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Publisher & Editor, America 2.0 • Writer, Washington Spectator • Spy tracker • Curator, @TEDxMidAtlantic • Tips? Signal: davetroy.69

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Joined April 2007
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📙 BOOKS: People ask me what to read to understand how we got here. So we've published the "America 2.0 Reading List." 120 books — the founders on faction, Russia's political technologists, the anti-democratic right, and the strange ideas underneath it all. america2.news/the-america-2-…
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At least $2.6 million in user funds was drained from Polymarket accounts on Thursday after hackers exploited an engineering flaw in the prediction market’s website. on.wsj.com/4yLxB43
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They are joined at the hip, don’t kid yourself. This has been clear to intel professionals for 5+ years.
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Absolutely evil strike on innocent civilians at the railway station — 4 jet-powered drones hit the platform and trains. A train with evacuees from Zaporizhzhia had just arrived, and people were running to the shelter when the drones hit. Barbaric.
A horrific Russian strike on the railway station in Dnipro. The Russians launched a drone attack on a platform where an ordinary commuter train and a scheduled passenger train were standing. Unfortunately, 13 people have been confirmed killed as of now. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Ten more people were injured. All necessary emergency services are working at the scene. Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating? This is precisely why Ukraine has always said that just and decisive action by America and Europe is needed in response to Russian escalation – sanctions against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues. It is time for new, stronger sanctions steps by the EU, the United States, and the G7. I thank everyone who is ready to help in this way.
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The war ends when Russia is forced to stop murdering people. Not until then, and not some other way.
A horrific Russian strike on the railway station in Dnipro. The Russians launched a drone attack on a platform where an ordinary commuter train and a scheduled passenger train were standing. Unfortunately, 13 people have been confirmed killed as of now. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Ten more people were injured. All necessary emergency services are working at the scene. Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating? This is precisely why Ukraine has always said that just and decisive action by America and Europe is needed in response to Russian escalation – sanctions against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues. It is time for new, stronger sanctions steps by the EU, the United States, and the G7. I thank everyone who is ready to help in this way.
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These motherfuckers didn’t just screw over a Pope with cancer. The whole Oleshky story is a Putin information operation designed to save that old orange ass from electoral defeat. Guys, this needs to become an atomic bomb for the bastards in the White House. If you haven’t written about it yet, share this post. As many people as possible need to know this story. What I had previously only suspected on instinct has now been confirmed. It turns out that the absurd “Melania Trump ceasefire” in Oleshky was literally Putin’s idea. He personally “very much wanted” Melania to act as mediator, her senior adviser Mark Beckman told the Kyiv Independent. Well, you could have guessed that, and I did immediately. A person who can barely string two words together was hardly going to organize something like this better than the Pope. More than that, Putin sent her a special letter saying that Russia officially recognized Melania as its “exclusive intermediary.” Do you understand what that means? Russia has occupied Oleshky for four and a half years, blocked the city, prevented humanitarian aid from getting in, and driven the remaining residents into an acute shortage of food and medicine. And then Putin picks Trump’s wife as the person who will be allowed to “solve” the problem. And he does it right before the elections, when Trump’s collapsing ratings desperately need saving. Trump, the politician who is now effectively helping Putin force Ukraine into capitulation. The White House has already announced that it was Melania who “secured the ceasefire,” while four journalists from Newsmax, Trump’s pet TV network, have been sent to Oleshky as “neutral observers” to present the entire operation to an American audience in exactly the right light. You can bet your ass they won’t just advertise the orange ape as the greatest humanitarian genius in human history. They’ll advertise Putin right alongside him. John Foreman, the former British defense attaché in Moscow and Kyiv, is calling this exactly what it is: a deliberate Kremlin operation. “They know exactly what they’re doing.” According to him, allowing Melania to take credit for the ceasefire gives Russia a way to present the Trumps to the MAGA audience as peacemakers immediately before the midterms. In other words, Moscow first creates a humanitarian catastrophe, then allows the family of the U.S. president to stage a spectacular “rescue” of that catastrophe in order to save themselves from political disaster. Fuck, I genuinely don’t have enough words to express how unbelievably vile and disgusting this is. I’m choking on the hatred of it. They have turned one of the largest man-made humanitarian catastrophes of the 21st century into a fucking medal pinned to an orange ass.
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NEW: Our reporting found the recent Starlink outage in Ukraine could be part of an elaborate upsell. When U.S. officials asked Musk's company about it, they were told the problem could be fixed by upgrading to a new contract. @isaacstanbecker @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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The fact that Russia can so easily stop bombing Kherson for a 4-day ceasefire shows that it can end this war whenever it wants. But it has no real desire to stop. Instead, it just attacked a major civilian railway station with drones, murdering at least 14 people on the platform.
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A useful razor for evaluating the current moment, especially in regards to tech, is considering how stupid it's going to look in 5, 10, or 25 years. I can't help but think this will all seem like an age of hucksters and manipulators. And yeah, moreso than usual.
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In the 5 year bucket... nitter.cf/davetroy/status/211551…
hey so is everybody pumped up about the metaverse?
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🔭 What we're tracking today: 1. Israel fraud claim: no evidence 2. Starlink arson pair charged 3. DOJ ballot bid rejected 4. Dems: save Trump's Grok prompts 5. Ship sunk off Bulgaria 6. Ebola vaccine trial 7. No Dem power-grab plot 8. Anthropic IPO losses trackers.america2.news/?r=h-…
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Incredible. Russia is bringing in NEWSMAX—which has Epstein’s savior and Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on the board—to reinforce Melania’s psyop that she somehow saved Oleshky. Melania announces this by quote-tweeting Putin’s bag man. The shamelessness is nauseating.
DOCUMENTING OLESHKY Four American journalists from Newsmax will be on the ground in Oleshky, embedded with Russian and Ukrainian humanitarian leaders. Serving as neutral observers, they will independently record and permanently document this historic humanitarian mission.
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There are a lot of people amplifying vague, scary sounding claims about the election because it drives clicks and amps people up. We’re doing the opposite: fact-checking and contextualizing every claim, highlighting real threats, and calming people down so they can focus on what matters: voting. It may not drive clicks or emotions, but this is exactly what We the People need right now. election2026.america2.news/?…
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AP: Social media videos believed to be produced with AI and linked to Russia are misusing real people's names and photographs to spread disinformation about Sherrod Brown and James Talarico in the final stretch of midterm voting. apnews.com/article/midterm-e…
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This link is very helpful. It challenges viral claims, gives concrete examples of voting manipulation that should be concerning were it to happen in your area, and offers guidance for reporting of voting irregularities.
A set of viral claims suggests that Donald Trump and Elon Musk rigged the 2024 election, and have similar designs on the current midterms. We reviewed these claims and provided contexts to why rigging is unlikely. But — the best defense is strong turnout. election2026.america2.news/c…
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A set of viral claims suggests that Donald Trump and Elon Musk rigged the 2024 election, and have similar designs on the current midterms. We reviewed these claims and provided contexts to why rigging is unlikely. But — the best defense is strong turnout. election2026.america2.news/c…
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The sheer number of open-weight, specialty, and edge models exploding right now is astonishing, and suggests Anthropic won't see something like Q2 2026 — when their distribution reach was a moat — again. Q3 numbers will be interesting, much less Q4.
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Putin effusively praises Musk and says they are in close contact with him as one of their American partners.
🤔 Putin on Elon Musk: Elon Musk is an industrial genius. He has more than 5,000 spacecraft in orbit. We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk. It is important to maintain discipline and order in orbit. Both we and our American partners value this, and despite political issues, we work closely together in this field. Elon Musk is a genius, a truly brilliant man.
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