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James O’Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
The police just came to my office and confiscated all my firearms.
Just happened.
10:13 PM · Apr 23, 2026
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My AI thinks:
The “Possibles” list is now narrowed down to a State-Level Budget Collapse.
Its an AI, so a tool thats sometimes right. .
AMEN
As always a big thank you ed for your watering of our tree on a regular basis have a great weekend my friend blessings to you and yours be well
R.D.
Thank you and right back at you, RED DOG !! Hope you’re now fully recovered or very close to being so. Take good care and be well !!
Amen
Amen
Masked Iranian forces appear to seize ships in staged videoIranian state media have shared footage appearing to show the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps boarding two cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
The video shows small boats carrying masked and armed men approaching the MSC Francesca and the Epaminondas.
Analysis by BBC Verify indicates that parts of the video appear to have been filmed hours after the ships were reported as seized by Iranian forces.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cp86g5m8vyyo
Trump issued an order to shoot them and to sink the small boats
well, despite the Southern Poverty Center story this week, the Press have their anti-black racism narrative firmly back in hand again …
just like that …
Former NC officer arrested over alleged New Orleans festival shooting plot | Fox News
Gillum’s family reported him missing Tuesday, telling authorities he had a history of self-harm and had made threats to harm “Black people,”
{ Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Demands Full Pardon for U.S. Special Forces Hero Prosecuted by DOJ for ‘Insider Trading’ on Maduro Raid – “Skewed Justice” While Congress Members Illegally Profit Every Single Day }
She’s pouring Sunlight on the double standard, but… not exactly vigorously damanding that congresscritters be arrested for insider trading.
Excellent yadent. Your memes are always top notch.
Was Jason Kessler F37?
https://www.batya-us.com/p/for-years-the-left-used-the-unite
Oh, look, it’s Mary McCord . . .
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/news/unite-the-right-organizer-jason-kessler-settles-charlottesville-lawsuit-pledges-no-repeat-of-organized-armed-activity/
What are the odds?
TO ALL MUSLIMS:
SINCE MOHAMMAD IS “A MODEL FOR ALL MANKIND”, WHY THEN DID HE MURDER, STEAL, RAPE AND ENSLAVE INNOCENT PEOPLE?
HOW CAN SOMEONE MODEL THAT?
We’re approaching the November elections. So now might be a good time to affect the policies of our local and national politicians, because the politicians want to please the voters before the elections.
I got an email that invited me to a meet-the-candidate meeting, for someone who wanted to be my national congressional representative. I replied that I didn’t know if I could attend the meeting, but listed some ways that I hoped the candidate would vote, if he were elected to congress.
The list of my preferences included
– voting for the SAVE Act, if it didn’t pass this year, and
– voting for a law that required that the US government pay back half a trillion dollars of the national debt each year, starting in 2030. (That is, congress takes in in $0.5T more each year than they spend, starting in 2030.)
I hope that since the November election is a few months away, the candidates are more interested than usual in what we voters want. So now might be a good time to tell them what we want, and to ask for a reply from them.
A man in Seattle found a young man on the ground after an apparent fentanyl overdose.
He administered 3 doses of Narcan and revived him.
I have a lot of questions. The main one is how did the U.S. reach a point where random people carry Narcan just in case?
FYI, China is the main source of fentanyl precursor chemicals, gets sent to the cartels then they synthesize the finished fentanyl and smuggle it across the US southern border.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2047388545497677852#m
This is a war in the shadows. In 2024, 79,384 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses linked to supply chains originating in China.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2047398927947706835#m
I think the stuff is also coming in from Canada. There are fentanyl labs in Vancouver and Toronto. Hezbollah operatives run the drug trade in Canada
I’m in the Seattle area and a few years back I had a medical procedure that required oxycodone for pain. Also required to purchase Narcan, you know, just in case. 🤷♀️
Greetings Treepers! 🙏✝️🙏
Good morning , Sundance, April 24th – 2026
Why President Trump’s Naval Blockade Is Doing What 40 Years of Sanctions Could Not
Iran’s annual government budget sits around $56 billion.
The U.S. federal budget exceeds $7 trillion, making the U.S. budget roughly 125 times larger (or about 12,400% bigger).
f the U.S. naval blockade continues on Iran for 2-3 months, the loss for Iran would be the size of their annual budget.
When does it get very serious?
Weeks to months. 2 to 4 weeks:
Full oil export halt, faster rial collapse, worsening food shortages, growing government salary delays.
1 to 2 months: Reserves heavily depleted, hyperinflation surges, wider industrial shutdowns, protests more likely. 2.5 to 3+ months:
Losses near the full $56 billion annual budget, risk of government breakdown and widespread unrest.
Important caveats: • Iran has buffers such as reserves, land routes, China trade, and shadow fleet tactics that may extend resilience.
• Losses are not linear. Military and security forces would likely be prioritized for payment first.
• Hyperinflation and protests would likely emerge before full fiscal collapse.
• The real impact depends heavily on how strictly the blockade is enforced.
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2047279011949146454#m
@mdubowitz
5h
If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high:
1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists eliminated.
2. Ballistic missile program crippled. Monthly production down from 100 to near zero. Roughly half the regime’s missiles and launchers destroyed. The IRGC Aerospace Force commander who ran the missile enterprise dead.
3. Air defenses devastated. American and Israeli airpower dominating Iranian skies, with strike aircraft operating over the country with near impunity.
4. Full economic warfare. Not just OFAC sanctions anymore, but military pressure layered on top: naval blockade, near-zero oil exports, choked imports, wrecked steel and petrochemical sectors, triple-digit inflation, and a currency that is effectively worthless.
5. Regime decapitation. Khamenei dead. Larijani dead. Hundreds of senior IRGC, intelligence, military, and Basij commanders dead including the IRGC commander-in-chief, the armed forces chief of staff, and the Aerospace Force commander. Mojtaba Khamenei inheriting a hollowed-out regime with no supreme authority and a gutted command structure.
6. The region turning on Tehran. Gulf states shutting down the sanctions-busting, money-laundering, and financial escape routes the regime has relied on for years. No Arab capital willing to throw Iran a lifeline. China and Russia providing limited support.
7. Proxy network shattered. Hezbollah and Hamas heavily degraded. Houthi political leadership taking direct Israeli strikes. The “Axis of Resistance” and “ring of fire” are now more slogans than real threats.
8. Syrian corridor severed. Assad is gone. The new government in Damascus is actively blocking Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah: arresting smugglers and publicly declaring Syria will no longer serve as a transit corridor for Tehran’s terrorists. The land bridge to the Mediterranean that took decades to build is effectively closed.
9. Lebanon pivoting west. With Hezbollah battered and resupply choked, Israel and Lebanon have opened direct peace talks for the first time since 1983, aimed at a permanent agreement and Hezbollah’s disarmament.
Beirut now asserting that the Lebanese armed forces alone are responsible for national defense. This is a direct repudiation of Hezbollah’s “resistance” claim. TBD.
10. Deterrence exposed as a bluff. Four direct attacks on Israel — April 2024, October 2024, June 2025, March 2026 — failed to impose strategic cost and instead triggered heavy retaliation.
Iran couldn’t even use Syria as a launchpad.
11.Economy hollowed out from within. Power shortages, water crises, factory shutdowns, pension unrest, and mass protests. Nationwide demonstrations erupted in December 2025 after a year of economic freefall, with bazaaris, oil workers, and truckers, the regime’s traditional support base, joining strikes across all 31 provinces. Running out of oil storage space. Fuel shortages. The worst crisis since 1979.
12. Scientific and technical brain drain. Beyond the nuclear experts, Iran has lost a generation of irreplaceable expertise in missile design, centrifuge engineering, and weapons development. The survivors are harder to recruit and easier to deter.
13. Naval power decimated. The regular navy shattered, IRGC navy taking growing losses as CENTCOM moves to reopen Hormuz.
And against all of this: the regime forced to play its Hormuz card at its weakest possible moment when the U.S. has options instead of when we didn’t: namely, Tehran with nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, hundreds of thousands of attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions of dollars to harden its economy. That’s the strategic picture.
It’s extraordinary. Much more to do but I can’t comprehend how much has been achieved.
https://nitter.poast.org/mdubowitz/status/2047489126602088842#m
@Osint613
29m
NEW: The Pentagon is weighing whether to suspend Spain from NATO. – Reuters
https://nitter.poast.org/Osint613/status/2047565238006948058#m
Acclaimed editor of Washington Post found dead in home at 60 years old
He would go on to be a key editor on the Post’s reporting of Russian election interference in 2016 and the January 6 riots at the US Capitol, which won Pulitzer Prizes as well.
https://archive.is/WY6Tq#selection-485.0-485.70
President Trump’s Truth Social:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116457796297442684
Tucker Carlson’s family feud explodes: 5 shocking things on ‘secret sister’ Roberta Hunt and Swanson fortune battle
Roberta Hunt challenges Tucker Carlson’s denial of their familial connection, citing mistreatment and a lawsuit over inheritance rights to the Swanson fortune
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/tucker-carlsons-family-feud-explodes-5-shocking-things-on-secret-sister-roberta-hunt-and-swanson-fortune-battle-101776984090563.html
Tucker Carlson’s secret heiress sister reveals bitter feud over family fortune: He says ‘I don’t know her’… but trove of photos tells a very different story
https://archive.is/20260423200343/https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15752027/tucker-carlson-sister-feud-swanson-fortune-photos.html#selection-869.0-869.158
“Pedram Hossein Monfared is the individual who assaulted Reza Pahlavi in Berlin.”….