CELEBRITY/ATTENTION-SEEKING 1. As in this picture, the purpose of the TC is wholly to gain public attention. The child's 'transition' is initiated and controlled by an adult. Typically the mother.
TRAUMA-ESCAPE 2. Trans ideation in children is not normal. It is an expression of pathological/abnormal/dysfunctional thinking 3. This TC is escaping from internal trauma such as a response to sexual abuse, bullying, family discord, depression, anxiety, or same-sex attraction.
Trump has discovered the ‘Konami Code’ to instantly win US politics indefinitely. He gained +28% off the back off toppling Maduro among Latinos - Latinos are a big voting bloc now so all the GOP has to do is keep toppling leftist Latin American regimes to retain a mandate forever
Completely seriously, Trump should topple the Cuban regime before 2028. If he does this this will ensure the GOP candidate wins the election with a mandate to do whatever he wants. Any quarrels about optics vis-a-vis ICE, it doesn’t matter - they will have a carte blanche
Advice for the Trump administration and to Vance and Rubio as successors in particular - topple Cuba. Not only does this stop the neo-Woke winning in 2028 and possibly putting you in jail but it lets you do all of the things you still want to do except with a more secure base
Há uma ilusão confortável que domina a pregação moderna: a de que o batismo "resolveu" o problema humano. Resolveu a culpa, mas a ferida permanece aberta, sangrando em cada decisão.
O Concílio de Trento é cirúrgico: o batismo remove a mancha do pecado original, mas deixa a concupiscência. Ela não é pecado formal, mas é inclinação real ao mal, e ignorá-la é suicídio espiritual.
Hot Type: How The US-Israel War in Iran Is Also Targeting European Democracy
In @BylineTimes I investigate a key target in the US-Israel war in Iran: European democratic leaders who are damned if they do support the war and damned if they don't
I didn’t set out to become a Russia watcher, but when I witnessed Russian military intelligence under the direction of Vladimir Putin attacking my country with active measures in 2016, I had no choice but to turn my investigative skills toward information warfare.
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I had spent my career working in print journalism and broadcast news and watching the media’s abject failure to report on the rise of Donald Trump within the context of his ties to the Russian mob was like watching the same horror film over and over again, with truth as the perpetual victim.
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🧵 THREAD 1/25:
Nine Days That Changed Everything. A Full Assessment of Operation Epic Fury.
Before I walk through the documented record of these nine days, I want to establish something clearly. What follows is not opinion. Every claim is sourced from CENTCOM fact sheets, classified Congressional briefings reported by named senators, NIC assessments, independent think tanks including CSIS, ISW, Brookings, Hudson Institute and ACLED, and verified open-source intelligence. I have been tracking this conflict in real time since February 28th. This is what the evidence actually shows.
THE PRELUDE: What Was Happening Before The First Bomb Fell
This war did not begin on February 28th. Its roots run considerably deeper and the pre-war context is essential for understanding every contradiction that followed.
Beginning in late December 2025, massive nationwide anti-regime protests erupted in Iran, driven largely by economic crisis, the collapse of the rial, and rising prices. The protests became the largest in scale since the 1979 revolution, spreading to over 100 cities. The Iranian government responded with violent repression. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later claimed that Washington engineered a dollar shortage in Iran to send the Iranian rial into freefall and cause the protests. If accurate, and Bessent said this publicly, the United States was conducting economic warfare against Iran months before the first missile was fired.
Simultaneously, nuclear diplomacy was accelerating. On 6 February 2026, Iran and the US held indirect nuclear negotiations in Oman’s capital, Muscat. A second round of nuclear talks was scheduled in Geneva. On 25 February, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that a “historic” agreement to avert military conflict was “within reach” ahead of renewed talks.
Then came the most consequential 24 hours before the war. On 27 February 2026, Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi said a “breakthrough” had been reached and Iran had agreed both to never stockpile enriched uranium and to full verification by the IAEA. Iran had also agreed to irreversibly downgrade its current enriched uranium to the lowest level possible. Al-Busaidi said peace was “within reach.”
Less than 24 hours later, the bombs fell.
The administration’s justification for launching the war despite an active diplomatic breakthrough in progress has never been coherently explained. US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff’s counter-narrative, that Iran had insisted on its inalienable right to enrich uranium in negotiations, directly contradicts Oman’s Foreign Minister’s public statement. One of these accounts is false. The Omani Foreign Minister had no motive to fabricate a breakthrough that dissolved overnight.
General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, later described the attacks as the “culmination of months, and in some cases, years, of deliberate planning and refinement.” That admission confirmed what the pre-war diplomatic timeline already suggested. This operation was decided long before any final diplomatic failure occurred. The negotiations were not a genuine alternative that collapsed. They were a parallel track running alongside a decision already made.
🔴DAY ONE: February 28, 2026
On February 28, 2026, CENTCOM and Israel launched a massive coordinated preemptive military campaign against Iran, codenamed Operation Epic Fury by the US and Operation Roaring Lion by Israel. The operation marked the most significant US military action in the Middle East since the Iraq War, executed without a formal address to Congress beyond a War Powers notification and a Gang of Eight briefing. President Trump announced the strikes via an eight-minute video on Truth Social at 2:00 AM EST.
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The stated objectives were to destroy Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure and nuclear programme, eliminate IRGC leadership, annihilate Iran’s naval capabilities, and neutralise Iranian-backed regional proxies. Regime change, though not formally declared, was widely understood as the campaign’s ultimate ambition.
The opening phase focused on decapitating senior Iranian leadership while degrading missile infrastructure, launch systems, and air defenses. In the hours that followed, Iran initiated large-scale retaliation, expanding the conflict beyond Iranian territory into a region-wide exchange that touched multiple Gulf states and allied military assets.
More than 1,250 targets in Iran were struck in the opening 48 hours. Eleven Iranian ships were destroyed. CENTCOM stated it had neutralised several hundred Iranian drone and missile strikes.
Israel’s contribution was equally staggering. Israel’s Air Force used 200 fighter aircraft and hundreds of munitions to hit roughly 500 targets in the first 24 hours, the largest aerial operation in Israeli history.
Iran’s response was immediate and regional in scope. Iran launched roughly 420 missiles across nine countries and ships at sea in the first 24 hours, directing 39 percent at Israel, 40 percent at the UAE and 11 percent at Qatar.
A strike was reported on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s compound in Tehran. Subsequent updates confirmed his death. The killing of Khamenei was the single most consequential act of the entire operation and the one whose consequences the administration appeared least prepared to manage.
On the very first evening, a girls school was struck. The Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, housing children aged seven to twelve during morning session, was hit. US forces later confirmed responsibility. The school had been built on a former IRGC base decommissioned approximately fifteen years earlier. The targeting data had never been updated. Multiple independent investigations by CNN, NYT and CBC reached the same conclusion. Jeremy Konyndyk called it a horrific US war crime up there with My Lai. 150 to 180 children were killed.
🔶 THE FIRST CONTRADICTION: Casualty Reporting
On the first day, CENTCOM initially stated it had suffered no casualties, noting that light damage to its facilities had not disrupted operations. At 9:30 AM ET on March 1st, CENTCOM confirmed that three US service members were killed and five others seriously injured. On March 2nd, US fatalities rose to six.
All six were killed in a single Iranian drone strike on a tactical operations centre at the Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait. They were Army reservists from the 103rd Sustainment Command in Des Moines, Iowa. They had names and families. Spc. Declan Coady was 20 years old. The day after their deaths, Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran had “surrendered.”
🔴 DAYS TWO AND THREE: March 1 and 2
On March 1st, Trump announced on Truth Social that the US had accepted an Iranian ceasefire proposal for further negotiations. Iran’s Foreign Minister Larijani rejected this characterisation within hours, stating Iran had made no such offer. This was the first of multiple occasions where Trump publicly declared a diplomatic development that the other party immediately contradicted.
The military campaign continued without pause despite Trump’s ceasefire announcement. By March 1st, the conflict had shifted from standoff strikes to direct air operations over Tehran, signalling degradation of Iran’s integrated air defenses over the capital. Iranian state media described a transition to offensive defense, and retaliatory activity expanded across the region.
A THAAD radar system operated by America was destroyed. The US embassy in Kuwait was struck and subsequently closed indefinitely. The US-flagged tanker Stena Imperative and the Honduras-flagged tanker Athe Nova were also struck.
On March 2nd, three US F-15Es were downed in a friendly fire incident over Kuwait.
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This was confirmed but received minimal sustained media attention. The loss of three advanced combat aircraft worth approximately $100 million each to friendly fire during an active operation is a significant military event by any historical standard.
🔶 THE SHIFTING JUSTIFICATIONS
This is where the documentary record becomes most damning. In the space of eight days, the administration offered at least three distinct and mutually contradictory justifications for the war.
Justification One: Iran was about to attack American forces. Imminent threat. Self-defence.
Justification Two: Rubio stated Israel was going to strike Iran regardless, and Iran would retaliate against American assets, so the US acted to control the environment. This directly contradicts Justification One by acknowledging the US acted preemptively not defensively.
Justification Three: Trump said Iran was going to attack first anyway.
Rubio then denied his own Monday statement the following week.
The Trump administration announced regime change as a key goal but provided few and contradictory details as to what the regime’s end means and the new political dispensation it would find satisfactory. It merely called on the Iranian people to overthrow the regime without repeating its earlier promises of protection.
Each explanation contradicts the last. That is not the behaviour of a government acting in genuine self-defence with a stable and clearly articulated strategic rationale.
🔶 THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY WARNING NOBODY DISCUSSED
This is the most important documented fact of the entire conflict and it received less attention than it deserved.
The National Intelligence Council, representing the collective assessment of America’s 18 intelligence agencies, completed a classified report before the first bomb fell. The report concluded that even a large-scale assault on Iran would be unlikely to oust its entrenched military and clerical establishment. It found that succession protocols were pre-built to preserve continuity of power. It assessed the prospect of Iran’s fragmented opposition taking control of the country as unlikely. It raised explicit doubts about Trump’s declared plan to clean out Iran’s leadership structure and install a ruler of his choosing.
The administration received this assessment. Read it. And launched the war anyway.
That is not a failure of intelligence. That is a failure to use it.
🔴 DAYS FOUR THROUGH SIX: March 3 to 5
On March 4th, the IRIN Dena, Iran’s most modern Moudge-class frigate, was struck by a torpedo launched from a US Navy submarine and sank off the coast of Sri Lanka. 32 of its 180 sailors were rescued and 101 remained missing.
This single event made the war’s geographic scope obsolete as a planning assumption. The conflict had formally left the Middle East.
CENTCOM announced on day five what it called a “munitions transition,” shifting from standoff precision weapons to gravity bombs delivered by manned aircraft. This was framed publicly as a planned phase transition. The documented reality, confirmed by Patricia Marins’ open-source strike analysis, is that the daily strike volume had already dropped by 76 percent from peak. You do not transition from standoff weapons because you have run out of targets. You transition because your standoff inventory is under pressure and the remaining target set requires closer engagement with still-functional air defenses.
By March 5th, open-source intelligence tracking indicated that Iran had already launched roughly 585 ballistic missiles and 1,522 drones. Iran was on pace to fire between 4,000 and 5,000 Shahed loitering munitions over the course of a month, a pace similar to what Russia sustains in its campaign against Ukraine.
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🤔¿Por qué realizas la MAYORÍA de las operaciones con BEAR CALL SPREAD ?
Veamos el razonamiento en este mini hilo 🧵…
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Lo primero aclaración obligatoria ☺️…
NO empleo en EXCLUSIVIDAD BCS, si bien todas mis operaciones en $SPX son con Spreads, no tengo ningún inconveniente en abrir BPS, u operación combinada de Spreads en Iron Condor si se da el caso …
Pero dicho esto, bien es cierto que >90% de ellas son en base BCS, configurándose como mi SETUP A …
Veamos esas motivaciones algunas muy simples … otras un poco más analíticas … 👉🏻
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Así de sencillo y poco sexy el primer motivo … me siento más CÓMODO con esa operativa …
La manejo mejor … la leo mejor … la analizo y gestiono mejor … es mi zona de confort …
Y esta simplemente ya debería ser suficiente para su empleo como estrategia principal
No olvidéis que no se trata de hacer de cada trade una experiencia espiritual 😉 sino que debemos operar con aquello que nos supone un edge para nosotros … y si encuentras dicha ventaja en una estrategia concreta, esto se trata de WIN / LOSS, no de tirar de todo el repertorio de posibilidades quemando probabilidades y aumentando la varianza de tu resultado por la experiencia de emplear muchas estrategias
PD. Eso si, para mejorar como inversores hay que salir de vez en cuando de esa zona de confort pero sin comprometer de forma crítica la cartera
❗️Наша підтримка Яні Зінкевич і всім «Госпітальєрам», які рятують десятки тисяч життів
“Яна рятувала бійців ще в ті далекі часи, коли для частини країни війна не існувала і почалась лише 24 лютого 2022“, - Ангеліна Шостак депутатка Краматорської міської ради від фракції “ЄС».
Бахмут. Яна Зінкевич разом з Софія Федина привезли допомогу і підтримку бійцям.
Natasha is a drug addict. While other people get up early and go to work every morning Natasha takes drugs. Natasha can’t afford these drugs, though no doubt she receives benefits which help buy some of them.
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These benefits are provided by taking money from the wages of people who do get up early every morning.
Natasha steals from other people to pay for the drugs which she likes to take while everyone else is at work doing things they don’t like to pay for things they need.
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Natasha has a history of committing crime like theft, assault, and drug offences.
New with @60Minutes: A whistleblower from the Global Health Incident Cell (GHIC), the secret CIA unit that investigated Havana Syndrome, says he believes the Russian intelligence services are behind directed energy attacks on Americans. .theins.press/en/inv/290088
“John Thorne” (not his real name) had first-hand experience dealing with a cornerstone case of AHI, in Central Asia. He says the GHIC was determined to disprove AHI was real or that a foreign adversary was responsible for it.
The device the U.S. acquired over a year ago: it fires pulsed microwaves, it is portable, and it is programmable for distance and intensity. Its beams can penetrate windows and drywall. Not only does it have critical Russian components, it was purchased by U.S. operatives from a “complex Russian criminal network.”
Baden-Württemberg hat gewählt. Welche Erkenntnisse lassen sich aus den Ergebnissen der einzelnen Parteien ziehen? Ein paar statistische Auswertungen auf Basis von Wahlergebnissen und sozialen Strukturmerkmalen aus 1.101 Gemeinden. Ein Thread 🧵
1) Die Grünen sind knapper Wahlsieger. Das gelingt unter anderem durch Stimmenzuwächse in urbanen Zentren und Unistädten wie Stuttgart oder Karlsruhe, die bereits 2021 ihre Hochburgen waren. In kleineren, ländlicheren Gemeinden gibt es hingegen größere Verluste.
Entsprechend korrelieren die Unterstützung für die Grünen sowie ihre Verbesserung gegenüber 2021 stark mit dem formalen Bildungsniveau und dem Urbanitätsgrad einer Gemeinde. Die geographische Wählerkoalition der Grünen verschiebt sich also etwas mehr vom Land in alte Hochburgen.
🪰 Десь у світі зараз повзає муха, яка ніколи не народилась
Ще одна, абсолютно крейзі новина: EON Systems PBC повністю зісканували мозок мухи дрозофіли, посадили її у симуляцію і … муха почала ходити, чистити лапки, коротше робити все те, що роблять мухи.
🧵 Una pregunta muy simple sobre el MIR 2026
Entre 2001/02 y 2025/26 se han presentado al MIR 263.475 médicos.
El equivalente a toda la población de Gijón. 👀
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Durante esos 24 años, con más de 250.000 aspirantes, nunca antes había quedado alguien con baremo de aprobado ni entre los 10 ni entre los 100 primeros.
Nunca.
Y en 2026, de repente, ese patrón histórico cambia. 📉➡️📈
Entonces la pregunta es muy sencilla:
¿qué explicación ha dado el Ministerio a este cambio de patrón?
(🧵) NEW: Today’s news that NHS England has paused new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under 18s a) seems a bigger deal than being suggested, b) raises several questions, c) has potentially significant consequences for any forthcoming trial of puberty blockers...
England has - for a period at least - ended the medical transition of children on the NHS. This puts a stop to 20+ years of practice. (The former Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service [GIDS] referred 16 year olds for puberty blockers from around the year 2000.)
The precise trigger for the pause seems unclear. What is the “in-depth review of all available clinical evidence” referred to by NHSE in their statement? I have asked NHSE. NHSE's statement says it was triggered by Dr Hilary Cass’s 2024 major report into children's gender care...
1/ Messages hacked from a Russian general's phone illustrate the sweeping scale of corruption at all levels of the Russian army. They highlight a top-to-bottom pyramid of extortion and bribery to obtain promotions and influence, plus scams and theft of military resources. ⬇️
2/ Last month, it emerged that gigabytes of messages spanning 2022-2024 had been obtained by Ukrainian sources from the phone of Major General Roman Demurchiev, most likely as the result of a successful hack.
3/ They have shed an unprecedentedly detailed look at the inner workings of the senior Russian officer corps, including Demurchiev's personal involvement in the torture, mutilation, and murder of Ukrainian POWs, as well as constant feuds between generals.
1/6 We already had a bad reputation regarding being the most UNRELIABLE country on the planet when it came to keeping our word, but Donald Trump has made it MUCH worse. From reneging on the Iran Nuclear deal, to reneging on the trade deal with Canada and Mexico, he doesn't CARE
2/6 about our word, but President Biden DID. According to former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Brooking's Steven Pifer, now senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center on the United States and Europe recalled in a 2011 paper titled "The Trilateral Process: The United States,
3/6 Ukraine, Russia and Nuclear Weapons" what the document meant. Pifer, a diplomat who was directly involved in the drafting of the Memorandum, the general consensus among the signatories was that if there was a violation, there would be a response incumbent on the U.S. and the