1./ My latest article dissects the career of a woman who may be one of the most dishonest people in public life: Ruth Hunt. She turned Stonewall into a wing of the toxic trans lobby despite saying she wouldn't. That was only the start of her disregard for ethics.
2./ How ethical was Hunt's behaviour at Stonewall? In the 2016 accounts there's an intriguing note referring to payments of £68,400 made to Caroline Ellis. She was and still is Ruth Hunt's partner. The payments were "conducted at arms length" the note assures us. If you say so.
3./ Ellis and Hunt are still in business together. Tho it's more obviously above board now. They run a consultancy together that teaches managers in NHS Trusts how to use pronouns. And presumably how to tie their shoelaces. If you have money to burn...these are your gals.
A sucupira é uma árvore nativa do cerrado brasileiro, pertencente ao gênero Pterodon.
As espécies mais conhecidas são a sucupira-branca (Pterodon pubescens) e a sucupira-preta (Bowdichia major). As sementes, cascas, folhas e frutos da sucupira são utilizados na medicina popular devido às suas propriedades medicinais.
Propriedades Medicinais da Sucupira:
- Anti-inflamatória:
A sucupira é frequentemente usada para tratar condições inflamatórias como artrite, artrose e reumatismo. Estudos indicam que compostos como beta-cariofileno e alfa-humuleno contribuem para sua ação anti-inflamatória.
- Analgésica:
Devido às suas propriedades anti-inflamatórias, a sucupira também é conhecida por aliviar dores, especialmente nas articulações e músculos.
- Antioxidante:
Contém substâncias antioxidantes que podem ajudar na redução do estresse oxidativo, potencialmente beneficiando a saúde geral e a prevenção de doenças.
- Antirreumática:
Utilizada tradicionalmente para tratar sintomas de doenças como a artrite reumatoide.
- Cicatrizante:
Algumas fontes sugerem que a sucupira pode acelerar a cicatrização de feridas e úlceras estomacais.
- Antimicrobiana:
Há evidências de que extratos da sucupira possuem atividade antimicrobiana, útil contra infecções bacterianas e fúngicas.
- Anticâncer:
Estudos iniciais apontam para possíveis efeitos antitumorais, especialmente em modelos experimentais de câncer de próstata.
Formas de Consumo:
- Chá:
Feito com as sementes, cascas ou folhas, é uma das formas mais comuns de consumo para obter os benefícios medicinais.
- Óleo:
Extraído das sementes, pode ser usado tanto internamente quanto para massagens em áreas doloridas.
- Cápsulas:
Disponível em farmácias de manipulação, proporcionando um consumo mais controlado e conveniente.
- Garrafada:
Mistura de sementes de sucupira com vinho ou outra bebida alcoólica, tradicional na cultura popular brasileira.
Considerações Importantes:
- O uso de sucupira deve ser feito com moderação, pois em grandes quantidades pode ser tóxico.
- É recomendável consultar um profissional de saúde antes de iniciar qualquer tratamento com sucupira, especialmente para gestantes, lactantes, crianças ou indivíduos com problemas hepáticos ou renais.
Estudos científicos sobre a sucupira têm focado em várias propriedades medicinais da planta, especialmente em seus compostos ativos e seus efeitos biológicos.
- Anti-inflamatório e Analgésico:
Estudos têm demonstrado que a sucupira, principalmente Pterodon pubescens, possui propriedades anti-inflamatórias e analgésicas significativas.
Pesquisadores encontraram compostos como diterpenos, incluindo vouacapanos e geranilgeraniol, que são responsáveis por estas propriedades.
Por exemplo, um estudo disponível no PubMed discutiu os efeitos imunomodulatórios de infusões de sementes de sucupira em modelos de artrite induzida por colágeno.
- Anticâncer:
Há pesquisas que sugerem atividades antitumorais dos extratos de sucupira.
Um estudo no ResearchGate examinou o potencial de extratos de sucupira no tratamento de glioblastoma, indicando que o óleo das sementes poderia ter implicações terapêuticas em células de câncer cerebral.
- Microencapsulação:
Devido à instabilidade de alguns compostos ativos da sucupira, estudos recentes têm explorado a microencapsulação para melhorar a estabilidade e a biodisponibilidade dos extratos.
Um artigo no PMC discutiu técnicas de microencapsulação para preservar as propriedades dos compostos sucupira, especialmente diterpenos.
- Efeito Imunomodulatório:
Outra área de estudo é o efeito da sucupira no sistema imunológico.
Um estudo específico analisou como o extrato de sementes de sucupira pode modular a resposta imune em modelos de artrite, sugerindo seu potencial no tratamento de doenças autoimunes.
- Estudos Farmacológicos e Fitoquímicos:
Vários estudos também têm se dedicado à identificação e quantificação de compostos ativos na sucupira, bem como à avaliação de suas atividades farmacológicas.
A literatura descreve flavonoides, triterpenos e esteroides, com foco em como essas substâncias se relacionam com a atividade biológica.
A sucupira é frequentemente mencionada por seus potenciais benefícios para a artrite devido às suas propriedades anti-inflamatórias e analgésicas.
- Redução da Inflamação:
A sucupira contém compostos como diterpenos (vouacapanos, geranilgeraniol) e beta-cariofileno que têm demonstrado capacidade de inibir a inflamação.
Isso pode ajudar a reduzir o inchaço e a dor associados à artrite.
- Alívio da Dor:
Além de reduzir a inflamação, esses compostos também têm propriedades analgésicas, podendo amenizar a dor articular característica da artrite.
- Imunomodulação:
Estudos sugerem que extratos de sucupira podem modular a resposta imunológica, o que é útil em doenças autoimunes como a artrite reumatoide, onde o sistema imunológico ataca as articulações.
- Evidências Científicas:
- Pesquisas em modelos animais de artrite induzida por colágeno mostraram que o uso de sucupira pode diminuir a gravidade dos sintomas inflamatórios.
- Um estudo publicado no "Journal of Ethnopharmacology" discutiu os efeitos anti-inflamatórios e imunomoduladores de infusões de sementes de sucupira em modelos de artrite, indicando um alívio nos sinais de inflamação e dor.
- Uso Tradicional:
Na medicina popular brasileira, a sucupira é utilizada há gerações para tratar sintomas de artrite e outras condições inflamatórias das articulações.
Considerações:
- Dosagem e Segurança:
É importante usar a sucupira em doses adequadas, pois o consumo excessivo pode levar a efeitos tóxicos.
- Interação com Medicamentos:
A sucupira pode interagir com medicamentos usados para tratar artrite, como anti-inflamatórios não esteroides (AINEs) ou medicamentos imunossupressores, então a supervisão de um profissional de saúde é recomendável.
Many companies (here: Apple, Nike, Microsoft, Lockheed) give executives bonuses for hiring fewer white men (sometimes US-born Asian men too, though that's more case-by-base).
Where can you find a technical workforce while excluding white men (which you will do because your paycheck depends on it)? Probably India. Another reason not to take employer bleating seriously.
When asked, 3/4 of hirings managers say they pass on qualified candidates for not being diverse enough.
Foreign students are buying entire degrees from WhatsApp shops in India. Full semester coursework. Fake theses. AI scrubbing so it passes detection.
They come here on an F-1 visa. Cheat through the degree. Get 3 years of work authorization through OPT. Then convert to H-1B.
The entire pipeline, from the classroom to the job market is built on a fraudulent foundation.
Your kid is $100K in debt with a real degree and can't get a callback.
Thanks to @CyberGreen09
International students bring in $43 billion a year to US universities. That's why they don't catch the fraud. Every student they bust is a paying customer off the books.
So, when a kid in Delhi buys his entire semester off a WhatsApp menu for ₹800, the university doesn't want to know. When AI scrubbing services exist specifically to make cheating undetectable, the university doesn't investigate.
60% of universities cite financial contributions as a key reason they recruit international students.
Please make sure to follow @WeaponAutism @CyberGreen09 @floridiantired and @astrarce.
Thread with excerpts from Charles Murray's "Losing Ground" (1984), a book on the failure of US welfare and social policy 1950-1980 to achieve its goals threadreaderapp.com/thread/2027392…
Looking at Israel-related measures now in play on the Hill, one would be hard-pressed to avoid concluding that Israel's govt & its allies in Congress & pro-Israel orgs want to ensure Israel's PM will be functionally (& permanently) granted a seat in the US situation room. 1/
Specifically, this means pursuing legislation — much of it built on an edifice of pro-Israel measures passed into law, with little or no debate, over many years — that will accomplish three inter-related and mutually-reinforcing goals:
2/
Goal A: Establishing/expanding the role and position of Israel within US national security processes, policies, strategies, and procurements -- including deepening interoperability and inter-dependence of core military and intelligence functions;
3/
Scotland has not just watched a party finance scandal. It has watched the state, the party machine and the prosecution system close ranks in real time.
The public were expected to notice nothing.
Unfortunately for them, we did.
2/ I now believe Peter Murrell was allowed to become the useful container for a much bigger scandal.
One man. One plea. One neat little box.
How convenient.
The trouble is that the stench does not fit inside the box.
3/ I now believe the plea deal was designed to prevent sunlight.
A full trial would have asked the questions the SNP, the Crown Office and half of Edinburgh’s political class plainly do not want asked.
En el hilo turras de hoy, y continuando con el arco sobre educación, hoy le toca el turno a dos cosas: Como encaja infantil/primaria/secundaria en toda esta fiesta y por qué es la etapa más importante. Al turrón.
Temita delicado porque hablamos de menores y de educación obligatoria, pero quien dijo miedo.
Acudiremos de manera constante al resto de los hilos del arco sobre educación porque en realidad al final es una especie de Kill Bill: The whole bloody affair. No está diseñado para ser leído de manera aislada, sino formando parte de un todo.
🇷🇺🇩🇪‼️🚨 RUSSIAN-MADE BMW CARS - HILARIOUS SANCTION BREACH:
Russia has started assembling its own Russian BMW cars in Kaliningrad! You can now buy a Russian BMW X7 SUV for a lower price.
These Russian-assembled BMWs are produced in the former BMW plant, which the Germans left and abandoned.
-> The Russians took over the experienced employees, leftover parts, and the assembly line to start their own production!
Now there are two BMW manufacturers in the world: one in Germany and one in Russia. 🤣
Want ti buy a Russian BMW?
🧵 1/
🇩🇪🇷🇺 Russian-assembled BMWs are equipped properly, even with accessories not easily available in Germany.
In the beginning the Russians started using leftover German BMW “assembly kits” to make the cars. This was an attempt to use up the stock and move on.
But it worked so well that the number of cars they assembled now exceeds the kits left in Kaliningrad, and BMW itself is wondering how it’s possible.
So how is that possible?
2/
🇷🇺🇩🇪‼️ The Russian BMW manufacturer already hints at the assembly of models that were never produced in Russia!
Until now the Russian BMW plant only assembled the BMW models that were produced by the Germans there before (X5, X6, X7), but now they plan to also assemble the BMW 5 Series in Kaliningrad. The BMW 5 Series was never produced in Kaliningrad, but that might change soon.
If that happens it would be wild. They closed off and abandoned Russia fully, so Russia just copy-pasted all BMW cars and now sells them by itself without giving a cent to the Germans.
Claude can now break down papers like an MIT researcher.
Here are 10 insane Claude prompts that turn dense research papers into simple summaries, diagrams, limitations, experiments, and future research ideas in minutes (Save this)
1. The Feynman Breakdown
"Read this paper and explain it like you're teaching a curious 12-year-old. Use everyday analogies. No jargon. If a term is unavoidable, define it in 5 words or less. End with: what would surprise a non-expert most?"
Turns 40 pages into 4 paragraphs.
2. The 5-Layer Summary
"Give me 5 versions of this paper:
→ One sentence
→ One paragraph
→ One page
→ Technical abstract
→ Tweet thread (10 tweets)
The law limits who in the public may attend executions. In short: attendees may be invited by the convicted murderer. The press sued, claiming special privileges to be there without an invitation. Nope, not under the First Amendment, explains Judge Scudder. Clearly correct.
Judge Scudder (Trump) was joined by Judge D. Pryor (Biden). Judge Jackson-Akiwumi dissented. She'd say the First Amendment guarantees press a role. I'm not sure her analysis works practically. Which press gets to attend? All of it? "The press" isn't entitled to more 1A rights.
In this excellent @SexMattersOrg podcast w @MForstater, Fiona @DerryBanShee mentioned poor enforcement in Athletics of the rules (which banned all post-puberty males from the F category in 2023).
Here is an example. A man who calls himself Persephone has raced in the Female…
…category of the Leeds Half Marathon in 2026, 2025 and 2024, all of it against UKA rules. I complained to the organisers who have replied saying they consulted UKA and have taken appropriate action in accordance with their licence. But if you look at the results, ‘Persephone’..
…is still in the Female results for all three years. So the organisers appear to have a) done nothing, b) failed to uphold UKA rules, and c) breached their licence. I have emailed them again and been ignored.
A guy sat at his laptop ready to permanently delete his 15-year-old Gmail account.
He was getting 400 spam emails a day. Fake Best Buy receipts. Phishing links from "Netflix." Cryptic extortion threats.
He hovered his mouse over "Delete Account" and sighed: "I just want peace."
His coworker, a former email deliverability engineer, looked over his shoulder.
"Before you nuke 15 years of contacts and data, let me show you something. Your email isn't broken. It's weaponized. There are 22 ways you've been leaving the door wide open. Google won't tell you this because the data collection feeds their entire ad engine. Give me 14 minutes."
Here's what she showed him:
1. The Newsletter Graveyard
The Situation: You signed up for a 15% discount code from a trendy mattress company back in 2019. You bought the bed, ignored the emails, and never clicked unsubscribe. What you didn't read in their privacy policy was the clause allowing them to "share data with trusted third-party partners." Fast forward to today, and that single company has legally sold your email to 47 different data brokers, who then sold it to hundreds of affiliate marketers.
The Mechanics: Every dormant newsletter in your inbox is a live wire. As long as you are on their list, your data is being refreshed in their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, marking your email as an active, deliverable address.
The Fix: You need to aggressively audit the graveyard. In your Gmail search bar, type "unsubscribe". You will likely find over 200 active subscriptions you forgot existed. Do not just delete the emails, open them and kill the subscriptions at the source. Each one you sever closes a pipeline that is actively feeding your digital identity to data aggregators.
2. The Malicious "Unsubscribe" Trap
The Situation: You check your phone and see a poorly formatted email warning you about "Your McAfee Anti-Virus Renewal" or a pitch for "Miracle Keto Gummies." Frustrated, you scroll to the very bottom and click the tiny Unsubscribe link, hoping to finally make it stop. You just made a fatal, irreversible error.
The Mechanics: True spammers and phishing syndicates don't actually honor opt-out requests. Instead, that "unsubscribe" link is a trap wired with a unique tracking token. The moment you click it, a ping is sent back to their server with a clear message: "A real, breathing human lives at this address, and they actively read their spam." Your email address just got upgraded to a "Premium Verified" list, and its value on the dark web just tripled.
The Fix: Never, ever hit unsubscribe on an email you didn't explicitly and intentionally sign up for. Instead, highlight the email and click the Report Spam button (the stop sign icon with an exclamation mark). This action trains Google's machine-learning algorithm to recognize the sender's IP address and domain, eventually penalizing them and protecting millions of other users.
Putin faces a succession crisis in Chechnya that could erupt into a new war inside Russia, draining troops and money he needs for Ukraine — Christian Caryl, Foreign Policy.
The region's ruler Ramzan Kadyrov, 49, is probably terminally ill, and his heir is his 18-year-old son. 1/
Putin built his presidency by crushing Chechen rebels in the late 1990s, then made a deal with Akhmad Kadyrov. Kadyrov suppressed the insurgency and accepted Moscow's rule, and in return ran Chechnya as he pleased.
A bomb killed Akhmad in 2004. Power passed to his son Ramzan. 2/
That autonomy runs on Russian cash. Moscow transfers $3.8 billion to Chechnya every year, about 92 percent of the republic's entire budget.
Kadyrov treats the money as a personal slush fund and spends it on whim, paying for a lavish lifestyle and a private security force. 3/
On this day in 1790, Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founded the city of Chicago.
A THREAD
Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable was born in Saint-Domingue, Haiti (French colony at the time) during the Haitian Revolution. At some point he settled in the part of North America that is now known as the city of Chicago and was described in historical documents as "a handsome negro"
He married a Native American woman, Kitiwaha, and they had two children. In 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, he was arrested by the British on suspicion of being an American Patriot sympathizer.
Over the past quarter century, a vast and largely unseen effort has unfolded—one difficult to capture in words that fully convey its scale, precision, and consequence.
It was not a single operation, but a sustained campaign of vigilance, adaptation, and quiet resolve, conducted beyond public view.
Through it, a determined network of professionals worked to detect, disrupt, and counter hostile foreign infiltration that posed a genuine threat to the stability and security of the United States.
Todd had terminal ALS and just ordered a wheelchair—then DMSO gave him his life back
His brain fog vanished. Breathing crises stopped in 3 days. He dragged 340-lb beams across a road. His reflexes healed.
His recovery shocked his doctors—but ALS is far from the only thing DMSO helps.
James Miller MD found roughly 80% of neurological issues people see neurologists for simply go away once he gives them DMSO.
Approximately 2500 studies support its use for conditions ranging from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s to strokes, MS, paralysis, chronic pain, spinal injuries, depression, epilepsy, and Down syndrome.
Here, I will show how DMSO can cure many "incurable" neurological disorders.🧵
Here I present the extensive evidence behind DMSO's ability to treat numerous "incurable" neurological diseases.
This article draws upon over 2000 studies and 200 reports from readers who were healed by DMSO along with practical guidance on how to use it midwesterndoctor.com/p/how-dmso-hea…
Since publishing this article, I've received numerous reports of DMSO helping neurological conditions readers had struggled with for years.
All of them can be read here: