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It’s easy to turn a blind eye when a change doesn’t immediately impact your front yard. But a classic "boiling frog" scenario is happening right now in California, and most people are completely oblivious.
Hemp is just the latest easy target.
Hemp is just the latest easy target.
Under the radar, California’s devastating regulatory crackdowns completely strip away access to full-spectrum hemp products, forcing a strict "zero-THC" standard that effectively kills the natural plant industry.
The indifferent onlookers say, "Who cares? It's just hemp."
The indifferent onlookers say, "Who cares? It's just hemp."
But they conveniently ignore the millions of people who medically rely on this plant every single day to survive and function.
Let’s be entirely clear: We hate the grifters too. Legitimate advocates have been begging for common-sense, strict regulation for years.
Let’s be entirely clear: We hate the grifters too. Legitimate advocates have been begging for common-sense, strict regulation for years.
This intriguing notice from CGTN:
I'd like to note that since early March I've been (a) noting the essential (thought quiet) role #China has been playing behind the scenes, to buttress Pakistan's diplomacy to end the US-Iran conflict , and also >helenacobban.substack.com/p/war-on-iran-…
(b) calling for establishing GCC-Iran security coordination by creating a "Zone of Peace" in the Gulf (Mar 11): . >helenacobban.substack.com/p/the-iran-war…
1/ Russian commanders are being accused of failing to ensure that their soldiers do not wear neo-Nazi and far-right insignia. The practice is said to be widespread. However, a crackdown is apparently underway, with offenders being sent to die in assault units. ⬇️
2/ Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian soldiers have been photographed wearing unofficial patches representing extremist ideologies, such as death's-head insignia, Nazi runes, and the "black sun" Sonnenrad symbol.
3/ This reflects the appeal of far-right and neo-Nazi ideology among Russian nationalists. (Indeed, there is an entire neo-Nazi paramilitary group, the Sabotage Assault Reconnaissance Group (DShRG) 'Rusich', fighting alongside the Russian regular forces.)
Another Statement in @HouseofCommons on another report on maternity care failures. The brilliant @DOckendenLtd has huge cross-party respect, but I'm sick of no meaningful change - 2 yrs after the 1st ever Parliament report on Birth Trauma, and 4 yrs after the East Kent report...
Some brilliant contributions today in the Chamber, especially from @HelenMorganMP and @PauletteHamilto who spoke so powerfully from her own experience. We have to stop talking, stop doing the same reports, stop changing Health Secretaries, and bring about meaningful change.
If we don't, we should expect to see this issue, that touches almost every voter's life at some point, factored in to future elections. As Chair of the APPG on Birth Trauma, I'll continue to work with the great @BirthTrauma and @masic_uk and of course my friend @theodoraclarke 💜
Ashura is coming...
Have you prepared your Ashura dua list yet?
Here is the list of Du'as:
Have you prepared your Ashura dua list yet?
Here is the list of Du'as:
Ashura is coming…
A day of mercy, reflection, and gratitude, and a day the Prophet ﷺ fasted, hoping for forgiveness for the year before it.
Don’t wait until the last hour to think about what to ask for. Sit with your heart now. Write every dua down.
A day of mercy, reflection, and gratitude, and a day the Prophet ﷺ fasted, hoping for forgiveness for the year before it.
Don’t wait until the last hour to think about what to ask for. Sit with your heart now. Write every dua down.
Ask for:
• forgiveness for sins you’ve been carrying
• healing for what you’ve been silently dealing with
• guidance for the parts of your life that feel unclear
• relief from worries and hardships
• protection for your family and loved ones
• forgiveness for sins you’ve been carrying
• healing for what you’ve been silently dealing with
• guidance for the parts of your life that feel unclear
• relief from worries and hardships
• protection for your family and loved ones
Second afternoon session, day one, of the employment tribunal of Samantha Tempest v Defra and the Rural Payments Agency. We expect to return some time after 2.50pm.
J This is our unanimous decision on C application to amend claim. C applies to inc allegation that Rs are liable under section 109 2 for actions of EW and AM - actions done as agents for R. Application R liable was first made in 2023. Remains a boiler plate contention
Your iPhone is hiding 47GB of storage you did not know existed.
Not in photos. Not in apps.
In places Apple designed you to never check.
I found them all in 10 minutes.
Here is where:
Not in photos. Not in apps.
In places Apple designed you to never check.
I found them all in 10 minutes.
Here is where:
1/ Delete message attachments (hidden storage hog)
Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Messages → Review Large Attachments
Every photo, video, and GIF from iMessage is saved.
Most people have 5–15GB here.
Delete in bulk.
Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Messages → Review Large Attachments
Every photo, video, and GIF from iMessage is saved.
Most people have 5–15GB here.
Delete in bulk.
2/ Empty “Recently Deleted” photos
Photos → Albums → Recently Deleted → Select All → Delete All
These still count for 30 days.
Usually 2–5GB just sitting there.
Photos → Albums → Recently Deleted → Select All → Delete All
These still count for 30 days.
Usually 2–5GB just sitting there.
This is the afternoon session, day one, of the employment tribunal of Samantha Tempest v Defra and the Rural Payments Agency, due to begin at 2pm. (PQ is no longer a party.)
Tempest (the claimant or C) is claiming discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation on grounds of gender reassignment. Central to the claim is the Sex Equality and Equity Network in the Civil Service (SEEN or IP). SEEN has been granted right to intervene.
🧵Schedule F is back.
Trump is resurrecting the most important executive reform of his first term — and it’s aimed directly at the Deep State.
If the President can't fire policy makers, why'd we have an election at all?
This is about restoring power to the voters by restoring Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
🧵
Trump is resurrecting the most important executive reform of his first term — and it’s aimed directly at the Deep State.
If the President can't fire policy makers, why'd we have an election at all?
This is about restoring power to the voters by restoring Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
🧵
2/ Schedule F creates a new category for policy-making and policy-implementing federal employees.
These positions will no longer have near-ironclad permanent employment.
The President, as head of the executive branch, can once again hire, manage, and remove people who "resist" the agenda voters chose...or who are just bad at their jobs!
These positions will no longer have near-ironclad permanent employment.
The President, as head of the executive branch, can once again hire, manage, and remove people who "resist" the agenda voters chose...or who are just bad at their jobs!
3/ The Founders vested all executive power in the President. They never intended an unaccountable fourth branch of government.
The modern administrative state — insulated bureaucrats who view elected leaders as temporary — is a 20th-century invention that inverted constitutional order.
Schedule F begins to claw it back.
The modern administrative state — insulated bureaucrats who view elected leaders as temporary — is a 20th-century invention that inverted constitutional order.
Schedule F begins to claw it back.
Anotonio Reynoso is the hip, young, hyper-progressive but just-short-of-leftist Brooklyn borough president, the Democrat of the Future circa 2023. He got his ass kicked by the updated model, a one-term state delegate who's dedicated her time in Albany to the liberation of Palestine
Was it obvious two months ago that the head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus was vulnerable in a race against a professional grad student and convert to Islam whose main qualification was leadership of an anti-Israel campout? Zohran knew it!
At the moment Zohran has the ineffable quality of Being a Winner. His opponents continue to look like fools. His analysis is just deeper than theirs, and he has the Weberian quality of Charisma. Anyone's guess whether it can be applied beyond New York City—for now, at least...
₹1.27 lakh crore. That is how much Indian investors have borrowed just to buy stocks right now, an all time record.
Nearly half of that borrowed money is stuck in stocks that may have no buyer when the price falls.
Here is the mechanism most retail investors do not know exists. 🧵
Nearly half of that borrowed money is stuck in stocks that may have no buyer when the price falls.
Here is the mechanism most retail investors do not know exists. 🧵
This borrowing mechanism is called MTF, Margin Trading Facility.
It lets you buy stocks by paying only part of the price upfront. The broker funds the rest as a loan against your stock as collateral.
At 3:1 leverage, you put up ₹25 and buy a stock worth ₹100, with ₹75 borrowed.
It lets you buy stocks by paying only part of the price upfront. The broker funds the rest as a loan against your stock as collateral.
At 3:1 leverage, you put up ₹25 and buy a stock worth ₹100, with ₹75 borrowed.
This cuts both ways. It amplifies your profit if the stock rises, but amplifies your loss just as much if it falls.
And the stock you bought stays pledged with the broker the entire time.
And the stock you bought stays pledged with the broker the entire time.
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If you are studying CPO, NPO, silicon photonics, or AI optical networking,
you will keep seeing one term:
CW Laser
But before discussing $LITE, $COHR, or the optical supply chain,
we need to understand one basic question:
What does a CW Laser actually do?
This is a beginner-friendly explainer.
If you are studying CPO, NPO, silicon photonics, or AI optical networking,
you will keep seeing one term:
CW Laser
But before discussing $LITE, $COHR, or the optical supply chain,
we need to understand one basic question:
What does a CW Laser actually do?
This is a beginner-friendly explainer.
2/10
CW Laser = Continuous Wave Laser.
The core idea is simple:
It does not blink on and off to send data.
It continuously emits a stable beam of light.
Think of it like a light source that stays on.
CW Laser = Continuous Wave Laser.
The core idea is simple:
It does not blink on and off to send data.
It continuously emits a stable beam of light.
Think of it like a light source that stays on.
3/10
But data is not transmitted just because the light stays on.
If the light is always on,
the receiver only sees:
light exists.
To transmit data,
someone has to write 0s and 1s onto the light.
That process is called modulation.
But data is not transmitted just because the light stays on.
If the light is always on,
the receiver only sees:
light exists.
To transmit data,
someone has to write 0s and 1s onto the light.
That process is called modulation.
