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The real problem here is that she is correct. America has, in fact, been defined by white supremacy, white normativity, and white power throughout its history. “The Baptism of Early Virginia” demonstrates this clearly.

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Her problem is she can’t see how repugnant and evil that conception of America has been and is.

When progressives and conservatives talk about the country, they talk past each other. They never arrive at a full evaluation b/c they each, in their own way, omit half the data.
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She gets the historical reality correct but fails to see or admit the carnage that reality produced and continues to produce.

He grasps something of the carnage but refuses the historical antecedents. He wants the myth of the melting pot instead.

So the convo can’t be honest
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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce a podcaster and conspiracy theorist, Joe Rogan (@joerogan). He’s best-known for launching the biggest podcast in the world, promoting various conspiracy theories, his support for Donald Trump and his anti-Ukraine rhetoric.

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Joe Rogan started as a stand-up comedian in the 1980s, found fame on NewsRadio, and became a household name with Fear Factor. But his biggest impact came in 2009 when he launched The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), one of the first major podcasts.

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JRE started as casual but deep conversations, often covering countercultural topics like psychedelics, MMA & hunting. Joe’s podcasting style is largely non-confrontational, often allowing his guests to share their views without significant pushback or critical questioning.

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🧵Federal and state authorities must investigate beyond Abbott’s cease-and-desist order. The new “Islamic University” in Dallas, TexAM is directly tied to the governments of Turkey and Pakistan, and also a series of Muslim Brotherhod nonprofits materially facilitating its operations.

@tedcruz @KenPaxtonTX @SecScottBessent @FBIDirectorKash

TexAM claims to operate through the Texas American Technologies Foundation, but no clear IRS records appear to show recognized 501(c)(3) status. Its ecosystem includes the Islamic Seminary of America, Turkish American Religious Foundation, Mercy Without Limits, and MAS, organizations tied to its operations, fundraising, and recruitment.

TexAM CEO Shahid A. Bajwa previously served as director of ICNA Relief USA, an organization long associated with Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat-e-Islami networks. TexAM also promotes recruitment of Pakistani students, while Bajwa previously assisted Pakistan’s IT Ministry and PSEB on governance and IT policy frameworks.

Your iPhone camera is worse than a $400 Android phone.

Not because of the hardware.

Because Apple ships it with settings designed for people who don't give a damn about photo quality.

I changed 7 settings yesterday and my photos went from looking like screenshots to actual photography.

Here's what nobody tells you:

1/ Shoot in 48MP Instead of 12MP

Settings → Camera → Formats → Photo Mode → Select "HEIF Max (48 MP)"

Apple defaults your $1200 phone to 12MP. The sensor does 48MP. You've been shooting at a quarter of what your camera can do since the day you bought it

2/ Turn Off Auto HDR

Settings → Camera → Turn OFF "Auto HDR"

Auto HDR overprocesses every photo. Halos around objects. Skin looks plastic. Skies look fake.

Turn on Smart HDR instead. Same processing, more natural results. Your photos stop looking like AI generated them.

The Bancroft Prize (one of the most prestigious history awards, given by a panel of historians for works on diplomacy or the history of the Americas) was given in 2000 to someone claiming guns were really rare in colonial America (he committed fraud by changing quotes).

This should have been obvious nonsense to anyone who knows anything at all about colonial America, of course, and yet a panel of professional historians thought it was work at the pinnacle of the field until some random blogger pointed out all the fraud.

Hi, I’ll be live-tweeting today’s Capital Improvement Board meeting starting at 9;00 a.m. for #indydocumenters @indydocumenters @mirrorindy.

@indydocumenters @mirrorindy Meeting was called to order at 9:00 a.m.

@indydocumenters @mirrorindy The meeting started out with the Capital Improvement Board monthly financial report.

Imagine governing so badly you meme Welsh independence into being. Wales by disposition very nationalistic - dormant under old labour politics the sentiment is now emerging again confused and blinking into the sun; splitting into regular British and celtic left wing nationalism

https://twitter.com/politlcsuk/status/2052800502740484564

It is version of same new divide in rest of country but it gets somewhat superseded in Wales by the added dimension of ‘Welshness’

OUT - Trade Unionist politics for the coal miners in the valleys

IN - Nationalism but based on how much Welsh you speak

https://twitter.com/kunley_drukpa/status/2052822840206844043

Wales is of course culturally latino/a so they get a bit confused and throw melodramatic fits and don’t really know how to productively channel their energy politically... Still one of most nationalistic areas of Britain though, possibly up there with East Anglia and the Estuary

Obama is utilizing his status to provide a back-channel for foreign leaders to circumvent the elected will of the American people.

The spectacle of a former executive jetting across the border to play statesman reveals the true nature of the globalist insurgency. Barack Obama remains the primary architect of a shadow government that views American sovereignty as an obstacle to be managed or dismantled. His arrival in Toronto on May 8, represents a direct assault on the current administration’s mandate. While the media paints this as a routine speaking engagement, the strategic reality is far more sinister. Obama is utilizing his status to provide a back-channel for foreign leaders to circumvent the elected will of the American people. This is the behavior of a man who believes his ideological vision grants him immunity from the laws that govern ordinary citizens. We are watching a calculated effort to preserve the neoliberal order by any means necessary, including the betrayal of national interests for the sake of a "more just" globalist hegemony.

PART 1: THE LOGAN ACT VIOLATION AND INSTITUTIONAL ARROGANCE

The law of the land is a mere suggestion for the anointed elite of the radical left. Barack Obama’s keynote at the Canada 2020 Gala is a definitive case study in institutional arrogance. As a private citizen with no official authority, he has inserted himself into the delicate machinery of U.S.-Canada relations. The Logan Act expressly forbids unauthorized citizens from engaging in intercourse with foreign governments to defeat American measures. Obama treats this 1799 statute as a relic intended for his political inferiors. By holding "important conversations" with Prime Minister Mark Carney during active trade disputes, he operates a shadow presidency designed to sabotage the "America First" agenda. He is leveraging his past status to provide political cover for foreign leaders who seek to resist American tariffs and security policies. This is a calculated breach of federal code. He has chosen to act as a freelance diplomat for a progressive vision that the American electorate has firmly rejected.

PART 2: COORDINATING THE GLOBALIST RESISTANCE

The collaboration between Obama and Prime Minister Mark Carney reveals a deep alignment of anti-sovereignty forces. Carney uses the language of "inclusivity" to mask a strategic pivot away from American partnership. By headlining this gala, Obama coordinates a multinational resistance against U.S. economic interests. These closed-door sessions represent a deliberate attempt to embolden Carney’s defiance against American trade demands. The "just future" they discuss is a code for a world where American prosperity is subordinated to the whims of international bureaucrats. Obama’s presence in Toronto provides Carney with the political oxygen necessary to frame American policies as "economic intimidation." This is the interference of a man who believes his commitments to the liberal international order supersede the legal boundaries of his own nation. He is helping a foreign government navigate around the policies of the United States. His actions are designed to ensure that the administrative state survives any democratic challenge from the American worker.

CHILLING

1969: A Psychologist Zimbardo left 2 identical cars abandoned on the street

One in wealthy Palo Alto
Other in criminal Bronx, NYC

Within hours, the Bronx car was stripped apart
But, the Palo Alto car sat untouched

The reason exposed the dark reality of our world🧵

The Bronx car was attacked almost immediately.

A father, mother, and young son approached first.
They removed the radiator and battery together.

Soon, strangers joined in.

Doors ripped off.
Windows shattered.

By nightfall, the car was a skeleton.

Nobody tried stopping it.

The Palo Alto car became a mystery.

Days passed.
Nothing happened.

People walked by it.
Children rode bikes around it.
Office workers ignored it.

The exact same abandoned car.

But in a wealthy neighborhood, nobody touched it.

Until Zimbardo picked up a hammer.

🧵 gems from the TVK “manifesto” - reads like a drug dealers promise to crack addicts. All expenditure & gifts - no mention of revenue streams.

WOMEN
• ₹2500 per woman head of family till age 60
• 6 free LPG cylinders per year per family
• 8 gms of gold + 1 silk sari per bride
• ₹15,000 to every guardian of a school age child from 1st to 12th grade
• Free travel for women in ALL intra-state busses
• free sanitary pads
• 5 lakh grant to women led self help groups
• gold ring for every baby born + baby oil, soap, diapers, clothing, supplements, food, mosquito nets

YOUTH
• “drug free state” through laws, community policing (vigilantes), anti-drug “forums”
• ₹20 lac collateral free loans for all education from 12th to PhD
• ₹4000pm for graduates and ₹2500pm for diploma holders
• 5 lac youth per year in internship programs. ₹10,000pm for grads and ₹8,000pm for diploma holders
• ₹25 lac collateral free loan for young entrepreneurs
• 5 lac youth to be employed as PEOPLE SERVICE ASSOCIATE (paid party workers) with a monthly salary of ₹18,000
• startup capital to 1.5 lac young entrepreneurs

GOVERNANCE (some are actually quite good)
• accountability for delay in government services
• government expenditure to be transparent and updated real time
• people to vote online on policy proposals
• public petitions with >10k signatures to receive mandatory government response
• petitions with 500K signatures to mandatorily be taken up in assembly
• “AI” city and AI education
• reduce growing debt burden 😂😂😂😂

Stop telling Claude “do this.”
Stop telling Claude “write code.”
Stop telling Claude “fix this error.”

You’re using an advanced AI like a junior intern.

Here are 9 Claude prompts that make it build, debug, refactor, and optimize like a senior engineer (Save this).

1) Build a complete app from scratch

Prompt:
“Think like a senior full-stack engineer.

Build a complete, production-ready app for: [describe your app idea]

First, design the system architecture.
Then build the smallest version that is simple, useful, and ready to scale.

Return:
• Architecture
• File structure
• Database schema
• API endpoints
• UI structure
• Complete code

Design it like a real startup MVP that can grow later.”

2) Understand and refactor a codebase

Prompt:
“Think like a senior engineer joining a large codebase for the first time.

First, understand how the code works, how data flows, and how the main parts connect.

Then identify:
• Structural problems
• Duplicate code
• Performance bottlenecks
• Maintainability risks

Return:
• Architecture summary
• Problem areas
• Refactoring plan
• Improved code

Keep the same functionality. Only improve the structure and quality.”

Arabic has 14 words for love. Each one describes a different stage. And here's what got me. Each one comes from a root that has nothing to do with love. Until you see the connection. And then you can't unsee it.

All 14. Let me walk you through them.

Stage 1: "Al-Hawa" (الهوى). The root means "to fall." Same root as "hawiya" (هاوية), a bottomless pit.

Arabic looked at the beginning of love and called it falling. You don't choose it. You just lose your footing. And by the time you notice, you're already down.

Stage 2: "Al-Sabwa" (الصبوة). The root means "to incline toward play and foolishness." Same root as "sabi" (صبي), a child.

Love at this stage makes you childish. Reckless. You do things you'd never do with a clear head. Arabic said "this is what happens when a grown person starts acting like a kid again."

If DMSO was used for strokes and spinal injury, millions would be spared from paralysis and death—yet despite over a hundred studies showing this, the FDA banned it.

Since publishing this article, dozens of readers shared DMSO saved them from a stroke.🧵
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DMSO has a remarkable ability to treat a wide range of "incurable" neurological conditions. Here I summarize 2000 forgotten neurological DMSO studies and hundreds of reports from readers who had life changing neurological recoveries with DMSO.
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Numerous readers have reported curing a disabling stroke at home with DMSO before they even got to the hospital.

"Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go. But what does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?"

Sophie Scholl spoke these words on February 22, 1943, moments before she was executed by guillotine. She was twenty-one years old. Her crime: distributing leaflets that called on Germans to resist Adolf Hitler.

The Nazis thought they had silenced her. Instead, her words would be dropped by the millions from Allied planes over Germany -- reaching more people than she could ever have dreamed.

Sophie Scholl was born on this day in 1921 in Forchtenberg, Germany, the fourth of six children. Her father, Robert Scholl, was a politician who despised the Nazi party from the start. He kept banned books on the family shelves, remained friends with Jews when others looked away, and spoke against Hitler in his own home -- even knowing that his children could turn him in.

At twelve, Sophie joined the League of German Girls, the female wing of the Hitler Youth, along with most of her classmates. Her brother Hans joined the boys' division. They argued constantly with their father about politics. But one evening, walking along the Danube, Robert Scholl turned to his children and said: "All I want is for you to walk straight and free through life, even when it's hard."

It took years, but the words took root. In 1937, Hans and several of his siblings -- including Sophie -- were arrested by the Gestapo for participating in a youth group the Nazis had outlawed. Sophie was released the same day, but the experience shattered her faith in the party. Then she heard an anti-Nazi sermon by Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, who spoke of the "theology of conscience" -- the idea that Christians had a moral duty to resist evil, even when obedience was easier. Her disillusionment hardened into determination.

In 1942, Sophie enrolled at the University of Munich to study biology and philosophy. Hans was already there, studying medicine. That same year, their father was arrested after a colleague overheard him calling Hitler "the scourge of humanity" and was sent to prison. Sophie was forced into compulsory labor at a metallurgical plant.

Meanwhile, Hans and his friends had begun meeting secretly, discussing philosophy, theology, and what it meant to live under a dictatorship. Friends who had served as medics on the Eastern Front returned with stories of what they had witnessed: the mass killing of Jews, Soviet prisoners shot in open graves, the machinery of genocide in full operation. Sophie's boyfriend, Fritz Hartnagel, was still serving there -- and his letters home described the same horrors.

They decided to act. They called themselves the White Rose -- an image of purity and innocence in the face of evil -- and began writing leaflets denouncing the Nazi regime and calling on Germans to resist. "We will not be silent," they declared. "We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace!"

When Sophie discovered what her brother was doing, she insisted on joining. She bought an illegal typewriter and helped craft the arguments. Because the Gestapo rarely searched young women, she became essential to distributing the leaflets -- mailing them to professors and doctors, leaving them in phone booths and lecture halls, taking trains to other cities to create the impression of a vast network.

She knew the risks. She told Fritz she understood that resistance could cost her "both her head and her neck." She asked him for money to buy a printing press anyway.

On February 18, 1943, Sophie and Hans entered the University of Munich carrying a suitcase filled with copies of their sixth leaflet. They moved quickly through the empty corridors, leaving stacks outside classrooms before lectures ended. They were almost finished when Sophie noticed a few leaflets still in the bag. She ran to the top floor and flung them over the railing into the atrium below.

© A Mighty Girl

#archaeohistories

A janitor saw her from below. He locked the doors and called the Gestapo.

Sophie was interrogated for seventeen hours by Robert Mohr, the Gestapo's most experienced agent. She denied everything at first, but when she learned that Hans had confessed, she changed her approach: she admitted her involvement and took full responsibility, trying to shield the other members of the White Rose.

"If my brother is sentenced to die," she told her lawyer, "you mustn't let them give me a lighter sentence, for I am exactly as guilty as he."

Four days after their arrest, Sophie, Hans, and their friend Christoph Probst were brought before the People's Court. Judge Roland Freisler, one of the most feared men in Nazi Germany, presided over a trial that lasted just three hours. The defendants were not permitted to speak in their own defense.

But Sophie spoke anyway. "Somebody, after all, had to make a start," she said. "What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did."

All three were sentenced to death. The execution was carried out that same afternoon.

Before she was led away, Sophie's parents were allowed a brief visit. Her father told her: "You will go down in history. There is such a thing as justice despite this. I am proud of both of you."

Prison officials later noted the courage with which she walked to her execution -- "without batting an eyelash," one recalled. Hans shouted "Long live freedom!" as he was led to the guillotine. When guards searched Sophie's cell afterward, they found a piece of paper on which she had written a single word: "FREEDOM."

The Nazis believed they had crushed the White Rose. They were wrong. A copy of the sixth leaflet was smuggled out of Germany and delivered to the Allies, and Winston Churchill ordered millions of copies printed under a new title: "The Manifesto of the Students of Munich." In the summer of 1943, the Royal Air Force dropped them over Germany.

The words the Nazis had tried to silence -- Sophie's words, her friends' words, calling on Germans to stand against fascism and fight for freedom -- rained down across the Reich.

The most male-skewed dating market in the US is SV (~1.5-3 eligible men per woman depending on definitions), & the most female-skewed is DC (~1.5-2 eligible women per man). One place makes all the productive disruptive tech (but simps for commies), & the other makes all the regs.

Note the nonlinearities. Eg as males per female rises, groups more naturally relate in male-brained ways, & those that lean further into this grow faster, & it’s way easier to form de facto male only groups (which is necessary for tech & disruption), but way more simping pressure

Guys in SF are thus way freer to build male-brained things in male-brained ways & network them into male-brained power, but way more vulnerable to cancellation over female-legible infractions—eg if women who don’t understand drones learn you misgender people you can get embargoed

Regarding this:

"The DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missile, with a range of approximately 4,000 to 5,000 kilometers, was specifically designed and publicly nicknamed by Chinese military analysts as the "Guam Killer.""

I disagree with those analysts.
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https://twitter.com/Unveiled_ChinaX/status/2053222780083327404

The Chinese PD-2900 drone (2,500 km range, 12-hour endurance, 250 km/h speed, stealthy Su-57-like design) is far more a "Guam Killer" than the DF-26.

It is a matter of numbers.

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https://x.com/PLA_MilitaryUpd/status/1965186119576006749

As laid out by warquants -dot- com, China is buying one million OWA drones to destroy all US/Taiwan/Taiwan allied military logistics from Guam to the China coast.

A quantity of one million "Shaheed plus" class OWA drones has quality all its own.

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https://x.com/TrentTelenko/status/1920852770422177986

@ruka121467 @yuchaayaya ねえ、

これは「結果」ではなく、「受理通知」です。

結果ではないですよ。「現在調査中」という方向だけで、そのあとに「結果」が出るんですよ。

わかりましたかね？メールの文面を読んで、そして、仕組みをちゃんと理解してください。

間違いしかないじゃないですか、あなた。仕方ないけど

@ruka121467 @yuchaayaya @threadreaderapp unroll