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May 14
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Jerusalem Day — The Second Hanukah? Or Almost.

Anyone will tell you, Arabs will tell you, the Roman Catholic Church will tell you, the core issue is Jerusalem.
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2000 years ago, the Romans defeated the Jews and renamed the city, and just like the Taliban or American leftists, they went about trying to erase all evidence of the people they defeated.
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They destroyed the Temple, erected a barracks and stable at one end of the Platform (now Al-Aqsa Mosque), and decided they had made their permanent mark, replacing the Jews, and
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May 14
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I find it interesting that Black activists in the USA are complaining that Republicans favoring an end to gerrymandering are racists and trying to prevent Black people from being represented.

Why?
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Because Republicans have a lot of Black candidates running for office in both majority-Black areas and majority-White areas, and doing well. Florida Congressman Byron Donalds won his seat in the district that is the most White in Florida, and
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he is running for governor and will be elected Florida governor.

When a Black woman with amazing qualifications ran for governor in Virginia, the Democrats attacked her, slandered her, and instead elected a White woman who has since proven to be a liar.
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May 14


Schomerus et al. 2026 (Psychiatrische Praxis): A substantive essay from an unexpected direction.
A call for psychiatry to exercise self-restraint in LC + ME/CFS, as evidence-based and ethically necessary.
A remarkable development.
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From my perspective, practice-changing for guidelines, expert assessment, and clinical attitudes in the GAS region:
- Psychologisation is not evidence-based and harms patients.
- 5 categories of harm: iatrogenic harm through activation, invalidation of the illness experience,
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neglect of somatic treatment, disadvantage in expert assessment, and burden on families. Converging evidence for all 5.
Key findings:
- Psychotherapy improves psychological outcomes; however, fatigue, PEM and somatic symptoms remain unchanged. This supports the essay’s thesis
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May 14
For someone who champions government transparency and sunlight, Massie's own opaqueness when it comes to the death of his wife and his own alleged sexual harassment claim as well as his A rating from the National Iranian American Council that supports the IRGC and
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groups that are supported by the Koch-Soros alliance has hurt him with Kentucky voters. Further, President Trump endorsing his primary challenger Ed Gallrein has made a big difference.
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May 14
The Guardian is reporting Angela Rayner has now paid £40,000 of extra stamp duty, but HMRC accepted she wasn't "careless" and so she didn't pay a penalty.

On the public facts, that’s hard to understand.

Here’s why: Image
The background, in short:

1. Ms Rayner sold her remaining interest in her Ashton-under-Lyne family home to a trust set up for her disabled son, and bought a flat in Hove.

2. She paid stamp duty at the standard rate of around £30,000.
3. Stamp duty is 5% higher if you are buying a second home; Ms Rayner didn't pay that higher rate.
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May 14
@fierceLady08
1/13 Constitutional Crisis in the Philippines:

My conversation with Ai asking what is going on in the Philippines?
@fierceLady08 2/13 Ang Impeachment ni Sara Duterte (Mayo 2026)
Sa kasalukuyan, muling uminit ang usapin ng impeachment laban kay Bise Presidente Sara Duterte.
@fierceLady08 3/13 Sa Mababang Kapulungan (House of Representatives):** Noong Mayo 11, 2026, na-impeach ang Bise Presidente sa ikalawang pagkakataon (257 na boto pabor, 25 ang laban).
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May 14
Today we shall be tweeting from day 4 of the Employment Tribunal case brought by Lorna Young against her former employer Manchester City Council. Image
Our Substack page on the case (including reporting from the earlier days of the hearing) is at tribunaltweets.substack.com/p/lorna-young-…
Ms Young is gender critical and Catholic and was formerly Equality Team Manager at MCC. She was dismissed from this role due to her social media content.
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May 14
SitRep - 13/05/26 - Russia massa attacked Ukraine with UAVs

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia mass attacked Ukraine with Shahed and other type drones. A total of 892 were launched in 24 hours.

REPOST=appreciated

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As usual we start with Russian losses
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May 14
1/ Essential Ukraine #23 is out, sharing some conclusions from it (paywall). Bottom line: the specter of a larger war is becoming clearer to all: Ukraine cannot defeat Russia w/o NATO involvement, while Russia cannot impose victory w/o risking broader confrontation with Europe.
2/ The frontline relatively stabilized compared to the deterioration after the fall of Huliapolie. Russia retains the structural advantage in attrition warfare through manpower, strike capacity and industrial scale, but still lacks a credible pathway toward decisive victory.
3/ Ukraine meanwhile managed to stabilize parts of the battlefield through technological adaptation, drone warfare, improved logistics and battlefield re-organization. However, manpower shortages and a heavily degraded energy system continue narrowing Kyiv’s long-term options.
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May 14
Former BlackRock manager Ed Dowd warns of WEF's "polycrisis".

Former BlackRock fund manager Ed Dowd says years ago, in a paper titled “Polycrisis,” the World Economic Forum described exactly the developments happening today. War, pandemics, cyber attacks, AI fears and ongoing
crises as the justification for new floods of money.

"You can't just print money and say, 'We're printing massive money now.' ‘You need an excuse – and Corona was the perfect excuse. “

Dowd points out that today there is talk of war,hantaviruses, AI threats to bank accounts and
even “aliens as a distraction” while the population is being led step by step into a permanent state of crisis.

"The WEF told us years ago: the next phase will be the polycrisis. “

The term describes several global crises – economic,geopolitical, health and technological – that
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May 14
@grok @PhysInHistory mechanism requires an actor, yes? String theory does NOT have an actor then based on Newton's definition that even his amazing math formulas were NOT a mechanism.
@grok @PhysInHistory so you brought one to compare to the ECC to see which is superior as a mechanism unification placeholder. String theory, per Newton, does NOT have a mechanism. we ARE discussing mechanism unification of a 150 anomalies.
@grok @PhysInHistory So say it, Grok. For mechanism unification of a 150 anomalies including gravity, ECC is superior to String theory which has no mechanism, per Newton's definition.
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May 14
1/ The Russian government's claims that it isn't blocking GitHub are widely disbelieved by Russian commentators, who continue to protest about the severe impact that the apparent restrictions on accessing it will have on military-industrial software development. ⬇️ Image
2/ The military-technical Telegram channel 'Atomic Cherry' is one of many to note that Russian software developers – like developers everywhere – are functionally dependent on the open-source code libraries provided by GitHub:
3/ "Russia's restrictive policies continue to strike at various locations, smashing and destroying not just the "free internet," but the information space itself, and they've finally reached the resource I've been anticipating for so long—GitHub.
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