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Thomas Smythe, First Governor of East India Company, was part of ruling dynasty.
His wife Sarah Blount is descended from Count of Guisnes, who are then descended from Charlemagne.
She is also related to Edward VI
His wife Sarah Blount is descended from Count of Guisnes, who are then descended from Charlemagne.
She is also related to Edward VI
His own lineage can also be traced back to via Ursula Ann Golding and Maud Cavendish to Cavendish family, and then to the ruling dynasty.
Smythe played an important role in Virginia Company, East India Company, and Royal African Company.
1. I'm getting hit with a lot of newly awakened people wondering about AG Pam Bondi; wondering if the stuff from her old days surfacing is accurate.
I will try to encapsulate and provide receipts. The issues with Pam Bondi are much more serious than most understand.
Pam Bondi was the Florida Attorney General during the incident when George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin.
“When I worked with Governor Scott to appoint State Attorney Angela Corey to the case involving Trayvon Martin, I did so with the full confidence that a swift and thorough investigation would be conducted."
I will try to encapsulate and provide receipts. The issues with Pam Bondi are much more serious than most understand.
Pam Bondi was the Florida Attorney General during the incident when George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin.
“When I worked with Governor Scott to appoint State Attorney Angela Corey to the case involving Trayvon Martin, I did so with the full confidence that a swift and thorough investigation would be conducted."
2. On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford Florida, George Zimmerman fired one shot into the heart of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, fatally killing him.
The Sanford Police lead investigator into the shooting was Chris Serino; the Police Chief was Bill Lee, and the local prosecutor was Norm Wolfinger.
Detective Chris Serino questioned and investigated George Zimmerman, who used a traditional “self-defense” justification for the shooting. Eventually the case went to trial and the same “self-defense” justification was used in court. Despite what you might have heard in the media, it was never a “stand your ground” defense. It simply was not needed.
In addition to questioning Zimmerman, Serino documented two eye-witnesses to the shooting. One woman in an apartment who saw the initial encounter between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, and another eye-witness, a man in an adjacent apartment who saw and partially recorded, the entire confrontation as it unfolded on the pathway approximately 20 feet from him.
The second witness called 911 and described in real time what he was seeing. Trayvon was straddling George in an “MMA style” position and slamming Zimmerman’s head into the sidewalk. During the 911 recording you can hear Zimmerman calling out, “help me; somebody help me.” [NOTE: Both of those witnesses as well as the recording were later buried but came out at trial.]
After a thorough investigation, all of the statements by George Zimmerman were corroborated by the eye-witnesses, the forensic evidence, the audio recording, and all the physical evidence found at the scene. Detective Chris Serino gave his investigative report to Police Chief Lee along with the recommendation that Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense was valid and justified. Serino and Lee then consulted with prosecutor Norm Wolfinger who reviewed the evidence and agreed.
The Sanford Police lead investigator into the shooting was Chris Serino; the Police Chief was Bill Lee, and the local prosecutor was Norm Wolfinger.
Detective Chris Serino questioned and investigated George Zimmerman, who used a traditional “self-defense” justification for the shooting. Eventually the case went to trial and the same “self-defense” justification was used in court. Despite what you might have heard in the media, it was never a “stand your ground” defense. It simply was not needed.
In addition to questioning Zimmerman, Serino documented two eye-witnesses to the shooting. One woman in an apartment who saw the initial encounter between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, and another eye-witness, a man in an adjacent apartment who saw and partially recorded, the entire confrontation as it unfolded on the pathway approximately 20 feet from him.
The second witness called 911 and described in real time what he was seeing. Trayvon was straddling George in an “MMA style” position and slamming Zimmerman’s head into the sidewalk. During the 911 recording you can hear Zimmerman calling out, “help me; somebody help me.” [NOTE: Both of those witnesses as well as the recording were later buried but came out at trial.]
After a thorough investigation, all of the statements by George Zimmerman were corroborated by the eye-witnesses, the forensic evidence, the audio recording, and all the physical evidence found at the scene. Detective Chris Serino gave his investigative report to Police Chief Lee along with the recommendation that Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense was valid and justified. Serino and Lee then consulted with prosecutor Norm Wolfinger who reviewed the evidence and agreed.
3. Trayvon's father, Tracy Martin, was in a new relationship with his girlfriend Brandy Greene. Ms. Greene was a corrections officer.
Ms. Brandy Greene was eventually put into contact with a Florida “civil rights lawyer” named Benjamin Crump. After some back-and-forth positioning and discussion, Crump decided to champion a wrongful death case for the Martin family against George Zimmerman, the City of Sanford and the Sanford Police Department.
Benjamin Crump hired a PR firm run by Ryan Julison to create media pressure. Using his civil rights contacts, Crump requested support from groups like Al Sharpton, Dream Defenders, and allies in the DOJ. That approach led to AG Eric Holder and eventually President Barack Obama.
Additionally, having worked previously (2007) with Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi in the Martin Lee Anderson case, Benjamin Crump called the now Florida Attorney General Bondi for support.
The detective (Serino) sided with George Zimmerman. The Police Chief, Bill Lee, agreed with Serino and the evidence. The local Sanford prosecutor (Norm Wolfinger) refused to bring a case against Zimmerman based on the evidence.
…. Enter Florida AG Pam Bondi, who told Florida Governor Rick Scott a special prosecutor was needed for her friend Ben Crump.
Ms. Brandy Greene was eventually put into contact with a Florida “civil rights lawyer” named Benjamin Crump. After some back-and-forth positioning and discussion, Crump decided to champion a wrongful death case for the Martin family against George Zimmerman, the City of Sanford and the Sanford Police Department.
Benjamin Crump hired a PR firm run by Ryan Julison to create media pressure. Using his civil rights contacts, Crump requested support from groups like Al Sharpton, Dream Defenders, and allies in the DOJ. That approach led to AG Eric Holder and eventually President Barack Obama.
Additionally, having worked previously (2007) with Florida prosecutor Pam Bondi in the Martin Lee Anderson case, Benjamin Crump called the now Florida Attorney General Bondi for support.
The detective (Serino) sided with George Zimmerman. The Police Chief, Bill Lee, agreed with Serino and the evidence. The local Sanford prosecutor (Norm Wolfinger) refused to bring a case against Zimmerman based on the evidence.
…. Enter Florida AG Pam Bondi, who told Florida Governor Rick Scott a special prosecutor was needed for her friend Ben Crump.
NVIDIA just removed one of the biggest friction points in Voice AI.
PersonaPlex-7B is an open-source, full-duplex conversational model.
Free, open source (MIT), with open model weights on @huggingface 🤗
Links to repo and weights in 🧵↓
The traditional ASR → LLM → TTS pipeline forces rigid turn-taking.
It’s efficient, but it never feels natural.
PersonaPlex-7B changes that.
This @nvidia model can listen and speak at the same time.
It runs directly on continuous audio tokens with a dual-stream transformer, generating text and audio in parallel instead of passing control between components.
That unlocks:
→ instant back-channel responses
→ interruptions that feel human
→ real conversational rhythm
Persona control is fully zero-shot!
If you’re building low-latency assistants or support agents, this is a big step forward 🔥
PersonaPlex-7B is an open-source, full-duplex conversational model.
Free, open source (MIT), with open model weights on @huggingface 🤗
Links to repo and weights in 🧵↓
The traditional ASR → LLM → TTS pipeline forces rigid turn-taking.
It’s efficient, but it never feels natural.
PersonaPlex-7B changes that.
This @nvidia model can listen and speak at the same time.
It runs directly on continuous audio tokens with a dual-stream transformer, generating text and audio in parallel instead of passing control between components.
That unlocks:
→ instant back-channel responses
→ interruptions that feel human
→ real conversational rhythm
Persona control is fully zero-shot!
If you’re building low-latency assistants or support agents, this is a big step forward 🔥
Hot take: In 50 years we will have massive studies linking right wing ideological inconsistency with literal physical mental disability. And no, this is not just me calling them R words in a nice way - I genuinely believe that a vast number of Americans don't have the mental faculties required for adult level critical thought - wether it is genetic, environmental or something third - we'll know eventually. This goes past the classic philosophical argument that "we are formed by our environment" - while the vast majority are subjects shaped by the society they grew up in (material conditions etc.) there is a sub strata of cretins so profoundly inconsistent that one must recognise their failings as more biological than political.
to contextualise - right wing political thought is an almost purely social disease (TLDR: 1)system is in crisis 2)those who benefit from the system don't want to change it 3)they create alternative explanations of why everything sucks moving attention away from the system 4)the people who believe that are reactionaries). I am talking about a sub-strata of reactionary which apparently literally lacks the ability to comprehend contradictions. It just doesn't click for them. Like wearing a don't thread on us shirt on your pro-ICE protest after they killed a guy for practicing their 2A rights. The proactivity in the logical inconsistency creates cause for concern on wether their behaviour is caused by social environments or the physical inability to process information adequately. But hey, this is just a theory... a game theory
Additional context because some of you are weird:
1) The impact of the socio-economic environment on how someone turns out is profound, incalculable, and one of our greatest strength and weaknesses as a species. I have a whole video on this (youtube.com/watch?v=3k7_wE…). 99% of reactionaries are products of just that - people broken into weak power hungry servants of the status quo - by the status quo.
2) Some adults though show behaviour and critical thinking skills so infantile that we (and this is what i posit, i have no fucking proof of this, it's twitter) risk misdiagnosing genuine physical inability to process the world with ideologically induced idiocy.
3) this is irrelevant for political organising, but it would let me sleep easier at night if I knew some of these people just can't help themselves.
1) The impact of the socio-economic environment on how someone turns out is profound, incalculable, and one of our greatest strength and weaknesses as a species. I have a whole video on this (youtube.com/watch?v=3k7_wE…). 99% of reactionaries are products of just that - people broken into weak power hungry servants of the status quo - by the status quo.
2) Some adults though show behaviour and critical thinking skills so infantile that we (and this is what i posit, i have no fucking proof of this, it's twitter) risk misdiagnosing genuine physical inability to process the world with ideologically induced idiocy.
3) this is irrelevant for political organising, but it would let me sleep easier at night if I knew some of these people just can't help themselves.
Meet Melinda, a healthcare worker at @VCUHealth. She posted a series of videos encouraging people to inject ICE agents with succinylocholine, a temporary paralysis drug, and spray poison on them. She also encourages woman to go on dates with agents and drug their food.
Any comment @VCUHealth? How can you have such a vile person working with patients? How can anyone feel safe at your facilities if you employ such people?
Any comment @VCUHealth? How can you have such a vile person working with patients? How can anyone feel safe at your facilities if you employ such people?
You can report it here:
She also has @DukeHealth listed on her NPI
5 Natural ways to cure erectile dysfunction for good and last longer in bed
1. Fix Your Dopamine System (The Secret To Strong, Consistent Erect!ons)
1. Fix Your Dopamine System (The Secret To Strong, Consistent Erect!ons)
Your brain controls your d!ck. If your dopamine system is fried, you’ll struggle to get or keep it up.
The biggest modern problem? P*rn and overstimulation.
Every time you watch p*rn, you flood your brain with dopamine.
The biggest modern problem? P*rn and overstimulation.
Every time you watch p*rn, you flood your brain with dopamine.
Your receptors get numb, so real s3x doesn't excite you as much.
Eventually, you NEED extreme stimulation just to function.
This is why some guys can’t get hard with a real woman. Their brain is addicted to fake stimulation.
Eventually, you NEED extreme stimulation just to function.
This is why some guys can’t get hard with a real woman. Their brain is addicted to fake stimulation.
I’m 60, and it took me over 30 years to figure this out.
These are the 7 biggest health mistakes I made… and why they almost ruined me:
1/ Taking too many vitamins 🧵
These are the 7 biggest health mistakes I made… and why they almost ruined me:
1/ Taking too many vitamins 🧵
At one point, I was taking over 100 supplements a day.
Entire bottles, not just pills.
I kept searching for the vitamin that would restore my energy.
I never found it.
Here’s what I didn’t understand back then…
Entire bottles, not just pills.
I kept searching for the vitamin that would restore my energy.
I never found it.
Here’s what I didn’t understand back then…
Supplements don’t work without a solid nutritional foundation.
My diet lacked key macronutrients, especially protein and healthy fats.
No supplement can replace those.
What works instead:
Start the day with protein and get energy from healthy fats, not sugar.
My diet lacked key macronutrients, especially protein and healthy fats.
No supplement can replace those.
What works instead:
Start the day with protein and get energy from healthy fats, not sugar.
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27 Ιανουαρίου 1945 το Άουσβιτς-Μπίρκεναου απελευθερώνεται από τον Κόκκινο Στρατό.
Ο αμερικανός ιστορικός Higham Ch, 1983, στο «Trading with the Enemy» γράφει για τις σχέσεις του αμερικανικού κεφαλαίου, μελών της κυβέρνησης των ΗΠΑ με τους ναζί συμπεριλαμβανομένης 1/5 🧵
Ο αμερικανός ιστορικός Higham Ch, 1983, στο «Trading with the Enemy» γράφει για τις σχέσεις του αμερικανικού κεφαλαίου, μελών της κυβέρνησης των ΗΠΑ με τους ναζί συμπεριλαμβανομένης 1/5 🧵
και της I.G. Farben (Zyklon B και συνθετικά καύσιμα) του κολοσσιαίου ναζιστικού βιομηχανικού trust που δημιούργησε το Άουσβιτς.
«Τι θα συνέβαινε άραγε, αν τα εκατομμύρια των Αμερικανών και Βρετανών πολιτών, τα οποία έπρεπε να ζουν 2/5
«Τι θα συνέβαινε άραγε, αν τα εκατομμύρια των Αμερικανών και Βρετανών πολιτών, τα οποία έπρεπε να ζουν 2/5
με κουπόνια και στοιβαγμένοι στις ουρές έξω από τα βενζινάδικα, μάθαιναν ότι το 1942 η "Standard Oil" διοχέτευε στον εχθρό καύσιμα μέσω της "ουδέτερης" Ελβετίας; Και αν υποθέταμε ότι ο λαός ανακάλυπτε ότι η Τράπεζα "Chase" στο κατεχόμενο Παρίσι ακόμα κ μετά το Περλ Χάρμπορ 3/5
🚨🧵 1. It’s wrong that all spending bills go through just one committee in the Senate—the Committee on Appropriations
The House of Representatives does the same thing
This thread attempts to explain why this is a problem and what can be done about it
The House of Representatives does the same thing
This thread attempts to explain why this is a problem and what can be done about it
2. It’s unwise and even reckless to run all spending bills through a single committee for at least three independent reasons
First, it makes no sense from a workload-distribution standpoint
First, it makes no sense from a workload-distribution standpoint
3. The staggering size, cost, and complexity of the federal government are such that no sane person would assign all of the workload associated with all spending bills to one committee
Responsibility for spending bills should be distributed broadly among all who have been elected to either chamber of Congress—not just to a select few who happen to serve on one committee
Responsibility for spending bills should be distributed broadly among all who have been elected to either chamber of Congress—not just to a select few who happen to serve on one committee
Amjad Taha spread hate against Jews. Now he plays a new role, pretending to love them!! Hypocrisy at its finest.
#FightAntisemitism #Antisemitism
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#FightAntisemitism #Antisemitism
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Amjad Taha, an Emirati of Iranian origin, previously called Israel “occupied territories.” Today, he claims to be pro-Israel !!
#FightAntisemitism #Antisemitism
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#FightAntisemitism #Antisemitism
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@amjadt25 Amjad Taha shows support for and promotes Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which is an internationally designated terrorist organization!
One of the dung eaters orders a man from the police of Poland:
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🚨 30 @RepublicanStudy Committee Members are calling on the Senate to get the SAVE Act to President Trump's desk QUICKLY.
House Republicans passed @RepChipRoy's bill almost 300 days ago to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in U.S. elections, this is commonsense legislation.
We have no more time left to waste. This is a part of the mandate we were sent to Washington to fulfill. Let's get this done!
House Republicans passed @RepChipRoy's bill almost 300 days ago to ensure only U.S. citizens vote in U.S. elections, this is commonsense legislation.
We have no more time left to waste. This is a part of the mandate we were sent to Washington to fulfill. Let's get this done!
🔥 Chairman @RepPfluger: “Voting in American elections is a right reserved for American citizens, and the House did our job by passing the SAVE Act months ago to secure it.”
Exclusively in @theblaze ⤵️
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🎯 @RepChipRoy: “This is a common sense reform with broad public support from Americans who want elections that are free, fair, and secure. Now it’s time for the Senate to act.”
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@TheBigDoinkShow @SomeBitchIIKnow That's it? They suspended you over THAT?
Go over to , which is run by @BasedTorba. Get an account there, and mirror all of your front page posts on Gab, wherever you end up. Torba censors next to nothing. That's not just a sales pitch, it's the truth.Gab.com
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@TheBigDoinkShow @SomeBitchIIKnow @BasedTorba Gab is where dissenters were hanging out during the Covid crackdowns, and it didn't let them down.
@TheBigDoinkShow @SomeBitchIIKnow @BasedTorba Also, here are a few tools that you can use to keep censors more honest than they'd be on their own, on this site:
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, “Is a tragedy in the making in the Middle East?
I rate the chances quite high unless hard choices are made.
Hard choices need to be made.
1)
I rate the chances quite high unless hard choices are made.
Hard choices need to be made.
1)
When World War II ended, Poland expelled Germans living in areas that became Poland. The reason? Poles claimed the Germans were a threat to their culture and sovereignty if allowed to remain.
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Israel has a more difficult problem, simply because the Arab population in Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and to a degree even those that are Israeli citizens, have never been defeated and reformed as the Germans were, and still openly support terrorism and hate, and
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