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National FEC address clusters on a US map — dense markers on the coasts and DC FEC × address clusters · national map

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Insurrection 2026

Their lawyers — and there will be lawyers — will claim they were just cosplaying the idea of revolutionary overthrow of the US Government, and will ‘pinkie-swear’ they were not serious. Those same people think Trump is both a criminal mastermind and can psychically control a riot from 1.6 miles away, while giving a speech well past the start of the riot. January 6. And they would know, because many of them have been part of intelligence organizations that did overthrow governments. So you can trust them, they are intelligence professionals. Listen to them yourself, and make up your own mind. In Their Own Words. Can’t tell the players without a scorecard!

Start with @DataRepublican’s latest primer (video). She is using that thread to track every drop.

These people love to say they’re fighting for democracy, but they’re really fighting for ‘democracy’, because what they call democracy is a technocratic state. National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) are the ex-spooks who think they know what’s best, which by their definition means rule by technocrats, because us technopeasants are disobedient rubes who voted against women no one liked the first time they ran. Understanding that is key to understanding their whole point of view.

Old joke: Sire, the peasants are revolting! King: Yes I know, what’s that noise?

Sources: @DataRepublican latest primer (video).[1] Democracy Files Part 4.[2] She credits @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan for the leads.[3][4] @Schwalm5132 wrote the ten-person bios she pointed at.[5] Archive accounts are sources, not the roster.

  1. Illegitimacy Playbook primer (video, Oct 22)
  2. Democracy Files, Part 4
  3. Drop post: thanks to leads from @SKDoubleDub33 and @iamlisalogan
  4. How the archive landed: their lead, then public Drive
  5. Schwalm, ten persons of interest
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Insurrection 2026 — can't tell the players without a scorecard

Fun with Geography

Static investigative reports: DOT trucking, Medicare, federal contractors, NGO grants (in/out), and USG-funded nonprofits clustered on the same addresses and colocator pins. National maps and per-state slices — no login, no app, just HTML.

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FEC national cluster map preview

IRS 990 Parsed

Relational extract of Form 990 plus Medicare, DOT, OFAC, and FEC on the same addresses. ~459M rows, Parquet, CC0.

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Oregon Medicare address cluster map preview

Orgs

These are not press releases. Each take is Grumpy Analysis pointed at one organisation: what people think this is about versus what the machinery is actually doing. Then observations, snapshot, timeline, steelman, a Rumsfeld matrix, incentives, dueling AI advice, a practical takeaway, and what would falsify the read.

The roster is mixed on purpose. Progressive International sits next to No Kings, Arabella / Tides, and the billionaire grant graphs. Filter chips are those networks, not a pile of “United States.” Same blade as GrumpyNews — no sacred cows, no invented smoking guns, DK when the evidence is thin.

Pick an organisation. The Frame + Observations skim swaps in below. The full take is one more click.

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Dossiers

Same engine as Orgs, pointed at people. X accounts, leftover names, Congress, governors, and the $B crowd already taken on Orgs — copied, not retaken. Elon is musk. Flattened to /dossiers/{slug}.html.

Can’t tell the players without a scorecard. Chip by lane. Open a name. Frame + Observations skim below; the full take is one more click.

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Sankey

Dollar-width grant flows on DataRepublican Browse. The Uniparty, with every node wired to a Grumpy take.

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Sankey's 1898 steam-engine heat-flow diagram

Grok

All I wanted was news that didn't lie or manipulate me emotionally. I didn't intend for it to lead to investigating the nature of truth, prompting Grok to be moral, generating better recipe displays, or boiling 40+ years of managing software developers into a prompt that upgrades Grok's coding about 10×. That's what happened.

Truth is Non-Binary

Truth is Non-Binary

Irish True vs Lawyer True, five states of truth, and a prompt that makes Grok research both sides without pretending consensus is truth.

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Ringmaster

Ringmaster

Four roles, real hygiene, and a hook that waits like a human instead of lighting the credit meter on fire. The pack is why you keep it.

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Not Advice

This is not investment advice. It is a story about a startup that almost made me rich, a number we called batting average, and an annuity that showed up after my mom died. The meat, and the GitHub, are in the article.

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Busted!

Maps, hidden accounts, sims that punch a narrative, and recipe cards.

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Apps

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