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1/9 Ebola is once again being used to spread panic in the population so I thought I would give my take on what is actually happening here.

I highly recommend you learn about Ebola and how/when it first emerged.

There is a documentary that may be on YouTube, narrated by Glenn Close called the Plague Monkeys that talks about the emergence of two hemorrhagic diseases- Ebola and Marburg Virus - which are both monkey viruses.

2/9 I want you to keep in mind that monkey cell lines (kidney, lung, liver, etc) were used in the manufacture of polio vaccines and still are though the cells are now ‘immortalized’ so no more monkeys need to be killed for the manufacture of vaccines, but the same cell lines are simply reproduced over and over again without them dying (going through apoptosis). Cancer cells also avoid apoptosis and are a type of immortal cell. Is there a connection?

Monkeys are also still used in labs around the world for vaccine and drug research and other animal tissue (dogs, hamsters, horses, insects, horseshoe crabs and more) can be found in the labs and also in the end-products since there is no way to fully filter out these cells or their genetic codes. Vaccines can be highly-contaminated products - something which most people are unaware of.

3/9 The very first outbreak of Marburg Virus (a close relative to Ebola which causes clinically indistinguishable symptoms) was in German vaccine manufacturing facilities in Marburg, Frankfurt and elsewhere in Germany where researchers were using monkey body parts in the manufacture of polio vaccines. 31 researchers were infected and 7 died. It was not in Africa, where people have been exposed to monkeys for thousands of years - but in Germany in 1967 when these diseases emerged.

Concept of being ‘mogged into Bolivian’

https://twitter.com/flapprdotnet/status/2055294893480657321

Fate worse than death

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2045231946792321166

The Elder Scrolls: Bolivian

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2038028358156439794

🚨Plano ISD, Texas 🚨 - Internal records obtained through a lawsuit filed by Citizens Defending Freedom Show that Plano ISD knew about Severe mold contamination at Murphy Middle School - and DELAYED Informing Parents!

The documents include:
- Internal emails
- Work orders
- IAQ testing requests
- Mold remediation invoices
- Photographs from inside the school

School started on August 12, 2025.

By August 18 - LESS than two weeks later - district work orders were already documenting:
- Excessive humidity
- Indoor air quality concerns
- Active leaks
- Mold growing on classroom items

One work order specifically references a classroom American flag that was “less than 2 weeks old” already growing mold.

The records also include photographs appearing to show mold growing on:
- Classroom flags
- Chairs
- Furniture
- Classroom materials

Another internal email chain shows a leaking ceiling work order being marked “COMPLETE” at 7:53am.

But at 11:13am, a district employee responded:

“This WO was marked as completed and it is not. It is still dripping water and nothing looks like it has been done.”

The records also show district employees urgently requesting indoor air quality testing.

One email states:

“Please rush this requisition. We need to have Farmer do the IAQ test ASAP.”

Then came October 3, 2025.

A remediation report from Blackmon Mooring/BMS CAT states representatives met with Plano ISD at Murphy Middle School at 9pm regarding mold damage involving:

- 43 classrooms/offices/labs
- HVAC contamination
- Mold contamination of structure and contents
- Drywall and carpet removal
- Furniture remediation

But according to the records, parents were NOT NOTIFIED the school would shut down until AFTER 11pm that night - forcing families to scramble for childcare and work accommodations for the following week.

The financial records are equally significant.

Invoices tied to the remediation total OVER $615,000, including:

- $250,000
- $197,145.59
- $118,566.50
- $50,021.71

How long did Plano ISD know the situation was this serious before the public was informed?

Citizens Defending Freedom deserves credit for securing these records after having to SUE Plano ISD for them. According to a source, they were unable to recover attorney fees despite forcing disclosure of the documents.

Parents trusted their children were walking into safe classrooms!

Plano ISD appears to have known Murphy Middle School’s HVAC system needed major repairs for at least two months while mold issues were ongoing throughout the summer. Records show a nearly $25,000 purchase order dated August 4, 2025, for HVAC technician labor tied to evaluating and repairing outside air handlers at Murphy MS, along with internal emails approving the work. If the district knew the HVAC system was failing badly enough to require substantial repairs for months before school started, why were students and staff allowed back into the building before the issue was fully addressed and parents properly informed?

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What I will describe below is Palestine, not as a place, idea, or cause, but as one of the world’s largest systems of political and economic extraction. The word system is overworked, and I use it with some reluctance, but no other word in the available vocabulary captures what I mean. I do not mean a conspiracy, because there is actually no one conspiring. I do not mean a structure in the strong Marxist sense, because there is no base from which the rest is derived, and there is no priority or point of origin. I do not mean an institution, because the arrangement crosses every institutional boundary that modern political life recognizes.

I mean an autopoietic system; decentralized, self-generating, and closed. It is a self-reproducing pattern of extraction that operates simultaneously across multiple independent domains—spiritual, ideological, institutional, geopolitical, economic, and local—each running on its own logic and its own incentive structure, none reducible to the others, and all converging to produce a stable aggregate that no participant designed and no participant can dissolve. The pattern that makes up the system, and which is condensed in the Palestinian word-symbol, has no center. It has no origin point. It has no master node whose removal would collapse the whole. It has no class of beneficiaries who could be deprived of their benefits to restore justice, and it has no class of victims who could be liberated to end the system, because in this system every participant is simultaneously a victim and a beneficiary, a captive and an extractor, a sufferer and a profiteer. The fusion is precisely the condition of participation.

Before describing the system, one must describe the currency in which the system trades in order to grasp why the system has the shape it has. The currency of the Palestine system is the suffering of Palestinians indexed to the presence of Jews. This phrase is awkward, and I will refine it as we proceed. The currency is not Palestinian suffering as such, because there have been many Palestinian sufferings—at the hands of other Arabs, other Palestinians, Hamas, etc.—that have generated no markets, no movements, no symbolic capital, no extractive industry. The currency is not Jewish presence as such either, because Jewish populations exist in many places without generating the political-economic-symbolic complex that surrounds Israel. The currency is the conjunction: the suffering of one people at a site where the other people are politically and territorially present. That conjunction, and only that conjunction, produces the symbolic substance that the entire system mines.

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Umamusume, perhaps the only gacha game franchise to employ a dedicated costume designer, might have advanced otaku satorial taste more than anything else in this quarter century

https://twitter.com/suflors_/status/2056104449299579255

one thing this feature revealed was that, unlike most games that offer visually impressive outfits, in Uma there is a conscious effort to appeal to the female gaze instead of just the male one

in the bishoujo/women character space* (obviously ikemen chara mobage appeal to female gaze...)

It's 2000, & diver Rod Macdonald has discovered something terrifying:

"Dave and I couldn’t resist the temptation to fin over to the edge of the pinnacle & look over the side...into the 200m deep abyss.

[Then] I became aware my exhaled bubbles had stopped rising upwards."

1/

"For a second, some bubbles were held motionless in front of my face... [then] my bubbles started going downward, more and more vigorously."

Holy hell.

2/

Between the isles of Jura & Scarba, the Scottish Atlantic is squeezed as the sea floor rises to that pinnacle Rob's clutching, just 30m under the surface, before plunging towards a deep hole on the other side.

During the racing tide, a huge line of standing waves emerge...

3/

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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (11 May - 17 May 2026):

📺:

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Crew Carbon raised $25M to scale wastewater treatment and CO2 removal tech.
spglobal.com/energy/en/news…

Green Finance Institute launched CDR Catalyst, unlocking $1M+ loan financing for Restord’s UK biochar project.
restord.earth/news/restord-s…

Planet Savers secured ¥100M in grant funding from Mitsui’s Co-creation Fund.
mitsui.com/jp/en/topics/2…

@inplanet_earth achieved a second verified credits issuance milestone for its ERW project in Brazil.
dispatch.com/press-release/…

UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero selected 15 DAC projects for £55M in pilot funding.
gasworld.com/story/desnz-se…

Re. green issued its first 36,877 Verra-verified carbon removal credits from restored forests in Bahia.
linkedin.com/posts/congratu…

Government of Meghalaya established first community biochar unit in Northeast India to enhance soil health and CDR.
biochartoday.com/news/governmen…

@CascadeClimate launched the Bedrock Initiative to scale ERW research globally.
cascadeclimate.org/bedrock-initia…

Frontier approved Rainbow as a carbon credit issuer for eligible CDR pathways.
rainbowstandard.io/news/frontier-…

Frontier Infrastructure Holding secured validation and expanded future CDR credit sales for its biomass removal project.
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

New Zealand updated VCM guidance and launched a framework for assessing novel carbon removals.
environment.govt.nz/news/new-tools…

@Isometric_HQ’s Mangrove Restoration Protocol became the first blue carbon protocol approved for CCP-labelled credits.
linkedin.com/posts/isometri…

@CO2Council released a roadmap to scale carbon removal investment in Latin America.
carbonbusinesscouncil.org/news/latam-inv…

Wren launched its 2026 RFP, offering up to $500K for ARR, blue carbon, and methane reduction projects. Deadline: 30 June 2026
wren.co/blog/2026-requ…

The Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative and Mission Innovation CDR launched Carbon Management Project Awards for CCUS and CDR projects. Submission deadline: 07 June 2026
cleanenergyministerial.org/call-for-nomin…

The European Commission has opened a consultation on draft CBAM rules that would recognise Article 6 credits when calculating the carbon price paid in exporting countries. Deadline: 10 June 2026
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

Ocean Conservancy and partners released recommendations for mCDR field experiments.
oceanconservancy.org/newsroom/press…

@ClimeFiHQ released a report on corporate net-zero claims and carbon removals.
climefi.com/reports/the-gu…

Abatable released a new whitepaper on building resilient carbon removal portfolios.
landing.abatable.com/building-a-res…

@RockyMtnInst identified three emerging trends driving CDR scale-up beyond voluntary credits.
rmi.org/not-just-volun…

@CRIAEarth and BioFlux released a white paper highlighting biochar’s large-scale CDR potential in India.
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I went to the same nursery school as Wes Streeting and grew up on the housing estate opposite his.

Here is a little thread on what the East End was like at that time.

Take it as the East End equivalent of those Johnson / Cameron era Old Etonians explaining what Pop was like.

Streeting's autobiography is a really good guide to this world. I read it recently and felt incredibly nostalgic. There were so many little details that rang true - the long queues in the drafty Whitechapel post office, the Wimpy opposite, riding on the brand new DLR in the late 80s.

But one thing rings true above all else - the importance of council housing.

After Wes is born, his mum is living at her mum's. There is not enough space for them all, but they are a low priority for council housing.

So Wes's mum pretends that her mum has thrown her out, in order to jump up the housing queue. It works and they get a place on the Clichy estate, opposite the Stifford estate where I grew up.

NATO war game ended with Russia cutting off the Baltics in 24 hours — because Germany froze politically while the US stayed out.

Retired Ukrainian Gen. Romanenko, playing Russia’s commander, says NATO’s biggest weakness was not troops but hesitation, FP. 1/

Scenario assumed a ceasefire in Ukraine by late 2026.

Russia rebuilt forces, left troops in Belarus after joint exercises, then used a “humanitarian crisis” in Kaliningrad as justification for escalation against Lithuania. 2/

“Russian” plan focused on speed. 12,000 troops advanced from Belarus while forces from Kaliningrad moved east.

To link up near Marijampole and cut the Baltics off from Poland through the Suwalki Gap within 24 hours. 3/

Here it is:

The story no one is telling in full.
The opening acts are over.
Here’s what’s actually unfolding.

Act 1: The Bond Market Breaks
Japan’s 30Y hits an all-time high yield.
US 30Y crosses 5%.
UK gilts at their highest since 2008.
This isn’t a glitch.
This is the world repricing sovereign debt simultaneously.
For 40 years, bonds were the safe haven.
The place you parked value when everything else was uncertain.
What happens when the safe haven isn’t safe?

Act 2: The Carry Trade Unwinds
For decades, Japan borrowed at 0% and bought the world.
US treasuries. US equities. Global real estate.
Now Japanese yields are rising.
That money has to go home.
August 2024 was a tremor.
We haven’t felt the quake yet.
When the carry trade fully unwinds — trillions in assets get sold to cover positions.
Who’s buying?

Act 3: China Watches
Trump leaves Beijing with nothing.
No trade breakthrough. No help on Iran.
But Iran let Chinese vessels through the Strait of Hormuz.
China didn’t need Trump’s deal.
China already made its own.
While the US debates debt ceilings, China is quietly building the alternative — trade routes, commodity deals, bilateral agreements that bypass the dollar entirely.
BRICS isn’t a threat yet.
But it’s building the infrastructure to become one.
Sound familiar?