Mark Uhler

@Microinteracti1 Oh, air refueling doesn't exist, especially for carriers you foolishly dismiss. & Subs. & Missile shooters. & Elint, sigint, & satellites. & the US economy. & ... oh, your argument is now dismissed.

Germany is not hosting American troops. It is hosting American power. Amplifying it. Projecting it across three continents. And now, for the first time with real legal and political weight behind it, voices inside Germany are beginning to say out loud: Berlin could shut down every American base on German soil. A fiber-optic cable runs beneath Ramstein Air Base. It carries a signal from a drone pilot in Nevada to an armed aircraft over Yemen. Fraction of a second. Precision. Control. That cable sits on German soil. Cut it, and the strikes do not miss. They simply cannot happen. This week Washington punished Berlin for telling the truth about the Iran war. Five thousand troops withdrawn. A presidential post calling Germany a failure. The language of a tenant who has forgotten whose name is on the deed. Because Berlin can end all of it. Not the 5,000. All 36,436. Every soldier, every satellite dish, every signal passing through German soil on its way to a target over Africa or the Middle East. Spain tore it up. Italy said no. Germany has not moved yet. But it is thinking about it. And what it is thinking about is this: Germany holds the one thing that separates America from every other country on earth. The ability to project military force across three continents simultaneously. Take away the European staging ground and the United States becomes what every other nation in the Western Hemisphere already is. Large. Armed. And unable to reach anyone who does not live next door. open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

@chiky_handlr You look to teenagers for wisdom? That explains a lot.

You know you’re a terrible president when High school students lead a protest of thousands of people. This is Asheville, NC RT if you never voted for Trump 🖐️🖐️😁

@theliamnissan Source: trust my propaganda bro. Should have at least said elections decided by non-citizen voters. That could have at least been defensible.

Fact: There have been more mass shooters in America over the last 40 years than there've been non-citizen voters.

@caitoz The Jews didn't live there thousands of years ago, they have lived there for thousands of years and since Rome as 2nd class citizens in their own land. They didn't volunteer for ovens when Arabs attacked so you want to force them to go now.

Basically every Israel-Palestine debate goes like this: "Israel did X." "Yeah, because the Palestinians did Y." "Yeah, because Israel did Z." "Yeah but only because the Arabs did A." But if you bring the debate back far enough in time, eventually you get to the part where the western world forcibly dropped a brand new ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of — and to the extreme detriment of — the people who were already living there. Sure you can go further back and say "Oh yeah well the Jews lived there thousands of years ago," but that's just silly. There's no valid reason to believe some Jewish guy in New York City even has any meaningful lineage connecting him to that land more strongly than any random Muslim in Turkey or wherever, and even if there was, it would still be absurd to cite ancient history as the basis for a territorial claim. I'm only a few generations removed from my ancestry in Ireland and Scotland, but it would be ridiculous for me to show up demanding the home of someone who lives there. So the original source for the grievance is clearly the artificial creation of an ethnonationalist state in the mid-20th century, and the push by Zionists and western imperialists to make it happen. And how has that decision worked out? You see the results before you. Generations of nonstop violence and abuse, culminating in the slaughter and chaos throughout the middle east today. This means that creating Israel was a mistake. A mistake that needs to be corrected. Zionists will collapse into a shrieking pile of vitriol and hyperbole when you say this, claiming you're calling for the extermination of Jews, but this is false. Certainly ending a national order premised on putting the interests of Jews before Palestinians and righting the wrongs of the past would inconvenience a lot of the Jewish people who've been living there, but there's no basis for the claim that it would entail their deaths. Apartheid South Africa was dismantled without the extermination of millions of white people, and there's no reason to believe the dismantling of apartheid Israel would entail the extermination of Jews. The Israel experiment has been tried, and it has failed. It is time to try something else.

@nerdypursuit At which point strategies for both political parties would change. What would happen would that smaller states would get fully ignored and Dems would whine about that.

"One thing that would make a huge difference is if we selected our President by letting the person who got the most votes take the office, instead of the Electoral College." - Pete Buttigieg Hear that crowd. 👇 Voters in Oklahoma deserve attention in presidential elections too.

@YourAnonNews So every law past by my any Legislature is illegitimate?

The difference between Texas and Virginia redistricting is this: The people of Texas didn't have a say. They didn't vote on it - their legislature made the decision for them. The people of Virginia voted, it's the will of the people. That's why Republicans are so angry.

@Bellorris How about some self-reflection. I assume you know the various ways a Pres can be removed. Since it hasn't happened, maybe your assessment is wrong?

Why is the USA incapable of removing an obviously insane and incompetent President?

“When Americans look to Washington and wonder why it so often disappoints, it is because there are too few people who are willing to do what it takes to do the right thing—to sacrifice the popularity, flattery, comfort and security that are the purchase price for principle.” -Justice Clarence Thomas, 2026

I distinctly recall that lunatic who accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault despite a total lack of evidence being on damn near every talk show. Hell, I think she even got a book deal. Noticed that those same shows have all but ignored Swalwell’s numerous accusers. Probably just a coincidence.

Speaking as someone inside Iran who stayed connected through Starlink during the total internet blackout, I want to say this loud and clear: President Trump’s recent video on Truth Social — showing Iranian protesters writing “President Trump please help” on walls, waving Lion and Sun flags alongside American flags, replaying raw footage of the revolution and saying “I’m with you, I will fight for you and I will win for you” — is music to our ears. The flames of the Lion and Sun uprising have not died down. They are simply waiting for the right moment to roar again. It was @realDonaldTrump, alongside @netanyahu and @PahlaviReza who told us to stay in our homes, stay safe, and wait until help arrives and Operation Epic Fury is complete. That’s exactly what millions of us have been doing. There is enormous pent-up anger, grief, and anxiety inside Iran right now — but also real hope. All of it is ready to be unleashed the moment the opportunity comes. The Iranian people are deeply pro-America. We need America’s support to finally envision a free Iran — a nation where values very similar to American ones can flourish once more, just as they did before 1979 and the arrival of this cursed, evil regime. Make no mistake: this is not a regime that will fade away or soften its terror on its own. Trust me when I say we have tried every possible path short of war. We exhausted every peaceful option — massive street protests, open resistance, attempts at gradual reform, dialogue, you name it. None of it worked. The regime’s only consistent answer has been bullets, executions, and fresh waves of fear. Right now there is deep internal fighting among regime figures. Mullahs and the IRGC are turning on each other, while the so-called “reformist” faction is nothing but the same old Islamic Republic in nicer clothes and smoother language. Do not be fooled by them. The only reason they are clashing is because their money flow has been disrupted, so they blame one another and scramble for more power. We tried to bring this regime down before, but we were mostly unarmed while they were armed to the teeth. Over 40,000 were slaughtered in cold blood, with many more executed, tortured, or thrown in prison. We need help to level the playing field. Then we will rise again—and this time, we will succeed. When we do, we will never forget who stood with us; our debt will be paid in full and more. Iranians are more pro-America than many Americans on X, because we have seen American values and said: “Yes, that is what we want too.” That includes the First Amendment — which needs no explanation — and the Second Amendment, which hits especially close to home. An armed Iranian people could never have been oppressed like this for so long. No one should ever have to surrender their guns, and no one should have to hide like a criminal just for having free internet. I should not be forced to run and conceal myself for simply owning @Starlink. The Iranian diaspora has been our voice when we had no internet. They have accurately represented us during these protests while the talks were happening, making it clear we reject any negotiation with this regime and want Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to represent the Iranian people — because no one inside this regime ever can. We are anxiously waiting for the opportunity. Let’s see if it comes. But make no mistake: the majority of Iranians feel exactly as I do. Make Iran Great Again. The world will soon understand why we say: Anything for freedom. Anything to end this evil. #IranMassacre‌ #IranRevolution2026‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

I feel this in my soul. So many times I’ve made a video where there are two conflicting accounts of what happened: one from the motherfuckers who were actually there, and one from someone with a degree writing about it 100 years later. Typically, I go with the accounts of the people who were there, assuming they seem plausible. Then I get flooded with comments calling me stupid because Historian XYZ from the University of He Wasn’t Fucking There disagrees.

There's an old saying that hard times make strong men, and strong men make good times. Europe is running an experiment to see what happens when you skip straight to weak men, who pretend to avoid the hard times entirely if you never say one specific word out loud. The word is "islamophobic." Keir Starmer sits at 21 percent approval. Emmanuel Macron at 19. Friedrich Merz is collapsing faster than either of them. These are the people running four of the largest economies in Western Europe, and their own citizens cannot stand the sight of them. Their response has not been to fix anything. Their response has been to pass laws making it harder to talk about what is broken. Starmer is drafting a formal "anti-Muslim hostility" definition that his own terror-law reviewer calls a blasphemy law wearing a hi-vis vest. France has around 750 "sensitive areas" nobody in government will describe plainly. Sweden went through a winter with roughly one bombing a day and called it "gang violence," because the alternative was admitting what every Swede on the street could already see. And hard times are recoverable. Bad policy is recoverable. A bad economy is recoverable. What Europe is stacking up is different. Demographics do not un-shift. No-go zones do not un-form. Grooming gangs that were waved past for twenty years to avoid "community tension" cannot be un-waved-past. These leaders have made their calculation. They would rather preside over the slow dissolution of their own countries than be called that one word at a dinner party. Europeans are way past hard times and into unrecoverable times.

The Spanish Riding School of Austria was founded with the famous Spanish Lipizzan breed in 1565. "Don Quixote", published 1605, has multiple references to horses, cows and esp bulls in the Spanish countryside. The idea that the Spanish didn't know about horsemanship or cow herding until they ran into people from parts of the world with neither horses nor cows is ... silly.

They keep circulating the same old clips of Bibi Netanyahu warning that Iran is “months away” from a nuclear bomb, 1992, 2002, 2009, 2012, over and over. The useful idiots laugh: “See? He’s been lying for 40 years!” No. Bibi didn’t lie. Iran was close every single time, and every single time, Israel stopped them. • 2010: Israel and the US unleash Stuxnet, the first cyber weapon in history. It destroys over 1,000 centrifuges at Natanz and sets Iran’s program back years. • 2010–2020: Mossad systematically assassinates Iran’s top nuclear scientists, one after another, in the heart of Tehran. • 2018: Netanyahu reveals the secret “nuclear archive” Mossad stole straight out of a Tehran warehouse, proving Iran lied and never stopped its weapons program. • 2020–2021: Multiple sabotage operations blow up Natanz, explosions, blackouts, entire centrifuge halls wiped out. • 2021: Israeli drones hit the Karaj centrifuge manufacturing facility. • 2024–2025: Direct Israeli strikes hammer Iran’s nuclear and military sites, assassinating key commanders and scientists. Every warning Bibi gave was a call to action, and Israel answered it. If it wasn’t for Bibi's voice, Israel’s intelligence, and Israel’s willingness to act when the world refused, Iran would have had the bomb a decade ago. The people mocking the old clips are exposing how much they hate the one country that actually stopped the world’s most dangerous regime from going nuclear. Without Bibi, and without Israel, we’d already be living in a world where the Islamic Republic has nukes.

Part 5. Right now, there are people who could not move their legs for a decade, walking again. Not in a science fiction movie. In 2026. Because surgeons are putting chips in their brains and their spines and letting the two talk to each other. The first one is a Dutch guy named Gert-Jan Oskam. In 2011, he crashed his motorcycle in China and broke his neck. He was paralyzed from the hips down for 12 years. In 2023, a team in Switzerland put electrodes in his skull and in his spinal cord, then connected them through a small computer he wears in a backpack. When he thinks about walking, the brain electrode picks up the signal. A computer in the backpack decodes it. The spine electrode zaps his leg muscles in the right order. He walks. He can go up stairs. He can stand at a bar and order a drink. Last year he painted a wall in his own house because nobody was around to help. That story is from a direct quote in Nature. The craziest part is that after enough training, he can take a few steps even when the device is switched off. The team thinks his nerves are actually starting to heal. Then in January 2025, a team at Fudan University in China did it with fewer wires. They put two electrodes the size of a grain of rice inside a man’s motor cortex and a small stimulator in his spine. His name is Lin. He fell down a four meter staircase two years earlier and had lost the ability to move his legs completely. By day three after surgery, he was moving both legs with his mind. By day 15, he walked more than 5 meters with a walking frame. In his own words, “I used to cry every day. Now I can walk again.” Two other paralyzed people had the same surgery a few weeks later. Both regained leg movement within hours. And then in the US, Neuralink has its own version. An American named Noland Arbaugh broke his neck in a swimming accident in 2016. In January 2024, he got the first Neuralink brain chip. He cannot walk yet, but he plays online chess and video games with his thoughts. He controls his computer and phone without moving a muscle. In April 2025, a fifth American patient got one at the University of Miami. There are about 20 million people on this planet living with spinal cord injuries. Most have been told their whole life that nothing can be done. In the last 36 months, three different teams in three different countries have now shown that something can be done. I keep thinking about how boring the news made this sound. “Chinese university demonstrates new BCI technology.” No. A man who had not walked in 12 years walked up a flight of stairs. A man who used to cry every day for two years is taking steps with a walking frame. We are watching the beginning of a cure for paralysis.

Part 3. The hole in the ozone layer is closing. The one that was supposed to kill millions of people from skin cancer. The one we all heard about as kids and then quietly forgot. It should be completely gone by 2066. In 1985, three British scientists stared at their data and realized a hole had opened up in the sky above Antarctica. Over the next 20 years, it grew to be larger than all of North America. If we had done nothing, two-thirds of the ozone layer would have been destroyed by 2065. Millions would have died of skin cancer. Global food production would have been cut in half. So every country on Earth signed a treaty. All 197 UN member states. It is the only treaty in history every single country has signed. It is called the Montreal Protocol, it banned a class of chemicals called CFCs, and it went into effect in 1987. CFCs were in refrigerators, air conditioners, aerosol cans, and hairspray. They were tearing the ozone layer apart. Two scientists had tried to warn us 11 years earlier. Mario Molina was Mexican. Sherwood Rowland was American. In 1974, they published a paper in Nature saying CFCs were going to destroy the ozone layer. The chemical industry called them cranks. It took a decade and an actual hole in the sky before people believed them. Both scientists later won the Nobel Prize. The treaty worked. Since 2000, ozone-depleting chemicals in the stratosphere have dropped by about a third. 99% of the world’s ozone-depleting chemicals have been phased out. The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole was the fifth smallest since 1992 and closed earlier in the season than any year since 2019. Full recovery is projected by 2040 for most of the world, 2045 over the Arctic, and 2066 over Antarctica. A lot of people reading this will live to see it. US government scientists estimate that 443 million cases of skin cancer and 2.3 million skin cancer deaths in the United States alone will have been avoided because of this treaty. Globally, the number is much higher. A lot of us are walking around right now without the skin cancer we would have had. When I was a kid, adults talked about the hole in the ozone layer the way people now talk about climate change. That was the villain. Everyone was sure it was going to kill us all. And then humanity actually fixed it. The hole is closing above Antarctica right now. You can see it on the satellite feeds.

Part 4. Every single day for the last 35 years, about 118,000 people have climbed out of extreme poverty. Every day. That is a mid-sized city’s worth of people, every 24 hours, no days off, for three and a half decades. Nobody tells you this on the news. In 1990, 2.3 billion people were living on less than $3 a day. Today that number is 808 million. A billion and a half humans moved from not enough food to eat, to enough food to eat. The bulk of that lift came from China and India just getting richer. China alone pulled 800 million people out of poverty. That is more than the population of the United States, Canada, and Western Europe combined. And it is not just money. A baby born in 1900 was expected to live 32 years. A baby born today is expected to live 71. We more than doubled human life expectancy in four generations. In 1820, 9 out of 10 adults on the planet could not read. Today 87% can. More than 5 billion people can now read a book, a recipe, a text from their kid. Two hundred years ago, that number was under 100 million. Child deaths are the one that hits me the hardest. In 1990, 1 in every 11 children died before their fifth birthday. Today it is 1 in 27. In 2022, for the first time in recorded history, the number of children who died under age 5 dropped below 5 million in a single year. That is still too many. But 30 years ago the number was over 12 million. Nobody threw a parade. Not everything is better. The news is right about that part. Climate is getting worse. Wars are getting worse in some places. Hunger went back up in Africa. Progress has slowed since COVID. But if you zoom out and look at where humans were 35, 100, 200 years ago, it is not even close. Most people alive today have more food, more medicine, more schooling, more years of life, and more freedom than any generation before them. The reason you never see this on your feed is that “118,000 humans escaped extreme poverty yesterday” does not make you click. A plane crash does. So you see the plane crashes and you miss the quiet miracle that has been running in the background of your whole life. Every day, while most of us are scrolling through bad news, another city-size crowd of humans is waking up with a little more money, a little more food, and a little more time on Earth than the generation before them. That is the best news story of our century. We just forgot to write it.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

Part 2. A hospital in India can take someone who has been blind for years and give them their sight back in six minutes. It costs less than a pizza. And they have done it 6.8 million times. The hospital is called Aravind. It was started in 1976 by a man named Govindappa Venkataswamy, known as Dr. V. He was 58, had just been forced to retire, and his hands were crippled by arthritis so bad he could barely hold a pen. He had scalpels custom-made for his twisted fingers and still performed over 100,000 eye surgeries in his life. Two years before he retired, Dr. V walked into a McDonald’s for the first time. He looked at the menu, looked at the assembly line in the back, and came out with an odd idea. He would sell cataract surgeries the way McDonald’s sold burgers. So he mortgaged his house. His brothers and sisters pooled their life savings. He opened an 11-bed clinic in Madurai. Then he flew to Chicago and enrolled in Hamburger University, the actual McDonald’s training program, to learn how the assembly line worked. At Aravind, cataract surgery is broken into small steps. Nurses prep one patient while the surgeon operates on another. Each surgeon switches between two tables. The operation itself takes about six minutes. So far Aravind has seen 55 million patients and done 6.8 million surgeries. More than half of those patients paid nothing. Not a rupee. The ones who can pay subsidize the ones who cannot. A surgery at Aravind costs between $40 and $125 depending on the lens. In the US, Medicare pays about $1,766 for the same operation. Aravind also has better results. Their complication rate is 1.5%, and serious eye infections happen in about 2 out of every 10,000 surgeries. Most American hospitals are not that good. They built their own lens factory too, called Aurolab. Imported lenses were costing hundreds of dollars each, so Aurolab makes them for around ten. Today Aurolab produces roughly 10% of the world’s eye lenses and ships to 160 countries. Every year, Aravind sends doctors and nurses out to rural villages for 2,500 eye camps. They screen people who have been blind for years, bus them to the hospital, operate on them, and bus them back home seeing. Dr. V died in 2006. His family still runs Aravind. Harvard Business School has been teaching the story as a case study since 1993. I still do not see it in my feed. A 58-year-old with crippled hands walked into a McDonald’s. Fifty years later, 6.8 million blind people can see.

@LePapillonBlu2 Sigh. Any average intelligent person would understand that a psychologist couldn't make any diagnosis without meeting with the patient several times, much less from news clips. Any psychologist who tried is unethical. That's not how mental health care works.

Listen to what this psychologist has to say: "Trump has the most severe personality disorder a human being can have.” “The world is in a hell lot of trouble, because the most powerful man in the world is both evil and demented."