We are still trying to place Long COVID into a biologically coherent framework.
This study is interesting because immune activation, antiviral signaling, metabolism, mitochondria, cell survival do not appear as separate findings - but as parts of one connected system🧵

https://twitter.com/evelio_prieto/status/2055776954284941453

A possible axis is this
something keeps innate immunity on alert - immune cells produce inflammatory signals - their metabolism shifts - mitochondria come under stress - stressed mitochondria can further amplify immune activation.
That is a loop, not a list.

The study compared 50 people with Long COVID with 50 recovered controls around 10 months after SARS-CoV-2.
Both groups had been infected. The key difference was whether symptoms persisted.

HOW THE LORD WORKS MYSTERIOUSLY: 🧵

As you must now know, there was a pro-freedom march in London today.

Led by @TRobinsonNewEra, it was a huge success. According to Metro Police, only 50k showed up.

Does this look like “only” 50k? Lol.

There is a backstory here that…

2/

…involved one of the speakers and goes back more than a decade:

I met Nigerian Anglican Bishop Jwan Zhumbes in seminary. We were immediately drawn to one another by a desire to confront Islam and bring aid to those who suffer at the hands of Muslims.

Knowing I was a…

3/

…writer, he invited me to visit his diocese in Nigeria’s Plateau State to see the sheer scale of the terror for myself. Much to his surprise, I accepted and went.

In those days you had to fly into Lagos or Abuja and take the extremely dangerous open roads to the north….

Who wants us to file the criminal complaint drafted against Phil Weiser for laundering money into his campaign?

$995,457 in Smurfed contributions to ONE Colorado campaign committee. New data run.

1,620 fake or stolen donor identities documented.

The committee: Phil Weiser for Colorado.

The candidate: PHIL WEISER - sitting Colorado Attorney General, now running for Governor 2026.

During the 2025–2026 Colorado state election cycle (January 2, 2025 to April 29, 2026). This is tweet 1 of 6.

See tweets five more tweets in this thread:

Colorado State Police @CSP_News where are you? Its all state or federal govt. data. How about you
@CBSNews? Or @FoxNews? Or @KDVR? what about you @DenverChannel or @Colorado_Based
- how come you didn't find all this? @OfficialCOGOP

@kimmonsonshow @AwakenedOutlaw
@EmeraldRobinson @amuse @AsheinAmerica
@ShawnSmith1776 @gatewaypundit @DougCOGOP
@FBI @FBIDirectorKash @HarmeetKDhillon
@SecScottBessent @DAGToddBlanche

21.2% of corrupt Weiser donor addresses FAILED USPS validation. Legitimate baseline: 1–3%.

• 5,096 USPS-invalid address ($150,039)

• 161 USPS-Vacant, person left ($41,906)

• 2,708 donors who MOVED but the committee kept reporting the old address

• 344 "phantom" identities that failed in both 2025 and 2026

This is tweet 2 of 6:

Top named respondents (composite score 20/20):

• RONALD DAVIS - PO Box 4525, Edwards CO. USPS-Vacant.

• MARGARET KNIGHT - PO Box 20154, Colorado City. USPS-Vacant.

• THOMAS RUSSELL - Westminster CO. Tied to $6,695,279 in lifetime federal contributions at one namekey. Tweet 3 of 6.

Weiser is using strawmen for fraudulent contributions!

Why are you taking contributions from the exact same name, from 5 different addresses in Colorado @pweiser @PhilForColorado ??

Just hit 1k LP on NA @TFT. Here are 4 comps you can learn to climb on this set -- don't need to learn anything else if you don't want to. First 3 comps can be played on all encounters/gods.

1. Corki/Riven
2. Asol AP Flex
3. Yi
4. Fast9

Notes below:

1. Corki needs DB. After that you just need shred + antiheal.

2. AP Flex can run a lot of different front line, but this is the simplest way to transition. Blitz always in on 8 (over Rhaast, who comes back on 9). Sona always over Liss. Tank items on Illaoi if Nunu1.

3. Yi best with Malware or Targetlock optics. Biomatter playable.

4. Fast9 only force from win streak, econ augment, or econ galaxy. You lose anyway without items, so can't overtake econ. Can drop Graves for Morg if you are too low to reliably get his upgrades in time.

Are you a fan of ‘Manchesterism’?

https://twitter.com/newstatesman/status/2053003289310974049

Aesthetically it is Pink Pantheress Britain with Werking Class… in the North Characteristics

https://twitter.com/steelx_dr/status/2055759715309584487

Times change…

https://twitter.com/failureultra/status/2055760019434426536

🚨This double homicide is a brutal reminder of what the gender cult does when it succeeds in isolating kids from their families and turning them against the people who love them most…

Here’s my account of how “trusted adults” (public school staff + activists) secretly recruited my little girl into the gender cult… while viciously vilifying her parents behind our backs.

It’s devastating to learn your child was secretly harmed at school.

It’s a whole new nightmare to discover they were attacking you — the parent — behind closed doors, painting you as the enemy for trying to protect your kid.

This is their playbook.

🧵 1/

https://x.com/Erin4Parents/status/2055303279425511859

2/ After discovering the secret gender club and transition push, our school’s response turned into a nightmare.

Here’s the activist coordinator Kimberly Chambers directing staff on how to “handle” me — the dangerous parent who found out:

🔴 “Tread lightly because this parent has HUGE potential to coming in to understanding or rejecting their child.”
🔴 “Any conversation with this parent should have the impression in our minds as ‘evidence’ — verbiage is everything.”

They treated me like a threat to neutralize. Not a loving parent — a barrier.

This revealed it wasn’t one rogue teacher.
It was a coordinated system against families.

The gender cult doesn’t just affirm kids. ➡️ It plots against parents.

3/🧵

3/ Then this follow-up from activist coordinator Kimberly Chambers:

🔴 “Kristen Draper [school board] has been briefed… and has fielded all of the other middle schools as they began GSA’s and pushed through these barriers.”
🔴 “How this is handled will set a precedence for other parents as they hear about it.”
🔴 The art teacher calls my daughter “they.”

They weren’t supporting a child.
They were coordinating with the school board to treat parents as barriers to defeat — and using my case to set the playbook for every other family.

This is institutional warfare on parents.

4/🧵

People fail to understand this...

You really do not get a choice in how trauma conditions your nervous system, especially in infancy or early development. Trauma becomes interwoven with formational identity, attachment, threat perception, and survival adaptation. It becomes instinctive self-preservation.

Being abused is not a choice, and no one truly knows how they would respond under those conditions.

So when people reduce trauma responses to simplistic statements about “choice” while someone is functioning in survival mode with hypervigilance, dissociation, conditioned fear responses, or maladaptive coping mechanisms, they are fundamentally misunderstanding trauma psychology.

A key mechanism here is neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change and reorganize itself based on experience. A simple way to understand it is this: your brain is not a fixed machine, it is more like a system of pathways that gets reshaped by what you repeatedly think, feel, and experience. The more something happens, the easier it becomes for the brain to do it again.

In childhood, especially, the brain is extremely “plastic,” meaning it changes quickly and efficiently in response to the environment. This is how we learn language, emotional regulation, social behavior, and safety cues. The brain learns patterns of danger just as efficiently as it learns patterns of safety.

When someone grows up in a safe environment, their brain strengthens pathways related to trust, calm response, and flexible problem-solving. When someone grows up in chronic threat, neglect, or abuse, the brain strengthens pathways related to scanning for danger, anticipating harm, reacting quickly, shutting down emotions, or dissociating. These are not random or chosen behaviors; they are the result of the brain repeatedly reinforcing whatever responses increase survival in that environment.

This is what neuroplasticity does: it reinforces what is used most. It does not judge whether the pattern is “healthy” or “unhealthy,” it only adapts to what is necessary for survival at the time.

So when trauma is prolonged or begins early in life, the brain does not just “remember” it as a story. It builds the nervous system around it. That is why certain emotional reactions, body responses, or coping strategies can feel automatic—they are deeply trained neural pathways.

Importantly, neuroplasticity does not stop in adulthood. It continues throughout life, which is why change and recovery are possible. But it also means early adaptations do not simply disappear on command; they have to be slowly rewired through new experiences that repeatedly signal safety over time.

In other words, the same mechanism that allows humans to learn and grow is also what encodes survival adaptations under trauma.

In other words, you are trivializing an extraordinarily complex psychological issue you are not remotely equipped to speak on with certainty. Questions would serve you better than slogans.

You also cannot collapse an argument into slogans that fit your belief; it is disingenuous and misses the nuance. It becomes harmful because it strips away context that is essential to understanding behavior in a psychologically informed way. When empathy is selectively applied only after judgment is delivered, it loses coherence. Saying you are sorry for what someone went through and then immediately dismissing the implications of that experience only communicates that the story matters less than being right in the moment. It is meant to close the conversation because you feel you are justified, and being right becomes more important than understanding the person in front of you.

And let me make this explicitly clear: explaining trauma is not the same thing as excusing behavior.

Understanding causation, conditioning, and trauma adaptation is not absolution. It is simply psychological reality, it is well-supported within trauma research, developmental psychology, and neurobiology.

We absolutely need better professional rigor in mental health care.

We don't have enough good ones such as @KnownHeretic, @TruthAgape, and others, plus including organizations like @genspect, @segm_ebm, and @againstgrmrs.

I wouldn't allow Chud's PAST videos into evidence. They have to be ruled to be more probative than prejudicial AND might only be introduced for the limited purpose of establishing his M.O. They may not be used to determine whether he acted that way in this instance.⬇️

https://twitter.com/TheBrancaShow/status/2055740070251184287

That's why they're more prejudicial than probative in this case. Prosecutors are going to submit into evidence the livestreamed video of what actually happened. Not what might've happened if he followed his M.O. That's unless the livestream was consistent with his M.O.⬇️

We haven't seen the livestreamed video of what actually happened. He's presumed innocent, so every factual element of murder charge will have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt in court. Prosecutors will also have to prove the provocation hadn't ended, and no lethal threat.⬇️

This was way harder than I expected, but I got Hermes Agent running natively on an iPhone (completely offline)

Link below. You can use my Swift package to embed Hermes Agent in your app with a couple lines of code!

This is the real Hermes Agent, totally unmodified. It *should* be App Store safe but who knowsgithub.com/achimala/Swift…

The ugly technical details:

The first challenge is that Hermes Agent is written in Python. iOS, famously, is not. To circumvent this, we simply embed the entire Python interpreter along with the agent codebase, which is fortunately pretty easy these days. We can precompile the Hermes Agent codebase and its core dependencies to bytecode and bundle and interpret it inside the host app.

That's enough to get Hermes to wake up and say hello, but so far all we've got is an overengineered LLM wrapper. To use its features and memory, we need to give it a shell and a persistent filesystem. iOS sure as hell won't let you run shell commands, but iSH (github.com/ish-app/ish) managed to get a Linux shell on iOS by emulating x86 + reimplementing the syscalls in userspace, effectively doing everything inside the app to stay within Apple policies.

This would work, but is pretty slow and unwieldy since it's emulating x86 on ARM. Fortunately, Codex found an arm64 fork (github.com/OpenMinis/ish-…). We embed this too and redirect Hermes' shell calls to it, then remap filesystem commands to Apple's sandbox-friendly app container APIs. Now Hermes has persistent memory!

At this point we can use any external LLM provider with Hermes and get basic functionality. But why stop there? With MLX we can fit ~2B parameter models on device. Qwen-3.5 at 4bit quantization is pretty dumb, but just smart enough to be barely passable as a POC Hermes model that runs entirely offline. I also threw in the on-device Apple Intelligence model, which is terrible (it technically works, but the 4K token context window makes it unusable, and it's generally quite dumb)

Another Caesar is coming, and Western civilization is at a turning point, says German historian Oswald Spengler.

He claimed we live in “the most trying times known to history of a great culture."

And there's no offramp.

Here's what Spengler predicted:

Oswald Spengler is best known for his two-volume work “Decline of the West”, first published in 1923.

A German schoolmaster turned reclusive scholar, Spengler presented a unique vision of history that predicted the rise and fall of civilizations…

His work became an instant success upon publication, selling 100,000 copies by 1926 as its philosophy — depicting western culture as a tired civilization amidst decline — resonated with German intellectuals looking to make sense of their predicament after WWI.

This is the second part of my analysis of Lend-Lease and the Eastern Front, and it covers the decisive year: January 1, 1942 to January 1, 1943, the twelve months running from the Moscow counteroffensive through the encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad.

If Lend-Lease was ever going to be the thing that saved the Soviet Union, this is the year it would have to show. It did not. What follows tracks every major battle of that year against the actual record of what the aid program delivered, and the verdict is clear: in 1942 the Red Army halted the Wehrmacht and began destroying an entire field army with Soviet weapons, Soviet factories, and Soviet operational art.

The aid was real, but it was small, disrupted, and decisive nowhere. The Soviet Union saved itself.

Part 1:

From January 1, 1942 to January 1, 1943, the Soviet Union fought what was arguably the most dangerous twelve months in its history, and it fought that year overwhelmingly on its own. This article examines the campaigns of that year against the record of what the Lend-Lease program actually delivered, and it argues a specific thesis: that for the calendar year 1942, foreign aid did not meaningfully decide the outcome of the war on the ground.

The Wehrmacht's second summer offensive was halted, and an entire German field army was encircled and condemned to destruction, by Soviet soldiers carrying Soviet weapons, supplied by Soviet factories, and directed by Soviet operational art.

January 1st 1942:

The year did not open in calm. In the first weeks of January 1942 the Red Army was still on the offensive, riding the momentum of the counterstroke that had thrown the Germans back from the gates of Moscow in December 1941. The Soviet high command, the Stavka, was ambitious to the point of overreach. It launched a general winter offensive along an enormous frontage, hoping to shatter Army Group Center entirely.

That hope was not realized. The Rzhev-Vyazma operations dragged on from January into April and consumed Soviet divisions in frozen forests for limited gain. German garrisons cut off at Demyansk and Kholm were supplied by air and held out, teaching the Wehrmacht a lesson in pocket survival that it would fatally misapply at Stalingrad later in the year. The winter offensive bent the German line but did not break it. By spring the front had stabilized, and the strategic initiative was about to pass back to the enemy.

The Soviet winter counteroffensive of 1941 to 1942, the campaign that first proved the Wehrmacht could be beaten, was conducted before Lend-Lease had arrived in any significant quantity. The factories of the program were only beginning to ship. The Red Army that drove the Germans from Moscow did so with weapons stamped in Soviet plants and with reserves raised from Soviet manpower, including the Siberian divisions released once Soviet intelligence judged Japan would strike south rather than north. The pattern of the whole year was set in its first weeks.

The Spring of Disasters:

What followed was the hardest stretch of 1942. The Red Army, still learning its trade and still commanded in places by officers who had not absorbed the lessons of mechanized war, suffered a sequence of severe defeats.

In the north, the Lyuban operation aimed at relieving besieged Leningrad ended in catastrophe. The 2nd Shock Army was cut off in the swamps and forests south of Leningrad and was systematically destroyed by the summer; its commander, General Vlasov, was captured and would later turn collaborator, a betrayal that did nothing to change the courage of the soldiers who had been sacrificed under him.

https://x.com/ShoahUkraine/status/2054719114128863736

Part 2:

On June 28 the Germans launched Case Blue toward the Caucasus oil and the Volga. The Red Army traded space, then held: the drive on Baku was stopped in the mountains, and the eastern thrust was drawn into Stalingrad. From late August the 6th Army ground into the city and was met by a defense that would not break. On November 19 the Red Army sprang Operation Uranus, encircling a quarter of a million Axis troops. The German relief attempt, Winter Storm, was thrown back in December, and Operation Little Saturn shattered the wider front. By January 1, 1943, the 6th Army was a corpse that had not yet been buried.

Soviet industry in 1942 built between 24,400 and 24,700 tanks and self-propelled guns, about 25,400 aircraft, well over 250,000 guns and mortars of all calibers, roughly 4 million rifles and carbines, and roughly 1.5 million submachine guns. The factories torn from their foundations in 1941 and rebuilt in the Urals had not merely survived. They had become the greatest war arsenal on the continent.
Lend-Lease across the whole of 1942 delivered about 2.45 million tons of cargo of every kind, which was only about one seventh of what the program would eventually ship across the war.

Within that total, tank deliveries came to roughly 3,000 to 4,000, aircraft to roughly 2,500, and trucks to a modest tens of thousands, with the great flood reserved for 1943 and after.

The headline ratio follows from those two paragraphs. In the weapons that win battles, the Soviet Union out-built its foreign deliveries by about ten to one. Hold that ratio. Every battle below confirms it.

Case Blue and the Battle of the Caucasus:

The German summer offensive opened on June 28 and drove for the oilfields. Soviet armies fell back across the Don under heavy pressure, then dug in along the Caucasus passes and the approaches to Grozny. The mountains held. The German spearheads, worn thin by distance, never reached Baku, and the oil that was the entire purpose of Case Blue stayed in Soviet hands.

By the time Case Blue began, Soviet plants had already produced more than eleven thousand tanks and self-propelled guns in the first half of 1942 alone, with output climbing further through the autumn as the evacuated factories hit full stride.

Lend-Lease, by contrast, had delivered only a modest fraction of its eventual yearly total by midsummer. The First Protocol period that ended on June 30 had underperformed its paper promises, and the armor that had arrived, British Matildas and Valentines and American M3s, was scattered and generally held in secondary sectors. The defense of the Caucasus was conducted by Soviet rifle armies with Soviet artillery and Soviet armor. Foreign equipment was a footnote to it.

Stalingrad:

From late August into November the 6th Army fought into Stalingrad and met the 62nd Army in a battle of rubble. Every factory, every street, every cellar was contested. Soviet riflemen and submachine gunners held the west bank at arm's length from the enemy while massed Soviet artillery on the east bank broke up assault after assault.

The numbers here are the most damning of all for the Lend-Lease thesis, because Stalingrad was an infantry and artillery battle, and Lend-Lease delivered almost no infantry weapons and no artillery worth the name. The rifles came from a Soviet run of some 4 million that year. The submachine guns, the PPSh above all, came from a Soviet run of roughly 1.5 million.

The guns and mortars came from a Soviet output exceeding a quarter of a million pieces. And at the very moment the city was bleeding, the foreign supply line was severed: the Arctic convoys had been gutted by the PQ-17 disaster in July and PQ-18 in September, and Arctic sailings were then suspended outright. During the hardest weeks of the hardest battle of the year, the most direct artery of Lend-Lease was closed. Stalingrad was held, beyond any argument, by Soviet arms alone.

Part 3:

Operation Uranus: The Encirclement

On November 19, the Red Army struck. The pincers did not fall upon the hardened German divisions inside the city itself. They smashed into the weaker Romanian armies guarding the flanks, shattered them, and within four days linked up deep behind the Axis lines, sealing nearly a quarter of a million enemy troops inside the Stalingrad pocket. It was a triumph of Soviet operational art, conceived by Soviet commanders, coordinated by the Stavka, and driven forward by Soviet mechanized forces with relentless precision.

The spearheads rode into battle aboard the T-34, the finest medium tank of the war, Soviet to the last bolt, forged in the factories evacuated beyond the Urals and rebuilt under conditions no capitalist state had ever endured. More than twelve thousand T-34s were produced in Soviet plants during 1942 alone, forming the backbone of a second-half tank output that reached roughly thirteen thousand armored vehicles. The trucks, tractors, and horse teams that carried Soviet assault formations into their jump-off positions were still overwhelmingly Soviet in origin during this phase of the war, because the great flood of American Studebaker deliveries had not yet arrived in significant numbers. The limited foreign armor present on the front, consisting mostly of inferior and outdated types, played no meaningful role in the breakthrough. Operation Uranus was planned, equipped, and executed by the Soviet Union through the strength of socialist industry and the endurance of the Soviet people.

In December, the Germans attempted to rescue their trapped army. Operation Winter Storm advanced toward the encirclement but was halted far short of its objective by determined Soviet resistance. Operation Little Saturn then shattered the wider Italian and German front to the west, collapsing the entire strategic position of the Axis in southern Russia and permanently ending any realistic hope of relief for the trapped 6th Army. By January 1, 1943, the fate of Paulus and his army was sealed.

The Numbers:

For the period from January 1, 1942 to January 1, 1943:

Tanks and Self-Propelled Guns:

The Soviet Union produced approximately 24,500 tanks and self-propelled guns.

Lend-Lease delivered approximately 4,000.

The combined total was roughly 28,500. Lend-Lease therefore accounted for about 14 percent. Approximately 86 percent of the Red Army's armored strength in 1942 was built by Soviet industry, and the finest of those machines, the T-34, was entirely Soviet in design, production, and engineering.

Combat Aircraft:

The Soviet Union produced approximately 25,400 aircraft. Lend-Lease delivered about 2,500. The combined total was roughly 27,900. Lend-Lease therefore accounted for approximately 9 percent. About 91 percent of the Red Army's aircraft in 1942 were Soviet designed and Soviet built, produced by factories operating under extraordinary wartime conditions after evacuation to the east.

Artillery and Mortars:

The Soviet Union produced roughly 287,000 guns and mortars of all calibers. Lend-Lease delivered effectively none. Artillery was not a meaningful category of Lend-Lease aid to the USSR during 1942.

Lend-Lease therefore accounted for essentially 0 percent. Virtually all the firepower that defended Stalingrad and thundered across the Volga front was Soviet.

Rifles and Carbines:

The Soviet Union produced roughly 4 million rifles and carbines. Lend-Lease delivered none. Lend-Lease therefore accounted for approximately 0 percent. Essentially every rifle carried by the Red Army in 1942 was produced by Soviet workers in Soviet factories.

Submachine Guns:

The Soviet Union produced roughly 1.5 million submachine guns, foremost among them the legendary PPSh-41. Lend-Lease delivered effectively none. Essentially 100 percent of these weapons were Soviet made and Soviet designed.

8. Hell: Pits of Punishment

A Quatrain Poem🧵in 10 parts

People often think about Heaven, but not Hell: whose fuel is Men & stone
a fiery pit 70 years deep, in which even the Sun & Moon will be thrown
Jahannam is a horrific prison where the evil are punished for their sin
& Shirk-doers who didn’t repent will burn forever within
🧵1/10

On Resurrection Day, Hell will be dragged towards Earth on 70,000 ropes
by 70,000 Angels pulling each one, dashing the disbelievers false hopes
Adam will ready 99 out of a 100 of his offspring for Hell
losers will be dealt with by Angels conducting Allah’s Punishment well
🧵2/10