A Stranger in a Strange Land from Maryland, USA, now an IT guy in Cambridge, UK. @Eric_Marcus@mas.to "The beat of the butterfly's wing affects us all" Liminal
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National Guard units in all 50 states are mobilizing for next week's elections, sources tell me, with three main objectives:
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And to the maga nasties out here who are suggesting I am not an American since I also have a Czech citizenship and therefore I voted illegally here in Florida. I got news for you. Melania trump is also a dual citizen- of US and Slovenia.
So yes-
I can vote, I have voted and will be voting democratic as long the GOP remains a party of pedophile and rapist protectors. Among other things.
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Delivered with the only kind of fire and grit you’d expect from Martina Navratilova. 🔥🫡
And to the maga nasties out here who are suggesting I am not an American since I also have a Czech citizenship and therefore I voted illegally here in Florida. I got news for you. Melania trump is also a dual citizen- of US and Slovenia.
So yes-
I can vote, I have voted and will be voting democratic as long the GOP remains a party of pedophile and rapist protectors. Among other things.
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🚨 BREAKING: Texas Southern University students are now marching together to vote for James Talarico.
Talarico is running on healthcare for all.
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Police punch Hispanic man already pinned to ground—22 times.
Officer had already shot him with taser.
"He stiffly hit the ground after being tased, and his head banged on asphalt," said witness.
"Cop mounts him and starts beating—later 3 more piled on."
Just because man was standing in the road blocking some traffic.
Witnesses say he looked like he was having a mental episode—and was not trying to harm anyone.
Emergency crews were called and took the man to the hospital.
Local police confirmed the incident occurred at 3:15 pm—but released no other details except to say it was "under review."
Incident occurred on Auburn Way near 37th Street NE in Auburn, Washington.
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FLORIDA !!
DO NOT SEND YOUR MAIL IN BALLOT
ITS TOO LATE !
Bring it to SOE or polling location where your in and out in minutes
DO NOT LOSE YOUR VOICE !
Every
Vote
Matters !
“Even locally, it’s taking a 🥹🥹🥹couple of weeks for these ballots to move,” Scott said in a telephone interview. “If you believe your ballot is not going to make it, you should go to vote in person.”
Florida law is strict about the deadline for mail ballots. They must be at the supervisor of elections office at 7 p.m. on Election Day, Nov. 3.
Ballots that aren’t received by that deadline aren’t counted”
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If Darline Graham won’t answer our questions or show up to speak with voters now, imagine how fast she’ll disappear into the Washington swamp if she’s elected to a six year term in the Senate.
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What tonight’s firing of Joint Staff war planner Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia and our Iran Round 2 math actually mean for Ukraine:
Ukraine and Iran are not separate wars; they draw from the exact same U.S. missile stockpile.
1. Why Europe-Paid Patriots (PURL) Are Frozen: After burning $29B in munitions in Iran Round 1, the U.S. is down to 759-827 Patriot interceptors. Subtracting the 500-round Indo-Pacific/NATO reserve floor leaves just 259-327 Patriots (only 3 to 5 Jordan-scale raids). That is why Policy Chief Elbridge Colby froze the PURL Patriot shipments Europe already paid for, and why he clashed with J-5 war planner Lt. Gen. Sylvia.
2. Why the Starshield Cutoff Was Strategic Self-Sabotage: Because Patriot stocks are at the bone, Ukraine built a cheap, high-speed unmanned interceptor loop to shoot down 400 km/h Russian jet drones without burning million-dollar missiles. When SpaceX enforced a 101-161 km/h speed cap on Starshield (cutting Ukrainian drone hits by 23%) and pinned the ICEYE-X36 radar satellite for a Russian intercept, it forced Ukraine’s air defense right back onto the exact same depleted Patriot pool CENTCOM needs for Iran Round 2.
3. The Two-Way Moscow-Tehran Loop: While Washington squeezes Kyiv and waives sanctions on Russian diesel, Moscow is actively passing live targeting locations of U.S. warships and aircraft to Iran to drain the last 3 to 5 Patriot raid packets we have left.
Why the Pentagon Is Lying About Firing Joint Staff War Planner LTG Brett Sylvia, and the 3-to-5 Raid Trap Facing U.S. Forces in Iran
Tonight Hegseth fired Joint Staff J-5 Director LTG Brett Sylvia. Officials first told The Atlantic he clashed with Policy Chief Elbridge Colby, then claimed he leaked on "the Iran War and Russia-Ukraine war" and asserted J-5 is "NOT a central planner for the Iran War."
Our new model with @streetwiseprof proves why that excuse is a lie:
1. The Statutory Lie: CENTCOM only runs the theater. Under 10 U.S.C. 153, the Joint Staff J-5 (with Colby) is the exact officer who certifies global missile reserves across Iran, Ukraine, and Taiwan.
2. Only 3 to 5 Patriot Raids Left: After burning $29B in munitions in Iran Round 1 (Patriots down ~66% to 759-827; true shadow price $326M-$650M/round), subtracting the 500-round Pacific/NATO reserve floor leaves ONLY 3 TO 5 JORDAN-SCALE RAIDS (3.70-5.45 packets) while Russia feeds U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Iran.
3. The Oil & SpaceX Trap: With Hormuz products down -81.19%, 81.25% of the IEA buffer spent (4.82 days of Round 2 cover left), Saudi East-West exposed ($125-$155/bbl Round 2 base; $160-$200+ double-choke), and SpaceX holding an N=1 combat kill switch (QRR = 0.00, already used in Iran on March 1 for a 5x drone price hike, which even @grok just admitted is "a demonstrated commercial hold-up during active operations"), firing the war planner does not erase the math. So go ahead and feed your ChatBot the data.
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YES. Prime Minister @andyburnham was correct when he blamed Brexit for small boats crisis👇
Let’s call this bull**** out TOGETHER
The 200,000 illegal migrants figure Farage is using is over several years and let’s remind ourselves how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT
And now in threatening to punish those parts of the country where people don’t vote his way the Reform party leader is betraying the basic principles of democracy - its shameless and grotesque bullying which shows nothing but contempt for voters
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“The United States, by yielding to Putin, is betraying the Ukrainians who are fighting for freedom and democracy," - Obama 🇺🇦
Yeah we are, all those American values that I grew up with, remember those? 🇺🇸
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A grand jury hears only the prosecution’s case. No defense attorney. No cross-examination. It’s essentially an infomercial for the prosecution.
For D.C. grand jurors to STILL reject indictments against Hutchinson and others speaks volumes about how weak the cases brought by Trump’s DOJ were.
Those jurors are quiet heroes. Even with only one side presented, they said no.
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UPDATE: Further details are emerging about the Russian sabotage operation targeting an arms facility in Brașov, Romania, on September 14.
🇩🇪 Two Belarusian men, aged 39 and 50, have been in German custody since October 7. They are suspected of involvement in the Brașov arson attack, but German authorities have now revealed that they were also preparing a sabotage attack in the Nuremberg area, targeting a building or critical infrastructure facility on behalf of a foreign power.
🇷🇴 Romanian intelligence services linked the Brașov attack to a Russian sabotage operation.
🇵🇱 Meanwhile, Polish authorities have arrested another suspect, Artem S. a Ukrainian citizen wanted by Romania under a European Arrest Warrant over his alleged role in preparing the Brașov arson attack.
BREAKING: 🇷🇴🇷🇺 Romania’s intelligence service (SRI) has uncovered a Russian intelligence-directed sabotage network involved in a fire at the Carfil military industrial platform in Brașov, Romania, on September 14.
According to the SRI, the network was coordinated from Russia and involved several citizens of former Soviet states living in EU countries. Judicial proceedings are underway in Romania and in cooperation with authorities in other European countries.
Investigators say Russian coordinators had assigned the network additional targets across the region, including arms factories and other military and industrial facilities. The SRI also identified other sabotage attempts in Romania this year, including at facilities used to train Ukrainian armed forces.
Romanian authorities say the operations aim to intimidate European countries, damage their defence capabilities and undermine regional security. The investigation is ongoing, with Romanian intelligence working alongside national agencies and European partners.
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So Trump just helped Flávio Bolsonaro enter the US without a passport..while he's actively fleeing a Supreme Court arrest warrant for corruption in Brazil.
I thought the mission was to deport criminal foreigners, not harbor them at Mar-a-Lago
MAGA, you are a joke.
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"If the Executive can discount votes and threaten an ongoing election due to unproven allegations, then our democracy is in danger."
— Judge David O. Carter, the first federal judge to observe that Trump likely committed crimes in his assault on the 2020 election. buff.ly/hSDF7SA
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Texas man dies in ICE detention center—was a legal permanent resident in U.S.
ICE has admit in an official statement that he did have a green card.
Despite this he was locked up for 4 months.
Staff refused to give him his heart medication—and ignored his report of chest pain and trouble breathing the day before he died.
ICE now claims that he obtained his green card fraudulently by failing to disclose a 2004 arrest for theft.
His daughter says they are lying—that everything was properly disclosed and legally approved.
Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias lived in Dallas, Texas for more than 30 years.
He was the father of 3 U.S. born children and worked as a construction contractor.
Posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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ICE cause father to crash car during traffic stop—with 2 little kids sitting in back seat.
Turns out he wasn't even guy they were looking for.
Traumatize his 2 toddlers for no reason.
Agents grab at kids' legs trying to pry them out of their dad's arms.
Video clearly shows severe damage to the front of the man's car—with the driver side wheel completely off.
Then agents threaten U.S. citizen with pepper spray—just for filming on public sidewalk.
After running the man's picture through facial recognition—agents had to admit they got the wrong guy.
Incident occurred in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.
Og_Cempoalli doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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ICE brutally detain grandfather—in front of his autistic grandson.
Agents slam him to ground & kneel on his back—while young boy watches the whole thing.
Mother begs them not to traumatize her young child—they ignore her.
Family is well known in the area—targeted for attack?
In April 2021, The Spokesman-Review published a detailed article on the family: “A mother’s journey from Honduras to Spokane – ‘I’m going to carry my girl.’”
About the journey of José Luis Arias, his wife Dania Salgado, and their daughters from Honduras.
So their daughter Danna—diagnosed with leukemia at age 3—could get a stem-cell and bone-marrow transplant that was unavailable in Honduras.
Family says that since then, José Luis Arias has had no criminal history—only his pending immigration case.
Incident occurred in Airway Heights near Spokane, Washington.
Posting first full length, English translated, and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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Police body slam 100lb woman to floor—now hospitalized with concussion.
For peacefully protesting data center.
"That man could have killed me," she said.
"Somehow I only ended up with a concussion—severe bruising on my jaw, knee, and shoulder."
Her crime? Saying "shame" after the Utah County Planning Commission meeting voted to approve a data center ordinance.
(see video in thread)
One woman was booked into the Utah County Jail on charges of disrupting a meeting, interference with an arresting officer, and assault on a police officer.
Two others received citations for disrupting a meeting and interference with an arrest.
Incident occurred at the Utah County Planning Commission meeting in Provo, Utah.
Utvstechbillionaires doesn’t have an active account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.