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Feb 2
#sambucky Although Bucky is the one born in 1910's, Sam is a black gay man raised in Delacroix. This means he is the most reserved boyfriend, the one who shows less in public.

When they are in missions, you could tell they look like an old married couple, +
since they act like one. They fight for every single detail, like mom and dad would do. However they also care for each other – a lot. Were you on a mission with them and the other one was missing, they would ask "hey, where is Sam?", "do you know where is Buck?" +
It's not that they keep secret about their relationship, they don't. They would never. Neither would they deny about it. They are together, period.

Despite of that, Sam is always the one looking everywhere; to identify either a possible homophobic person or a racist one. +
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Feb 2
I have been accused of crashing out because I have no patience for Nazism, and because I have called out people for playing footsie with Nazism. 1/7
But this is no crash out because I have always had no patience for Nazism. 2/7
I also have no patience for those who deny having played footsie by explaining further that they were just rubbing their socks together. 3/7
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Feb 2
No Meditation allowed in this Temple, this is not a place to stay, it is a place to bow and leave...

This thread will give you goosebumps! Image
In Varanasi there is a small and intense shrine known as the Tara Mata Temple. A local belief says visitors should not stay here for more than ten minutes. This belief has been passed down quietly through generations in Kashi. Image
According to local lore the temple stands on a site of extreme sacrifice and unfinished penance. The place is believed to carry a heavy spiritual charge that is not meant for prolonged human presence. Image
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Feb 2
The real reason the Bitcoin is falling. The new fed chair was a former board member. Read this and play smart. HBAR is what they decided to replace it with. DCNA compatible with nuclear tech. Designed by an Air Force retired colonel. @leemonbaird

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@GaryCardone @MyronGainesX @elonmusk @kanyewest @MicroStrategy @Strategy it has to do with you know who

The real reason Bitcoin is falling. Read this federal reserve file — 👆🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️ @blknoiz06
#BTC #HBAR $HBAR $Btc @threadreaderapp “unroll”
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Feb 2
Finkelstein is not the go-to in the established scholarship. He is not even considered a serious scholar within Palestine Studies. I work specifically on the resistance, and if that interests you here is a reading list:

Scholarship on Hamas:
Top Tier Scholarship:
- Ghassan Du‘ar, “Harb al-Ayyam al-Sab‘ah: ’Usud Hamas” [The Seven Day War: The Lions of Hamas] (Amman: Filisteen Almuslima, 1993).
 
- Ghassan Du‘ar, “Imad-Aql-'usturati-aljihad-w-almuqawima.” [Imad Aql, legend of jihad and resistance] (London, Filastin al-Muslimah, 1994).
 
-Ghassan Du‘ar, "The Engineer: The Martyr Yahya Ayyash, Symbol of Jihad and Leader of the Resistance in Palestine” (London: London, Filastin al-Muslimah, 1997).
 
—Jawad al-Hamad and Iyyad al-Barghouthi (eds.), Dirasah fi al-Fikr al-Siyasi li Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah: Hamas: 1987–1996 (A Study on the Political Thought of the Islamic Resistance Movement: Hamas: 1987–1996) (Amman: MESC, 1997).

- Khaled Hroub, “Hamas: Political Thought and Practice” (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000).
 
-Jeroen Gunning, “Re-thinking Western constructs of Islamism: pluralism, democracy and the theory and praxis of the Islamic movement in the Gaza Strip”, Doctoral thesis, Durham University (Durham, England: 2000).
 
- Azzam Tamimi, “Hamas: Chapters Unwritten” (London: Hurst, 2009). 

- Jeroen Gunning, “Hamas in Politics” (London: Hurst, 2009). 
 
-Basim al-Zubaidi, Hamas wa al-Hhukum: Dukhul al-Nizam am al-Tamarrud ‘alayh (Hamas and Power: Entering the System or Rebelling Against It) (Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 2010).

-Ibrahim Ghosheh, “The Red Minaret: Memoirs of Ibrahim Ghusheh (Beirut: Al-Zaytouna Centre, 2013).
 
-Sara Roy, “Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector” (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2011)

Yezid Sayigh, "We Serve the People: Hamas Policing in Gaza" (Waltham, MA: Brandeis, 2011).
 
- Mohsen Mohammad Saleh (Ed.), “Islamic Resistance Movement-Hamas: Studies of Thought and Experience” (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2017).
 
- Björn Brenner, “Gaza Under Hamas: From Islamic Democracy to Islamist Governance” (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017).
 
-Ghassan Du‘ar, "Qawāʿid al-Shuyūkh: Muqāwamat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn ḍidd al-Mashrūʿ al-Ṣuhyūnī, 1968–1970” (The Shuyukh Camps: The Resistance of the Muslim Brothers Against the Zionist Project, 1968–1970) (Beirut: Al-Zaytouna Centre, 2018).
 
- Abdalhakim Aziz Hanaini, Manhajiyyat Harakat Hamas fi al-‘Alaqat al-Kharijiyyah: Suria Namuzajan 2000-2015 (Hamas’ Foreign Policy: Syria as a Case Study 2000-2015) (Beirut: Al-Zaytouna Centre, 2018).

- Tareq Baconi, “Hamas Contained” (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). [note: Baconi’s book is oft criticized for the title, which prognosticates containment, belied by Tufan al-Aqsa; but this does not play much of a role in the book itself, which is worth reading for his use of myriad archives. Specifically, Baconi consults: the Gaza City archives, working through the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut's archive of news publications in the Al- Watha’iq al-Arabiyeh; the al- Zaytouna Centre in Beirut, which published Al-Watha’iq al-Filastiniyyah from 2005–11; and  the Al-Resalah’s Gaza City archive.]
 
-Daud Abdullah, “Engaging the World: The Making of Hamas’ Foreign Policy” (Johannesburg: Afro-Middle East Centre, 2020).
 
- Erik Skare, “A History of Palestinian Islamic Jihad” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Ahmed Qasem Hussein, “The Evolution of the Military Action of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades: How Hamas Established its Army in Gaza,” Al-Muntaqa, Vol.1, No.2, September/October 2021, pp. 78-97. 
 
- Qossay Hamed, “The Constant and the Variable in the Ideology of Hamas (2006-2018)”, PhD Dissertation for Political Science, Université de Bordeaux, 2021. 
 
- Leila Seurat, “The Foreign Policy of Hamas” (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2022).
 
-Jean-François Legrain, “Hamas According to Hamas: A Reading of its Document of General Principles” in Shahram Akbarzadeh (Ed.), “Routledge Handbook of Political Islam”, 2nd Ed., Oxfordshire, Routledge, 2022, pp. 79-90. 
 
-Yahya al-Sanea, "Tarikh Harakat Hamas, Alnash'a Waltatawur" [The History of Hamas Movement, Emergence and Development] (Al-Raya for Research and Studies, 2022).
 
- Paola Caridi, “Hamas: from Resistance to Regime” (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2023, updated edition).
 
-Tarek Hamoud, “Socializing Hamas: Evaluating the Structural Political Developments in the Islamic Palestinian Resistance Movement as a Ruling Authority Between 2006-2017”, University of Exeter Doctoral Thesis, 2023. 
 
- Basem Ezbidi, "Not Rebel Governance? Hamas’s Rule" in Ibrahim Fraihat and Abdalhadi Alijla (Eds.), Rebel Governance in the Middle East (Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore), pp. 281-318.
 
-Talha Ismail Duman, “Beyond Sectarianism: Hezbollah and the Lebanese Muslim Brotherhood’s Evolving Alliance in the Context of the Al-Aqsa Flood”, Sakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 51, No.1, (2025), pp. 36-53.
 
-Khaled Hroub, “Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide (Third Edition)” (London: Pluto Press, 2025)

Lesser Tier Scholarship
Avraham Sela and Shaul Mishal, "The Palestinian Hamas" (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000)
· - Note: contains a number of historical mistakes, pointed out by Khaled Hroub, "Mishal and Sela: The Palestinian Hamas and Schoch: The Islamic Movement", Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Summer 2001) palestine-studies.org/en/node/40973
 
Zaki Chehab, "Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement" (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007).
· - Note: although the text draws from numerous important first-hand accounts conducted by Chebab, it also draws on many zionist intelligence reports.
 
Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell, Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement (London: Polity, 2010).
· - Note: relies on myriad zionist partisan journalists.
 
Tariq Mukhimer, "Hamas Rule in Gaza: Human Rights under Constraint" (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
· - In its attempt to hew towards a putatively objective framework, it elides the political backing of the PA/Fatah-attempted coup against Hamas in 2006-7; however, there are important details/interviews included, making it worth consulting.
 
Ibrahim Natil, “Hamas Transformation: Opportunities and Challenges” (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
· - Note: self-published and lacking in scholarly oversight but less biased than numerous academic texts; however, Sayigh’s book covers much of the same terrain; also note that this is a witness account of Hamas’ governance, written from a first-hand perspective. 
 
Tristan Dunning, “Hamas, jihad and popular legitimacy: reinterpreting resistance in Palestine” (New York: Routledge, 2016).
· - The analytic framework is the sole novel facet
 
Martin Kear, "Hamas and Palestine: The Contested Road to Statehood" (New York: Routledge, 2018).
· - Interesting from an international relations framework but contains little in the way of first-hand accounts/historical findings.
 
Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell, "Hamas: The Quest for Power" (London: Polity Press, 2024).
· - Note: like the 2010 antecedent version, this relies on myriad zionist partisan journalists.
 
Netanel Flamer, “The Hamas Intelligence War” (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Daniel Sobelman, "Axis of Resistance Asymmetric Deterrence and Rules of the Game in Contemporary Middle East Conflicts" (Albany, SUNY Press, 2025), p. 128
⁃zionist source but illuminating review of Operation Guardian of the Walls/Sword of Jerusalem
 
Poor Quality Scholarship that Amounts to Propaganda:
Dennis Ross (Int.), Matthew Levitt, “Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
-relies exclusively on Neoconservative think tank reports, CIA reports and white papers in favor of regime change, and Zionist think tanks/political figures/non-profits; contextualizes
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Feb 2
@Modalsurrealism @LyingWrongAgain @triggerman1976 Let's reestablish ground.
-ERV's are real, they are insertion of viral DNA in infected cells.
-Fixation of ERV genetic info into host specie is extraordinarily rare, as it must
-infect germline cell
-infected offspring survive and reproduce
@Modalsurrealism @LyingWrongAgain @triggerman1976 --avoid filtration if it interferes with any highly preserved systems.
-pass through tens of thousands of generations
-population wide spread
@Modalsurrealism @LyingWrongAgain @triggerman1976 Rare:
-Germline infection is rare
-Developmental disruption is common
-Initial frequency is vanishingly small
-Drift removes most variants
-Positive selection is rare
-Essential systems tolerate no failure

No examples of ERV fixation in human history
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Feb 2
There’s a bitter contradiction unfolding in Latino politics: Latino voters are increasingly rejecting Republicans because of ICE overreach—even as the ICE agents who killed Alex Pretti were themselves Latino. 1/5 A short 🧵to explain Image
The unmasking of the agents involved in Pretti’s killing won’t calm the outrage. It sharpens it. The issue isn’t ethnicity—its power, impunity, & an enforcement culture that treats entire communities as suspect.

BUT Latino ICE agents complicate things 2/5 Image
For many Latino voters, from Miami to Dallas, ICE raids are the breaking point. “Law and order” loses its appeal when it becomes unchecked state violence, shielded from accountability, defended reflexively by one political party. 3/5 Image
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Feb 2
@michaeldweiss 1).
„It was the GRU that choreographed the seizure and annexation of Crimea, as Vladimir Pootin admitted in a documentary that aired on Russian state television in March 2015.
@michaeldweiss 2).
Since then, Ukraine has functioned as a laboratory for Russian military doctrine and GRU subversion efforts. According to @MarkGaleotti, a Russia security specialist at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London,
@michaeldweiss @MarkGaleotti 3).
the Glass House oversees »the gangster-warlords, militias, and mercenaries of the Donbas« of eastern Ukraine.
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Feb 2
A couple interesting notes on the reveal that Obama’s White House Counsel (top lawyer to the President) Kathy Ruemmler emailed Jeffrey Epstein she was awarded the CIA Agency Medal just hours after getting the award 🧵 Image
2) When I saw this, I wondered why I’d never heard this before. Her CIA Agency Award in 2015 was not and still has never been reported by any press outlet whatsoever, not even a fringe one. It’s not in her Wikipedia. It’s not in her extensive current Goldman Sachs bio.
3) I’ve covered many times, for example, how BlackRock’s Vice Chairman proudly lists his winning the CIA’s Director’s Award openly on his official BlackRock bio. Image
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Feb 2
@H2Blacko Jeffestin was a Muslims.
@grok Jeff was a Muslim.
@grok @threadreaderapp unroll
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Feb 1
An astounding study shows that 1/2 a teaspoon of baking soda lowered inflammation within hours.

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Study was published in 2018 in The Journal of Immunology.

Some experiment were done in rodents including baking soda in the water.

Some groups had their vagus nerves cut.

Other animals had a surgery to disturb the spleen.

Both surgeries were done to see if these tissues mediated the effect of baking soda.

Then, the human studies were done comparing drinking 2g of baking soda dissolved in water vs 2g of salt.

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Animals consuming baking soda in the water showed decreased inflammation in several areas.

In both the kidneys and in the spleen, they had decreased inflammatory M1 macrophages, one of the primary immune cells.

Baking soda increased M2 macrophages, signifying that the macrophages turned into a more anti-inflammatory phenotype.

They also had:

↑IL-10 in the kidney (anti-inflammatory cytokine)
↑FOXP3 cells in blood + kidney (Treg cells, anti-inflammatory immune cells)
↓CD4 T Cells (inflammatory)
↓CD44 T cells (inflammatory)
↓TNFα macrophages (primary inflammatory mediator)

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Feb 1
Australian Shadarim

This thread will provide more information about the early shadarim to visit Australia.

In 1879-1880, the earlier trickle of shadarim turned into a flood, with 3 visiting simultaneously. First to arrive was R. Yosef Hurwitz of Yerushalayim (pictured). Image
R. Hurwitz arrived in Melbourne in March 1879, collecting for a soup kitchen in Yerushalayim (Geelong Advertiser, March 15).

By July he was in Sydney, where the Sydney Morning Herald (July 19) reported in greater detail. The locals were happy with the cause and recommendations. Image
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In October he visited Adelaide, where the picture posted above was taken. Image
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