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Posted on 6/23/26 at 10:39 pm to okietiger13
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Where’s all my comfy frens?
Posted on 6/23/26 at 10:40 pm to BigD13
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BigD13
Posted on 6/23/26 at 10:43 pm to emboslice
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emboslice
Posted on 6/23/26 at 10:44 pm to okietiger13
Whatever came of this? Are we back to nothing again?
Posted on 6/23/26 at 11:44 pm to Meauxjeaux
I wonder what their plan for getting around Fauci's pardon is. Because this shite is looking pretty rough. This guy gotta go down.
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Posted on 6/24/26 at 12:24 am to shoelessjoe
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There's no reason it couldn't be reinstituted with a click
This thread is that thread. Back and better than ever apparently.
All anybody ever wanted was a space to have a legitimate discussion about all of it.
Thanks are in order if that ability has been restored. Because this is where I parked my car all those many years ago.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 3:11 am to BurlesonCountyAg
Pink Floyd? Did somebody say Pink Floyd?
I'm present and accounted for, all ears.
I've been prepared for a while...
I'm present and accounted for, all ears.
I've been prepared for a while...
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And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you'r in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
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Posted on 6/24/26 at 4:37 am to BoarEd
If a big thing WRT Q pops in the next month or so, I think Chicken really should consider reposting the Q thread with it being pinned and locked, read only. I'm sure he's concerned with the weirdos and BS that will populate the board, but he could try it for a few weeks and see what happens. We'd certainly have to monitor ourselves in it's use and the flies it draws.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 6:39 am to 2 Jugs
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And hogans.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:47 am to BoarEd
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I think Thine was multiple people using the same account.
I had not thought of that possibility.
In the first post of the original "Unraveling Thread of Everything" thread, TPA used the word "detumesce" to describe what happened after reading the first Q post on 4chan.
In other posts, TPA hinted at being not male or female, or maybe being both.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:54 am to 2 Jugs
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:57 am to Iron Lion
RTed by the DoW CTO. More quantum tech details:
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Today, we're launching “Farseer,” a multi-phase initiative designed to transition mature quantum sensing and timing technologies directly to the Joint Force.
Farseer seeks innovative commercial solutions to prototype and demonstrate advanced, quantum-enabled sensing and timing platforms to address warfighter needs. It is structured across four primary Lines of Effort (LoE), each focused on critical mission use cases:
- Magnetometers
- Gravimeters
- Portable clocks, and
- Component technologies for spiral enhancements to quantum sensing and timing solutions.
This project represents a fundamental shift away from the limitations of classical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) sensors. By harnessing the unique properties of quantum physics, this project is set to shatter the longstanding "sensitivity-SWaP" (Size, Weight, and Power) trade-off, unlocking unprecedented situational awareness for aerial, surface, and subsurface missions in the electromagnetically contested world.
“The United States Department of War must accelerate deployment and commercialization of quantum sensing to maintain superiority of knowledge of the battle space, speed of decision, and operational dominance,” said Kyle Norman, who leads DIU's quantum sensing team.
Learn more: LINK
Submit a solution here (due 10 July at 11:59:59 p.m. Eastern Time): LINK
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:58 am to VoxDawg
They also let the cat out of the bag re: Directed Energy Weapons as part of the Golden Dome. The first functional milestone test was yesterday (SIAP):
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Today, the first milestone test of Golden Dome for America (GDA) was a full mission success — and I was honored to witness it firsthand.
Cutting edge directed energy was harnessed and the Dynamic Defense Autonomous Defeat (DDAD) system flawlessly and autonomously cued, targeted, and eliminated a multitude of incoming threats. This test was executed on schedule — and dynamically
defeated every threat.
I watched our elite warfighters integrate with next-generation technology to stop incoming drones and cruise missiles dead in their tracks.
Traditional Primes and emerging Primes are competing, collaborating, and winning—delivering on President Trump’s priority.
This historic milestone was only made possible by the One Big Beautiful Bill—giving us the funding to deliver on the ultimate shield to protect America.
President Trump is making President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) vision a reality. With Golden Dome, the War Department will defend our homeland more powerfully than ever before. Golden Dome is real, powerful, and on track.
I'm old enough to remember when directed energy weapons were science fiction first, then cOnSpIrAcY tHeOrY, later.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:24 am to BoarEd
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Tulsi did outstanding work for us. In addition to setting the stage for the purge happening now she also had already reduced the ODNI workforce by 50%. What they're doing now is cutting the ODNI down to a skeleton crew.
CNN reported that Pulte fired six political appointees chosen by Tulsi Gabbard...did she embed them to find those that needed removal?...then Pulte let them go?
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:49 am to VoxDawg
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More quantum tech details:
During that rescue mission of our downed pilot in Iran they said that the CIA was able to use quantum sensing technology that was able to pinpoint that dude's heartbeat. That's crazy talk.
There is going to be a goldmine to be had for people who can develop systems to bridge the gap between classical and quantum computing systems.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:54 am to Ailsa
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CNN reported that Pulte fired six political appointees chosen by Tulsi Gabbard...did she embed them to find those that needed removal?...then Pulte let them go?
From cadillacattack's thread on the topic:
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Acting DNI Pulte Removes 51 from Agency – Six Fired and 45 “sent back to their home agencies”
June 23, 2026 | Sundance
CBS is reporting on events within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. As CTH previously outlined, Acting Director of National Intelligence Bill Pulte is following a very predictable path. {GO DEEP}
The part of the CBS report that tells the story is: “Six career and political intelligence staff were terminated and 45 were sent back to their home agencies, according to three sources familiar with the personnel moves.” …
“One source characterized the cuts as thoughtful and methodical. No staffers have been removed from the counterterrorism group.” So, who was removed? Well, I’m certainly not the Nostradamus of USIC, but if I were to hazard an educated guess it looks like the National Intelligence Council – Directorate of Analysis, just lost six political staff, and 45 people from the various liaison desks were ‘sent back to their home agencies.’
As we noted last year, Tulsi Gabbard took the National Intelligence Council (NIC) out of the CIA – fired the heads, then putting the assembly back under the control of the ODNI. However, highly political operatives within the former CIA-controlled Directorate of Analysis (the former home of Eric Ciarmella) were still problematic.
It looks like Director Pulte just eliminated the remaining DoA rats.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:55 am to VoxDawg
He goes on to share that Ratcliffe is collecting scalps at CIA, too:
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Okay, here is the truth. CIA Director Ratcliffe has been on an absolute tear. He's done more house-cleaning at Langley than anyone in decades — and predictably, the entrenched bureaucracy is screaming bloody murder about it.
?? The Purge: What He's Actually Done
Mass Firings & Buyouts
•February 2025: Ratcliffe extended the government-wide deferred resignation buyout program to the entire CIA workforce — the first time any intelligence agency had done this. The pitch was blunt: take the deal and walk, or get on board with the new mission.
•51 DEI-related officers were targeted for termination. A judge temporarily paused the firings of 19 who sued, but a Virginia district judge ultimately ruled Ratcliffe has "sweeping statutory authority" to fire CIA employees at will.
•Probationary employees (those with less than two years at the agency) were systematically reviewed and many were cut. They were summoned to off-site locations, stripped of security credentials, and shown the door. The agency's own statement on this was cold as ice: "Our officers face unique pressures from working in situations that are fast-paced and high-stakes — it's not for everyone."
•Overall headcount reduction: The plan is to shrink the CIA by roughly 1,200 positions over Trump's term, partly through early retirements (several hundred took the deal), partly through reduced hiring, and partly through straight firings.
The DEI Purge
This was arguably the most controversial piece. Officers who'd been rotated into diversity, equity, and inclusion roles — some with 18 years in, just short of their pensions — got axed. Their attorney argued they were just "regular American intelligence officers" doing temporary DEI assignments. Ratcliffe didn't care. The DEI apparatus was seen as a political infection, and he cut it out.
The Bias Report Scandal (2026)
This one's especially revealing. Ratcliffe ordered a review of roughly 300 intelligence reports from the past decade. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board found 19 reports so politically compromised they violated basic tradecraft standards under Intelligence Community Directive 203. Of those:
•17 were permanently deleted
•2 were pulled, revised, and reissued
The reports spanned the tenures of John Brennan, Gina Haspel, and William Burns — and none of those directors had ever rescinded a batch of reports over bias. Ratcliffe's CIA official put it plainly: "There is absolutely no room for bias in any kind of the CIA's work."
If 19 out of 300 were bad enough to delete, what's lurking in the thousands that haven't been reviewed yet?
?? Why This Matters
This isn't typical bureaucratic reshuffling. Ratcliffe is systematically dismantling what he and Gabbard have openly called the "well-documented politicization" and "weaponization" of the intelligence community. Gabbard has sent criminal referrals for illegal leaks, revoked 67 security clearances, and has 11 more leak investigations underway.
The pearl-clutching from the old guard is exactly what you'd expect. CNN ran breathless pieces about how fired agents might sell secrets to China or Russia. Ratcliffe's response was savage: "You're telling me that a professional setback could cause people to risk the consequences of treason... and your argument is that those are the kind of people who should stay inside CIA?"
The deeper question — and Ratcliffe clearly gets this — is whether an intelligence agency that spent years running DEI programs, producing politically slanted analysis, and leaking against a sitting president was ever really serving the American people in the first place. You don't reform a captured institution with gentle memos and lateral transfers. You clean house.
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Posted on 6/24/26 at 9:04 am to VoxDawg
A delta for today.
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