These are awesome. You make me miss the days of proper physical controls with real haptic feedback. Not this touchscreen with a little vibrator in it bullshit.

I also really wish I could push those buttons now. I want to know what they feel like!

You want some kind of metal waterproof flush mount momentary push button switch, but without a brand name, it’s hard to say which will give you the right feel. There’s no telling what sort of spring mechanism is in there.

I’m guessing that the House Oversight Committee wants her to testify, so she’s trying to head it off at the pass before they officially ask.

Maybe Maxwell’s slow trickle of claims in pro se filings had something that Bondi couldn’t make go away.

Eh, at least this money would go to innocent people and put back into their community’s economy. Not like the money spent on Palantir and the White House nuclear winter ballroom.

Let’s not gloss over this part:

…that the Department of Homeland Security had also posted a few hours earlier.

It’s all fucked up. I can only hope Easmin’s family sues and get a massive payout for the extra trauma inflicted by having this tragedy exploited for political purposes by both DHS and Trump. Truly ghoulish.

Trump isn’t the disease, he’s just the most visible symptom.

Neither do I, and if it weren’t for the community rules, I might have dropped it off the title altogether. You’d think they’d just lost track of the time the way this is phrased, but it at least mentions the “massive wave of attacks against Lebanon”. The other articles right now use even milder terms like “sporadic attacks in the gulf” or “Israel says it will continue operations”.

It seems they may have agreed, but there’s disagreement to how far the scope extends. It’s not clear what the actual contents of the agreement were, but Pakistan, which mediated the deal, said the two-week pause in fighting did extend to Lebanon. Iran has previously included that as a term in talks, but hasn’t confirmed if they kept it this time. But they likely did, I don’t see why Pakistan would lie about that either.

Israel, unsurprisingly, says the ceasefire does not extend to Lebanon, and has not stopped attacking Lebanon. In fact, they just launched the largest attack on Lebanon in decades. It also sounds like an oil refinery in Iran was hit after the US ceasefire announcement, but there are no details of who hit it yet.

Like the two week lead last year for the decision to attack Iran? I’m not sure Iran will buy that. The US is maybe trying for a sequel to “Operation Midnight Hammer”, or, as the media chatter is heavily astroturfing right now, having ground troops pillage the uranium stockpile.

The media needs to stop reporting every line of bullshit Trump says and focus on what he and his bootlickers are actually doing. They keep letting him drown out the actual information with his predictable gishgallop.

“…a more enduring threat: asymmetric warfare, in which individuals or small groups of militants can pose threats strategic to the American military.”

You know what US military targets an Iranian “shoulder-fired missile” can’t hit? The ones in the US. The only place the US military should be. Invading forces aren’t entitled to an easy time stealing another country’s resources.

The NBC can fuck right off with this war crime apologia masquerading as a news article containing a mild warning. It’s not a Saving Private Ryan reboot, it’s modern exploitation colonialism.

I did read it, yes, that is why I still had the link open. The title and by-line heavily suggests that SA has taken action or made statements which demonstrate actively moving away from the US. This is contradicted inside the article itself, as quoted prior.

Has their position likely changed? Sure. Is analysis of the timeline worthwhile? Also yes. But there’s literally nothing there which supports the position that any form of action has occurred that alters existing or future US-Saudi agreements. A step towards Ukraine is something noteworthy, but that doesn’t require a step away from the US, and the step away is still speculative.

That’s not to say I am not fine with speculative. It’s just that it’s not the same content described by: '"BREAKING: Trump Just Lost Saudi Arabia. Trump told the man who controls 12% of the world’s oil to kiss his ass. That man just restructured Middle Eastern security with Ukraine, telling Trump, “It’s over”. ’

I didn’t remove the post. I’m not a mod.

The title and by-line were very misleading. I still had the link open, so here you go: https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-just-lost-saudi-arabia

But nobody said “it’s over”, or broke anything off. The post itself literally says that Saudi Arabia didn’t comment.

Saudi state media covered the summit without mentioning Trump’s remarks. The Royal Court issued no statement. MBS said nothing publicly.

I think the idea that only traditional media is acceptable is really problematic and implicitly favors corporate media manipulation, but I would have removed this substack post for the deceptive summary alone.

I love a faceplant, and this is up there with the best of them. Excellent job nuggeting, Nugget. You do your name proud.

The headline is misleading, but if she made it up, then why did the Epstein estate settle with her?

I read the linked transcript. It’s mostly hypothesis about the increasing number of leaks and rumors that Trump is unhappy with the effect of mass deportation on his popularity, which is Miller’s big thing. I can believe that, but it’s a long way from anything actively throwing him under the bus. It wouldn’t be surprising if he did soon though.

I fell down a wild rabbit hole.

• Dev Forty Five LLC was created 2 weeks ago and lists Ty Nielson as the registered agent
• Ty Nielson is listed and at some point was described on LinkedIn as the Head of Engineering at Gemini (not the Google product) with location in St George, UT. Gemini lists an office in Ogden, UT on linkedin.
• His employment history says he started as a software engineer, but he may not be the head of engineering. I’m unsure if he lives in Utah at all. He did ask how to do authentication in a React Native app properly in stack overflow 7 months ago. Not a great sign.
• Gemini is a product of Blue Rocket, inc. and the primary address for both companies is listed as a thinkspace in Redmond, WA.
• Blue Rocket Inc. also has an office in Ogden Utah and one in West Palm Beach, Florida according to its linkedin - but withdrew their business registration in FL years ago
• A previous (?) head of product for Gemini and/or Blue Rocket is/was Ryan Petty, who was part of a Federal Commission on School Safety roundtable at the White House with Trump, and DeSantis made him the Chair of the Florida State Board of Education
• Jason Kap owns Blue Rocket inc. and was put on the board of Claritev last year, which is now a defendant in an antitrust lawsuit for conspiring with major health insurers to fix prices. The DoJ is currently siding against Claritev
• Jason Kap used to work at Microsoft, MS is also in Redmond WA.
• Kap may live or still have properties in Redmond WA, Belmont MA, Ogden Utah, and possibly others - through shell companies technically owned by his family, such as Player 85 LLC, for which he is an authorised agent
• Kap may have been an LDS bishop in Redmond during a case where the LDS leadership was accused of covering up child molestation by a former Microsoft employee, Buckland Darrell, who was sentenced again a few weeks ago
• According to floodlit there were victims in both Hartman Park Ward, Redmond and Sammamish Valley Washington.
• The registered agent listed for Blue Rocket and Gemini in WA is Kap’s wife, with a Redmond WA address matching the charity “Sammamish Trails Youth”.

I don’t think I’ll continue on. There’s clearly a lot going on here and it is not looking good. Edit: I lied. But this is the end for me:

• Ryan Petty is currently the Chief Product Officer at XSponse
• Xsponse “is a comprehensive AI security ecosystem committed to enhancing detection, alerting, and mass notification.” It lists a Florida virtual office as it address but it’s registered in Delaware via Corporation Service Company.
• Corporation Service Company, specialises in being a DE address for companies to claim DE tax residency, and as separate services will act as an ICANN registrar, manage and deploy TLDs and do monitoring and enforcement as “brand protection”. Amongst many other things they do.

Not good.