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Steve Wright retweeted
Oligarchs spent $425 million against California's billionaire wealth tax—outraising supporters 250 to 1 on ads. The result: They got a "whopping" 52%.
I've got bad news for these Oligarchs. Your victory is fleeting. We will pass a federal billionaire wealth tax & end your greed.
Steve Wright 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.
Steve Wright retweeted
I’m the grandson of an immigrant who came to America from Jalisco Mexico.
He changed the way we pronounced our family name.
Over time, the culture disappeared. The language evaporated. The stories were forgotten.
No immigrant should have to feel like they need to lose their culture in order to become more American.
Steve Wright retweeted
A security agent for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just warned the reporters here — for Hegseth’s first press conference in 6 months — that we will be physically removed from the briefing room if we are not professional and maintain decorum. We asked if that meant no shouted questions and got no clarity. It’s the first time any of us could ever remember being threatened like this. Shouted questions are normal. “This is crazy town” one journalist said, noting the White House has never threatened reporters like that. We’re in the room, back row:
Steve Wright retweeted
Charge her. Right now. I don’t care what you charge her with. Let’s start with stupidity and work our way from there. But these are the seeds that grow into a 2nd January 6 or civil war and we see it and we’re calling it out for what it is now. Stop spreading disinformation.
Steve Wright retweeted
The Constitution prohibits religious tests for office. Muslim Americans have every right to serve.
A constitutional republic requires respecting everyone’s rights, something these candidates appear more committed to than the Christian nationalists Hibbs supports.
Steve Wright retweeted
Holy mother of fuck! Arrest the entire White House and billionaire backers already this is insane!!
Model IV- Devastating Results: In October, Elon Musk didn't just throttle Ukraine on the ground: SpaceX coordinated with Russia in orbit to freeze ICEYE-X36 so Russia could extract U.S. radar and battery tech, compromising U.S. and NATO satellite sovereignty. Our new 28-page quantitative study, 3-page Executive Brief, and 5-Act orbital animation prove the structural damage across the Western kill chain and global commodity markets. (Pete Hegseth and Emil Michael played direct role. Is the White House complicit? It's hard to see how they are not.)
Since Project CORONA in 1958, Moscow chased U.S. spy satellites for 68 years with zero close-hold successes because Russian radars are blind across 265.1 degrees of Earth. In June 2026, U.S./NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 easily escaped a Russian approach in 60.8 minutes.
68 Years in 41 Hours: How Elon Musk Helped Russia Shatter U.S. and NATO Satellite Supremacy 👇
-The Ground Throttle Failed, Triggering the Orbital Brake: Following the Oct 9 Putin-Trump call and Russian diesel waiver (OFAC GL 135), SpaceX capped Ukrainian military Starshield terminals at 101-161 km/h on Oct 13-14 (-22.98% daily drone intercepts, p = 0.0019). Yet autonomous drones guided by U.S. NRO/NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 struck Rosneft's Ryazan refinery on Oct 15 AM anyway. Hours later (04:15:44Z), SpaceX posted a misleading 401m Starlink collision alert (internal v1-v4 pass: 1.93-2.00 km) to freeze X36 under FCC Condition 16 (-96.64% maneuver drop) while 31,000 Stargaze cameras tracked Russia's COSMOS 2612 sprinting into a 640m hold for 41.4 to 47.7 hours.
-Tech Extraction, Prague Wipe & Finland's Seizure: At 640m (+57.9 dB / 616,068x flux gain), Russia recorded X36's Title 50 1,200 MHz radar template to track both X36 and twin X37 from 500+ km away (+13.85 to +26.86 dB standoff SNR). On Oct 18, COSMOS 2612 timed Stellar Exploration's shared 8S battery 2-orbit thruster lockout (191.12 min), firing its departure burn +0.67 seconds after X36 recharged. Within 24 hours (Oct 19), Stellar cut U.S. ownership in Prague from 85% to 33% (Notice OV12312900) to block DoD audits, SpaceX onboarded Chinese operators into Space Safety (Oct 6 & 16), and on Nov 5 Finland stripped commercial ICEYE of command over its 3 military radar satellites.
-245 NRO Spy Sats Exposed & The 6.3-Min Hormuz Warning: All 245 classified NRO Starshield satellites (348 active hulls) fly in that exact compromised 525-559 km shell (confirmed Oct 28 by Putin on live TV praising orbital coordination with "Mr. Musk"). Perched 66-99s behind X36 on its descending orbit from Ryazan/Kyiv (~08:02Z) to Qeshm Island/Hormuz (~08:09Z) and Diego Garcia (~08:18Z), Russia now gives Tehran a live 4.6-7.1 min blind-spot warning (corroborated Nov 7 at Qeshm) while locking COSMOS 2611 and 2613 onto twin ICEYE-X37.
-Pentagon Enablement, Depleted Magazines & Two Market Shocks: Handed $11.88B+ in CoCo contracts by Sec Def Hegseth and CTO Emil Michael ($5M-$25M xAI sale 72h before seizing Maven and cutting CENTCOM reviewers 16-to-1), unthrottled spring AI targeting and Iranian salvos left U.S. forces with 3.7-5.5 Patriot raids and forced 74%-86% of 5th Fleet destroyers off-station to reload at Diego Garcia (LTG Sylvia fired Oct 28). Market impact splits into two unpooled shocks: (1) freezing X36 cut Ryazan restrikes 76.4% (p = 0.0000337), restoring +122.15 kb/d for GL 135 until Nov 4-5 restrikes stranded 4 diesel tankers; and (2) 5th Fleet VLS reload lag collapsed unescorted Hormuz clean products 81.2% (-2.923 mb/d), driving LR2 TC20 to $21.86M and 4:3 Gasoil/Brent cracks to $85.14-$89.43/bbl.
5-Act orbital animation and 3-page Companion Executive Brief attached. Link to the full downloadable 28-page Sovereign & Market Risk Exposure Report in reply below.
Steve Wright retweeted
Scoop by me
"Bad faith, a deliberate attempt to mislead the Court, perpetuate a fraud on the tribunal, and violate obligations under Rule 11.”
Judge bars DOJ attorney from ever appearing again in immigration enforcement case.
justsecurity.org/163989/judg…
Steve Wright retweeted
MS NOW: Democrat Scott Colom's lead in the Mississippi Senate race has now increased to 2,607 votes.
Steve Wright retweeted
NO ONE should vote to confirm Trump’s pick for FDA Commissioner.
Heidi Overton is not qualified to run the agency, and she is an anti-science, anti-abortion extremist.
She should NOT be in charge of keeping our food and medicine safe.
Steve Wright retweeted
Racism Is Alive and Well in Mississippi: They're Trying to Steal a Senate Seat From a Black Man
This is naked voter suppression dressed up as "election integrity." Thousands of Mississippians are being screwed out of their votes right now because the state's Republican secretary of state deliberately used sloppy commercial credit data to purge the rolls — and the mess is landing hardest in a race where a Black Democrat is beating a Republican incumbent.
Scott Colom is narrowly ahead of Cindy Hyde-Smith. That lead is under attack because large numbers of voters were forced onto provisional (affidavit) ballots after their names vanished from the poll books. Both campaigns admit thousands of people were hit. CNN has the receipts.
Andrew Couch is one of the casualties. He'd voted at the same polling place in the last two elections without a problem. On Election Day he was told he was registered in a county he hadn’t lived in for six years. On Monday he was informed his ballot is dead. His reaction: "I'm very upset. If people lose faith in the process… it's going to hurt voter turnout in the future." That's the point.
Secretary of State Michael Watson signed off on using Experian credit data to flag "moved" voters. The result: more than 230,000 people — roughly 1 in 9 registered voters statewide — were dumped into inactive status and left off the poll books before Election Day (Mississippi Today). In a state where over 9 percent of residents are unbanked, this data was always going to be garbage. Experian itself has run away from the whole thing, telling CNN its product "was not designed or intended to validate voter records" and that it stopped working with the state in early 2025.
This isn’t some innocent clerical error. It's the same old Mississippi playbook: make it harder for certain people to vote when the outcome looks like it might go the wrong way. A Black man is on the verge of winning a Senate seat the state hasn't handed to a Democrat in decades, and suddenly the rolls are a disaster. This is Republican racism in action.
Steve Wright retweeted
ALERT: Judge Ana Reyes orders Trump Admin to preserve records & emails about its takeover of East Potomac Park (including communications between Nat Park Service officials)
Reyes is investigating whether Team Trump lawyers lied to her during fed legal challenge of park takeover
Steve Wright retweeted
REMINDER: Every detention center is a real estate deal, contractor deal, and operating deal for private companies. These companies are making money off of taxpayer dollars left and right.
When ICE detains children, mothers, and fathers, private companies make BILLIONS all the while Americans struggle to afford groceries, electric bills, and health care.
Steve Wright retweeted
🚨ICE's misfits; Trump's mass deportation push has led to bottom-of-the-barrel types being given a badge and a gun by ICE, including a cop who shot a teenager in the back, a NYPD detective who stole $3,000 in champagne, and a Arkansas cop with severe anger management issues.
‘No business having a gun’: Some ICE recruits had a record of red flags wapo.st/4sRoEFa
Steve Wright retweeted
Today, I led 11 of my Senate colleagues in calling on House & Senate leadership to strip the upcoming defense bill of provisions that MANDATE defense & intelligence cooperation with Israel — including one advanced by Netanyahu himself.
This doesn’t make us safer, see why ⬇️
Steve Wright retweeted
IMPEACHMENT, Article III
The law requires our military to withdraw from hostilities within 60 days if Congress does not authorize the activity.
Operation Epic Fury has been underway for 256 days. Congress has not authorized it.
Hegseth is breaking the law.
Not even debatable.
Steve Wright retweeted
“Disbursed” it where? Disbursed it by whom?
Yet one more humongous scandal.👇
Scoop: The U.S. received and disbursed more than $12 billion in revenue from Venezuela’s natural resource exports in the first nine months of this year, according to a confidential report by the global financial services firm KPMG.
w/ @AKurmanaev
nytimes.com/2026/11/10/world…
Steve Wright retweeted
If you are an administration official DESTROYING protected documents to cover for Donald Trump, you should lawyer up.
Whistleblowers tell Democrats documents linked to Trump’s construction projects are being destroyed
New reporting from @SunlenSerfaty @AnnieGrayerCNN cnn.com/2026/11/10/politics/…
Steve Wright retweeted
Get big money out of politics. Period.
Rep-Elect Richard Ojeda (D-NC) WON'T SAY if he supports Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for Speaker, telling @scrippsnews "ending Citizens' United is my hard line."
Steve Wright retweeted
The only place anyone should be hearing anything from you is under oath in front of a congressional committee.
President Trump is determined to bring an end to this horrible war, which has caused enormous loss of life, destruction, and suffering. We are working hard to find a negotiated solution that can deliver lasting peace and create the conditions for a sovereign, secure, and prosperous Ukraine within a more stable European security environment.
Before beginning the two days of trilateral talks with Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi, @SEPeaceMissions and I will meet with our partners from Ukraine, the EU, NATO, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy to continue the close consultation and coordination we have undertaken on European security and Ukraine’s postwar future over the past several weeks.
These will be the first trilateral talks since February. Building on our separate consultations with both sides, our objective is to bring Ukraine and Russia together to discuss directly their postwar security concerns, proposals, and potential solutions. We hope these discussions will identify areas of common ground, advance practical solutions, and build momentum toward the next phase of negotiations.
Ultimately, achieving a comprehensive and lasting settlement will also require direct engagement between Russia and our European partners on the broader security arrangements that affect them. We hope the discussions in Abu Dhabi will create the conditions for that engagement to begin in the near future, as part of a broader multilateral process.
Our work has focused on four interconnected priorities: ending the fighting, developing credible postwar security guarantees and arrangements that reduce the risk of renewed conflict, preparing a comprehensive economic and prosperity plan for Ukraine, and advancing humanitarian measures to alleviate suffering and address the human consequences of this war.
Together with Ukraine, the EU, and other European partners, we are working to address Ukraine’s substantial postwar fiscal and reconstruction needs, support critical infrastructure, attract private investment, and create the conditions for long-term economic growth and self-sufficiency.
We are also working with the parties on important humanitarian issues, including the return of prisoners and civilians, and practical measures to alleviate suffering and reduce the human cost of this conflict.
An important part of this process is encouraging all parties to begin thinking seriously about what comes after the war. By discussing postwar security, economic recovery, and the mechanisms needed to prevent future conflict, we hope to shift the focus from managing the war toward building the foundations for a durable peace.
The existing European security agreements and institutions provide an important foundation for this work. We want to build upon what has worked, identify where existing mechanisms have fallen short, and what practical improvements are needed to make them more effective in the future. Our discussions will focus on stronger consultation, reliable crisis communications, greater military transparency, and reciprocal measures to reduce escalation risks, while fully respecting the sovereignty and independent decision-making of every nation.
This is an extraordinarily difficult and complicated conflict. We recognize the difficult decisions ahead and are approaching these discussions with determination and realism. Our hope is to make meaningful progress, establish a practical pathway forward, and help create the conditions for a lasting peace.