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For a few minutes on a mountain, three disciples saw Jesus as He actually is.
Not the carpenter. Not the traveling teacher.
His face shining like the sun. His clothes blinding white. Moses and Elijah standing beside Him. The voice of God speaking from a cloud.
It's one of the most breathtaking scenes in the Gospels and one of the most overlooked.
Here's what actually happened, and what it means. 🧵
Not the carpenter. Not the traveling teacher.
His face shining like the sun. His clothes blinding white. Moses and Elijah standing beside Him. The voice of God speaking from a cloud.
It's one of the most breathtaking scenes in the Gospels and one of the most overlooked.
Here's what actually happened, and what it means. 🧵
The setup — Matthew 17:1–2.
Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a high mountain, away from the others.
"And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light."
The Greek word is μεταμορφόω (metamorphoō) — a transformation from within.
The glory wasn't shining onto Him.
It was radiating out of Him.
For a moment, the veil lifted.
The disciples saw the divine glory that had been there all along, hidden beneath ordinary flesh.
This wasn't Jesus becoming something new.
It was Jesus revealing what He always was.
Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up a high mountain, away from the others.
"And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light."
The Greek word is μεταμορφόω (metamorphoō) — a transformation from within.
The glory wasn't shining onto Him.
It was radiating out of Him.
For a moment, the veil lifted.
The disciples saw the divine glory that had been there all along, hidden beneath ordinary flesh.
This wasn't Jesus becoming something new.
It was Jesus revealing what He always was.
Then two figures appear, talking with Him: Moses and Elijah. (17:3)
This is not random.
It's deeply deliberate.
Moses represents the Law.
Elijah represents the Prophets.
Together, "the Law and the Prophets" was shorthand for the entire Old Testament.
And here they both stand, conversing with Jesus — the One they had both pointed toward all along.
The message is unmistakable: Jesus is not a break from the Scriptures that came before.
He is their fulfillment.
Everything Moses and Elijah represented converges on Him.
This is not random.
It's deeply deliberate.
Moses represents the Law.
Elijah represents the Prophets.
Together, "the Law and the Prophets" was shorthand for the entire Old Testament.
And here they both stand, conversing with Jesus — the One they had both pointed toward all along.
The message is unmistakable: Jesus is not a break from the Scriptures that came before.
He is their fulfillment.
Everything Moses and Elijah represented converges on Him.
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💸 The Taliban Cash Pipeline: What They Don't Want You Connecting
The post below put its finger on something real, and Grok's sanitized answer is exactly the kind of institutional fog machine that keeps this thing going. Let me walk you through what's actually happening here, because the facts are worse than most people realize — and the distinction Grok is making collapses under even modest scrutiny.
📋 The Bill That Can't Get a Vote
The legislation in question is S.226 — the No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act, introduced by Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) back in January 2025.
What does it actually demand? Not much that should be controversial:
•State Department must develop and implement a strategy to discourage foreign countries and NGOs from financially supporting the Taliban
•State must report to Congress on which countries and NGOs are funding the Taliban
•A full accounting of U.S.-funded direct cash assistance programs in Afghanistan
•Disclosure of Taliban influence over Da Afghanistan Bank (the Afghan central bank)
It passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Chairman Jim Risch in late January 2026. But it's been sitting since then. No floor vote. No urgency.
The objection that transparency would "reveal where the money is going" tells you everything. That's not a bug — that's the feature. The last thing the apparatus wants is a paper trail connecting American cash to Taliban-controlled entities. Because that paper trail already exists in SIGAR's own reports, and it's damning.
🏦 Follow the SIGAR Trail
This is where Grok's "humanitarian aid through UN agencies" line falls apart. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) — the U.S. government's own watchdog — has documented the following:
What SIGAR Found
What It Means
~$40 million per week in cash has arrived in Afghanistan near-weekly since the Taliban takeover
That's roughly $2 billion per year flowing into Taliban-controlled territory
The U.S. is the largest single donor behind this cash pipeline
"Humanitarian" branding doesn't change whose money it is
Da Afghanistan Bank is under direct Taliban control with no safeguards against money laundering or terrorism financing
The central bank receiving the cash is run by the same people we're supposedly not funding
At least $10.9 million in confirmed payments from U.S.-funded partners to Taliban-controlled entities in taxes, duties, and utilities
SIGAR admits this is "likely only a fraction" of the true amount
UN agencies receiving U.S. funds do not track or disclose payments made to Taliban entities
The opacity is structural, not accidental
John Sopko, the SIGAR chief, testified to Congress that the U.S. had allocated $8 billion for Afghanistan since the withdrawal. The UN handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan, and the Taliban-controlled central bank literally posted photographs of the cash deliveries on social media — arrival dates, shipment amounts, photos of bundled cash being unloaded at Kabul Airport and deposited into vaults.
You can't claim this is "not funding the Taliban" when the Taliban is posting Instagram-worthy photos of your cash deliveries.
💸 The Taliban Cash Pipeline: What They Don't Want You Connecting
The post below put its finger on something real, and Grok's sanitized answer is exactly the kind of institutional fog machine that keeps this thing going. Let me walk you through what's actually happening here, because the facts are worse than most people realize — and the distinction Grok is making collapses under even modest scrutiny.
📋 The Bill That Can't Get a Vote
The legislation in question is S.226 — the No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act, introduced by Senator Tim Sheehy (R-MT) back in January 2025.
What does it actually demand? Not much that should be controversial:
•State Department must develop and implement a strategy to discourage foreign countries and NGOs from financially supporting the Taliban
•State must report to Congress on which countries and NGOs are funding the Taliban
•A full accounting of U.S.-funded direct cash assistance programs in Afghanistan
•Disclosure of Taliban influence over Da Afghanistan Bank (the Afghan central bank)
It passed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under Chairman Jim Risch in late January 2026. But it's been sitting since then. No floor vote. No urgency.
The objection that transparency would "reveal where the money is going" tells you everything. That's not a bug — that's the feature. The last thing the apparatus wants is a paper trail connecting American cash to Taliban-controlled entities. Because that paper trail already exists in SIGAR's own reports, and it's damning.
🏦 Follow the SIGAR Trail
This is where Grok's "humanitarian aid through UN agencies" line falls apart. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) — the U.S. government's own watchdog — has documented the following:
What SIGAR Found
What It Means
~$40 million per week in cash has arrived in Afghanistan near-weekly since the Taliban takeover
That's roughly $2 billion per year flowing into Taliban-controlled territory
The U.S. is the largest single donor behind this cash pipeline
"Humanitarian" branding doesn't change whose money it is
Da Afghanistan Bank is under direct Taliban control with no safeguards against money laundering or terrorism financing
The central bank receiving the cash is run by the same people we're supposedly not funding
At least $10.9 million in confirmed payments from U.S.-funded partners to Taliban-controlled entities in taxes, duties, and utilities
SIGAR admits this is "likely only a fraction" of the true amount
UN agencies receiving U.S. funds do not track or disclose payments made to Taliban entities
The opacity is structural, not accidental
John Sopko, the SIGAR chief, testified to Congress that the U.S. had allocated $8 billion for Afghanistan since the withdrawal. The UN handed over $2.9 billion in cash to Afghanistan, and the Taliban-controlled central bank literally posted photographs of the cash deliveries on social media — arrival dates, shipment amounts, photos of bundled cash being unloaded at Kabul Airport and deposited into vaults.
You can't claim this is "not funding the Taliban" when the Taliban is posting Instagram-worthy photos of your cash deliveries.
🔗 Where the Money Actually Goes
The "humanitarian aid" framing requires you to believe that cash entering a financial system fully controlled by a designated terrorist organization somehow doesn't benefit that organization. Here's why that's absurd:
1. The Taliban's own budget tells the story. Leaked budget documents show nearly half of Taliban revenue goes to defense, interior affairs, and intelligence — the exact ministries responsible for supporting terrorist networks.
2. The fungibility problem. Even if every dollar were intended for food and medicine (it isn't), cash is fungible. Every dollar of aid that covers basic governance frees up a dollar the Taliban would have spent on those things to instead fund security services, weapons, and terrorist proxies.
3. The tax pipeline. NGOs and UN agencies pay taxes, duties, and fees to the Taliban regime to operate. One implementing partner estimated that only 30–40% of donor funds actually reach the population after layers of taxes, fees, bribery, and extortion. The other 60–70%? It's feeding the regime's coffers.
4. The TTP connection. The UN Security Council's own Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team has documented — repeatedly — that the Taliban provides sustained financial and logistical support to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a UN-sanctioned Al Qaeda affiliate. They've documented approximately 6,000 TTP fighters sheltered inside Afghan territory with training camps, safe houses, and freedom of movement, resulting in over 600 TTP attacks on Pakistani soil in a single year.
5. The Syria-to-Afghanistan pipeline. A July 2026 Jamestown Foundation assessment flagged that Syria's counterterrorism operations are triggering a strategic relocation of experienced foreign fighters toward Afghanistan. Russian assessments claim 8,500–9,000 Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, Uyghur, and North Caucasian terrorists have already shifted from Syria to Afghanistan through Al Qaeda-linked networks.
So the chain is: U.S. taxpayer dollars → UN cash shipments → Taliban-controlled central bank → Taliban budget (half security/intelligence) → TTP/Al Qaeda training camps → dead Pakistanis.
That's not a conspiracy. That's SIGAR plus the UN's own monitoring team.
🎭 Grok's "Distinction" Is the Whole Problem
Grok's response — "humanitarian aid reaches Afghans through UN agencies and NGOs" and "cash shipments help maintain liquidity for aid operations" — is exactly the institutional narrative that keeps this going. Here's why it's disingenuous:
"The US does not directly fund or deliver cash to the Taliban."
Technically true in the narrowest possible sense. The U.S. gives money to the UN → the UN flies pallets of cash to Kabul → the Taliban-controlled central bank receives and distributes it → the Taliban taxes everything that moves → the Taliban's budget funds its security apparatus → that apparatus shelters terrorist networks.
Calling this "not direct funding" is like saying you didn't feed a bear because you threw the sandwich to a middleman who handed it to the bear while the bear was holding his arm. The distinction is legal fiction.
"This is not US government funding of the Taliban regime."
When SIGAR itself says there are no functioning safeguards to prevent Taliban capture of these funds, and when the Taliban-controlled central bank is posting photos of cash deliveries on social media, and when U.S.-funded partners have paid at least $10.9 million directly to Taliban entities (with SIGAR admitting that's a fraction of the true figure) — at what point does "not funding the Taliban" become a lie you're telling yourself?
The "humanitarian aid" framing requires you to believe that cash entering a financial system fully controlled by a designated terrorist organization somehow doesn't benefit that organization. Here's why that's absurd:
1. The Taliban's own budget tells the story. Leaked budget documents show nearly half of Taliban revenue goes to defense, interior affairs, and intelligence — the exact ministries responsible for supporting terrorist networks.
2. The fungibility problem. Even if every dollar were intended for food and medicine (it isn't), cash is fungible. Every dollar of aid that covers basic governance frees up a dollar the Taliban would have spent on those things to instead fund security services, weapons, and terrorist proxies.
3. The tax pipeline. NGOs and UN agencies pay taxes, duties, and fees to the Taliban regime to operate. One implementing partner estimated that only 30–40% of donor funds actually reach the population after layers of taxes, fees, bribery, and extortion. The other 60–70%? It's feeding the regime's coffers.
4. The TTP connection. The UN Security Council's own Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team has documented — repeatedly — that the Taliban provides sustained financial and logistical support to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a UN-sanctioned Al Qaeda affiliate. They've documented approximately 6,000 TTP fighters sheltered inside Afghan territory with training camps, safe houses, and freedom of movement, resulting in over 600 TTP attacks on Pakistani soil in a single year.
5. The Syria-to-Afghanistan pipeline. A July 2026 Jamestown Foundation assessment flagged that Syria's counterterrorism operations are triggering a strategic relocation of experienced foreign fighters toward Afghanistan. Russian assessments claim 8,500–9,000 Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, Uyghur, and North Caucasian terrorists have already shifted from Syria to Afghanistan through Al Qaeda-linked networks.
So the chain is: U.S. taxpayer dollars → UN cash shipments → Taliban-controlled central bank → Taliban budget (half security/intelligence) → TTP/Al Qaeda training camps → dead Pakistanis.
That's not a conspiracy. That's SIGAR plus the UN's own monitoring team.
🎭 Grok's "Distinction" Is the Whole Problem
Grok's response — "humanitarian aid reaches Afghans through UN agencies and NGOs" and "cash shipments help maintain liquidity for aid operations" — is exactly the institutional narrative that keeps this going. Here's why it's disingenuous:
"The US does not directly fund or deliver cash to the Taliban."
Technically true in the narrowest possible sense. The U.S. gives money to the UN → the UN flies pallets of cash to Kabul → the Taliban-controlled central bank receives and distributes it → the Taliban taxes everything that moves → the Taliban's budget funds its security apparatus → that apparatus shelters terrorist networks.
Calling this "not direct funding" is like saying you didn't feed a bear because you threw the sandwich to a middleman who handed it to the bear while the bear was holding his arm. The distinction is legal fiction.
"This is not US government funding of the Taliban regime."
When SIGAR itself says there are no functioning safeguards to prevent Taliban capture of these funds, and when the Taliban-controlled central bank is posting photos of cash deliveries on social media, and when U.S.-funded partners have paid at least $10.9 million directly to Taliban entities (with SIGAR admitting that's a fraction of the true figure) — at what point does "not funding the Taliban" become a lie you're telling yourself?
🔍 Amrullah Saleh's Allegations
Former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh has been the most vocal figure exposing this, and his claims have been remarkably specific:
•January 13, 2026: $45 million in cash delivered to the Taliban in Kabul at approximately 2 p.m. local time
•February 9, 2026: $40 million transferred via a Tashkent-based cargo carrier called SkyGuard, using a chartered flight from Sharjah that didn't appear in public flight-tracking systems
•July 7, 2026: Another $25 million in cash delivered directly to the Taliban
Saleh's February allegation included specific operational details: the airline was established in 2025, it operates as a subsidiary of a U.S. firm identified as "Air Seal," the plane landed at 0900 and departed at 1100, and the flight was deliberately kept off public tracking systems.
Are these claims "unverified" by U.S. officials? Of course they are.
The State Department stopped publicizing cash shipment details in mid-2023 specifically because of criticism. You can't claim something didn't happen when you deliberately stopped documenting it and refuse to investigate.
Saleh's broader point is what matters: "If this money is not for the Taliban, why is it transferred secretly and handed over to them?"
That's the question S.226 tries to answer. And the Senate won't let it come to a vote.
🎯 The Bottom Line
The No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act doesn't even cut off funding — it just demands transparency about where the money is going. And the Senate can't even pass that.
Consider what that means:
•$3.7+ billion in U.S. aid has flowed to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover
•$40 million per week continues flowing
•SIGAR has documented 19 instances of waste, fraud, and abuse since 2008, totaling at least $24 billion in wasted taxpayer dollars
•The Taliban central bank posts photos of cash deliveries
•The UN doesn't track where the money goes once it enters the Taliban banking system
•The Taliban budget prioritizes security and intelligence over public welfare
•UN monitors confirm TTP and Al Qaeda training camps on Taliban-governed territory
And the Senate's response to a bill that would simply require reporting on where the money goes is to bury it in committee.
Grok can draw its polite distinctions about "humanitarian aid" and "banking system liquidity." But when the U.S. government's own inspector general says the money can't be tracked, the Taliban is posting photos of it, and a bill demanding basic transparency can't get a vote — you don't need to be Amrullah Saleh to connect those dots.
The people who served in Afghanistan know exactly what they're looking at. They fought an enemy that's now being kept on life support by the same government that sent them to war. That's not a policy failure. That's a betrayal.
Former Afghan Vice President Amrullah Saleh has been the most vocal figure exposing this, and his claims have been remarkably specific:
•January 13, 2026: $45 million in cash delivered to the Taliban in Kabul at approximately 2 p.m. local time
•February 9, 2026: $40 million transferred via a Tashkent-based cargo carrier called SkyGuard, using a chartered flight from Sharjah that didn't appear in public flight-tracking systems
•July 7, 2026: Another $25 million in cash delivered directly to the Taliban
Saleh's February allegation included specific operational details: the airline was established in 2025, it operates as a subsidiary of a U.S. firm identified as "Air Seal," the plane landed at 0900 and departed at 1100, and the flight was deliberately kept off public tracking systems.
Are these claims "unverified" by U.S. officials? Of course they are.
The State Department stopped publicizing cash shipment details in mid-2023 specifically because of criticism. You can't claim something didn't happen when you deliberately stopped documenting it and refuse to investigate.
Saleh's broader point is what matters: "If this money is not for the Taliban, why is it transferred secretly and handed over to them?"
That's the question S.226 tries to answer. And the Senate won't let it come to a vote.
🎯 The Bottom Line
The No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act doesn't even cut off funding — it just demands transparency about where the money is going. And the Senate can't even pass that.
Consider what that means:
•$3.7+ billion in U.S. aid has flowed to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover
•$40 million per week continues flowing
•SIGAR has documented 19 instances of waste, fraud, and abuse since 2008, totaling at least $24 billion in wasted taxpayer dollars
•The Taliban central bank posts photos of cash deliveries
•The UN doesn't track where the money goes once it enters the Taliban banking system
•The Taliban budget prioritizes security and intelligence over public welfare
•UN monitors confirm TTP and Al Qaeda training camps on Taliban-governed territory
And the Senate's response to a bill that would simply require reporting on where the money goes is to bury it in committee.
Grok can draw its polite distinctions about "humanitarian aid" and "banking system liquidity." But when the U.S. government's own inspector general says the money can't be tracked, the Taliban is posting photos of it, and a bill demanding basic transparency can't get a vote — you don't need to be Amrullah Saleh to connect those dots.
The people who served in Afghanistan know exactly what they're looking at. They fought an enemy that's now being kept on life support by the same government that sent them to war. That's not a policy failure. That's a betrayal.
Israel the Jewish State wrote, "Stunning Figure: U.S. security aid to Israel, which stands at $3.3 billion a year, is often viewed as one-way. In practice, however, it is one of the most profitable investments for the American economy.
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According to a report by journalist Ariel Kahana, conservative calculations show that the budget transferred to Israel generates at least $15 billion for the U.S. economy.
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Broader and more generous estimates claim that the U.S. earns around $48 billion a year from its aid to Israel.
Beyond the direct financial return, Israel serves as the most effective showcase for the American weapons industry.
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Beyond the direct financial return, Israel serves as the most effective showcase for the American weapons industry.
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Here's how I did this
1. ID bulk sketchy green card submissions. @LayoffAI has a great website that shows H1-B filings by company and county
2. Go to your county and examine the list of H1-B filers. Skip the big sponsors (IBM, etc.) and focus on odd names with smaller #s
1. ID bulk sketchy green card submissions. @LayoffAI has a great website that shows H1-B filings by company and county
2. Go to your county and examine the list of H1-B filers. Skip the big sponsors (IBM, etc.) and focus on odd names with smaller #s
3. Go to Google Maps and search for the company within the map area of your county only. If it's out of a house, or a very small office space, you have a hit. Now, you're going to find out about the company
4. (Be sure to screenshot everything as well as copy links to a doc)
4. (Be sure to screenshot everything as well as copy links to a doc)
5. Search engine fun - capture every URL into your doc which comes up and collect info. There will be corporate sites, obsolete sites which direct to a new company, etc. Collect that info and research those offshoots
6. There will be social media, news puff pieces, links. Get em
6. There will be social media, news puff pieces, links. Get em
20 Years of NIFG - The Top 20s!
Day 15: Northern Ireland Goalkeepers with Fewest Goals Conceded per 90 Minutes
#GAWA #NornIron
Day 15: Northern Ireland Goalkeepers with Fewest Goals Conceded per 90 Minutes
#GAWA #NornIron
20. Allen McKnight
10 #NornIron caps (1987-1989)
1.40 goals conceded / 90 mins
14 goals / 900 minutes
@goaliemck1
10 #NornIron caps (1987-1989)
1.40 goals conceded / 90 mins
14 goals / 900 minutes
@goaliemck1
19. Phil Hughes
3 #NornIron caps (1986-1987)
1.33 goals conceded / 90 mins
4 goals / 270 minutes
3 #NornIron caps (1986-1987)
1.33 goals conceded / 90 mins
4 goals / 270 minutes
Why is Surah At-Tawbah the only surah in the entire Qur’an without Bismillah?
The answer might surprise you.
The answer might surprise you.
Every other surah begins the same way:
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
But not this one.
Surah At-Tawbah opens differently.
No Bismillah.
No introduction.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
But not this one.
Surah At-Tawbah opens differently.
No Bismillah.
No introduction.
The surah begins immediately with a declaration concerning treaties that had been violated and covenants that had been broken.
People made promises.
Then they betrayed them.
They pledged loyalty.
Then they turned away.
People made promises.
Then they betrayed them.
They pledged loyalty.
Then they turned away.
If Democratic voters are looking for an authentic working-class Mainer who'll take on corporate America & the political establishment, then there's still one in the Senate race. I dug into the archives to tell Troy Jackson's origin story as a politician🧵:
Jackson's political career is rooted in the struggles of Maine's long-exploited Maine loggers, which over 1998-99 saw Jackson & two others lead a series of blockades of the Quebec border, calling for an end to imported Canadian workers that were used to undercut them:
In truth, the loggers' struggles went far beyond the Canadian workers. The problem at its root was corporate concentration & greed, and the loggers' lack of rights/bargaining power. All this had turned logging into a precarious industry that more & more workers were abandoning:
Good Afternoon everyone! This is post 47 in my series on Kansas history. Today’s story is on a famous poet and social activist that grew up here in Kansas! (A thread🧵)
The opening photograph in this post was taken by another famous Kansan Gordon Parks! Check out Kansas history post 45 on him if you haven’t already.
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1st, 1901 in Joplin, Missouri. His father left for Cuba and then Mexico shortly after Langston’s birth to escape the racial intolerance of the United States. Langston grew up primarily with his maternal grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas while his mother went around the region in search of work. He moved to Lincoln, Illinois to live with his mother after the death of his grandmother and while living there he began to write short stories, plays, and poetry and was elected the class poet. After graduating high school in 1920 he moved to live with his father in Mexico until he was able to enroll in Columbia University in New York.
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have a suggestion for the US Congress
Stop tolerating lies under oath.
What do I mean by that?
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Stop tolerating lies under oath.
What do I mean by that?
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@rlefraim Yesterday, in a Congressional hearing, the head of a US medical school, in response to a simple question by a congressman, lied under oath.
The congressman asked “Do you, sir, believe that a biological man can get pregnant”.
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The congressman asked “Do you, sir, believe that a biological man can get pregnant”.
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@rlefraim The medical school director, an MD himself, answered by evading the question, saying that he will not reject the possibility.
Evasions, especially when not a matter of self-incrimination, when protecting some political interest, is a lie,
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Evasions, especially when not a matter of self-incrimination, when protecting some political interest, is a lie,
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1/ Wondering what the FBI has been doing with 2020 election materials it seized in a raid earlier this year, and how it figures into Trump’s plans for the midterm elections?
Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out.
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Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out.
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2/ With @jeremykohler, I just reported that the FBI has been exploring using a controversial technique known as signature matching to check the ballots for fraud.
propublica.org/article/trump-…
propublica.org/article/trump-…
3/ Signature matching is a process by which election officials try to determine if a mail-in ballot is fraudulent by comparing the signature on its envelope to another signature from the voter in question. One expert has described it as “witchcraft”:
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Israeli opinion polls – what can be believed?
Israel is not unique when it comes to opinion polling. It has long been understood that polls are often designed to create impressions, to manipulate public opinion more than to understand it.
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Israel is not unique when it comes to opinion polling. It has long been understood that polls are often designed to create impressions, to manipulate public opinion more than to understand it.
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@rlefraim When we see poll results, they are rarely accompanied by details of how sampling was done, what areas the samples lived in, the ages of respondents, what kind of questions were asked, or what kind of poll was conducted —
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@rlefraim whether on the internet, by telephone, what kind of telephones, and the wording of the questions.
I have recently taken a look at the most frequently conducted Israeli polls, and while my information is not as detailed as I would like, the following are my conclusions.
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I have recently taken a look at the most frequently conducted Israeli polls, and while my information is not as detailed as I would like, the following are my conclusions.
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Thread | 🇺🇦 @FedorovMykhailo 's own farewell post, listing 22 achievements, followed his dismissal, not a resignation, per Kyiv Independent sourcing. Zelensky removed him as Defense Minister after a meeting with military leadership on July 15, following Prime Minister @Svyrydenko_Y 's own resignation the day before, which triggered a broader cabinet reshuffle.
Zelensky had reportedly offered Fedorov the position of head of the future Cabinet of Ministers instead, but he declined, wanting to continue the military reforms he'd started.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has been offered the Defense Ministry role, a lawmaker told Kyiv Independent, though Klymenko's own spokesperson said he was "surprised by the president's proposal."
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Zelensky had reportedly offered Fedorov the position of head of the future Cabinet of Ministers instead, but he declined, wanting to continue the military reforms he'd started.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has been offered the Defense Ministry role, a lawmaker told Kyiv Independent, though Klymenko's own spokesperson said he was "surprised by the president's proposal."
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MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak: Zelensky said he "cannot choose between Syrskyi and Fedorov," and that Fedorov "failed the reform of the TCC," Ukraine's territorial recruitment centers, the mobilization system that's remained one of the war's most persistent points of friction between civilians and the military.
That detail matters: it suggests Fedorov's removal wasn't purely about defense-tech performance, the area where his own list of achievements is genuinely substantial, but about an unresolved tension with Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi specifically over recruitment authority.
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That detail matters: it suggests Fedorov's removal wasn't purely about defense-tech performance, the area where his own list of achievements is genuinely substantial, but about an unresolved tension with Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi specifically over recruitment authority.
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Fedorov's own list includes disabling Russian Starlink access, launching "Logistical Lockdown" (the Crimea isolation campaign), raising drone interception rates from 83% to 91% and cruise missile interception from 47% to 87%, securing $40 billion in partner support across three UDCG meetings, and directing Operation Auchan, which halted a Russian mechanized offensive for six months, all cited elsewhere in this thread's own coverage over the past month.
Kyiv Independent's own headline captures the public mood: "'Is it really necessary?'" Fedorov would become the second consecutive defense minister removed after roughly six months in the role, following predecessor Denys Shmyhal. The Economist reported tensions "simmered barely below the surface" at a war council in early July, generals reportedly frustrated over missile and ammunition procurement even as Fedorov's tech-driven reforms delivered results elsewhere.
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Kyiv Independent's own headline captures the public mood: "'Is it really necessary?'" Fedorov would become the second consecutive defense minister removed after roughly six months in the role, following predecessor Denys Shmyhal. The Economist reported tensions "simmered barely below the surface" at a war council in early July, generals reportedly frustrated over missile and ammunition procurement even as Fedorov's tech-driven reforms delivered results elsewhere.
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