🧵🚨 THREAD: Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Within TWO HOURS, leaders of 7 "bridge-building" organizations assembled on a conference call. Why so fast? Because UVU was THEIR campus. 🚨

This is Maury Giles, incoming CEO of Braver Angels, admitting on camera at the National Conference on Citizenship:

"Within two hours of the assassination, a group of us, all Utahns, we gathered on a call. We'd become friends over the last 5 years through our work in the community. And we also happen to be leaders in seven different national organizations that work in civic renewal."

Two hours. Seven national organizations. But this wasn't a spontaneous reaction to a tragedy. This was a network protecting its home turf. Because UVU wasn't just the place where Kirk was shot. It was the institutional center of the entire bridge-building / Dignity Index apparatus... and had been for years.

And the kicker?

These seven national organizations don't hide their own intent: replicate color revolution tactics in the United States. And, yes, that includes MWEG - Mormon Women for Ethical Government.

I have the receipts... they all admitted this on camera.

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

MWEG on their own GROW video:

"UVU has sponsored for us for the past three years so that we can have it there on their campus."

UVU SPONSORED their annual conference for three consecutive years. UVU is not a neutral venue in this story. It's a partner.

A speaker on MWEG's own Civics Learning Week video from 2023 admits she got a faculty position at UVU partly BECAUSE she was involved with Braver Angels... the same organization whose incoming CEO organized the two-hour call after Kirk was killed.

🚨 In a 2-1 vote, a D.C. Circuit panel has issued an extraordinary writ of mandamus, ordering Judge Boasberg to terminate his criminal contempt probe into the Trump administration’s transfer of alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador.

The panel—Rao (op.), Walker (concurring), and Childs (dissenting)—holds the TRO did not clearly bar transferring custody abroad, making contempt legally untenable, and warns the inquiry improperly intruded into high-level Executive national security decisionmaking.

Read the ruling here:

media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/…

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I've been putting coffee in my ass for years.

I know how it sounds, but some of the best alternative therapy clinics in the world use coffee enema to treat cancer patients.

This is genuinely the most effective detox protocol I've ever tried: (1/19)

A coffee enema is when you brew organic coffee, let it cool to body temperature, then use an enema kit to gently insert it into your rectum and hold it for 20 minutes.

The coffee gets absorbed directly into your liver through the portal vein, detoxing your body instantly.

Most people's colons are cesspools of rotting fecal matter, biofilms from parasites, and mucoid plaque.

What they don't realize is the colon connects directly to the liver through the portal vein.

So every toxin in your colon gets reabsorbed and creates massive liver burden.

🧵New Anthropic Fellows research: We studied mechanisms of "introspective awareness" in LLMs.

LLMs can sometimes detect steering vectors injected into their residual stream. But is this worthy of being called introspection, or attributable to some uninteresting confound?👇

We use the setup from Lindsey (2025): inject a steering vector, then ask the model: "Do you detect an injected thought? [detection] If so, what is the injected thought about? [identification]"

Our experiments are on open-source 🤖: Gemma3-27B, OLMo-3.1-32B, and Qwen3-235B.

First, we show that the behavior is robust: across diverse prompts and dialogue formats, detection maintains a 0% false positive rate (FPR) with moderate true positive rates (TPR) for both Gemma3-27B and Qwen3-235B.

1/ Ukraine is launching a new, agile system for rapid military deployment of new technology; Russia, not so much so. Pro-Kremlin warblogger Vladimir Romanov sarcastically highlights the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian systems. ⬇️

2/ Romanov notes how Ukraine is "systematically streamlining the path of technological developments to the front lines":

"The [Ukrainian] government, at the recommendation of the Ministry of Defence, is launching a new model for purchasing innovative weapons for the army."

3/ "The Ministry of Defence now has the authority to quickly procure innovative products through a simplified procedure, and combat units will test them and decide on their effectiveness.

Solutions proven in combat are eligible for inclusion in procurement requirements.

The greatest triumph of the incessant hurricane of lies coming from Russia, MAGA, and the likes of Elon Musk has been convincing a significant share of the world, including Europeans, to believe in a “decaying and collapsing” Europe that exists solely in their imagination.🧵

Nearly every single country on the European continent, the one that is supposedly "a totalitarian hellhole with no free speech", ranks significantly higher than the US in terms of freedom of the press, with every single one of the top 10 spots being occupied by European countries.

Things are so terrible in Europe from an overall quality of life perspective that last year, just like every other year really, European nations topped the charts of the happiest nations on earth, somewhat taking away from the "Europeans are on the verge of civil war" narrative.

How Seven Decades of Institutional Architecture Gave Israel Permanent Influence Over American Foreign Policy — And Why No President Has Been Able to Change It

JD Vance Called Netanyahu From the Plane Back From Islamabad. The Prime Minister Then Briefed His Cabinet on American Foreign Policy.

THE QUESTION BEING ASKED:

A post circulating today asks what kind of power allows a foreign government to shatter a sitting U.S. president's popularity, continue dictating the terms of American military engagement, and face zero consequences for doing so. It is the right question. And the answer is not simple — it was not built overnight, it did not emerge from a single administration, and it does not rest on any single lever of influence. It is the product of seven decades of institutional architecture, financial investment, legal protection, and cultural entrenchment so deep that it now operates independently of who sits in the White House. Here is how it was built, how it works, and why it holds even when presidents want it to stop.

THE FOUNDATION: HOW THE RELATIONSHIP WAS BUILT:

1. It Did Not Begin as Unconditional:
The U.S.-Israel relationship was not always what it is today. In 1956, President Eisenhower forced Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula after the Suez Crisis — threatening economic sanctions if it refused. Israel complied. In 1967, President Johnson privately opposed Israeli military action. In 1973, Nixon resupplied Israel during the Yom Kippur War — but extracted political concessions in return. The relationship in its early decades was transactional, occasionally adversarial, and subject to American national interest calculations. The transformation into something categorically different happened gradually, and it was not accidental.

2. The Turning Point: 1967 and the Strategic Asset Argument:
After Israel's decisive victory in the Six-Day War in 1967, a new argument took hold inside Washington's national security establishment — that Israel was a strategic asset in the Cold War, a reliable, militarily capable, pro-Western state in a region of Soviet-aligned governments. This framing was enormously powerful because it translated moral and political support for Israel into the language that Washington's security bureaucracy understood — strategic interest. From this point forward, American military aid to Israel was justified not just as support for a democratic ally but as an investment in regional stability and Cold War positioning. That framing has never been formally retired, even after the Cold War ended.

3. The Aid Architecture Was Institutionalized:
Beginning in the mid-1970s, U.S. military and economic aid to Israel was codified into the annual appropriations process in a way that made it structurally automatic. Since 1985, the United States has provided Israel with approximately $3.8 billion annually in military assistance, secured through a ten-year Memorandum of Understanding. This is not discretionary foreign aid that presidents can redirect. It requires active legislative intervention to change. The architecture was designed to survive changes in administration — and it has, through eleven presidencies. No sitting president has successfully reduced it.

THE INSTITUTIONAL MACHINERY:

1. AIPAC and the Lobbying Infrastructure:
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee was founded in 1953 but became the dominant force in U.S. Middle East policy from the 1980s onward. AIPAC operates not as a foreign agent — it has never registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act — but as a domestic lobbying organization representing American citizens who support the U.S.-Israel relationship. This distinction is legally and politically critical. It means AIPAC's activities are fully protected under American law, its donors are American citizens exercising constitutional rights, and its influence is treated as domestic political participation rather than foreign interference.

2. The Electoral Mathematics:
Jewish-American voters are disproportionately concentrated in states that historically determined presidential elections — New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan. Jewish-American donors have historically represented a significant share of fundraising for both major political parties, with estimates ranging from 25 to 50 percent of Democratic Party donor funding in various election cycles. This concentration of electoral and financial influence means that the political cost of opposing Israel consistently exceeds the political cost of supporting it, regardless of which party holds power. Candidates who have tested this calculation — from Charles Percy in 1984 to more recent figures — have typically lost.

3. The Congressional Architecture:
Israel's most durable protection is not in the White House. It is in Congress. Pro-Israel caucuses in both chambers have historically commanded supermajority support — regularly passing resolutions backing Israeli military operations with margins of 90 percent or more. This means that even when a president privately wants to pressure Israel — as Obama did over settlements, as Bush did over the separation wall — Congress acts as a counterweight that prevents formal policy from following presidential preference. Netanyahu understands this architecture better than most American politicians. He has used it repeatedly and openly, including his 2015 address to a joint session of Congress — arranged without White House approval — to lobby against the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal.

4. The Christian Evangelical Factor:
Since the 1970s, Christian Zionism — the theological belief that the modern state of Israel fulfills biblical prophecy — has become a significant political force inside the Republican Party. Christian evangelical voters represent approximately 25 percent of the American electorate and vote at very high rates. Their support for Israel is unconditional by theological design — it does not respond to policy outcomes, Israeli government conduct, or geopolitical consequence. Any Republican president who moves against Israeli interests risks fracturing this base. Trump, whose political coalition depends heavily on evangelical turnout, is acutely sensitive to this pressure. His most religiously motivated supporters will not punish him for wars that cost American lives or global economic disruption. They will punish him for appearing to abandon Israel.

THE INTELLIGENCE AND MILITARY ENTANGLEMENT:

1. Intelligence Sharing Creates Mutual Dependency:
The U.S. and Israel share intelligence at a level that has no parallel in any other bilateral relationship outside the Five Eyes. Unit 8200 — Israel's signals intelligence directorate — is widely regarded as among the most capable SIGINT organizations in the world. American intelligence agencies receive Israeli-gathered intelligence on Iranian nuclear programs, Hezbollah networks, and regional threat assessments that they cannot reliably collect independently. This dependency is structural — it means American intelligence analysts, military planners, and national security officials have a professional and institutional interest in maintaining Israeli cooperation that operates entirely below the level of presidential decision-making. The bureaucracy is entangled in ways that no single president can disentangle.

2. The Defense Industry Dimension:
American defense contractors — Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics — have direct financial stakes in Israeli military procurement. Israel is required under U.S. law to spend a portion of its American military aid on American weapons systems. This creates a constituency inside the American defense industrial base with a direct financial interest in maintaining and expanding the military relationship with Israel. These companies lobby, donate, and employ former military and government officials through the revolving door that connects the Pentagon to private industry. The financial incentives align with the political incentives, creating a self-reinforcing system.

3. Military-to-Military Relationships:
American and Israeli military officers train together, exercise together, share doctrine, and in many cases have personal professional relationships that span careers. The U.S. military's European Command, which oversees the American military relationship with Israel, has institutional relationships and shared planning frameworks that operate independently of political leadership. When Israeli military objectives align with American military planning — as they do on Iran — the military-to-military channel reinforces the political relationship at a level that is invisible to public debate but extremely durable.

THE MEDIA AND CULTURAL ARCHITECTURE:

1. The Media Ecosystem:
American mainstream media coverage of Israel and Palestine has been extensively documented as structurally asymmetric — not through conspiracy but through institutional factors including the concentration of media ownership, editorial norms that developed over decades, the social networks of journalists and editors concentrated in New York and Washington, and the framing conventions that define what constitutes a legitimate perspective in American political discourse. Criticism of Israeli government policy — entirely normal in Israeli domestic media — is regularly framed in American outlets as antisemitic, fringe, or delegitimizing. This framing creates a chilling effect on political speech that operates without any formal enforcement mechanism.

2. The Antisemitism Conflation:
The deliberate conflation of criticism of Israeli government policy with antisemitism is one of the most effective political tools in modern American discourse. It works because antisemitism is real, historically catastrophic, and morally unambiguous — which makes the conflation extremely difficult to challenge without appearing to minimize it. Politicians who criticize Israeli military operations find themselves defending their personal moral character rather than their policy position. The debate shifts from substance to identity, which is a debate the critic cannot win. This mechanism operates across party lines and has effectively placed Israeli government conduct outside the range of normal political scrutiny in American public life.

3. Think Tank and Academic Infrastructure:
Pro-Israel think tanks — the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, the American Enterprise Institute — produce the policy papers, congressional testimony, and expert commentary that shapes how American officials understand the Middle East. Their researchers are quoted in media, invited to testify before Congress, and appointed to government positions across administrations. The intellectual framework through which American policymakers analyze regional dynamics was largely constructed by institutions with explicit commitments to the U.S.-Israel relationship. Alternative frameworks exist in academia but rarely penetrate the policy community with comparable force.

WHY IT HOLDS EVEN WHEN PRESIDENTS RESIST:

1. Every President Who Tried to Create Distance Paid a Price:
Jimmy Carter brokered the Camp David Accords but was seen as insufficiently supportive of Israel and lost the Jewish vote to Reagan in 1980. George H.W. Bush withheld loan guarantees to pressure Israel on settlements — he lost his reelection bid. Bill Clinton genuinely supported a two-state solution and spent enormous political capital on Oslo — it collapsed and he was blamed. Barack Obama openly clashed with Netanyahu over settlements and the Iran deal — he faced congressional revolt, including Netanyahu's joint address arranged without White House permission, and achieved the JCPOA only to watch it dismantled by his successor. The historical pattern is consistent. Presidents who create meaningful distance from Israeli government positions absorb political costs without achieving lasting policy change.

2. Trump Is Not Being Controlled — He Is Being Managed:
The current situation is more nuanced than simple control. Trump genuinely shares several Israeli strategic objectives — maximum pressure on Iran, hostility to the Iranian nuclear program, and a worldview in which projecting military force is itself the message. Where Trump's instincts diverge — his desire for a quick deal, his irritation at prolonged military commitment, his transactional approach to alliances — the Israeli government and its American allies apply pressure through the channels described above. The evangelical base signals that a retreat from Israeli objectives is theologically unacceptable. Congressional leaders make clear that any daylight on Israel costs political capital needed for domestic priorities. The intelligence and military bureaucracy presents analysis that aligns with Israeli assessments. And Netanyahu calls JD Vance from Islamabad before anyone else does.

3. The Vance Call Is Not an Anomaly — It Is the System Working as Designed:
What Netanyahu revealed yesterday morning — that the American Vice President debriefed him on U.S. negotiating failures before briefing Congress, allies, or the public — is not a breach of protocol. It is the protocol. The institutional, financial, political, and personal architecture described above produces exactly this outcome. The Vice President calls the Prime Minister first because that is what the relationship, as built over seven decades, prescribes. It is not corruption. It is not conspiracy. It is the logical output of a system that was deliberately constructed to make American and Israeli national interests functionally indistinguishable at the level of operational decision-making.

I GAVE PERPLEXITY MY SALARY AND IT GAVE ME A PLAN.

Use these 6 prompts to turn your paycheck into a strategy:

Save this before it disappears:

1/ Salary Plan

Prompt:
“Act as a personal finance expert.

My monthly salary is [SALARY], my expenses are [EXPENSES], my current savings are [SAVINGS], and my goal is [GOAL].

Create a clear plan for how I should spend, save, and invest my money.”

2/ Wealth Growth Plan

Prompt:
“My income is [SALARY], I can invest [MONTHLY INVESTMENT] every month, and my current net worth is [NET WORTH].

Create a simple 5-year plan to grow my wealth.

Show where to invest, how much to invest, and expected growth.

Here’s my deep dive on $OSCR and went through the numbers, membership growth, MLR setup, operating leverage, ACA exposure, and what this business could realistically look like by 2030.

My view: $OSCR is one of the most misunderstood healthcare names in the market right now.

A lot of people look at the ugly 2025 MLR and stop there.

I think the real question is much bigger:

Can $OSCR scale membership, normalize MLR, and turn its ACA-focused platform into a much more profitable insurer by 2030?

Here’s my $OSCR thread 🧵

(1/7) $OSCR

Where $OSCR actually stands today

For full-year 2025, $OSCR reported:

Revenue: $11.70B
Medical loss ratio: 87.4%
SG&A ratio: 17.5%
Loss from operations: ($396.4M)
Adjusted EBITDA: ($279.8M)
Total members: 2,042,449 at year-end 2025.

(2/7) $OSCR

Why the stock is interesting:

The reason the setup still matters is because management’s 2026 guide is a massive swing from 2025:

Revenue: $18.7B to $19.0B
MLR: 82.4% to 83.4%
SG&A ratio: 15.8% to 16.3%
Operating income: $250M to $450M.

That is the whole thesis in one place.

The market is focused on how bad 2025 looked.

Management is telling you 2026 should look materially different if pricing, product design, and underwriting reset the book the way they expect.

Two Trump appointees on the D.C. Circuit panel blocked Boasberg from even INVESTIGATING contempt of court related to the March 2025 flights to El Salvador.

The dissent: "Without the contempt power, the rule of law is an illusion, a theory that stands upon shifting sands."

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This is the second time Judges Rao and Walker granted a writ of mandamus, an "extraordinary" rebuke of a lower court judge.

But Walker went out of the way to praise Boasberg, saying he was in a tough spot even as Walker overruled him.

The nuance here will be important to note in light of the Trump DOJ's campaign to vilify Boasberg, whose D.C. Circuit peers largely stood up for him even when his rulings didn't hold.

How do LLMs do CoT reasoning internally?

In our new #ACL2026 paper, we show that reasoning unfolds as a structured trajectory in representation space. Correct and incorrect paths diverge, and we use this to predict correctness before the answer and correct errors mid-flight.
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Each reasoning step occupies a distinct region in representation space, and these regions become increasingly linearly separable with layer depth. This structure generalizes across tasks and answer formats.

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Trajectories for correct and incorrect reasoning start out nearly identical but diverge systematically at late steps. Late-step trajectory features predict final-answer correctness with AUC 0.87 - before the answer is generated.

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