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In Russian culture, there is a distinction between a common lie (lozh) and vranyo. Vranyo is a form of "strategic lying" where the speaker knows they are lying, the listener knows they are lying & the speaker knows the listener knows but the lie is maintained as dominance

In geopolitical context, vranyo is used to flood the information space with contradictory or extreme narratives so the concept of objective truth is eroded. This tactic aims to make the most "audacious" claims against Jews, i.e. blood libels—socially or journalistically debatable

The "blueprint" for modern anti-Jewish disinformation was authored by the Russian Tsarist secret police (the Okhrana) in the early 1900s. A fabricated document, claiming a Jewish plot for global domination, remains the most successful disinformation campaign in history.

Since the Day of ‘Arafah is already drawing near;

If you do not know the difference between Laylatul Qadr and the Day of ‘Arafah, then reflect on this:

https://twitter.com/piousdeenn/status/2051321986333519890

On Laylatul Qadr, the angels descend to the earth:

The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. (Surah Al-Qadr 97:4)

And the Spirit is Jibreel (A.S).

As for the Day of ‘Arafah:

The Prophet ﷺ said:

“There is no day on which Allah frees more people from the Fire than the Day of ‘Arafah. He draws near, then boasts about them to the angels.” (Sahih Muslim 1348)

🧵THREAD: The White House Press team is actively denying my correspondent from obtaining White House Press Credentials.

This has been going on for over a month. Our team has asked every question as to why this is happening. We even issued a legal inquiry to the WH legal counsel about this issue regarding temporary press credentials.

WH Press Team Response: “I don't think we will be able to accommodate you anytime in the near future.” Followed by: “What do you plan on covering?”

We are now facing radio silence from the White House Press team.

#2: Our WH Correspondent @MichaelCasey_ has been following each WH press protocol for obtaining a temporary press badge. In the past, our team has been able to get approved for temporary WH press credentials. Email shown below:

#3: In the past month, the language from the WH press team has changed from “I don't think we will be able to accommodate you anytime in the near future.” to now asking our correspondent, “What do you plan on covering?”

What story made them WH upset? Why is the WH asking us what we plan on covering?

Post 1/6
Democrats are wailing about “waste, fraud & abuse” in Arizona’s ESA school choice program.
Fine — fix the oversight gaps.
But they never ask the real question:
Why are tens of thousands of families fleeing public schools in droves?
Hint: It’s not because the traditional system is efficiently run. 🧵

2/6
Arizona public district schools spent $13.4 billion in FY2025.
Yet instructional spending (actual teaching) dropped to just 52.1% of the budget — the lowest percentage in over 20 years.
More money going to admin, bureaucracy, buildings, and operations instead of classrooms.

3/6
Arizona ranks 49th in the nation in per-pupil spending… and dead last in class sizes.
Parents see the results: stagnant test scores, discipline problems, ideology creeping in, and constant cries for more money with little improvement.
So they’re voting with their feet.

For the last two years, my life was a blur of breaking news alerts and the relentless machinery of national power. Leading the teams at USA TODAY was a sprint through an era being rewritten in real-time. It was essential, exhausting, and—to be honest—deafening.

But after 30+ years in this business—from analog football scrimmages to the digital trenches of Politico and Insider—I’ve realized something: The faster the news moves, the more we need a place to slow down.

It's why I’m coming home to love, journalism. Over the coming weeks, I’m turning the space into a laboratory for the future of storytelling. My goal is to pull back the curtain on why we do this work, exploring stories of adversity, the projects journalists are most proud of, and how we navigate these turbulent times.

Right fucking now

https://twitter.com/colecubelic/status/2054569932898091142

Players earning money, out in the open, in a free market
Historically bad program winning a championship
Teams with gigantic spending failing terribly
10-15 programs with a legitimate chance at a title
End of the ESPN-SEC 1000 year reich

What's not to like?

Iowa has about the lowest transfer turnover in the country. Because they recruit underrated 2-3 stars with chips on their shoulders who remain loyal. Pay $2 million for a 5-star, don't be surprised when he considers the deal purely transactional.

https://x.com/DennisShoup1/status/2054587637340533075

Me obsesiona entender por qué los pueblos están donde están.
¿Por qué nacen exactamente donde nacen? ¿Por qué unos en el fondo del valle y otros en lo alto del cerro? En la Quebrada de Humahuaca esas decisiones no fueron estéticas. Fueron vitales.

La Quebrada no es un paisaje. Es un corredor de 150 km que une el altiplano andino con los valles bajos del sur. En pocos kilómetros el clima cambia, la vegetación cambia, la altura cambia. El territorio no es escenografía. Es estructura.

El Río Grande la recorre 180 km de norte a sur. Desde Iturbe baja atravesando Humahuaca, Tilcara, Maimará y Purmamarca. Esos pueblos no están ahí por casualidad. El río los organizó. Por eso lo llaman el Nilo jujeño: sin él, nada de esto existiría.

1. August 17, 2021, was the date the CIA's COVID Discovery Team was forced to officially finalize & submit their changed conclusion.

Prior to August 17, 2021, 6 out of 7 members of the team had concluded with "low confidence" that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan, China.

https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/2054579522994110498

2. The whistleblower just testified that following pressure & interference from mid-level & senior CIA leadership, the team's lab-leak findings were suppressed.

3. On August 17, 2021, the team was forced to reverse its stance and officially submit a conclusion stating they were unable to determine the origin, which formed the basis of the declassified ODNI report released later that month.

AfD-Verbotsverfahren:
▶️ 100.000 Unterschriften aus NRW
Kampagne knackt die 100.000 Marke:
▶️ Die Unterschriftenflut soll die NRW-Landesregierung jetzt zum Handeln gegen die AfD drängen. share.google/uNwBWThTOL5wN9…

Die verschiedenen Gruppen gegen Rechts waren schon in 60 Orten in NRW unterwegs.
▶️ Heute sind sie mit dem bunten, sehr auffälligen Jacques-Tilly-Wagen in Paderborn.
▶️ Mitte Juli sollen die Unterschriften der Landesregierung NRW übergeben werden.

Fast 120 Gruppen sammeln noch bis Ende Juni Unterschriften.
Dass sie so viele Gruppen mobilisieren konnten, darauf ist der Mitinitiator der Kampagne, Törk Hansen besonders stolz.
Er spüre einen gewissen Optimismus, dass die Aktion die NRW Landesregierung zum Handeln bringe.

You don’t need a lawyer to transfer your home into a trust, but you must follow the correct legal steps. Here’s the full process.

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A lot of y’all are treating summer skin completely wrong.

And your routine is making your skin worse.

🧵

Heat changes your skin.

Now suddenly your skin is:

oilier
dehydrated
irritated
sweating more
breaking out
reacting to products that used to work

That’s normal.

Your routine should change with the season.

Most people respond by either:

❌ stripping their skin
OR
❌ suffocating it with heavy products
Both are wrong.

This is how angels look according to the Bible.

Here's a breakdown of the 9 different types, and why they say when they appear:

"Be not afraid"...

"Angel" (from the Greek "angelos") just means messenger. We think of God's messengers as winged humanoids, but encounters in the Bible get far more interesting than that...

Theologians have spent centuries making sense of their various descriptions.

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite identified 9 distinct types of angel, from the mostly-humanoid to the much more abstract.

לקראת יום ירושלים, שרשור אדריכלי על מהפכת המגדלים בירושלים!

האם בכלל צריך מגדלים בעיר? מה המניעים הסמויים לבנייתם? ואיך עליהם להראות?
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מי שהסתובב בירושלים בחודשים האחרונים בטח שם לב לאלמנט חדש ובולט בנוף העירוני: אינספור מגדלים שרק צומחים מיום ליום.

מה הגורמים למהפכה הדרמטית הזו?
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היסטורית, הן כמדיניות רשמית והן בציבור, התנגדו לבניית מגדלים בירושלים מפני שאלו פוגעים בקו הנוף ובאופי של העיר ההיסטורית.

מספיק להיזכר בסערה סביב פרויקט הולילנד השנוא (שגם מרחיבים עכשיו) או אפילו במחאה שקמה שנים לפני כן בגלל בניינו וולפסון שהצלו על גן סאקר.
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Supreme Court remarks on women empowerment and patriarchal mindset in a divorce case between an Army officer (husband) and a dentist (wife) - Thread 🧵

The couple was granted divorce by the family court and the high court on the ground of cruelty and desertion by the wife for starting her own dental clinic away from Kargil, where her husband was posted.

The wife approached the Supreme Court not disputing the divorce, but seeking expungement of findings on cruelty and desertion.

Court: In the present world, where women are making strides in leaps and bounds, merely because the husband was an Army Officer posted in a remote location, the expectation that the wife could not even think of pursuing her career in Dentistry, is indicative of regressive and feudalistic mindset.

Court: It must be emphasised that a well-educated and professionally qualified woman cannot be expected to be confined within the rigid boundaries of matrimonial obligations alone. Marriage does not eclipse her individuality, nor does it subjugate her identity under that of her spouse.

Court: The expectation that a woman must invariably sacrifice her career and conform to traditional notions of an obedient wife meant for cohabitation, irrespective of her own aspirations or the welfare of the child, reflects a line of reasoning that is archaic, ultra-conservative, and cannot be countenanced.

Court: What is portrayed as defiance in the impugned judgments is, in truth, an assertion of independence; what is labelled as desertion is, on a closer scrutiny, a consequence of circumstances shaped by professional commitments.

Gossip Goblin is arguably the best AI filmmaker in the world.

His new film THE PATCHWRIGHT is a masterpiece (10M+ views).

But nobody knows how he actually makes these.
Until now.

He let me share every step of the workflow with you 🧵👇

2/ This is 4 months of work for 20 minutes of film, set in a world he's been building for years

The Patchwright didn't start from scratch.

Zach has been making 2 to 3 episodes a week in this universe for 11 months, so by the time he sat down to write the film he already had tens of thousands of midjourney images to pull from, established characters, a custom alphabet, even a custom language.

People love to ask about the tools but honestly the accumulated story bible is doing a huge amount of the heavy lifting here.

3/ Visual exploration follows the story beats

The film opens in a corporate penthouse, descends through an aerial ship sequence, and lands on the gritty street.

So they broke their aesthetic exploration down by altitude. Penthouse, ship interior, midair city, street level, wet market.

Before animating anything in Kling, each location got its own dedicated midjourney pass, and then a nano banana pass to insert consistent characters in those midjourney "plate shots".

Pierre Ghenassia - El Hadj de Ouarsenis

"Parmi les infirmiers et médecins, l’une des figures les plus attachantes fut celle de notre infirmier zonal, Hadj. Nous l’appelions ainsi, mais son vrai nom était Ganacia (sic). Il était israélite, parlait très bien l’arabe."

Pour tous ceux qui tiennent comme un fait établi le prétendu antagonisme de nos origines religieuses, je voudrais qu’on le sache : Hadj est mort, refusant d’abandonner ses blessés. C’était un frère et nous l’avons pleuré."

Ces mots, ce sont ceux de son chef, le commandant de l’ALN, Si Azzedine. Il les écrira en 1976 dans "On nous appelait fellaghas". Il ajoute : "À Boukren, il sauva Boualem Oussedik de la gangrène. Hadj est mort à Tiberguent, en défendant une infirmerie et les blessés"

Hi, I’m Layla! I’ll be live-tweeting today’s 9:00 a.m. Chicago Park District Board of Commissioners Meeting. #CHIDocumenters @CHIdocumenters

Here is the link to today’s meeting agenda: chicagoparkdistrict.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&…

The meeting has been called into order at 9:00 a.m. promptly and the pledge of allegiance and roll call has been completed.

Divorce has six stages,

Stage three is the point of no return for most people.

Stage 1: Emotional Disengagement...

The marriage ends emotionally before it ends legally. Partners feel detached, resentful, or indifferent. Communication breaks down, and spouses start living parallel lives. This is the longest stage for many couples and can last for years, sometimes decades.

Emotional disengagement does not happen overnight. It creeps in slowly. One partner stops sharing their inner world. They stop talking about their day, their fears, their dreams. They stop asking for help. They stop asking for attention. The other partner may not even notice. Or they notice but tell themselves it is just a phase. They are busy. They are tired. They will reconnect soon. But soon never comes.

The silence grows. The distance grows. Neither partner reaches across it. There is no drama. No slammed doors. No shouting matches. Just two people slowly becoming strangers under the same roof. They still share a bed. They still share meals. They still attend family gatherings together. But something essential has died. The warmth is gone. The curiosity is gone. The marriage has become a routine, not a relationship.

Stage 2: Intellectual Divorce

Both partners consciously acknowledge the marriage is not working. They start rationalizing why it should end and considering divorce as an option. This is where discussions about separation often begin, even if nothing is acted on yet.

In this stage, one or both partners begin to mentally prepare for an exit. They research their legal options. They talk to trusted friends or family. They start imagining what life would look like alone. They may even consult an attorney in secret. The conversations become more honest, more direct, and more painful.

This stage is dangerous because the couple is still living together, still sharing responsibilities, still performing normalcy. But inside, one or both have already decided. The body of the marriage is still moving. The heart has stopped beating. They go through the motions. They say "I love you" out of habit. They attend social events as a couple. But the intellectual divorce has already happened. The marriage is over in their minds. The legal process is just waiting to catch up.

🧵 Negli ultimi giorni Vladimir Putin e la sua Goebbels, Margarita Simonyan, hanno parlato di Armenia.

Ho voluto tradurre entrambi i loro video, perché vanno visti insieme: si completano a vicenda e, nel farlo, smontano brutalmente la propaganda filorussa.

1/➡️

In primo luogo Putin individua nel tentativo di adesione dell'Ucraina all'UE l'origine del conflitto attuale.

È qualcosa che da queste parti abbiamo sempre sostenuto e che, onestamente, è evidente a chiunque sia un minimo informato.

2/➡️

Il casus belli è questo: l'avvicinamento dell'Ucraina all'UE ed il suo allontanamento dalla sfera di influenza russa. Per l'impero le province non hanno il diritto di autodeterminarsi, e se ci provano l'impero deve impedirglielo con la forza.

È tutto qui. Né più e né meno.

3/➡️

A new long COVID study found that standard autoimmune blood tests often looked normal. But when researchers tested patients blood directly against heart and blood vessel tissue, they found persistent immune reactivity - especially involving vascular tissue.🧵

https://twitter.com/harryspoelstra/status/2054484320794849315

The study found tissue-specific autoreactivity in many long COVID patients - especially against vascular tissue - while standard ANA screening often looked normal.

They found tissue-specific autoreactivity in 83% of long COVID patients vs 53% of pre-pandemic controls.
The clearest statistically significant difference was against vascular tissue.
34% in long COVID vs 8% in controls.

On hantavirus #ANDV #hantavirus

I think the Andes hantavirus data is being misread right now.

Claims are circulating that the evidence doesn’t seem to support.

I want to walk through them carefully.

The 40% fatality figure: an artefact of who gets counted.

The 40% case fatality rate (CFR) figure comes specifically from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), an outcome in a subset of hanta infections.

This is the severe cardiopulmonary presentation. It excludes subclinical infections that resolved without anyone noticing more than “a touch of flu”.

In Jujuy Province, Argentina, the seroprevalence (rate at which people have antibodies due to hanta infection) is 6.5%. Hospitalised HPS cases had a CFR of 13.3%, but most patients were described as having a mild clinical course.

Disclaimer: although an Argentine outbreak, this has not been confirmed as ANDV.

The 40% is the fatality rate among people sick enough to be diagnosed and hospitalised.

It is not the infection fatality rate.

These are not the same thing, and conflating them is causing significant confusion.

The true attack rate: barely any data.

The Boat had approximately 180 exposed individuals, and around ten cases have been detected. Three - soon to be four, I predict - have died.

Without antibody analysis of the full cohort, we don’t know how many mild or subclinical infections were missed entirely.