🚨 #ECIFactCheck POV: You saw a viral election post.... ❌ Don't share it immediately ✅ Check the official sources Elections in India runs by the Constitution + law + due process. Political parties, candidates & their representatives are present throughout the process to observe every stage as a concurrent auditor. So before you hit share: 👀 Check the facts. 📖 Know the process. 🎯 Only Trust official ECI sources - not random reels, edits or forwards. Don't feed the algorithm. Feed yourself facts. Be Smart. Be Gen V. IYKYK. Follow official ECI social media handles. Download ECINET or visit [ & [ for regular updates #ECI #Odysseyshow more

social media handles are sharing an AI-manipulated video that... wrongly shows Air Chief Marshal AP Singh criticising the #Tejas fighter jet #PIBFactCheck: ❌ The statement made in this clip is completely false. Air Chief Marshal AP Singh has never made any such remark ✅ watch the authentic, unedited video here: ⚠️ The video is an #AI-generated fake, created to spread misinformation and sow doubt about the Indian Armed Forces. 📵 Be cautious. Do not share or promote unverified content. Trust only official and reliable sources for accurate updates HQ IDS रक्षा मंत्री कार्यालय/ RMO India Ministry of Defence, Government of India Indian Air Forceshow more

Election Commission of India Spokesperson ECI It has come... to light that WhatsApp messages, allegedly originating from you or your associates, are being selectively circulated among BJP and RSS-aligned journalists, influencers, and ecosystem supporters. These messages are being used to spread misleading and malicious propaganda under the guise of narrative building. We strongly urge the Election Commission of India to stop acting as an extension of the BJP and RSS apparatus and to uphold the dignity, independence, and constitutional sanctity of your office. We also demand clarity on the following: When will the Election Commission of India issue an official signed declaration under oath affirming that the concerns raised by opposition parties are unfounded and that the voter rolls are free of irregularities? The public deserves full transparency and accountability, especially when the integrity of our electoral process is under question. Dismissive remarks, bullying tactics, diversions, evasions, or silence are unacceptable. We demand a clear, authoritative, and verified statement that restores public trust and upholds the core values of our democracy.show more

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#ZimElection2023 CHAMISA RAN HIS CAMPAIGN LIKE AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE... WITH NO STRUCTURES AND EXPECTED TO WIN AND BECOME PRESIDENT WITH NO MAJORITY IN PARLIAMENT This is what Nelson Chamisa said on 21 June 2023 about the strategic thrust of the campaign of his CCC in the 2023 harmonised general election held last week: "our [CCC] campaign is going to be basically a presidential... our [CCC] focus is not to be in parliament but to be in government. We [as MDC opposition] have been in parliament for a long time, that's not our [CCC] station of choice at the moment". The fact that Chamisa thought he could win the presidential election even if, or regardless of whether, his CCC won a majority in Parliament, explains his crushing defeat. An election in Zimbabwe is defined in terms of section 4 of the Electoral Act which provides that: election” means— (a) the election of a member of Parliament; or (b) an election to the office of President; or (c) an election for the purposes of the Rural District Councils Act [Chapter 29:13] or the Urban Councils Act [Chapter 29:15]; as the case may be. These three elections used to be held separately before they were harmonised for the first time in the 2008 election in terms of section 38 of the Act. It is odd and even irrational, and it defies the logic of the harmonised general election for any political party that seeks power to govern the country as a whole to only target – as did Chamisa in the 2023 harmonised general election held last week –winning only one of the three elections, just the presidential election. It is foolhardy for a political party to say its strategy and focus is only to win the presidential election, without basing that strategy and focus on winning the local authority and parliamentary elections, as well. Such a strategy, if it can be called a strategy, renders the presidential candidate no different from an independent presidential candidate who contests for the presidency without the advantage of the structures of a political party. Simply put, a presidential candidate in Zimbabwe cannot win a presidential election if the candidate does not have a campaign strategy that is based on his or her political party winning a majority of wards in the local authority election, and a majority of constituencies in the parliamentary election. If it’s an independent presidential candidate, then he or she must have ground structures of one sort or another, or forget it. Chamisa contested the presidential election as if he was an independent candidate, and he boasted about it, without relying on his CCC and without any ground structures. In the circumstances, just how or why did Chamisa expect to win the presidential election by effectively running as an independent candidate? Which structures did Chamisa expect to use, or did he in fact use to campaign for the presidency in every street and every village, across the length and breadth of the country? Since by his own admission, as quoted above and reflected on the attached video clip, Chamisa was clearly not relying on his CCC to win the presidency. This begs the question: by not relying on CCC structures, and by not having alternative ground structures in the streets and in villages, did Chamisa think that ZanuPF members and supports would vote for him, as an act of God, perhaps? Was Chamisa's presidential election campaign, for him an article of faith, in other words was it about his belief that God had chosen him, and that he would win regardless of whether or not CCC won a majority in the local authority and parliamentary elections? Where did Chamisa and his supporters in Zimbabwe and among the legions of his fans in America and Europe think he would get the necessary number of polling agents to monitor the voting and vote counting at the country’s 12,374 polling stations, and to secure the 12,374 V11s from those polling stations, given the fact that he actually ran for the presidency as an independent candidate, expecting to be supported less by his own CCC party and more by the members and supporters of ZanuPF? Does this kind of strategy make sense to anyone on earth? And, does that strategy make sense to Nerves Mumba and his Sadc Election Observation Mission or to any other foreign election observation mission that was in Zimbabwe last week like, say for example, the European Union Observer Mission or any of the several observer missions from the United States that were in Zimbabwe to observe the elections? How did the various foreign election observer missions and Chamisa’s social media supporters expect him to win the presidential election, not only where and when his CCC party was losing the local authority and parliamentary elections but, and critically, where Chamisa himself did not believe that the local authority and parliamentary elections were important or necessary for him to win the presidency? The fact that the loquacious, belligerent and inflammatory foreign election observer missions that are peddling falsehoods about the elections, and Chamisa’s social media supporters who claim with no evidence that Chamisa won, did not raise a finger against the results of the local and parliamentary elections that were declared at 1970 wards and 209 constituencies well ahead of the declaration of the result for the presidential election on 26 August, clearly means that there was no problem with two of the three elections that make up Zimbabwe’s harmonised general election. Only after the declaration of the presidential election result on 26 August did all hell break loose. It must be asked, again, how did anyone expect Chamisa to win a presidential election whose campaign was – as per Chamisa’s deliberate strategy – organised and pursued as if it was the presidential campaign of an independent candidate? Chamisa’s presidential election campaign was not based on the CCC parliamentary election campaign or on CCC’s structural capacity on the ground, strangely, it was based on the expectation that ZanuPF members and supporters would vote for Chamisa. Why on earth did anyone expect ZanuPF members and supporters to vote for someone whose base is ever singing cacophonic noise that ZanuPF must go, and hurling insults at the incumbent party, its officials and its supporters? What kind of politics is that? You are contemptuous of ZanuPF and anyone associated with it, but you expect ZanuPF members and supporters to vote for you. This expectation does not compute, certainly not in electoral politics. As things turned out, ZanuPF members and supporters who are registered voters voted for their party candidates in all the three elections: local authority election, the parliamentary election and the presidential election. As a result, in the parliamentary election, CCC won just 73 constituency seats. There's just no way that CCC's 73 constituency seats in the National Assembly would have boosted Chamisa to win the presidency. No ways. In Zimbabwe's first harmonised general election in 2008, Morgan Tsvangirai did well in the first round of the presidential election primarily if not only because the two MDC formations used their round structures to win a majority in Parliament with a combined strength of 110 constituency seats, while ZanuPF garnered 99 seats and an independent got one seat. This was the first time since independence in 1980 that the opposition commanded the majority in Parliament. So, clearly, in 2008 Tsvangirai was propelled by the solid parliamentary performance of the MDC formations. The same structural dynamic was conspicuously absent for Chamisa in the just ended harmonised general election. Chamisa ran a solo presidential election campaign and, predictably, it went horribly wrong. The fact that CCC did not field local authority candidates in 90 wards made a bad situation worse for Chamisa, and it was further compounded by the fact that CCC did not have ground structures to harness and harvest from the loose and unreliable protest vote, especially in the wards and constituencies outside CCC strongholds, which in fact used to be MDC strongholds in the days of Morgan Tsvangirai!show more

It’s time to make your #ShowgirlWishList! A new game... has arrived for all app users ❤️‍🔥 Wish List is a game for you to play while listening to The Life of a Showgirl! Note: You shouldn’t check items off OR submit until after you’ve listened! But you can generate your card now. You’ll have one chance to generate a single Wish List card, which will include words from songs in Taylor's catalog. Once you click the 'See My Card' button, that's the only card you’ll get! Each card will have a unique mix of words. As you listen to The Life of a Showgirl, click on a word if you hear it! Once you’ve checked all of the words on your card that are on The Life of a Showgirl, hit 'Submit' to be eligible to win a signed Showgirl CD! You can only submit once, so don't hit the button until you're ready and have listened to the album & verified your words. On Sunday, October 5th at 11:59pm we'll pick a winner from the group of users that had cards with the most words featured on The Life of a Showgirl. Note: If you check off a word that does not appear on Life of a Showgirl, you will be ineligible to win. Have fun, good luck, and share your cards! We’d love to follow along ❤️‍🔥show more

How to stay sane VTubing for a living! (From... a full-time Vtuber and manager) 1 - Let people know you are in it full-time: Let your audience know this relies on their support without holding them hostage; Let them know you value their support, yes also to lurkers, yes also to people who can only be there for a few minutes a day. They are who made you. 2 - Be greatful: Don't whine about failures, celebrate the times you get back up. Nobody likes consistent negativity on their feed. Of course you can express when you are struggling, BUT consider building yourself AND your audience up, tons better for your MH. 3 - Budget properly: Yes, that new model or $300 background looks good, but surviving looks better, staying out of debt feels loads better. Keep aa 50-50 from your goals as a wage and only reinvest 50% of your VTuber stonks into VTubing, especially into projects that make very little back like music, skebs, etc. 4 - Be friendly, not a pushover: Risking your safety, mh, privacy is never worth it. Nobody should be making demands beyond the boundaries and timescale you set. Collab not comfortable for your schedule, don't do it. Friends pushing you to show your irl info, not your friends. Chat asking too much from you, you can give them a friendly no. It's your space, curate it to your needs. 5 - Work hard and reflect: Nobody wants to admit they have been lazy or could have done more, but sometimes it's good to admit to yourself that you were expecting too high a number for the content you put out. It sucks, but looking into your weaknesses as well as strengths is the only way to do better in the future. 6 - Make time: Don't spend 12h a day streaming when you get paid less than minimum wage per hour, stop burning yourself out for zero discoverability. Your time is better spend brainstorming and creating more off-stream content, looking at other streamers content and learning from those that came before you. Your time is so valuable, don't waste it. 7 - Finally: You are a person off-stream!!! Eat, drink, workout, socialize if you can. Have secrets. Have a life, friends and interests outside of stream. You don't need to share everything with your chat and community, and likewise you DON'T have to share your VTubing journey with your family if they don't need to know. If it's full-time, it's a job, there needs to be a step back at the end of the day, for your own sanity. Hope this reaches those that want to go full-time as a VTuber!!!show more

Leftists are highly un-educated. People can hold beliefs you... dont like. That includes racial pride and, yes, actual racism. And dont worry. We find you as equally repulsive. Perverted and deranged. In a free country those things are not crimes. Its 100% legal. And you are not the thought police. You do not get to dictate anything. Just because you hate yourself and your race, we don't have to. Thoughts are not prosecutable. Speech that doesn’t incite imminent violence is protected. Acting on racial animus, discrimination in housing or hiring, violence, threats, can be illegal. Just the same as liberal violence is. Conflating the two is how you turn disagreement into a moral emergency and then into social punishment that looks a lot like a crime without the due process. There is an obvious double standard on racial pride. Celebrating Black, Hispanic, Asian, or Indigenous heritage is treated as healthy identity. Doing the same for European ancestry is frequently labeled “problematic” or worse. If pride in group history and achievement is legitimate for some, it is legitimate for all, or the principle is just tribal favoritism wearing progressive clothes. Calling someone a racist is not the same as proving they committed a crime. Treating the accusation as self-executing, jobs lost, platforms removed, reputations destroye, turns a slur into a substitute for evidence. That’s not justice. It’s enforcement of an orthodoxy. You can refuse to associate with people who hold it. What you cannot coherently do in a liberal democracy is pretend that holding the belief itself is legally or morally equivalent to an act of violence. Once beliefs become crimes, the only remaining question is who gets to define the forbidden ones.show more

Judges and Jurors should be sacrosanct to the judicial... process. It is hard to put in words my reverance for the judges and juries I stood before. The judges who presided over the many trials I have been a part of over the last 33 years have been amazing. The juries have always been what they shoud be- Untainted truth seekers. Many times, the jury members wrote me notes. I cherish each one. Many times, the judge allowed the jurors to meet us. I also cherish those interactions. I have spoken out regarding the jury process related to the murder trial of Karen Read. Why? Because I believe it to be a disgrace to all I have held to the highest esteem throughout my career. Was this a grand conspiracy? No. Just like the case, it was simple. Read and her propaganda team set out to taint the jury pool. It was not complicated and not disguised. They flaunted their goal. I believe they achieved their goal. Why? Look no further than juror 11. Watch what she has all too joyfully blasted all over SM and MM. Look at her follow list on X. Listen to her. Was she honest on her juror worksheet? I have also said I believe this case, like OJ, is a case of jury nullification. I stand by that likelihood. Let me further explain. In a nutshell, nullification occurs if jurors choose to ignore evidence and find someone either guilty or innocent based on other factors. Let's take the foreman who said if a dead man was on his front porch, police would have stormed his house. The facts show John O'Keefe was not on anyone's front porch. In fact, John was on the curtilage of 34 Fairview nearly as close to the neighbor's front door as the front door of 34 Fairview. The foreman seemingly disregarded this fact in evidence. Look at Juror 11. She talked about the jury's commitment to not hang influenced by their anger over the money spent. Take a look at her further statements. She said Read merely dropped John off. Read reversed 24 MPH according to the evidence. Her tail light was embedded in John's shirt. Juror 11 ignored this evidence. I could go on and on with this juror, but suffice to say, I believe she would have aquitted no matter what the evidence was based on her own admissions and her social media. That's nullification and has nothing to do with reasonable doubt. I have listened to every minute of both trials. I have read the court documents. I have talked with the victims - family and friends. I have felt their pain. Before anyone takes out of context my concern for what this case has done to our judicial process understand All the facts. I have the same sadness for our system that I had after the OJ verdict. I respect the views of those who don't share my concern. Freedom of speech is imperative. But it would be remiss and wrong of me not to share the truth as I know it and call attention to what I see as a failed process soiled by social media for unethical reasons. #KarenRead #KarenReadRetrialshow more

We are excited to unveil the latest version of... the AIOZ Node: The Version 4.0 update! This update includes a new user interface and brings substantial functional improvements, enhancing your overall experience for increased productivity and efficiency. More information below: The standout feature of AIOZ Node v4.0 is the introduction of the Transcoding functionality, which is currently available in beta. This functionality enables your node to participate in video transcoding, which converts video files into different formats for various digital devices and media platforms. By enabling transcoding, your node can contribute more significantly to the AIOZ Network, expanding the network's capabilities and potential $AIOZ token rewards. While the transcoding functionality is currently in beta, the upcoming AIOZ W3Stream integration, a DePIN Video Infrastructure due for release in Q3 2024, will unlock the full potential of your node and enable seamless video transcoding tasks. To get started with AIOZ Node v4.0, you simply need to visit our official website to download the latest version of the AIOZ Node: This download process is very straightforward, and with a one-click installation process, you can set up AIOZ Node v4.0 to start running on your device within a few minutes. If you are already running an AIOZ Node on your device, the version 4.0 update will be applied automatically, ensuring you have the latest features and improvements without hassle! With the Node v4.0 update running on your device, you can proceed to familiarize yourself with the new layout, check out the performance improvements, and start transcoding to see how it enhances your contributions to the network! Learn More: $AIOZshow more

ITL Reverse Auction Buyback: Live Community Prices Are Now... Visible 📊🔥 Want to see what prices the community is submitting for the first ITL Reverse Auction Buyback? 👀 You can now view the live asking prices shared by participants on the website below: 🔗 Why this matters 🌐 A live view of submitted offers gives participants a clearer picture of the current price range and helps them make more informed decisions before submitting their own asking price. 💡 How to use the data 🧭 ✅ Compare the offers already submitted 📉 ✅ Review the current price range 📈 ✅ Choose the price you believe is competitive 🎯 ✅ Submit your own offer based on your strategy 📝 Important note ⚠️ This is a reverse auction, so more competitive offers may have a better chance of being considered, depending on: → submission validity ✅ → available treasury budget 💰 Please remember 📌 The prices shown on the website are participant-proposed prices only. They are NOT: • an official ITL price 🚫 • a guaranteed buyback price 🚫 Takeaway 🧠 This live pricing view adds more transparency to the process and gives the community a practical way to assess market sentiment before making a decision. 🤝 Check the live prices. Compare the offers. Submit the price you think is competitive. 🚀 InterLink Labs 👤 + 🌐 KV Reina | InterLink Labs #InterLink #ITL #ITLG #WeAreTheFirst10MLinkersshow more

The political establishment in Australia is not entirely stupid,... they just think you are. As they lament the rise of One Nation, they pretend they don't understand it. Because if they showed us that they understand the resons, they then have to make a major admission. Hanson's rise is all their fault. Because the major parties and the faux independents have been on a unity ticket on all of the big problems they have jointly caused for decades. They can’t hide from the messes they have caused, so now they want to blame everyone else but themselves. Today, on ABC’s Insiders, Annabel Crab belled the cat, as Karvelas did the two step crab walk. Annabel correctly diagnoses the political situation here right now. It is not a love for Hanson, or One Nation that is causing the surge, but a total lack of faith in the other offerings. It almost does not matter what Hanson says or does, because her greatest strengths are that she is there, and she is not one of them. Those are enduring traits and the more the major parties hit her, the more the media carry on about her, and the more the establishment present her as a “deplorable”, the more people they will push in her direction. It is like they are in quicksand... the more they struggle, the deeper they sink. People are growing ready for wild political change. A worsening economy and a growing collapse in social cohesion has put the nation on edge. The big end of town want to pretend everything will be fine when the latest special envoy delivers their newest report, but nothing changes. Nothing changes because nothing is supposed to change. Because the government, the opposition and their Green Teal cheer squads want things just the way they are. They didn’t just pass all of the enabling legislation for no reason. There are real beneficiaries of these things, it is just that none of the beneficiaries are the Australian people. Australians have broadly been the target of the changes made to benefit foreign interests, the political class and major corporations. We have been targeted for so long it is impossible not to feel the cross-hairs of the scope resting on our forehead. Hanson and her team simply have to talk about that feeling... they don’t even have to have a solution. Because when the establishment continues to pretend the problems don't exist, just acknowledging the pain is enough to earn a vote. Annabel nails this sentiment in just a few words. Right as Karvelas changes the subject, because it is not that this isn’t obvious, it is because Karvelas is there to cover it up, and hit Hanson’s credibility again. Fuelling the vicious cycle of the rise of the outsider. Unless something significant changes in the establishment, and I don’t expect it will, there will be major upheaval at the next election. Most people will not be voting for their favourite party or person, they will primarily be voting against the status quo, because in their minds, it could not possibly be worse than what we have experienced for decades... but it just might be a little bit better. And that is a risk worth taking. After all most of us like a punt. I just want Australia back.show more

🚨 WARNING: EVERYTHING WILL BE DECIDED IN 24 HOURS!!... If you hold any assets: - Stocks - Crypto - Bonds - Or even the dollar You MUST read this post before it’s too late. The whole world is waiting for the peace deal between Iran and the US. The market is frozen in anticipation right now. Everything depends on what they roll out in the official announcement. We either get total slaughter, Or a HUGE pump. SCENARIO 1 The deal IS NOT APPROVED. If they say into the microphone: “We failed to reach an agreement. The process has been paused.” Or “The parties have exited negotiations.” That becomes a trigger for IMMEDIATE panic. Company stocks (and the entire related sector) will fall like a rock. Stops get triggered. Margin calls wipe out everyone sitting on leverage. A 15–20% drop within the very first minutes is the base scenario. Since investors priced this deal in as the main driver, The market will start repricing literally everything. A wave of selling into “safe haven assets” will begin. Dragging the S&P 500 index down with it. The media space will turn into absolute chaos. Analysts will instantly switch sides and start writing that: - The business is no longer viable. - Valuations were inflated. - The company now faces prolonged stagnation or default. Retail investors will start panic-selling at the absolute bottom. This will be total disappointment: scorched earth, liquidity disappears. And investors lock cash into money market funds or short-term bonds just to stay safe. SCENARIO 2 The deal IS APPROVED. If an official press release comes out with signatures and concrete numbers. The market switches into “full power FOMO mode”. Everyone will start buying back positions so they don’t miss the pump. That creates an insanely powerful upside impulse. The candle prints straight vertical. The euphoria spreads across the entire market. Trading volumes explode to historical highs. Even companies completely unrelated to the deal will start pumping. The reason is simple: EVERYTHING IS GREEN. Analysts instantly start competing over who can post the most bullish forecast. Stock targets get moved 30–50% above current levels. The deal creates a precedent that “unlocks” the value of the entire sector. Absolute madness: portfolio multiples, people screaming in chats “I TOLD YOU!” and mass full-port buying. In moments like this, technical analysis stops working. And you should track all the updates so you don’t miss the opportunity. But don’t worry, I will keep you updated on everything here. I will post everything before it becomes HEADLINES. When I make my next move, I’ll share it publicly here. Follow and turn on notifications so you don't miss it. Many people will regret not following me earlier...show more

I immensely thank Election Commission of India for initiating... steps to ensure fairness in the upcoming elections in Telangana. However, I am surprised how Election Commission missed out Superintendent of Police, Asifabad-Komuram Bheem District! While I have nothing against him personally, but the manner he was brought in by abruptly transferring a tough officer, Mr Kalmeshwar, IPS at the behest of Sirpur MLA, Mr Konappa is raising a lot of eyebrows! Police Officer or any officer for that matter in high position should not only maintain utmost integrity, but also appear transparent. If the district SP goes to a private trust, (Koneru Konappa Trust) owned by MLA which is built on the government land subverting rules and felicitates MLA in public gaze and serves food there, what kind of neutrality can we expect in the elections? While MLA’s family is actively involved in illegal Satta(Matka) and other illegal activities not even one case was booked against the culprits so far despite complaints to local police, how can a common man gather strength to go to the police station? In fact, SC/ST prevention of Atrocities act was recklessly used against political opponents in this district, at the behest of MLA! Three innocent student volunteers of Delhi University get kidnapped and thrashed by the MLA’s followers for no reason and it took almost 24 hours to register FIR in Kagaznagar Rural PS and I had to talk to three senior most IPS officers for that and police allowed the culprits to surrender after 72 hours! Most of the SHOs were appointed here after they produced the letters of endorsement of the sitting MLA! Can they be fair and neutral or will they show loyalty to their benefactor? We are going to lodge formal complaint with CEO, Telangana and ECI to replace SP Asifabad with a neutral officer with immediate effect. I am attaching the photos here. Spokesperson ECI Office of Chief Secretary, Telangana Govt. DGP TELANGANA POLICE #NeedFairElectionInSirpur001 #Telanganashow more

This prosecutor should be ashamed of himself for promoting... such a fundamental mischaracterization of a defense attorney’s duties. Yesterday, in his closing argument in the trial of #EdrickFaust, elected district attorney Kalki Yalamanchili boldly stated that the defendant’s lawyer, Ahmad Crews, has the duty of “[making] sure, regardless of what the evidence is, that he does everything he possibly can to walk Mr. Faust out that door - even though he murdered Tara Baker.” This was (correctly) objected to immediately by Mr. Crews, but what Judge Lisa Lott did to remedy the statement remains unclear. Let me make this clear: defense lawyers are only under obligation to the Constitution. They are not intended to indiscriminately fight for the outcome of a client. They are, just as any other attorney, prohibited from fabricating evidence or information to mislead the court or a jury. Their job is to ensure the prosecution lawfully, and following rules of due process, proves its case beyond a reasonable doubt. Part of their job is to call into question the strength of the evidence against their clients, but not through stooping to the level of deception. The zealous defense of a client cannot be equated with immoral advocacy. It does not mean excusing crime, ignoring facts, or endorsing violence. Undermining and demonizing that role by portraying counsel as morally corrupt for doing his job pressures jurors to effectively punish defendants for the stigma associated with having defense counsel. If there are mistakes, prejudices, conflicts of interest, or any other reason to lose faith in an investigation, a defense attorney’s job is to bring it to the surface and hold the government to account rather than allow a defendant to be steamrolled into a wrongful conviction. Mr. Yalamanchili’s suggestion that defense counsel exists to defeat justice “regardless of the evidence” is an attack on the very elements of the justice he purportedly believes in…but he knows this already. #FreeEdrickFaust #JusticeforTaraBaker #Georgiashow more

#Immigration: Let's be clear: You don’t need to be... a US intelligence agent to spot this fake video targeting Haitians in the election. 🇭🇹 First, it was lies about “Haitians eating dogs”; now they’re claiming you can get U.S. citizenship in just 6 months. All Haitians know only U.S. citizens can vote in this election. I've tweeted about it many times. We know the penalty: a $10,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison for violating this law. Haitians are not here to involve in U.S. politics if not citizen. Haitians are hardworking people, contributing to the U.S. in every way—whether it’s under the hot sun and pouring rain on construction sites, tending gardens, working in factories, providing care in nursing, or supporting every level of administration. We’re here to build, to uplift, and to pursue the American Dream, just like everyone else. 🛑 Fact Check: Even if married to a U.S. citizen, you need 3 years as a resident before applying for citizenship. Otherwise, it’s 5 years if you hold permanent residency or have been granted asylum.This timeline is law — no shortcuts. 📢 It’s alarming that high-profile figures overlook these obvious facts. We need to fight misinformation by using common sense + tech to debunk these narratives. Whenever you see lies like this, tag me. Let’s stand up for Haitians with truth! Alex Cole Ed Krassenstein Elon Musk Voice Of Our Ancestors Channel Erin Burnett OutFront Abby D. Phillip AFP Fact Check 🔎 FRANCE 24 Français @KamalaHQ bluesky Christopher C. Cuomoshow more

🚨🎞️Ronin Animation Loop Contest🎞️🚨 Come on Roner Loopers!! The... new contest is here, and so are you, reading this🤝 Before we start, a worthy mention of @Axie44 a pioneer in many things, but in this context, a pioneer in inspiring people to create beautiful loop clips - check #ArticLoopContest If you're an artist but have never created animations, gifs, or loops, don't worry. Keep reading; I'll give you some ideas🤓 💸 Prize Pool💸 🥇1st Place: 300 $RON 🥈2nd Place: 200 $RON 🥉3rd Place: 100 $RON 🏅 4th Place: 50 $RON 💰10 runners-up: 15 $RON each 📝 How to Enter 📝 Please read all the rules carefully. If you don’t follow them to the letter, you won’t win sry. - The animation should be a loop, focused on the Ronin theme—check the video for inspiration 👇 - Ensure the end and beginning transition smoothly - Entries shouldn’t be more than 15 seconds long - IMPORTANT: Submit your design through our official form - Post your entry on Twitter using the hashtag #RoninLoop and tag both us and the Ronin account and also if you want, DM us your entry for a heart emoji - Retweet this post as soon as you read it, don’t be cheeky. Tag your art friends and your family - become taGful, become many 💡 If you can envision it, you can create it. Partner up with artists, call your designer friend, move mountains. Be proactive and become the winner ⏰ Entry Deadline ⏰ Tuesday, May 14, 2024 ⚖️Judging Criteria📊 Submissions will be evaluated based on the following criteria: - Creativity: How original is the concept? Does it present a unique, out-of-the-box idea? - Theme Adherence: How effectively does the loop incorporate and represent the Ronin Network theme? - Technical Execution: Quality of animation, especially the seamless looping where the end transitions smoothly back to the beginning. - Storytelling: Does it convey a compelling message or point within those seconds, or does it seem rather random? Let's create something that'll make the Ronin Network community proud, go go go 🚀 Ready, set, animate! 🚀 PrrrRrrRrrrrrr Substack article 🔗👇show more

Whether you are a random person on X or... Elon Musk, I urge you all to please read this post and stop using videos like this one to claim that Biden has an "open border policy": #1) The people in this video are already on American soil. The agents have a few options here. Detain them behind the razor wire or detain them in front of it, let the children cut themselves on razor wire or make sure they don't get cut. #2) In May President Biden issued an "asylum ban" which barred migrants from applying for humanitarian protection if they cross the border against the law or fail to first apply for safe harbor while crossing through another country on the way to the U.S. The US COURTS OVERTURNED IT. Biden also requested $3.5B for more border patrol agents and judges and lawyers. Republicans refused. #3) Let me explain to you all why the people in this video can't simply be put on a truck and driven back into Mexico and dropped off: a - They have a right to due process according to our Constitution. b - There are international laws indicating that we can't just drop people off from Honduras or Cuba or any other nation into Mexico. What if one of these people claimed they were from Canada? Should we drop them in Canada? c - How do we immediately prove that a person is not an American, or an Italian, or a Brazilian if they claim they are? Stop pretending that Biden isn't doing anything. Stop pretending that the immigration problem is simple. Stop pretending that this has not been a problem for decades. Understand that the surge of migrants isn't the fault of Biden but actually global geopolitical upheaval in Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and other nations. Instead of pointing fingers and claiming that "Biden has an open border policy," when his policy is not much different than those we have had for the last 40 years, how about working together on comprehensive reform? So before you make another Tweet claiming Biden has an Open Border Policy, how about instead you provide actual solutions that are LEGAL, that should be implemented.show more

Your brain physically rewires itself every time you think... a thought. Donald Hebb stumbled onto this principle in 1949 while studying memory formation in lab rats. He noticed something that should have been impossible: neurons that activated simultaneously began forming stronger connections over time, creating dedicated pathways where none existed before. Scientists called it Hebb's Law. The rest of us call it "neurons that fire together wire together." What Hebb discovered wasn't just a mechanism for learning. He had found the biological foundation of human transformation. Every habit, every skill, every automatic response in your body exists as a neural pathway carved by repetition. The route from your bedroom to your kitchen becomes a superhighway in your brain because you walk it every morning. The sequence of movements you use to tie your shoes becomes hardwired because you've done it thousands of times. But, this same process builds your personality. That tendency to check your phone when you feel anxious? Neural pathway. The automatic urge to argue when someone challenges your opinion? Neural pathway. The way you deflect compliments or seek validation or avoid difficult conversations? All neural pathways, strengthened every time you repeat the pattern. Your brain cannot distinguish between physical actions and mental habits. Both carve grooves in your neural architecture. Both become automatic responses when triggered. Both feel like "who you are" because they happen without conscious choice. But, most people spend decades accidentally building neural superhighways to behaviors they claim they want to change. You say you want to be confident, then practice self doubt every day. You say you want to be productive, then strengthen procrastination pathways by checking social media when work feels hard. You say you want authentic relationships, then wire yourself for people pleasing by avoiding conflict whenever it arises. The brain observes your actions and assumes this must be what you want. So it builds infrastructure to make these patterns easier to execute in the future. Neuroplasticity research reveals something most people find deeply unsettling: there is no "fixed self." The personality you think defines you is just a collection of neural pathways that have been reinforced more often than others. The pathways you travel most frequently become the widest roads. The thoughts you think most often become the loudest voices. The behaviors you repeat most consistently become your automatic responses. But the same mechanism that locks you into patterns can unlock you from them. Every time you catch yourself mid pattern and choose differently, you send a signal to your brain that the old pathway might not be serving you anymore. Every time you practice a new response instead of defaulting to the familiar one, you begin building new neural infrastructure. The process feels awkward at first because you're literally walking through mental wilderness, creating trails where no trails existed. But repetition turns trails into paths, paths into roads, roads into superhighways. This is why changing habits through willpower alone fails. You're trying to muscle through established neural superhighways instead of building alternative routes. The old pathways don't disappear just because you want them to. They have to be replaced through deliberate rewiring. The most sophisticated meditation practitioners in the world understand this intuitively. They don't just sit quietly hoping for peace. They systematically rewire their brains by repeatedly choosing calm responses instead of reactive ones. Ten thousand hours of practice creates neural pathways so robust that serenity becomes their default state. Professional athletes do the same thing with performance. They don't just practice their sport. They practice the mental patterns that support excellence until confidence, focus, and resilience become neurologically hardwired. The implications of neuroplasticity extend far beyond personal development. Every social bias, every cultural assumption, every automatic judgment you make exists as neural wiring built through repetition. The way you unconsciously categorize people, the assumptions you make about different groups, the stereotypes that feel "obviously true" are all learned pathways that can be unlearned. Societies change when enough individuals rewire their neural patterns around new ways of thinking and behaving. The brain you have right now is not the brain you're stuck with. It's the brain you've trained through repetition. Every thought you choose, every action you take, every response you practice is a vote for the kind of neural architecture you want to build. Most people cast these votes unconsciously, then wonder why their life feels automatic and unchangeable. The moment you realize you're the architect of your own neural patterns is the moment real transformation becomes possible. Your neurons are firing right now as you read this. What are you choosing to wire them toward?show more