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Jun 3
🚨 BREAKING: Modi Govt's EPFO 3.0 Revolution – Withdraw Your Hard-Earned PF Money in SECONDS Using UPI or ATM! No Boss Approval, No Endless Wait – But Is This Too Good to Be True?

Millions of Indian workers are buzzing with excitement – and worry. The Labour Ministry under the Narendra Modi government has dropped a game-changing update: soon, you'll pull out your Provident Fund (PF) cash straight from UPI apps or any UPI-enabled ATM. No more begging employers, no mountain of paperwork, and no waiting weeks for your own money. This is EPFO 3.0 in action, set to roll out fully by mid-2026.

Imagine this: You're in an emergency – medical bill, wedding, or sudden job loss. Just open the UMANG app, check your eligible balance, scan a QR code, and boom – cash in your bank or straight from the ATM. Testing is done. The system is almost ready. This could be the biggest relief for crores of salaried Indians who treat their PF as a forced savings account.

Why This Feels Like a Lifeline for Ordinary Workers
The old system was painful. You needed employer nods, forms like 19 or 31, and patience while files moved at snail speed. Now? Paperless. Faster. Linked directly to your Aadhaar and bank.

Key Highlights of the New System:
- Withdraw up to 50-75% of your PF balance via UPI or ATM (exact limits depend on rules).
- No employer approval for most claims.
- Check balance on UMANG app, generate QR, and get money in seconds.
- Auto-settlement for smaller claims up to higher limits.
- Works with Google Pay, PhonePe, and other UPI platforms.

This isn't just convenience – it's a digital India win pushed hard by Nirmala Sitharaman's Finance Ministry and the Labour team. For young workers juggling EMIs and rising costs, this means real freedom.

The Controversial Side: Are We Risking Our Retirement Future?
Here's where it gets heated. Critics are already asking tough questions. PF was meant for golden years after retirement, right? Easy access sounds amazing today, but what about tomorrow? Will people drain savings for short-term needs and regret it later?

Some unions and financial experts worry this could lead to higher premature withdrawals, leaving millions with smaller pensions. Others celebrate it as empowerment – why should the government or bosses control when you touch your own money? In a country where medical emergencies bankrupt families and jobs are uncertain, this feels like overdue justice.

The government says safeguards are in place: not the full 100% can be withdrawn instantly, and rules for emergencies, marriage, education, or home buying still apply. But the debate is real – freedom vs. protection.

Simple Steps to Get Ready RIGHT NOW (Don't Wait!)
1. Activate your UAN on the EPFO portal.
2. Link Aadhaar, PAN, and bank account – verify KYC fully.
3. Update service history and fix any date overlaps.
4. Download UMANG app and keep it ready.
5. Once live, just select claim type (Form 31 for advance while working, Form 19/10C after job change).

Pro tip: Double-check everything today. Mismatches still cause delays even in the new system.

This move aligns perfectly with India's UPI explosion – the same tech that made payments instant for chai and groceries is now coming to your retirement fund. Supporters call it Modi’s gift to the middle class. Skeptics say it's risky in tough economic times.

What do YOU think? Will you use it for emergencies or save strictly for retirement? Drop your views below – this topic is exploding on social media for a reason. Share this with every salaried friend because their PF life is about to change forever.

Stay tuned – as soon as the exact launch date drops, we'll update. Your money. Your rules. Finally.Image
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Jun 3
You’re not here accidentally!! Allah chose YOU to recite these 3 du’as with His Greatest Name for Rizq and Barakah
اللَّهُمَّ فَتِّحْ لِي أَبْوَابَ الرِّزْقِ وَالْخَيْرِ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا أَحْتَسِبُ

Allahumma fattih li abwaba ar-rizqi wal-khayri min haythu la ahtasib

O Allah, open for me the doors of provision and goodness from where I do not expect
رَبِّ إِنِّي لِمَا أَنزَلْتَ إِلَيَّ مِنْ خَيْرٍ فَقِيرٌ

Rabbi inni lima anzalta ilayya min khayrin faqeer

My Lord, I am truly in need of whatever good You send down to me
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Jun 3
Publicamos el mapa de Bogotá barrio por barrio de la primera vuelta. Pero lo interesante aparece al compararlo con 2022: la ciudad se corrió a la derecha, y se ve exactamente en qué barrios. Hilo con los extremos 🗺️👇 Image
El marco: en 2022 Petro ganó Bogotá con ~48 %. En 2026 Cepeda sacó ~41 % — casi 7 puntos menos. La izquierda conservó el sur, pero perdió la franja media de la ciudad. Ahí está toda la historia.
Los barrios MÁS Abelardo son el norte rico: Santa Bárbara (68 %), Mónaco, Molinos Norte, Pasadena (Usaquén y Suba). Donde el metro cuadrado es más caro, Abelardo arrasó. Image
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Jun 3
Allah describes a Personality Type in the Quran that will always be fake
Allah describes a Personality Type in the Quran that will always be fake

“And among the people is he whose speech pleases you in worldly life.” (2:204)

Their words can sound convincing, their manners can seem refined, and their presence can feel trustworthy at first glance.
But internally, there is a disconnect. This type of person is not anchored in sincerity.

Instead, there is ego, inconsistency, and a growing dependence on how others perceive them.

What matters most slowly becomes the image they project, not the truth they carry.
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Jun 2
If you know someone - someone in Constitutional Law perhaps?

Here is an 1858 Proclamation that declares all of the land in British Columbia under dominion of Queen Victoria, and essentially wipes any previous proclamations/acts Image
Going to post each for the scholars Image
I wonder if this was cited in the Cowichan case, or any case for that matter? Image
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Jun 2
🧵Presidente @petrogustavo, usted asegura tener "bases comprobadas" del fraude. Tomé esos mismos datos del preconteo que usted no reconoce y los sometí a la matemática, que no milita, no recibe mermelada y no se deja gritar.
👉🏻 Esto fue lo que arrojaron sus "pruebas". Abro hilo.
🧱 Antes de nada, le cierro el "eso es solo el preconteo": el escrutinio de los jueces, a mano y con valor jurídico, coincide con el preconteo en 99,94%.
👉🏻Mismo resultado.
🧩Le corrí cuatro pruebas forenses, las que usan auditores electorales.
🧮 La primera: Test de Klimek, para cazar votantes fantasma por censo inflado.
🤯 Lógica: si hay votos falsos, los pueblos con más "participación" son justo donde el ganador arrasa.
👉🏻 Veamos si las 885.409 cédulas falsas que Ud. denuncia existen o solo viven en su Excel.
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Jun 2
This 5 minute day trading strategy is so simple even beginners can’t mess it up

I’ve been day trading for 10 yearz
My biggest payout is $50,000
My biggest year is $842,000

I’ve tried nearly everything, and it took me a decade to realize this ACTUALLY works

A thread 🧵 Image
Now before I give you the sauce, I want to remind you I trade LIVE for FREE every day on YouTube (Jduntrades)

I have enough confidence to trade this and call my entries in front of 1,000s of traders daily because…. It works

I hope you take this and trade smart / safe..let’s go Image
Step 1: 5 Minute Time Frame & Rules

This strategy works primarily on the 5 minute time frame, and has specific rules that must be followed

• No trading the first 15 minutes
• Risk must always be respected
• Always be cautious of news / data
• Volume confirmation is critical
• Less is more, Quantity > Quanity

Now let’s go to step 2 and go over our chart
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Jun 2
"Se sais para cortar ruas, expões-te a que te retirem delas." Esta frase diz tudo. Não é sobre segurança. É sobre intimidação. A professora não estava a bloquear nada. Estava de costas. A andar. O que ela "expôs" foi a cara. E vocês defenderam o agente. Isto não é policiamento. É vingança institucional.
Não é um caso isolado. Maio de 2026, Zeist, Países Baixos: polícia agarra uma mulher grávida refugiada pelo braço, desequilibra-a, arrasta-a pelo capuz. O agente diz: "se soubesse que estava grávida, teria agido diferente". A investigação? Aberta sobre o casal. O agente continua a trabalhar.
Donatella della Porta documentou isto durante décadas: a policiação de protesto na Europa não é sobre segurança pública. É sobre neutralizar o dissenso antes que ele apareça. Itália, Alemanha, França, Espanha — mesma lógica, diferentes uniformes. O que vemos em Valência e Zeist é a regra, não a exceção.
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Jun 2
Even though we're told Europe works, it doesn't work the way they claim or the way it's running. No future with current politics. What's even the slightly functioning social pillar? And what's there to fight for?
This is the whole contradiction for Europeanist parties and for left-leaning pro-EU parties too. As Peter Mair put it in Ruling the Void, European integration hollowed out democracy without replacing it with anything people would die for.
And what's the latest achievement? Gaza. European leaders fall over themselves condemning one side while arming the other. That's not peace. That's hypocrisy with diplomatic cover.
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Jun 2
«Una delle lezioni più tristi della storia è questa: se siamo stati ingannati abbastanza a lungo, tendiamo a rifiutare qualsiasi prova dell'inganno.
Non ci interessa più scoprire la verità.
L'inganno ci ha catturati.
È semplicemente troppo doloroso ammettere, anche a noi
stessi, di essere stati raggirati. Una volta che dai potere a un ciarlatano, quasi mai lo riavrai indietro.» ―

Carl Sagan, Il mondo infestato dai demoni.

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“I narcisisti sono instabili e attraversano cicli ripetuti di autodistruzione, di cui in genere sono gli altri a pagarne il prezzo più alto.
Sono consapevoli di ciò che stanno facendo agli altri, ma non gliene importa.
I narcisisti tendono ad essere divisivi, vendicativi,
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Jun 2
2 billion years ago, a nuclear reactor geologically self-assembled and turned itself on.

No humans were involved. Only rock, groundwater, & natural uranium.

It ran intermittently for hundreds of thousands of years.

Here's the story of Oklo (not the company, but the place!):🧵 Image
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In 1972, a French enrichment plant noticed something weird in a shipment of uranium ore from Gabon.

The U-235 fraction was 0.7171% instead of the universal 0.7202%.

A 0.0031 delta doesn't sound like much, but in nuclear, it's significant.

Something had been "eating" U-235.
For comparison, every other U sample ever measured (on Earth, the moon, meteorites) has the same isotope ratio.

It all came from the same particle cloud when our solar system formed.

So the Gabon ore was telling a story. Something, somewhere, had selectively burned U-235.
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Jun 2
Seven capability clusters. Build your deep tech. Keep your IP.

Built where the disciplines meet🧵Image
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Compute & Data.

Signal processing. Data infrastructure. Verification and provenance.

First program shipped: EmberGraph Intel.Image
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Robotics & Mechatronics.

Robotic systems. Sensors and actuators. Embedded control.
Computer vision meets a real welding arm.Image
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Jun 2
if you bought every cex listing from jan 2025 you would have lost half your money

median token return was -82%

not great! Image
tokens launch and then just have consistent unlocks for years

not great! Image
some tokens just get straight up rugged in acquisitions

not great! Image
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Jun 2
Today, Trump appointed Bill Pulte as Director of National Intelligence.

I’ve spent nearly a year investigating the Epstein files.

When I saw the announcement, I went back into my records and searched one word:

Pulte. 🔥🧵 Image
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The search led me to a Palm Beach bidding war involving Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Bill Pulte’s father.

Then it led to a Russian billionaire.

Then it led to the Panama Papers.
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Then it led back to a question I’ve been asking throughout this investigation:

Why do the same names keep appearing?

I wrote about what I found.

The story isn’t what most people think it is.
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Jun 2
🧵 Cox Media heir Fergie Chambers says his job is to move his family’s wealth into revolutionary organizing.

That made him a target for Neville Roy Singham’s network, which tried to bring him into its orbit with plans for what Chambers described as a “second People’s Forum.”

But the relationship blew up over differing views on the necessity of direct action, leading Fergie to start spilling secrets about what he says sits at the center of the entire Singham network, the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

If you want the juicy details of what it’s like to be courted by the Singham network, and why Fergie may have just shown Congress where to investigate next, go read my latest at @CityJournal!
This was an insanely fun piece to write, but it had to be written for readers who may not know every name in the Singham orbit. Click through the links, because Fergie’s tweets are the real treasure map here. Enjoy!
city-journal.org/article/jim-fe…
Fergie Chambers says the rural “second People’s Forum” was supposed to offer two-week retreats, political schools, and united-front education work. But the project started to look very different once he got closer to it.

He says they realized “they’re all just PSL staff, they’re all funded by the same people,” and that the proposed curriculum was “all PSL cadre classes.” When he suggested bringing people from other organizations onto the board, he says they told him no.

This experience gets to the question at the center of all Singham network discourse. Is this a loose coalition of allied left-wing groups, or a coordinated infrastructure project built around one party?

Fergie seems to think he got his answer.
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Jun 2
He flew an unarmed helicopter through 14 hours of relentless enemy fire.

Today we honor Col. Bruce Crandall, who passed away on May 31. Read the true story of the pilot who flew through hell to save his Soldiers. 🧵 (1/7) A black and white photo of Col Bruce Crandall during Vietnam
November 14, 1965. Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam. Then-Major Bruce "Old Snake" Crandall led a flight of 16 unarmed Hueys to transport Soldiers for search and destroy missions to Landing Zone X-Ray. By his fifth transport, the enemy closed in on the landing zone and unleashed intense fire by small arms, automatic weapons, mortars and rockets. (2/7)One of Crandall's Hueys flying during the battle.
As the Soldiers on the ground took on the onslaught, the commander ordered incoming helicopters to abort the mission. It was too dangerous to land. As Crandall flew back to base, he decided he needed to help his Soldiers under fire and rerouted to a closer artillery base to help restock the unit. (3/7)Col. Crandall Photo during Vietnam
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Jun 2
My hypothesis on the boundaries between body/erotic/sexual expression

Originally I thought it would be possible to use machine vision but I realised how it works now and there is no way to make a clear distinction between the non-sexual body expression and eroticism Image
First of all if we take an example of body practice A it may be fairly orthodox and break down into 100 different static or flowing movements

Under these circumstances we can look at each one and make a distinction between them, it may be that all 100 are non-sexual
The key thing is the orthodoxy.

Then if we take a non-orthodox form of body practice like improv-gymnastics it has a set of defined static or flowing movements, but it is an art, so the individual creates the bridges and often invents routines themselves
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Jun 2
فصل: في وجود الصانع سبحانه وتعالى.

اعلم، أرشدك الله، أن طريق معرفة الخالق جل جلاله، وإثبات ربوبيته وألوهيته، إنما ينبني على ما فطر الله عليه عباده من الإقرار الضروري والبديهي، وما أشهدهم إياه بأبصارهم وبصائرهم من الآيات البينات والمشاهدات المعينة في الآفاق والأنفس. Image
فلا يفتقر العاقل في إثبات القديم الواجب الغني سبحانه إلى تكلف مقدمات كلية طويلة غامضة، ومطالبات عسيرة، كدعوى إثبات حدوث كل موجود، أو افتقار كل ممكن؛ بل يكفيه إجالة النظر في موجود معين مشهود في الأعيان خارج الذهن، يُعلم بالاضطرار والبداهة حدوثه وافتقاره وحاجته.
فمن حصول العلم بافتقار هذا المعين المُشاهد، يثبت الخالق الصانع بداهة وضرورة، إلى غير ذلك من البراهين والأدلة القرآنية القاطعة على وجود البارئ سبحانه.
​وإني، بحول الله وقوته، سالك في هذا المقام مسلكاً قِوامه الألفاظ القرآنية البحتة، معتمداً على براهين التنزيل الصريحة،
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Jun 2
🌹Miss Dior: A French Rose of Resistance Against Hatred

In a world flooded with rising antisemitism, where Jewish heritage and heroes are too often erased, remember this luminous thread of courage, elegance, and unbreakable alliance.
Catherine Dior — ⬇️
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⬇️ Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, tortured, and deported on one of the last trains to Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp, she survived slave labor, death marches, and hell itself. ⬇️ Image
⬇️ Her brother, who in the 1930s ran Paris art galleries championing Jewish artists like Max Jacob and Man Ray (and freely mixed with Jews when it was unpopular), honored her with the iconic Miss Dior perfume in 1947 — a floral burst of joy and memory. ⬇️ Image
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Jun 2
Israel pushes north of the Litany River and take Beaufort Castle, a former crusade castle.

They have now given orders for all populations South of the Zahrani River to migrate North, in a major escalation.
Their previous target was everything south of the Litany River.

theguardian.com/world/2026/jun…
Israel issues evacuation orders to all Lebanese territory south of the Zahrani River in a major escalation.

Israel has now significantly expanded the scope of its mission. Its now targeting between 30% to 40% of shia territory in South Lebanon.
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Jun 2
1/ Russia's captured and corrupted bureaucracy, which is under the thumb of powerful industrial concerns and complicit politicians, is strangling independent developers of military electronics. Several developers are complaining about the situation. ⬇️ Image
2/ Gagaring Lab, a developer of drone detectors and other military electronics, highlights how the 'People's Military-Industrial Complex' is being throttled:

"China launched a new strategy in February. China wants to be not only the world's factory, but also its laboratory."
3/ "Programmes have been launched to attract R&D companies to China. In Russian: welcome, developers, we will create the conditions for you. And here, people are worried about developers running away, but not about entire companies running away.

Strange.
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