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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "IS EUROPE REALLY AN ALLY ?

Some in the US Congress are upset that Spain and the UK have barred use of US facilities in the conflict with Iran., The French and the Germans have been very cool to the US policy.
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I should not blame all of Europe, but this reminds me of October 1973.

At that time, Arab Armies attacked Israel, and frankly, Israel was fast running out of ammunition and equipment. President Nixon decided to resupply Israel rather than let Israel be defeated and
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all its people killed (including me, my wife and my son).

But Europe, closed its airspace to the US military. It even grounded American aircraft in Germany, Spain and Italy, preventing the USA from resupplying Israel from US bases in Europe.
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How are the IRGC and Iranian forces in general handling the key losses of their top leadership and Military Officers?

Answer: IRGC “decentralized command & control” (C2)

IRGC “decentralized command & control” (C2) isn’t a last-minute improvisation. It’s baked into a long-running IRGC concept often described as “mosaic defense” -> built to keep fighting even if Tehran’s top nodes get hit.
iranprimer.usip.org/resource/irans…

Core idea: avoid a single “brain.” Instead, spread authority, forces, and logistics across provincial commands so the system still functions if leadership or comms are disrupted.

iranwire.com/en/features/65…

GEL BU İŞTEN VAZGEÇ! '

Öğleden sonra kar beyaz sarıklı, aksakallı, cüppeli, mest lastikli bir milletvekili Mustafa Kemal Paşa’yı 'Direksiyon Binası'nda ziyarete geldi.

Bugün meclis tatildi. Paşa güncel, basit, sıradan tartışmalara hiç katılmayan bu olgun din adamını severdi.

Hiç beklemeden kabul etti. Saygıyla karşıladı, yer gösterdi. Oturdular. Karşılıklı hal hatır sordular.

Hoca konuya girdi:

“Güzel Paşam, sen bu millete Allah’ın bir lütfusun. Bugüne kadar sen beni hoş tuttun, ben de seni başımız bildim.

Bu güvene dayanarak sana bir teklifte bulunmaya geldim.”

Mustafa Kemal Paşa merakla,

“Buyrun” dedi.

“Anladığıma göre padişahlık gidiyor. Belki bir gün hilafet de tarihe karışacak.”

Paşa gülümsemekle yetindi.

Putin's shadow war on EU is no longer run by professionals. The Kremlin lost most of its spy networks and replaced them with desperate people willing to work for cash.

🧵One taxi driver shows what that looks like in practice

Western security officials say Aleksei Kolosovsky, a 42-year-old from Krasnodar, has become a key facilitator in the Kremlin's sabotage campaign across Europe.

He is not a trained intelligence officer. He is a former cab driver who investigators say works closely with the GRU.

[2/20]

Kolosovsky is believed to have helped co-ordinate attacks including an IKEA fire in Vilnius and arson that destroyed over 1,000 businesses in Warsaw.

He is also suspected of plotting to place incendiary devices on cargo planes bound for Britain, Germany and Poland.

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Der nächste AfD-Brandbrief:

"Mehrere Mitglieder des
▶️ AfD-Kreisverbands Konstanz wenden sich an die Bundespartei.
In dem Schreiben (liegt BILD vor) ist von
👉„Machtcliquen,
👉Rechtsbrüchen und
👉Ausschaltung der Gewaltenteilung“ die Rede.

Der Landesverband entferne sich
👉 „auf eklatante Weise immer mehr von den programmatischen Grundsätzen und den eigenen Ansprüchen“.
Statt basisdemokratischer Strukturen herrsche ein
👉„autokratischer Machtanspruch
und ein

👉autoritäres Gebaren, vergleichbar mit dem
‼️Wirken von POLITBÜROS früherer Zeiten“.

Besonders scharf kritisieren die Autoren den Landesvorstand.
Dieser verhalte sich nicht wie ein Führungsgremium, sondern wie ein
👉„Sachwalter für Postensicherheit“.

you think you know it? 8 links to BETTER understand principal component analysis (PCA) 🧵 👇

1. PCA in action, my blog post to calculate SVD and PCA with #rstatsdivingintogeneticsandgenomics.rbind.io/post/pca-in-ac…

2. MIT 1806 linear algebra on SVD

This one should be labelled 'Public Health Failure'.

https://twitter.com/1goodtern/status/2028839410674938048

Yep, I've taken funerals for two of these.

COVID IS A VASCULAR DISEASE.

Judge Kea Riggs, a Trump-appointed judge from Arizona, has ordered ICE provide a bond hearing a man in the United States for 25 years with no criminal record, who is the father of two US citizen kids, one of whom needs a heart transplant. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

We also have what appears to be the first and only ruling so far on the Trump administration's mandatory detention policy in the Northern District of West Virginia. John Bailey, a George W. Bush appointed judge, ordered the release of a man from Georgia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, absolutely thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US. at age 9 and deemed an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Las personas con disfagia tienen dificultad o la imposibilidad para tragar alimentos, independientemente de si estos son sólidos o líquidos.

Hoy, en hilos que esconde el algoritmo…

FÁRMACOS y DISFAGIA

La patología afecta a la musculatura y está relacionada con lesiones en la lengua, las encías y una escasa producción de saliva. Consecuencia de ello, tienen más riesgo de sufrir deshidratación, que en algunos casos pueden derivar incluso en problemas más serios.

Entre ellos, problemas respiratorios como la neumonía por aspiración que puede provocar la muerte.

Existen una serie de alimentos de riesgo, como los muy calientes, ácidos o picantes, aquellos que tengan filamentos o sean muy fibrosos, las pieles de las legumbres o aquellos…

Our 55,000 Crore Rice Exports Disrupted due to Iran War

India exports nearly $6 billion worth of basmati rice every year.

60–70% of all these basmati exports go to just 5 countries:

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, UAE, and Yemen.

That’s ~$3.5 billion riding on a single volatile region.

Right now, some ships are halted at ports.

Others are stopped mid-transit.

New shipments are being delayed.

In some trade corridors, business has nearly come to a standstill.

Conflict forces ships onto longer, safer routes.

Longer route = more fuel = higher cost.

Ship fuel (bunker fuel) rises with crude oil.

Every extra day at sea eats into exporter margins.

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser is the best modern architect you've never heard of.

His philosophy was simple. As he said:

"The straight line is godless and immoral."

If there's any building you can think of, he made it look like something from a dream...

Accommodation at a children's hospital in Essen, Germany, from 2005:

A kindergarten in Frankfurt, opened in 1995:

BREAKING: AI can now build strategy decks like McKinsey partners (for free).

Here are 15 Claude prompts that replace $250K/year consulting work (Save for later) 👇

1. The "MECE" Auditor

McKinsey's core principle is Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive.

Prompt:
"Review this list of strategic initiatives for [Company/Product].
Check if they are MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive).
Identify gaps where we are missing a category and point out overlaps where we are doubling work."

2. The "Market Sizing" Estimator

Don't guess the TAM (Total Addressable Market). Calculate it.

Prompt:
"I need to estimate the market size for [Product] in [Region].
Walk me through a bottom-up market sizing approach.
List all assumptions I need to validate.
Give me a Fermi estimate based on current population data."

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1. The Iran War has already claimed the lives of 6 U.S. soldiers, hundreds of Iranians, and dozens of people in neighboring countries.

For others, it's been a money-making opportunity.

2. Six newly-created accounts on the prediction market Polymarket raked in nearly $1 million by betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by February 28.

The White House says no one in "Trump's orbit" placed bets.

popular.info/p/the-casino-f…

3. Overall, “$529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes” on Polymarket.

Moving forward, Polymarket is offering dozens of markets on war-related developments.

Valerii Puzik spent 40 days in a dirt hole with no food, no water, no signal.

He serves on the Zaporizhzhia front. He calls it “infantry hell” and his second birthday. — Ukrainska Pravda 1/

Puzik: “We were five in the hole — three Ukrainians and two Colombians.”

When supplies ran out, they split one can and a 14-cm piece of ham with a tape measure. Millimeters per person. 2/

Puzik: “Hunger strips you bare. You stop playing roles.”

It peels off manners, status, fear — until only one thing remains: survive. 3/

WHY BOOKS ARE EXPENSIVE IN AFRICA.
Thread.

In 2022, I was commissioned by a representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture to conduct a desktop study on how nations successfully commercialise literature and write recommendations to their ministry.

I examined publishing ecosystems in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Norway, Canada, and Germany. One conclusion stood out clearly: serious countries do not tax knowledge.

Across these nations, books are either zero-rated for VAT, heavily subsidised,

or protected through deliberate policy frameworks. In the United Kingdom, books carry zero VAT. In France and Germany, books enjoy reduced VAT rates because they are treated not as consumer luxuries, but as cultural and educational infrastructure.

You are a brain-dead, history-raping, Gospel-twisting antisemitic sewer rat...

I'm an Atheist, and I'm about to dismantle your bullshit.

You just vomited the single most blood-soaked, lie-drenched trope that has justified two thousand years of pogroms, expulsions, ghettos, and gas chambers, and you did it with the intellectual depth of a Reddit edgelord who read one meme and thinks he’s a theologian.

“Jews chose Barabbas.” “Pilate was trying to save Jesus.” Go lie somewhere else, Jew?

I’m pinning your ignorant ass to the cross of actual facts, actual Greek texts, actual Roman history, and actual Christian theology until the lie stops breathing.

Let’s eviscerate this corpse of a claim with surgical, lethal precision.

🧵

https://x.com/grey4626/status/2028822334463791432

I. “The Jews” did not choose shit.

The Gospels themselves (Mark 15:11, Matthew 27:20, Luke 23:18, John 18:40) are crystal clear: the chief priests and their hand-picked crowd... A tiny, manipulated mob in Jerusalem at Passover...were whipped into a frenzy.

Not “the Jews.”

Not the 2.5 million Jews scattered across the empire.

Not the Galilean followers who just waved palm branches five days earlier screaming “Hosanna.”

Not the Sanhedrin as a whole...Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were on it and opposed.

This is basic fucking exegesis.

The Greek says “hoi archiereis”...the high priests... “epeisan ton ochlon...incited/stirred up the crowd.

John even specifies the priests feared Roman reprisal if Jesus’ movement grew (John 11:48).

Blaming “the Jews” collectively is not theology; it’s the exact heresy Nostra Aetate...Vatican II, 1965...anathematized and every mainstream Christian denomination has rejected for decades.

You’re not quoting Scripture.

You’re quoting medieval passion-play propaganda that literally got Jews massacred on Good Friday for centuries.

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II. Barabbas was a political terroris...and the Gospels use him as a mirror, not a gotcha.

Yes, “lestes” = bandit/insurrectionist...
Mark 15:7, Luke 23:19, John 18:40.

He was exactly the kind of violent Zealot anti-Roman revolutionary Jesus explicitly rejected...“those who live by the sword die by the sword,” Matt 26:52; “render unto Caesar,” Mark 12:17.

The name “Bar-Abbas” = “son of the father.” Jesus = “the Son of the Father.”

The Evangelists are theologically contrasting the crowd’s choice of violent messianism over the suffering servant.

That’s literary genius, not “Jews bad.”

And guess what?

The same crowd that yelled “Crucify him!” had been screaming “Hosanna!” days before.

Crowds are fickle.

That’s not an indictment of a race; it’s an indictment of human nature under mob pressure and priestly manipulation.

Read any commentary from N.T. Wright, Raymond Brown, or Pope Benedict XVI instead of whatever Nazi telegram channel fed you this slop.

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1/12 Bahrain is one of the gulf countries being hit with missiles, and as people follow the news, it’s important you understand the country, its context and history:
The indigenous population of Bahrain are the Baharna (بحارنة) – mostly made up of Arab Shia (it was one of the first countries to become Shia in the region in the 7th century). The Alkhalifa family (from the Bani Utbah tribe) occupied Bahrain by force in 1783 coming from Zubara (modern day Qatar) and have been ruling with violence since then. During the 2011 uprising one of the prominent chants was “go back to Zubara, your visit is over”, as the Bahrainis consider themselves occupied. This makes Bahrain the oldest ongoing occupation in the region.

2/12 Around 30 years after their violent take-over, the Alkhalifas struck a deal with the British to become a protectorate (to protect them from the indigenous population). During their rule, the Alkhalifas depended on the UK and US to maintain full control, oppress the local population and one of their tools was to revoke citizenship and deport many indigenous Shia families to neighboring countries. At one point leaders of the uprising in the 50s were even sent to St. Helena Island where Napoleon was held. Bahrain has one of the oldest civil rights movements in the region, stemming back to the 1920s. There are uprisings almost every ten years in the country. In the 1920s the British were regarded as the de-facto rulers of Bahrain (see: the diaries of Charles Belgrave) to the extent that they could replace one emir with another when they wanted to secure their interest (see: replacement of emir in 1923).

3/12 When the families who had been forced out of Bahrain to countries like Iran and Iraq returned to Bahrain after many years, sometimes decades, the regime tried pushing the narrative that these were Iranians coming to Bahrain that the regime was kind enough to allow. This doesn’t negate that there has also been immigration of Iranians to Bahrain.

Desculpa o atraso. Vamos lá:

1 - isenção de ganho de capital na venda de único imóvel até R$440mil (pode usar 1 vez a cada 5 anos)

2 - isenção de ganho de capital no uso do produto da venda de um imóvel para comprar outro (também 1 vez a cada 5 anos) +

https://twitter.com/Rocky_Neto/status/2028507500203405704

3 - Venda de Imóveis comprados antes de 1969 (bem específico);
4 - Vendas até 35 mil por mês não pagam ganho de capital (somando tudo, ex: 2 carros de 15 mil vendidos em um único mês não batem o teto de 30 mil e, portanto, não teria ganho de capital); *exceto ações +

5 - Venda de ações em um único mês até 20 mil. ( Se a venda foi de até 20 mil você não paga ganho de capital pela valorização delas)

6 - Se você é aposentado com doença grave - não paga IR sobre o valor da aposentadoria; (reconhecido judicialmente ou administrativamente)

JUSTIÇA EM FAMÍLIA | Dos 33 ministros do Superior Tribunal de Justiça, 19 têm esposas, filhos ou sobrinhos atuando como advogados em processos que aguardam decisão do STJ.

Vejam quem são no fio 👇

Esses parentes fazem sustentações nos julgamentos e são recebidos em audiências no STJ. Uma fonte diz que virou uma prática de mercado procurar esses defensores

Veja quem são os ministros do STJ com familiares advogando em ações na Corte

An Ontario government appointee to @UofT’s Governing Council is using his institutional power to target students, smear professors, and push policies that restrict dissent. This isn’t about “free speech” it’s about using his power to silence opposition. 🧵#ONpoli

In his role at UofT @DrJacobsRad helps shape: campus governance, disciplinary norms, student safety, and the boundaries of acceptable speech. His tweets must be understood as more than just ‘opinions.’ When he labels students as terrorists, it puts them at risk on campus.

He has repeatedly framed student protest as terrorism, even when the decision on UofT’s own legal filings did not find those students to be hateful. Calling dissent “terrorism” is not neutral language. It is suggestive of wrong doing and primes surveillance and punishment.