NEW | Ukraine’s expanding long-range strike campaign against Russian oil infrastructure is exploiting overstretched Russian air defenses and significantly damaging Russian oil export capabilities.

Russian milbloggers continued to criticize the ineffectiveness of Russian air defense systems and highlight the impact of Ukrainian strikes. (1/4)

2/ The Russian military is experiencing manpower challenges and is unable to recruit enough contract soldiers to replace its frontline losses.

The Russian MoD is attempting to generate additional manpower through other sources, regardless of the financial and societal costs.

Russia is facing increasing recruitment challenges as the pool of Russians willing to sign contracts declines, despite Kremlin efforts to increase signing bonuses and tap additional sources of manpower.

3/ Ukraine’s Western partners continue to provide air defense aid to Ukraine.

Ukrainian forces recently advanced in northern Kharkiv Oblast and the Velykyi Burluk direction.

Russian forces launched 141 drones against Ukraine.

Sthg both remarkable & deeply moving, & which demonstrates the depth of Palestinians' deep knowledge of and solidarity with int'l struggles (also true of Iranians) is that Refaat's "If I Must Die" gestures to Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" (1919) - a poem that few Amerikans know

https://twitter.com/Jairo_I_Funez/status/1976122438178963953

Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet, writer & communist who relocated to the u.s., traveling thru the south before arriving in NYC, where he became a prominent member of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s.

"If We Must Die" was published in 1919 as a direct response to the "red summer" of 1919, in which thousands of Black/New Afrikan people were viciously lynched by white mobs across the country after soldiers returned from the front at the end of WWI.

1/ Thread: Why Christianity is NOT permitted for Gentiles/Noahides according to Torah law.
Source: Yeshiva Pirchei Shoshanim Shulchan Aruch Program – Deriving the Noahide Laws III, Lesson 7 (pages 70-73). Full pages attached.

This directly refutes claims that “shituf makes Christianity okay.” 🧵

2/ Shituf = belief in another (false) deity alongside the One True God.
For Jews: always prohibited.
For non-Jews: Maimonides (Rambam) & many authorities say there is NO permitted shituf —

it is outright idolatry.

Tosafos & others allow it only under very strict conditions (Lesson 7, p.70).
3/ The permissive view’s 3 strict conditions (p.70):
1. Belief in another god is mistaken/unrighteous —

Most lead routing platforms couldn't pass a HIPAA audit if their life depended on it.

We're building one that can.

Thread on what I've learned building HIPAA + SOC 2 compliance from scratch 🧵

HIPAA doesn't require certification. But you need BAA-approved vendors for your database, hosting, storage. Miss one and you're exposed.

SOC 2 requires pen testing and a formal audit. Encrypted data at rest is table stakes. The real move is splitting PII and PHI into separate stores with an encrypted key linking them.

Zelenskyy: We proposed to Russia a ceasefire for Easter. But for them all times are the same.

There is nothing sacred to them. If Russia can afford this war and finance it, it will not move toward peace on its own. That is why pressure on the aggressor cannot drop. 1/

Zelenskyy: Our long-range sanctions are working. They are cutting Russian revenues, above all oil revenues.

Only serious financial losses force Russia to think about an exit from the war. Everything Russia earns from shock oil prices, it will pour back into war. 2/

Zelenskyy: If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy system, we are ready to respond in kind.

That proposal has already been passed to the Russian side through the Americans. Security guarantees are the key to ending the war, to peace, and to trust in the process. 3/

John Kiriakou’s Collapse in Credibility: From Convicted Leaker to Amplifier of Conspiratorial Narratives

John Kiriakou’s public image as a former CIA insider is often used to lend weight to his commentary. But his record tells a very different story—
1)

one defined by a criminal breach of trust, alignment with adversarial media platforms, and a consistent pattern of promoting inflammatory, weakly supported claims, particularly regarding Israel.
2)

A Conviction That Defines the Baseline

Kiriakou is not merely a controversial voice—he is a convicted intelligence leaker. He pleaded guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by exposing the identity of a covert CIA officer and
3)

The most slept-on home service business in America right now is water filtration.

Almost zero competition. Insane margins. Built-in recurring revenue. And 165 million Americans are drinking water contaminated with "forever chemicals" right now.

If I launched one tomorrow, here's exactly what I'd do 🧵👇

First, let's talk about why this market is wide open.

Go search "water filtration near me" in any city under 500K population.

You'll find maybe 3-5 companies with a Google Business Profile.

Half of them have less than 10 reviews. Their websites look like they were built in 2009.

In plumbing, you're fighting 40+ companies for the same keywords. In HVAC, it's even worse.

In water filtration? You could be the #1 result in your entire city within 90 days.

That's not an exaggeration.

The keyword difficulty for local water filtration terms is some of the lowest I've ever seen in home services.

Here's the SEO play.

"Water filtration" keywords get over 138,000 searches per month nationally. But here's the thing. Almost all of those local keywords are LOW competition.

"Water filtration companies near me" = 1,300 searches/month, medium difficulty.
"Water treatment near me" = 1,600 searches/month, medium difficulty.
"Well water filtration systems" = 6,600 searches/month.
"Water conditioning" = 5,400 searches/month.

Most local service keywords sit at a difficulty score of 25-32. For context, plumbing and HVAC keywords are 55-70+.

You could build one clean website, optimize your GBP, post 2-3 blogs a month, and outrank everyone in your city in under 90 days. Nobody is doing SEO in this space. Nobody.

A short🧵for those insisting on a fiction: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iran’s sovereign toll gate, private cash machine, or maritime revenue stream. It is an international strait used by the world. Geography may give Iran a coastline on one side of it. It does not give Iran the right to invoice the rest of the planet for passage.

The legal principle is neither exotic nor difficult. Passage through an international strait is a right of navigation, not a commercial favor extended by the nearest coastal state. The moment a country claims it can charge all vessels merely for transiting, it is no longer speaking the language of sovereignty. It is claiming discretionary control over a route the global economy depends on.

And this is where the lazy comparisons begin. Suez is an artificial canal built, operated, and administered by Egypt. The Turkish Straits are governed by a specific treaty framework. Hormuz is neither of those things. It is a natural strait used for international navigation. Different facts. Different legal regime. Different strategic implications. People collapsing them into one category are advertising confusion, not making an argument.

The world feels uncertain right now. Conflict in the Middle East, volatile oil markets, global supply chains under pressure. Right here in New Zealand, you feel it every time you pull into a petrol station.

It’s real, it’s tough, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise. 🧵

But I want you to cast your mind back.

Remember when inflation hit 7.3% and the cost of everything - groceries, power, rent - started piling up faster than wages ever could?

Remember when your mortgage repayments jumped by $800, $900, even $1000 a fortnight, and the government’s response was to keep on spending?

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The goal is for the assembly to start sovereign wealth funds for 🫵 all. My inventions revenue will go directly to 🫵🇺🇸.

That is plan, so tell @BlakeTillery to fund this as LT Governor. You get safe elections and yields.