Cyber "Letters of Marque," New ICE Slur, Trump's AF1 Switcharoo, and Iran/Uranium One/North Korea

Join me most weekdays for The ASTROLABE: a livestream on Kick, Rumble, and X covering all the tweets, videos, articles, and memes that caught my eye. Many are saying it’s the “best afternoon morning night early morning show on the internet” and “my daily white pill prescription.”Don’t miss the weekend SUDALABE for the live viewing of the weekly dispatch from our great propagandist, AgitpropMaster.>GET YOUR CHUDCON TICKETS NOW: CHUDCON 2026 — Summer Doesn’t Have to End>EASTWOOD’S FIRST-GRADE CURRICULUM AMAZON LIST: Amazon.comSEE BELOW for the list of all the content for the 8/20 show.SUPPORT THE SHOW:* DON’T FORGET TO TIP YOUR STREAMER: https://tips.kingpilled.com* WANT TO SEND BTC? * BTC: bc1qpylrv9haewgwfgqu0tz0meagufrmaqpgqjnxpg* Or use my Lightning address: [email protected]* CASH APP: https://cash.app/$kingpilled* VENMO: @kingpilled* BUYMEACOFFEE: https://buymeacoffee.com/kingpilled* DISCORD: http://kingpilled.com* TWITTER: https://twitter.com/kingpilled* KINGPILLED TELEGRAM CHANNEL FOR RELIABLE ALERTS* LISTEN TO EWBSX, NOW LIVE: https://EWBSX.app OR search for “EWBSX” on the Apple and Google App Stores* FOLLOW THE CYBERBULLY ON X: https://x.com/ewbsxcyberbully* GET YOUR EWBSX MERCH: https://EWBSX.store* TAKE ACTION against the decay of modernity! JOIN Axios Fitness Coaching: https://axioscoaching.outgrow.us/axioscoaching-248/20 ASTROLABE LINKS:* (10) Husk on X: "New AI security system https://t.co/SwRfDT1Zs4" / X* (20) unfadable so pls dont try to fade this on X: "The AI Robot Apocalypse will be won by whoever paints the most tunnels on brick walls" / X* (20) Hunter Ash on X: "Not a robotics expert, but this seems like an extremely big deal. I thought we were way further away from this level of general physical-world capability, and I thought it would require a ton of very expensive data-gathering." / X* (20) Vice President JD Vance on X: "VP: "The steel mill used to be called Armco Steel. It's now the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works, and this is actually where my grandfather worked for nearly 40 years...plants like this wouldn't exist were it not for some of the Trump administration's economic policies." https://t.co/SZ4kPFzxFh" / X* (21) Rapid Response 47 on X: ".@VP: I think these Republicans genuinely believe that if they protect the filibuster, Democrats are going to return the favor and protect the filibuster — and I don't know how anybody believes that. If they ever get power, Democrats are going to nuke the filibuster immediately. https://t.co/BYjxL1MnyL" / X* (21) Michael Brendan Dougherty on X: "Normal person: “I like JD” X user: I see you haven’t been following me online? Postliberals don’t believe in original sin. Only liberals do. Classical liberals. Normal person: What? X user: Being a conservative means believing in liberalism. Normal person: Huh? X user: You" / X* (21) HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 on X: "The eventual disapora of 47 Admin alums back to the private sector is going to shake the earth. People who have led transformative initiatives, solved (assumed to be) politically-impossible problem sets, dug deep into the data and processes, mastered the bureaucratic mystery" / X* (21) Jon Schweppe 🇺🇸 on X: "The Unwritten Rule a Former White House Staffer Forgot" / X* (21) The White House on X: "A lion among sheep https://t.co/hTFZsTZe2n" / X* (21) Wyatt on X: "HUGE UPDATE. A NEW SLUR HAS ARRIVED TONK (true origin not known) IS A AMAZING SLUR THAT BORDER PATROL AND ICE HAS BEEN KEEPING SECRET FROM US THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. https://t.co/W20YOMkJnS" / X* (21) unseen1 on X: "And the way he is doing it will last for generations. The dems wont just be able to flip a switch to return to the biden era of mass illegal immigration. They will have to actively dismantle the entire system Trump is building and each step they take will create massive" / X* (21) joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) on X: "Wake up babe the new @WhiteHouse cyber privateering construct just dropped https://t.co/cAtBYi3QM7" / X * Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime – The White House* White House Cyber Ops Against TCOs - Grok* (21) Jesko Riot on X: "DOJ unsealed a superseding indictment charging 17 members of the Iran-based Mabna Institute for a multi-year campaign (roughly 2013–2017 and related activity) that compromised ~8,000 academic email accounts across 144 U.S. and 178 foreign universities, plus companies and https://t.co/XvGIXgtJ4P" / X* Iran Mabna Institute Cyber Espionage - Grok* (21) Tousi TV on X: "“We’re not exporting oil. That’s the reality.” Iran’s Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati has now publicly acknowledged that the Islamic Republic’s oil exports have fallen to zero as economic pressure tightens. The admission comes as the regime is also under growing https://t.co/T5aT03kXGK" / X* (21) Andrew Kolvet on X: "This is a pretty important story from Axios on how US Central Command has quietly established a shipping cooridor through the Strait of Hormuz averaging ~10 million barrels of oil a day, half of the pre-war level, injected into the global energy markets. Key quote: "We have been https://t.co/G0zh1GIJXz" / X* (21) Dan Lamothe on X: "EXCLUSIVE: For weeks, the White House has said President Trump flew from Turkey on the “former Air Force One,” after the newer AF1 jet gifted by Qatar flew to Britain separately. But that’s not the case. In reality, Trump took a *third* jet, unbeknownst to media and some staff." / X* (21) Eric Daugherty on X: "🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: There was a threat against President Trump's LIFE while he was in Turkey for NATO, and it involved a shoulder-to-air missile possibly targeting Air Force One "Ultimately, the president was reportedly moved from Air Force One to another plane using a catering https://t.co/zASs8Oleye" / X* (21) MeidasTouch on X: "A truly WILD story. This appears to be the order of operations: 1. Trump flies to Turkey on the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One for the NATO summit. 2. An Iranian assassination threat triggers a secret “deception operation.” Security officials devise a plan to conceal which" / X* (21) Jake Tapper 🦅 on X: "Flew to Afghan. w/different president on AF1. An insurgent missile struck Bagram runway before landing. Weather was bad so planned Marine 1 trip to Kabul scrubbed. We were w/president the whole time. Our safety wasn’t treated any differently from his. We were never decoys." / X* (21) Monica Perez on X: "This narrative is going somewhere…stay tuned Even Some Cabinet Members Didn’t Join Trump’s Secret Flight. Here’s Who Did. https://t.co/B2el1ETECs via @NYTimes" / X * Which Trump Officials Joined Him on His Secret Flight Out of Turkey? - The New York Times* (21) Rapid Response 47 on X: ".@POTUS: "I don't worry about anything, to be honest. Whatever it is — you know my attitude? Whatever." https://t.co/lxNaAAmLkx" / X* (21) John Solomon on X: "Trump administration negotiates removal of nuclear material from covert Syrian site https://t.co/wHNW2DCTXs" / X* Trump administration negotiates removal of nuclear material from covert Syrian site | Just The News* (21) JoeLange on X: "Timing? I just posted why I think Trump deceived the media and secretly left AF1 on a catering truck in Turkey. He needed to meet someone face to face in secret, with nobody in the media knowing about it. I speculated it might have been Netanyahu or the new leader of Syria." / X* (21) ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 on X: "Major story in recent years is North Korea becoming significantly wealthier and more developed as Kim moves to a model of Totalitarian State-Directed Industrial Capitalism with East Asian Characteristics. Unsurprisingly it is working. Isn’t there someone you owe an apology to? https://t.co/jjdoXmWjck" / X* (21) OSINTdefender on X: "U.S. President Donald J. Trump has announced that he has instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to substantially reduce any future joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea, calling them “totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, who he claims https://t.co/CFchwI6Ima" / X* (21) Clandestine on X: "To the untrained ear, this sounds like a normal answer from Trump. But to those who know about where the material from Uranium One ended up, this is EXTREMELY juicy. Trump brings up both Iran’s and North Korea’s nuclear weapons in the same breath. Trump has also been working" / X* (21) Clandestine on X: "The world doesn’t know it yet, but the relationship between Trump and MBS will be remembered as the alliance that changed the world. Think sword dance 2017. A month after Trump’s visit, King Salman rescinded the Crown from Muhammad bin Nayef, in favor of MBS. This led to the https://t.co/YBZWPDQXDo" / X* (21) Tucker Carlson on X: "Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is one of the biggest media investors in the world. Here’s why he thinks X now dominates everything. (0:00) Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s Thoughts on Donald Trump (2:26) Saudi Arabia’s Relationship With Israel and Iran (6:55) Negotiating With Trump (7:56) https://t.co/PwFlDgCper" / X* (21) Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao on X: "We must never forget the 30 American heroes of Extortion 17. Today, I had the honor of spending time with our special operators at Naval Special Warfare Command and was reminded of the courage and sacrifice of our fallen brothers, the families who carry their legacy, and the" / X* (21) MJTruthUltra on X: "Kash Patel shares a photo of a gravesite on the anniversary of Extortion 17 They are all fucked. They know… he knows. August 6, 2011, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down by insurgents in Afghanistan.. Or so they said. This resulted in the deaths https://t.co/kaJ50Iv2nl" / X* (21) AquaVigil on X: "@MJTruthUltra Donald J. Trump retweet October 12, 2020 In 2020, President Trump retweeted an anon who stated that Biden and Obama killed Seal Team 6 via MJTruth https://t.co/tP5ulsFEJR https://t.co/G391vh4uQj" / X* (21) ColonelTowner-Watkins on X: "Now you know how Trump knows how these operations work." / X* (21) ColonelTowner-Watkins on X: "Well that took an interesting turn." / X* (10) ColonelTowner-Watkins on X: "That’s not how it works. The “refugees” are CIA assets in country. They are then brought back to the US as operatives under the guise of “refugee” status. They and their children are used for domestic operations with plausible deniability. Bosnia was an offensive NATO operation." / X Get full access to Kingpilled at kingpilled.substack.com/subscribe