🧵 Uncovering the Left’s “Firewall” Playbook: How Democrat Governors, Backed by Wealthy Donors, Aim to Block America’s Trump’s Agenda.
In 2024, Julia Spiegel, CEO of GovAct and former top legal advisor to Gov. Gavin Newsom, wrote a guidebook for Governors Safeguarding Democracy.
Unelected staff and lawyers from the group, led by Spiegel, drafted it as a “Confidential Draft.
It is intended for blue-state governors resist federal rules. The group is led by Democratic governors J.B. Pritzker from IL and Jared Polis from CO.
GovAct supports it, and Global Impact handles its finances. This guide is not about protecting democracy. Instead, it’s a guide on how to block Trump’s agenda.
GovAct gets money from Pierre Omidyar’s Democracy Fund. He has given over $425 million to similar projects since 2014. The MacArthur Foundation also gave $1 million in 2025 to Global Impact for GovAct. These donors support open borders and liberal causes. Grant records show this clearly.
It includes a model executive order called “Firewall for Freedom.” This order stops states from helping National Guard units from other states if the governor disagrees.
“No Assistance to Deployments Over Objection of the Office of the Governor. … shall provide no time, money, facilities, property, equipment, personnel, or other resources for purposes of assistance to any National Guard unit of another state that is deployed to this State, if the Office of the Governor … has objected to such deployment.”
The goal is to protect illegal immigrants from being deported.
*Data based on how often children visited the doctor for each condition*
Instead of investigating the findings, the Oregon Medical Board suspended Dr. Thomas’s license—just days after the study was published. Months later, the study was retracted.
Dr. Paul Thomas isn’t the only one who faced swift punishment for publishing inconvenient science.
Other doctors have faced similar consequences for exposing the same pattern.
The question is: Why are doctors being punished simply for comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated kids? 🧵
This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc.
For all the sources and details, read the full 20,000-word report below.
Excited to share what I'm working on as Visiting Fellow @OversightProject.
The question I'm solving: why do Republicans vote against their own party... and their own voters on issues such as mass migration and SAVE ACT?
Surprising early finding: FEC donations are only weakly correlated with voting behavior. Institutional affiliations (where senators trained, what orgs they've moved through, where they have membership) predict it far better.
And almost nobody tracks that systematically. Building that infrastructure now.
Major stress test: why Senate Republicans are slow-walking the SAVE Act despite 80% public support. Stay tuned.
On the SAVE Act specifically:
"The uncomfortable synthesis: these senators have more in common with their Democratic counterparts than with their own voters. Not because of a coordinated network... just because they've lived in the same city, breathed the same air, and attended the same events for 30-40 years. The filibuster is the excuse. The real answer is they don't feel the urgency their base feels, because Washington DC doesn't feel that urgency."
Further explanation which I think is insightful:
Washington DC is culturally liberal. The institutions that long-tenure senators interact with daily: the press corps, the think tanks both parties actually attend (Brookings, CFR, Aspen, Carnegie), the schools their kids go to, the dinner parties are all left-of-center. That creates asymmetric social pressure:
A Republican who drifts left gets rewarded. The press calls them a "statesman," a "maverick," a "reasonable voice." They get invited to the bipartisan events. Their kids don't get weird looks at Sidwell Friends. McCain got this. Collins gets this. Murkowski gets this. There's a whole media infrastructure that celebrates the "heroic moderate Republican."
A Democrat who drifts right gets... nothing. There's no equivalent conservative institutional establishment in DC that would celebrate them. No black-tie dinner full of journalists who would applaud them for being "courageous" by moving right. Their base would primary them. The press wouldn't reward them. So they don't.
The incentive structure is one-directional. DC's Overton window is set by the press corps and the permanent institutions, and it pulls left. Republicans face constant pressure to accept that frame as the price of being taken seriously. Democrats are already inside the frame.
NYT adds important context for reporting on Kash Patel and Susie Wiles (plus oddity of Patel being Reuters' source for his own grievance).
[1] "Requests for phone records are common in complex criminal investigations to establish timelines and provide proof of communication."
[2] "It has been known for years that Mr. Patel was closely scrutinized by investigators under the special counsel Jack Smith and was compelled to testify in front of a grand jury."
My add/reminder: Kash invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
[3] "The fact that investigators obtained some of Ms. Wiles’s phone records was made public during the inquiry into Mr. Trump’s mishandling of classified documents."
>be Michael Phelps
>born 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland
>dad is a state trooper, mom is a teacher
>parents divorce when you're 9
>can't sit still
>can't focus
>diagnosed with ADHD
>teachers say you'll never amount to anything
>too hyperactive, too unfocused
>mom puts you in the pool
>just to burn off energy
childhood:
>hate putting your face in water
>afraid of it
>coach tells you to float on your back first
>you learn
>turns out your body is built for this
>6'4" with size 14 feet
>arms longer than your height
>wingspan of 6'7"
>double-jointed ankles
>you're genetically engineered for swimming
>you just didn't know it yet
1996:
>age 11
>watch the Atlanta Olympics
>see swimmers on TV
>tell your mom: "I want to be an Olympian"
>she doesn't laugh
>you get to work
2000:
>Sydney Olympics
>you're 15 years old
>youngest male swimmer on the U.S. team in 68 years
>don't medal
>finish 5th in the 200m butterfly
>doesn't matter
>you just got a taste
>now you're hungry
2001:
>age 15
>break the world record in 200m butterfly
>youngest male ever to set a world record
>this is just the beginning
2004:
>Athens Olympics
>win 6 gold medals, 2 bronze
>8 medals total
>you're 19
>the greatest swimmer in the world
>but you wanted 8 golds
>Mark Spitz's record still stands
>you'll be back
2008:
>Beijing Olympics
>this is it
>8 events, 8 chances
>swim after swim
>gold after gold
>7th race: 100m butterfly
>you're behind at the turn
>Milorad Čavić leads at the wall
>one hundredth of a second
>0.01
>you out-touch him
>gold
>8th race: 4x100 medley relay
>gold
>8 golds in one Olympics
>8 world records
>the greatest Olympic performance in history
2012:
>London Olympics
>4 golds, 2 silvers
>become the most decorated Olympian ever
>22 medals total
>retire
>you're done
>you're 27
but:
>retirement breaks you
>no structure, no purpose
>depression hits
>suicidal thoughts
>drinking heavily
>2014: second DUI arrest
>going 84 in a 45
>everyone sees the mugshot
>the golden boy is drowning
>out of the water this time
rehab:
>check into treatment
>45 days
>face everything you've been running from
>the divorce, the pressure, the loneliness
>learn that gold medals don't fix you
>therapy works
>you come back different
2016:
>Rio Olympics
>one more run
>age 31
>5 golds, 1 silver
>6 more medals
>28 total
>23 golds
>most decorated Olympian in history
>retire again
>this time for real
after swimming:
>become a mental health advocate
>talk about depression openly
>help others who are struggling
>the thing that almost killed you becomes your mission
>testify before Congress on mental health in sports
>start a foundation
>marry Nicole Johnson
>have three sons
>finally at peace
the numbers:
>23 gold medals
>28 total medals
>39 world records over career
>5 Olympic Games
>most dominant athlete in Olympic history
>not debatable
Michael Phelps.
the greatest Olympian who ever lived.
still swimming.
just not for medals anymore.
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I’ve reviewed hundreds of blood panels where the doctor said:
“Your liver’s fine.” It wasn’t.
Your liver is where metabolic disease starts.
Here’s how to know whether yours is burning fat or storing it:
I’m Dr Sumit Sharma. 21 years in medicine.
Now focused purely on metabolic health.
By the end of this thread you’ll know:
• The “normal” ranges that aren’t optimal
• The 4 markers that reveal your liver’s true state
• The 90-day protocol I use to shift livers from storage mode to burn mode
Your liver performs 500+ metabolic jobs.
Its most critical role?
Autophagy is one of the most ignored natural remedies on Earth.
When triggered, it forces your cells to eat their own damage, melt inflammation, and destroy pre-cancerous tissue.
So, I started researching its healing benefits...
What I discovered will blow your mind: 🧵
The word "autophagy" literally means "self-eating" in Greek.
It's your body's built-in recycling system. Your cells identify damaged proteins, broken mitochondria, and toxic waste, wrap them in a membrane, and send them to be destroyed and reused.
Think of it as a deep clean at the cellular level.
In 2016, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering HOW autophagy works.
He identified 15 genes that control the entire process.
His research proved that autophagy isn't just maintenance. It's one of the most critical survival mechanisms in human biology.
JAK DĚRAVÉ SANKCE POTÁPÍ UKRAJINU
1/10) Píše se 22. leden 2026. Nad chladnými vodami Středozemního moře se líně trhá ranní mlha a za ohlušujícího řevu rotorů se z vojenských helikoptér efektně spouštějí elitní francouzská komanda. Cílem je 249 metrů dlouhý, zrezivělý tanker s pohádkovým jménem Grinch. Vojáci v taktické výstroji bleskově zajišťují palubu a osmapadesátiletý indický kapitán plavidla putuje v ocelových poutech do vyšetřovací vazby. Francouzský prezident @EmmanuelMacron okamžitě nabíhá na sociální sítě a se sebevědomím chlapa, kterého doma tluče žena do celého světa plamenně vyhlašuje, že obcházení evropských sankcí má svou nekompromisní cenu a že Francie právě zasadila drtivý úder ruské stínové flotile.
Všichni tleskají. Byla to okamžitá, nitrožilní dávka dopaminu pro západní publikum, které po čtyřech letech vleklé války zoufale baží po jakémkoliv hmatatelném triumfu dobra nad zlem.
Realita evropské politiky se však v těchto dnech mnohem více podobá situaci, kterou čínští disidenti a uživatelé tamního internetu velmi trefně nazývají „odpadní čas historie“.
Divadlo s komandem vs. Tvrdá realita
2/10 Vraťme se ale ještě na chvíli k našemu hrdinskému eposu jménem Grinch a zasaďme si ho do kontextu neúprosné matematiky.
Jaká je skutečná pointa tohoto vojenského spektáklu u Marseille?
O necelý měsíc později majitelská offshorová společnost, jejíž skuteční vlastníci sedí kdesi v klimatizovaných kancelářích v Dubaji, zaplatí francouzské prokuratuře v rámci pohodlného mimosoudního vyrovnání „přiznání o vině a trestu“ pokutu ve průměrné výši několika milionů eur. Navíc ne za to, že táhne ropu ve zrezlém křápu, ale za byrokratické pochybení. Úřady následně tanker sbalí, omluví se za zdržení a nechají ho v naprostém klidu, i s jeho gigantickým nákladem ruské ropy, odplout zpět na otevřené moře plnit další zakázky.
Pokuta v řádu jednotek milionů eur představuje pro Kreml finanční zátěž zhruba srovnatelnou s tím, když vám při placení hypotéky vypadne z peněženky pětikoruna rovnou do záchodu. Neřešíte to, nevoláte instalatéra. Jdete si dál v klidu nakupovat dělostřelecké granáty do Severní Koreje.
Rusko totiž i pod tíhou všech myslitelných západních restrikcí nadále inkasuje z exportu svých fosilních paliv stovky milionů eur každý boží den.
Ano, neopravuje silnice. Neopravuje nemocnice. Oligarchové nemohou tolik krást, ale příjmy z ropy stále jakž takž hradí náklady na vraždící masomlýnek.
A zatímco se evropští lídři spokojeně plácají po ramenou nad jedním (či třemi) mediálně vděčným, ocelovým vrakem zadrženým ve Středozemním moři, stínová flotila nenápadně nabobtnala do naprosto obludných rozměrů. ⬇️
20 % lodí ve službách Darth Vadera
3/10) Pojďme si to dát do dalšího kontextu. Před válkou v roce 2022 tvořilo globální stínovou flotilu pouhých 72 lodí. Její tehdejší vliv na světovou přepravu byl zhruba srovnatelný s tím, jaký má zbloudilá velbloudí karavana na hospodářské výsledky přepravní sítě Amazonu. Dnes se tento globální podsvětní syndikát katapultoval na více než 3300 plavidel, z nichž přes 1500 operuje výhradně a exkluzivně jako Putinova osobní donášková služba.
Tento plovoucí skanzen hrůzy už stihl spolykat těžko uvěřitelnou pětinu veškeré globální tankerové kapacity. Konkrétně 18,5 procent.
V době největšího nárůstu přibývaly téměř dvě lodi každý den. Řešení takto masivní logistické sítě není možné bez účasti státních aktérů. ⬇️
Clean air matters - especially for #ClinicallyVulnerable children, staff and families. This is an important recognition that airborne transmission is preventable.
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But the proposed CO₂ thresholds are too high. 800ppm should be the upper limit - not 1500ppm. By 1500ppm, air is already significantly rebreathed. That’s not a precautionary standard for children, let alone those at higher risk.
If we’ve learned anything from the pandemic, it’s that minimum compliance is not the same as safety. #ClinicallyVulnerable pupils cannot “choose” lower exposure if the baseline standard is poor.
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بریم ببینیم این وب سایت اضطراری که با پیشنهاد @atakhalighi عزیز و با گرته برداری از دولت هلند-در نبود یک دولت مدرن و خیرخواه شهروندان- طراحی کردیم چی هست و چه قسمتایی داره
اینجا می ذارم که به دست دوستاتون هم برسونید. توی کانالم هم گذاشتم. اونجا هم می تونید ببینید وفوروارد کنید
توی قسمت هیرو، دو تا دکمه می بینید. یکی میره به صفحه ای که هرچی می خواهید از جزوه ها اونجا موجوده. یعنی صفحه همه بروشورها. [ به پیشنهاد kate].
دکمه دوم هم میره به صفحه سوالات متداول [ با همراهی علی]
حالا توی صفحه همه بروشورها چی داریم؟ توییت بعد ezterar.com
اینجا شش تا بروشور داریم که مطمئنم خیلی به کارتون میاد.
قبلا دوتاشو گذاشته بودم توی توییتر. راهنمای بستن کوله اضطراری که اونم به پیشنهاد علی بود و راهنمای میدانی کمک های اولیه که پیشنهاد زیری میاک بود.
راهنمای جامع آمادگی و بقا، کامل ترین جزوهایه که می تونید در زمینه شرایط اضطراری بخونید. حتما دانلودش کنید.
راهنمای گام به گام آمادگی بحران خانواده رو حتما همگی بخونید و البته شخصی که سرپرست خانواده محسوب میشه دوبار بخونه.
راهنمای گفتگو درباره شرایط بحرانی رو هم بخونید همگی. و در آخر چک لیست آمادگی اضطراری [با آماده سازی علی] رو هم همگی بهش مسلط باشید.
Thread No : 77 - Nayanthara x SreeLeela (Part - 1)
Characters :
House Owner - (Paralysis Patient)
Nayanthara - House Owners Wife
SreeLeela - House Owners Daughter
Sai as New Tenent
Paralysis ochina mogudi modda ki kashtapadi nonstop gaa Blow job chesi, adhi lechaaka modda paiki ekki kurchundham ne time ki calling bell moogindhi. Anthe Husband modda padipoindhi.
Nayan : Chee... waste ra nuvvu entha kasta padi lepina seconds lo padipotundhi.ainaa ninnu-
- ninnu pelli cheskunnanu choodu naa karma, nee kante Carrot 🥕 Cucumber 🥒 eyy nayam thuu 💦
(Ani kopanga velli door open chesindhi, Baita oka 24 year old young boy unnaadu, vaadi body chaala fit gaa undhi, choodagaane Nayan ki mood ochelaa)
Quand la drogue et le sexe font des ravages dans la haute fonction publique
Du scandale Epstein éclaboussant la diplomatie française aux orgies sous stimulants qui font valser des cadors de l’administration, plusieurs affaires ont défrayé la chronique ces derniers mois.
FC Nordsjælland har torsdag eftermiddag konstateret, at dommer Michael Tykgaard offentligt har erkendt, at han fortryder, at han i fredagens 3F Superligakamp mod Vejle Boldklub kort før pausen ændrede Justin Janssens oprindelige advarsel til en udvisning efter et VAR-tjek.
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Vi vil gerne allerførst anerkende den udtalelse og udtrykke vores store respekt for, at Michael Tykgaard stiller op og erkender sin fejl.
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Fejlen havde en konsekvens på banen, som ikke står til at kunne ændres nu. Men det kan den fremadrettede konsekvens af den.
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