HPV-related health problems are falling — but why?

Some antivaccine voices insist the vaccine deserves little credit, and claim changing sexual behavior explains the trend instead.

This short thread looks at the evidence in probabilistic terms:
• direct vaccine effects
• herd immunity
• behavioral change

The pattern is not random — and it strongly favors vaccination as the primary driver.

1/ Some antivaccine accounts are now arguing:
“HPV-related health problems are falling, but it’s not the vaccine. It’s changing sexual behavior.”
That explanation is possible in a weak, partial sense.
But as the main explanation?
It fails several basic causal tests.
The HPV vaccine explanation fits the evidence far better because the declines are:
• strongest for vaccine-covered HPV types
• strongest in vaccinated birth cohorts
• larger where vaccine coverage is higher
• seen first in HPV infection and genital warts
• later seen in cervical precancer and cervical cancer
• also seen indirectly in some unvaccinated groups, consistent with herd effects
That is not the fingerprint of generic behavior change.
That is the fingerprint of vaccination.

2/ A useful way to think about this is probabilistic.

What best explains the widespread decline in HPV-related disease?

Direct HPV vaccine effect: very likely the dominant explanation.

Vaccine-driven herd immunity: very likely an important amplifier.

Changing sexual behavior: plausible as a minor contributor in some settings, but unlikely to be the primary driver.

Why?
Because behavior change would not selectively reduce the specific HPV types targeted by vaccines. It would not predict the sharpest declines in cohorts vaccinated before sexual exposure. And it would not naturally create a coverage-response relationship across countries and programs.

Vaccination predicts all of those things.

SHOCKING: Many neocloud executives we spoke with feel that if they have non-NVIDIA networking gear on their cluster, or if their cloud has an AMD GPU or TPU offering, NVIDIA will retaliate. They feel that retaliation includes not giving early allocation or no longer supporting a potential IPO/VC raise.(1/3)🧵

Note that this doesn't apply to hyperscalers, as they have more buying power. But for neoclouds, executives feel NVIDIA has been using high-pressure tactics to keep them NVIDIA-only.(2/3)

Some neocloud executives are even starting to consider offering TPUs or AMD GPUs quietly, to avoid getting pressured by NVIDIA and to avoid the feeling that NVIDIA will retaliate.(3/3)

Most Muslims pray for rizq. Very few understand how it actually unlocks.

I spent years making du’a for wealth while overlooking what Allah Himself connected to provision.

One verse of the Qur’an changed the way I understood rizq.

Read this carefully.

Allah says:

“And whoever fears Allah - He will make for him a way out and will provide for him from where he does not expect.”
(Qur’an 65:2–3)

This verse shows that taqwa is one of the greatest means of attaining Allah’s provision.

The Prophet ﷺ also said:

Whoever makes the Hereafter his priority, Allah enriches his heart and gathers his affairs. Whoever makes the dunya his priority, Allah scatters his affairs and places poverty before his eyes.” (Sunan Ibn Majah 4105)

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From Kool-Aid to Counter-Narrative: Military Influence, Alt-Media, Q, and the Rise of Critical Investigations

[ UNCLASSIFIED ]

#PrometheanAction
#InformationWarfare
#PsychologicalOperations
#AltMedia
#Q

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Promethean Action’s reach reflects a larger shift: military shadow-sharing, psyop podcasts, special-operations podcasts, alt-media, and Q-era conflict all moved audiences from passive trust to active skepticism.



2/swcs.mil/P-U-Podcast/

The earliest layer was internal. Military and special-operations circles built a vocabulary around influence, persuasion, and perception control before civilians used those terms.



3/m.soundcloud.com/mentors4mil/ps…

Internews, which USAID gave $500 million to back 3,000 fake news outlets, changed its tagline to say "Information Saves Lives," to imply that if you cut their funding, millions will die from a lack of fake news.

Meanwhile, Internews was one of the central nodes in the Censorship Industrial Complex, and had dozens of projects and programs set up explicitly to kill ad revenue going to citizen news outlets & social media accounts.

https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1888263633400164712

Internews frequently appears in cables sent to the CIA. The founder of Internews said that when they train journalists, training sessions "often begin with a discussion of whether Internews is really the CIA."

Sex Matters to Quakers: This we can say
June 2026
1. Sex Matters to Quakers like being part of an inclusive church and community as much as all Quakers, and we believe this extends to those who hold sex-realist views and those who do not.

.@BritishQuakers

2. ⁠We advocate for the protection & respect of lawful single sex provision, on the basis of biological sex (such as toilet provisions & residential accommodation) in Quaker settings, plenty of third ‘gender neutral’ spaces in proportion to need & common sense in smaller venues

3. ⁠We believe both of these statements are coherently centred in a loving concern for all, and are more accurately, fully and truthfully the ‘sense of the meeting’ expressed by the wider Quaker community in Minute 31, 2021.

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In October 1944, more than 200 American soldiers from Texas were trapped in a French forest, surrounded by German troops, with no way out.

The unit sent to save them suffered more than 800 casualties doing it.

Those rescuers were Japanese American soldiers, whose own families were imprisoned back home in US internment camps.

This is the story of the 442nd..🧵1/6

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In the fear and chaos after Pearl Harbor, the United States made a decision that many Americans would later come to regret. Around 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast, most of them American citizens, were moved from their homes into internment camps for the duration of the war.

Among them were thousands of young Nisei, American-born sons of Japanese immigrants. They had grown up in the United States. They thought of themselves as Americans, and they wanted the chance to prove it.

In 1943 they got that chance. The Army called for volunteers to form a new all-Nisei combat unit. The response was overwhelming. More than ten thousand men stepped forward, many of them volunteering from inside the very camps where their families were being held.

They became the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. They chose a motto that said everything about them.

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They trained at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and shipped out to Italy in 1944, joining the 100th Infantry Battalion, another Japanese American unit that had already fought so hard it earned the grim nickname the Purple Heart Battalion.

From the start, the Nisei soldiers fought with a fierce determination. They knew that every battle was being watched, and that they were fighting not just the enemy in front of them, but the doubts about their loyalty back home. They were determined to leave no question unanswered.

They drove the Germans through Italy, then into southern France. They earned a reputation across the Army as some of the most relentless, dependable soldiers in Europe. Where the 442nd was sent, the line moved forward.

Then, in October 1944, in the cold and fog of the Vosges Mountains in France, they were handed the mission that would define them.

I'm a cardiologist. Let me tell you what I see in my practice that breaks my heart more than any clogged artery.
A patient walks in carrying five diagnoses — obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, and gout — on seven medications. Each prescribed by a different specialist. Each treating one symptom. None of them talking to each other.
Nobody told this patient the five diagnoses are one disease.
They are five faces of the same metabolic dysfunction. And the root is almost always the same: chronically elevated insulin driving fat storage, inflammation, and organ damage simultaneously.
Medicine gave this patient a bigger bucket under every leak instead of fixing the roof.
Here's the roof. And how to fix it.
In 2025, the ICD-10 coding system — the official classification used by every hospital and insurance company in America — added a new code: E11.A. Type 2 diabetes in remission. Medicine now officially recognizes that type 2 diabetes is not a permanent, progressive sentence. It can be reversed.
The DiRECT trial in the UK achieved 46% diabetes remission at one year through intensive dietary intervention. A 2025 Indian study of 2,384 patients achieved 31% remission. A 2024 trial in Pacific Islanders achieved 23% remission — with some patients entering remission without significant weight loss, proving the mechanism is metabolic, not just weight-driven.
This is not theoretical. It's published, replicated, and now coded in the medical system. Your doctor can document your reversal.
Here's the protocol I walk patients through — step by step.

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟭: 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀.
For the first 30-60 days, eliminate the foods that spike insulin repeatedly throughout the day: added sugars, sugary drinks, refined carbohydrates (bread, pasta, rice, cereals, pastries), ultra-processed foods, and excess alcohol.
This isn't about calories. It's about insulin. Every spike locks fat inside fat cells, drives fat storage in the liver, raises blood pressure, elevates uric acid, and fuels systemic inflammation. Remove the constant trigger and your body stops being in defense mode.
Cravings peak around days 3-7 and then drop dramatically. Most patients report a clarity of mind by week two that they haven't felt in years.

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟮: 𝗥𝗲𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱.
Every meal: generous protein (30-50g), non-starchy vegetables (half the plate), healthy fats for satiety (olive oil, avocado, eggs, nuts, butter). Protein at every meal is non-negotiable — it stabilizes blood sugar, preserves muscle mass, and keeps you full for hours.
No calorie counting needed at the start. When you remove the processed foods that hijack appetite signaling, most people naturally eat less without trying — because their leptin and ghrelin systems start working properly again.

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟯: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄.
Two to three meals only. No grazing. No snacking. Eat within an 8-10 hour window — first meal around noon, last meal by 8 PM.
This gives your body long stretches in a low-insulin state — the fat-burning, liver-clearing, insulin-sensitizing mode that never activates when you eat six small meals throughout the day. Time-restricted eating improves insulin sensitivity independently of what you eat — published in multiple controlled trials.
Start at 12 hours. Shrink to 10. Then 8 when it feels natural. This is not deprivation — it's metabolic rest.

𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝟰: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲.
Muscle is the largest glucose disposal organ in your body. It is your metabolic insurance policy. A 2025 meta-analysis confirmed that combined aerobic and resistance training improves body composition, lipid metabolism, glucose metabolism, and physical function in type 2 diabetes.
Minimum effective protocol: strength training 3 times per week — squats, push-ups, rows, deadlifts — plus 7,000-10,000 daily steps. A 10-15 minute walk after meals is especially powerful for blood sugar control — multiple studies show it significantly blunts post-meal glucose spikes.
Do this consistently and your body becomes a glucose-processing machine. Insulin sensitivity improves with every session.

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🚨 Something extraordinary just happened in South Dakota.

Republicans in @LeaderJohnThune own home state debated whether to censure the sitting Senate Majority Leader over the SAVE America Act.

Whether you supported the final vote or opposed it...

That doesn't happen when everything is business as usual.

.. continued in 🧵comments 👇

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The South Dakota Republican Party's Resolutions Committee advanced a censure resolution criticizing Senator Thune's handling of the SAVE America Act.

Convention delegates ultimately voted it down.

But the biggest story isn't how the vote ended.

It's that grassroots Republicans believed the issue deserved to reach the convention floor at all.

@SenatorBanks @aishahhasnie @FoxNews @LeaderJohnThune 🧵3/9
Think about what that means.
Not Democrats.
Not political opponents.
Members of his own party believed Senate leadership should be publicly held accountable.

That's a message every Republican leader should take seriously.

It’s official: After ruling out a bid in 2019 & 2023, US Rep. Mike Quigley says he’s running for Chicago mayor in next year’s election.

“The Uptown Theatre, we are here for a reason. … it’s this great asset that needs a lot of our help.”

Quigley: "Well, the easy part is to tell you Chicago is the greatest city in the world. ...
We have everything we need to succeed. But one thing we haven't had is the courage make tough choices. That changes now."

Quigley: "We are not going to tax our way out of it. We're going to grow."

Everyone is reading the Supreme Court's Roundup decision as a fight about glyphosate. Much of MAHA called it a betrayal.
The more I studied the opinion, the more I concluded it is not really about glyphosate at all. 🧵

The justices did not weigh epidemiology. They did not rule on whether glyphosate causes cancer. They did not pick IARC or EPA as the better science.
They answered a narrow legal question with enormous consequences.

The question: when EPA approves a pesticide label under FIFRA, can a state jury later decide the manufacturer should have warned more strongly?
The Court's answer was largely no. EPA-approved labels now preempt most state failure-to-warn claims.