Xavier Onassis

Xavier Onassis

@xavieronassis.bsky.social

NOT the person using this handle on Substack. Eisenhower Republican (which is to say NOT a Republican — or Democrat — at all). Ain't no cavalry comin'. From now on, we're each on our own, and Alferd E. Packer awaits us in the wilderness.

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Early in Trump's war, Iran utterly annihilated NSA Bahrain, HQ of the Naval Forces Central Command and the Fifth Fleet. Now we know why the USS Abraham Lincoln couldn't be supplied AND why sailors, whose families lived on the base, leapt overboard. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

yahoo.comThe devastation of NSA Bahrain is a national security warningIf NSA Bahrain is not reconstituted to pre-attack capabilities, it will fundamentally change how the U.S. Navy operates, the author of this op-ed writes.

The 401(k) replaced pensions in the 80's. Now, the biggest voting block is ages 45+, with median savings ranging from $144K to $200K, not including house values. "Tax the Rich" won't work because those folks think THEY are rich.

No war games with South Korea, because they won't help Trump's Iran war. He said Kim Jung Un "respects me." Implication: South Korea DOESN'T. He isn't favoring Kim, he's warning S. Korea, as he warns his Congress. Totally on brand.

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James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

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He started by committing housing discrimination. Cheated dozens of contractors. There were the charities and Trump University people he defrauded. He assaulted E Jean Carroll. 34 financial crimes. Even now he’s running a crypto scam He’s always been a criminal and con artist MAGA chose him anyway

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

CNN has found a woman who accuses Karim Kahn, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court of sexual misconduct — by extension, tarring the ICC, which Marco Rubio, days ago, vowed to dismantle before Trump, et al., can be charged with international crimes, like Netanyahu and Putin have been.

This, barely a fortnight after finding a woman who accused Graham Platner of sexual misconduct — by extension tarring Democratic Socialists, who oligarchs fear might kneecap their plans to take more of our wealth for their own.

Next time you give $10 to a Democratic Socialist's Congressional campaign, remember that a rich person will give $7,000 to the PARTY'S candidate, $5,000 to a PAC, $10,000 each to the state and local party committees,$44,300 to the nat'l party and UNLIMITED contributions to "super PAC's."

People claim Mamdami's a "socialist," but it was Trump who seized the means of production with gov't acquisition of 10% of Intel, 15% of MP Materials, 5% of Lithium Americas, 10+% of Trilogy Metals, and a golden share of Nippon Steel, and negotiating with four more. Trump's a Commie.

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Not beating the eugenicist allegations

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Stephen Miller was reportedly the driving force behind the DOJ's recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care

More than more than 17% of South Africans — 7.8 million — are living with HIV/AIDS. Many had been treated under the U.S. President's (G.W. Bush's) Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) until it was killed by DOGE — by Elon Musk, a native white South African with a bent toward racism.

Hmmm. $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction. I'll bet they got it by promising Kushner and Witkoff prime waterfront property on the strait (suitable for a resort), and vowed to put Trump's name in big letters on everything they "reconstruct" — literally, if not figuratively.

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I mean, true?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BARTIROMO: What are you going to do about your perception? The Wall Street Journal describes you as 'scandal plagued' PAXTON: The reality is they could say the same thing about Donald Trump

To commemorate the American Revolution, King Charles will be addressing Congress today. I'm *really* hoping one of our members of Congress will ask him to *please" re-admit us to the United Kingdom. If we've got to have a king, I'd rather theirs than ours. And a Parliament, too, please.

Outrageous that the FBI is purchasing commercially available personal data, allowing it warrantless access to an individual's location history. We should be more concerned that the info is commercially available in the first place — and to whom data brokers sell it. thehill.com/opinion/cong...

thehill.comAmericans’ Fourth Amendment rights are not for saleThe FBI has admitted to purchasing commercially available data to track Americans’ movements and location histories, and Congress has the opportunity to close the data broker loophole and ren…

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nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Karim Sadjadpour in The Atlantic: The Iranian regime "has shown itself willing to destroy the country and its people rather than compromise its power or ideology." Hmmm. The same could be said of the Republican Party.

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In this Roman taberna, it was a tradition: a little puls, big glass of passum, then over to Calvary to watch the the crucifixions. But now the woke mob wants to take all of that away.

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Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton. His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs. They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.

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call me old fashioned but I don’t think anyone should have to trade for “no deporting US citizens” we should get that one for free you know

Burgess Everett@burgessev.bsky.social

The White House sent Sens. Collins and Britt this letter detailing the immigration enforcement changes they are willing to make to fund DHS -body cameras -limit enforcement at sensitive locations -oversight -visible officer identification -no deporting US citizens cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...

Republicans thought gerrymandering would seal November for them. Turns out, prob'ly not. Now, they're betting that the SAVE Act will hurt Democrats in blue states worse than MAGAts in red.

Now Trump is preparing to bomb Iran for no apparent emergency reason (other than to distract us from the Trumpstein files and his Minnesota ICE invasion), and nobody seems to be concerned that Congress is again abdicating its rights.