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@RonFilipkowski 1).
โThe move to send Homan, a career immigration agent who led ICE during the first Trump administration, suggests a shift in strategy.
โThe move to send Homan, a career immigration agent who led ICE during the first Trump administration, suggests a shift in strategy.
@RonFilipkowski 2).
@Sec_Noem (@KristiNoem) has focused on raw numbers of deportations, placing Border Patrol at the helm of operations traditionally led by @ICEgov.
@Sec_Noem (@KristiNoem) has focused on raw numbers of deportations, placing Border Patrol at the helm of operations traditionally led by @ICEgov.
@RonFilipkowski @Sec_Noem @KristiNoem @ICEgov 3).
@realTomHoman, meanwhile, has backed a more targeted approach to deportations focusing on detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants with criminal records [1].โ
@realTomHoman, meanwhile, has backed a more targeted approach to deportations focusing on detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants with criminal records [1].โ
Many players learn reroll comps through planners and fixed roll timings. Itโs a good baseline, but reroll decisions change game to game. This thread covers reroll fundamentals and nuances that donโt show up in planners but can affect your placement a lot. VOD at the end.
Understand when to reroll vs tempo. Every game you should identify what line has the best AVP, and sometimes people will throw away a strong opener that can tempo to instead play reroll.
Reroll is preferred when your opener is weak and you can pick reroll specific econ augments and have better prio on carousel. If our opener is likely to lose stage 2, playing reroll lets you spike in stage 3 to avoid losing too much HP and being forced to win out in stage 4.
Bc Measure ULA reform will get a vote on Tuesday itโs time I share a personal story.
I was approached in 2021 by advocates working on a permanent source of funding for affordable housing in LA.
As a big proponent of affordable housing, I was all in. What could go wrong? (1/11)
I was approached in 2021 by advocates working on a permanent source of funding for affordable housing in LA.
As a big proponent of affordable housing, I was all in. What could go wrong? (1/11)
At the time, advocates weren't set on where the revenues should come from, but soon the idea of a real estate transfer tax came into focus.
Having read @ShaneDPhillips 2020 paper on this subject, I was intrigued... but also wary. (2/11)
lewis.ucla.edu/research/transโฆ
Having read @ShaneDPhillips 2020 paper on this subject, I was intrigued... but also wary. (2/11)
lewis.ucla.edu/research/transโฆ
@ShaneDPhillips As Shane laid out, transfer taxes had the potential to claw back a lot of undertaxed land value appreciation that had been sheltered by CAโs Prop 13.
But they also risked discouraging productive investment.
The good news was there was an easy fix. (3/11)
But they also risked discouraging productive investment.
The good news was there was an easy fix. (3/11)
The Bill of Wrongs: A Cult Constitution
(A thread)
(A thread)
1. Congress shall make no law denying the Cult of all-wise Trump, or limiting the exercise thereof; or abridging His sole Freedom to define Truth, which includes his Self-Given Power to defraud, slander, and censor; the right of the people to assemble in worship of all-wise Trump, and to sacrifice Enemies for His Truth, shall in no wise be hindered; petitions to all-wise Trump for a redress of grievances shall take the form of gold Bullion.
2. A personal Militia, being necessary to the security of a Cult, the right of the Servants of all-wise Trump to keep and bear Arms, and to execute thereby his chosen Enemies, shall not be infringed.
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Experience is the greatest teacher - I grew up here as a trans woman from a refugee family that fled war and repression. I grew up with a sinking feeling watching wars rage abroad while the Patriot Act passed at home.
Experience is the greatest teacher - I grew up here as a trans woman from a refugee family that fled war and repression. I grew up with a sinking feeling watching wars rage abroad while the Patriot Act passed at home.
Cycles of carnage through drone strikes to police brutality. I spent over two decades trying my best to warn people of the ensuing dangers of imperialist gambits abroad coming to roost with militarization and repression here at home.
I grew up listening to the experiences of indigenous and black voices who have continuously endured the worst since the inception of the plantation, its genocides, its slavery, its poverty, and its incarceration that march on through history to today.
CAM HIGBY IS AN ISRAEL INFLUENCER
Why isnโt anyone asking how that moron got access to Signal or the detailed info he hacked?
You are being manipulated by a foreign actor who is amplified by other foreign actors & no one is asking questions. Iโm so tired of the mass stupidity.
This is literally out of the pages of Project Esther (derived from Israel NGO data) which says:
- anti-Israel is terrorism
- anti-Israel is communism
- anti-Israel is anti-American
- communists & terrorists hate Israel & America & must be crushed
This is a coordinated campaign by foreign aligned actors to enrage the right to attack the left, whom Higby & Israel want you to believe are communists & terrorists. This is a repeat of what Cam Higby did in Michigan with pro-Israel Jake Lang, which got debunked by the MAGA candidate running for Michigan Governor.
The end result they hope for is expanded surveillance, gun control & police state.
Stop being morons and wake up.
Why isnโt anyone asking how that moron got access to Signal or the detailed info he hacked?
You are being manipulated by a foreign actor who is amplified by other foreign actors & no one is asking questions. Iโm so tired of the mass stupidity.
This is literally out of the pages of Project Esther (derived from Israel NGO data) which says:
- anti-Israel is terrorism
- anti-Israel is communism
- anti-Israel is anti-American
- communists & terrorists hate Israel & America & must be crushed
This is a coordinated campaign by foreign aligned actors to enrage the right to attack the left, whom Higby & Israel want you to believe are communists & terrorists. This is a repeat of what Cam Higby did in Michigan with pro-Israel Jake Lang, which got debunked by the MAGA candidate running for Michigan Governor.
The end result they hope for is expanded surveillance, gun control & police state.
Stop being morons and wake up.
The Tale of Two Contagions
In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Touretteโs typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.
This was an entirely new patient population.
Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.
The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.
Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social mediaโinduced illness โ a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.
Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls โ another entirely new patient population โ โgender-affirmingโ clinicians didnโt even bother to look for the trigger.
And it wouldnโt have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.
Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: Americaโs Next Civil Rights Frontier.
And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.
Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in childrenโs books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.
And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.
The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean youโre trans.
And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.
Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social mediaโinduced illness.
Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.
And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts โ while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.
In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Touretteโs typically affects boys and begins in early childhood.
This was an entirely new patient population.
Researchers quickly identified the index case: Jan Zimmermann, a young Tourette sufferer, whose YouTube channel had recently exploded in popularity. The girls displayed the exact same symptoms as Jan: the same outbursts and catchphrases.
The phenomenon soon migrated to TikTok, where it spread like wildfire.
Researchers coined a new term for what they were observing: mass social mediaโinduced illness โ a modern iteration of the long-recognized phenomenon of mass sociogenic illness.
Yet, in 2014, when paediatric gender clinics across the Western world began to fill with adolescent girls โ another entirely new patient population โ โgender-affirmingโ clinicians didnโt even bother to look for the trigger.
And it wouldnโt have taken much effort to find. All it required was a glance at the cultural messaging of the time.
Because 2014 was the year Time magazine put Laverne Cox on its cover with the headline: The Transgender Tipping Point: Americaโs Next Civil Rights Frontier.
And with that, the modern trans rights movement launched.
Trans-identified celebrities were everywhere, trans characters appeared in childrenโs books and television shows, trans influencers proliferated with astonishing speed online, and schools began teaching gender identity ideology as if it were scientific fact.
And in a perfect-storm scenario, smartphones and social media exploded in popularity, creating the ideal super-spreading environment for this seductive idea to go viral.
The message adolescents received was simple: If you hate your body, that could mean youโre trans.
And right on cue, legions of confused adolescents who hated their developing bodies began showing up at gender clinics believing themselves to be trans.
Just like the TikTok tics. A mass social mediaโinduced illness.
Except on this occasion, instead of scrambling to contain the epidemic, doctors picked up their syringes and scalpels and set about permanently medicalising the innocent youth caught up in this powerful cultural storm.
And activists marched in the streets demanding that these young people be allowed to sacrifice their health, fertility, and body parts โ while swiftly demonising anyone who dared point out the obvious parallels to social contagions of the past.
Itโs clear that the trans contagion is winding down, as all fads eventually do.
But because we prioritized the demands of extremist political activists over the safeguarding of vulnerable children, so many will bear the scars forever.
What a shameful chapter in human history.
But because we prioritized the demands of extremist political activists over the safeguarding of vulnerable children, so many will bear the scars forever.
What a shameful chapter in human history.
Watch the full talk hereโฌ๏ธ
"Carpe Diem" is probably the worst advice in self-help history.
Trying to "Seize the Day" is like bringing chopsticks to a gunfight. You are trying to control a container while you are losing control of everything inside it.
Here is the superior alternative (and why most people are losing life's decision war): Look around. Does it look like anyone is "seizing the day"? 72% of Americans are overweight.
Rutte is fundamentally correct, but mostly in three specific ways Europe+Canada must address.
1) SEAD/DEAD. European Airpower would make short work of Russia, but right now Europe would struggle mightily against Russian AD. Europe needs to develop the enablers to do SEAD/DEAD.
1) SEAD/DEAD. European Airpower would make short work of Russia, but right now Europe would struggle mightily against Russian AD. Europe needs to develop the enablers to do SEAD/DEAD.
Right now, really only two armed forces in the world can do SEAD/DEAD properly - the US and Israel. The UK and France maybe against more limited threats.
SEAD/DEAD requires tech/enablers Europe doesn't have and a lot of training to do it. It'll take years but it must do it.
SEAD/DEAD requires tech/enablers Europe doesn't have and a lot of training to do it. It'll take years but it must do it.
2) Nuclear deterrence. Germany+Netherlands+Italy+Sweden could develop limited deterrence in 5 years. Full replacement for US deterrence will take 20. The policy and governing side of it will be harder than the technical. But it has to get on this road and work out both.
Bootlickers are the worst people because nothing will make them stop. Death and terror is acceptable as long as it isn't happening to them, specifically. They have no decency or empathy and seem to think both are dirty words while spewing the foulest shit you've ever seen.
And for some mysterious reason all of them gleefully use slurs. Like they're still small children who think calling someone that word is a real gotcha and they'll get pats on the back, a handshake from a real live fireman, and a letter of praise from their principal for it!
They have the emotional maturity of a turnip that's been rolled into a cow pie. And they all have profile pictures of them in their big ugly vehicles wearing sunglasses. They're a hivemind of idiocy, the lowest common denominator of society. Vile little goblins without brains.
Orbรกnโs media and propaganda machine against the opposition and democracy exposes how Hungary is being ruthlessly manipulated ahead of the 2026 election.
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In Hungary, an aggressive campaign against the opposition officially began ahead of the parliamentary elections on April 12, 2026. At the center, as so often, is Viktor Orbรกn, a master of manipulation who has built a system based on fear, lies, and conspiracy theories.
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Hungary is among the EU countries with the strongest pressure on media freedom. In 2018, 476 pro government media outlets were consolidated into KESMA, placed under the control of Orbรกn allies and exempted from oversight by decree. This created a powerful instrument to weaken independent media.
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3/20
Dangerously cold temperatures will continue through the week, with an extreme drop starting tomorrow morning. We need folks to stay inside; even 10-30 minutes of exposure could cause frostbite or hypothermia. Limit outdoor time and please bring your pets inside.
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Power outages have decreased to 38,467. Utility crews are working hard to restore power, but itโs a big undertaking. If you donโt have power, please go to a warming center โ especially at night. If you do have power, please conserve energy. 2/4
Thank you to everyone staying off the roads and giving space to let our crews work. If you need to travel, go slow and have a weather kit in your car. 3/4
