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Trump's Nuclear Armed Ships (Requested Decode)
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The $17 Billion USS Defiant is to be the first of many nuclear armed "Trump Class" battleships.
I've decoded nuclear bombs as symbolic but their usage still represents something worth decoding!
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The $17 Billion USS Defiant is to be the first of many nuclear armed "Trump Class" battleships.
I've decoded nuclear bombs as symbolic but their usage still represents something worth decoding!
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When "nuclear bombs" are applied as a symbol it infers a BOOM, not literal in terms of physical impact, but often in relation to media.
This is why the original nuclear bombs used against Japan were detonated alongside events that represented an equivalent BOOM.
When "nuclear bombs" are applied as a symbol it infers a BOOM, not literal in terms of physical impact, but often in relation to media.
This is why the original nuclear bombs used against Japan were detonated alongside events that represented an equivalent BOOM.
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08/09/1945 Nagasaki "Fat Man" Nuke Drop
08/09/1945 Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: COLLAPSE OF JAPANESE PUPPET STATES
08/10/1945 Radio Terrifies Listener Disney Cartoon (Original Playboy Artist)
Nuclear bombs themselves also acted as justification to end the war.
08/09/1945 Nagasaki "Fat Man" Nuke Drop
08/09/1945 Soviet Invasion of Manchuria: COLLAPSE OF JAPANESE PUPPET STATES
08/10/1945 Radio Terrifies Listener Disney Cartoon (Original Playboy Artist)
Nuclear bombs themselves also acted as justification to end the war.
I am listening to this as an audio book.
It was not the book I expected it to be. Far better.
A few brief points:
It was not the book I expected it to be. Far better.
A few brief points:
1. I am surprised by the nuance of Halberstam’s arguments and observations.
I thought I knew what this book was because of how often it is referenced and summarized. But it is not the cartoon it is so often described as.
I thought I knew what this book was because of how often it is referenced and summarized. But it is not the cartoon it is so often described as.
The Best and the Brightest has many threads, many themes, and almost all of these are lost when people flatten the book down to fit it into a literature review.
Harvard scientists ran a simple test. They put adults under blue light for 6 hours one night, then under green light at the same brightness the next. Blue light pushed their bedtimes back by 3 hours. Green pushed them back by 1.5. And in kids, the same lights hit about twice as hard.
The reason comes down to a tiny patch of cells at the back of every human eye. These cells have one job. They tell your brain whether it is day or night. They wake up most when light hits a very specific shade of blue, the same shade phone screens and modern bulbs are loaded with. When those cells fire after dark, the brain stops making melatonin, the chemical that pulls you toward sleep.
Red light barely sets off those cells at all. A 2025 study from the University of Zaragoza put people under red lamps and blue lamps for three hours at night. Under blue, their melatonin stayed scraped to the floor. Under red, it climbed back up to more than three times higher. Same brightness. The color did all the work.
Children get this worse than adults. Two reasons. Their pupils are bigger, so more light gets in. And the lens inside a kid's eye is still glass-clear, where adult lenses slowly yellow with age and filter blue out naturally. A 10-year-old's body clock is roughly twice as sensitive to evening light as a 45-year-old's. A bedside lamp that feels harmless to a parent can be wrecking a kid's sleep clock at the same time.
Then there is the lag. Once the brain catches a dose of blue light, the wake-up signal it sends out keeps echoing for 3 to 4 hours after the lights go off. So a kid on an iPad at 9pm can still be wired at midnight even if you took the iPad away at 9:01.
Modern LED bulbs and screens are tuned to roughly 6500 Kelvin. That is sunlight at noon. Old incandescent bulbs sit around 2700, mostly red and yellow with almost nothing in the blue range. To a human eye, a red-lit room is just about as close to no light at all as you can get. The brain reads it as nighttime.
The fix is boring. Use warm bulbs at 2700 Kelvin or lower in any room a kid spends evenings in, switch off phones and tablets two hours before bed, and if a night light is needed for bathroom trips, make it red or amber. The science was pinned down to the exact color of light back in 2001.
The reason comes down to a tiny patch of cells at the back of every human eye. These cells have one job. They tell your brain whether it is day or night. They wake up most when light hits a very specific shade of blue, the same shade phone screens and modern bulbs are loaded with. When those cells fire after dark, the brain stops making melatonin, the chemical that pulls you toward sleep.
Red light barely sets off those cells at all. A 2025 study from the University of Zaragoza put people under red lamps and blue lamps for three hours at night. Under blue, their melatonin stayed scraped to the floor. Under red, it climbed back up to more than three times higher. Same brightness. The color did all the work.
Children get this worse than adults. Two reasons. Their pupils are bigger, so more light gets in. And the lens inside a kid's eye is still glass-clear, where adult lenses slowly yellow with age and filter blue out naturally. A 10-year-old's body clock is roughly twice as sensitive to evening light as a 45-year-old's. A bedside lamp that feels harmless to a parent can be wrecking a kid's sleep clock at the same time.
Then there is the lag. Once the brain catches a dose of blue light, the wake-up signal it sends out keeps echoing for 3 to 4 hours after the lights go off. So a kid on an iPad at 9pm can still be wired at midnight even if you took the iPad away at 9:01.
Modern LED bulbs and screens are tuned to roughly 6500 Kelvin. That is sunlight at noon. Old incandescent bulbs sit around 2700, mostly red and yellow with almost nothing in the blue range. To a human eye, a red-lit room is just about as close to no light at all as you can get. The brain reads it as nighttime.
The fix is boring. Use warm bulbs at 2700 Kelvin or lower in any room a kid spends evenings in, switch off phones and tablets two hours before bed, and if a night light is needed for bathroom trips, make it red or amber. The science was pinned down to the exact color of light back in 2001.
Thank you for reading my article ❤️
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Brainard 2001 melatonin suppression action spectrum (Cortex/J Neurosci foundational paper) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21164152/
Harvard Health: Blue light has a dark side (6.5hr blue vs green, 3hr vs 1.5hr circadian shift) health.harvard.edu/staying-health…
Lee et al 2018, Physiological Reports — children vs adults melatonin suppression under LED pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC62…
2025 red vs blue LED 3-hour study (7.5 vs 26 pg/mL) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Red light alertness without melatonin suppression in shift workers pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC80…
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Brainard 2001 melatonin suppression action spectrum (Cortex/J Neurosci foundational paper) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21164152/
Harvard Health: Blue light has a dark side (6.5hr blue vs green, 3hr vs 1.5hr circadian shift) health.harvard.edu/staying-health…
Lee et al 2018, Physiological Reports — children vs adults melatonin suppression under LED pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC62…
2025 red vs blue LED 3-hour study (7.5 vs 26 pg/mL) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Red light alertness without melatonin suppression in shift workers pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC80…
Part 2. When a kid will not go to sleep, his body is pumping actual fight-or-flight chemicals into his blood. His sleep window closed about 30 minutes ago. The lights in your house are why he missed it.
Sleep doctors call it the second wind. Every kid's body has a narrow window where melatonin (the chemical that pulls you toward sleep) is climbing and the body is begging to power down. Miss that window by even 20 to 30 minutes and the brain hits an emergency button. It thinks: this person is awake past dark, something is wrong, send cortisol. Cortisol is the same chemical your body dumps when a car nearly hits you. The heart speeds up, blood sugar climbs, and the brain switches into stay-alive mode. A kid who looked half asleep at dinner is suddenly running laps in the hallway at 9pm.
A 2015 Harvard study showed how easily this happens. Adults read on an iPad for 4 hours before bed for five nights. Their melatonin dropped by more than 55 percent and showed up 1.5 hours later than on the nights they read paper books. Same person. Same bedtime. The screen pushed the whole sleep window 90 minutes into the future. In kids, whose eyes pass more blue light than adult eyes, the effect lands harder.
Once cortisol arrives, two things happen at the same time. It directly shuts down melatonin production. The brain has now floored the gas pedal and cut the brakes. The kid cannot fall asleep even if he wants to. The wired-but-tired chaos every parent describes is a hormone fight happening inside a body that has not even hit double digits.
Below the bedtime fight, a quieter cost is stacking up. Roughly half of a child's nightly growth hormone gets released during deep slow-wave sleep, the heaviest stage of sleep, where the brain barely flickers. That stage mostly happens in the first three hours after falling asleep. A kid who finally drops off at 10pm but still has to be up at 7am for school loses real chunks of deep sleep, because the school clock does not move. The same Harvard study also found that screen-readers lost REM sleep, the stage where the brain files the day's learning into long-term memory. Multiply that across a school year and the math gets ugly.
The red-light trick in the original tweet works for an actual biological reason. Red light barely reaches the eye-cells that report time-of-day to the brain. Melatonin rises on schedule and the kid hits his window. Cortisol never gets called in. The deep-sleep window opens on time, growth hormone fires when it is meant to, and the brain has time to consolidate the school day before sunrise.
A 2700-Kelvin warm bulb in the bedroom and a phone curfew two hours before bed buys back about 90 minutes of melatonin. Those 90 minutes are the difference between a kid sleeping on his own biology and a kid fighting his own brain at 9pm.
Sleep doctors call it the second wind. Every kid's body has a narrow window where melatonin (the chemical that pulls you toward sleep) is climbing and the body is begging to power down. Miss that window by even 20 to 30 minutes and the brain hits an emergency button. It thinks: this person is awake past dark, something is wrong, send cortisol. Cortisol is the same chemical your body dumps when a car nearly hits you. The heart speeds up, blood sugar climbs, and the brain switches into stay-alive mode. A kid who looked half asleep at dinner is suddenly running laps in the hallway at 9pm.
A 2015 Harvard study showed how easily this happens. Adults read on an iPad for 4 hours before bed for five nights. Their melatonin dropped by more than 55 percent and showed up 1.5 hours later than on the nights they read paper books. Same person. Same bedtime. The screen pushed the whole sleep window 90 minutes into the future. In kids, whose eyes pass more blue light than adult eyes, the effect lands harder.
Once cortisol arrives, two things happen at the same time. It directly shuts down melatonin production. The brain has now floored the gas pedal and cut the brakes. The kid cannot fall asleep even if he wants to. The wired-but-tired chaos every parent describes is a hormone fight happening inside a body that has not even hit double digits.
Below the bedtime fight, a quieter cost is stacking up. Roughly half of a child's nightly growth hormone gets released during deep slow-wave sleep, the heaviest stage of sleep, where the brain barely flickers. That stage mostly happens in the first three hours after falling asleep. A kid who finally drops off at 10pm but still has to be up at 7am for school loses real chunks of deep sleep, because the school clock does not move. The same Harvard study also found that screen-readers lost REM sleep, the stage where the brain files the day's learning into long-term memory. Multiply that across a school year and the math gets ugly.
The red-light trick in the original tweet works for an actual biological reason. Red light barely reaches the eye-cells that report time-of-day to the brain. Melatonin rises on schedule and the kid hits his window. Cortisol never gets called in. The deep-sleep window opens on time, growth hormone fires when it is meant to, and the brain has time to consolidate the school day before sunrise.
A 2700-Kelvin warm bulb in the bedroom and a phone curfew two hours before bed buys back about 90 minutes of melatonin. Those 90 minutes are the difference between a kid sleeping on his own biology and a kid fighting his own brain at 9pm.
1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.
2. After the results of the 2021 West Bengal elections were declared, news started pouring in about organised massacres of BJP cadre and Hindus who supported them or voted for them. This was not limited to anyone part of West Bengal. Horrendous videos were pouring via DMs on SM.
3. The worst part was the organised & targeted sexual violence committed against Hindus,especially those who supported the BJP.Even the cadre & families of CPI(M) weren't spared. Hotel rooms had been booked in certain districts for organised gangrapes in anticipation of victory.
Just saw Candace Owens gave me a shout out for my work on Israel’s Foreign Influence Ecosystem, specifically, Show Faith by Works, Israel geo-fencing of churches /universities & their ties to Dhillon Law.
Thank you!
Please check this thread for more details.
Thank you!
Please check this thread for more details.
This is a thread on Dhillon Law and their ties to Show Faith By Works. Dhillon Law is the law firm that filed the lawsuit against Candace Owens. They are also affiliated with Ben Shapiro.
Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.
Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.
Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.
Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.
Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.
Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.
The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.
Thank you for reading my article ❤️
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Hillsdale College Churchill Project — "Painting as a Pastime" and the brain workers passage winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/winston-church…
International Churchill Society — Sir Winston Churchill's Painting as a Pastime (essay history) winstonchurchill.org/publications/f…
Dimidjian et al. 2006 — Behavioral activation vs cognitive therapy vs antidepressants RCT (PubMed) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16881773/
Ekers et al. 2014 — Behavioural activation meta-analysis (26 trials, PLOS ONE) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
PMC review — Did Churchill suffer from the 'black dog'? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC62…
If it held your attention, a follow @anishmoonka keeps more coming.
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Sources:
Hillsdale College Churchill Project — "Painting as a Pastime" and the brain workers passage winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/winston-church…
International Churchill Society — Sir Winston Churchill's Painting as a Pastime (essay history) winstonchurchill.org/publications/f…
Dimidjian et al. 2006 — Behavioral activation vs cognitive therapy vs antidepressants RCT (PubMed) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16881773/
Ekers et al. 2014 — Behavioural activation meta-analysis (26 trials, PLOS ONE) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
PMC review — Did Churchill suffer from the 'black dog'? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC62…
The dynamics of the war are shifting in Ukraine’s favor for the first time since 2023. And I can back up what I’m saying with several arguments:
1. Unsustainable russian losses:
- Over the past 5 months, Russia has mobilized 148,000 troops. Also over the past 5 months, the Delta information system—where Ukrainians can view the entire front line and where targets, attacks, and combat reports are uploaded—has recorded 156,000 Russian dead and wounded.
Added to these are those taken out of action by artillery, those for whom there is no video evidence, and those eliminated inside buildings for whom there is no evidence (only those for whom there is video evidence are counted).
Over the past 18 months, since Ukrainian drones have filled the sky, the russian army has changed its assault tactics, shifting from mechanized strikes to infantry infiltrations. Mechanized units are nearly impossible to use in Ukraine at this time.
Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles are easy targets for swarms of drones. The use of infantry to infiltrate positions behind Ukrainian lines has worked (with massive casualties) in Chasiv Yar (where we first saw this tactic used on a large scale), Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, and Myrnograd. This tactic worked because the russians have a deeper recruitment pool, being a larger country and offering much higher contracts and salaries than the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
However, russia’s human resources are not infinite, and for the first time since the war began, they are dwindling.
In the absence of a massive mobilization of russians, or innovations and inventions in infantry protection, and in the absence of a dramatic change in Ukrainian drone production or some extraordinary event, this will continue to happen for a long time.
This will lead to the constant, continuous, and irreversible degradation of russian forces. This, in turn, will allow Ukraine to create and exploit vulnerabilities in russian defensive lines. 1/
1. Unsustainable russian losses:
- Over the past 5 months, Russia has mobilized 148,000 troops. Also over the past 5 months, the Delta information system—where Ukrainians can view the entire front line and where targets, attacks, and combat reports are uploaded—has recorded 156,000 Russian dead and wounded.
Added to these are those taken out of action by artillery, those for whom there is no video evidence, and those eliminated inside buildings for whom there is no evidence (only those for whom there is video evidence are counted).
Over the past 18 months, since Ukrainian drones have filled the sky, the russian army has changed its assault tactics, shifting from mechanized strikes to infantry infiltrations. Mechanized units are nearly impossible to use in Ukraine at this time.
Tanks and infantry fighting vehicles are easy targets for swarms of drones. The use of infantry to infiltrate positions behind Ukrainian lines has worked (with massive casualties) in Chasiv Yar (where we first saw this tactic used on a large scale), Pokrovsk, Kupyansk, and Myrnograd. This tactic worked because the russians have a deeper recruitment pool, being a larger country and offering much higher contracts and salaries than the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
However, russia’s human resources are not infinite, and for the first time since the war began, they are dwindling.
In the absence of a massive mobilization of russians, or innovations and inventions in infantry protection, and in the absence of a dramatic change in Ukrainian drone production or some extraordinary event, this will continue to happen for a long time.
This will lead to the constant, continuous, and irreversible degradation of russian forces. This, in turn, will allow Ukraine to create and exploit vulnerabilities in russian defensive lines. 1/
2. Freezing of the contact line:
- The last 3 months have been the worst from a territorial perspective for the Russians.
February 26 marked a loss of 37 km² for the Russians. March 26 saw a gain of only 25 km². And in April, a gain of 94 km² (data provided by Black Bird Group), meaning a total of +84 km².
For perspective: during the same period in 2025, the Russians occupied 613 km², and in 2024—311 km².
The infantry losses from point 1 led to a virtual freeze of the front along nearly its entire 1,200 km length. This does not mean that russia will not attack again in the summer with greater success. Yes, that will happen, but the direction the war is taking is by no means toward a russian victory.
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- The last 3 months have been the worst from a territorial perspective for the Russians.
February 26 marked a loss of 37 km² for the Russians. March 26 saw a gain of only 25 km². And in April, a gain of 94 km² (data provided by Black Bird Group), meaning a total of +84 km².
For perspective: during the same period in 2025, the Russians occupied 613 km², and in 2024—311 km².
The infantry losses from point 1 led to a virtual freeze of the front along nearly its entire 1,200 km length. This does not mean that russia will not attack again in the summer with greater success. Yes, that will happen, but the direction the war is taking is by no means toward a russian victory.
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3. Reform of the Ukrainian Army:
- President Zelenskyy announced that starting in June-July of this year, a reform of the Army will be implemented, with pay raises for those fighting on the front lines to between 5,000 and 8,500 euros per month.
Another component of the reform is limiting contract terms and allowing those who have been fighting for too long to return home. Another would be ensuring a front-line rotation of approximately 45 days. All these reforms will take time to implement, and we will most likely see the first effects in the fall or winter of 2026.
An increase in Ukrainian mobilization, a reduction in casualties through the widespread introduction of UGVs, an improvement in the quality of the Army through continuous rotations, combined with a decline in Russian numbers and the constant deterioration of the Russian military, will lead to a very bad year in 2026 for Russia;
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- President Zelenskyy announced that starting in June-July of this year, a reform of the Army will be implemented, with pay raises for those fighting on the front lines to between 5,000 and 8,500 euros per month.
Another component of the reform is limiting contract terms and allowing those who have been fighting for too long to return home. Another would be ensuring a front-line rotation of approximately 45 days. All these reforms will take time to implement, and we will most likely see the first effects in the fall or winter of 2026.
An increase in Ukrainian mobilization, a reduction in casualties through the widespread introduction of UGVs, an improvement in the quality of the Army through continuous rotations, combined with a decline in Russian numbers and the constant deterioration of the Russian military, will lead to a very bad year in 2026 for Russia;
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Defense analyst Michael Clarke: If I were advising Trump, I would tell him to get out fast.
If he cannot win decisively — this war will define his legacy. He needs an exit he can sell as honorable before it damages not only the midterms, but his place in history. 1/
If he cannot win decisively — this war will define his legacy. He needs an exit he can sell as honorable before it damages not only the midterms, but his place in history. 1/
Clarke: That means moving toward a nuclear deal that looks a lot like 2015, even if Trump would never admit it.
Let Iran keep a civilian program, tighten the breakout routes, build international backing, and sell it as tougher and better than Obama’s deal. 2/
Let Iran keep a civilian program, tighten the breakout routes, build international backing, and sell it as tougher and better than Obama’s deal. 2/
Clarke: If I were advising Tehran, I would say: do not overplay your hand.
The regime may think it has the tactical edge, but the economy is wrecked, most Iranians want it gone, and revenge would be a strategic mistake. The revolution survives only if it winds its neck in. 3/
The regime may think it has the tactical edge, but the economy is wrecked, most Iranians want it gone, and revenge would be a strategic mistake. The revolution survives only if it winds its neck in. 3/
1/Every negative news story about how hard the Iran war is actually proves why it had to be fought — and why we nearly waited too long.
2/U.S. intelligence says the war hasn't changed Iran's nuclear timeline. Iran still has its highly enriched uranium stockpile, buried in tunnels American munitions can't penetrate.
Critics say: proof the war is failing.
The correct reading: proof of what a decade of delay costs.
Critics say: proof the war is failing.
The correct reading: proof of what a decade of delay costs.
3/Israel and the US still can't produce interceptors nearly as fast as Iran produces ballistic missiles. Iran fired ~650 ground-to-ground missiles in 40 days of fighting. The 4 week ceasefire wasn't close to enough to replenish stocks. That's a time bomb that only gets worse.
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THREAD: SCANDALS SERIES VIII: THE DRC – WHEN ZIMBABWE EXPORTED ITS LOOTING MODEL ABROAD, BUILT A CORPORATE EMPIRE ON SOLDIERS' LIVES, AND THE UN NAMED NAMES
In August 1998, Zimbabwe sent its army to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What it sent was remarkable.
A professional fighting force, SAS, Commandos, Paras, combined arms units, BAE Hawks and Hawker Hunters that military analysts described as the most capable in the region. They held Kinshasa when rebel columns were at the city's gates. They recaptured the Inga Dam and restored electricity to the Congolese capital. They did their job with distinction.
While they were doing it, their commanders were doing something else.
Today at 3PM, we thread the complete picture of what Zimbabwe's generals built in the DRC: the corporate vehicles, the mineral concessions, the cash flights from London to Kinshasa, the cobalt stockpiled in South Africa, the 33 million hectares of timber rights, and the commissions paid to the man who is now President of Zimbabwe.
We name the full command structure. We document what each of them went on to become.
We show you how the network that ran COSLEG in 1998 sent tanks into Harare in 2017 – and why the constitutional amendment currently before Zimbabwe's courts is that same network's attempt to ensure it never has to leave.
The UN Security Council named them in 2002 and recommended travel bans.
The Security Council did not act.
Today, we explain what that non-response cost is and is still costing Zimbabwe.
The thread drops at 3PM.
THREAD: SCANDALS SERIES VIII: THE DRC – WHEN ZIMBABWE EXPORTED ITS LOOTING MODEL ABROAD, BUILT A CORPORATE EMPIRE ON SOLDIERS' LIVES, AND THE UN NAMED NAMES
In August 1998, Zimbabwe sent its army to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What it sent was remarkable.
A professional fighting force, SAS, Commandos, Paras, combined arms units, BAE Hawks and Hawker Hunters that military analysts described as the most capable in the region. They held Kinshasa when rebel columns were at the city's gates. They recaptured the Inga Dam and restored electricity to the Congolese capital. They did their job with distinction.
While they were doing it, their commanders were doing something else.
Today at 3PM, we thread the complete picture of what Zimbabwe's generals built in the DRC: the corporate vehicles, the mineral concessions, the cash flights from London to Kinshasa, the cobalt stockpiled in South Africa, the 33 million hectares of timber rights, and the commissions paid to the man who is now President of Zimbabwe.
We name the full command structure. We document what each of them went on to become.
We show you how the network that ran COSLEG in 1998 sent tanks into Harare in 2017 – and why the constitutional amendment currently before Zimbabwe's courts is that same network's attempt to ensure it never has to leave.
The UN Security Council named them in 2002 and recommended travel bans.
The Security Council did not act.
Today, we explain what that non-response cost is and is still costing Zimbabwe.
The thread drops at 3PM.
1/Before we thread the looting, we must state something plainly.
The Zimbabwean soldiers who went to the DRC in 1998 were professionals.
Zimbabwe was the only major player in the conflict with a reasonably modern and experienced air force.
Its military was regarded as one of the better-equipped and more professional forces in the region, and it was the decisive factor in the outcome of the war.
They held Kinshasa. They recaptured the Inga Dam intact, restoring electricity to the Congolese capital. Their BAE Hawks and Hawker Hunters stopped rebel columns that had reached the outskirts of the city.
They did their job with distinction.
Their commanders were doing something else entirely.
In August 1998, Zimbabwe deployed troops to the DRC.
The official justification: defending Laurent Kabila's government against a rebel incursion backed by Rwanda and Uganda. A SADC mutual defence obligation.
Robert Mugabe was the most ardent supporter of intervention on Kabila's behalf. Zimbabwe's military, which included SAS, Commandos, Paras, and combined arms forces, was the decisive factor in the war's outcome.
Angola and Zimbabwe fought for the DRC in exchange for access to copper and diamond concessions. Kabila and Mugabe had signed a US$200 million contract involving corporations owned by Zimbabwean elites.
Zimbabwe's soldiers were not deployed to defend Congolese sovereignty.
They were deployed to secure the elite's mining concessions.
The Zimbabwean soldiers who went to the DRC in 1998 were professionals.
Zimbabwe was the only major player in the conflict with a reasonably modern and experienced air force.
Its military was regarded as one of the better-equipped and more professional forces in the region, and it was the decisive factor in the outcome of the war.
They held Kinshasa. They recaptured the Inga Dam intact, restoring electricity to the Congolese capital. Their BAE Hawks and Hawker Hunters stopped rebel columns that had reached the outskirts of the city.
They did their job with distinction.
Their commanders were doing something else entirely.
In August 1998, Zimbabwe deployed troops to the DRC.
The official justification: defending Laurent Kabila's government against a rebel incursion backed by Rwanda and Uganda. A SADC mutual defence obligation.
Robert Mugabe was the most ardent supporter of intervention on Kabila's behalf. Zimbabwe's military, which included SAS, Commandos, Paras, and combined arms forces, was the decisive factor in the war's outcome.
Angola and Zimbabwe fought for the DRC in exchange for access to copper and diamond concessions. Kabila and Mugabe had signed a US$200 million contract involving corporations owned by Zimbabwean elites.
Zimbabwe's soldiers were not deployed to defend Congolese sovereignty.
They were deployed to secure the elite's mining concessions.
2/The command structure of Zimbabwe's DRC war is now fully documented.
Political architect: Emmerson Mnangagwa - Speaker of Parliament, former National Security Minister.
Named by the UN as key strategist. Sent by Mugabe in early 1999 to take direct command, effectively usurping the late Defence Minister Moven Mahachi.
Overall military commander: General Vitalis Musungwa Gava Zvinavashe – Commander, ZDF. Executive Chairman of COSLEG.
His brother Colonel Francis Zvinavashe represented OSLEG on the ground in the DRC.
Air operations: Air Marshal Perence Shiri led the initial SAS deployment to N'Djili Airport, August 8, 1998. Commanded all air operations throughout.
Ground forces: Lieutenant General Constantino Chiwenga commanded ground forces as the deployment escalated.
COSLEG command: Brigadier General Sibusiso Busi Moyo - Director General.
Air Commodore Mike Karakadzai – Deputy Secretary.
Colonel Simpson Sikhulile Nyathi.
Major-General Charles Dauramanzi.
Brigadier John Moyo.
Political cover: Dr Sydney Sekeramayi, Minister of Defence. COSLEG shareholder.
Political architect: Emmerson Mnangagwa - Speaker of Parliament, former National Security Minister.
Named by the UN as key strategist. Sent by Mugabe in early 1999 to take direct command, effectively usurping the late Defence Minister Moven Mahachi.
Overall military commander: General Vitalis Musungwa Gava Zvinavashe – Commander, ZDF. Executive Chairman of COSLEG.
His brother Colonel Francis Zvinavashe represented OSLEG on the ground in the DRC.
Air operations: Air Marshal Perence Shiri led the initial SAS deployment to N'Djili Airport, August 8, 1998. Commanded all air operations throughout.
Ground forces: Lieutenant General Constantino Chiwenga commanded ground forces as the deployment escalated.
COSLEG command: Brigadier General Sibusiso Busi Moyo - Director General.
Air Commodore Mike Karakadzai – Deputy Secretary.
Colonel Simpson Sikhulile Nyathi.
Major-General Charles Dauramanzi.
Brigadier John Moyo.
Political cover: Dr Sydney Sekeramayi, Minister of Defence. COSLEG shareholder.
I canceled Spotify.
I canceled Disney+.
I canceled Apple TV+.
No more monthly payments.
Claude turned my laptop into a free entertainment hub that’s better than all of them *combined*.
Here are 9 prompts that rebuild the whole system for free (Save this).
I canceled Disney+.
I canceled Apple TV+.
No more monthly payments.
Claude turned my laptop into a free entertainment hub that’s better than all of them *combined*.
Here are 9 prompts that rebuild the whole system for free (Save this).
1) Master entertainment hub
Prompt:
“Act as my personal entertainment system architect.
Build a dashboard using only free and legal sources.
Organize it into:
• Movies & TV
• Music & Radio
• Podcasts & Audiobooks
• Games & Interactive
• Documentaries & Education
For each category, give me:
• 5–10 go‑to sources (websites, platforms, channels)
• What content they’re best for
• The exact search terms I should save as bookmarks.”
Prompt:
“Act as my personal entertainment system architect.
Build a dashboard using only free and legal sources.
Organize it into:
• Movies & TV
• Music & Radio
• Podcasts & Audiobooks
• Games & Interactive
• Documentaries & Education
For each category, give me:
• 5–10 go‑to sources (websites, platforms, channels)
• What content they’re best for
• The exact search terms I should save as bookmarks.”
2) AI Spotify: Music without Spotify
Prompt:
“Act as my personal music A&R.
I love: [list artists / genres / vibes].
Platforms allowed: YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, internet radio.
Build a 4‑week listening plan with:
• 3 new artists per week
• 2 ‘comfort’ playlists that feel like my current favorites
• Links or search terms for each
• A short note on why each artist fits my taste.
End by asking me for feedback so you can refine next week’s plan.”
Prompt:
“Act as my personal music A&R.
I love: [list artists / genres / vibes].
Platforms allowed: YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, internet radio.
Build a 4‑week listening plan with:
• 3 new artists per week
• 2 ‘comfort’ playlists that feel like my current favorites
• Links or search terms for each
• A short note on why each artist fits my taste.
End by asking me for feedback so you can refine next week’s plan.”
Os 7 melhores medicamentos da Terra.
Se houvesse uma maneira de colocar todos os benefícios para a saúde desta lista em uma pílula, seria o fim da indústria como a conhecemos.
Felizmente, os melhores medicamentos são aqueles que não podem ser monopolizados…
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Se houvesse uma maneira de colocar todos os benefícios para a saúde desta lista em uma pílula, seria o fim da indústria como a conhecemos.
Felizmente, os melhores medicamentos são aqueles que não podem ser monopolizados…
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Luz solar – A força mais curativa, poderosa e vivificante da Terra.
Praticamente todos os aspectos da sua saúde melhorarão ao passar tempo ao sol.
Não deixe de sempre ouvir seu corpo.
Praticamente todos os aspectos da sua saúde melhorarão ao passar tempo ao sol.
Não deixe de sempre ouvir seu corpo.
Hidratação de qualidade – Água da torneira é veneno e beber água pura não hidratará você completamente.
Você precisa de eletrólitos e glicose: beba coisas como água de coco, suco de laranja fresco, leite cru ou água mineral com gotas de mel cru.
Você precisa de eletrólitos e glicose: beba coisas como água de coco, suco de laranja fresco, leite cru ou água mineral com gotas de mel cru.
Two neurologists who run the largest brain health outreach program in America just exposed how to slash dementia risk by 60% ( without meds or supplements)
Your brain will thank you for reading this:
(1/11) A 25 minute walk reduces Alzheimer's risk by 40%
Your brain will thank you for reading this:
(1/11) A 25 minute walk reduces Alzheimer's risk by 40%
People who walked briskly 25 minutes per day, 5 days per week reduced their Alzheimer's risk by 40%.
Your legs are the biggest pump in your body and push blood to your brain.
Your legs are the biggest pump in your body and push blood to your brain.
(2/11) One serving of leafy greens makes your brain 11 years younger.
Studies showed people who ate one serving of spinach, kale or collard greens daily had brains that were 11 years younger on neuroimaging:
Studies showed people who ate one serving of spinach, kale or collard greens daily had brains that were 11 years younger on neuroimaging:
La transizione verde e quella digitale sono incompatibili
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"Guardiamo il bicchiere mezzo pieno: se anche "gli idioti di Düsseldorf" imboccano la strada dell'AI, questa è la smoking gun che si tratta in effetti di una bolla, vent'anni dopo quella dei subprime!". ⬇️
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"Guardiamo il bicchiere mezzo pieno: se anche "gli idioti di Düsseldorf" imboccano la strada dell'AI, questa è la smoking gun che si tratta in effetti di una bolla, vent'anni dopo quella dei subprime!". ⬇️
Farsi una domanda prima no?
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"Ma che ci facciamo con tutta questa potenza di calcolo?" Domanda pertinente, ma lievemente subordinata rispetto alla domanda fondamentale: "Dove troviamo l'energia necessaria per farla girare?"
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"Ma che ci facciamo con tutta questa potenza di calcolo?" Domanda pertinente, ma lievemente subordinata rispetto alla domanda fondamentale: "Dove troviamo l'energia necessaria per farla girare?"
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🔥Pending before SCOTUS right now is petition for cert in what is one of most consequential constitutional cases related to liberty in the form of a free-market. And yet, few have taken notice of the case. In short, EPA decided who to give market share to based on "equity." 1/
2/ Article here by colleague at @NCLAlegal washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/…
@NCLAlegal 3/3 Here is the docket for those interested. It is truly appalling unelected bureaucrats are deciding whose business to kill--including taking their market share to give to so-called disadvantaged folks who never built business w/ sweat equity.
Oh guess what Molly Small has a bath duck in this photo so you get 3 years in prison for being a paedophile for looking at it
I have been trying to work out what this means from the cognitive perspective for UK men. I want to write more about this here now
I have been trying to work out what this means from the cognitive perspective for UK men. I want to write more about this here now
Thinking this through from the cognitive perspective we have a blank mind, maybe we are seeking porn, maybe we aren't, we see Molly, that is the idea - she represents sex, vagina, good looks and without the laws in place you decide to masturbate over her photos
This is healthy
This is healthy
So then what happens if you are told that this is prison for 3 years stimulus?
It means you potentially attach a significant level of fear to the image, that is the game which they want to try and play
It is about instrumental conditioning men with a fear stimulus
It means you potentially attach a significant level of fear to the image, that is the game which they want to try and play
It is about instrumental conditioning men with a fear stimulus
🔴 C'est LE sujet dont tout le monde parle aujourd'hui : le rapport Alloncle sur l'audiovisuel public.
👉 Mais que reproche-t-il vraiment à France TV et à Radio France ?
Je l'ai lu pour vous, et sélectionné quelques extraits qu'il ne fallait pas rater 🧵⬇️
👉 Mais que reproche-t-il vraiment à France TV et à Radio France ?
Je l'ai lu pour vous, et sélectionné quelques extraits qu'il ne fallait pas rater 🧵⬇️
1⃣ Une ligne éditoriale très orientée, financée par les impôts des contribuables.
🔴 Les temps de parole lors des législatives de 2022 sont très favorables à la gauche sur les radios du service public.
Et très défavorables au RN : seulement 10% sur France Inter ⬇️
🔴 Les temps de parole lors des législatives de 2022 sont très favorables à la gauche sur les radios du service public.
Et très défavorables au RN : seulement 10% sur France Inter ⬇️
🔴 L'Arcom a déjà alerté sur la sous-représentation du RN sur France Inter, notamment sur 3 trimestres consécutifs en 2023.
⚠️ Mais de nombreux biais idéologiques échappent au comptage officiel Arcom.
Le rapport Alloncle, en revanche, donne de nombreuses autres informations⬇️
⚠️ Mais de nombreux biais idéologiques échappent au comptage officiel Arcom.
Le rapport Alloncle, en revanche, donne de nombreuses autres informations⬇️
Ernesto Laclau, argumenta que o populismo constrói o "povo" através de demandas imprecisas, tornando o termo um "significante vazio" que pode ser preenchido por diferentes conteúdos políticos.
Mas qual a diferença entre esquerda x direita?
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Mas qual a diferença entre esquerda x direita?
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Na Esquerda se trata de Inclusão econômica, luta de classes e justiça social.
O "povo" é definido pela posição econômica/identitária.
O Inimigo: A elite financeira, os bancos, as grandes corporações e a "oligarquia".
O "Povo": A classe trabalhadora, os pobres e as minorias.
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O "povo" é definido pela posição econômica/identitária.
O Inimigo: A elite financeira, os bancos, as grandes corporações e a "oligarquia".
O "Povo": A classe trabalhadora, os pobres e as minorias.
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A Promessa: Redistribuição de riqueza, expansão de serviços públicos e controle sobre recursos naturais além da inclusão social, seja econômica, como social.
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