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Joined May 2007
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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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RT @PanasonicDX4500: I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress e…
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For decades, UFO disclosure has been a distant object — unidentified and unexplained. That’s starting to change. I’ll keep pushing until we land on the truth.
Breaking News: The Pentagon made public what it called ā€œnever-before-seenā€ files on UFOs. The initial images are murky and show what could be anything. nyti.ms/49BRf8R
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Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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Take a close look at this document. Everything you need to know about UAPs (UFOs) you can learn from it. It's a slide from a presentation by the Pentagon's UAP Task Force. You might wonder what we can learn from a document that is so heavily censored, or redacted. That's exactly my point: the government is censoring everything we need to know about UAPs. It's reasonable to support government secrecy. I support secrecy when it's necessary to protect national security. But the censorship of this document, and many others like it, goes far beyond what is reasonable. For example, the slide censors two of the three potential explanations for UAPs. Those two explanations are likely a) adversarial technology (e.g. from China) and b) nonhuman intelligence (NHI). Are we to believe that the @DeptofWar really believes there is some threat to national security if the public were to learn our government is considering the possibility that UAP may be Chinese or NHI? The idea that it would be dangerous for people to learn that officials within our government think UAPs might represent NHI is absurd. Dozens of high-ranking current and former government officials have said exactly this. Many are currently in a bestselling documentary on Amazon Prime, @ageofdisclosure. For nearly 75 years, the government has, supposedly, held grave concern that public interest in UAPs would cause some harm, such as revealing state secrets, triggering a public panic, or overloading the IC. None of those concerns have come to pass. Since 2017, people have leaked multiple UAP videos and photos to the public, which reveal or heavily imply specific sources and methods. But does anyone believe they have undermined national security? Of course not. Nobody with any credibility has even made this argument. Privately, many people within the IC acknowledge that the censorship is excessive. But they have not ended the censorship nor explained why they are maintaining the secrecy. On Tuesday, Secretary of State and National Security Advisor @marcorubio told @seanhannity that he can't verify the claims of the high-ranking individuals in @ageofdisclosure. That was a surprising and important revelation given that, as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, Rubio has unparalleled access to Special Access Program briefings, compartmented intelligence, and interagency assessments comprised of top-secret and classified information. Hannity did not ask Rubio why it was that he couldn't verify the claims made by individuals with very high security clearances, but the reason doesn't very much matter. What matters is that Rubio has made it clear that it is up to President @realDonaldTrump, not Rubio, to end the censorship and declassify UAP documents. President Trump, to his great credit, declassified and released JFK files, the classified Durham annex, and the HPSCI report. He should now do the same thing with the UAP Files. Care should be taken to both protect national security and prevent unelected bureaucrats from abusing their power to maintain censorship. If and when the IC decides which redactions to maintain, senior officials with experience on these matter should be in the room to objectively evaluate what is reasonably necessary for national security and what is unreasonable, particularly consider the signficiant quantity of leaks of videos and images to date. Obviously, simply lifting these redactions won't be enough. The government should also release other UAP videos, photos, images, documents. But lifting the redactions on the @theblackvault UAP documents would be a concrete, good faith start to greater transparency. If the Trump administration is unwilling to do so, then it must explain why that is. There is a lot of noise in this space. People on both sides claim to know with great certainty the truth about UAPs. I am skeptical they know. My position remains what it was when I testified before Congress, which is that I don't know. What I do know for certain is that the government is censoring and covering up information cannot be justified by national security. If you think this all a bunch of B.S., then you should be the first to demand transparency. If you think this is all B.S. and you want to maintain the censorship and secrecy then you are a bad faith actor. From now on, if you want to know who is operating in good faith, just ask them whether or not they support ending UAP censorship. If they start insulting and ridiculing people, or engaging in other unethical, irrational, and illegitimate forms of debate, you'll know they are operating in bad faith. If you think UAPs are NHI, then please consider focusing your energy and efforts on ending the censorship, rather than trying to convince people of your views based on the limited information we have, or speculating without evidence. I don't know about you, but I don't think the world needs a lot more speculation, even by high-ranking officials, about what is going on. What we need, and what the Constitution requires, is government transparency. The public and Congress are strongly united behind the cause of ending excess censorship and secrecy on UAPs and much else. There are a lot of issues that divide us. I have never testified on an issue where there was more bipartisan unity than on this one. I am glad to see, in just the last few days, a growing number of UAP skeptics openly endorsing the need to end the censorship. So take a close look at this document, and the other censored UAP documents. They have, to date, been obstacles to getting at the truth about UAPs. They are now an opportunity for President Trump to fulfill his duties to representing the public's interest against whoever it is that is undermining it.
Marco Rubio says he has no "way to verifyā€ the ā€œspectacular claimsā€ made by ā€œpeople with high clearances.ā€ But if the Nat. Sec. Advisor lacks access to classified intel, and cannot tell if officials are lying, then it's up to Trump to reveal what the government knows about UAP.
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Believe it or not, you can be both anti-Maduro and anti-American invasion, at the same time
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Plasma Life Forms In Earth’s Atmosphere? šŸ¤”
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🚨NASA Detects Uncorrelated Targets (UFOs) Space Force Scrubs The data! #ufotwitter #uapX @DrBeaVillarroel
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Thank you @GadiNBC for covering this story on @NBCNews. UAP are real, and this is important to talk about. I suspect @RepLuna @RepEricBurlison @RepTimBurchett can help push for answers from @DoD_AARO. And also, push PAST the organization - for the truth. #UAPtransparency
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tiktok.com/t/ZP8jy4RJ5/ This looks incredible

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Let our boy cook. Rock it Dave 🤘
NEW- Statement from UAP whistleblower David Grusch on @RepEricBurlison hiring him to be on staff: ā€œI’m both immensely humbled and deeply honored to join Congressman Burlison and his amazing team of professionals in pushing for government transparency,ā€ said Grusch. ā€œThe public is rightfully demanding to know the truth and it is my true privilege for me to serve the people of this country once again. I will use all my expertise to support Rep. Burlison and help the US Congress restore full oversight while enabling the Legislative Branch’s ability to investigate and hold those accountable who have broken the law and lied not only to our Congress, but also to the Executive Office of the President, Director of National Intelligence, and Department of Justice.ā€
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Lue was dialed in for this interview
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Great response to this post. Thank you because it took a little bit of time. I responded to a lot of the replies and will try to get to more.
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The Truth About The Reality of Nonhuman Intelligence Full Talk: youtu.be/L3q6t9MMgB0
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Sonya Massey was shot in the head by a police officer who didn’t have on his body camera. The family was told she killed herself and then told someone else killed her. The only way we knew what actually happened is his partner had on his body camera. Read that again.
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Trump: I’m giving federal immunity to police officers
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OMG! Pete Buttigieg just DEMOLISHED JD Vance on Bill Maher’s show. Vance is a fraud and Secretary Buttigieg perfectly explains how. This is absolutely worth a watch.

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Has my vote
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