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When Pope Leo chooses to embrace his Muslim brothers while doing little about the Catholics and Christians being mass murdered by Islamic violence, and refuses to support Israel facing the same existential threat,
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Meme via Terrence K Williams

he loses not only credibility on the world political stage but more importantly from his Catholic flock. Many are leaving the Catholic Church or refusing to financially support it.
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He seems to ignore that when the Messiah comes, he will be leading from Eretz Yisrael. He would be far better off to stay in his religious lane and stay out of politics.
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1/12 Only one BIG problem with this. Trump has already vowed he will pardon "anyone who has ever been within 10 feet of him". SOMETHING needs to be done with the Presidential pardon rule, as Trump has SERIOUSLY violated pardon protocol. The U.S. President has the constitutional

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/2037648278162911529

2/12 power to grant pardons at any time after the crime is committed, without restriction by Congress OR the judiciary. Applicants usually must meet certain criteria, such as completing their sentence, including prison, parole, or probation. For federal pardons, there is

3/12 generally a FIVE YEAR waiting period after sentence completion before applying through the Department of Justice. The pardon process involves submitting an application to the appropriate authority, either the President via the Department of Justice for federal cases or a

Ira Jacobson wrote: WELCOME TO MAMDANI'S NEW YORK

Big time shame on the NY Mets and its owners Steve and Alex Cohen!! (cowards)

JEWISH HERITAGE NIGHT CANCELED AT CITI FIELD
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HERITAGE NIGHTS
Italian Heritage ✓
Puerto Rican Heritage✓
Black legacy Night✓
Pride Night✓
Japanese Heritage✓
Dominican Republic Heritage ✓
Korean Heritage ✓
Irish Heritage ✓
Mexican Heritage ✓
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THANK YOU TO THE BROOKLYN CYCLONES FOR STEPPING UP.

***May 3rd in Brooklyn,,, Jewish Celebration Day. TI
18 Holocaust survivors - special ceremonial first pitch.
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Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1

As a member of Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission, I wanted to share some background on why we give independent commissions the job of creating election maps and also provide some details on what’s in the majority report. /2

In Canada, we don’t want elected officials drawing their own election maps. Instead, governments give independent commissions the job of drawing maps that reflect population trends while also respecting the challenges of representing diverse, rural and remote communities. /3

Instalé 12 conectores en Claude y dejé de usar 6 apps diferentes.

Aquí te explico cuáles son, cómo instalarlos y qué puedo hacer con cada uno en mi día a día:

⚠️ Antes de empezar, con @Adamaestr0_, hemos creado una guía completa sobre Claude 4.6.

La guía es 100% gratuita

El enlace aquí → alejoxadam.beehiiv.com/gu-a-definitiv…

Primero, ¿qué es un conector en Claude?

tiene una sección llamada "Integrations" donde puedes conectar tus apps directamente a Claude.

Una vez conectadas, Claude puede leer, crear y gestionar el contenido de esas apps desde la conversación. Sin copiar. Sin pegar. Sin cambiar de pestaña.Claude.ai

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The Welsh Greens leader @as_penarth wants to be elected to the Senedd next month.

Yet in a frankly imbecilic response to a superb question from a woman at the BBC Your Voice event in Llandudno this week, Anthony Slaughter trots out the tired old trope that women’s rights are a 'culture war'.

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How dare you speak up about your rights, you meanie women! According to Anthony, you are ‘bad faith actors’ because you won’t just roll over and submit to men.

This tired old misogyny really has to stop.

Women happen to have rights too Anthony. We are not support animals for men. And we don't want to have men in our single-sex spaces. The law agrees with us. Deal with it. Or meet with us and we'll explain it to you.

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Anthony talks fretfully about ‘human beings’ and those who are 'vulnerable' but seems to totally forget that women are human beings too, and that we are uniquely vulnerable to men in situations where sex matters. That doesn't matter to him clearly.

We happen to have rights.
We have the vote now too
Bad news for you Anthony. Because we intend to use it.

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Kate Middleton's "sister" Pippa is trans ♀️➡️♂️ #EGI.

Watch how they walk ♀️🔁♂️.

This is the "brother", James Middleton.

"I’m not — because I think moral truths require a foundation beyond human opinion."

I do to. I am not basing anything on opinion.

I have clearly stated that morality is based on objective reality.

Evolution gives us a clue in moral intuition. This have developed over a billion years of life finding ways to survive.

Humans have added consciousness, reason, and logic. These can lead to preferences, but do not have to lead to preferences. This is where objective reality is important.

"As for “God isn’t verifiable” — not everything real is scientifically testable. You can’t run a lab experiment on consciousness, logic, or moral truth either, yet you rely on them constantly. So that standard is inconsistent."

Everything real is testable. You can infer it, observe it, reason it. Why do you limit verifiable to *narrow* extent of scientific truth known as lab experiment. Thousands of field scientists, who have never done lab experiments, have established theories without a lab.

And, you can run a lab experiment on consciousness. We can detect thoughts and decisions in the human brain before you are consciously aware of them -- these are very deep structures in the human brain.

Moral truth can be tested in behavior -- how do people react? (Not how do they report thinking about reacting, though that is insightful, too.) It can also be tested by logic -- make sure that your premises are true, that you logic has consistent rules, then think it through.

Just because I have not exhaustively explained it to you in this limited medium doesn't mean it is inconsistent.

Perhaps there is some aspect you haven't considered or observed yet. There are at least a million threads here that we will not exhaust.

I do not rely on revelation.
I do not rely on negotiating ancient texts to make them relevant to my current situation. (I can understand them in context and perhaps see how they are beneficial in their own place and time.)

"And when you say, “If great minds haven’t solved it, we won’t,” that’s not an argument — it’s a dismissal. By that logic, we shouldn’t talk about consciousness, free will, or the origin of the universe either."

Yes, we should not care to discuss the underlying philosophical circular arguments that someone always descends to. Stepping down a level to dismantle an argument is not honest.

I have taken for granted that I am conscious.
I have taken for granted that have (apparent) free will.
I have assumed the very best evidence we have for the origin of the universe by stating "there is no evidence for a god"
These are side-line debates or arguments that derail the discussion.

@Oscar7561937730 @RioCamille33 @Eglisecatho @Eglisecatho, tant qu'à faire le ménage, regardez donc ce que je viens de trouver : Maisons Une Année pour Dieu 2018-2019
Là, il y a tellement à dire qu'il faut un thread (et je suis certain que je vais en oublier).
C'est parti !

@Oscar7561937730 @RioCamille33 @Eglisecatho 1ère ligne, Communauté du Verbe de Vie
Depuis dissoute, mais à l'époque, faire sa pub était déjà... plus que discutable

@Oscar7561937730 @RioCamille33 @Eglisecatho 2ème ligne, chemin neuf.
Officiellement, tout va bien... mais on me glisse dans l'oreillette que ça ne durera pas éternellement

The year was 2018, and I was 25 years old and had just lost almost $100k importing cars.

I took a loan from my parents to move back to the U.S. in shame

Here's how that moment taught me to import cars with practically no money and how you can start today with less than ₦1M🧵

When people hear "car importation," they think capital-intensive and that thought stops most people before they even start.

The smartest dealers figured out a long time ago that you don't need your own money to start importing, and they do it by something simple called PRE-ORDER

Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way by losing a fortune.

But below is how I started importation with no money, and I am currently doing over $3M in imports this year alone without using my money.

Putin legalizes invading NATO countries.

Russian parliament approved a bill that gives Putin the right to deploy troops abroad to free russians arrested under ICC warrants.

Russia can use that to start operations against NATO members to test Article 5 — The Times.
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Estonia is the most cited target. Moscow could launch a campaign there under the pretext of protecting the Baltic country's large russian-speaking population.

Estonia halted detention of russian shadow fleet tankers this month, because of "risk of military escalation."

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In May, russia sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea to escort a sanctioned oil tanker into russian waters.

Last week, a russian warship escorted two tankers through the English Channel. The UK announced it would detain such vessels — but has not acted.

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1 I’m sure @NadiaWhittomeMP will be correcting the Parliamentary record at her earliest opportunity and withdrawing her statement that the @EHRC interim update went “far beyond even the Supreme Court ruling”. Swift J rejected that argument in R (GLP) v EHRC [2026] ⤵️

https://twitter.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/2044806224223330583

2 A few other points:

“The SC had the unenviable job of attempting to interpret the will of Parliament”: this is a metaphor for “the meaning of the statutory words with regard to their context & the purpose of the legislation”, not "what MPs thought when they passed it" ⤵️

3 It’s therefore irrelevant which Party was in government at the time and what their preferences were.

Nonetheless, it’s good to see that @NadiaWhittomeMP has recognised that the only way around the Supreme Court judgment for transactivists is legislative change ⤵️

🚨🧵 THREAD: Braver Angels says they're bipartisan and just bringing people together. Their own leadership coordinates with an anti-Trump political infrastructure network.🚨

This thread is not about BA's members. Many are sincere, and I thank @wilksopinion and @JohnRWoodJr for communicating with me.

This is about the infrastructure steering them: IMIP.

On August 18, 2025, Harry Boyte, a former Democratic Socialists of America board member, YES, that DSA announced Maury Giles' new role as Braver Angels CEO on video and their shift in strategy from depolarization to civic action:

"David has put together a featured plenary at the National Conference on Citizenship... which will be a launch of a new stage for Braver Angels that some of us have been working on for a while."

IMIP is the Inter-Movement Impact Project. It coordinates BA's strategic direction. Its own May 2025 document quotes David Brooks approvingly:

"Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits."

Braver Angels' members are bipartisan. Their leadership is adjacent to anti-Trump infrastructure. This thread has all the receipts.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

@wilksopinion @JohnRWoodJr IMIP's own document from May 5, 2025 quotes David Brooks and calls for a nationwide civic uprising:

"Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits. Turn some of his followers against him."

Then: "IMIP has been working to help answer [this] since late 2017."

@wilksopinion @JohnRWoodJr Walt Roberts runs IMIP. June 30, 2025:

"We've adopted Rachel Kleinfeld's strategy number four as our thing... a broad-based, multi-stranded, pro-democracy movement."

Flood the country with NGOs (including Braver Angels) is strategy #4. What are the other four strategies?

Countering the psychologization of #LongCOVID: A medical #Imaging thread for sending to "skeptics."
We’ll start with lung MRIs of children with CL. #LungDamage
A & B in blue show ventilation; C & D in green show respiratory function; E & F show perfusion

Focus on perfusion based on the Bell Score (fatigue). Study here: )

Small cohort, but worth noting: in both adults and children, conventional ventilation/perfusion SPECT imaging, which is more widely available, often shows defects. pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/ra…

#CardiacDamage: 2 exemples.
1) Among the subjects,
▶️90% showed abnormalities on CT,
▶️PET/MRI was abnormal in 57% of subjects: 24% showed cardiac involvement suggesting myocarditis, 22% showed uptake suggesting pericarditis, 11% showed periannular uptake, & 30% vascular uptake.

Hi, I’ll be live-tweeting today’s IndyGo Board of Directors meeting starting at 4:00 p.m. for #indydocumenters @indydocumenters @mirrorindy.

@indydocumenters @mirrorindy You can find out more about the IndyGo Board of Directors here: .indygo.net/about-indygo/b…

@indydocumenters @mirrorindy Meeting began at 4:03 p.m. with a roll call and an announcement that one of the members is attending remotely and all decisions will have to be made by roll call today.

73 years ago today, barely three months into his presidency, Dwight Eisenhower delivered one of the most critical speeches in American statecraft.

An olive branch from the man who crushed the Wehrmacht, it was also a psychological weapon against global communism, designed to end America’s first “forever war” in Korea.

A thread on why Ike’s “Chance for Peace" speech matters more than ever. 🧵

Returning from his historic (possibly illegal) trip to the Korean peninsula as president-elect, the fulfillment of the most iconic campaign pledge of all time, “I shall go," Ike knew “Small attacks on small hills would not end this war.”

Fate threw Eisenhower an opportunity when Joseph Stalin died on March 5, 1953.

He immediately recognized this opportunity and seized it, against the advice of his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, and delivered his “Chance for Peace Speech” just over a month later on April 16, 1953.

Speaking in Washington, D.C., Eisenhower recounted how, in 1945, Allied soldiers had shared a hope for "an age of just peace,” but “this common purpose lasted an instant and perished."

The Soviet Union had sought domination via "huge armies, subversion, rule of neighbor nations."

The Soviet military buildup, he argued, had actually unified the Free World against it, sparking "a unity of purpose and will beyond the power of propaganda or pressure to break, now or ever."

The USSR's aggression had forged the very coalition it feared.

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, beginning at 5:00 PM EST on Thursday, April 16, 2026, according to an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump on Truth Social.
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The ceasefire follows diplomatic talks in Washington, D.C., involving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, and aims to pause hostilities between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
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Key details of the agreement include:
Trump stated the ceasefire is a step toward "lasting peace" and plans to invite Netanyahu and Aoun to the White House for further talks—the first high-level discussions between Israel and Lebanon since 1983.
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La mayoría de APIs de IA están fragmentadas.

Una para texto.
Otra para video.
Otra para voz.

MiniMax acaba de cambiar eso. Un solo Token Plan. una API key.

Todo conectado.

Y M2.7 está en el centro de todo.
#MiniMax #IA #TokenPlan

MiniMax acaba de presentar la primera suscripción API multimodal.

Una clave API. Un plan. Acceso a codificación, vídeo, voz, música y generación de imágenes.

Impulsado por M2.7, un modelo que ya está cosechando éxitos en aprendizaje automático de forma autónoma.

Por qué es importante:

Crea sistemas multiagente
Ejecuta flujos de trabajo complejos de forma fiable
Integra herramientas dinámicamente

Ideal para desarrolladores, startups y creadores de IA.

#MiniMax #AIAgents

Aquí es donde las cosas empiezan a ponerse interesantes:

La IA ya no se limita a ayudar
→ está creando sistemas
→ perfeccionándolos
→ y mejorando sus propias capacidades

MiniMax M2.7 es el primer adelanto.

Desarrolladores, fundadores, fanáticos de la IA: no paséis por alto este cambio 👀

Mira lo que he hecho con este modelo: un sitio web con hermosa UI y noticias actualizadas en tiempo real, solo usando M2.7.

Y más emocionante para usted, ahora es oficialmente de código abierto, por lo que puede usar obtener acceso a él ahora mismo.

A new study asks a deceptively simple question - is Long COVID just a slower recovery, or is it a persistent immune disorder? Their data point toward the latter !🧵

For this single-cell analysis, the authors selected 9 women from a prospective cohort of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Blood was collected during acute infection, at 3 months, and again 18-24 months later. Some recovered without long-term complications. Others developed pulmonary or cardiovascular Long COVID.

What makes the paper valuable is not the size of the cohort, but the depth of follow up. The authors profiled peripheral blood mononuclear cells at single-cell resolution and tracked how immune states evolved over time.

The U.S. Senate voted on April 15, 2026, to reject two resolutions that would have blocked arms sales to Israel, with 36–63 and 40–59 votes against blocking a $151.8 million sale of 1,000-pound bombs and a $295 million sale of military bulldozers, respectively. 
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The votes, led by Senator Bernie Sanders, marked the fourth such attempt since October 2023 and showed increased Democratic support compared to previous efforts. 
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Sanders Efforts to block arms sales to Israel falls short in Senate
Measures would block sale of $446.8 million in weapons, equipment
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Enlightenment parenting. A good epistemology applies everywhere, including raising kids. Here’s my summary our current best theory for raising children based on David Deutsch and Aaron Stupple. Non-coercive parenting unleashes human creativity in both parent and child, accelerates the growth of knowledge, and continues the Enlightenment.

1. Children are full people. There is no fundamental distinction between adults and children in terms of rationality, rights, or creativity. A child might be ignorant of knowledge you have, or you might not yet understand their problem situation and goals, but they are often more purely rational than adults who often carry anti-rational memes installed by coercion.

2. Coercion disables creativity and installs anti-rational memes. Forcing children (or preventing them) against their will, including implied threats, guilt, or bribes, disables the very mechanisms of conjecture, criticism, and knowledge growth that lead to progress. Childhood is when anti-rational memes are most easily transmitted. Coercion can lead the child to conclude that parents are arbitrary enforcers, leading to sneaking, resentment, defensiveness, or emotional shutdown.