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Apr 30
This is the third tweet thread from Day 1 of Graham Linehan's appeal against his conviction for the criminal damage of a mobile phone. The start of the first thread is here... they're all linked.

[we are still looking at damage on phone]
FW when was this damage caused?
SB it was caused after GL had thrown it
FW what condition was your phone in before that event
SB "basically immaculate"
FW how did you know that?
SB because I'd changed the case earlier that day, twice.
[FW takes him to the bundle]
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Apr 30
ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggests the SCOTUS ruling barring using race to draw congressional districts is "a step backwards" and about keeping black people from voting. She claims soon women won't be able to vote either:

"You know, this decision, we knew this was coming because they've been chipping away at this for a long time. The courts said, you know, there's no problem with race anymore and yet we're fighting every day talking about Project 2025.

We are seeing -- we know what's happening and it's happening -- it's going to start happening to women as well, because all these changes in voting where they're saying you can't use your married name, you got to go your birth certificate, so this is -- this is going to affect a lot of people.

Right now, it sounds like it's just affecting people of color. We know better. We knew this was coming, so this is meant to discourage you from voting. This is meant to make you feel like you don't have a voice. You do have a voice. Do not forget that.

But do you see it as a step backwards also?"
Using incendiary rhetoric that could endanger Justice Alito's life, Sunny Hostin claims he's trying to take away the rights of black people and women. She claims her kids now have fewer civil rights than her:

SUNNY HOSTIN: I think it's a huge step back. I mean the 1965 Voting Rights Act was the most important piece of legislation in United States history.

GOLDBERG: People died for that.

HOSTIN: Yes, actually Justice Kagan in her 48-page dissent said that it was the most important piece because it was borne of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers.

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

HOSTIN: She wrote that. And it has been gutted. People are saying, well, it hasn't really been gutted. It has been, and that is because the majority opinion was written by Samuel Alito, the same judge that wrote the decision that took away a lot of women's rights.

GOLDBERG: Uh-huh.

HOSTIN: Two key points, states can no longer use race as a factor in redistricting but states can use party politics, they can use party politics in redistricting.

JOY BEHAR: What does that mean?

HOSTIN: Meaning --

SARA HAINES: Draw the line based on Republican, Democrat --

HOSTIN: You can draw the line based on Republican and Democrat.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It's okay to discriminate in that that case.

HOSTIN: It's okay to discriminate there.

Number two, the Voting Rights Act only protects against intentional discrimination. The problem with that is, I don't know about you but there aren't that many racists that say, 'hi, I'm a racist.' There aren't that many legislators that write in legislation, we are going to discriminate against black people. So, it's almost impossible to prove intentional discrimination. And that is why in my view this is gutted.

What is most troubling to me and I think you'll -- you and I, Whoopi, have discussed this, Alito argued that the vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the south indicating that racism no longer exists in this country.

I can tell you as a black woman that my father was born in 1949. He remembers segregated schools. He remembers second get grated water fountains, he remember that's couldn't -- that he did not have full civil rights. And he told me when I turned 40 years old that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights, and he is still alive today, and I am still alive today and I have been discriminated against. And now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born.

BEHAR: That's true.

HOSTIN: That is disgusting, despicable and I am devastated by this particular Supreme Court decision even though, Whoopi, we did know this was coming.
The View suggest Justice Clarence Thomas is a race traitor.
Liberal white woman Joy Behar, who once said Thomas and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) didn't know what it was like to be black in America, sparks the hate against the Justice:

BEHAR: Wait a second. What about Clarence Thomas? Didn't he stick up for his own?

GOLDBERG: No, he didn't. No.

HOSTIN: No, he did not. He is part of the majority here.

GOLDBERG: yeah.
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Apr 30
Yelizarov, founder of drone battalion that destroyed $14B worth of Russian equipment: Risk of tactical nuclear use is real. Partners must define a response in advance.

If Ukraine raises efficiency and enemy losses, it could demoralize Russia and enable a counteroffensive.

1/
Yelizarov: Russia faces manpower shortages. Ukraine could inflict more losses, but targets are limited.

Current Russian losses are about 30–35k per month. If Russia pushes harder, losses rise; if it slows down, they stay around that level.

2/
Yelizarov: Ukraine lost drone advantage. In 2022–23 we stopped Russia and stabilized the front, but didn’t retake territory.

With faster adaptation, we could have. That window is gone.

3X
Read 5 tweets
Apr 30
Apolitical Russians are starting to feel the war.

Influencer Victoria Bonya[13m followers] urged Putin to “face the truth”: floods in Dagestan, oil spills on the Black Sea coast, internet blackouts and cattle culls in Siberia.

Five days later: 30 million views, The Economist.1/ Image
Bonya is not an opposition politician or activist. She lives near Monaco and sells vegan cosmetics and clothing.

But she addressed Putin: "People are afraid of you, bloggers are afraid, artists are afraid, governors are afraid. But people should not be afraid of their president. I am not afraid." 2/
Her video is not a call to revolutio, but the reaction to it is more telling than its content. Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party, told deputies that the video should be taken seriously if the Kremlin wants to avoid another Bolshevik revolution. 3/
Read 10 tweets
Apr 30
Keane: Three weeks into a ceasefire, a deal acceptable to Trump still looks far away.

The reason is simple: the Iranians do not really want a deal. They are playing for time, betting political and economic pressure on Trump will force concessions or make him walk away. 1/
Keane: Keep the blockade, but go back to military operations. When the ceasefire began, about two weeks of assigned objectives still remained.

Central Command has doubled its capability, Israel has replenished munitions, and the next campaign can be far more aggressive. 2/
Keane: Some will argue the blockade alone can break Tehran. Trump rejects that. The regime’s only objective is to survive and stay in power.

Economic collapse, blackouts, gas lines, civilian suffering — none of that will make it give in. That is exactly who they are. 3/
Read 6 tweets
Apr 30
Zelenskyy: Ukraine is opening exports of drones, missiles, ammunition and combat software.

The format is called Drone Deals — special intergovernmental agreements on the production and supply of Ukrainian weapons to partners. 1/ Image
Zelenskyy: How it works: first an intergovernmental agreement is signed on the basis of reciprocity, defining the framework for cooperation.

Then work begins at the level of state institutions and manufacturers. Bureaucratic procedures are simplified but export controls are maintained. 2/
Zelenskyy: The main condition: Ukrainian military takes the required volume of weapons first. Only the surplus beyond the state order goes to export.

Production capacity surplus for some types of weapons has already reached 50%. 3/
Read 8 tweets
Apr 30
Mr. @leemonbaird and @ManceHarmon my dad asked me to notify you that there is an error on your grant application form. It falsely is detecting “no address” on my father’s grant, w/ address inputted. Can programmers resolve? My dad will resubmit at a later date. God bless you. Image
No on the screenshot his lab’s address has been removed for privacy, but on the real application he used his lab address and it still shows as “this field is required” even though the address was inputted. He also used my a test address in a different county, my Grandma’s …
Same outcome with the test address. We are standing by via DM’s or at his publicly searchable contact information for next instructions.

@threadreaderapp “unroll”

He will all be at HederaCon and prepared to speak if anyone has questions on the hardware and utility.
Read 4 tweets
Apr 30
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Apr 30
Big Pharma's newest cash printer:

Statins.

They're supposed to be "life-saving" heart drugs, but actually systemically destroy your body.

Here's the truth I learned about Statins as a pharmacist: Image
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1. The $14 billion money engine

Statins generate $14.1 billion annually

It projects to hit $17.3 billion by 2027.

25% of Americans over 45 takes them.

During my time as a pharmacist, I saw how the industry expanded guidelines to create more customers…
2. Muscle breakdown is real

10% of users deal with:
• soreness
• weakness
• muscle pain

In extreme cases, it progresses to muscle breakdown and damages your kidneys.

Statins reduce CoQ10 — a compound your muscles rely on for energy.

Not only does it hurt your muscle…
Read 14 tweets
Apr 30
The famous night raid hadith. Image
They already knew that women and kids are present there but still allowed to attack.
Sahih al-Bukhari 3012: Image
Read 6 tweets
Apr 30
Supply Shock & Inflation: Traditional turn of the year price increases, the lagged impact from tariffs with a layer of inflation driven by the adverse supply shock unleashed by the war is making for a very mean year.

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Think tariffs don't cause inflation? Think again take a look at the cost of goods sensitive to tariffs. Remember that many firms pulled forward inventory accumulation into early 2025 to avoid trade taxes. Those inventories are being rebuilt now with the trade taxes layered on top. More inflation is incoming.Image
Don't like core PCE because it does not fit your narrative? Ok, take a look at the topline. Note that three month average at an annualized pace. Remember that this is the Fed's metric that they use to make policy. Image
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Apr 30
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