Donovan at OSS
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Donovan at OSS
@donovanoss.bsky.social
Veteran. Retired senior CIA clandestine officer.
Party of family values.
Community notes don’t get much more brutal than this
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Maybe they should get their humanity back instead of swagger.
United Health wants its ‘swagger back’.

How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage

Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Is “Stranger Things” real? “The Manchurian Candidate”? We tackle MKULTRA this week.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
NEW EPISODE! - MKUltra: The CIA’s Mind Control Quest (with Stephen Kinzer)
Podcast Episode · Mission Implausible · 11/23/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Gulf of Tonkin here we come. Hoping to attract incoming to provide the excuse for war.
If Trump wags the dog in Venezuela it is going to do enormous damage to his already degraded brand here in the US. Zero support for this in the public. Will be seen for what it is - transparent attempt to rescue his flailing Presidency.
The US Navy destroyer USS Stockdale is now 50 km off the coast of Venezuela.
November 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Imagining What’s in Trump’s Brain www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

Phenomenal article
Opinion | Imagining What’s in Trump’s Brain
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Shades of Tonkin Gulf?
"The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader."

NYT, October 15, 2025
Venezuela says a CIA-backed cell planned to hit the USS Gravely and blame Caracas; Washington denies the claim, calling it unverified and offering no comment on alleged covert actions.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/venezuelas...
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Looks like Saddam’s palace when we entered in 03.
JFC! Kids are losing meals, parents are losing sleep, and Trump’s flexing about marble and mirrors.
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I am assuming this clip is from Germany 1933?
Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security.

None of this is normal.
October 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
October 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
7 out if 10 vets voted for trump. They let their hatred for the left blind them. Got what they voted for. Speaking as a vet.
One disabled Marine veteran has not had a primary care doctor assigned to him since his previous doctor left in the winter, his wife said. The VA “was never like this before. There’s a lack of staff, empty rooms, locked doors.”
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...
www.propublica.org
August 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The DOGE Bros should have taken care of this.
I’m sure these people are thrilled that they’ve been called away from their families and jobs to deal with DC’s crushingly important mulch emergency. So much government efficiency.
August 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Fmr CIA senior officer and Hayden Center guest John Sipher

tomorrowsaffairs.com/dont-expect-...
Don’t Expect a Ukraine Peace Deal Anytime Soon
Ukraine cannot and will not agree to its own dissolution, and Russia shows no sign of abandoning its imperial ambitions
tomorrowsaffairs.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
He could not care less about Ukraine, all he wants is to say he got a deal.
🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦🇪🇺US official to the Atlantic:

Trump has directed some frustration at Zelensky and Europe, believing that they are being unrealistic in their demands and need to accept that Ukraine has to lose some territory to end the conflict.

Trump just wants the war in Ukraine to end. It doesn’t matter how.
August 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Name one.
JD Vance: "I think the Russians have made significant concessions."

(They have in fact made no concessions.)
August 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@thehill.com Lie, you said. Gonna have balks to retract the Op Ed piece?
August 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM