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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge dissolves TRO granted Planned Parenthood to enter a new one that supposedly complies with the requirements. She's so full of bias, it's crazy! 1/ 
2/ This is the most blatantly ridiculous point: Even in the case of aliens possibly being deported, the court held a hearing. Even in the case of national guard on streets, court held a hearing. And 14 days later is not quickly setting a hearing.
3/ And it isn't a matter of DOJ objecting that no reasons were provided. THE FEDERAL RULES REQUIRED THOSE REASONS BE PROVIDED!
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "I have been thinking about the problem I saw yesterday.
Two completely secular Israelis, trying to promote a Palestine State in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.
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Two completely secular Israelis, trying to promote a Palestine State in Gaza and Judea and Samaria.
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Their claim is that if the Palestinians have a state, but with borders open in the entire region, the Palestinians will see the advantages, and all hostility to Israel would disappear.
2)
2)
Listening to them, I suddenly realized, these guys have absolutely no understanding of either how Jews who value Judaism and tradition and who believe that Jews should be able to live in any part of the Land of Israel that they choose in peace, think at all.
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3)
Russia lost ~250,000 soldiers to date, but in a war of attrition, the central question is ratios and their dynamics.
Far less attention devoted to Ukraine, but that's more important, because manpower is a bigger constraint for it (FWIW my estimate is 2x * UAlosses = ~150,000).
Far less attention devoted to Ukraine, but that's more important, because manpower is a bigger constraint for it (FWIW my estimate is 2x * UAlosses = ~150,000).
The "rate of advance" that people soy over is mostly irrelevant (except insofar as it hints at underlying manpower ratios, where Russia is slowly gaining in relative terms).
Currently it seems Russia recruits 30k & Ukraine 20k per month.
More, perhaps many more Russians, die. (Differential is unclear though, as in, is it 1.5x or 3x?; Russian advances means many Ukrainian bodies left behind won't be registered).
More Ukrainians desert (it's easier).
More, perhaps many more Russians, die. (Differential is unclear though, as in, is it 1.5x or 3x?; Russian advances means many Ukrainian bodies left behind won't be registered).
More Ukrainians desert (it's easier).
🧵THREAD: @StateDept just fired the entire leadership team working on #Afghan Relocations (CARE).
And Mary Bischoping—the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Afghanistan—took the day off.
And Mary Bischoping—the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Afghanistan—took the day off.
That’s right.
While the people actually doing the work to help Afghan allies were getting fired, Mary took a personal day.
One of those people had given birth less than 24 hours earlier as @jbradleyrushing points out here.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
While the people actually doing the work to help Afghan allies were getting fired, Mary took a personal day.
One of those people had given birth less than 24 hours earlier as @jbradleyrushing points out here.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
This isn’t just tone-deaf.
It’s not just bureaucratic cruelty.
It’s cowardice.
And it’s a betrayal.
It’s not just bureaucratic cruelty.
It’s cowardice.
And it’s a betrayal.
They carved spirals into the cliffs
but only sunlight could reveal the meaning.
This wasn’t just art.
It was memory… triggered by shadow.
Across the Southwest, ancient Americans built petroglyphs that only appear on certain days.
Some still whisper today.
🧵
but only sunlight could reveal the meaning.
This wasn’t just art.
It was memory… triggered by shadow.
Across the Southwest, ancient Americans built petroglyphs that only appear on certain days.
Some still whisper today.
🧵
In Chaco Canyon, on a butte rising 400 feet above the desert, three slabs of sandstone lean against a cliff.
Behind them, a carved spiral.
At noon on the summer solstice, a sliver of sunlight pierces through landing on the center of the spiral.
This is the Sun Dagger.
Fajada Butte, NM
Dated use: ca. 1000–1300 AD
Behind them, a carved spiral.
At noon on the summer solstice, a sliver of sunlight pierces through landing on the center of the spiral.
This is the Sun Dagger.
Fajada Butte, NM
Dated use: ca. 1000–1300 AD
But that spiral wasn’t alone.
On equinoxes, two light daggers frame it.
The site may have tracked:
Solar cycles
Planting seasons
Lunar standstills (an 18.6-year cycle few track today)
These weren’t guesses.
They were stone-built calendars.
On equinoxes, two light daggers frame it.
The site may have tracked:
Solar cycles
Planting seasons
Lunar standstills (an 18.6-year cycle few track today)
These weren’t guesses.
They were stone-built calendars.
Tennis player Radhika Yadav was shot dead by her father Deepak Yadav in Gurugram. Police say he confessed, citing anger over her running a local tennis academy. They say he harbored deep insecurity over villagers taunting him for relying on his daughter's income. #RadhikaYadav
According to news report, this was his father's confession statement. #RadhikaYadav
But soon after the death, a video album released in 2024 of Radhika Yadav and Inam Ul Haq surfaced, People on social media came up with conspiracy theories suggestions Love Jihad angle. Suggestion that father killed his daughter because of her closeness with the actor.
You'll never hear propagandists obsessed with European colonialism mention 🇷🇺🇨🇳 colonialism, imperialism and atrocities.
Why? Study history, all too familiar patterns emerge. Russia's atrocities against occupied Eastern Europe and Holodomor are only the most "well-known".🧵1/14
Why? Study history, all too familiar patterns emerge. Russia's atrocities against occupied Eastern Europe and Holodomor are only the most "well-known".🧵1/14
More damning, Russians were carrying out mass-scale atrocities and genocides for much of the 19th, 20th centuries. Into the 21st, as it continues to this day. It is very likely that the Holodomor is the only one you've heard of:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
youtube.com/watch?v=lejDbu…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
youtube.com/watch?v=lejDbu…
This pattern repeated many times. In Belarus, Russians killed 1,4 million people in intentional acts of repression, including hundreds of writers, academics in intentional acts of genocide meant to destroy Belarussian identity in familiar Russian form:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_re…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_re…
Hello, I’ll be covering tonight’s meeting for the 010th Police District Council. This meeting is taking place at St. Agatha Church (3147 W Douglas Blvd) starting at 6pm.
@CHIdocumenters
#CHIDocumenters
@CHIdocumenters
#CHIDocumenters
The purpose of the community commission for public safety and accountability (CCPSA) is to “bring police officers and Chicago residents together to plan, prioritize, and build mutual trust; strengthen the police accountability system.”
Read more at chicago.gov/city/en/depts/…
Read more at chicago.gov/city/en/depts/…
The 10th police district consists of the following neighborhoods: Near West Side, Garfield Ridge, North Lawndale, South Lawndale, and Lower West Side.
Read more here .chicagopolice.org/10th-district-…
Read more here .chicagopolice.org/10th-district-…
1/ Week 28: Theory paper in focus this week is the seminal article by Anthony Atkinson and @JosephEStiglitz that is now famously referred to as the "zero commodity/capital taxation" benchmark in public economics. It has led to much technical & policy debates. Let's find out.
2/ Policy question: Should we tax capital or specific goods (like luxury items), what they call indirect taxation, to enhance equity? Or can an income tax, what they call direct taxation, alone achieve our redistribution goals? Atkinson & Stiglitz offered a surprising answer.
3/ Atkinson-Stiglitz (1976) Theorem: If utility is weakly separable between labor and consumption, and the government levies an optimal income tax on earnings, then no commodity taxes are needed. The income tax alone can achieve the optimum!
It was a day that won't be forgotten.
With over 120 lives lost and 160 still missing, Trump’s visit to Kerrville was more than a photo op.
He kept his promise to the people of Texas.
But amid the heartbreak, it was Dr. Phil’s words that gleamed like a beacon in the night's sky:
“This is about faith, and it's about family, and it's truly about community.”
🧵 THREAD
With over 120 lives lost and 160 still missing, Trump’s visit to Kerrville was more than a photo op.
He kept his promise to the people of Texas.
But amid the heartbreak, it was Dr. Phil’s words that gleamed like a beacon in the night's sky:
“This is about faith, and it's about family, and it's truly about community.”
🧵 THREAD
Around 1 p.m. Central Time, President Trump landed in Kerrville, Texas, intent on seeing the devastation from the floods for himself.
The arrival wasn’t staged for applause or slogans.
It was quiet, focused.
The First Lady walked with him as they exited Marine One, before being greeted on the tarmac by Governor Greg Abbott, the gravity of the day clear in their subdued exchange.
It was the first of many emotional moments in Texas.
From there, they headed straight to meet local officials and first responders.
This specific visit wasn’t about policy points or grand declarations, it was about standing in the same mud as the people living this nightmare.
Next came the hardest part.
Going into the neighborhoods that had suffered the worst, looking residents in the eye, listening without pretending to have all the answers.
But the message was clear without anyone having to say it outright: this is what leadership looks like when tragedy strikes.
The arrival wasn’t staged for applause or slogans.
It was quiet, focused.
The First Lady walked with him as they exited Marine One, before being greeted on the tarmac by Governor Greg Abbott, the gravity of the day clear in their subdued exchange.
It was the first of many emotional moments in Texas.
From there, they headed straight to meet local officials and first responders.
This specific visit wasn’t about policy points or grand declarations, it was about standing in the same mud as the people living this nightmare.
Next came the hardest part.
Going into the neighborhoods that had suffered the worst, looking residents in the eye, listening without pretending to have all the answers.
But the message was clear without anyone having to say it outright: this is what leadership looks like when tragedy strikes.
In Kerrville’s wrecked streets, there was no way to soften what they saw.
The First Lady and President Trump walked among toppled vehicles, downed trees, and utter devastation.
It was a humbling image to say the least.
They stopped by an overturned 18-wheeler, talking with first responders who had spent days in knee-deep sludge, searching for survivors and, when hope ran out, recovering bodies.
The president then shook hands with the heroes of Kerrville, as they posed for picture.
The death toll was already over 120, with more than 160 people still unaccounted for.
Beyond words.
The First Lady and President Trump walked among toppled vehicles, downed trees, and utter devastation.
It was a humbling image to say the least.
They stopped by an overturned 18-wheeler, talking with first responders who had spent days in knee-deep sludge, searching for survivors and, when hope ran out, recovering bodies.
The president then shook hands with the heroes of Kerrville, as they posed for picture.
The death toll was already over 120, with more than 160 people still unaccounted for.
Beyond words.
🚨 Europe Just Copied Trump.
No, not his style — his substance.
The EU is now barring Chinese medical devices from public contracts, in a move very similar to Trump’s America First trade policy.
After years of mocking Trump, Europe is admitting: He was right. 🧵
No, not his style — his substance.
The EU is now barring Chinese medical devices from public contracts, in a move very similar to Trump’s America First trade policy.
After years of mocking Trump, Europe is admitting: He was right. 🧵
2/ For decades, the West tolerated Chinese protectionism.
The theory? “Let them develop. They'll open up later.”
But China never did.
In medical devices, 87% of Chinese government contracts exclude Western firms — including Europe’s.
That’s not trade. That’s cheating.
The theory? “Let them develop. They'll open up later.”
But China never did.
In medical devices, 87% of Chinese government contracts exclude Western firms — including Europe’s.
That’s not trade. That’s cheating.
3/ So what’s Europe doing?
👉 Banning Chinese-made medical devices from public tenders over €5 million
👉 Limiting Chinese content to under 50%
👉 Making exceptions only if no alternatives exist
Translation: China is cut off from Europe’s public health spending.
👉 Banning Chinese-made medical devices from public tenders over €5 million
👉 Limiting Chinese content to under 50%
👉 Making exceptions only if no alternatives exist
Translation: China is cut off from Europe’s public health spending.
