Thread Reader helps you read and share Twitter threads easily!
I'm @ThreadReaderApp a Twitter bot here to help you read threads more easily. To trigger me, you just have to reply to (or quote) any tweet of the thread you want to unroll and mention me with the "unroll" keyword and I'll send you a link back on Twitter 😀
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) November 25, 2017
X thread is series of posts by the same author connected with a line!
From any post in the thread, mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll
Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us easily!
Practice here first or read more on our help page!
Recent
This Time Last Term⏮️
May 5th 2022🗓️
We found out Biden was using the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House because the Oval Office couldn’t have a teleprompter installed
May 5th 2022🗓️
We found out Biden was using the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House because the Oval Office couldn’t have a teleprompter installed
Throughout the entirety of his “presidency” he was known to stumble over his words even while reading from a teleprompter
The report from his aides said ⤵️
“Biden’s team prefers the fake WH. stage built in the Old Exec Office Building next door for events, sacrificing some of the power of the historic backdrop in favor of an otherwise sterile room that was outfitted with an easily read teleprompter screen”
“Biden’s team prefers the fake WH. stage built in the Old Exec Office Building next door for events, sacrificing some of the power of the historic backdrop in favor of an otherwise sterile room that was outfitted with an easily read teleprompter screen”
The reduction in murder deaths -IS NOT- due to law enforcement, or reductions in underlying rates of violence.
It is due to the fact that medical care has improved such that the same gunshot wound inflicted in 2015 is 1/3 as lethal as 1960.
Murder rate🧵
1/
It is due to the fact that medical care has improved such that the same gunshot wound inflicted in 2015 is 1/3 as lethal as 1960.
Murder rate🧵
1/
Homicide statistics since the early 1960s are not comparable to earlier periods because medical advances have turned many fatal injuries into survivable ones.
See the CDC report below⬇️
2/
See the CDC report below⬇️
2/
There are four major medical trauma care changes since 1960 reducing murder rates:
1. Trauma centers established ~1961.
2. Standardized trauma procedures ~1978.
3. Adoption of military (Korea/Vietnam) emergency treatment, air transport, and improved triage ~1986.
3/
1. Trauma centers established ~1961.
2. Standardized trauma procedures ~1978.
3. Adoption of military (Korea/Vietnam) emergency treatment, air transport, and improved triage ~1986.
3/
1/ Moscow is being disrupted badly by a widespread shutdown of the Internet ahead of the May 9 Victory parade. A scathing Russian commentary complains that it is costing the economy trillions of rubles, sacrificing economic health for illusory security. ⬇️
2/ Russia's increasingly draconian Internet shutdowns have come as a huge shock to a country which had come to rely heavily on online services. Although the Russian government has whitelisted certain websites and services, the latest shutdown seems to have broken that, too.
3/ 'Political Report' complains:
"Russian citizens today experienced the full impact of the government's "concern" for their own security: authorities shut down mobile communications in most regions of the country,…
"Russian citizens today experienced the full impact of the government's "concern" for their own security: authorities shut down mobile communications in most regions of the country,…
Strategy (MSTR) is hosting its Q1 2026 Earnings Call today at 5pm EST
It's been a big quarter full of bitcoin purchases, STRC issuance, and a market recovery...
I'm live tweeting everything important they're sharing right here, right now
Follow along below 🧵👇
It's been a big quarter full of bitcoin purchases, STRC issuance, and a market recovery...
I'm live tweeting everything important they're sharing right here, right now
Follow along below 🧵👇
Summary Stats:
MSTR holds 818,334 BTC
STRC issuance is at $8.5 billion 🤯
In 2026 YTD alone, Strategy has raised nearly $12 billion
There's no shortage of capital market demand here!
MSTR holds 818,334 BTC
STRC issuance is at $8.5 billion 🤯
In 2026 YTD alone, Strategy has raised nearly $12 billion
There's no shortage of capital market demand here!
@Strategy 3) BTC per share is up 4x since 2020
As of this week, BTC/share is 213,371 sats = worth about $175 USD
That's right about on par with where MSTR is valued today 👀
As of this week, BTC/share is 213,371 sats = worth about $175 USD
That's right about on par with where MSTR is valued today 👀
California Assembly is having an oversight hearing on the state’s oil and gas situation coupled with impact of war in Iran.
California lost two oil refineries this year. Average gas price statewide is now more than $6.
Newsom administration energy officials are up first.. 🧵
California lost two oil refineries this year. Average gas price statewide is now more than $6.
Newsom administration energy officials are up first.. 🧵
Chair of Utilities & Energy Committee @AsmCottie starts the hearing by saying tankers in Port of Long Beach are offloading 2M barrels of crude oil now.
“When this tanker is empty, it’s unclear where the next ship will be coming from”
Watch hearing here:
assembly.ca.gov/events/media/1…
“When this tanker is empty, it’s unclear where the next ship will be coming from”
Watch hearing here:
assembly.ca.gov/events/media/1…
@AsmCottie California Energy Commission Vice Chair Siva Gunda set the stage noting California's bringing in about 20% more oil because of the loss in Phillips 66 and Valero refineries.
He says CA crude oil prices are higher and will be compared to rest of nation even after Iran situation.
He says CA crude oil prices are higher and will be compared to rest of nation even after Iran situation.
Terrible statement for three reasons:
1) Antisemites are protesting a synagogue event, and he condemns the people inside the synagogue — not the mob outside.
2) Protecting citizens is not a favor from the mayor. It is the job.
3) And, as usual, he is wrong on the law. Let me explain:
1) Antisemites are protesting a synagogue event, and he condemns the people inside the synagogue — not the mob outside.
2) Protecting citizens is not a favor from the mayor. It is the job.
3) And, as usual, he is wrong on the law. Let me explain:
Let’s start with the most basic point. There is no “international law” that binds New York City. In fact, what most activists call “international law” is a loose assortment of nonbinding resolutions, aspirational norms, and political declarations.
None of these override the constitutional framework under which American cities operate. NYC is governed by the Constitution, federal statutes, state law, and municipal code. Federal law preempts state/local law and nothing is displaced by any external international regime.
Anyone in the Ohio elections mention Les Werner?
He has a Chabad network set up in Ohio that traffic‘s drugs, weapons and humans around the world that links back to Hungary and Israel.
Your Vice President had to get his blessing before getting involved in politics, and Peter Thiel has set up multiple Palantir facility’s in Ohio and then there’s the Anduril plant disaster.
Women are masters at sensing emotional vulnerabilities. Once she identifies what makes you flinch, what makes you doubt yourself, or what triggers you, she will weaponize it:
Often unconsciously, sometimes deliberately.
1. Your shame about your past, your looks, your height, your money, or your failures? She’ll poke it when she wants to lower your value.
1. Your shame about your past, your looks, your height, your money, or your failures? She’ll poke it when she wants to lower your value.
2. Your fear of losing her, being alone, or not being “enough”? She’ll use withdrawal and silence to control you.
New Pangram validation!
You know how most books on Amazon are AI slop now? If you didn't, look at the publication numbers.
Compare those to the proportion Pangram flags as AI-generated. It's fully aligned with the implied numbers based on the rise over 2022 publication levels!
You know how most books on Amazon are AI slop now? If you didn't, look at the publication numbers.
Compare those to the proportion Pangram flags as AI-generated. It's fully aligned with the implied numbers based on the rise over 2022 publication levels!
Similarly, the rise of pro se litigants has come with a rise in case filings detected as being AI-generated, and with virtually zero false-positives before AI was around.
You can also see the rise of AI-generated text and yet more evidence for Pangram's validity from looking at different journalists.
Large portions of the journalistic profession are lazy, so they cheat when they can.
For example, the Guardian's Bryan Graham = slop
Large portions of the journalistic profession are lazy, so they cheat when they can.
For example, the Guardian's Bryan Graham = slop
🧵The NZ-India Free Trade Agreement, complete list. What each country actually gave up.
🇳🇿 WHAT NEW ZEALAND OPENED:
• Every category of goods. Food, machinery, chemicals, vehicles, textiles, every line. Tariff goes to zero on day one. No exclusions, no phasing in, no quotas.
• Every service sector. NZ is open to Indian companies by default, apart from a specific list of what stays protected: Air NZ ownership, Chorus ownership, ACC, KiwiSaver, public health and education, fishing access, gambling, tobacco and alcohol retail, Fonterra and Zespri's structures, the Treaty of Waitangi exception (for digital trade only). Notable examples of what NZ did NOT put on the protection list: Spark, 2degrees, One NZ, the banking sector, electricity generation, ports and airports, doctors and dentists, private schools, universities, audit firms, aged care, newspapers, law firms.
• A commitment to push US$20 billion (around NZ$33 billion) of NZ investment into India over 15 years. India has no reciprocal target to invest in NZ. If NZ underdelivers, India alone decides whether NZ has fallen short. India alone decides what "proportionate" tariff claw-back to apply. NZ cannot challenge any of it through any panel. The political pressure to deliver lands on NZ Super Fund, ACC, KiwiSaver providers and large NZ corporates to direct savings to India for treaty-performance reasons rather than commercial return.
• 1,000 Indian working holiday visas a year. Nothing equivalent for young New Zealanders going to India.
• 4,100 visa-holders present at any one time across capped skilled-worker categories (IT, engineering, construction, teachers, nurses, physios, plus 600 reserved spots for chefs, yoga teachers, classical musicians and Ayush practitioners).
• An uncapped channel for Indian companies operating in NZ to bring in their own staff with no cap and labour market tests banned. Much like the controversial US H1B - though it is capped at 85,000 per year, is for any company, and has a $100,000 fee.
• Uncapped Indian international student visas. Extended locked-in 2, 3 and 4 year post-study work visas.
• Legally protect the basmati name for Indian rice growers within 18 months.
• Stop NZ insurers from being told to exclude coverage of homeopathy and traditional Indian medicine.
• Working with India on connecting NZ's payment systems to India's national instant-payment network and building central bank digital currencies (like a digital NZ dollar issued by the Reserve Bank). The Reserve Bank of NZ now has obligations on payments policy that it didn't have before. Future decisions about how NZ's payment systems develop are tied to bilateral commitments with India rather than purely Reserve Bank policy.
• If any future trade deal that NZ signs includes better services terms, it gets automatically extended to India. India made no equivalent commitment to NZ so it can give other countries better terms than it gave NZ.
• NZ taxpayers and industry help commercialise Indian apple, kiwifruit, honey and wine growers to upgrade their orchards and supply chains. The same growers we'd be competing with. India can suspend the small NZ market access quotas if it judges we underdelivered. NZ Crown research institutes (Plant & Food Research, AgResearch, Scion) and industry levy bodies (Zespri, NZ Apples & Pears, Apiculture NZ) must divert research budgets and grower-funded levies to build Indian capacity.
🇳🇿 WHAT NEW ZEALAND OPENED:
• Every category of goods. Food, machinery, chemicals, vehicles, textiles, every line. Tariff goes to zero on day one. No exclusions, no phasing in, no quotas.
• Every service sector. NZ is open to Indian companies by default, apart from a specific list of what stays protected: Air NZ ownership, Chorus ownership, ACC, KiwiSaver, public health and education, fishing access, gambling, tobacco and alcohol retail, Fonterra and Zespri's structures, the Treaty of Waitangi exception (for digital trade only). Notable examples of what NZ did NOT put on the protection list: Spark, 2degrees, One NZ, the banking sector, electricity generation, ports and airports, doctors and dentists, private schools, universities, audit firms, aged care, newspapers, law firms.
• A commitment to push US$20 billion (around NZ$33 billion) of NZ investment into India over 15 years. India has no reciprocal target to invest in NZ. If NZ underdelivers, India alone decides whether NZ has fallen short. India alone decides what "proportionate" tariff claw-back to apply. NZ cannot challenge any of it through any panel. The political pressure to deliver lands on NZ Super Fund, ACC, KiwiSaver providers and large NZ corporates to direct savings to India for treaty-performance reasons rather than commercial return.
• 1,000 Indian working holiday visas a year. Nothing equivalent for young New Zealanders going to India.
• 4,100 visa-holders present at any one time across capped skilled-worker categories (IT, engineering, construction, teachers, nurses, physios, plus 600 reserved spots for chefs, yoga teachers, classical musicians and Ayush practitioners).
• An uncapped channel for Indian companies operating in NZ to bring in their own staff with no cap and labour market tests banned. Much like the controversial US H1B - though it is capped at 85,000 per year, is for any company, and has a $100,000 fee.
• Uncapped Indian international student visas. Extended locked-in 2, 3 and 4 year post-study work visas.
• Legally protect the basmati name for Indian rice growers within 18 months.
• Stop NZ insurers from being told to exclude coverage of homeopathy and traditional Indian medicine.
• Working with India on connecting NZ's payment systems to India's national instant-payment network and building central bank digital currencies (like a digital NZ dollar issued by the Reserve Bank). The Reserve Bank of NZ now has obligations on payments policy that it didn't have before. Future decisions about how NZ's payment systems develop are tied to bilateral commitments with India rather than purely Reserve Bank policy.
• If any future trade deal that NZ signs includes better services terms, it gets automatically extended to India. India made no equivalent commitment to NZ so it can give other countries better terms than it gave NZ.
• NZ taxpayers and industry help commercialise Indian apple, kiwifruit, honey and wine growers to upgrade their orchards and supply chains. The same growers we'd be competing with. India can suspend the small NZ market access quotas if it judges we underdelivered. NZ Crown research institutes (Plant & Food Research, AgResearch, Scion) and industry levy bodies (Zespri, NZ Apples & Pears, Apiculture NZ) must divert research budgets and grower-funded levies to build Indian capacity.
🇮🇳 WHAT INDIA OPENED ON DAY ONE:
• Sheep meat. India barely produces sheep.
• Wool. India needs raw wool for its textile mills.
• Logs, sawn wood and timber. India needs timber.
• Wood pulp and paper.
• Raw cotton fabric. India's textile industry needs the input.
• Raw leather hides. India's leather industry needs the input.
• Copper, nickel, aluminium, rare earth ores.
• Coal.
• Chemical and plastic inputs Indian manufacturers need.
• Computers and IT hardware.
• Iron and steel base products.
• Aircraft.
• Stone, ceramics, glass containers.
Pattern: India opened the raw materials its own export industries need to import.
• Sheep meat. India barely produces sheep.
• Wool. India needs raw wool for its textile mills.
• Logs, sawn wood and timber. India needs timber.
• Wood pulp and paper.
• Raw cotton fabric. India's textile industry needs the input.
• Raw leather hides. India's leather industry needs the input.
• Copper, nickel, aluminium, rare earth ores.
• Coal.
• Chemical and plastic inputs Indian manufacturers need.
• Computers and IT hardware.
• Iron and steel base products.
• Aircraft.
• Stone, ceramics, glass containers.
Pattern: India opened the raw materials its own export industries need to import.
🚫🇮🇳 WHAT INDIA PROTECTED FOREVER:
• All dairy (milk powder, butter, cheese, infant formula, dairy ingredients) at 30 to 60 percent tariffs. Fonterra's main export categories. The exception is access for NZ dairy ingredients used for Indian export manufacturing. India captures the value-add margin.
• All meat except sheep. Beef, pork, poultry, goat, offal.
• All tea at 110 percent. All coffee at 100 to 110 percent. All spices at 33 to 77 percent. All edible oils. All sugar at 110 percent.
• 89 percent of vehicles. Cars at 70 to 137 percent. Motorcycles. Tractors. Vehicle parts. The 11 percent India accepted: bicycles, wheelchairs and baby carriages.
• 97 percent of ships. Every vessel including fishing vessels and naval craft.
• Half of consumer electronics. Mobile phones, semiconductors, integrated circuits and cathode-ray displays walled off. The half India accepted is industrial transformers, lighting and power conversion gear.
• All primary aluminium. The Tiwai Point smelter's main export.
• All gold and all jewellery.
• Most major medical devices. MRI, ECG, dialysis, defibrillators, syringes, catheters, anaesthetic equipment all excluded. Sorry Fisher and Paykel. India phased in surgical instruments, endoscopes, hearing aids, X-ray and CT scanners over 10 years. While protecting these from NZ exports, India required NZ's Medsafe to accept Indian device approvals without inspecting them.
• Two thirds of plastics. The third India accepted is specialty industrial resins (Teflon-type, polyurethanes, silicones, epoxies). Mass-market polymers walled off.
• All petrol. All ethanol blend fuel.
• All processed traditional Indian medicines including Ayurvedic and homeopathic preparations.
• Most processed fruit and vegetable products. India accepted only roasted cashews and ground nuts over 7 to 10 years. Pickles, chutneys, jams, juices, preserved vegetables walled off.
• All tobacco. 71 percent of books and printed material (greeting cards in, books and newspapers out). Almost half of finished textile products like sheets and towels.
• The right to slap punitive "anti-dumping" tariffs on NZ exports any time India decides NZ exporters are selling too cheap. NZ has no way to challenge those tariffs through the deal's dispute system. India launches more anti-dumping investigations than any other country in the world. Fonterra has been hit with this before on milk powder.
So even when NZ exports clear the tariff schedule, India can slap a new tariff on top under a different label, and NZ cannot push back.
• All dairy (milk powder, butter, cheese, infant formula, dairy ingredients) at 30 to 60 percent tariffs. Fonterra's main export categories. The exception is access for NZ dairy ingredients used for Indian export manufacturing. India captures the value-add margin.
• All meat except sheep. Beef, pork, poultry, goat, offal.
• All tea at 110 percent. All coffee at 100 to 110 percent. All spices at 33 to 77 percent. All edible oils. All sugar at 110 percent.
• 89 percent of vehicles. Cars at 70 to 137 percent. Motorcycles. Tractors. Vehicle parts. The 11 percent India accepted: bicycles, wheelchairs and baby carriages.
• 97 percent of ships. Every vessel including fishing vessels and naval craft.
• Half of consumer electronics. Mobile phones, semiconductors, integrated circuits and cathode-ray displays walled off. The half India accepted is industrial transformers, lighting and power conversion gear.
• All primary aluminium. The Tiwai Point smelter's main export.
• All gold and all jewellery.
• Most major medical devices. MRI, ECG, dialysis, defibrillators, syringes, catheters, anaesthetic equipment all excluded. Sorry Fisher and Paykel. India phased in surgical instruments, endoscopes, hearing aids, X-ray and CT scanners over 10 years. While protecting these from NZ exports, India required NZ's Medsafe to accept Indian device approvals without inspecting them.
• Two thirds of plastics. The third India accepted is specialty industrial resins (Teflon-type, polyurethanes, silicones, epoxies). Mass-market polymers walled off.
• All petrol. All ethanol blend fuel.
• All processed traditional Indian medicines including Ayurvedic and homeopathic preparations.
• Most processed fruit and vegetable products. India accepted only roasted cashews and ground nuts over 7 to 10 years. Pickles, chutneys, jams, juices, preserved vegetables walled off.
• All tobacco. 71 percent of books and printed material (greeting cards in, books and newspapers out). Almost half of finished textile products like sheets and towels.
• The right to slap punitive "anti-dumping" tariffs on NZ exports any time India decides NZ exporters are selling too cheap. NZ has no way to challenge those tariffs through the deal's dispute system. India launches more anti-dumping investigations than any other country in the world. Fonterra has been hit with this before on milk powder.
So even when NZ exports clear the tariff schedule, India can slap a new tariff on top under a different label, and NZ cannot push back.
Supreme Court Decision on Mifepristone
On May 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restored nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower court ruling that had reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement.
1)
On May 4, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily restored nationwide access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower court ruling that had reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement.
1)
Justice Samuel Alito issued an administrative stay that allows the drug to continue being prescribed via telehealth, dispensed at pharmacies, and delivered by mail, maintaining the status quo as of May 1.
2)
2)
The stay, effective through at least May 11, 2026, pauses a decision by the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had sided with Louisiana in its lawsuit against the FDA.
3)
3)
Ukrainian EW and radio expert Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov was an early supporter of the importance of UGVs.
Here are excerpts from an interesting interview with him by ArmyInform.com.ua
1/ x.com/grandparoy2/st…
Here are excerpts from an interesting interview with him by ArmyInform.com.ua
1/ x.com/grandparoy2/st…
“If we’re touching on the topic of robots, including UGVs, it should be understood that someone has to control these robots, operate them, support them, and repair them. So humans are indispensable here.
2/
2/
“But we are trying to make sure that the robots themselves take the first hit and work where it is most dangerous. Thanks to this, people will be able to stay further back — ‘pulled back’ — and, accordingly, in much greater safety.
3/
3/
