Posted on 12/22/2025 6:08:06 AM PST by Red Badger
* Silence from authorities turns coincidence into currency.
* Information vacuums don’t calm the public, they activate pattern-seeking.
* When motive disappears, attention shifts to everything else.
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BRIEFING
There are a lot of questions swirling around the Brown University shooting, and as usual, the internet did what the internet does. People started digging, and they’ve turned up some details about the shooter that have caught some attention. Let’s break it down.
After the assassination of Ella Cook, a conservative student at Brown University, the details haven’t necessarily been coming out at breakneck speed. On the contrary, they’ve had to practically be dragged into the light, thanks to the inept officials overseeing the case.
So when police later found the shooter, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valenti, deceased from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, with that suicide went the one thing that could have settled a lot of the unrest around the case… motive.
So in the absence of a clear narrative, people do what they always do: they start digging for information and logically start with the easiest and most telling source: social media.
Valenti’s social media presence is definitely a bit suss. Very limited followers, and boom, Barack Obama.
WALL STREET APES:
I thought this was fake but it’s real
The man who opened fire in a lecture hall at Brown University is named Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente
His X is Claudio Neves, and only has 79 followers
One of those 79 followers is Barack Obama. What are the odds?!?pic.twitter.com/LP2AOxWboT— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 20, 2025
Now again, this could be nothing, or it could be something. Either way, it’s an interesting coincidence, and it’s definitely one that deserves some consideration.
It can't be validated and seems to be a rumor made up by users on Twitter/X. People who couldn't let go of the narrative that says Ella was specifically targeted, even when evidence came to light, created their own evidence to keep the story alive.
Once the lie is out there it’s planted in the minds of people. That’s why they circulate it even if it’s eventually shown to be untrue.
We still know nothing about this guy’s life in Florida?
They talked to one of his neighbors and landlord. They never see him..............
Do not see “Barack” as a follower or a “Verified Follower” on the perps’ “X” page....he may have “unfollowed” or was a fake BO, or this page isn’t the correct “X” perp account, or the source is bogus:
https://x.com/Cneves5Neves/verified_followers
If it was the real BO, then it was probably unfollowed as soon as the news was out................
I would have expected a YouTuber to have shown up in Claudio’s neighborhood by now, asking questions.
Yes, exactly.
They know what they are doing!
Did “Barack Obama” become a follower before or after the incident at Brown. If he became a follower before the incident at Brown, the stakes of his being a follower are raised. If Obama became a follower, inquisitively, after the Brown shooter was identified, it may be of less importance than it otherwise may seem.
This case can be solved just by selecting the correct FR comments.
9,10
15 (Turning Point)
26
29 (close, he was vocal support for Israel, He was also a top nuclear physicist)
From other threads
Cameras were taken down in defference to Palastinain radicals
Israel suspects Iran involvement
Obviously many other posts.
Additionally, where was the killer from when he quit his PhD program and (should have) lost his student visa until he won the visa lottery?
“”””Additionally, where was the killer from when he quit his PhD program and (should have) lost his student visa until he won the visa lottery?””””
There was a story from WSJ posted on FR stating the shooter went back to Portugal in 2003 and worked in the internet field. Then he came back to the USA in 2017 on a visa lottery.
thanks for that info
Still no answer why Ella Cook was targeted by this madman.
Numerous sources have stated that Ella was shot ‘multiple’ times ... Citizen Free Press, Jesse Waters, etc....
However, forensics on the victims haven’t been released.
No surprise.
Claudio could be the patsy for both shootings
Would not surprise me.
“Still no answer why Ella Cook was targeted by this madman.”
The janitor (Different from the homeless guy) claims Valente was lurking around the building hallways and peering into classrooms. Maybe he was waiting for Cook. My own theory is that Mustapha guy is the real killer at Brown. I think Valente did the MIT hit and LE is using Valente as a convenient scapegoat. I figure Valente was just reliving his glory days at Brown before going to kill MIT prof and then off himself. I’m thinking that it was an eerie coincidence that RI LE glommed onto.
I’ve heard reporting that the shooter was good at hiding his financial transactions. Probably said he was good at hiding his online presence.
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