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@aishahhasnie ❤️ the, what looks like, new style with longer hair.

META says the social media case they just lost was "about money." The plaintiff's attorney Mark Lanier didn't like that and went off ⬇️

@BarelyTrying92 @aakashgupta dissenters aren’t being killed or jailed, only criminals and corrupt judges. whatever their constitution was, it certainly wasn’t working before him.

@aakashgupta Are you people fools or just disingenuous? He’s literally dismantling the constitution while setting the scene to be ruler for life with no checks and balances. You people sicken me

Bukele made a bet that security is the foundation layer. That everything, GDP, tourism, foreign investment, diaspora return, builds on top of safety. The numbers say he was right. The method will be debated for decades. In 2015, El Salvador had a murder rate of 106.3 per 100,000. The literal murder capital of the world. Six years of failed truces, 16 killings per day, entire neighborhoods paying monthly extortion to MS-13 just to keep their doors open. Today the murder rate is 1.9 per 100,000. That's a 98% drop. In 2025 it fell further to 1.36. In 2026 so far, the country is on pace for 0.22 homicides per day. El Salvador is now safer than the United States, Canada, and most of Western Europe. The second-order effects are where the real story lives. Tourism went from 1.7 million visitors in 2019 to 3.9 million in 2024 to over 4 million in 2025. Tourism's share of GDP doubled from 6.4% to 14% in five years. A guy whose father was killed by gang members over $200/month extortion demands left the country in 2014, came back in 2024, and opened an Airbnb. 85,000 arrests. 80,000+ gang members detained. The world's highest incarceration rate at 1,086 per 100,000. A 40,000-capacity mega-prison with plans to double it to 80,000. 94% approval rating. Re-elected with 85% of the vote while the constitution previously banned consecutive terms. The tradeoff is real and it's worth stating clearly: suspended due process, mass detention, documented cases of torture and abuse, zero transparency, dismantled judicial independence, no free press access. Every human rights organization on earth has flagged it. The constitutional court that allowed his re-election was packed with his own appointees. And his approval rating went up. Murder capital of the world to safer than the United States in seven years. 106 per 100,000 to 1.9. Tourism doubled. GDP contribution tripled. The JW Marriott is breaking ground in a city where taxi drivers wouldn't cross certain blocks a decade ago.

@Maddy_Harp_001 @DoctorLemma and to think, libs want to be able to murder a baby up to this point.

The practice is called Co-bedding, placing premature twins or multiples together in one incubator or cot, mimicking their shared womb environment. This promotes co-regulation: they touch, hug, or snuggle, stabilizing heart rate, oxygen levels, temperature, and breathing through familiar scents, sounds, and contact. It reduces stress and crying, improves sleep and growth, and often shortens NICU stays. The 1995 "Rescuing Hug" case popularized the practice worldwide.

In 1995, a nurse broke hospital rules to place a newborn into her twin sister’s incubator. The baby was not expected to survive. Kyrie and Brielle Jackson were born 12 weeks early at a hospital in the United States. Each weighed roughly two pounds. They were placed in separate incubators, standard practice to prevent infection. Kyrie gained strength. Brielle did not. Three weeks after birth, Brielle went into critical condition. Her oxygen dropped. Her heart rate spiked. Her skin turned bluish-grey. Nurse Gayle Kasparian tried everything. She held her. She had her father hold her. She wrapped her in a blanket. Nothing worked. Kasparian remembered hearing about a practice used in parts of Europe but never tried in American hospitals. She placed Brielle into Kyrie’s incubator. Their father described what happened next: “She snuggled up to Kyrie and she was just fine. It was immediate. It was absolutely immediate.” Within minutes, Brielle’s oxygen levels were the best they had been since she was born. As she slept, Kyrie stretched her left arm across her sister’s body and held her. Photographer Chris Christo captured the moment. The image spread around the world and became known as “The Rescuing Hug.” Hospitals across multiple countries began placing premature twins together, a practice that had been resisted for decades. Both girls went home healthy. They are now 30.

@Dr_da_Vinci @Jhonffonseca don’t ever bring facts to a liberal Twitter post

¡URGENTE INTERNACIONAL! 🇺🇸🇩🇪 El presidente Donald Trump está considerando seriamente retirar las tropas estadounidenses de Alemania, una decisión que evalúa desde su regreso a la Casa Blanca. Según fuentes de The Telegraph, se trataría de un movimiento de gran escala: hasta 35.000 soldados podrían salir de Alemania y ser reubicados en Europa del Este (incluyendo posibles traslados a Hungría). Esta medida, que Trump ya había impulsado en su primer mandato, busca presionar a los aliados de la OTAN para que aumenten su gasto en defensa y poner fin a lo que considera una carga desproporcionada para Estados Unidos. Un cambio histórico que podría reconfigurar por completo la presencia militar de EE.UU. en Europa y tensar aún más las relaciones transatlánticas.

@Jhonffonseca it is the way.

@HellaADZ don’t confuse geographic beauty with the city itself. SF is dirty, filled with crime and💩. I lived there for a decade and now I’ve been gone for a decade and I’m glad to be the latter.

Hell hole according to people from buttfuck Idaho

@JLucroy20 this guy as a MLB coach is going to struggle with his high school like theatrics

160 more games. They win the next 10 and no one says a word about this start. You never know and that’s why baseball is a beautiful game.

@BBGreatMoments The art of hitting 400 and Charlie Lau’s book should both be mandatory reading for any parent or kid connected with youth baseball

Ted Williams understood launch angle and made it simple way before all of the analytics in today’s game. He made it simple and that is part of the reason he was the greatest hitter to ever do it.

@CFBGuy999 Rudolph and Denbrock

Projected 2026 Starting Offense 🍀: WR: Micah Gilbert WR: Mylan Graham LT: Will Black LG: Anthonie Knapp C: Joe Otting RG: Sullivan Absher RT: Guerby Lambert TE: Cooper Flanagan WR: Jordan Faison QB: CJ Carr RB: Aneyas Williams What would you change? 👇

@ohabryka @benlandautaylor is this really position you are taking? WTF!

@benlandautaylor He already spent 5 years in jail, so it's more like ~6 years in jail/prison + probation period. Which, IDK, is not an enormous factor away from what seems to me like a just judgement here.

I’m going to be honest. If someone randomly murdered my uncle, and was convicted of it in a court of law, but merely released on probation and sentenced to pay $19,000, then I would kill him.

@SkimMilkey wait…i thought women’s basketball could demand the same prices as the men’s?

Cheapest lower bowl tickets on the sidelines for a Sweet 16 game: $136 You price people out at 11:30am on a game that is 900+ miles from Louisville and Michigan...and this is what you get. Stupid.

@geraldposner San Francisco and California are getting exactly what they voted for.

All my friends in my native San Francisco are in a fury over a judge's decision to grant probation to a 24-year-old defendant who had assaulted and killed an 84-year-old man in an unprovoked attack. The judge—Linda Colfax—was appointed to the bench in 2011 and has subsequently run UNOPPOSED in elections. I hope voters remember this case the next time she is running to keep her seat. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/gra…

@tbhorka the coaches could boycott the media stuff. there’s no material penalty.

UConn’s Geno Auriemma has serious issues with the setup of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. He says the logistics of it were responsible for the 21% 3-point shooting yesterday’s Sweet 16 teams combined for. “How many arenas are we going to sell out with that bullshit?”

@DutchRojas it’s because she wants to cap the billionaire’s benefits while taxing them with no ceiling

Senator Patty Murray posted this yesterday. Every number in it is accurate. The post is still a lie. Here is the technique. The Social Security wage cap is real. Earnings above $184,000 are not subject to the 12.4% payroll tax. A billionaire does pay a fraction of a percent in effective Social Security tax rate. The math is correct. What Senator Murray did not post: Social Security benefits are also capped. High earners do not collect more because they do not pay more. The contribution cap and the benefit cap are the same architectural decision. You cannot lift one without addressing the other. A billionaire who pays 0.002% into Social Security also collects the same capped benefit as everyone else above the threshold. The system was designed this way deliberately. She presented half of a structural equation as if it were the complete picture. This is called cherry-picking wrapped in perception management. It’s designed to manipulate the audience. The numbers are real. The picture they produce is false. The sophistication of the technique is that correcting it requires more words than deploying it. Senator Murray needed three sentences. This post needed three paragraphs. That asymmetry is not accidental. It is the whole point. When someone shows you accurate numbers that produce an outraged conclusion, ask what is not in the frame.

@OmniAeronautica @Handre you state.. Scarcity, surveillance, and institutional distrust tend to produce resilience, social cohesion, and a preference for order and continuity.”. there’s no preference, it’s mandated. Your entire argument falls down because that line position it as a benefit

THE BERLIN WALL PROVED MORE THAN ECONOMICS—IT EXPOSED TWO COMPETING VISIONS OF SOCIETY What the Berlin Wall experiment actually demonstrated was economic failure under central planning, not moral or cultural superiority on one side of Europe over the other. Yes, West Germany decisively outperformed East Germany in GDP, consumption, and innovation. That conclusion is not controversial. But stopping the analysis there misses what happened after 1989, and what persists today across former Soviet-influenced societies. The populations that lived under Soviet control developed a very different psychological and cultural posture. Scarcity, surveillance, and institutional distrust tend to produce resilience, social cohesion, and a preference for order and continuity. When those systems collapsed, many Eastern European societies did not swing toward the same degree of social experimentation seen in Western Europe. Instead, countries like Poland and Hungary retained stronger national identity, more traditional social structures, and a higher sensitivity to instability. This creates a divergence that is often misinterpreted. Western Europe, particularly Germany, optimized for economic dynamism, openness, and individual expression after the war. That model delivered extraordinary prosperity. But over time, it also expanded into broader social and political experimentation, including large-scale migration policies and cultural redefinition that some now view as destabilizing. By contrast, many former Eastern Bloc societies optimized for cohesion over experimentation. They are less permissive, more skeptical of rapid change, and more protective of national identity. That is not evidence that socialism “worked.” It is evidence that the lived experience of socialism produced populations that are more cautious about systemic disruption. So the more precise takeaway is this. The Berlin Wall proved that free markets outperform central planning in generating wealth and opportunity. But the post-Cold War divergence suggests something else: different historical pressures produce different cultural risk tolerances. Western Europe pushed further into openness and transformation. Eastern Europe pulled toward stability and preservation. The current tension inside Europe is not a replay of capitalism versus socialism. It is a conflict between two models of managing success. One prioritizes openness and adaptation. The other prioritizes cohesion and continuity. Both emerged from the same divided history.

The Berlin Wall created the most brutal controlled experiment in human history: identical people, split by ideology, watched for 41 years to see which system would prevail. West Germans embraced market economics while East Germans suffered under socialist central planning. The results? Devastating. By 1989, East German GDP per capita sat at roughly 30% of West Germany's level. East Germans consumed 40% fewer calories, owned cars at one-tenth the rate, and waited 12 years for a telephone connection. Meanwhile, their western cousins enjoyed rising living standards, technological innovation, and personal freedom that made West Germany an economic powerhouse. But the socialists had excuses ready. "East Germany started from a worse position after the war," they claimed. Bullshit. Both regions faced identical devastation in 1945. The Soviets actually stripped more industrial equipment from their zone (roughly $10 billion worth), yet this affected rural areas less than urban centers. And East Germany possessed abundant natural resources like lignite coal and uranium that should have provided economic advantages. The real difference? Property rights, price signals, and entrepreneurship versus state ownership, price controls, and bureaucratic allocation. West Germans could start businesses, invest capital, and respond to consumer demands. East Germans filled quotas set by party officials who had never run so much as a lemonade stand. You can't coordinate an economy through committee meetings and five-year plans when prices tell you nothing about real supply and demand. East Germans voted with their feet—2.7 million fled west before the Communists built their wall in 1961. After reunification, investigators found Stasi files on one-third of the population. When you need secret police watching every third citizen, your economic system has already failed.

@OmniAeronautica @Handre you say order and continuity like it’s some sort of communist benefit. the tens of millions massacred under communist dictators would struggle with that position.

@SMB287 @Handre State your case then.

@SDSLLC_USA take a few with him.

@iluvusofia_xo it happens in all business settings.

There’s an upscale provider who entered the industry around COVID whom I briefly enjoyed spending time with. During a slow trip she had to Chicago, I extended some support—introducing her to a few of my local clients and offering guidance where I could. I was under the impression we were on friendly terms. Recently, however, I’ve been made aware that she has been speaking negatively about me and, on multiple occasions, has reached out directly to my clients. I won’t mention her name, though I did notice she’s launched a new Twitter account and blocked me—which, if anything, is more amusing than anything else. Situations like this are precisely why I don’t romanticize friendships within this industry. There are always individuals who engage under the guise of connection, but whose intentions are ultimately self-serving—leveraging others for access or visibility without offering any genuine reciprocity. There’s value in maintaining professionalism, grace, and decorum—but it’s equally important to recognize the point at which extending yourself becomes detrimental. Being discerning about who you allow into your circle isn’t unkind; it’s necessary.

@HealthcareREguy think of all the creamers minorities could steal.

Imagine if from 7-10AM Chipotle made the world’s best breakfast burritos… Start in a few exclusive stores, make it go viral, then scale nationally. Seems like it’s a huge opportunity right in front of them.

@drdating007 @sculptherbody i’d never go to class again

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