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Abolish fiscal rules and the agencies that enforce them? Galbraith makes the case. (This is for you too, 🇬🇧)
"The budget process cultivates and perpetuates the idea that smaller deficits are better than large ones..." 1/

"..it sets a standard that tax cuts should be offset, at least in part, by spending reductions. That standard now leads to the grotesque bill just enacted." 2/

"According to the budget process, however, extending current tax law is scored as another tax cut – requiring yet another offset through spending cuts...The beast of deficit reduction is never sated." 3/

" 50 SHADES OF SHAHED DRONES"

A🧵on all Shahed drones and it's variants/inspirations/copies

IRAN:
1) Shahed 131:
🔹Smaller version of the popular Shahed 136. It has stabilizers in the upward direction only. Cheap to produce and excellent for swarm tactics.

🔹It has a small rotary engine having 38HP and range of 900km. Payload: 10-40kg.

2) Shahed 136:
🔹The OG BUZZBOMB. Bigger than Shahed 131. Upgraded 550cc engine with 50hp and a range b/w 1000-2500km. Larger warhead. Has stabilizers in both directions. Expensive than Shahed 131
🔹Combat success in Ru-Ukr war prompted other countries to come up with their own.

🧵This thread documents a series of extracted messages, blog posts, livestream clips, and related exchanges surrounding the development of the “Lucky” narrative in the Karen Read case.

The posts are presented chronologically and paired with the underlying screenshots or clips for context. They include contradictions, shifting explanations, disputed claims, and statements later shown to be inaccurate, alongside the public and private discussions happening in real time.

The thread will be updated as additional material is organized. Bookmark it for future additions and updates. Readers can review the material and draw their own conclusions.

🧵Before the FKR movement fully took shape, Karen Read compared herself to Mark Felt, “Deep Throat”, the secret Watergate source who helped bring down President Nixon.

The difference is Karen was not an outside whistleblower; she was the defendant in the death of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe.

By May 6, 2023, blogs about John’s death had been published for 18 days, the blogger had yet to drive by 34 Fairview while pushing the defense narrative, and theories about John’s body being moved after guests left were being questioned in real time.

🧵The blogger was initially asking important questions early on about cell data and what witnesses might question, but also presenting information that we now know was not accurate.

He spoke in absolutes, and because he believed she had been right so far, he viewed Karen as credible and heroic.

On June 24th, the Type 076 LHA, the Sichuan, completed its fourth sea trial in the Yellow Sea and returned to Qingdao Naval Base. The ship departed its home port of Zhanjiang on the 6th and transited the Taiwan Strait before arriving at the naval base three days later.

The sea trial likely involved the vessel conducting launch and take off tests of the GJ-21 and KVD-002 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) as well as the Z-8L transport helicopter.

The vessel likely also conducted an underwater explosion shock test to verify the ship’s ability to withstand forces from nearby blasts caused by munitions such as bombs, mines, and torpedoes.

BREAKING 🧵

A gut bacterium is showing up — or rather disappearing — across all three phases of COVID-19.

Severely ill patients have less of it.
Recovered patients get it back.
Long COVID patients don't.

Its name is Faecalibacterium prausnitzii. And what it does explains a lot. 👇

F. prausnitzii is one of the most abundant bacteria in a healthy human gut.

It produces butyrate — a molecule that:

• Fuels your colon lining
• Seals your gut barrier
• Suppresses inflammatory signals
• Regulates your immune system

When it disappears, all of that fails at once.

Severe COVID-19

A 2025 meta-analysis pooling data across 10 independent studies confirmed:

F. prausnitzii depletion: logFC = -1.24 (95% CI -1.68 to -0.80)

Translation: It was significantly lower in every severe COVID cohort analyzed.

The more depleted. The sicker the patient.

SE VOCÊ ESTÁ RECONSTRUINDO SUA VIDA DEPOIS DOS 40, COMECE POR ESSAS 14 COISAS.

1. Cuide dos dentes, da pele e da postura

1. Cuide dos dentes, da pele e da postura antes de gastar com roupa. Depois dos 40, cuidado pessoal comunica mais que qualquer tecido caro. A postura muda como uma sala te recebe antes de você abrir a boca. As pessoas te tratam do jeito que você se trata. É sinal, não vaidade.

2. Pare de se desculpar por recomeçar aos 40. Ninguém acompanha sua vida tão de perto quanto você pensa. Quem julga seu recomeço é o mais travado: sua coragem expõe o conforto dele. A vergonha queima a energia que você precisa pra reconstruir. Gaste essa energia no trabalho.

In 1960, newly independent African leaders had a choice: capitalism or socialism.

Almost all of them picked socialism.

A Ghanaian economist named George Ayittey spent forty years documenting what happened next.

His findings are in print, and almost nobody outside Africa wants to hear them. 🧵

The reasoning in 1960 looked airtight.

Colonialism had been run by Western capitalists. So capitalism was a tool of oppression. Socialism, its opposite, would be the path to liberation.

Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, Julius Nyerere in Tanzania, Sékou Touré in Guinea, Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia, and Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe all reached the same conclusion through the same logic.

The logic was tidy. The results were catastrophic.

In Ghana, Nkrumah's government built 64 state enterprises before his overthrow in February 1966. Only three or four were profitable.

By 1970, the Ghanaian state was setting prices on nearly 6,000 items across more than 700 product groups.

¿QUÉ DICEN TUS ERECCIONES MATUTINAS SOBRE TU SALUD?

(La mayoría de los hombres no saben esto)…

1. No es solo deseo s3xu4l

NO ES SOLO DESEO SEXUAL

Mucha gente cree que ocurren porque estás excitado.

Normalmente no.

Suelen aparecer durante ciertas fases del sueño, incluso sin sueños sexuales.

Por eso son un indicador físico tan interesante.

2. BUEN FLUJO SANGUÍNEO

Una erección depende de que la sangre llegue correctamente.

Cuando las erecciones matutinas son frecuentes, suele ser una señal positiva para la circulación.

Tu sistema cardiovascular y tu función sexual están más conectados de lo que parece.

Questo video è bellissimo e altamente istruttivo. Da proiettare su tutti i media continentali e nelle sedi dell'Unione Europea. In sintesi: il segretario della NATO, Mark Rutte, si presenta in mondovisione come una sorta di "lobbista" dell'apparato militare-industriale USA,

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sostenendo che la due presidenze trumpiane* hanno costretto i membri della NATO ad aumentare le spese militari di oltre 1000 miliardi di dollari negli ultimi 10 anni, favorendo massicciamente l'industria bellica americana. E nei prossimi anni altri

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* ma anche sotto Biden

300 miliardi di $ di ordini europei sono in arrivo secondo Rutte. Un'esibizione sfacciata dei rapporti di forza fra le due sponde dell'Atlantico, ma anche la dimostrazione dell'evanescenza della tanto citata "autonomia strategica" del continente europeo. Le autorità della

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AFTER 2 YEARS USING CLAUDE DAILY, I CAN SAY IT'S THE TOOL THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR ME.

Here are 20 prompts I use every single day.

Save this 👇

1. The Daily Planning Prompt

Turn chaos into a clear execution plan.

Prompt:
Act as an executive productivity coach. Help me organize my day with:

Goals: [list]
Tasks: [list]
Meetings: [list]
Deadlines: [list]

Create a prioritized schedule with time blocks, identify my top 3 must-complete tasks and flag anything I should delegate or drop today.

2. The Research Accelerator

Get structured intelligence in minutes.

Prompt:
Act as a professional research analyst. Research this topic: [topic]

Provide:
1. Key information
2. Current trends
3. Important statistics
4. Main players
5. Opportunities and risks
6. Your conclusion

You've been lied to.

The nutrition advice taught in schools has harmed more people than it has helped.

Debunking 15 nutrition myths they taught you in school:

1. Myth: Eggs Raise Your Cholesterol

Truth: Egg yolks are rich in choline, vitamin D, and B12.

They do not meaningfully raise blood cholesterol the way we were told.

For most people, eggs are one of the most complete foods available.

2. Myth: You Need 8 Glasses of Water a Day

Truth: Hydration needs differ from person to person.

Your thirst and the water in whole foods are far better guides than a number someone made up.

THREAD: 🧵 WHY THE BRITISH MONARCHY, PARLIAMENT, & ESTABLISHMENT HATES YOU, AND WANTS YOU ETHNICALLY CLEANSED & MURDERED!
" It's a Big Club & you ain't in it"....

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You don't think this illegal Migrant Insanity isn't ON PURPOSE DO YOU? Kalergi was an Elite European FREEMASON! he wanted Ethnic cleansing and to create a new mixed race of compliant submissive humans.... threadreaderapp.com/thread/1977020…

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One for MPS and one for the MEDIA....WAKE UP! Why do you think " NOTHING EVER SEEMS TO CHANGE".... Don't you think having a Secret Society run your Parliament by INFILTRATION FROM WITHIN might be Dangerous? theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

As recently as March, US intelligence officials believed that Russia had the upper hand in the war. But in recent months, European diplomats noted that US officials appeared to have shifted and no longer felt that Moscow was winning the war. 1/5

Trump was “hugely impressed and enthusiastic” about Ukraine’s recent campaign of long-range strikes on targets deep inside Russia at last week’s G7 summit, said two people briefed on the private discussions among the leaders. 2/5

Senior Ukrainian administration officials have told the FT they see signs that Trump is warming to stronger support for Kyiv and may be more willing to pressure Russia to end its war. 3/5

My friend in London opened a free website last week.

He typed my full name.

14 seconds later, it showed my old address, my old email, and a password I used in 2019.

I haven't lived at that address in 4 years.

He said one sentence I'll never forget:

"Everyone you know is on this site. Most don't know it."

Here's exactly how to find what's exposed and start erasing it 👇

Step 1: Go to

Type your email. That's it.

The site shows you every data breach your email has been caught in. Every leaked password. Every compromised account.

It currently tracks over 15 billion compromised accounts across 1,000+ known breaches.

Free. Anonymous. No signup.haveibeenpwned.com

If your email shows up in a breach, do 3 things in this order:

1. Change the password on the breached account immediately.
2. Change the password anywhere else you used the same one.
3. Turn on 2-factor authentication (2FA) on that account.

The biggest danger isn't the original breach. It's that hackers test your old password on every other site you use.

Today's #DavesCarIDService risks treason by sharing some of America's top secret roadside attractions with visiting soccer fans. But it seems the shock and awe of BBQ and Buc-ee's has resulted in their widespread surrender to American cultural might. Now that they seem friendly, I think it's finally safe for use to share the GOOD stuff. The roadside attraction equivalent of a secret cache of 85 year old Scotch. The kind of places we keep secret from strangers unless we have solid evidence that they're friendly.

First and foremost for me is the Loveless Cafe, just outside Nashville. One breakfast here and you will renounce your beloved Full English forever. And one biscuit (not a cookie, but the most sumptuous scone you've ever encountered) will make you slap yo' mama. I mean mum.

While Buc-ee's is admittedly a mindblower, you may notice that it lacks one thing: trucks. Yep, big rigs are verbotten there. For the full American road trip experience one must make a pilgrimage to a truck stop, and the greatest of all is in my home state of Iowa. Mister this right here is Trucker Valhalla, complete with a barber shop, dentist and doctor offices, a 60 seat movie theater, and spectacular vintage truck museum. Not to mention endless rows of wolves-howling-at-moons t shirts and chrome dress up accessories for you big rig.

Oh, and bring an appetite. Not for the fast food joints, but for the acclaimed all you can eat diner buffet.

Now that you've sampled Texas BBQ brisket, it's time to level up your Texas cuisine experience with a stop at the Big Texan Steakranch on the outskirts of Amarillo. Well, level up in size if not in quality. Behold their Texas-sized 72 ounce steak. Best of all, it's FREE!

Small print: you have to eat the whole thing in 60 minutes to get the 100% discount off the $72 list price. Who knows? Maybe you'll be among the 10,000 heroes who've successfully reached the top of Mount Free Meat. That's only about an 8% success rate but c'mon chicken, you're DUE.

Afterwards you can celebrate with a stop at nearby Cadillac Ranch.

14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world

1. The 5 - second rule

The moment you think of doing something productive, count down 5-4-3-2-1 and physically move.

Interrupts brain’ s hesitation loop before doubt creeps in.

Use it for :

Getting out of bed

Making that cold call

Starting a workout

The Feymann technique

Pick a concept you’ re learning.

Write an exploratipn as if teaching it to a 12-year old, using zero jargon.

Wherever you get stuck, that’ s the gap.

Go back & relearn that part.

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HOW TO WIN THE WAR
FOR THE PEOPLE
BY THE PEOPLE
Thread 👇

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They operate on the trade: give you a dollar, pat themselves on the back, and brag about how great they are — all while stealing $100 and tightening their control. That’s the game in a nutshell.

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Islam and many other nations saw the opportunity and joined the money game. Now it’s a ruthless competition to grab the most, the fastest. The American people aren’t even at the table.

Potential becomes power only when translated into nervous system patterns, habits, and action.

This is the practice of embodiment.

This is the movement from 0 to 1.

Take time to learn about how the nervous system operates, its parts and what each part does.

Of particular importance is the automatic nervous system.

The autonomic nervous system is our automatic reality-filter, constantly determining what it believes is safe, familiar, and possible....

Mastery of the ANS is what gives us our ability to shape reality.

Additionally you cannot be calm cool collected and centered unless you have a well regulated nervous system.

We can say that this contributes to what we call charisma and aura.

In May 2026, JPMorgan, Mastercard and Ripple ran a cross-border settlement that hadn't been done before. A tokenized US Treasury, redeemed across banks in about 4.2 seconds, after hours and on a public chain… and that chain was the XRP Ledger
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The biggest bank in America, the biggest card network on earth, and a tokenized Treasury from Ondo Finance, all clearing on a public chain in seconds with RLUSD bridging and XRP paying the fee. Still a pilot, but the kind finance kept calling impossible
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So why XRP, out of thousands of tokens? The answer is what Ripple spent three years doing while most people weren't watching. It bought the financial plumbing banks took a century to build. No partnership decks, it wrote checks and took ownership.
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