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[John Hilton]

It just keeps coming! But I'm off to bed in an hour.

Massive Election Corruption Report Details 824 Findings Across 800 Pages of Search Warrants and Investigative Documents
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...igation-lists/

[mountain_jim]

If this update was provided in thread I missed it.

https://x.com/catturd2/status/2077841352440651784?s=20

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
MAJOR BREAKING

William Upham has been arrested in Florida and charged for threats against the President after he said Trump must be kiIIed

FAFO time

[Ravenlocke]

It’s a Dark comet.

Drew Doss

NEAR EARTH ASTEROID (now comet) SH 1998 FOUND OVER 2,000km OFF COURSE

But nothing for us to worry about. Pretty cool discovery though that reinforces the existence of “dark comets” in our solar system. There was a lot of talk about dark comets during the 3I/ATLAS craze with some arguing they don’t truly exist (despite a mountain of evidence). If you’ve never heard the term, a dark comet is more or less what you’d expect from the name: an object that demonstrates cometary features such as non-gravitational acceleration via outgassing without a visible coma or tail.

This particular object is classified as a Near Earth Object meaning it is watched closely for possible threats to Earth. Somewhat dubious considering it was found to be a full NINETEEN standard deviations (153 arcseconds) from its expected position based on solar/planetary gravity influence alone.

Every day, we are reminded that we barely even understand our own space backyard. But I think that’s the allure of space: it will never stop surprising us.

Stay curious

https://x.com/drew4worldruler/status...26537258627169

KTLA

A recent NASA study has revealed that a near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three decades ago is not, in fact, an asteroid, but rather an unusual object classified as a “dark comet.” https://ktla.com/news/nationworld/ne...al-nasa-finds/

https://x.com/KTLA/status/2077981621467381872

[Raskolnikov]

Never let a good crisis go to waste. I'll admit the use of the word "closetocracy" made me laugh.

Disgraced Hunter Biden Believes the Biggest Problem in America Is Not the ‘Oligarchy,’ but the ‘Gay Mafia Largely Republican’ Running Washington, D.C.



In yet another unhinged rant, disgraced Hunter Biden declared on the “I’ve Had It” podcast that the biggest problem facing America isn’t oligarchs, inflation, open borders, or the wreckage of his father’s presidency, it’s a secret “closetocracy” of closeted gay Republicans allegedly running Washington D.C.

The former crack addict delivered the wild accusation with a straight face, claiming he “lived there for 20 years” and “knows for certain.”

Hunter Biden:

“I believe that the biggest problem in America, as in Washington, D.C., with the federal government, is not the oligarchy. It’s the closetocracy, as I call it. It is. And I’m being totally serious.

Everybody knows there is this closeted gay mafia, largely Republican, that exists in Washington, D.C., and everybody knows every single one of them who’s gay.

And so it’s—what I believe, the only reason that is relevant, is because I believe that internal conflict creates so much vitriol inside a person that they take it out on the rest of the world. And they do. So what they do is, their whole lives, they’ve been closeted, and so you have this black ball inside yourself, this blackened heart, because you can’t be who you want to be.

And so you take it out on everybody else. And these men, largely men, have done exactly that. And they are—everybody knows who they are.”

WATCH:

Washington D.C. has been under near-total Democrat control for decades. A Democrat mayor, Democrat city council, and a federal bureaucracy that overwhelmingly leans left.

Yet Hunter Biden wants Americans to believe the real power behind the curtain is some phantom “largely Republican” gay mafia pulling the strings and spreading “vitriol.”

This is rich coming from the Biden crime family. The same family that has spent years shielding Hunter from accountability while the media and Big Tech colluded to bury the laptop story. The same family that has presided over chaos at the border, lawfare against conservatives, and the erosion of American energy independence.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ggest-problem/

[onawah]

"Three Gorges Dam In Danger: One Mountain Collapsed, 7,000+ “Time Bombs” Are Waiting To Explode
China Observer
824K subscribers
Jul 19, 2026

(The CCP's official reports on the number of casualties resulting from this incident clearly demonstrate how absurdly low the official numbers are. Chinese citizens are becoming increasingly vocal in their eyewitness accounts of such incidents as to what the actual figures are likely to be. That's even in spite of the CCP's strictures against such reporting, and the arrests and imprisonment that have invariably followed.
The sense of impending doom must be growing alarmingly among the many millions of Chinese citizens living downstream from the 3 Gorges Dam.
Once again, the current flood season's damage from numerous collapsing dams and reservoirs is massive, and attempts to repair the original flawed construction of reservoirs and dams in general are ultimately fruitless.
If and when the 3GD collapses which seems inevitable now, it's difficult to predict the huge impact it will have not only on China, but on the entire world economy. )

"On the morning of July 17 at 9:07 a.m., a massive landslide struck Hanjiā Subdistrict in Chongqing. Loud rumbling sounds and clouds of dust filled the air. Tens of thousands of cubic meters of rocks and soil broke loose from the steep mountainside. They crashed downward and quickly covered the streets, vehicles, pedestrians, and rows of homes below."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuZ4Hy3-a04

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China’s Dam Disaster: 15 Reservoirs Collapse, Floods Won’t Recede, Villagers Left Trapped
China Observer
824K subscribers
Jul 14, 2026

"Satellite images from July 12 also showed that several reservoirs near Hengzhou, Nanning, Guangxi, where dam breaches occurred, had expanded several times in size. The surrounding waters around reservoirs including Yunbiao, Liulan, and Gandao had spread dramatically, while downstream areas had turned into a vast expanse of brown floodwater. "

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V-F0c9FVavY

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BREAKING! 4 Guangxi Reservoirs Fail At Once, Tens Of Thousands Missing, Three Gorges Next?
China Observer
824K subscribers
Jul 7, 2026

"Typhoon Maysak and its remnants kept affecting Guangxi. They brought heavy rain to the area since July 4. Water levels in major reservoirs went up fast. Some reservoirs began releasing water. Yet their old earth embankments could not stand the force. On July 6, the dam at Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou, Guangxi broke suddenly. It left a gap about 50 meters long."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Th8OyTIPzdw

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China Hides Something Worse Than a Three Gorges Dam Collapse
China Observer
824K subscribers
Jul 2, 2026

(It's not that surprising that the CCP's customary "tofu dreg" construction methods would extend to nuclear facilities as well. Just one more way (no doubt the most deadly) in which the CCP's heedless environmental policies are ultimately poisoning the entire planet. )

"On June 29, Kyodo News in Japan published a highly sensitive report. It said that after carefully reviewing data released by China’s National Nuclear Safety Administration, it found that between 2011 and 2024, nuclear reactors in China experienced a total of 130 abnormal shutdowns due to critical facility failures and human error."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rPIzE3IbkW8

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China World AI Conference Mocked: No Western Nations Attend, Turns Into A “Beggar’s Fair”
China Observer
824K subscribers
Jul 18, 2026

(It will probably be a while before the CCP stops wincing due to this particular very embarrassing international exposé.)

"On July 17, the Shanghai Pudong World Expo Center hosted a heavily promoted event by Chinese authorities — the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2026). Looking back, the event was usually attended by Premier Li Qiang as a representative of the government. But this year, for the first time, Xi Jinping himself made a personal appearance. Clearly, as China faces mounting pressure from both internal challenges and external technology restrictions, Xi urgently needed a self-staged “international platform” to show the world that he is still the great leader capable of “guiding the future of human technology.”

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B1ThwmDJmn0

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Biblical Floods Decimate China - Whole Cities Are Now Underwater
China Fact Chasers
229K subscribers

(More details with map & video footage of flooding in China (without warning, though it could have been issued) and reporting on the cost and the reality of "renovations" the CCP makes to dams. Also, why the termperature in China has been rising every year and the weather keeps getting worse, and an explanation and documented example of why so few credible reports about what's happening in China ever make it to the foreign press. )

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4i_5kP8j3IA

[Inversion]

Andy Burnham becomes the Prime Minister of Britian.

NBC News

The man dubbed the “King of the North” became the new British prime minister Monday, the latest in a revolving door of leaders trying to halt a decade of political turbulence and economic stagnation in the United Kingdom.

Burnham, 56, was appointed unchallenged after the unpopular Keir Starmer agreed to step down last month following a series of election defeats, U-turns and scandals.

07/20/26 (18:15)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rcpdPRNibzQ

[rgray222]

Ortega is not even pretending anymore that all the elections he has run in have all been rigged and that the reason that the opposition leaders always ended up in jail was for political reasons. This is an amazing admission. Left-leaning and socialist desiring politicians around the world must be drooling at this arrogant, open and unabashed confession of guilt.

Nicaragua's Ortega says 'never again' for elections after two decades in power


Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega looks on as he attends a meeting of leaders of the member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America and the Treaty of Commerce and Promotion (ALBA-TCP), in Caracas, Venezuela December 14, 2024.

• Ortega is serving his fourth straight term since taking power in 2007
• UN council has accused the government of systematic abuses and authoritarian rule
• Ortega gave no details on how voting would be formally scrapped

July 20 (Reuters) - Nicaragua's long-serving president Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility ‌of an electoral challenge when his term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife.
Ortega, who has continuously held power since 2007 following an earlier presidential term in the 1980s, said the move will close off any path to the opposition, although he did not provide details about carrying out the ​ban.

"There won't be any more elections here for them to try to seize the government and seize power," Ortega said in a ​speech on Sunday evening to commemorate the 1979 Sandinista revolution, in which Ortega helped overthrow the U.S.-backed Anastasio ⁠Somoza dictatorship. "The days when parties backed by the Yankees (United States) and the Somocistas would return to power are over - never again," he added, in ​the 80-year-old's first public appearance in two months.

The U.S. State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump administration has ​described the Ortega government as a dictatorship, and imposed sanctions on more than 2,350 Nicaraguan officials and their relatives.
Nicaragua's last election in 2021 was widely disputed after Ortega detained opponents and business leaders and criminalized dissent.

Last year, Ortega further consolidated his power through a series of constitutional reforms that included naming his wife Rosario Murillo as "co-president" ​and extending the presidential term to six years. He and his wife control virtually every aspect of the government, including the armed forces and ​the judiciary. The U.N. Human Rights Council has accused Ortega and Murillo's government of transforming the country "into an authoritarian state" and systematically violating human rights. In 2018, Ortega responded ‌to widespread ⁠anti-government protests with a crackdown in which more than 300 people were killed.

Analysts and opposition politicians in exile said the declaration put into focus the reality of two-person rule under the Ortegas, while revealing the couple's fear of an opposition movement taking root. "Ortega and Murillo are evidently afraid at the idea that the slightest political opening could create the conditions for dissent to manifest and threaten their grip on power," said Tiziano Breda, a ​senior analyst at Armed Conflict Location & ​Event Data, a nonprofit that ⁠tracks political violence. "Instead of staging a rigged election, they have opted to eliminate electoral competition altogether."

Full Story: https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...ns-2026-07-20/

[Raskolnikov]

Though sports related, these two articles cover more than just the awful sportsmanship displayed by Argentina following their loss but even go on to say "(t)he Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation for potential fraud and money laundering of tens of millions of dollars involving AFA’s (Argentine Football Association) revenues through South Florida."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...rgentine-team/

SOCCER ASSAULT: FIFA To Investigate Dirty Argentine Team for Assaulting Spanish World Cup Champions After Final Whistle in Disgraceful Display (VIDEOS)



The sorry blue and white losers also turned their back when Spain was raising the trophy.

And the Miami Herald reports:

Luxury jets, yachts and Miami shell firms: FBI probes Argentina soccer funds

Claudio Fabián Tapia and Lionel Messi on stage during the 2023 Laureus World Sport Awards Paris show at Cour Vendome on May 8, 2023, in Paris. Kristy Sparow Getty Images for Laureus

The Argentina soccer team’s recent successes and Lionel Messi’s global popularity have led to an avalanche of brand deals, sponsorship offers and invites to play international friendlies for the Argentine Football Association, the country’s soccer federation. But as the storied team competes for its fourth World Cup title this year, there’s a dark cloud hanging over its finances.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation for potential fraud and money laundering of tens of millions of dollars involving AFA’s revenues through South Florida, sources with knowledge of the matter told the Miami Herald last week. A network of Miami-Dade firms that received millions of dollars, despite appearing to lack clear business justification, plays a central role in the activities under scrutiny. The firms are likely shell companies — they have few or no employees and no apparent business activity, and some operate out of “virtual offices” with no physical presence. Federal investigators are probing whether the fund transfers ultimately went to top AFA leaders and their allies for personal use, the Herald has learned. The mysterious movements of money are the subject of at least one criminal proceeding in Argentina, according to court records filed in Georgia.

The revelations come as AFA’s president, Claudio Tapia, and the soccer body’s treasurer, Pablo Toviggino, are already under investigation in Argentina surrounding separate allegations that they misused AFA’s Social Security contributions. An Argentine judge presiding over that case has imposed a travel ban on the two executives but has allowed Tapia to travel with the country’s World Cup squad. They have denied any wrongdoing. The Herald’s reporting is based on interviews with law enforcement officials, court filings, and business and corporate records. The transactions the Herald has reviewed are likely not exhaustive and offer only a glimpse into the complex financial movements of AFA funds that took place from late 2021 through 2025. AFA did not respond to the Herald’s multiple requests for comment. The soccer body has not publicly addressed any of the allegations...

The lengthy article then follows the money trail, tracks unusual money transfers, and describes some of the luxury expenses here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...316494889.html

[rgray222]

Fauci faces subpoena as newly exposed documents rattle the pandemic narrative



Newly released messages among the authors of a widely cited paper regarding the origins of COVID-19 privately raised doubts that the virus originated from bats, as their paper stated.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday released the internal Slack messages exchanged among the authors of "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" — Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes and Andrew Rambaut.

"The idea that it came from a lab is implausible, and, yet, privately they're saying the opposite. … This level of dishonesty, I think, needs to be exposed," Paul told Fox News. "These are people who get large, multimillion-dollar grants from our country, and we shouldn't be giving money to people who lied to us."

The paper was published in Nature Medicine in March 2020 and was widely cited by public health officials and the media as the scientific authority for ruling out a laboratory origin of SARS-CoV-2. However, the released messages appear to show that its authors were less certain than their public conclusions suggested.


Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday released the internal Slack messages exchanged among the authors of "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2." (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, File)

Some raised concerns that the virus originated in a lab.

Andersen assigned a 30% probability to a lab origin, while Holmes gave an estimate of 20%, though he later revised that to 10%. Either way, both figures contrast with the paper's public assertion that the virus had not been manipulated.

"The part I’m really struggling with is that, at the end of the day, we really don’t have any hard evidence one way or the other — and especially given some of the recent evidence, we also can’t rule out that somebody actually put it in there," Andersen wrote on June 11, 2020, according to the documents.

"That’s obviously not to say that somebody did, but we can’t rule it out. Our paper was pretty strong in saying ‘there’s no way,’ but I have less confidence in that statement at this stage."

Full Story: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sla...private-doubts

[John Hilton]

USA Election Illegals' Voting is Now Indisputable
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the...nesday-july-22

"Good morning, C&C family, it’s Wednesday! Today’s special edition roundup —you know I have to brief it for you— is a full dive on yesterday’s biggest elections news: New Jersey’s Governor suddenly and unexpectedly concedes both illegal immigrant voter registrations and illegal voters voting in federal elections. Social media is packed with hot takes, so let’s get the real story, which is much, much better than what you can find by scrolling. We return, once again, to the four-stage progressive denial ladder."

Governor Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) did not merely toss a hand grenade into the Democrats’ watercress salad yesterday via her sudden and unexpected press conference. It was not just a press conference. It was a full-on multi-domain attack. She’s also published a statement on her website and a long Twitter post, each time confirming certain uncomfortable facts that forced progressives to move further along their limited hangout spectrum— right as the SAVE Act debate reaches fever pitch.

[John Hilton]

President Donald J. Trump has approved a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, according to a senior administration official, with the deal allowing U.S. companies to help develop the kingdom’s nuclear power program. Congress will have an opportunity to review the agreement, though blocking it would require a veto-proof majority.

📺 DETAIL: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States would not enter into any agreement that creates a risk of nuclear proliferation. The deal comes as the United States continues military operations against Iran, with the Trump administration maintaining that Tehran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. Previous U.S. policy had linked Saudi nuclear cooperation to normalization of relations with Israel, but that condition was reportedly dropped as negotiations advanced. Analysts say the agreement’s impact will depend on whether it permits Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium and whether it includes strict International Atomic Energy Agency oversight and other nonproliferation safeguards. Experts have warned that allowing domestic uranium enrichment without strong restrictions could increase regional proliferation risks, particularly given past comments by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the kingdom would seek a nuclear weapon if Iran obtained one. Saudi Arabia is a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which monitors civilian nuclear programs, but the full terms of the agreement have not yet been released.

💬 KEY QUOTE: “We would not reach any agreement with any country in the world that leads to the risk of proliferation,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

🎯 IMPACT: If approved, the deal could strengthen Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure but also heighten regional tensions, particularly with Iran, which has been accused of pursuing nuclear weapons despite its denials.

📺 FLASHBACK: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has previously stated that the kingdom would seek nuclear weapons if Iran were to develop them. In addition, Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense pact with Pakistan, a nuclear-armed nation, in September, raising further concerns about nuclear proliferation in the region.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/07...isoners-early/

[John Hilton]

This is more in the realm of conspiracy but I think it's a good summation of the current situation.

Donald Trump Has Put the Media Industrial Complex on Final Notice
https://burningbright.substack.com/p...-visible-enemy

While the fallout of Donald Trump’s July 16 address was largely relegated to, well, election fraud and the 2026 Midterms, the true signal as to the next target in what I believe to reflect the counter-insurgency Trump is leading actually preceded said speech … or should I say, pre-seeded it.

The machine did what the machine always does.

For their part, and as mentioned last week, ABC and NBC declined to air the President’s primetime remarks on their primary broadcast channels, opting instead for the safer exile of streaming platforms and the usual post-game ‘fact-checking’ rituals that are anything but.

CNN ‘monitored,’ but only reported on the speech after the fact.

CBS and others cut away.

Fox carried it.

Trump, never one to miss a deployment, called the refusal a “plot,” demanded license revocations and reminded the country that these networks use public airwaves worth billions while paying nothing for the privilege.

The predictable chorus followed: authoritarian overreach, a First Amendment crisis … the usual hysteria from those who spent a decade treating the public airwaves as their private propaganda ministry.

To this audience, the refusal was as predictable as the sunrise.

From an objective framing, it was also patently absurd.

The Media Industrial Complex is no longer even pretending. It has become quite open about the position it occupies in the mindscape, and the one it intends to keep: the self-appointed arbiters and guardians of intelligence, which is to say, truth to the American people.

They do not report, but rather curate reality.

When the President of the United States stands up to declassify intelligence on systemic vulnerabilities in voting infrastructure, the guardians of truth decide the people are better served by game shows and alligator documentaries.

That is not journalism, but containment.

Under this framing, while there is an actual “vast conspiracy” at the heart of Trump’s seeming obsession with election fraud—an obsession most in this audience share, and for good reason—the failing of many even in the Truth Community is to see the media apparatus not just as an accessory to that conspiracy, but as its core animating engine.

The fraud was never merely about ballots or machines. It was about the narrative that made the fraud unassailable.

The media did not simply fail to investigate. It actively constructed the reality in which questioning the results became the greater crime.

As a result, Trump, in my estimation did not just call them out. He baited them.

To wit, on the eve of what many of us have long described as the disclosure phase, he forced the machine to choose: platform the Actuals, or reveal itself once more as the primary vector of the narrative warfare deployments of the very machine he is only just beginning to reveal through official channels.

Obviously, they chose the latter.

In so doing, they may have further entrapped themselves—not only in the court of public opinion, but on legal and national security grounds that are only now coming into focus.

The machine itself continues to spin Trump’s war on the media—ongoing since 2015—as partisan politicking, the petty vengeance of a thin-skinned strongman.

That framing is itself a containment strategy.

What Trump is doing is transitioning the conversation from the Narrative realm into the Actual one.

He is no longer content to call them “fake news.”

He is discussing licensing. He is discussing the public trust doctrine that underpins the entire broadcast regime.

And he is deploying that magical word this audience knows well: treason.

More so, the predicate TO that word is a single, devastating adverb, and one this audience also knows well: “knowingly.”

Knowingly.

That is the hinge. The fulcrum.

When a network refuses to air a presidential address on election integrity while simultaneously running interference for years on the very questions that address raises, the question ceases to be one of editorial discretion and becomes one of intent.

When the same complex that spent years amplifying the Steele dossier, Crossfire Hurricane and every subsequent containment narrative now refuses to let the public hear the declassified counter-narrative in real time, “knowingly” stops being abstract and becomes operational.

To wit, even a supposed-MAGA stalwart such as Fox News seemingly provided narrative shielding—and perhaps even legal shielding—to the vast conspiracy Trump claims, which some of us claimed at the time.

And more ...

[John Hilton]

It's my bedtime so I'll just put this here. Someone else can expand on it:

Is BBC News still doing journalism?
https://newsletter.martingeddes.com/...ing-journalism