1/ The NHS clinical trial of puberty blockers has now been approved and will start recruiting patients. The full trial protocol and a simplified study description are available here. kcl.ac.uk/research/pathw…

2/ I discussed the ethics of a puberty blockers trial in a thread and a Substack. None of the concerns I raised have been answered in the trial protocol.
x.com/justdad7/statu…
justdad7180.substack.com/p/the-ethics-o…

3/ Marcus Evans and Susan Evans, two of the original Tavistock clinic whistleblowers, have sent an open letter to health secretary Wes Streeting arguing that the study is poorly designed and risks causing serious harm to children. open.substack.com/pub/marcusevan…

#GeraldsDevotional
The World Will Celebrate Prematurely

This is the theme that the Lord placed on my heart as He woke me up early this morning. It was the theme of how this world of darkness would begin to celebrate because they will think that they have won. They will think that they can fully implement their evil plans to control

and eliminate what God had started (His kingdom and His church). But Jesus says that the world’s celebration will be premature because He has already overcome them.

When I got up to read this, Jesus describes it in detail in John chapter 16. He had just finished telling His

🧵 In the "for your consideration" segment of my latest podcast, I present a theory on Comey's handwritten note.

I'm going to detail the basics of that theory in this thread.

https://twitter.com/realjusthuman/status/1993042826100371697

I think Comey placed his handwritten notes in the safe in the "super secret SCIF at FBI HQ that no one knew about."

ROOM 9582

(so silly, but it makes for a great hook in the story).

Anyway, I think Comey placed it there because it was important.

I think it may document when Comey was FIRST told of the Clinton Plan Intelligence in detail and/or received and/or was told of the CIA Referral Memo.

@michaeldweiss 1).
– „»Vladimir Pootin is a murderer, a rapist and an assassin and we should not do anything that makes him feel like he has a win here« – said Republican senator @ThomTillis (@SenThomTillis), speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum.

@michaeldweiss @ThomTillis @SenThomTillis 2).
– »Any agreement has to be an agreement that the people of Ukraine want«.

However, Republican senator @Eric_Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) defended @realDonaldTrump's »realist« approach [1].”

@michaeldweiss @ThomTillis @SenThomTillis @Eric_Schmitt @SenEricSchmitt @realDonaldTrump 3).
„Russia on Mon. balked at the new proposal. Pootin’s foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov said his country »learned this morning about the European plan, which, at first glance, is completely un-constructive and doesn’t suit us«, according to the Interfax news service [2].”

@michaeldweiss 1).
– „»Some people better get fired on Monday for the gross buffoonery we just witnessed over the last four days« – Rep. @DonJBacon (R-Neb.) posted [1] on X on Sat. – »This hurt our country and undermined our alliances, and encouraged our adversaries«.

@michaeldweiss @DonJBacon 2).
– »Any appeasement of Russia as the aggressor, any attempts at putting pressure on Ukraine as the victim of this aggression, is morally reprehensible and an outrage against human decency«

@michaeldweiss @DonJBacon 3).
– more than four dozen European and Ukrainian leaders wrote in a letter sent to Trump over the weekend. – »To bow before Russia is to abandon shared values and plunge the free world into anarchy and chaos. Strong American leadership is the only hope«.

This is insane! 🤯

Just built a new skill in Claude Code using Opus 4.5.

The skill uses Gemini 3 Pro (via API) for designing web pages.

Look at what it generated from one simple prompt.

If you have been designing websites with Claude Code, you already know how generic they turn out.

So I built a skill that uses Gemini 3 Pro to lead creative direction and generate designs. It is extremely good at this.

Opus 4.5 then integrates all that into our app.

The prompt I used: "I want to design the landing page for a new AI game. We want it to be futuristic and all that, and use animations as much as possible."

I will test with some other prompts and see how far I can push this. But the results are very exciting already.

What is Shin Bet?

The creation of Shin Bet was the state-sanctioned laundering of pre-existing terrorist organizations.

Here is the undeniable flow of how the personnel, tactics, and ideology of designated terrorist groups were formalized into the Shin Bet.

Inside Shin Bet | Al Jazeera World

Israel raiding Al Jazeera offices after they made that documentary😂

Former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon says he would ‘fight against Israel’ if he was Palestinian

A Ukrainian cruise missile hit Russia’s Taganrog airfield tonight, sparking a major fire.

Geo via t.me/exilenova_plus…

Ukrainian cruise missile reportedly inbound to Taganrog earlier

The buildup was needed to showcase the argument that Mali is only one country of the complex and convoluted picture. Without understanding what happened elsewhere, we can't understand what happened here. With @julesdhl map.
Second part of 🧵- the motives and lost dreams.

https://twitter.com/SaladinAlDronni/status/1991929958726549915

When the last democratic government in this region, under Nigerien President Bazoum, fell in July 2023, many cheered—for true change was on the horizon. The shadow of the French, with their awful reputation, was finally gone, after the back to back military coups in former colonies. Niamey was the final nail in the coffin to that. We are now SOVEREIGN, a word often used ever since to mark the true start of liberty, no longer under Paris's watchful eye.

That eye like Sauron's or Saruman's - if the French wanted us the Malians, Burkinabe, or Nigeriens to turn left, we couldn't possibly turn right. It controlled prices, the gold market, uranium supplies, environment laws and funded terrorists to threaten us, working us to the bone, a work like Sizyphus perhaps.

Ammo? Only if the French allow, so we might aswell shoot with bows and chop trees for arrows, because the French imperialist fears what we would do with that ammo. Even onions weren't spared. The language itself reminds us of the humiliation we suffer in silence, for Paris's Iron Hammer can withdraw support anytime.

Worst of all, the devils of the Seine forced us to negotiate with the Tuaregs or Fulani/Fulbe—old thieves and troublemakers claiming old rights to emirates, sultanates, empires, kingdoms or caliphates on land now rightfully ours (very strong history narrative in the minds of the two jihadi groups, especially regarding Sokoto, Macina and Timbuktu). The land with blood gold, siphoned out all the way to Stambul and Dubai.
Something has to change if we were to make things right. And that change will be us finally wiping out the Arab, Tuareg and Fulani vermins threatening our glorious true African states. And straighting things up with the foreign companies, parasiting our resources for barely any benefit to us here locally. Especially now, when the French overlord is visibly unable to confront jihadists properly and convincingly. And is distracted by the crisis in Europe. We know the craft, we know the people, we know the markets - that's for us to seize. LIBERATION DAY.

And while I am somewhat (somewhat?) overdramatising the whole thought process, I may not be that far from how these people thought to themselves at the time.
Some of the allegations (lack of ammo, interfering in decision making) are true (@MichaelShurkin). That's why there is quite a lot of legitimacy to the grievances that manifested themselves throughout the last few years. It wasn't really that black and white. Especially for us, the Europeans, we have to keep in mind that this story is complicated. The French were arrogant. And the French paid for that.

If only the price wasn't for the Sahel to pay aswell.

The militaries of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger gambled hard, convinced that the time is right - they are strong enough to conjure wind and make rain fall if given the chance to truly confront the jihadists or other rebels(especially Tuaregs). On paper, they had strong arguments. If I were to make a comparison, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 came to mind. Putin had also had a very strong strategy on paper, everything seemed fine and dandy. Russia stronk, three days is all we need to destroy the Kyivian nazis.
The devil hid in the details they have however conveniently forgotten. In Russian case logistics and inability to comprehend the Ukrainian will to survive. Agency of lower nations? Who cares. They had expected flowers and the fake nation kneeling to acknowledge the return of the true sovereign. We know how it ended.

Here, we had a multitude of factors shaped locally. Agency of local foreign elements like Arabs and Tuaregs can go to hell.
The answer and solution to the problems? Besides the mentioned above, like reclaiming control over resources like gold, two main ones come to mind:
-Russian mercenary support
-Turkish drones, Bayraktar and later Akinci, who had started proliferating all over Africa and beyond, given their much cheaper cost than the alternative airforce that needs long and costly training for pilots, maintenance of aircrafts noone can afford.

The gamble begins a few months after the second military coup in Mali with the invitation of Russian mercenaries under the command of infamous Prigozhin, but coordinated by the Russian MOD.
Quickly however, the French discovered that aside from anti-insurgency support the Russians had another mission - to humiliate and kick Paris out of Mali. Genocide has begun as soon as the troops from Russia arrived. In one of the worst attrocities at the beginning of 2022, hundreds of people in Central Mali were slain. Then, the Russians staged a provocation, trying to shift the blame from their actions towards the French military - only to get discovered by a French drone arriving to monitor a suspicious burial ground "Caucasian" looking soldiers were busy digging in and throwing dozens of bodies inside. Later confirmed by indepent investigations from major human rights organizations.
bbc.com/news/61257796
It was only a start of massacres, for in the next three years the Russian presence in Central and Northern Mali has signified only one thing - terror. Enough said, that if you look at the reports of the UN, affiliates and independent orgs, acute hunger risk, famine and genocide were silently being conducted on the territory swept by the Russian military. Most of it unknown to the world. I myself have seen most of what could be documented by the Russians themselves.

After a decade of seeing all kinds of death, rarely can I be surprised or moved by anything anymore. And yet, when I saw a year ago videos of the Malian and Burkinabe armies' cabals eating hearts and livers of the enemies, burning dozens of civilian corpses and calling them spoiled meat, alongside with Fulani mothers hanged on a tree with their children bound together for a theatrical effect, shared and gleefuly laughed at by the Russians, I knew that maybe we are still in for a ride - the devil inside humanity is yet to say the last word.
And so begin the coups in Burkina Faso and one final coup in Niger.

In order to, what would become the gamble of all gambles - push Tuaregs out, Mali needed to dismantle the whole security infrastructure that was holding it back. It saved the country a majority of trouble, by shifting various responsibilities and agency to international forces like:
-MINUSMA, the UN-led peacekeeping mission
-French operation Barkhane
-Membership in various institutions or alliances.
Those, while serving peace, at the same time defended the status quo Bamako was enraged to put up with - leaving Tuaregs in charge of the North and de facto enabling al-Qaeda save havens.
They put massive contraints on what Bamako could and couldn't do - especially ECOWAS, the main institutional player of West Africa.

Enough said, that ECOWAS was like a sword hanged above the putchists heads all the way to late 2023, when the organization's mission ended in humiliation - Nigeria was unable to stage the rescue of Nigerien president Bazoum, overthrown under filmsy justifications, just like it couldn't enforce restoration of civilian rule in Burkina Faso after two coups in 2022. Since then, Abuja's prestige significantly declined - it has multiple ramifications, more on it in the 3rd part tommorow.

The coups in Burkina Faso and Niger were met with happiness in Bamako- finally all pieces come together. The juntas quickly banded together to create an alliance - AES, Alliance of Sahel States, that would later become a common operation room and a confederation.
And so, the dismantling of every single stumbling block ensues - UN's MINUSMA kicked out on short notice, with foreign forces unable to properly finish withdrawal. The French, kicked out. The Americans? Also kicked out, from incredibly vital bases in Niamey and above all, from the drone base in Agadez, key for monitoring Islamic State all around Niger, with three affiliates present and multiple other networks. BUT. BUT. Not completely.

One of the main issues I've been having with potrayal of this military coup rage by the media is labeling it "anti-Western". It's been mainly black and white - the West has lost, Russia comes in and takes over.
No, it's not so simple.

If you have followed me for some time, you may have noticed regular updates by me regarding AES behavior towards Western institutions that for a long time has been the symbol of Western supremacy in the minds of conspiracy theorists. And it's drawing a very interesting and certainly different picture - all juntas are in fact, especially the one in Burkina Faso (!), poster boys of almost all of them!

International Monetary Fund, long blamed for all devilry in existence, even issued statements praising Ibrahim Traore, today's God Emperor of pro-Russian propaganda in African internet. Preparing to this writing, I checked how it was going with another controversial matter - USAID, that the more times passes, the consequences of its scrapping by the idiot in charge of DOGE become more dire - thousands of people have already died by simply being refused the access to open already filled with meds magazins, in order to make the meds expire.

I mention this, because it's clear, that USAID's importance to Mali and other countries led by militaries was also crucial in vital industries those states are unable to cope - while it's obvious, that no state should be relying on this level on outside help, reality is what it is.

Now, funding is withdrawn in health, security, teaching departments, maternal safety, agriculture, with numbers visible below - From almost a billion of $ received by Mali since 2022 to 2024, almost nothing is left in 2025. Add to it, the withdrawal of European funding, French funding, the withdrawal of major international humanitarian agencies - and we got a full scale disaster. The disaster now being exploited by JNIM - the representative of al-Qaeda for West Africa.

However, while under law, the Americans were obligated to withdraw from putchists countries and refuse support until the civilian rule restoration, Biden's administration tried to remain cordial with all of them.
That impass got exploited by Trump, who just recently sent US representatives to Bamako, with the junta announcing new cooperation with Washington regarding gold extraction. The Italians are also a very strong presence, especially in Niger - as the only EU force remaining. To call those juntas then as captured by Russia or China is simply untrue. Turkey and UAE are also an important factor (you can check our's with @AleksanderOlech work abw.gov.pl/ftp/foto/Wydaw…)

@michaeldweiss @AntonLaGuardia 1).
„How many of these and other onerous terms have been negotiated away in Geneva has yet to be disclosed, but significant damage has already been done. For one thing, the plan will complicate European moves to seize frozen Russian assets.

@michaeldweiss @AntonLaGuardia 2).
More seriously, the plan (believed to have been leaked by Russia), has exposed confusion, rivalry and incompetence within the Trump administration.

@michaeldweiss @AntonLaGuardia 3).
Even if a more Ukraine-friendly deal gets past Mr @realDonaldTrump's, it will almost certainly be blocked by Russia; and any deal acceptable to Russia is likely to be voted down by an increasingly sceptical Ukrainian parliament. All this may bring another crisis soon.”

@Censored4sure 0, and whenever I start feeling sick, fast for 72 hours, take a dose of ivermectin, 30 min later 4-6 activated charcoal, about an hour later 1 dose of fenbendazole, about 30 min later any regular meds and vitamins. I have started implementing a 3 mg Nicotine patch & cbd oil

@Censored4sure Start drinking clove water daily as well. Use it in water, drink it plain at night, in iced coffee. I brew 4 cups of filtered water & 2 TBSP whole cloves and boil for 5 min, sit for 5-10 min and strain it into a clean jar and store for up to a week in fridge. Use as a mouthwash

@Censored4sure

I am (obviously) a part of the "East Coast" think tank establishment Mr. Balding criticizes, & also served in the Biden Administration. But I would encourage Mr. Balding to read some of the work that I and my colleagues have done, as he paints with far too broad a brush

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https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/1992755045603873100

I would be the first to say that not enough was/ is being done on active pharmaceutical ingredients. But inside and outside of government I advocated for the 301 tariffs to be extended to rare earths/ magnets ... which was in the end done as part of the 301 review

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So if Mr. Balding's standard is forward progress, a bit was done there (tho not enough)

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