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Jun 30
NEW: The Trump administration has shut down a controversial Homeland Security tool it had touted as a way to find noncitizens who’d illegally registered to vote, ProPublica has learned. 🧵
The move came after U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blocked further use of the tool, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, ruling that the system’s expansion violated data privacy laws and risked disenfranchising eligible voters. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_p…Image
.@propublica was first to report on the details of the data-sharing agreement that gave DHS nearly unfettered access to sensitive Social Security Administration data to enhance the tool's capabilities. propublica.org/article/dhs-so…
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Jun 30
By all accounts an extraordinary finding. The degree of quantum-like interference in the brain predicts depression and anxiety one year later at r = 0.6. This is 3x better than other models. It also predicts intelligence at a whopping r = 0.79.

In terms of mechanisms: We find that the cost of computation in the brain is negatively correlated with quantum-like processing. So one explanation is that entanglement of brain dynamics makes the mind more computationally efficient and flexible.

Information integration and coordination is fundamental to all of cognition, emotion, and consciousness. Hence, interference or non-quantum entanglement may be the route to an energy efficient, integrated world model—foundational for a healthy mind.

See figures in comments...Image
Depression and anxiety: Image
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Jun 30
Trump Accounts go live this week and are incredibly powerful

But most people still don't understand how they work

Here are 5 common misconceptions:

1. They aren't just for kids born after 2025. Every kid under 18 is eligible to open one
The free $1,000 from the government is only if you are born after 2025

2. They are primarily *retirement* accounts for your kids

Your kids typically have to wait until their retirement to withdraw dollars without being subject to a 10% early withdrawal penalty
There are carve-outs for first time home purchases, higher education expenses, medical expenses etc.

But these are identical to those of a Traditional IRA

3. Parents or other family members can contribute $5,000 per beneficiary per year

These contributions are after-tax
Read 7 tweets
Jun 30
When I've talked about the legacy of Soviet industrial gigantism (one big factory) making Putin era Russia far more vulnerable to a drone strategic bombing campaign.

This is a very good example. ⬇️

Strategic Drone Airpower🧵
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I've talked about this vulnerability in a couple of previous threads. Here is a shorter one:



Putin's decades long "Russian exceptionalism" propaganda campaign, that says WW2 was won on the Eastern Front, has made Russians incapable of seeing this.

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If strategic airpower was irrelevant then. So is damage from it now. 🤦‍♂️

Here is the larger in-depth thread detailing the vulnerabilities of ex-Soviet "One-Big Factory" infrastructure (AKA gigantism) Ukraine is exploiting.

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Jun 30
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Jun 30
So I heard that YOU @Nncim15 & YOU @CultureGuard are at the Langley RCMP detachment right now talking about me 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Jun 30
If you represent someone convicted of murder, you owe them your best efforts. Today, the Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed a murder conviction where appellate counsel could not have taken more than 15 minutes to write the brief.

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The Statement of facts says the client was convicted, and helpfully pointed the court to the indictment. Image
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Appellate counsel asked for an extension to write this, caused by a family medical emergency.

I am completely sympathetic to a family medical emergency. But you need to find someone else to do the work if you can't.Image
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Jun 30
Drama right now in the Senate Elections Committee.

@Esmeralda_Soria is trying to prevent people who have been registered as sex offenders from running for public office with AB 2753.

She refuses to accept amendments from Committee Chair Scott Wiener which would only prevent those who are registered for life…🧵
California has a three tiered sex offender registration system. Tier 3 is Lifetime, 2 is registration for 20 years, 1 is 10z

Asm. Soria wants this proposed law to apply to anyone registered.

Sen. Wiener says he’s recommending a no since she won’t take amendments for this to only apply to Tier 3….
Wiener says state’s sex offender registration system has been broken.

He says it’s a tool for law enforcement to be able to monitor people who could cause a risk.

Wiener worries it’s broad and would prevent anyone from running for office…
Read 7 tweets
Jun 30
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Justice Thomas’ dissent is hands down one of the MOST intellectually dishonest legal opinions I have EVER seen.

It should be clear to every American he is a compromised political actor - not a respectable member of this bench. Image
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We start off with a bizarre argument about how the 14th amendment is really only about black slaves and requires the concept of domicile.

Which he justifies by referencing the Dread Scott case and how it was determined someone was a citizen of a specific state. Image
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Determining which State in the US you are a citizen of in regards to a State constitution requires domicile.

Why?

Because we have unified citizenship and so all that is left to subdivide at the state level is residency.
Read 10 tweets
Jun 30
*** Ontario Virus Update | June 30 ***

Hospitalizations due to COVID have increased from 9 to 18 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations remained stable at 13 and RSV increased from 3 to 5 so not quite finished for the season yet for those two.🧵1/

#Ontario #Virus #COVID This stacked bar chart displays weekly new hospitalizations in Ontario specifically attributed to COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV. The data tracks the fluctuating volume of patients over time, highlighting seasonal surges and the relative contribution of each respiratory virus to the overall healthcare burden.
Looking at age groups, those age 75+ and 65-74 tied for having the highest rates of hospitalization due to COVID and both increased since last update. The only other age group with hospitalizations was 50-64, no children this past update. 2/ This multi-line graph tracks the weekly rate of hospital admissions per 100,000 population in Ontario across various age demographics. The visualization highlights shifting clinical trends over time, showing the weekly fluctuations and comparative hospital burden between different age categories ranging from infants to seniors aged 75 and older.
For this epidemiological year 2025/2026 so far, adults 75+ had the highest rate of COVID hospital admissions, followed by age 65-74 and then age 0-4 in third place. Young children 0-4 had hospitalization rates twice as high as fourth place group age 50-64. 3/ This side-by-side bar chart displays the rate of hospital admissions per 100,000 population in Ontario for the 2025/2026 year-to-date epidemiological year. The graph breaks down the data across six age groups, illustrating a clear progressive trend where hospital admission rates increase significantly with age, peaking sharply in the 75+ demographic except for children age 0-4 which have the third highest rate.
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