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Engineering school taught us to write code. It never taught us to write. Now writing is the whole job. I went to engineering school at the University of Virginia. I appreciated the education. The engineering program is rigorous. I learned differential equations, thermodynamics, signal processing, data structures, and enough physics to respect what I didn’t understand. (And, I barely made it through.) I now wish I had majored in English if you’d told me that thirty years ago, I would have laughed at you, and then gone back to failing an electromagnetics exam. You know what I didn’t learn? How...

Burn Notice @burnedspy360·14h NATO is not what you think, and Trump is exposing it all. The intelligence units in NATO countries were set up by Hitler's Spy, Reinhard Gehlen, around when he created the CIA. NATO was a "terror club", established on a “war-industrial base”: https://prussiagate.substack.com/p/council-of-the-gods-part-v

ransomnote: Below are several of John A Konrad V's detailed posts. There are another 14 posts in this thread series at the link which I did not copy.Here's the source of the x.com thread posts below:DataRepublican (small r) repostedJohn Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonradLet's unpack this..What if the White House has no intention of reopening the Strait of Hormuz?What if this war is really about ships & tariffs?I had a long discussion with senior DOE official yesterday on background. I can’t share any details but it’s clear everyone’s Strait of Hormuz calculus is wrong.We need to go back to the drawing boards.That's...

ransomnote: Video quality is much better at the link. I broke it in two parts for the clips below.Joshua Reid | Redpills.tv@realjoshuareid·4hWhite House through history.3/18/2026

https://x.com/RealTraderJill/status/2033952602447061135 TraderJill (Leigh)@RealTraderJill·Mar 17It's time to educate the cowardly, retarded Brits and Canadians coming at me in my NATO post. Trust me, weaklings, you need us far more than we need you!🤣✏️Pull up a chair, because class is in session:NATO's charter (Article 5) only covers attacks on members in Europe/N. America - that's true. But claiming it "doesn't allow help with Iran" is dishonest.NATO ditched the pure-defense straitjacket decades ago:•Bombed Kosovo 1999 without UN approval.•Turned Libya 2011 civilian protection mandate into regime change.•Ran 20-year offensive ops in Afghanistan.They act as aggressors/out-of-area interveners whenever they feel like it. The Iran "no"...

NATO allies, he wrote, privately agreed that Iran could not be allowed a nuclear weapon but refused to help when asked. America no longer needs or desires their assistance. We never did. Let that land.This is not bluster. It is a doctrine. Trump is telling every European government that the Article 5 guarantee they have sheltered under for seventy years was always conditional, and that they have now demonstrated they will not honour their side of the arrangement when it matters. The mutual defence alliance that kept the peace in Europe since 1949 has just been publicly declared a one...

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2033985281653936563 Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·18hWIOAH 🚨 James O’Keefe went undercover in Los Angeles posing as homeless‘On hidden cameras, petitioners admitted they are paid $7–$10 per signature — earning $1,000 or more per day’🚨 The homeless are being farmed for votes and paid cash and drugsMarch 17, 2026

Most Americans aren't aware of it, our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150 plus times by Iranian proxies.And when we say Iranian proxies, we got to be clear about what that is.That's the Iraqi government, and the Iraqi government is controlled by Iran.Mar 18, 2026

Britain was built on seapower and is the “nation of Nelson” but has been emasculated and humiliated on the world stage by its own government... Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage said the British people are deeply concerned about the state of the nation and worried about the point it has reached, at a rally of members and supporters in Milton Keynes on Tuesday evening, as he decried developments of recent weeks as underlining the state of decay under years of defense cuts. We are utterly broken ....... In remarks that Mr Farage said: …we’ve allowed large groups of people...

A 25-year-old who formerly served on a youth-focused board that provides insight to Pierce County about homelessness and housing instability has been arrested and accused of raping an infant girl.The victim is a child someone had asked the defendant to look after when she and her girlfriend moved in with them in a motel in 2023. Court documents indicate Tacoma Police Department detectives planned to contact the REACH Center, the organization that coordinates the Youth Action Board and hosts its meetings, out of concern that there could be other victims.The defendant is transgender and uses the name Isabelle, according to...

Newly-released sales figures from the United States is starting to reveal just how much electric vehicle demand leaned on the federal EV tax credit that was discarded on September 30 last year. With that incentive now gone, the early numbers suggest the market is already feeling the adjustment, and it has not been a subtle one. Data from S&P Global Mobility shared by Auto News show that 59,802 new EVs were registered in January, a massive 41 percent drop from a year earlier.

The resignation of Joe Kent as head of the National Counterterrorism Center triggered widespread political reaction centered on U.S. policy toward Iran.Administration responseDonald Trump welcomed Kent’s departure, criticizing his view that Iran was not a threat and asserting the opposite. Tulsi Gabbard emphasized that the president determines national security threats and stated that Trump concluded Iran posed an imminent danger requiring action.Kent’s position and resignationKent resigned amid disagreements with the administration’s approach to Iran, including military action. In his statements, he argued Iran was not a direct threat and suggested U.S. decisions were influenced (supposedly) by Israel.Criticism and allegationsThe Anti-Defamation...

.The Epoch Times@EpochTimes·5hMan Accidentally Hacks an Army of 7,000 Robot Vacuums, Able to Access Video Feeds Within People’s HomesA man over in Spain tried to hack into his own vacuum cleaner robot, but instead, he accidentally hacked into 7,000 different vacuum robots—giving him direct access to live video feeds within people’s homes. Basically, he discovered a backdoor within these Chinese-made robots that made them extremely insecure

TEHRAN — At President Donald Trump's direction, the U.S. military successfully took out Iran's new gay supreme leader by luring him out of his bunker with a cardboard cutout of Baywatch star David Hasselhoff. As part of Operation Hot Hoff, SEAL Team Six reportedly trained night and day for weeks ahead of a planned ground incursion in which they strategically set up a cardboard cutout of David Hasselhoff designed to look lost and in need of male companionship. It was only a matter of time before Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who sources indicated was gay, fell for the devious trap and...

Here's the FR Game Show Question of the Day. - One of these three men is wholeheartedly endorsed by President Trump. - Another is subject to constant public criticism by President Trump. - And the third is considered so unacceptable that Trump and his political/financial team have openly promoted and supported a primary campaign against him.

The European Union’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said during a Monday press conference the ongoing war in Iran is “not Europe’s war,” but noted Europe’s interests are “directly at stake” as the conflict widens.“This is not Europe’s war, but Europe’s interests are directly at stake. As this war expands, the EU’s priority remains the protection of our citizens,” Kallas told reporters after a meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC) in Brussels. (snip) Asked by reporters on Monday on Trump’s remarks and if she thinks that the war in Iran is going to be more linked to Ukraine and NATO,...

Steven Spielberg, who has frequently explored extraterrestrial themes on the silver screen, is set to return with another science fiction drama, Disclosure Day. Ahead of the film’s release, the director expressed support for former President Barack Obama’s remarks on the possibility of alien life. He believed this was “amazing” for his new film. Steven Spielberg is set to return with a new UFO film, Disclosure Day. Ahead of the film’s release, former President Barack Obama sparked renewed interest in the topic after recent remarks went viral. Obama spoke to Brian Tyler Cohen last month, suggesting that extraterrestrial life could be...

In late 2022, an ambulance pulled up to a bombed-out apartment building in this village outside Kyiv. Three people emerged. One wore a gray hoodie, another a baseball cap. Both had masks covering their faces. The third was more easily identifiable: He was unmasked, and had one arm and two prosthetic legs, witnesses told Reuters. The masked men carried cardboard stencils from the ambulance and taped them to what had been an interior wall of an apartment before the Russians obliterated the place. Then they pulled out cans of spray paint and got to work. An absurd image appeared in...

Megyn Kelly on Monday questioned President Donald Trump’s coming to the defense of Fox’s Mark Levin amid their ongoing feud, suggesting that Trump may be falling out of touch with his own base. Kelly and Levin have engaged in an intense war of words in recent weeks, with Kelly becoming especially critical of Trump’s war in Iran and Levin’s support of it. In response, Levin has called Kelly “emotionally unhinged” and “petulant.” Then, things took a dramatic turn when Kelly referred to Levin as “Micropenis Mark.” She added that Levin “tweets about me obsessively” and that he “doesn’t like it...