Hi, I’ll be live-tweeting today’s Indianapolis Charter School Board meeting starting at 6:00 p.m. for #indydocumenters @indydocumenters @mirrorindy.

@indydocumenters @mirrorindy Meeting was called to order at 6:00 p.m. with the announcement that this will be an informational session with no votes on anything today.

@indydocumenters @mirrorindy Mary Ann Sullivan, Chairwoman, went over what a Charter School needs to do before being able to be open for students.

Rep. Brandon Gill asks abortion “expert” what her favorite kind of abortion is… and she visibly squirms hearing each method..

Why do they call it reproductive healthcare for such a cruel act? CONT...

rumble.com/v794k12-rep-br…

The witchcraft of wordplay lies in its ability to reframe cruelty as compassion, violence as care, or destruction as benevolence often so effectively that the original act becomes almost invisible. This isn’t new; it’s ancient rhetorical sorcery,

refined through propaganda, law & media.

George Orwell called this “Newspeak” in 1984: language that makes “lies sound truthful & murder respectable.”

United States v. Comey

Former FBI Director James B. Comey Jr. has been indicted on two counts in relation to his posting a picture on Instagram on May 15, 2025. The picture "depicted seashells arranged in a pattern making out '86 47,' which a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States."

Count 1 - 18 USC 871(a) - Threats Against the President
Count 2 - 18 USC 875(c) - Transmitting a Threat in Interstate Commerce

The previous indictment against Comey, which was over alleged false statements to a Senate Cmte, lasted just 60 days between the filing of the indictment and the dismissal.

Difficult to imagine this one lasting that long.

Q PROOF - BOOM WEEK AHEAD!
🔥FBI/DOJ - 22 Raids in MN!
🔥Comey Indicted!
🔥Fauci advisor that hid Covid Scheme indicted!
🔥Iran in Collapse!
🔥UAE Quits OPEC in Iran!
🔥Grassley opens Clinton Foundation crimes (17 crimes /Schemes that Comey didn’t act on)!
🔥SCOTUS ruling to keep TX Map giving 5 GOP Seats!
👑Trump post on his Royal blood!
ITS ONLY TUESDAY! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Q is right again
Apr 28 Delta
“BOOM week ahead”

Adding more BOOMS!

https://twitter.com/drpoolq17/status/2049203089748488212

Cassidy Hutchinson in trouble!

https://twitter.com/quantumguard17/status/2049201088595685692

#AnEyeOpener
*CAN WE BUILD NEW IITs BY JUST WATCHING IPL?

It comes from Prof. Mayank Shrivastava,Professor at IISc Bengaluru, one of India’s leading researchers.

He asks: "India doesn’t lack money. Indians don’t lack money. What we lack is the vision to invest in the future."

Look at the numbers:

📌 IPL 2023 revenue: ₹11,770 crore
📌 BCCI surplus: ₹5,120 crore
📌 3-year IPL profits: ₹15,000 crore
📌 Potential tax (40%): Enough to build 10 new IITs
📌 Franchise profits: ₹800–1,200 crore/year →

Tax potential:₹6,000 crore/year for research

But here’s the irony:

⚠️ BCCI pays no income tax (charitable status)
⚠️ Research labs pay GST on equipment
⚠️ Bollywood, religious trusts, sports leagues = tax breaks

Dr. Shrivastava calls it out: “Entertainment is subsidised. Research is taxed.”

🧠 TEMPORAL BONE CT – COMPLETE APPROACH #ENTwithPiyush quick review before the deep dive.

🔷 1. BASICS OF TEMPORAL BONE IMAGING

Modality of choice

HRCT Temporal bone (0.5–0.6 mm cuts)

Planes
Axial (parallel to lateral semicircular canal)
Coronal (perpendicular)

Window
Bone window (key)
Soft tissue window (adjunct)

Indications
Hearing loss (CHL/SNHL)

Chronic ear disease / cholesteatoma
Trauma
Facial nerve palsy

Congenital anomalies
Pre-op planning (mastoidectomy, cochlear implant)

🔷 2. SYSTEMATIC CT READING APPROACH (VERY IMPORTANT)

👉 Follow this fixed checklist every time:
A. External auditory canal (EAC)
Patency
Bony erosion (malignancy, cholesteatoma)
B. Tympanic membrane
Thickening / retraction

C. Middle ear (3 compartments)

Epitympanum

Mesotympanum

Hypotympanum

Check:
Soft tissue?

Ossicles?

Scutum?

D. Ossicular chain

Malleus
Incus
Stapes

👉 Look for:

Erosion
Discontinuity
Fixation

E. Mastoid

Pneumatization
Septae destruction
Coalescence

F. Inner ear

Cochlea (2.5 turns)
Vestibule
Semicircular canals

👉 Look for:

Dehiscence
Malformations
G. Facial nerve canal

Labyrinthine

Tympanic
Mastoid segments
H. Tegmen tympani

Integrity (CSF leak risk)

I. Sigmoid sinus / jugular bulb
Position

Dehiscence

Thrombosis
🔷 3. SURGICAL ANATOMY ON CT (ESSENTIAL)
🦴 Middle ear anatomy

Epitympanum (attic)

Contains:
Head of malleus
Body of incus

Scutum → sharp lateral wall (erosion = cholesteatoma)

Mesotympanum
Oval window
Round window

Stapes

Hypotympanum

Jugular bulb relation

🦴 Ossicular chain

Malleus
Head (epitympanum)
Handle (attached to TM)

Incus
Body
Long process (most commonly eroded)
Stapes
Footplate at oval window
🦴 Inner ear

Cochlea

2.5 turns
Modiolus central
Vestibule

Central chamber

Semicircular canals

Lateral (best seen in axial)

Superior (coronal)

Posterior

🦴 Facial nerve course
Labyrinthine segment

Geniculate ganglion

Tympanic segment
Second genu

Mastoid segment

👉 Narrowest = labyrinthine (common site of pathology)

🦴 Mastoid air cells

Well pneumatized / sclerotic

🔷 4. DISEASES + CT FINDINGS (MOST IMPORTANT SECTION)

🔴 A. CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA (CSOM)
Mucosal disease

Soft tissue in middle ear

Intact ossicles (early)

No bone erosion

Squamosal disease (Cholesteatoma)
Definition
Keratinizing squamous epithelium in middle ear

CT findings

Soft tissue mass (non-dependent)

Scutum erosion (EARLIEST SIGN)
Ossicular erosion:
Incus long process (commonest)
Mastoid destruction
Widened aditus
👉 Key differentiator

Cholesteatoma = bone erosion

Granulation = no erosion

🔴 B. ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA / MASTOIDITIS

Findings

Fluid in middle ear

Mastoid opacification

Loss of air cell septae (coalescent mastoiditis)

Complications

Subperiosteal abscess

Sigmoid sinus thrombosis
Intracranial abscess
🔴 C. OTOSCLEROSIS

Etiopathogenesis

Abnormal bone remodeling in otic capsule

CT findings

Lucency anterior to oval window (fissula ante fenestram)

Cochlear involvement → “double ring sign”

🔴 D. TEMPORAL BONE FRACTURES
Types
Longitudinal (common)

Parallel to long axis
Conductive hearing loss
Ossicular disruption

Transverse

Perpendicular
SNHL

Facial nerve injury

CT findings

Fracture lines

Ossicular dislocation
Hemotympanum
🔴 E. CONGENITAL ANOMALIES

External ear

Aural atresia
Absent canal
Middle ear

Ossicular malformations

Inner ear

Michel aplasia

Complete absence

Mondini deformity

1.5 turns cochlea
Large vestibular aqueduct

Dilated >1.5 mm

🔴 F. SUPERIOR SEMICIRCULAR CANAL DEHISCENCE

CT findings

Absence of bone over superior canal

Best seen in Pöschl view
🔴 G. FACIAL NERVE PATHOLOGY
Canal erosion → cholesteatoma

Dehiscence → congenital

🔴 H. GLOMUS TUMORS
Glomus tympanicum
Middle ear mass

No bone destruction initially

Glomus jugulare
Irregular bone destruction
Jugular foramen involvement

🔴 I. VESTIBULAR SCHWANNOMA (MRI better)

CT role:

IAC widening

🔴 J. PETROUS APEX LESIONS
Types:

Cholesterol granuloma → expansile, smooth erosion

Petrous apicitis → infection

🔴 K. MALIGNANCY (EAC / MIDDLE EAR)

Findings:

Aggressive bone destruction

Soft tissue mass

Extension to skull base

🔷 5. KEY RADIOLOGICAL SIGNS TO REMEMBER

Scutum erosion → Cholesteatoma

Incus erosion → CSOM (squamosal)

Fissula ante fenestram lucency → Otosclerosis

Double ring cochlea → Cochlear otosclerosis

Coalescent mastoiditis → septae destruction
Superior canal dehiscence → missing bony roof

🔷 6. COMMON EXAM PITFALLS

❌ Mistaking fluid for cholesteatoma
→ Look for bone erosion

❌ Missing facial nerve canal
→ Always trace full course
❌ Ignoring tegmen
→ Risk of CSF leak

❌ Not checking lateral semicircular canal
→ Fistula in cholesteatoma

🔷 7. FINAL RAPID CHECKLIST (USE IN EXAMS)

👉 “EAC → TM → ME → Ossicles → Mastoid → Inner ear → FN → Tegmen → Sinus”

🔷 8. HOW TO BECOME CONFIDENT
Always read in same order

Compare both ears

Correlate with clinical findings
Practice cholesteatoma cases

🔷 NAMED SIGNS IN TEMPORAL BONE IMAGING

🔴 CHOLESTEATOMA & CSOM

🔹 1. Scutum Blunting / Scutum Erosion

Normal: sharp spur

Finding: blunted/eroded scutum

Significance: earliest sign of cholesteatoma
🔹 2. Ice Cream Cone Sign (Normal ossicles)
Appearance:
Ice cream = head of malleus
Cone = body of incus

Loss of sign → ossicular erosion/dislocation

🔹 3. Absent Ice Cream Cone Sign

Seen in:
Cholesteatoma
Ossicular discontinuity

🔹 4. Automastoidectomy
Large cavity due to chronic cholesteatoma erosion
Mimics post-surgical cavity

🔹 5. Lateral Semicircular Canal Fistula Sign

Erosion of bony canal

Suggests advanced cholesteatoma

🔴 OTOSCLEROSIS
🔹 6. Fissula Ante Fenestram Sign

Lucency anterior to oval window

Earliest CT sign of fenestral otosclerosis

🔹 7. Double Ring Sign (4th Ring of Valvassori)
Hypodense ring around cochlea

Cochlear otosclerosis

🔴 INNER EAR / LABYRINTH

🔹 8. Halo Sign (Labyrinthitis ossificans – early)
Pericochlear lucency

Later → ossification

🔹 9. “Figure of 8” Cochlea

Seen in incomplete partition anomalies

🔹 10. Absent Modiolus Sign
Suggests:
Mondini deformity
Incomplete partition

🔹 11. Large Vestibular Aqueduct Sign

1.5 mm diameter

Associated with SNHL
🔴 SEMICIRCULAR CANAL PATHOLOGY

🔹 12. Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence

“Third window lesion”

Seen best in:
Pöschl view

Clinical: Tullio phenomenon
🔴 TRAUMA

🔹 13. Ossicular Dislocation Signs

Loss of normal alignment

Types:
Incudostapedial separation
Malleoincudal dislocation

🔹 14. Hemotympanum Sign

Hyperdense middle ear fluid after trauma

🔴 MIDDLE EAR & MASTOID

🔹 15. Coalescent Mastoiditis
Loss of mastoid septae

“Clouding + destruction”

🔹 16. Bezold Abscess Indicator

Mastoid tip erosion + neck collection
🔴 VASCULAR & JUGULAR BULB

🔹 17. High Riding Jugular Bulb

Extends above floor of middle ear

🔹 18. Dehiscent Jugular Bulb

Absence of bony plate
Can mimic middle ear mass

🔹 19. Blue Ear Drum (clinical correlate)
Seen with:
Glomus tumor
High jugular bulb

🔴 GLOMUS TUMORS

🔹 20. Moth-Eaten Bone Destruction

Irregular permeative destruction

Suggests glomus jugulare
🔹 21. Salt and Pepper Appearance (MRI mainly)

Mention in viva (CT adjunct)
🔴 PETROUS APEX LESIONS

🔹 22. Expansile Petrous Apex Lesion

Smooth erosion → cholesterol granuloma

🔴 FACIAL NERVE

🔹 23. Facial Canal Dehiscence

Often congenital or cholesteatoma-induced

🔴 MALIGNANCY

🔹 24. Aggressive Bone Destruction Pattern
Ill-defined margins

Soft tissue mass

Suggests carcinoma

🔷 ULTRA-HIGH-YIELD SUMMARY (EXAM GOLD)

👉 If you remember ONLY these:

Scutum erosion → Cholesteatoma

Ice cream cone loss → Ossicular erosion

Fissula ante fenestram → Otosclerosis

Double ring sign → Cochlear otosclerosis

LSCC erosion → Fistula (danger!)

Moth-eaten bone → Glomus tumor/malignancy

🔷 HOW TO USE SIGNS IN REAL CT READING

👉 While reading:

See soft tissue → ask:
Is there scutum erosion?
Is ice cream cone intact?

See hearing loss:
Look for otosclerosis signs

See vertigo:
Check semicircular canals

#ENTwithPiyush

🔴 ADVANCED TEMPORAL BONE CT – COMPLETE MASTER GUIDE

🔷 1. SCAN ORIENTATION & RECONSTRUCTION (NEVER SKIP)

Before even looking at pathology:

Confirm:
Side (R/L)
Slice thickness (≤0.6 mm ideal)
Planes available

🔹 Essential reconstructions

Axial → ossicles, LSCC, mastoid, sigmoid sinus

Coronal → tegmen, facial nerve, superior canal
Pöschl view → superior semicircular canal
Stenver view → posterior canal, IAC

👉 Pearl: If you don’t mentally reconstruct 3D anatomy, you will miss disease.

🔷 2. ULTRA-SYSTEMATIC READING (EXPANDED)
You must slow down and interrogate each structure functionally + surgically.
🔶 A. EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL
Check:

Bony integrity

Soft tissue

Anterior wall (TMJ relation)

Pathology clues:

EAC erosion → malignancy / cholesteatoma extension

Canal narrowing → exostosis / osteoma

🔶 B. TYMPANIC MEMBRANE (SUBTLE BUT IMPORTANT)

Retraction pockets → early cholesteatoma
Calcification → tympanosclerosis
👉 Pearl:

Retraction in pars flaccida → Prussak’s cholesteatoma

🔶 C. MIDDLE EAR – COMPARTMENTAL ANALYSIS
You must mentally divide into micro-spaces:

1. Prussak’s space

Most common origin of cholesteatoma

Between:
Pars flaccida
Neck of malleus
2. Anterior epitympanic recess

Often missed

Hidden disease → recurrence

3. Sinus tympani

Medial to facial nerve

Deepest recess

Most common site of residual disease

4. Facial recess
Important surgical corridor

5. Hypotympanum
Relation to jugular bulb

👉 Golden rule:
If you don’t comment on Prussak’s + sinus tympani, examiner knows you’re guessing.

🔶 D. OSSICULAR CHAIN – MICROANALYSIS

Don’t just say “intact” or “eroded”.
Evaluate:

🔹 Malleus

Head (epitympanum)

Handle (TM attachment)
🔹 Incus
Body

Long process (MOST VULNERABLE)

Lenticular process

🔹 Stapes

Superstructure

Footplate

🔹 Key pathological patterns

Incus long process erosion → early cholesteatoma

Stapes erosion → advanced disease
Malleus erosion → late

🔹 Joint assessment

Malleoincudal joint

Incudostapedial joint

👉 Disruption = conductive hearing loss

🔶 E. MASTOID – NOT JUST “OPACIFIED”

You must describe:
🔹 Pneumatization pattern

Well pneumatized

Diploic
Sclerotic
👉 Sclerotic = chronic disease

🔹 Air cell septae

Intact → simple opacification
Destroyed → coalescent mastoiditis

🔹 Antrum

Key surgical landmark

Should always be assessed separately
🔶 F. INNER EAR – HIGH PRECISION
🔹 Cochlea

Turns: basal, middle, apical

Modiolus presence

👉 Absent modiolus → congenital anomaly
🔹 Vestibule

Size and symmetry

🔹 Semicircular canals

Lateral (first to erode)

Superior (dehiscence)

Posterior

👉 Pearl:
LSCC erosion = labyrinthine fistula → surgical emergency risk
🔶 G. FACIAL NERVE – COMPLETE TRACE

Trace in ALL slices:

Labyrinthine

Geniculate ganglion

Tympanic
Second genu

Mastoid

🔹 Important findings:

Dehiscence
Compression

Erosion (cholesteatoma)

👉 Critical point:

Tympanic segment = most commonly dehiscent

Labyrinthine = narrowest (ischemia risk)
🔶 H. TEGMEN TYMPANI & TEGMEN MASTOIDEUM

Thin bony plate

Check for:
Erosion
Defect

👉 Leads to:

CSF leak

Encephalocele

🔶 I. VASCULAR STRUCTURES

🔹 Sigmoid sinus
Position (anterior displacement = surgical risk)
Thrombosis

🔹 Jugular bulb

High riding

Dehiscent

Diverticulum

👉 Important:

Can simulate middle ear mass

Can be injured during surgery
🔷 3. DISEASE SPREAD PATHWAYS (VERY HIGH-YIELD)
🔴 CHOLESTEATOMA SPREAD ROUTES
🔹 Pars flaccida type:
Prussak’s space → epitympanum

→ aditus → antrum

→ mastoid

🔹 Pars tensa type:
Posterior mesotympanum
→ sinus tympani

→ facial recess

👉 Pearl:

Always look along aditus pathway
🔷 4. ADVANCED DIFFERENTIALS (WITHOUT TABLES)

🔴 Cholesteatoma

Non-dependent

Bone erosion
Expansile

Ossicular destruction
🔴 Granulation tissue

Fills spaces but respects bone

No expansion
🔴 Effusion

Dependent

Fluid level possible

No erosion

🔴 Cholesterol granuloma
Expansile

Smooth remodeling

Petrous apex common

🔴 Glomus tumor
Vascular
Promontory origin (tympanicum)

Jugular foramen destruction (jugulare)

🔴 Malignancy

Irregular destruction
Infiltrative margins

Soft tissue extends beyond compartments

🔴 Tympanosclerosis

Dense calcification

Ossicular fixation

🔴 Hemotympanum

Hyperdense fluid
Trauma context
🔷 5. RARE BUT EXAM-CRITICAL FINDINGS

🔶 Aberrant ICA

Enters middle ear

No bony covering
👉 Dangerous in surgery
🔶 Persistent stapedial artery

Small canal near oval window

🔶 Dehiscent facial nerve

Common but critical

🔶 Anteriorly placed sigmoid sinus

Limits mastoidectomy space

🔶 Low lying dura

Thin tegmen

🔷 6. RADIOLOGY → SURGERY CORRELATION
🔴 Before mastoidectomy, surgeon wants:
Mastoid pneumatization
Sigmoid sinus position

Tegmen height

Facial nerve course

LSCC integrity
Jugular bulb status

🔴 In cholesteatoma surgery

CT predicts:

Ossicular reconstruction need
Facial nerve risk
Labyrinthine fistula

Intracranial extension

🔷 7. COMMON VIVA TRAPS (EXAMINER FAVORITES)

❌ Saying “soft tissue = cholesteatoma”
→ Must show bone erosion
❌ Missing sinus tympani disease

→ Leads to recurrence

❌ Not commenting on facial nerve

→ Major surgical omission
❌ Ignoring tegmen defect
→ Missed CSF leak risk

❌ Confusing high jugular bulb with tumor

→ Dangerous mistake

🔷 8. FINAL EXPERT READING FLOW (MEMORIZE THIS)
When you open CT:
Orientation

EAC

TM

Prussak’s space
Epitympanum

Mesotympanum

Sinus tympani

Ossicles (each part)
Aditus + antrum

Mastoid septae

LSCC

Cochlea

Facial nerve (full course)

Tegmen
Sigmoid sinus

Jugular bulb

Then:

Identify pattern of disease

Predict complications

Suggest surgical implications

🔷 FINAL TAKEAWAY

If you:

Track hidden spaces

Look for bone erosion patterns

Always evaluate facial nerve + LSCC + tegmen

This Time Last Term🗓️

Joe Biden was speaking at Green River College in Auburn, Washington, stating that
“no one was predicting a recession right now”

Not only was it blatantly false —he had no legitimate plan to lower costs, or push the economy in the right direction

Also important to note, at this time inflation was at its highest in 40 years

…even higher for gas and food

He also made the claim that “unemployment was at the lowest rate since 1970”

Not mentioning the fact that this doesn’t include the millions of working-age Americans who weren’t looking for work as the nation struggled to get back to its pre-COVID number of jobs.

Report from my great colleague John Lee, key to understanding US-China AI competition in Asia:

At first glance, the Southeast Asian approach, reflected in documents such as the ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics, is similar to that of the European Union, with a softer approach to governance—recommended but voluntary frameworks—underpinned by harder mandatory regulations that specify standards and safeguards on issues like personal data and privacy.

Singapore has the most developed AI ecosystem in Southeast Asia, followed by Malaysia and Thailand, while Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, and Timor-Leste have the least developed. Cambodia, Myanmar, and Laos also lack a national AI strategy, while the other eight ASEAN member states do have formal strategies.[15] These countries, therefore, vary significantly in their approach to AI hedging.[16]

Singapore is far ahead of other ASEAN economies in choosing its role in the future AI landscape. As the region’s most advanced economy and most attractive destination for capital, it has the luxury of choosing its technology partners based on its policy preferences rather than having these imposed from the outside, and it tends to collaborate with the West on AI ventures while minimizing reliance on China. To promote technology diplomacy, Singapore does pursue projects with Chinese entities, but only ones that do not bind its technological future to China’s. For example, Singaporean firm StarHub pursues collaborations with Chinese firms such as Huawei and ZTE in niche or research areas but continues to partner with Western and Japanese firms for key infrastructure or important tech applications.

The countries with weak control over their AI future are also the least attractive places for firms from advanced countries from a commercial perspective. They also lag far behind other Southeast Asian countries in political and economic reform and have less in common with advanced Western and Northeast Asian economies, such as Japan and South Korea. With few options and often with inadequate expertise to formulate and implement effective national and commercial policies, these countries tend to adopt technology infrastructure and solutions, standards, and policies aligned with China.

This means that the main locus of the US-China contest is in countries with moderate control over AI policies and sectors: Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Brunei. All these countries place high emphasis on the importance of AI in their national economic and social development.

To be sure, these low- to middle-income economies have different strategic cultures and interests. For example, the Philippines and Vietnam view China as a strategic and military threat, and the Philippines is an increasingly important US ally. Both are far more distrustful of reliance on Chinese technology and infrastructure than Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, or Brunei.

hudson.org/innovation/chi…

Many Chinese firms are not seeking to surpass the United States in computing capabilities; they are, instead, seeking to develop less powerful but cheaper AI infrastructure and applications. Rather than taking the US approach of exercising a high degree of control over technology outflow to maintain a high-end advantage, Chinese firms, with Beijing’s urging and support, are seeking to establish a dominant market presence in developing economies in Southeast Asia. China is therefore more reliant on providing open-source AI that can attract a very large number of users in the region, cheaper and immediately available cloud infrastructure, and immediate access to the entire AI ecosystem, faster than Western competitors. Chinese firms leverage their advantages in cheaper and more available embodied AI with drones, robotics, and automation, offering rapid solutions to upgrade the manufacturing capabilities and productivity of firms in developing economies.

Singapore stands apart in Southeast Asia in being able to determine its AI and technological future. Its combination of good governance, sound strategy and policy, quality policymakers, attractive capital market and investment environment, and investor-friendly institutions means it can choose its AI partners carefully.

The other Southeast Asian nations are not as fortunate. All are low- or middle-income countries that see the possibility of missing out on the AI revolution as an existential economic threat. Therefore, they often prioritize cheap, accessible, and immediate in choosing an AI offering over longer-term strategic concerns about being trapped in an AI ecosystem with unpalatable conditions and standards.

Additionally, the poorer the country’s governance and state capacity, the more likely it will be tempted or forced to accept Chinese offerings. Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar are heavily dependent on China in a broader geopolitical and economic sense due to its authoritarian practices and the poor investment climate in these countries for firms from advanced economies. This is replicated in these nations’ dependency on Chinese technology, especially for security, as with surveillance.

The state employee who drew up @GovRonDeSantis' redistricting map just said that he used party affiliation to do it.

The map, in theory, gives 4 more seats to Republicans, giving them 85% of congressional seats.

Republicans make up 39% of Florida voters.

"Partisan intent can be taken into account," a lawyer hired by the governor's office just told the Senate.

For context, the state constitution currently says you CAN'T do that.

In other words, the governor's position is that political gerrymandering is now legal in Florida, even though the constitution says it is not.

News broke this week that the Diocese of St Cloud, Minnesota is moving from 131 parishes down to 48. That's a HUGE decrease. Is this truly a priest shortage? Or is it a collapse of the laity? Well, let's compare numbers for the Diocese of St Cloud from 1970 to today⬇️

1970

145,000 Catholics out of total population of 340,000

Population was 43% Catholic

137 active parishes

90% of Catholics attended Mass weekly

131,000 Catholics attending weekly Mass

That means there were 956 Mass attending Catholics for each active parish

Now, 2026⬇️

110,000 Catholics out of total population of 600,000

Population is 18% Catholic

48 active parishes

32% of Catholics attend Mass weekly

35,000 Catholics attending weekly Mass

That means there will be 729 Mass attending Catholics for each active parish

What does this mean? ⬇️

For 50 years Britain hid these transcripts.

They were even withheld from the Nuremberg trials to protect the secrecy of this eavesdropping operation.

Here’s what Nazi generals really said about Auschwitz and the mass murder of Jews when they thought no one was listening:
(🧵)

The eavesdropping operation at the three sister sites during World War Two (Trent Park, Latimer House and Wilton Park) gradually revealed the full horror of the Holocaust.

Prisoners spoke of mass shootings of 300,000 civilians, the murder of 80,000 Jews in Lublin, and 5,000 killed in a single day in a Ukrainian village, supplying graphic details of Einsatzkommando atrocities. Infamous names such as Auschwitz, Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen were mentioned, along with mobile gas trucks, the liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, and the murder of “mental defectives.”

(continued)

Most shocking of all was the range of attitudes captured on the secret recordings. Some prisoners appeared to grasp the scale of the terror inflicted on European Jewry.

A young sailor, recounting a massacre in Lithuania, said: “believe me, if you had seen it, it would have made you shudder.”

A pilot who had stumbled upon a mass shooting near Lviv observed grimly: “We shall have to pay for that.”

Among the generals, one declared after seeing the aftermath of killings in Russia: “The most bestial thing I ever saw.”

When shown photographs and film of the liberated camps, another admitted: “We are disgraced for all time and not 1,000 years will wipe out what we’ve done.”

(continued)

I'm really pleased with our essay in the new volume of the Socialist Register. In it, we challenge arguments that Trump emerged from capitalism's decline into "techno-feudalism", "political capitalism", or an "asset economy" driven by central banks inflating asset prices.

Instead, we argue that Trump emerged from the *strength* of capital – which came at the expense of the workers. In other words, the crisis that has given rise to MAGA is rooted not in capitalism's breakdown, but the inability to contain the contradictions of capital's *triumph*.

This strength was *facilitated* by the consolidation of the "new finance capital" since 08, which directed investment to the most profitable sectors – above all tech. Far from draining rent from the productive economy, as technofeudals hold, these firms enhanced competitiveness