When he died in 2022, at the age of 98, America lost the last living Medal of Honor recipient of World War Two.
He earned it as a 21-year-old, alone, with a flamethrower, over four hours of hell on Iwo Jima, on the very day the flag went up on Mount Suribachi.
This is the story of Woody Williams..🧵1/7
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Hershel Woodrow Williams, known as Woody, was born in 1923 on a dairy farm in West Virginia, the youngest of eleven children. He weighed just three and a half pounds at birth and was not expected to live. He did, growing up hard on the farm, losing his father when he was only eleven.
When the war came, Woody tried to join the Marines. They turned him down. At around five and a half feet tall, he was told he was too short.
But Woody would not take no for an answer. He kept at it until the Marines finally accepted him in 1943. They trained him for one of the most dangerous jobs a man could be given in the Pacific. He would carry a flamethrower.
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By February 1945, Woody Williams was a 21-year-old demolition sergeant, and he was landing on Iwo Jima.
The tiny volcanic island was one of the most heavily fortified places on earth. The Japanese had honeycombed it with pillboxes, squat forts of reinforced concrete, connected by tunnels, their machine guns interlocking to cover every inch of open ground. They were so solidly built that bombs and bazookas often failed to destroy them. American tanks trying to break through bogged down helplessly in the soft black volcanic sand.
Woody's unit was being torn apart trying to advance. As he attacked, he later said, the enemy would just mow the Marines down, and they would have to fall back.
By February 23, five days into the battle, Woody later recalled that he was the only man left from his original demolition team. The others had been killed or wounded.
That was the day his commander turned to him and asked if he could do anything with his flamethrower.
Most people picture a Bitcoin payment like a bank transfer. Money leaves one account and lands in another.
That's not what happens.
Here's what actually happens, because once you understand the process, half the FUD surrounding Bitcoin disappears.
1. You hit Send. Your wallet broadcasts a signed message to the Bitcoin network saying, "These specific coins now belong to this address." The message is signed with your private key, which never leaves your device. No one ever sees the key. They only see a cryptographic signature proving you control it.
2. The transaction lands in the mempool, a waiting room maintained by every node. It's not confirmed yet. It's simply a pending transaction, visible to anyone, valid, but not yet written into Bitcoin's permanent history.
🚨🤦 Donald Trump má dnes v noci pronést projev, v němž chce podle zákulisních informací obvinit Čínu z ovlivnění voleb, které v roce 2020 prohrál s Joe Bidenem.
Donald se evidentně rozhodl držet vlastních utkvělých představ, přičemž bude velmi zajímavé sledovat, jak se ke všemu
postaví jednotlivá média. Když některá z nich Trumpa podpořila při šíření jeho konspirací a sprostých lží naposled, řadu z nich v čele s FOXem (téměř 800 milionů dolarů odškodné Dominionu) to stálo obrovské peníze.
Materiály, které má podle Reuters v plánu Donald odtajnit,
se týkají schopnosti / možného záměru Číny zasahovat do voleb. Nemá to být důkaz, že by Čína ve volbách 2020 změnila výsledky hlasování nebo manipulovala hlasy.
Pokud to někdo chce sledovat živě, plánovaný začátek je ve 3 ráno naše času zítra.
2) The Founders wanted the Senate to slow things down, to dampen "passions" as they called them. They never anticipated that a bunch of geriatric, evil, thoroughly weaponized slothmagnets would stop everything.
3) It's easy to think, "Oh, this will pass with another election or two." I say nay nay.
4) Again, the STRUCTURE of the Senate is that to get a working majority of about 60 GOP would require such as massive landslide that even places like MN and CO would buckle.
5) I don't see that. But it is apparent they are running out of tricks.
6) They can no longer hold a straight up majority vote on anything. Even with the fungus muscles like MurCowSki and Collins and the other squishes, we can't even get to J.D. Vance tie-breaking territory.
Sonam Wangchuk is neither a scientist, nor educationalist, nor inspiration behind 3 Idiots. All of it is carefully crafted propaganda.
In truth, Wangchuk is a Ford Foundation (CIA) asset
In this thread, a complete, evidence-backed exposé
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In Three Idiots they told you that Rancho was a son of poor Gardner but in real life, Sonam Wangchuk comes from a very powerful and influential family
His father Sonam Wangyal was a Congress leader and Minister if J&K govt
People think that Wangchuk is well educated, must be having many degrees, scientist, patent holder
Now here is truth bomb
- He pursued Mechanical engineering from NIT in 1987
- He never ever worked in corporate or govt job
- He is not scientist
- He doesn't have any patent
TESTOSTERONE SUPPLEMENTATION DRASTICALLY LOWERS SPERM COUNTS
Men who want more children should not do it.
Numerous studies find that exogenous testosterone sharply reduces testosterone production within the testes, effectively shutting down sperm production. 🧵.
A World Health Organization study found that among 271 healthy and fertile men, a large majority became azoospermic (a condition where a man's semen has no measurable sperm) with testosterone injection.
There was just one pregnancy in 1486 cumulative months of study. 2/6
A literature review published 2013 explained the mechanism:
"Exogenous administration of testosterone results in negative feedback leading to inhibition of FSH and LH production. As a result, intratesticular testosterone levels (ITT) decrease." 3/6
One of Ukraine’s most respected generals, Mykhailo Drapatyi, whom many Ukrainians have wanted to see replace General Syrskyi:
Over the past 6 months, the Armed Forces gained a true partner in the Defense Ministry. 1/13
The Army needs change, but without justice, no reform will have meaning for the people who carry this war on their shoulders every single day. 2/13
With the arrival of the new team at the Ministry of Defense, there was a genuine attempt to change the rules by which the military system had operated for years. 3/13
Former Defense Minister Fedorov, in his first extended comments since his dismissal: "We need to replace Syrskyi and the Chief of the General Staff. Syrskyi is not willing to openly discuss all the problems. He is willing to attend meetings, engage in intrigue, and believe that someone has launched a campaign against him in the media."
"Zelenskyy has never let me down as a member of the team in the past seven years. However, when 90% of the people who have problems after our work at the Ministry of Defense come to him, it is difficult for him to analyze everything and make a decision."
"I am acting according to my conscience, and I appeal to the deputies: act according to your conscience as well. Where is your courage to speak openly about the real problems? People are dying for freedom, and we are sitting on Bankova Street and afraid to openly say what we don't actually believe."
Zelensky, responding directly to the backlash: "I understand, I hear, and I respond to what society is saying. We are fighting for freedom and democracy. People have the right to do what they want. If they wanted to come out and protest, then they were right to do so."
Zelensky, on Fedorov specifically: "During wartime, the president should not be making choices in such a situation. I would very much like to see unity. The parties haven't found it, and the problem is not only with the parties, but also with me."
A rare public admission of personal fault from Zelensky, distinct from the more defensive tone of most wartime leadership statements this thread has documented.
When Dr. Erica Schwartz left federal service in April 2021, she cashed in fast, landing a lucrative UnitedHealth executive role, corporate board seats, stock awards, and millions in healthcare equity.
Now she is nominated to lead the CDC and the revolving door keeps on spinning.
Her timeline is striking:
• April 2021: leaves government
• May 2021: joins Aveanna Healthcare’s board
• September 2021: joins Butterfly Network’s board
• October 2021: becomes a senior UnitedHealthcare executive
Within roughly six months, she moved from Deputy Surgeon General into three corporate healthcare positions.
At UnitedHealthcare, Schwartz became President of Insurance Solutions for Medicare & Retirement.
That title is critical.
She was not merely a corporate medical adviser. She held an executive position in a business focused on federally subsidized healthcare for older Americans, inside the largest healthcare conglomerate in the country.
Her federal financial disclosure reports:
• $846,375 in UnitedHealth salary and bonus
• $466,213 classified as UnitedHealth ordinary income
• Unvested restricted stock units valued between $1 million and $5 million
• Multiple tranches of vested and unvested UnitedHealth stock options
UnitedHealth has also agreed to provide Schwartz substantial exit benefits if she enters government. How convenient.
Her disclosure says the company will cash out certain unvested restricted stock units and options that were not scheduled to vest until between August 2026 and August 2027.
The valuation formula uses the highest UnitedHealth closing share price during a specified period preceding payment.
There is more.
Before Schwartz takes office, UnitedHealth will provide a cash payment composed of one year of salary and a cash incentive based on her 2025 compensation.
The precise eventual amount is not disclosed.
In other words, the company is not simply allowing her to resign. It is replacing compensation she otherwise would have forfeited by returning to government.
That arrangement may comply with federal ethics law but compliance does not eliminate the obvious public-interest question:
Why should a healthcare corporation financially cushion an executive’s return to federal power? Are we to honestly believe that UnitedHealth doesn’t expect anything in return?
The lawful revolving door is still a revolving door. A golden parachute does not become irrelevant merely because government ethics lawyers have inspected the stitching.
Schwartz’s second major corporate relationship is Butterfly Network, a company producing handheld digital ultrasound systems.
She joined its board in September 2021, later chaired its Governance Committee, and served on its Technology Committee.
Butterfly’s 2026 proxy reported that Schwartz received $252,498 in 2025 board compensation, including $184,998 in stock awards.
Butterfly’s proxy also reported that Schwartz beneficially owned 295,818 Class A shares.
Her federal disclosure valued her Butterfly stock between $1 million and $5 million and listed unvested restricted stock units valued between $250,001 and $500,000.
Butterfly has agreed to accelerate the vesting of her remaining restricted stock when she resigns to enter government.
Butterfly presents an indirect conflict, not a clean jurisdictional one.
The FDA, not the CDC, directly regulates ultrasound devices. CDC nonetheless shapes disease-detection practices, emergency preparedness, public-health procurement, surveillance strategies, and clinical guidance that can influence demand for diagnostic technology.
Schwartz’s third corporate position is with Aveanna Healthcare, a publicly traded home-health company providing pediatric nursing, home health, hospice, and therapy services.
She joined the board in May 2021 and eventually became chair of its Clinical Quality Committee.
Aveanna’s 2026 proxy reported $212,000 in 2025 compensation for Schwartz, including $130,000 in stock awards.
Aveanna’s proxy reported that Schwartz beneficially owned 257,498 shares.
Her government disclosure placed her Aveanna stock in the $1 million to $5 million range and listed unvested restricted stock units between $100,001 and $250,000.
Aveanna has agreed to accelerate the vesting of those units when she leaves for government.
Aveanna also prepaid Schwartz’s board and committee fees for the period from June 2026 through May 2027.
Her ethics disclosure says that if she resigns early because she is confirmed, Aveanna will allow her to retain all those fees despite not completing the service period.
Again, the company is replacing compensation she would otherwise lose by entering government.
Aveanna receives funding from Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers. Its filings warn that reimbursement rules, federal healthcare reform, public-health emergencies, quality requirements, and government program changes can materially affect its business.
The CDC does not set Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement rates. Its infection-control guidance, outbreak policies, surveillance, and public-health recommendations can still affect home-health operations.
Between Butterfly and Aveanna alone, Schwartz received approximately $464,500 in 2025 corporate board compensation.
That was separate from her UnitedHealth executive compensation.
You're probably paying for a Netflix plan you don't need.
Not a discount code. Not a hack. Just the wrong tier, wasted device slots, and a "temporary" upgrade you made 14 months ago and forgot about.
Netflix now runs three tiers — $8.99, $19.99, and $26.99 a month — plus $7.99–$9.99 for every extra person on your account. Most households are stacked on the most expensive combination possible, using none of what they're paying for.
A subscription auditor who's reviewed hundreds of streaming bills put it simply:
*"Nobody sits down and picks a Netflix plan. They get defaulted into one, then upgrade once for a trip or a 4K TV, and never downgrade back. The subscription just keeps charging the peak version of itself forever."*
Here's how to actually audit yours — and what to change tonight 🧵
First — what you're actually paying for.
Standard with Ads: $8.99/mo. Full catalog minus ~59 titles, HD, 2 devices at once.
Standard: $19.99/mo. Same 2 devices, HD, no ads.
Premium: $26.99/mo. 4K, spatial audio, 4 devices at once.
Extra members (people outside your household): $7.99/mo with ads, $9.99/mo without — per person, on top of your plan.
The jump from Standard with Ads to Premium is $18/month for the same content — you're paying for resolution, device count, and silence, not more shows.
Most people have no idea which of those three things they're actually using.
Step 1: Check what device you actually watch on.
Go to Netflix.com → Account → look at your plan details, then think about your last 10 nights of watching.
If you watch on a phone, laptop, or a TV that isn't a true 4K panel, Premium is buying you nothing. 4K only matters on a 4K-capable screen sitting close enough to see the difference.
If you're the only person using the account and never watch on two screens simultaneously, you don't need multi-device capacity either.
Most solo or couple households are correctly served by Standard with Ads or Standard — full stop.
An overview of the daily events in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As expected, Zelensky made a big mistake and dismissed Fedorov as minister of defense. Causing widespread backlash in Ukrainian society.
Why Creation ex Nihilo is Epistemically Circular Under Taymiyyan Empricism🧵
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful – ﷽
If one adopts a Taymiyyan empiricist epistemology while maintaining that God's existence can be successfully established through a rational causal argument, then consistency demands rejecting creation ex nihilo as metaphysically impossible. (1/8)
This is because, under empiricism, the universality of the causal principle is established "inductively" from repeatedly observed instances of secondary causation, in which material substances always arise from prior material causes. (2/8)
Thread: Eris – The Uninvited Teacher Forcing Truth (1/7)
Eris, the dwarf planet discovered in 2005, carries the mythic weight of the Greek goddess who was deliberately left off the guest list for the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
While the other gods feasted in celebration, Eris—goddess of strife and discord—arrived uninvited and hurled a golden apple inscribed “To the Fairest” into their midst. The resulting quarrel among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite led to the Judgment of Paris, the abduction of Helen, and the Trojan War.
What began as an act of exclusion became the spark that forced hidden rivalries, desires, and power struggles into the open, reshaping the world.
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In astrology, Eris functions in much the same way. She is the disruptor who refuses to let false harmony stand. When her energy activates in a chart or in collective transits, long-buried resentments, suppressed truths, and marginalized parts of the self or society surface—often through conflict, revelation, or sudden confrontation.
People experience her as the voice inside that will no longer stay quiet, the situation that exposes where they have been excluded or where they have excluded others, and the pressure to stop pretending everything is fine when it is not.
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Her influence shows up in everyday life as the moment a relationship, job, or belief system stops feeling authentic and begins to chafe. It appears as the growing awareness that certain parts of yourself—anger, ambition, grief, or desire—have been pushed aside to keep the peace. It manifests as the sudden clarity that a group, institution, or narrative has been built on exclusion and can no longer be ignored.
Rather than punishing, Eris insists on visibility. She doesn't expect you to understand the lesson on your own. She shows you. She teaches that denial only amplifies the eventual disruption.
It appears Fedorov has gone all in against General Syrskyi:
Syrskyi, instead of finding an asymmetric way to defeat Russia, he found a way to divide the country. That is the real problem. 1/9
When the President said he did not intend to dismiss Syrskyi, that was his decision as Supreme Commander in Chief, and I fully accepted it. I said that I would learn to work with him, because, ultimately, our client is the Ukrainian people. 2/9
But what we encountered was that the initiatives we proposed began to be blocked. Despite all the problems we have discussed today, Syrskyi is not prepared to address them openly and face to face. 3/9