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Don't follow the money. I did, and look where it led.
PACT, Inc. An NGO nobody's ever heard of.
I asked @MikeBenzCyber about it. Old CIA front.
Now it's showing up in @DataRepublican's Insurrection files.
In 2023 the USG paid it $375M to destroy democracy.
Funding chain: datarepublican.com/browse/?e…
Read up on PACT: grumpytechbro.com/orgs/pact-…
I used to be normal. – at Oregon, USA
Cockroaches hate light. – at Oregon, USA
Replying to @RealChippy @GrumpyTechBro
That page is currently barfing with a SECURITY error...
>This site can’t provide a secure connection
>nsl4a.org uses an unsupported protocol.
>ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
Humans are a system for moving information, just like computers.
The people in this thread built careers deciding when other countries’ governments lost legitimacy. Now they’re running the same system on the United States, in private, treating their credentials as proof they get to define the red lines.
Exodus 20:7 is the humility commandment. You might be wrong. These technocrats assume the opposite. They carry the fancy degree like the Lord’s name. Atoms don’t care. An MBA with no practical experience is usually a know-nothing. Farming and plumbing are hard. You don’t want someone who can’t tell blackwater from graywater telling the people who actually do the work what to do.
I’m mostly self-taught as a software engineer. My Caltech degree is in electrical engineering, not software. Pieces of paper do not equal skill. When I interview I ask: “Tell me about the time production broke, how you fixed it, and how you kept it from happening again.” Experience answers that. Certifications usually do not.
Trump went around the gatekeepers and talked to ordinary people. That is the real threat to them. They underestimated the technopeasants. Running the 1917 playbook in 2026 is a mistake. One person who would rather hire a real plumber than a PhD in fluid mechanics ends the Zoom-room plan.
They’re cooked. They just think they’re still in charge. – at Oregon, USA
🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨
I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.
I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.
Here's the primer:
USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.
Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.
You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.
Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.
This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.
In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.
Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.
DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.
Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.
The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.
Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.
In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."
Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."
Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.
The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.
Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.
Who decides when your government is legitimate?
Grumpy Tech Bro retweeted
🚨🚨 THE ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK / THE DEMOCRACY FILES: A PRIMER 🚨
I will be using this thread to track all drops, so bookmark it.
I spent most of yesterday backing everything (now 312 gigabytes) up in various sources and getting the materials out to others. I also produced an AI video (below) to explain the whole thing to others are not on 𝕏 - feel free to distribute.
Here's the primer:
USAID, the foreign aid agency, had a democracy office. Inside the agency, it was called DRG.
Officially, DRG administered "democracy assistance." They'd go inside countries they thought were sliding into authoritarianism and help the opposition there. That assistance included election monitoring, judicary support, independent media, and civil society building.
You may have heard the term "color revolution." The model comes from Serbia in 2000, where trained student activists brought down Milosevic with the help of Western governments, after sustained protests. With the help of USAID's democracy office, this model was implemented in many other countries to topple governments: Georgia's "Rose Revolution" in 2003, Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" in 2004, and many more.
Then last year, DOGE shut down USAID. But the USAID democracy office didn't stop. They formed a group called the Democracy Renewal Group, the same initials as their office (USAID Democracy, Human Rights, Governance). Their goal: apply their own playbook to the United States itself.
This goal became a plan, called Renew American Democracy (RAD). It invoked the "4 B's" framework. Block - use lawfare and protests to make life harder for the Trump administration. Bridge & Belong - control dialogue and win people over. The final and most important B is Build. Build means redesigning the American government itself, and the crisis is the opening.
In their own words:
"We can take that breakdown moment and leverage it for a big structural reform, you know, refounding moment." - Danielle Reiff, DRG lead.
Calls show DRG working alongside DSA on ideas of creating a different government, one that does away with the Constitution itself.
DRG does not run the Block operations. They hand it to UDA, the United Democracy Alliance. One organizer calls it a "huge galaxy": lawsuits, street protests, non-cooperation. They list No Kings, Indivisible, MoveOn, 50501, and many other mega-activist NGOs among their members.
Another organizer calls UDA Erica Chenoweth's project. Chenoweth is the Harvard professor behind the three-and-half-percent rule of regime change: get that share of a country's populace onto the streets, and historically, the movement wins.
The UDA is very "hush-hush." They have no website, no roster, no filings.
Then come the red lines: things the Trump administration could do, such as calling the Insurrection Act on protesters, that would mean that the federal government, in their words, "crosses the threshold into illegitimacy." Nobody voted on those lines. There was no public debate. These red lines were developed within secretive working groups, and in a paper addressed to governors and staff.
In the words of Reiff/DRG:
"So that if there is a red line crossed in terms of a Constitutional crisis, like everyone's already pre-organized. And so Mike Smith actually said, he goes, oh, you guys have the day after tomorrow plan."
Cross a line, and the paper's options include states refusing to lend their resources to federal officials, and governors convening what it calls a "Third Continential Congress."
Running the UDA's Insurrection Act working group: Rear Admiral Mike Smith (RET) of National Security Leaders of America (NSL4A). NSL4A is also credited with operationalizing UDA, the blocking operations. NSL4A consists of about 1,600 ex-officers, spies, diplomats. They're turning red lines into indicators and running a situation room to monitor them throughout the midterms and beyond.
The NSL4A's lawyers told them to stop recording meetings in case of subpoenas. But the rest of the network continued to record. DRG works in conjunction with Renew to Thrive (R2T), which ended up accidentally publishing 400+ calls and thousands of documents. These calls and documents were never meant for our eyes, but it's them, on tape.
Thousands of NGOs and billions of dollars are involved in this endeavor. Most of them believe they're saving democracy. The problem is that people who spent their careers deciding when other countries' governments had lost their legitimacy wrote that test for ours, in private, and planned for what comes after.
Who decides when your government is legitimate?
Grumpy Tech Bro retweeted
Replying to @senatorduff
Yes, I fully agree that Democrats should continue getting as many COVID shots as possible.
No need to stop at one.
Democrats should get multiple boosters too, you really never know!!!
Just go get as many as you can Democrats super important 🙏
1.74M FSD subs is $2B a year in software.
Close to 100% margin.
They're selling cars faster than they can build them.
And over 75% of new North American cars now come with FSD, up nearly 20 points in one quarter.
Now I just have to convince Elon to give a senior discount of $99 minus your age.
xitter.cf/Teslaconomics/status/2…
Growth is back at Tesla. Huge congrats to the entire team on an incredible quarter! 👏
This what stands out to me from $TSLA Q3:
THE FINANCIALS
• Revenue: $28.0B, roughly flat year over year.
• EPS: $0.48 vs. $0.45 expected.
• Gross margin: 19.6%, up from 18.0% a year ago and comfortably above the 17.9% Wall Street expected.
• Automotive gross margin excluding credits: 18.1%, up from 15.4%. Regulatory credit revenue fell from $417M to $113M. The underlying car business is getting more profitable.
• Free cash flow: POSITIVE $1.5B. Wall Street expected NEGATIVE $4.5B!
• Cash pile: $45.4B, up 9%.
CARS
• Production rose +4% to 464,391 vehicles.
• Largest vehicle backlog in four years, with battery supply now the main constraint on more deliveries.
• Record deliveries in Canada, Australia, Japan and Taiwan.
• Record production at Giga Berlin.
• Tesla built its 10 millionth vehicle.
FSD
• 1.74M active subscriptions, up 67% in a year.
• More than 75% of new cars in North America now come with FSD, up nearly 20 percentage points in a single quarter.
• Live in nine EU countries, with 100K+ customers and 160M+ kilometers driven.
ROBOTAXI
• Cybercab has been giving rides in Austin since September 3.
• Nearly 2M unsupervised miles, up 8x in one quarter.
• Austin service now runs from 6 a.m. to midnight.
• Grok is inside Cybercab, letting you handle email, your calendar and tasks by voice while you ride.
OPTIMUS
• Production has started on the high-volume lines in Fremont, building Tesla’s first production-quality robots.
SEMI
• Now in volume production.
• 500 miles of range at 82,000 lbs total weight, using roughly one-third the energy of a diesel truck.
ENERGY
• 13.7 GWh deployed, up 10%.
• Record order rate and backlog.
• Megafactory Texas is up and running, producing Megapacks.
• First Megapacks built using only Tesla’s own LFP cells.
AI COMPUTE
• Targeting 400 MW of training compute by year-end.
• Equipment installation at the Austin chip fab is planned to begin in 2027.
The tradeoff of all this is that operating income fell to $718M as Tesla increased spending on AI R&D. That’s a real cost today, but I’m comfortable with Tesla investing in the future.
Underneath the flat revenue headline we may see from news outlets, FSD subscriptions are growing, Robotaxi is expanding, energy orders are at a record, and Optimus and Semi are entering production. Meanwhile, the vehicle backlog is the largest it’s been in four years.
It looks like to me the next leg of Tesla’s growth is taking shape right in front of us!
Conversation with @grok today: Did you mean AI for SI?
Dude, 14th element. SI is the new thing. catch up. We’re engineers you have to live with our humor as it is.
Ah, Silicon. Ok joke locked in.
Grumpy Tech Bro retweeted
Replying to @GrumpyTechBro
Here's a piece to understand their strategy.
empathy.guru/2026/10/21/unde…
From Data's Insurrection drop:
Orgs 89 → 136
People 95 → 153
Starting the Analysis and then taking the dogs and myself for a walk. – at Oregon, USA
Humility does not come easily to me.
Every week at confession it's Pride, Lust, Wrath.
But spend 30 days alarmed to a hospital bed, held there for 40, and you learn things.
You learn to be nice.
You learn you don't have to be the best at everything.
You learn it's OK to ask for help.
Not a fun lesson.
Then @DataRepublican gave me the data drop for her Insurrection work.
I'm thinking, yadda yadda, I just want a name list.
She casually drops, "Oh, there's an AGENTS.md file."
So I read it.
Wow. So many things I'd never have thought of.
So much care to keep the private private, the public public, and the SI honest.
Awe. – at Oregon, USA
Oil just hit $99.93. Your gas sim already priced it in.
This week's Pump Price build is live with the Oct 16 EIA dock week and today's AAA survey.
Gulf gasoline: $3.394. Gulf diesel: $4.836.
See where your $ goes: pump-price.grok.me
They hid 1,600 names. Then they bragged about the titles.
NSL4A claimed 1,600 members and put three unpaid directors on its 990.
Bare names are a research problem. Which John Smith?
But they had to brag, so they published the titles:
13 cabinet secretaries, 11 deputies, 17 service secretaries, 18 four-stars, 7 senators, 9 House members, 5 governors or LGs.
Those are short lists.
John Howard Dalton is not a mystery. He was Clinton's Secretary of the Navy.
I matched 56 people against those lists, without even asking @DataRepublican yet.
Thanks, commies.
Pride goeth before destruction. Proverbs 16:18.
Adding to the dossier pile. – at Oregon, USA
I use batch mode to save money on the grumpy org takes. (Decided to get started early). – at Oregon, USA
They're underselling this.
This means that most cops are wired into ICE. "Hey, we got a bad guy, come get him."
Cops don't like rapists and murderers, and the sanctuary cities generally have exceptions for serious crimes that they don't want to talk about. – at Oregon, USA
2,246 law enforcement agencies across the nation have active 287(g) agreements with @ICEgov — a 1,564% increase since January 20, 2025.
Grumpy Tech Bro retweeted
“Sydney Sweeney” makes the case for Voter ID.
Prop 39 released a new ad today highlighting what politicians don’t want you to know: California is one of a handful of states that don’t require a photo ID to vote.
Prop 39 is a battle of politicians versus people.
Politicians want you to vote no.
The People are voting yes.
This ad is a parody, but the problem is not.
The politicians want to protect their power and money. We want to give it back to you.
Vote Yes on Prop 39.
Donate: efundraisingconnections.com/…
new folks extracted.
New people: Steve Warnstadt, Bryce Carpenter, Nadine (Freedom Trainers / Beautiful Trouble; no last name), Johanna Wilkie (DRG/ex-USAID), Carl LeVan (American University), Beverly Schreiber (Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy), Tanya Alfredson (Braver Angels, National Deliberation), Sarah B., Xochilt.
New orgs from the participant list: Freedom Trainers, Beautiful Trouble, Team Democracy, Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy, Civil Service Strong, Project 2029, Better Together America, Center for Collaborative Democracy, Democracy Accelerator, Paths to Understanding, Co-Intelligence Institute, Cohesion Strategy, Community-Vision Solutions, plus American University and Mundt’s RealTime DemTrends. – at Oregon, USA
🚨 THE DEMOCRACY FILES / ILLEGITIMACY PLAYBOOK, PART 4: YES, MANY ARE AWARE OF THE GOALS 🚨
This one is a thread because there are multiple materials.
On January 15, 2026, Renew American Democracy (RAD), the strategy built around the Democracy Renewal Group's (DRG) ex-USAID democracy officers, held planning exercises for "emergency scenarios" and how it'd affect their "strategic objectives."
RAD's explicit goal is in catalyzing those so-called "emergency scenarios" to manifest "structural reform" - the rewriting of American governance which the previous drops have covered.
RAD/DRG hold the unique role within the wider blocking / protest alliance of defining what the new government looks like, presumably because they are made of ex-USAID officers who have specialized in installing new governments. As @MikeBenzCyber last night said on his stream, these DRG members come from the CIA coup parts of USAID.
It's been suggested that DRG is just a fringe group within the much larger blocking/protest ecosystem. This morning's interim video mentioning Mike Smith disproved that. And PART 4 disproves that further - the wider network is well aware of DRG and that its goal is to secure a new government.
They will dress it in the language that it's Trump who will provoke it, and they're only preventing a true Constitutional crisis. In reality, there's a million ways to interpret what a "red line" is, and many ways to get Trump to cross it. Already, articles everywhere are telegraphing that Trump *will* cross it in the form of the Insurrection Act or martial law, softening us up for the coup ahead.
The materials I'm showing you are from a RAD/DRG-ran planning exercise in January 2026. Groups represented by participants include:
· National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A)
· Freedom Trainers / Beautiful Trouble
· Team Democracy
· Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy
· Civil Service Strong
· Project 2029
· Braver Angels
· Indivisible
· Better Together America
· Center for Collaborative Democracy
· Democracy Accelerator
· Paths to Understanding
· Co-Intelligence Institute
· Cohesion Strategy
· Community-Vision Solutions
One of the working groups concerned "National Deliberations" - which lays the groundwork for structural reforms post-crisis. So every single participant in this forum was well aware the end point is rewriting our governance.
Even more interesting, Tanya Alfredson of @BraverAngels participated in this particular working group - which should give pause to anyone who believes Braver Angels simply wants better dialogue.
As you watch the videos, watch out for the code language they use to hint towards the ultimate end goal.
As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇
Why is the USG funding its destruction? – at Oregon, USA
Replying to @DataRepublican @MikeBenzCyber
Added: Zoe Marks; orgs PACT, 50501, DSA, Harvard Kennedy School.
PACT is old school CIA, part of the Uniparty ecosystem.
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