Retired Military. Army & Big Blue. 11C2P & C-17 Stan/Eval Loadmaster (Airdrop). Former Federal Air Marshal. Cranky old man. Get off my lawn! H-MINUS!!

Joined January 2025
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Uncle Al retweeted
Jun 15
This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America. A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact. It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy: 56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases. More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide. 343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information. That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison. The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once: The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry. Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate. Now look at the individual leaderboard: - Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100 - Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800 different tickers - Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late - Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked. She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO. The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine. The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero. And the cruelest part is this: A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed. But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is. They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing. The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.
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What did ya'll do this weekend?? 🫡🇺🇸
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Elon Musk is reportedly in talks to acquire Spirit Airlines, with ambitious plans to revolutionize the air travel experience.
Community note
This rumor is false. There are no official confirmations from Elon Musk or Spirit Airlines. It originated from a parody account. Spirit is shutting down due to bankruptcy. Sources: x.com/HoopsCrave/sta… foxbusiness.com/markets/trump-… nytimes.com/2026/05/02/bus…
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Uncle Al retweeted
If a CIA false flag was a person…
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🚨CRIMINAL PROBE. DOJ just opened a criminal investigation into the Big Four meatpackers. Price-fixing. Collusion. Capacity controls. Not civil. Criminal. Fines up to $100M. Executives facing prison. Cut the cartel. 🇺🇸 beefmaps.com
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Uncle Al retweeted
Long live the Warthog.
In consultation with @SecWar, we will EXTEND the A-10 “Warthog” platform to 2030. This preserves combat power as the Defense Industrial Base works to increase combat aircraft production. Thank you to @POTUS for your unwavering support of our warfighters and quick, decisive leadership as we equip our force. More to come.
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Today, April 20th, marks exactly two months since we arrived in the United States as refugees fleeing South Africa. We came with nothing but determination. Today, we stand on our own two feet: SSC, EAD, and US driver’s licenses secured. My son and I both have full-time jobs, reliable transport, and we’re about to move into our own place — paying our own rent and utilities with zero burden on American taxpayers. Every single day, we get closer to full self-sufficiency. We are not here to take — we are here to build, contribute, and repay the extraordinary privilege of calling America home. To the United States government and the American people: thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to escape violence and chaos, and for giving us the chance to become proud, productive members of the greatest nation on Earth. We will not waste this gift.
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There’s a lot of speculation on X about the California governor’s race. As I said yesterday, I was initially intending to wait and see how both Bianco and Hilton campaigned before I made a decision. I was leaning Bianco. As I said yesterday, when I became aware of Bianco’s public kneeling for BLM, I was bothered. But I kept an open mind. And then, I came upon this clip. This was it. Showstopper. Steve Hilton and I had lunch and, after meeting him and getting to know him, I was all in. Now, I proudly support Steve! I’m on Team Steve! Join me! @SteveHiltonx @TeamSteveHilton x.com/TylerKBraaten/status/2…

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Uncle Al retweeted
Create the United States.
Name something England has done better than other countries? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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What say you @AndrewHeales ?? The Home Office is worried snd trying to clean up their messes.
This is incredible. Something is going on in the UK. The Home Office just changed its policy of arresting people for speech crimes, and not only that, it is directly addressing the grooming gang scandal in regards to ethnicity, religion, and cultural backgrounds. Why now? They’ve been denying that they did anything wrong for the longest period of time.
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See you in court. A lot! #youcantquitme
Replying to @HarmeetKDhillon
it’s not mutual
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I've had days like this.....
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A Seattle judge said we couldn't show the faces of the 33 Antifa & anti-Israel radicals who caused over $1 million in damage to the brand new engineering building at UW in May. So here are their faces & names: Tayler Hart, Max Rulff, Zachary Wallaced-Wells, Jade Wu, Jessica Schutz, Luisa Ortega Subdiaz, Ginger Newberry, Kimaya Mahajan, Gina Liu, Lea Keating, Akira Junyaprusert, Anna Hattle, Julia Fraczek, Cade Jackson, Jonas Piper, Ty Park, Lucy Zern, Tasbeet Iman, Ricardo Colon-Galvez, Roberta Collison, Ella Tunduwani, Zainab Chattha, Riley Centerwall, Catherine Brown, Brett Anton, Claire Berger, Yasmin Ahmed, Yafate Yared, Geneveve Konijisky, Finn Brown, Bailey Keen, Lucas Nichols-Mcauslan and Sam Sueoka. It was all a matter of public record long before the judge made the ruling. KOMO News made this handy collage. Please share
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Here in Philadelphia. Truly appalling. These assholes chanting for the death of our servicemembers. Where’s the Dem outrage and condemnation?
Applause line at protest in Philly: "For every US soldier who comes back in casket, we cheer!"
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Uncle Al retweeted
Replying to @peta
Shut up nerd
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For National Puppy Day, my 3 fleabags fell asleep while supervising my laundry folding....
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Punctuation matters😂😂😂
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Retired Army JAG here. And former infantry soldier & officer. And current law professor. And YOU are full of shit. No quarter ORDERS do violate #LOAC. Giving that order is a war crime even if it's not carried out. But that is NOT an order @SecWar @PeteHegseth gave. And that is why you are full of shit. See, I've also trained hundreds of soldiers on LOAC in the applied context. Thousands, actually. And I've advised commanders & decision makers on LOAC in combat, in Afghanistan as Chief of International & Operational Law for CJTF-101/RC-E (OEF XIV). That's why I know the difference between what SECWAR said in a press briefing yesterday & a war crime. Apparently you don't - so I'll do you a favor & spell it out for you step by step, in simple language that you'll hopefully understand. Let's start off with what Hegseth ACTUALLY said: "It's a mess for them. Who's in charge? Iran may not even know. With every passing hour, we know and we know they know, that the military capabilities of their evil regime are crumbling. They can barely communicate, let alone coordinate; they're confused and we know it. Our response? We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies." (war.gov/News/Transcripts/Tra…) Alright, if we consider this "no quarter" observation in context, we see Hegseth's intent is to convey that @DeptofWar is going to exert max pressure on our adversary. We know their military capabilities "are crumbling" & we're not going to back off. Keep pushing, keep advancing. "No quarter. No mercy." See, content & intent are important. This is how we differentiate political rhetoric from war crime. Reality from...bullshit. If we go all the way back to Hague, II (1899) & Hague, IV (1907), the Regulations annexed to both Conventions make it forbidden, "To declare that no quarter will be given" (pic 1, from Hague, IV). Seems legit, right? Isn't that what SECWAR just "declared"? Well, if LOAC development stopped at 1907, maybe you could make that argument. But, it didn't. In negotiations for later treaties, delegates decided to be more clear about what exactly that prohibition should entail. So, next we'll consider 2 later treaties 🇺🇸 hasn't ratified but we were deeply involved in shaping - Additional Protocol I (1977) to 1949 Geneva Conventions & Rome Statute @IntlCrimCourt (1998). As we'll see below, these sources confirm Hegseth's political rhetoric is NOT a LOAC violation or war crime...and US DoW doctrine is consistent with relevant text of these treaties. Let's start with AP I. As we see from art. 40, this treaty clarifies (7 decades after Hague IV), "It is prohibited to ORDER that there shall be no survivors, to THREATEN an adversary therewith or to CONDUCT hostilities on this basis" (pic 2). So, 3 specific verbs to highlight 1 condition. No ordering, threatening, or conducting (verbs) armed hostilities under condition(s) of NO SURVIVORS. Now, reach all the way back in your memory - like 2 minutes ago - when you read actual text of Hegseth's remarks. Do you genuinely believe SECWAR just ordered or threatened there will be no survivors, even if an enemy IRGC member tries to surrender - or that we are now as a result conducting hostilities on that basis? Be honest. Of course not. And no one in the military is going to hear/read his remarks and think, "SECWAR just ordered me to take no prisoners." Seriously. Moving on from AP I, art. 8(2)(b)(xii) of Rome Statute essentially copies text of Hague IV, art. 23(d) to make "declaring no quarter will be given" a war crime (not pictured). BUT the elements of crimes follows AP I (pic 3), as does DoD Law of War Manual (pic 4). Yes, actual no quarter ORDERS do violate LOAC. Just the order alone is a war crime. But max pressure political rhetoric is not the same as an ORDER "that there shall be no survivors." Which means Sec Hegseth's comments are neither LOAC violation nor war crime. Which also means Rep Vindman is full of 💩.
Former Army JAG here. No quarter orders are a violation of the law of war and Geneva conventions. This is the same order reportedly given during the Caribbean boat strikes. @SecWar is establishing a pattern of issuing illegal orders. I’ve trained hundreds of soldiers on the law of war — our service members have an obligation to follow that law.
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Uncle Al retweeted
Replying to @TheBabylonBee
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