Here are the studies🧵Covid can cause;
Cognitive impairment, brain shrinkage, heart attacks, strokes, kidney damage, lung damage, diabetes, clots & other blood disorders, immunological & neurological disorders.
It is multisystem, acute & potentially chronic (1 in 10 infections)🧵
Covid infection can cause cognitive impairment & reduction in brain size.
Study: “A greater reduction in global brain size in the Covid positive cases. Those who were infected with Covid also showed on average a greater cognitive decline” nature.com/articles/s4158…
Cognitive decline (memory impairment and reduced executive function) in those who had Covid.
The Lancet Healthy Longevity; thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…
As an academic discipline, put bluntly, "medicine" is a "discipline founded on structural thought suspension," or more precisely, an "ecology of human beings whose capacity for thought has been suspended."
The "suspension of thought" referred to here does not signify intellectual laziness as it is commonly understood.
Rather, it refers to the very structure of power through which the system called medicine strips human beings of their capacity for reflective thought and value judgment, incorporates them into the inner shell of scientific discourse, and renders ethical hesitation institutionally dysfunctional. What takes place here is not a "lack of thought" but a "structural loss of thought."
Medicine as a discipline does not in principle address the irreversible distance between the description of facts (is) and the ethical imperatives (ought), the so-called "is-ought gap" known since Hume.
More precisely, medicine does not "not address this gap," but "cannot deal with it," and therefore treats it as if it did not exist from the outset. The institutional technique that medicine has developed over many years is an operational system that instantaneously converts experiences into norms, linking explanation (is) and justification (ought) without epistemic or ethical mediation.
In other words, medicine transforms scientific descriptions (is), such as facts, statistics, and trends, directly into ethical imperatives that constrain human action (ought), and conceals this logical leap through the repeated invocation of the vocabulary of "scientific evidence."
Statements such as "there is scientific evidence" or "read the paper," frequently uttered by medical professionals, are emblematic of this operation.
Here, the fundamental question such as "Does science generate norms?"is bypassed, and "being scientific" is simply equated with "being that which must be obeyed.
Within this void, discussions concerning "human dignity" degenerate into formal rituals and are rendered thoroughly powerless at the level of practice.
What medicine performs is not the elimination of value judgments, but the disguising of value judgments in scientific language.
Within medicine, value judgments are made to appear as if they were extensions of factual statements, and a normative command, "one ought to obey because there is scientific evidence," is thereby constructed.
Yet behind this, there is neither any visibility of value judgments nor any ethical deliberation. This command demands an immediate leap from explanation to justification, and as a result, individual citizens are forcibly positioned within a binary of "obey / disobey." This is, quite clearly, a governing rationality that is ethically unjustifiable.
Medicine monopolizes the "authority to define health" and, under the name of science, transfers to the system those fundamental domains of judgment that should properly belong to citizens, such as "what is good," "what constitutes dignity," and "what it means to be human."
What is present here is a privatization of value judgments under the guise of science, and a systematic usurpation of ethical autonomy.
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In ethics, there exists a position known as ethical naturalism (particularly within neo-Aristotelian strands), which holds that norms must, to some extent, refer to facts.
However, medicine does not assume a relation between fact and norm, but dispenses with the reasoning process altogether. In this domain, reasoning disappears, and within the system, "facts" and "norms" are treated as identical.
Scientific descriptions are instantaneously converted into ethical imperatives, and any space for question, doubt, or contestation is foreclosed by the vocabulary of "scientific evidence."
Therefore, what medicine commits is not the naturalistic fallacy (the erroneous inference from fact to value), but a naturalistic fiat (the institutional decree that fact is value).
This does not mean that reasoning is mistaken, but that reasoning is precluded from the outset. Value judgments are concealed behind scientific vocabulary, and institutional language is translated into ethical justification.
The central question that emerges within this structure is, "Can scientific evidence be converted into ethical basis?"
I have yet to encounter a medical professional who vocally invokes "scientific evidence" provide a coherent argument that bridges such evidence to ethical justification.
They operate under the tacit assumption that "being scientific" automatically entails "being ethical." And the repeated invocation of that vocabulary functions as an apparatus that conceals the abnormal leap from fact to norm.
The fictions medicine must maintain in order to present itself as "scientific practice" are as follows:
1.Scientific evidence is value-neutral.
2.Guidelines arise from scientific evidence.
3.Therefore, the guidelines are neutral.
4.They are the most scientific.
5.Therefore, they are the most rational.
6.Therefore, adhering to them is ethical.
7.Therefore, those who do not adhere are "unscientific," "irrational," and "unethical."
Yet the structure that actually operates is the reverse:
1.Scientific evidence depends on the value choices of expert groups.
2.Guidelines are products of value choices and social compromises.
3.Neutrality is institutionally constructed.
4.Scientific discourse serves as an apparatus to neutralize the guidelines.
5.Rationality is a subordinate concept to value judgments.
6.Individual dignity is subordinated to the rationality of the system.
7.Autonomy and subjectivity are erased by institutional necessity.
In this way, "being scientific" is directly replaced by "ethical superiority." What medicine establishes is not ethics but the systemic outsourcing of value judgment to institutional authority.
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"Individual dignity" is an ethical premise for treating human beings not as means but as ends, and it contains at its core the inviolability of autonomy and subjectivity. This principle constitutes the fundamental condition of any ethics that refuses to reduce individual human beings to instruments for the achievement of the purposes of others or of institutions.
However, this principle is fundamentally incompatible with utilitarianism, which is based on the maxim of "the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
The two positions are in principle opposed in that the former regards the human being as an inviolable end, whereas the latter treats the human being as a calculable unit for maximizing the total amount of happiness.
Utilitarianism replaces the position of transcendent value once borne by religion with the secular vocabulary of "utility," and functions as a foundational value of modern society.
"Utility" is a teleological concept constituted as a quantifiable measure of happiness that, mediated by a scientific worldview grounded in natural laws (technological and scientific modes of thought), renders all phenomena numerically comparable and is to be maximized through social, industrial, and cultural accumulation.
Although this concept should, in principle, be a relativizable empirical measure, it in fact behaves as an absolute value. Its pseudo-transcendence is sustained by the universal and mystified idea of "natural law," which is the new singular deity (creator) that modernity has installed in place of religion.
Galileo stated that "the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics," and Newton formulated that very nature as a universal and reproducible order that leads inexorably to the same conclusions.
Descartes understood this order as "the commands inscribed by God into the world," and Spinoza went a step further by establishing a monism that identified God with nature (Deus sive Natura), holding that the laws of nature themselves are manifestations of God’s necessity.
Einstein strongly resonated with this lineage, stating that "the laws of nature are God." Hawking, meanwhile, abstracted the concept of God to its utmost limit, declaring that "there is no need to assume God for the existence of the universe," while asserting that the laws of nature themselves bring the universe into being.
The "utility" that relies on these laws of nature is standardized across almost every domain of contemporary society, including political decisions, economic indicators (GDP, interest rates), AI ethics, guidelines, evidence-based medicine, risk–benefit ratios, and even social media metrics such as "impressions" and "likes," functioning much like a sacred text.
Citizens are guided to judge larger (or smaller) numbers as "good (guidelines leading to the maximization of happiness)," and thereby constrain even their own modes of thought.
Natural laws act as absolute standards external to humans, regulate human freedom and judgment, and ultimately replace them.
Therefore, grounding human action principles in the external value of natural laws inevitably produces a structure that deprives individuals of autonomous thinking.
Humans are now reconstituted as heteronomous subjects, surrendering their own value judgments to external measures.
🚨 “Dismantle the United States”: Calla Walsh Praises Iran and the “Axis of Resistance” With Lara Sheehi Along for the Ride
Calla Walsh and former GWU professor Lara Sheehi, now at the University of South Africa, appeared together on a podcast to map out where they think the Palestine solidarity movement in the West should go next. It is a wild appearance and an unexpected team-up, with open calls to “dismantle the United States,” praise for Iran and the “Axis of Resistance,” and open admiration for armed struggle at home and abroad.
Keep eyes on my page today as I release more clips of these two 👀
And of course, friendly reminder that Lara’s husband is also a professor, steeped in the same decolonial worldview. I even FOIA’ed his Fall 2025 “Decolonization” course, which you can read for yourself here.
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What does a trade war look like?
Much of what you've heard about tariffs is prob soundbites from politicians & economists.
But what does a trade war actually FEEL like at ground level?
We've spent the past year working on a film on just that.
Here's some highlights
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Best place to start is with this👇
It may look like a lump of metal but don't be fooled.
This is a die: a sort of mould used to shape plastics. Looks simple but it's super-engineered - designed to withstand enormous pressure.
Without dies like this there's no manufacturing...
Dies and moulds are the unsung champions in modern mass production.
One of the single most impressive things about Tesla's manufacturing processes is what @elonmusk calls the Gigapress: a massive machine that shapes metal. And at the heart of the gigapress are enormous dies.
In the oral argument of Nat'l Republican Senatorial Cmte v. Federal Election Comm., many are waiting for the appearance of Marc Elias, the central figure in the Steele dossier scandal and a lawyer who has attacked the Republican majority. ...jonathanturley.org/2025/12/08/mar…
...That distraction aside, the Administration's argument against the Colorado law limiting coordinated spending is being challenged by the liberal justices as Sarah Harris makes the case...
...Roman Martinez with Defending Limits on Coordinated Campaign Spending is making a spirited case against the standing of the challengers...
Ever heard someone say that modern Bibles have “removed” or “taken out” verses from scripture? Let’s talk about it… a 🧵.
Although it's almost always phrased as "who took this* verse out of the Bible, and when?" it's actually a case of "who put this verse* into the Bible, and when? It's not so much the case that modern Bibles have
"missing" verses as it is that the King James has added verses.
Here’a how I articulate the position in ep.2 of Can I Trust the Bible?
Nesta reportagem, eu mostro como a aparente mobilização espontânea contra a anistia dos presos do 8 de janeiro é, na verdade, uma operação estruturada e financiada por uma rede internacional de ONGs e fundações estrangeiras.
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Nossa apuração analisou o site “Sem Anistia pra Golpista”, que se tornou o carro-chefe da campanha. Ele foi criado no mesmo dia dos atos do 8 de janeiro de 2023, mas só começou a operar de fato em 2024. Desde então, funciona como a central de pressão sobre o Congresso.
“Having sex” (read: “getting laid,” “gettin’ dat poosay”) is the easiest thing in the world. I could make a dating app profile and lose my virginity by dinnertime. But very few people alive have ever actually had *sex.* They’ve performed a social ritual, sort of like hazing. They’ve slapped their damp, clammy body against another damp, clammy body, like the wriggling of a suffocating fish. Maybe, possibly, their tongue came into contact with another tongue during the process. It doesn’t even sound enjoyable or enviable. They’ve never made love. They’ve never experienced passion, or tried to melt into another human being. To be crude, for a moment, it sounds like it’s more or less the equivalent of a salaryman dipping into the bathroom and having a 30-second wank, simply so that he can more-easily concentrate on whichever set of numbers he is currently moving from one column of an excel sheet to another. It’s nothing but a physical phenomenon, removed of any telos. There is no desire to unify, to become one; or even at a baser level, to control, to own. Leave alone any thought of the fruit of passion, the creation of another life inside of the woman; perish the idea. There is no yearning, no primal and beastly need even, other than a poor simulacra, the simple desire to fulfill a base bodily instinct. It’s like eating—: and not to craft a meal, not to provide oneself art, not to turn passion itself into a physical, sensible monument, to provide unto oneself an appreciable reception of one’s own soul, but to microwave a frozen sandwich, or gulp down a cup of instant ramen, merely to stop one’s stomach from growling. We live in a world of walking stomachs; hylics, all. And most of it is nothing but glorified prostitution, anyways; even within most marriages which occur today. Piers’ Wife says that she wears the trousers in the family, so perhaps the dynamic is simply turned the other way, and Piers is like a sort of gigolo. Maybe he’s even too stupid to realise that that’s all he is. But all that he has ever provided to the world is nothing more than the vulgar commentary of one.
To ask about someone’s sex life in an interview, leave alone on a platform like that, is so heinously stupid and crude as to be a thing surpassing any parody. If I ever tried to make love, to reveal the deepest and most primal aspects of myself to a woman actually perceptible to others of mankind (3DPD need not apply), I would that not only should the world never know, but that the world lose any and all knowledge of her, that every photograph ever taken of her disappear, that every thought of her undergo damnatio memoriae, that she be mine in totality and no other human even think of her existence, leave alone to ever enjoy the visage of her smile, before I could ever desire to disclose what had occurred, or how, or for any person to ever have even the faintest or briefest of thoughts about what I had done during the process, or to ever imagine an actual act that had occurred in her opening her life to me. So, no, most people have not “had sex.” They have performed mutual masturbation with some kind of escort; which is why it is a social symbol, no different from losing one’s virginity to a prostitute in elder days. Because if they had, they would never seek to disclose it. A random mangaka living out their fantasies through the process of drawing an H-doujin has come closer to “having sex” than any of these people.
Their codes of ethics, practice standards, certification rules, and policy priorities now embed SDG language: without public debate or member votes.
Here are the receipts. 👇
And as always, patience as I pull this thread together:
American Nursing Association (ANA) -- representing over 4 million members, states in their 2025 Code of Ethics that "Nurses and nursing organizations work toward the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN)"
The UN SDGs are a comprehensive political framework which endorses unfettered migration. American Medial Association policy H-65.938 endorses the UN SDG in that.
AMA represents almost 300,000 health care professionals.
1 Dies ist die Geschichte der Söhne Noahs: Sem, Ham und Japhet; und nach der Sintflut wurden ihnen Söhne geboren. 2 Die Söhne Japhets waren: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Jawan, Tubal, Mesech und Tiras. 3 Die Söhne
Gomers aber: Aschkenas, Riphat und Togarma. 4 Und die Söhne Jawans: Elischa, Tarsis, die Kittäer und die Dodaniter. 5 Von diesen haben sie sich auf die Gebiete der Heiden verteilt, in ihre Länder, jeder nach seiner Sprache; in ihre Völkerschaften, jeder nach seiner
Подписчик рассказал о новой схеме обмана: жулики придумали хитрый способ заблокировать любые банковские карты – а потом начинают шантажировать вас тем, что создадут еще больше разных «проблемок». Разбираемся, как конкретно они это делают, в треде ниже 👇
1. Это гостевой тред от Степана из Вастрик.Клуба. Мне его опыт показался важным и полезным, поэтому я попросил разрешения опубликовать его здесь – надеюсь, кому-то это поможет. Передаю слово Степану!
2. Степан: В ноябре мне написали в личку Телеграма мошенники с угрозами, см. ниже. В принципе, типичные пугалки. За исключением одной цитаты: «мы лишь пока что заблокировали тебе карты Тинькофф и Альфа».
Trotz Ausbildung in Hechingen:
▶️ Mann aus Syrien droht Abschiebung
Hussain Salan aus Syrien ist als Koch im Asyl- und Integrationsprojekt "Refugio" in Hechingen (Zollernalbkreis) bekannt geworden.
▶️ Mittlerweile hat er eine Ausbildung als Fachlagerist bei einem Spediteur angefangen.
Ende November hat das Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) in einem Verfahren entschieden, dass Österreich für Salans Asylverfahren zuständig ist.
Darum muss er ausreisen und darf in Deutschland nicht mehr arbeiten.