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A Russian drone is still outside my window. And air-defense machine guns are working a hundred yards away.
This night Russia attacked Kyiv again.
For the first time, our university KSE, was hit.
One staff member was injured. No one in our community was killed, thank God. 1/
This night Russia attacked Kyiv again.
For the first time, our university KSE, was hit.
One staff member was injured. No one in our community was killed, thank God. 1/
Windows and doors in two main buildings are shattered.
The team is checking for structural damage.
So far, I have no reports of any more student, staff or faculty injuries. But one apartment and one house are destroyed, another apartment damaged. 2/
The team is checking for structural damage.
So far, I have no reports of any more student, staff or faculty injuries. But one apartment and one house are destroyed, another apartment damaged. 2/
Our operations and management teams were on site at 5am, the moment curfew ended, while the attack was still continuing.
We are okayish, but Kyiv is damaged. The death tool is 1 as of writing, I expect it to rise to dozens. 3/
We are okayish, but Kyiv is damaged. The death tool is 1 as of writing, I expect it to rise to dozens. 3/
SitRep - 23/05/26 - Ukraine destroying Russia's rear
An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drones are targeting Russian logistics and bases across all occupied and Russian territories. Russians have nowhere to hide anymore.
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An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Drones are targeting Russian logistics and bases across all occupied and Russian territories. Russians have nowhere to hide anymore.
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As usual we start with Russian losses
Who gave a Parisian clique the moral monopoly to grade the world on press freedom?
Every April, the world bows to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index like it’s the "Olympic medal table for journalism".
Norway #1. Finland close behind. India? 157th out of 180 in 2026, lumped with autocracies, its score a dismal 31.96.
Brazil scrapes by higher some years, South Africa clings to “satisfactory” on a good day.
The message is clear: the Global South’s democracies are failing the free press test.
Except the test is rigged. RSF’s vaunted ranking rests on two pillars.
One is a tally of “abuses”, real enough in places.
The other?
A qualitative questionnaire answered by a secret handful of “press freedom specialists”: journalists, academics, researchers, human rights defenders.
RSF won’t name them, won’t reveal how many, won’t disclose selection criteria or political leanings.
A seven-member European panel in Paris then crunches the numbers.
That’s it. No transparency.
No peer review. No accountability.
Just a cloistered group of ideologues scoring countries through a Western-liberal lens that treats any pushback against disinformation, foreign-funded NGOs, or elite media cartels as “intimidation.”
This isn’t measurement. It’s narrative enforcement.
India, the world’s largest democracy, with thousands of outlets, hyper-local languages, and raucous social media that bypasses legacy gatekeepers, gets hammered for “highly concentrated ownership” and journalists facing violence. Context?
An explosion of fake news, election meddling, and opposition capture of big media houses that RSF’s experts conveniently frame as plucky independence. Laws to curb it? “Attacks on press freedom.”
Meanwhile, the same Index shrugs at Western social media giants throttling heads of state or European states quietly regulating “hate speech” that somehow always targets the wrong voters.
Cultural bias baked in: the questionnaire, even in 24 languages, was written by Europeans for European norms. Non-Western realities, tribal media wars, post-colonial state fragility, development-first governance, don’t compute. They penalize.
Funding tells the rest. Over half of RSF’s cash flows from public-sector grants: the European Union, French Development Agency, Swedish International Development Cooperation.
The very governments that top the Index bankroll the referee. Past grants from U.S.-linked outfits like the National Endowment for Democracy add the cherry. Coincidence? Hardly.
This is soft-power colonialism dressed as human rights.
The Global South isn’t blameless. But pretending a Parisian echo chamber can fairly adjudicate messy, sovereign democracies fighting for information sovereignty is gaslighting on a planetary scale.
It ignores how the same Index once flirted with funding scandals and founder baggage that reeked of ideological crusading.
It tells emerging powers: your messy pluralism is “problematic.” Ours is pristine.
Enough.
The world doesn’t need another Eurocentric report card. The Global South, and every democracy tired of being lectured, needs its own platforms.
A "just" Global Press Freedom Index. An African Union-led ranking. An Asian/Latin American framework built by journalists who actually live the context: balancing freedom with stability, truth with development, sovereignty with scrutiny.
Transparent respondents. Public methodology. No sacred cows.
One that calls out real repression and the hypocrisy of legacy powers who lecture while their own media consolidates and their algorithms amplify chaos.
The RSF Index isn’t broken.
It’s working exactly as designed: to keep the Global South on the defensive while the North pats itself on the back.
Time to build our own table.
The rest of the world has waited long enough for a seat at it.
FACTS >>> NARRATIVES
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Every April, the world bows to the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index like it’s the "Olympic medal table for journalism".
Norway #1. Finland close behind. India? 157th out of 180 in 2026, lumped with autocracies, its score a dismal 31.96.
Brazil scrapes by higher some years, South Africa clings to “satisfactory” on a good day.
The message is clear: the Global South’s democracies are failing the free press test.
Except the test is rigged. RSF’s vaunted ranking rests on two pillars.
One is a tally of “abuses”, real enough in places.
The other?
A qualitative questionnaire answered by a secret handful of “press freedom specialists”: journalists, academics, researchers, human rights defenders.
RSF won’t name them, won’t reveal how many, won’t disclose selection criteria or political leanings.
A seven-member European panel in Paris then crunches the numbers.
That’s it. No transparency.
No peer review. No accountability.
Just a cloistered group of ideologues scoring countries through a Western-liberal lens that treats any pushback against disinformation, foreign-funded NGOs, or elite media cartels as “intimidation.”
This isn’t measurement. It’s narrative enforcement.
India, the world’s largest democracy, with thousands of outlets, hyper-local languages, and raucous social media that bypasses legacy gatekeepers, gets hammered for “highly concentrated ownership” and journalists facing violence. Context?
An explosion of fake news, election meddling, and opposition capture of big media houses that RSF’s experts conveniently frame as plucky independence. Laws to curb it? “Attacks on press freedom.”
Meanwhile, the same Index shrugs at Western social media giants throttling heads of state or European states quietly regulating “hate speech” that somehow always targets the wrong voters.
Cultural bias baked in: the questionnaire, even in 24 languages, was written by Europeans for European norms. Non-Western realities, tribal media wars, post-colonial state fragility, development-first governance, don’t compute. They penalize.
Funding tells the rest. Over half of RSF’s cash flows from public-sector grants: the European Union, French Development Agency, Swedish International Development Cooperation.
The very governments that top the Index bankroll the referee. Past grants from U.S.-linked outfits like the National Endowment for Democracy add the cherry. Coincidence? Hardly.
This is soft-power colonialism dressed as human rights.
The Global South isn’t blameless. But pretending a Parisian echo chamber can fairly adjudicate messy, sovereign democracies fighting for information sovereignty is gaslighting on a planetary scale.
It ignores how the same Index once flirted with funding scandals and founder baggage that reeked of ideological crusading.
It tells emerging powers: your messy pluralism is “problematic.” Ours is pristine.
Enough.
The world doesn’t need another Eurocentric report card. The Global South, and every democracy tired of being lectured, needs its own platforms.
A "just" Global Press Freedom Index. An African Union-led ranking. An Asian/Latin American framework built by journalists who actually live the context: balancing freedom with stability, truth with development, sovereignty with scrutiny.
Transparent respondents. Public methodology. No sacred cows.
One that calls out real repression and the hypocrisy of legacy powers who lecture while their own media consolidates and their algorithms amplify chaos.
The RSF Index isn’t broken.
It’s working exactly as designed: to keep the Global South on the defensive while the North pats itself on the back.
Time to build our own table.
The rest of the world has waited long enough for a seat at it.
FACTS >>> NARRATIVES
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@HelleLyngSvends @bbcworldservice @TOIIndiaNews @ndtv @SwarajyaMag @BrutIndia @Algemeiner @Jerusalem_Post @haaretzcom @Jedi_Law_Oz @nationalpost @the_hindu @IndianExpress @foIha_sp @Revista_da_TV @OGlobo_Rio @africannewsnet @SaharaWire @decolonialatlas @decolonialatlas @navedaham @TheIndian1954 @krodhrajbhairav
@HelleLyngSvends @bbcworldservice @TOIIndiaNews @ndtv @SwarajyaMag @BrutIndia @Algemeiner @Jerusalem_Post @haaretzcom @Jedi_Law_Oz @nationalpost @the_hindu @IndianExpress @foIha_sp @Revista_da_TV @OGlobo_Rio @africannewsnet @SaharaWire @decolonialatlas @decolonialatlas @navedaham @TheIndian1954 @krodhrajbhairav
We still await answers from @HelleLyngSvends to the questions raised.
No answers yet.
So where is the free press, when uncomfortable questions are directed at those who claim to defend it?
@krodhrajbhairav
No answers yet.
So where is the free press, when uncomfortable questions are directed at those who claim to defend it?
@krodhrajbhairav
1/13 Let me POUND this through your damn THICK fucking skull, since you are apparently an IDIOT who has NO fucking idea WHAT you are talking about! It is people like YOU that helps spread this FALSE bullshit. Insider trading? WTF do you think TRUMP and his entire fucking family
2/13 have been doing for the past EIGHT months! INSIDER TRADING! On such a CORRUPT, MASSIVE scale they have made themselves MILLIONS of dollars! IF Donald Trump had not LIED to the American people, and INCITED an ANGRY mob of his supporters he turned into DOMESTIC TERRORISTS,
3/13 sending them to our Capitol to STOP a VALID government function, January 6th would have NEVER happened! DONALD J. TRUMP is SOLELY responsible for January 6th, PERIOD! Blame Nancy Pelosi ALL you want, but you are FULL of SHIT!
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The stock: [ENTER TICKER SYMBOL OF THE DIVIDEND STOCK YOU WANT EVALUATED]"
"You are Warren Buffett evaluating dividend stocks for Berkshire Hathaway's $300B+ equity portfolio — selecting only companies with such durable competitive advantages that they can pay and grow their dividends for the next 50 years without interruption.
I need a complete dividend stock screening analysis that separates safe compounders from dividend traps.
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- Consecutive dividend increases: how many years in a row has this company raised its dividend (25+ = Aristocrat, 50+ = King)
- Dividend growth rate: annualized dividend growth over 3, 5, and 10 years (I want 7%+ to outpace inflation)
- Payout ratio from earnings: percentage of net income paid as dividends (below 60% is safe, above 75% is danger)
- Payout ratio from free cash flow: percentage of FCF paid as dividends (more reliable than earnings-based ratio)
- Revenue stability: has revenue grown in at least 8 of the last 10 years without major drops
- Earnings consistency: has EPS grown in at least 8 of the last 10 years without wild swings
- Debt-to-EBITDA: can the company pay off all debt within 3 years of EBITDA (low leverage = safer dividend)
- Interest coverage: EBIT divided by interest expense above 5x (debt payments easily covered before dividends)
- Economic moat: does this company have pricing power, switching costs, or scale advantages that protect future profits
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1/15 THIS is the CRAP Mr. Stedman wrote on twitter. When I tried to show him the facts instead of the GARBAGE bullshit he sent below, he blocked me lmao. He and others who try and paint a rosy picture of that day are despicable, trying to make us ALL believe we didn't see with
1/15 our OWN eyes what we seen on that day. There was NO peaceful guys walking around doing nothing. They were DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, beating up cops and causing widespread destruction. A civilian and FOUR police officers were killed because of that shit. So when you see this CRAP
2/15 being posted call them out on their fantasy posting...
Pat Stedman
May 21
On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places. At one point near the House Chambers I was
Pat Stedman
May 21
On January 6th I followed the crowd into the Capitol and shouted. Police stood by the whole time, hanging out with us and sometimes directing us places. At one point near the House Chambers I was
My doctor friend Shreya called me this week.
"Pratik, GIFT City is tax-free na? Nothing to pay on investments there?"
She had ₹20L sitting in savings. Was about to shift everything.
I had to stop her.
Here's what most people get completely wrong about GIFT City 🧵
"Pratik, GIFT City is tax-free na? Nothing to pay on investments there?"
She had ₹20L sitting in savings. Was about to shift everything.
I had to stop her.
Here's what most people get completely wrong about GIFT City 🧵
GIFT City is physically in Gujarat.
But for FEMA, it's treated as "outside India."
This creates two completely different realities depending on WHO you are.
NRI investing INTO GIFT City → massive tax benefits.
Resident Indian → mostly normal tax.
Same city. Opposite outcomes.
But for FEMA, it's treated as "outside India."
This creates two completely different realities depending on WHO you are.
NRI investing INTO GIFT City → massive tax benefits.
Resident Indian → mostly normal tax.
Same city. Opposite outcomes.
For NRIs, GIFT City is genuinely close to tax-free on investments.
→ Zero capital gains tax (Section 10(4D))
→ Zero STT, CTT, stamp duty
→ Interest on IFSC deposits = 100% tax-free
→ Min investment: $500 for MFs, $75K for AIFs (reduced Feb 2025)
These aren't loopholes. They're statutory exemptions designed to compete with Singapore and Dubai.
→ Zero capital gains tax (Section 10(4D))
→ Zero STT, CTT, stamp duty
→ Interest on IFSC deposits = 100% tax-free
→ Min investment: $500 for MFs, $75K for AIFs (reduced Feb 2025)
These aren't loopholes. They're statutory exemptions designed to compete with Singapore and Dubai.
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Alright, I didn't want to do this one, but I honestly cannot stand how contrived this is, so here we go.
@SeattleLGBTQ commission wants @mayorofseattle Wilson to declare a civil emergency for trans refugees fleeing red states. The case rests on a single headline number: 400,000 nationally. That number does not survive five minutes of arithmetic.
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@SeattleLGBTQ commission wants @mayorofseattle Wilson to declare a civil emergency for trans refugees fleeing red states. The case rests on a single headline number: 400,000 nationally. That number does not survive five minutes of arithmetic.
/1
Source: a MAP/NORC survey. Trans and nonbinary sample: 111 adults. 9% said they had moved due to LGBTQ politics. That's about ten people. The 400K extrapolation uses a population base roughly 2x what the Williams Institute actually publishes for trans adults. /2
Local check. Gender Justice League's own impact report: 7 relocations last year. 5 the year before. TRACTION says "500 in communication to move." Mayor Wilson, in her response: specific numbers on trans migration to Seattle have not been studied. /3
🔥Ukraine's Zelensky: “We are bringing the war back home, to russia, & that is entirely fair.”
1/11
1/11
🔥Ukraine struck the Sheshkharis terminal & Grushevaya pumping station in Novorossiysk — critical hubs of russia’s Black Sea oil exports & military fuel logistics.
- tens of millions of tons yearly, include tank farms >1.3M m³ capacity
- process up to 600 tank cars daily
2/11
- tens of millions of tons yearly, include tank farms >1.3M m³ capacity
- process up to 600 tank cars daily
2/11
🔥 Ukraine has now struck 24 of Russia’s 33 major refineries (>1M tons/year) in at least 158 attacks since the full-scale war began.
Only Omsk and Angarsk beyond the Urals remain untouched.
Russia’s European refining industry is being systematically dismantled.
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Only Omsk and Angarsk beyond the Urals remain untouched.
Russia’s European refining industry is being systematically dismantled.
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