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university communications staff: "Today the federal government recognized U.C. Davis as among 'America's most elite universities'!"

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Former CIA, author of the Victor Caro series, watcher of yachts, alexzfinley.com
alexzfinley.substack.com
university communications staff: "Today the federal government recognized U.C. Davis as among 'America's most elite universities'!"
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
That’s nice.
Oh, hey! That’s me!
Some personal news: I did not win the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
🦠 This might be an excellent time to close Schengen borders to travelers from Russia…
Latest piece. The discussion of a possible Russian escalation against European NATO often misses the main point that it indicates. It is not about Europe, it is about the USA. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-key-po...
Some personal news: I did not win the Nobel prize for medicine.
US accuses California woman of spying for China, surveilling Taiwan leader's son reut.rs/3ThW8PO
All this time I’ve been worried about US biolabs in Ukraine. Go figure.
With the midterms less than five weeks away, the Trump administration has halted intelligence briefings, trainings and other resources for states, according to state officials. Only in recent days have federal agencies begun offering briefings to states.
Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.
This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.
#Russia declares war on #Europe. Europe strongly condemns it, but doesn’t do much else, @alexzfinley.bsky.social writes. substack.com/app-link/pos... #Putinswar #Ukraine
Negotiations to end the war in Ukraine "have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner" reports
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64% of US adults say it is bad for democracy
This week’s Rant! is basically a laundry list of Russian attacks on Europe, followed by some ideas on how to respond. alexzfinley.substack.com/p/russia-dec...
Oh, hey! That’s me!
NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org:
Spotted in the DC Metro