A leading Putin propagandist has become the latest mysterious high-profile death in Russia. Kirill Vyshinsky, executive director of the Russia Today state media empire and earlier a Putin collaborator in Ukraine, died in Moscow today at the age of 58.

In 2018, as a then Ukrainian citizen, he was detained in Kyiv on charges of high treason for working for Russian propaganda. He spent about a year in a detention centre before being handed over to Moscow as part of a prisoner exchange in 2019.

Russian state media outlets today said Vyshinsky had died after a 'lengthy' or 'serious' illness. Yet he had made regular radio appearances this summer, while also working as executive director of the Russian Today (RT) propaganda machine, and there had been no earlier report that he was ill.
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Joy Reid admits MSNBC was a psyop, without even realizing it?

We waited a long time for this Frens

Interesting amount

General Flynn discusses potential deep state indictments and says he believes the Pennsylvania grand jury in place is a “bomb” that’s going to come out related to the 2020 election 👀

“There are grand juries already in place, that I’m aware of. One is in Florida. One is, I believe, in Washington, DC. Another is in New York.

And there’s a potential one in Pennsylvania - and I think the one in Pennsylvania may be for, what I believe is going to be an even bigger bomb that’s going to come out here, and that has to do with the 2020 election.

If you look at Russiagate as the attempted coup, the actual coup was the 2020 election.” 💯

Exposing the 2020 election is imperative to move forward as a country. Sounds like we are getting closer.

You can watch the full interview here

https://x.com/thestormredux/status/1959374751157088762

Devin Nunes is an American hero and deserves all the credit in the world for being the OG Russiagate guy, and then stepping aside to run Truth Social for President Trump, providing a platform when patriots were banned from Twitter, and now he is Chair of DJT’s Intelligence Advisory Board. So when this legend speaks, it’s worth listening to. He says people need to be held accountable:

“The only thing that President Trump and this administration can do, is make sure that that whoever can be held accountable are held accountable, and that this doesn’t happen again…

I think what you see coming from Director Gabbard and Ratcliffe and what Kash Patel is doing at the FBI, they’re starting to actually find this information, release this information out to the public. You can start to begin to put the pieces together, to what I know was a grand conspiracy by probably two to three dozen people.”

Nunes will be written into the history books. Mark it down.

https://x.com/thestormredux/status/1959430081698218431

Representative Al Green, who has served Texas’s 9th Congressional District since 2005, will finally leave office.

The Texas Legislature, led by Republicans, passed a legal redrawing of congressional maps that effectively eliminates District 9. Green, best known not for legislation but for shouting down President Trump during his address to Congress in March 2025, will be removed from office after nearly two decades of loud, ineffective, and divisive politics.

Unsurprisingly, Rep. Al Green called the redistricting racist. But the only racial injustice here is the Democrat Party’s decades-long abuse of district lines to cling to power.

In his angry press release, Green declared that the elimination of his district—along with TX-18, TX-29, and TX-33—was part of a “racist, unconstitutional scheme” led by President Trump’s Justice Department and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/democrat-rep-al-green-is-fired-his-response/

Full Interview with Devin Nunes and Lara Trump🔥🔥

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377307358112

The Pentagon is working on plans to deploy the U.S. military to Chicago as President Donald Trump says he is cracking down on crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.

The Defense Department planning, in the works for weeks, involves several options, including mobilizing at least a few thousand members of the National Guard as soon as September, the Post reported, citing officials familiar with the matter.

The Pentagon said in a statement late on Saturday: “We won’t speculate on further operations. The department is a planning organization and is continuously working with other agency partners on plans to protect federal assets and personnel."
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Why is Lord Of The Rings the most brilliant fantasy series ever written?

It isn’t just that it is (IMO) the most accurate fantastical depiction of the spiritual war between light and dark, or good vs evil.

It is the ridiculous amount of creativity, drive, ambition, and sheer willpower of which J.R.R Tolkien put into the series.

You think it is just a few books and 6 exceptionally long movies?

Think again.

How expansive was the creative process for Lord Of The Rings?

It took Tolkien 12 years to write The Lord Of The Rings.

But writing it? That was only a small portion of creating it.

In order to build Middle Earth, he didn’t just invent a story - he created an entire world.

By the time he began writing Lord Of The Rings in 1937, he had already spent 30 YEARS constructing Middle Earth and its’ mythology.

He built genealogies, invented creation myths and created timelines which spanned thousands of years. He did this so every reference made in his books would remain consistent.

Being a philologist at Oxford, Tolkien was positively obsessed with language evolution.

He didn’t just create a few words of Elvish. He didn’t just create a few lines for the Dwarves. Tolkien created over a dozen invented languages - Two of them being fully functional with their own grammar, syntax, poetry and etymology.

He is quoted as having said “The invention of language is the foundation. The stories came later”.

He designed the maps before he even thought about the narrative.

Every river, every forest, and mountain range had a history, a name rooted in an invented language, and a purpose deeply rooted in Middle Earth’s mythology.

This means the character’s journeys weren’t just plotted - they were geographically inevitable.

But here’s the catch: The Lord Of The Rings is but a thread within a nearly infinite interconnected tapestry.

To explain the world’s origins, he wrote The Silmarillion: A creation myth, a pantheon of gods, and the history of three entire ages. (This is something a fair number of readers/viewers of Lord Of The Rings are completely unfamiliar with).

Tolkien also rewrote EVERYTHING. Every chapter was drafted dozens of times. He cross referenced events across thousands of handwritten notes detailing languages, lineages and histories.

What we read today is merely the tip of the iceberg.

He began writing the Lord Of The Rings in 1937. He finished in 1949.

In his personal letters and journals, he described his “despair” at ever finishing it. The very scale of his vision nearly broke him.

The Lord Of The Rings contains entire invented languages, fully mapped continents, thousands of years of history, creation myths, prophecies, lineages and wars.

Every page you read sits atop a foundation no author had ever created before, and has never created since.

JRR Tolkien did not just change the fantasy landscape - he CREATED it.

He was chasing his inner vision, a dream. It was his life’s work.

And here is what most people don’t realize: The Lord Of The Rings is not just a masterpiece. It is, without a doubt, one of the most ambitious creative projects in human history.

63 years of obsession packed into one perfect world.

63 years. Think about that. 6+ decades to create not just The Lord Of The Rings - but the entire Universe it resides in down to every last detail.

Tolkien was also a Christian. He said on many occasions that the story of Lord Of The Rings is the metaphorical story of the spiritual war in The Bible.

Creativity is one of the greatest gifts God gave us.

CS Lewis also credited Tolkien with saving him from Atheism and helping him find Christ.

The next time you think LOTR is just a “nerdy book” - I’d definitely think again.

“All we have to do is decide what to do with the time we are given” - Gandalf

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