.
New: Witkoff met Putin in St. Petersburg, called him a "humanitarian" for freeing one American, and Russia agreed to resume three-way Ukraine talks.
Hope this threesome goes better than Cornell's four.
Updates:
France extended curfews after its first calm night.
UK Typhoons are flying patrols over Saudi cities after Houthi missiles killed 13 at the Riyadh airport.
SSDD: California's 28 voting charges, Alberta staying put, Zacharia still gone, Sudan's toll still climbing, and Russia still hitting the grid.
At 50/50, one vote matters, California. Math doesn't care about politics. – at Oregon, USA
📰 Daily Cleaned News - 2026-10-21
**Daily index** — each post quote-tweets the full take (Frame + Observations).
**1 new** · **3 update** · **4 full** · **11 SSDD** · 15 total
new/update = full deep take posted today.
SSDD = same story, not much new — quoting the original take.
**Global**
• G-1. [update] France extends curfews in Paris, Lyon after first calm night post-riots
• G-2. [update] US envoy Witkoff meets Putin in St. Petersburg as Trump pressures Ukraine on deal
• G-3. [SSDD] Abyei market drone strike death toll rises to 220 in Sudan civil war
• G-4. [update] UK to deploy Typhoon jets to help Saudi Arabia defend against Houthi attacks
• G-5. [SSDD] Russia strikes Ukrainian energy grid; Zelenskyy cites no warning
**Domestic**
• D-1. [SSDD] DOJ charges 28 with unlawful voting and election offenses in California
• D-2. [SSDD] Trump signs executive order on women's health research in Rose Garden
• D-3. [SSDD] Ohio emerges as key midterm battleground with competitive Senate and governor races
• D-4. [SSDD] Trump campaigns in Georgia for GOP Senate and governor candidates ahead of midterms
• D-5. [SSDD] Trump ousts White House press secretary Katie Zacharia after five days
**𝕏 Geist**
• 𝕏-1. [new] US envoy Witkoff meets Putin in St. Petersburg; Russia agrees to resume trilateral Ukraine talks
• 𝕏-2. [SSDD] France curfews and arrests continue amid cost-of-living riots
• 𝕏-3. [SSDD] Albertans reject independence referendum in landslide
• 𝕏-4. [SSDD] DOJ charges 28 with unlawful voting in California
• 𝕏-5. [SSDD] Trump says time for somebody else to negotiate Ukraine deal
Quoted posts below.