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Do you know Eid Adha is deeply connected to the story of Ibrahim (Abraham) and carries powerful lessons for every human being, not just Muslims?
One of the most beautiful parts people rarely talk about is this:
One of the most beautiful parts people rarely talk about is this:
A woman, Hajar, ran seven times between two mountains searching for help and water for her child… and Allah turned her struggle into a sacred act followed by millions of people during Hajj.
Eid Adha is not just about sacrifice.
It is about trust, surrender, patience, mercy, and obedience.
Sacrifice in Eid Adha is more about obedience and surrender than the animal itself. The story teaches that faith sometimes means letting go of what we love most.
It is about trust, surrender, patience, mercy, and obedience.
Sacrifice in Eid Adha is more about obedience and surrender than the animal itself. The story teaches that faith sometimes means letting go of what we love most.
🧵YSK:
The "data center hysteria" is largely a repacking of the "climate change hysteria."
The hysteria is fueled, in part, by bad data, lack of perspective, and influence operations that lead with emotional bait.
Like the 20th-century predictions of climate catastrophes, it is another form of anti-capitalism (pro-communism) propaganda meant to capture your mind through fear.
The "data center hysteria" is largely a repacking of the "climate change hysteria."
The hysteria is fueled, in part, by bad data, lack of perspective, and influence operations that lead with emotional bait.
Like the 20th-century predictions of climate catastrophes, it is another form of anti-capitalism (pro-communism) propaganda meant to capture your mind through fear.
A teachable moment.
In 2025, a left-wing anti-AI author, Karen Hao, published her non-fiction book 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI.'
It's done very well. A NYT bestseller and winner of multiple awards, the book received much praise.
In 2025, a left-wing anti-AI author, Karen Hao, published her non-fiction book 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI.'
It's done very well. A NYT bestseller and winner of multiple awards, the book received much praise.
Anti-AI and anti-data center sentiments, which go hand in hand, are now mainstream, and this book boosted them there.
You may have noticed the uptick in opposition to both.
Sometimes the angle of surveillance, aka "Big Brother," is also included.
You may have noticed the uptick in opposition to both.
Sometimes the angle of surveillance, aka "Big Brother," is also included.
Hi, I’ll be live-tweeting today’s Near Eastside Community Organization meeting starting at 6:30 p.m. for #indydocumenters @indydocumenters @mirrorindy.
@indydocumenters @mirrorindy You can find more information about NESCO, (Near East Side Community Organization) here: .nescocommunity.org/events/nesco-b…
@indydocumenters @mirrorindy NESCO’s Board of Directors represents the 19 neighborhoods that make up the Near Eastside.
THREAD: My wife, Yolanda, is fighting for her life. We need your help. 🧵
Over five years. Stage 4 colon cancer. Metastasized to her liver. Now her lungs.
Over 100 rounds of chemotherapy. Five surgeries — including a brutal 10-hour operation and a 3 am emergency surgery at 3 am (last September), where a trauma surgeon gave her a 70% chance of never leaving the table.
She proved them wrong.
Over five years. Stage 4 colon cancer. Metastasized to her liver. Now her lungs.
Over 100 rounds of chemotherapy. Five surgeries — including a brutal 10-hour operation and a 3 am emergency surgery at 3 am (last September), where a trauma surgeon gave her a 70% chance of never leaving the table.
She proved them wrong.
But the chemo stopped working. Tumors progressed. So now she's on immunotherapy — nivolumab + ipilimumab, every three weeks. Fourth and final induction round hits June 4th.
The lung lesions are small. They should respond. We're holding onto that.
The lung lesions are small. They should respond. We're holding onto that.
Here's what they don't tell you about cancer: the financial destruction.
Four vehicles gone. Two watercraft. The RV. Our beach house.
Banks slashed our lines of credit by over $800,000 the moment they caught wind of our situation. 820 credit score.
Didn't matter. They smelled blood.
Four vehicles gone. Two watercraft. The RV. Our beach house.
Banks slashed our lines of credit by over $800,000 the moment they caught wind of our situation. 820 credit score.
Didn't matter. They smelled blood.
ApoB in 2026: the question is no longer whether ApoB matters. The question is how far ApoB can take us in understanding which particles drive risk (LDL, TRL/remnants, Lp(a)) and how we should act on them. #EASCongress2026 #MyEAS2026
One key message: LDL-C can be lowered to very low levels without apparent detriment. But ApoB reminds us that risk is not only about cholesterol mass. It is also about the number and biology of atherogenic particles. #EASCongress2026 #MyEAS2026
@society_eas @EASCongress LDL, TRL/remnants and Lp(a) do not contribute equally across patients. ApoB may give us the particle burden, but the next step is understanding the risk-weight of different ApoB-containing particles.
That is where residual risk becomes more interesting.
#EASCongress2026
That is where residual risk becomes more interesting.
#EASCongress2026
Ummm...no. @grok said 10K Truck Movements, not trucks.
A truck making two movements a day within 150 km of the Russian border for 30 days is 60 truck movements out of the 10K, or 0.6%.
@grok's estimate was based on mirror imaging Western Mechanized logistics.
Truck Intel🧵
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A truck making two movements a day within 150 km of the Russian border for 30 days is 60 truck movements out of the 10K, or 0.6%.
@grok's estimate was based on mirror imaging Western Mechanized logistics.
Truck Intel🧵
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I did two further @grok analytical passes which reduced the truck movements, first to 3K to 8K truck movements:
"Revised estimate: Likely 3,000–8,000+ effective military/logistics truck movements per month on key southern routes (e.g., M-14 segments, Mariupol–Taganrog/T-0509, Berdiansk/Melitopol spurs), potentially higher in gross passages but far lower in productive throughput than Western equivalents due to systemic non-mechanized constraints."
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"Revised estimate: Likely 3,000–8,000+ effective military/logistics truck movements per month on key southern routes (e.g., M-14 segments, Mariupol–Taganrog/T-0509, Berdiansk/Melitopol spurs), potentially higher in gross passages but far lower in productive throughput than Western equivalents due to systemic non-mechanized constraints."
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And then down to 2.5K to 7K truck movements, See:
"Likely 2,500–7,000 effective military/logistics truck movements per month on key southern routes (M-14 segments, Mariupol–Taganrog/T-0509, Berdiansk/Melitopol spurs), with gross passages potentially higher to offset massive inefficiencies—but productive throughput remains severely constrained by non-mechanized realities, supplements like rail/barge, and systemic intelligence blind spots."
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"Likely 2,500–7,000 effective military/logistics truck movements per month on key southern routes (M-14 segments, Mariupol–Taganrog/T-0509, Berdiansk/Melitopol spurs), with gross passages potentially higher to offset massive inefficiencies—but productive throughput remains severely constrained by non-mechanized realities, supplements like rail/barge, and systemic intelligence blind spots."
3/
Lots of things can be true at once. Here's my best reckoning with the absurdity of the Murrell admissions this week. Firstly - he deserves for the book to be thrown at him for his sustained, cynical & indefensible breach of trust over a long period. White collar crime is serious.
I think we'd benefit from a guideline from the Sentencing Council on fraud - but I would expect, even with a guilty plea, a prison term of 3 years reflecting the sustained abuse of trust, adjacency to public office - unknown quantities being how much is potentially recoverable.
Murrell's list of purchases are ridiculous and are rightly being mocked. The household stuff speaks of an utterly banal kleptomania and desire to own things which look cheap but apparently cost wild sums of cash (sorry Lalique but those pepper gringers are powerfully naff)
🚨 A Florida judge declined to block the state’s new congressional map for the 2026 elections.
Judge Joshua Hawkes says Florida courts cannot block the state’s new congressional map by temporarily reinstating the old 2022 map, because state leaders contend that map itself contains unconstitutional race-based districts.
Hawkes also says challengers have not yet shown enough evidence that the new map was drawn with unconstitutional partisan intent, calling the current record incomplete and emphasizing that expert evidence has not yet been fully tested in court.
U.S. is telling Europe to defend itself.
Trump is shrinking the US military footprint in Europe toward pre-2022 levels.
The Pentagon is cutting brigade deployments from 4 to 3 and delaying 4,000 troops bound for Poland — FT. 1/
Trump is shrinking the US military footprint in Europe toward pre-2022 levels.
The Pentagon is cutting brigade deployments from 4 to 3 and delaying 4,000 troops bound for Poland — FT. 1/
The White House says this is about “maximising American security.”
Critics inside NATO call it a dangerous signal to Moscow.
Jim Townsend: “If we are pulling troops out willy-nilly, what messages does that send?” 2/
Critics inside NATO call it a dangerous signal to Moscow.
Jim Townsend: “If we are pulling troops out willy-nilly, what messages does that send?” 2/
The change in policy hits Eastern Europe hardest.
Poland was blindsided after the US abruptly cancelled a planned troop rotation. JD Vance said the troops “could go elsewhere in Europe” instead. 3/
Poland was blindsided after the US abruptly cancelled a planned troop rotation. JD Vance said the troops “could go elsewhere in Europe” instead. 3/
Strange news out of Las Vegas: The Israeli property manager linked to an illegal Las Vegas biolab (which contained HIV and dengue fever) just had federal charges dismissed against him
I understand charges get dismissed if there's no case but the criminal complaint makes this sound open and shut. Solomon is in the US on a visa and had multiple illegal firearms in addition to 2 foreign passports where his name was spelled differently
Correction here: The Vegas biolab had "human samples," flu vaccines, and testing kits
It was a nearby Reedly CA lab that had HIV and Dengue fever samples present. Investigators believe the two labs are connected
It was a nearby Reedly CA lab that had HIV and Dengue fever samples present. Investigators believe the two labs are connected
REI membership is 85% white. As New York becomes less white, obviously businesses catering to overwhelmingly white hobbies like backpacking and camping will struggle.
Appalachian Trail thru-hikers and Yellowstone backcountry campers are both 95% white. A more diverse America will be less outdoorsy.
That’s roughly the same demographics as military special forces. Not to read too much into it, but a country with lots of men who enjoy surviving in the woods because it appeals to their resourcefulness and self-sufficiency is more formidable than one without such men.
⚔️ The Komnenian reconquista
(1096-1143) mapped 🗺️
(1096-1143) mapped 🗺️
🇹🇷 following the disaster at Mantzikert the Turks managed to enter Anatolia and by 1080 had pushed the Romans to some western costal regions
But by 1096 the situation would change drastically...
But by 1096 the situation would change drastically...
🇨🇶 The 1st Crusade would be the one that would begin a continuous period of recapturing cities on the Western coast of Asia Minor, and until the death of Alexios Komnenos in 1118, the Romans had recovered many cities like Nicea, Nicomedia, Pergamon and Ephesus
