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Aug 20
1/ Parts of Russia and occupied Crimea are experiencing huge disruptions in fuel supplies due to an ongoing Ukrainian drone campaign against Russian energy facilities. This thread highlights key attacks this month and their effects.
2/🔺 3 August: drones attacked the Rosneft-Kubannefteprodukt oil depot in Adler in the Krasnodar Territory, setting alight a 2,000 cubic metre tank.
3/ The depot belongs to the Rosneft oil and gas company and engages in the storage and transshipment of petroleum products. It has 41 tanks with a volume of 31,200 cubic metres.
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Aug 20
Thread on General M.A.G Osmani – Supreme Commander of the Bangladesh Armed Forces – ‘Bangabir’ Image
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Born in 1918 in Osmaninagar, he hailed from an aristocratic lineage who traced their descent to Shah Jalal’s conquest of Sylhet. He would attend Aligarh University in 1930. It was there that he caught the attention UOTC, and was recommended to enlist by his instructors. Image
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Osmani joined the IMA in 1940. He was selected out of a course of 300, where 30 were Indian, and he the sole Bengali. Commissioned in the royal army in Oct 1940, Captain by Feb 1941, and Major by Feb 1942, the youngest ever Major in the British Indian Army. Image
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Aug 20
The @LemkinInstitute reminds the world that forced expulsion almost always is part of a genocidal process, undertaken with genocidal aims.

It is also a crime against humanity and a war crime. Only under very narrow circumstances, when a population is removed for its own safety during a conflict, is it legal. And in such a case it must be CLEARLY TEMPORARY.

In the case of Israel's planned forced displacement of Palestinians -- starting with Gaza -- it is most definitely genocide and, as in other cases of genocide, it is part of an imperialist, expansionist plan, in this case for 'Greater Israel.'

Forced displacement was used in the 'New World' genocides, the Herero Genocide, the Armenian Genocide, many of Stalin's genocides, the Holocaust, the Nakba, the Cambodian Genocide, the Bosnian Genocide, the Darfur Genocide, the Rohingya Genocide, the Uyghur Genocide, the Artsakh Genocide, among others, and now it is being used again in Palestine. It is an old technique of genocide, recognized by Raphael Lemkin, the 'father' of the Genocide Convention, as an integral part of the genocidal process.

Any support for forced displacement makes one complicit in the crime.

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Aug 20
@TimRhode5 @Brink_Thinker Businesses should include all costs in the stated price.

In some circumstances, such as sit down restaurants, tipping is customary and expected.

Otherwise, tipping is discretionary. washingtonpost.com/posteverything…
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Aug 20
BREAKING: Undercover journalists caught the Dean of Students at the University of West Alabama circumventing the state’s DEI ban.

He said "we can't directly fund DEI programming so we have been looking for loopholes."

They confronted him about it.

I have the video.
Buckle up🧵
The administrator says "we can't directly fund DEI programming so we have been looking for loopholes."

He's the Dean of Students at @univwestalabama.
A journalist confronts the Dean of Students about him saying they're "looking for loopholes" to get around the DEI ban.

He denies it at first.

The @univwestalabama administrator's name is Byron Thetford.
Read 11 tweets
Aug 20
Kirill Dmitriev – a man under the control of Russian intelligence, seen as Putin’s "trump card of shadow diplomacy", and simultaneously engaged in secret negotiations with Steve Witkoff.

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Before the meeting in Alaska between Putin and Trump took place, Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff met for a conversation. Dmitriev boasted about it and posted a photo with the American lawyer, real estate investor, and special envoy of Trump’s cabinet.

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Kirill Dmitriev is described as "the trump card of shadow diplomacy". He operates in secrecy, acts as a dangerous intermediary within Putin’s system, and functions as an unofficial government official managing vast state resources. His rise is not accidental but the result of influence, money laundering, corruption, and unconditional loyalty.

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Aug 20
🚨 MASSIVE: Trump and @DNIGabbard just FIRED 37 intel officials & revoked their security clearances.

Reason? Politicizing and weaponizing intelligence against the American people.

This is the biggest purge of the intelligence community in decades. 🧵👇 Image
@DNIGabbard 2/ Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard:

“Being entrusted with a security clearance is a privilege, not a right.”

These officials leaked, manipulated, & betrayed their oath to the Constitution.

They got caught.

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@DNIGabbard 3/ The move strips all 37 officials of:

❌ Security clearances
❌ Access to classified systems & facilities
❌ Government employment/contracts

Their credentials? Surrendered.

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Aug 20
Exclusive Report: Shipments of engines, cylinders, pistons, and electronics are pouring from China into Alabuga, fueling Russia’s Shahed production. Frontelligence Insight analyzed export data, closed reports, and open sources, revealing the scale of support. 🧵Thread:Image
2/ Russia has sharply ramped up its use of Shahed (Geran), Garpia, and Gerbera UAVs, from dozens of launches in 2022 to tens of thousands per month by 2025. While Iran played a key role early on, it became clear that the only country that could scale the production was China.
3/ One of the biggest production bottlenecks was engines and electronics, without which large-scale Shahed production would be impossible. To address this, Russia set up multiple LLCs and intermediaries to streamline industrial-scale purchases and deliveries from China
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Aug 20
Genetically, I should be bald.

But I’m not.

I've worked very hard to maintain my hair....I've tried a lot of things over the years to stop hair loss and grow strong healthy hair. I’ve injected PRP and dutasteride into my scalp way too many times. That hurts like hell and I don’t think the PRP helped at all.

I tried a lot of other things too and few if any actually work. So my team and I built our own solution.

It’s the most advanced formulation I’ve seen.

It’s now available if you want to give it a try. Like all things with hair, you need to be consistent for at least 4 months.

Here’s what’s in it and why I’m excited about it.Image
0/ What the product has:

+ 8 biomimetic peptides, more than any other product. And in the highest concentrations.

+  We put every peptide in its own patented delivery system so it reaches the exact receptor it’s designed to target for maximum impact.

+ We integrated patented nanofluorosome technology that is activated by the Blueprint Laser Cap (avail in Sept).

The serum is water-based, lightweight and dries completely residue free.

Layers of interventions and actives stacked upon each other.
1/ The ingredients

Blueprint Peptide Serum:
1. sh-oligpeptide-1 - EGF
2. sh-oligiopeptide- 4 - Thymosin-β4
3. sh-polypeptide-4 SCF
4. sh-polypeptide -7 hGH
5. sh-polypeptide -9 VEGF
6. sh-Polypeptide-59 PDGF
7. sh-Polypeptide-86 Follistatin
8. Copper Tripeptide-1 GHK Tripeptide-1

Blueprint Shampoo (scalp treatment)
sh-oligopeptide-1 - EGF
sh-oligopeptide- 4 Thymosin-β4
sh-polypeptide -1 bFGF
sh-polypeptide -7 hGH
sh-polypeptide -9 VEGF
sh-polypeptide -11 aFGF
sh-polypeptide -71 -VIP
Copper Tripeptide-1 GHK
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Aug 20
🚨 The U.S. just borrowed $16 billion for 20 years.

Yield came in lower than expected.

But foreign buyers are stepping back, should we be worried?

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First, what’s a Treasury bond auction? It’s how the U.S. government borrows money.

It issues IOUs (called bonds) to investors who pay cash up front.

In return, those investors get paid interest over time. At the end, they get their full principal back.
This auction involved 20-year bonds. That means anyone buying is lending money to the government for two decades.

In return, they get paid interest (coupon payments) every 6 months.

At the end of 20 years, the bond “matures” and they get the face value back.
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Aug 20
1/ 🟩 ADMISSION: Fox News personalities privately know that Trump lost in 2020, but they couldn't say to their viewers.

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Aug 20
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„QAnon believers exist in a dual reality where they claim over and over that they don’t care what anyone thinks of their movement, and that they answer only to God and Trump – and not always in that order.
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Grok tells you things you want to hear and that make you happy so you keep using it. It might have useful applications for sifting through data, but it also has the characteristics of a psychic or a conspiracy theory influencer.
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If Grok told the Q believer that Q wasn’t real, the Q believer might stop using Grok. And that means less time spent on X.
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