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generalistimo@stupw· 10d

Hadn't it finally eked its way into almost-kinda-technically-profitability in 2021? The business commentary idiot premise was he'd keep revenue, and cut waste... which didn't work out. Though it shouldn't be big news that he didn't understand how revenue works or what waste is.

Twitter revenue by year, 2010–2021, the final year before Musk took it private, via: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/twtr/revenue/

The graph shows an increase year on year throughout, with a 36.6% jump from 2020–2021 to $5.1 billion at its final fiscal year end, 31 December 2021.

PR Newswire press release, "Twitter Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2021 Results": https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2021-results-301479494.html

The highlight dot points read:

2021 revenue was $5.08 billion, an increase of 37% year over year.
2021 operating loss of $493 million, or an operating margin of -10%, includes a one-time litigation-related net charge of $766 million1, as well as ongoing investments.
2021 adjusted operating income, which excludes the one-time litigation-related net charge, was $273 million reflecting an adjusted operating margin of 5%. Operating income was $27 million in 2020, which includes a $150 million non-recurring expense related to an ongoing FTC matter in Q2 of 2020, representing an operating margin of 1%.
2021 net loss was $221 million, representing a net margin of -4% and diluted EPS of ($0.28).
2020 net loss of $1.14 billion includes a deferred tax asset valuation allowance of $1.10 billion and corresponding non-cash income tax expense based primarily on cumulative taxable losses driven primarily by COVID-19, representing a net margin of -31% and diluted EPS of ($1.44).

generalistimo@stupw· 20d

I'm a type 1 diabetic. I'm unfairly, unkindly callous about type 2 diabetics. I'll trash talk their competence and resolve all day. But this from the linked first person account is something else. A 199X GLP-1 could have prevented type 2 diabetics from *needing* insulin muse.jhu.edu/article/936213

Despite our excitement about the work, we noticed a problem with how it was being evaluated by Pfizer, most specifically by Gardiner and Hutson, who had important input to the final decision-makers for Pfizer on the ongoing collaboration. As we were enjoying the positive human infusion data and anticipating a major effort to design both protease resistant GLP-1 analogues and an inhibitor of the responsible protease as new diabetes therapies, I was shocked when told that senior Pfizer leadership had concluded that there would never be another injectable therapy for diabetes other than insulin. What led them to this conclusion was never explained (and of course it proved totally false in the real world over subsequent decades), but the implication for our program was unambiguous. Pfizer stated that continuation of the project would require us to identify a route for GLP-1 administration other than injection, such as trans-nasal or transcutaneous. The MetaBio team and the founders vigorously disagreed with Pfizer's view that an injectable GLP-1 analogue would never be worth developing, but our arguments had no effect. Based on knowledge at the time about trans-nasal and transcutaneous delivery of peptides like GLP-1, and the short half-life of the protein, we considered it extremely unlikely that either approach could be successfully developed. We nevertheless undertook efforts to develop these modalities, and they were predictably unsuccessful.

About three years into the collaboration, Pfizer informed CalBio it would end its commitment after four rather than five years, permitted by the agreement with [End Page 331] due notice. And indeed, they did just that. The other scientific founders and I tried to convince CalBio leadership to seek alternative external funding to continue the promising work, or to fund it internally, but this didn't happen. Why? CalBio's primary focus and most of its funding was to advance development of Natrecor, a project led by the company's scientific director, John Lewicki, work that eventually led to the company's sale to Johnson and Johnson. Via a process that wasn't transparent, our founder's interest in MetaBio was assessed to be of a certain (we considered low) value, and on that basis, our ownership share was "bought out." We pushed back on the terms and obtained legal advice, but in the end we accepted the terms. With that, our nascent efforts to be the first company to develop a GLP-1 based diabetes therapy, either an analogue resistant to degradation, or an inhibitor of the protease we expected would soon be discovered ended, both emerging more than a decade later as blockbuster therapies.

The lens of history is powerful. In this case, retrospective analysis makes it clear that our effort in the GLP-1 therapeutic space was far ahead of its time. If the full force of CalBio and Pfizer had pressed ahead to develop either a more stable GLP-1 analogue, or an inhibitor of the protease that would soon have been identified, it's extremely likely we would have succeeded. Patients would have benefited, and the company's success would have been enormous. What accounted for the decision to precipitously end the work?

A clear answer wasn't evident to me in 1991/92 when MetaBio ceased to function, but it's worth considering some possible explanations. Ceasing the work on GLP-1 and other promising projects was opposed by the MetaBio founders and the MetaBio scientific team, so answering this question has two parts: why did Pfizer make this decision, and why, in response to that decision, did CalBio not continue the work?

A definitive answer with regard to Pfizer would require review of internal records or interviews with key decision-makers, neither of which is possible now, more than 30 years later. What is clear is that the decision by Hutson, Gardiner, and others was mistaken, based on faulty judgments about the potential role of GLP-1 as a therapy for diabetes, the potential for an injectable formulation of GLP-1 analogues to be successfully adopted, and the potential that clinically obvious effects on appetite and gastric emptying might enable future use in obesity therapy, among others. We interacted with the key figures at Pfizer leading metabolic research and those higher up in the corporate pharmaceutical chain of command. I had been deeply impressed by their rapid decision to invest in our company, and I was equally dumbfounded by their decision to end their investment despite convincing early evidence of the program's success. On several occasions in future years, when recounting this history to others in the biopharmaceutical industry—including some a…

generalistimo@stupw· Jul 19

Since no one has posted the @bretdevereaux.bsky.social series yet... The rest is also a good read, probably more so that the part on their battle record itself: acoup.blog/2019/09/20/c...

The Myth of Spartan Military Excellence

So what have we found?

Sparta had a formidable military reputation, but their actual battlefield performance hardly backed it up. During the fifth and fourth centuries, Sparta lost as often as it won. Spartan battlefield tactics were a bit better than other Greek poleis, but this is damning with faint praise. The spartiates themselves were mostly like every other group of wealthy Greek hoplites. But the Spartan military reputation was extremely valuable – the loss of that reputation during the Peloponnesian War does much to explain the rough decades Sparta would experience following its end.

That is one of the core things we can learn from Sparta: a reputation for military excellence can often be more valuable than the excellence itself – real or imagined. A powerful army can only fight one battle at a time, but the idea of a powerful army can intimidate any number of enemies all at once. As we’ll see next week, when Sparta was forced to turn from intimidation to force, it ran out of force with frightening speed.

Those who have been here for a while may already be wondering, “Wait, though – this is the guy who is always telling us that winning battles isn’t as important as achieving strategic objectives and who is always on about logistics and operations! What about that?” I think that actually goes a long way to explaining how an army with a modest advantage in tactics and organization ends up without a winning record. We’ll get into the limitations of Spartan strategy, operations and logistics next week.

But before we go there, I want to stress something here: the horrors of Spartan society cannot be justified on the grounds they produced superior soldiers, because they quite evidently did not. Sparta’s actual military record was, in fact, depressingly average. Only the reputation was special; the men were just men.

generalistimo@stupw· Jun 25

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generalistimo@stupw· Jun 21

"Most will be offered a chance to become a mutant. Those who deny this opportunity will be sterilized and let go. Those that resist will be executed."

Workers in the pool. Why aren't they wearing full, sealed environmental protection?!

The police arrest someone for interfering in the pool, photo by Amanda Moore (noturtlesoup17). We do not know what they did with them or their fate.

The president addresses us on TV. He is already experiencing advanced effects of the forced evolutionary virus, or FEV. He was exposed early.

Asked about his plans for dipping what remains of humanity the pool, to achieve what he calls "Unity", the closed captions read:

"All that resist, yes. All those that are required for the Unity as well. The remainder will be allowed to live out their days, but under Unity control and protection. But none shall breed, for they will be the last of their race.”

The water is now a deeper, brighter shade of green – it almost glows.

generalistimo@stupw· Jun 20

This is demonic 2_draft(1)_final.mov, which is the title I have chosen to give my thesis before uploading it to the cloud file sharing website box.net

We can see from the ex dot com link preview that the post links to the file "Bovino romania vlad.mov" on the file-sharing website dropbox.com.

generalistimo@stupw· Jun 2

Good piece, thanks. This bit too. Which unfortunately runs straight into Brandolini's law, "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." It's as much a distraction for the writer as the audience. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol...

Text screenshot from further down:

"The fact that all of this is being done for the sake of spectacle sometimes leads liberal elected officials and talking heads to mistake it for a “distraction” from real issues like the Epstein files or the price of gas. But that’s a mistake, and not only because the spectacle of ICE raids ruins real human lives. Spectacle is not a distraction from Trump’s real agenda; it is Trump’s real agenda. That does not make it any less dangerous. In some ways it is more dangerous, because the logic of spectacle is the logic of constant escalation."

generalistimo@stupw· May 23

Good article. He's earned his parental leave. Ken Martin does seem to be a useless guy, but maybe the decision not to release that autopsy was right. When someone leaks something, they think it's right (ie: will help them to achieve their goals).

The deeper problem with the autopsy is that it imagines a voter who doesn't exist. The kind of voter the report's recommendations would persuade - someone weighing Harris's issue positions against Trump's, watching campaign ads carefully, updating their beliefs in response to messaging frames - is essentially a Washington consultant, not your grandma who can't afford to to pay her bills because gas is up 50% and electricity subsidies just ended. One of the problems with autopsies is that voter psychology takes a lot of work to understand well, but the people who have that skillset largely aren't the type of person the DNC is hiring to audit their choices.

$This is also why the hidden axis of American politics - the well-being-oriented, "non-ideological" dimension that runs orthogonal to traditional ideology - keeps catching strategists off guard. Most Washington-based political professionals were trained to think about voters along a single left-right spectrum, and to design messages to "move" voters along it. But a huge fraction of the electorate is non-ideological. They hold a mix of progressive and conservative views that are basically uncorrelated with one another, and they choose candidates based on cues that have little to do with the policy debates that animate party staff. They want change. They want competence. They want leaders to "fight" for them. They do not want to hear about left-right identity politics if the price of a gallon of milk is $6.$

The only way to escape the gravity of anti-incumbent sentiment is to do something big enough that voters actually feel it, or signal that you're trying. You don't need a 12-point plan and to rattle off macroeconomic indicators from the Oval Office; Biden tried that. The next Democratic candidate will need something on the scale of the New Deal or the Great Society a generational project that reorders the relationship between the American economy and the American worker, and that voters can point to and say "My life is better because of this party.

generalistimo@stupw· May 11

To be fair, 60 Minutes is trying to do a good job. Expect it becomes harder and harder to fight the gravitational force of its new owner as time goes on.

60 Minutes script, published on the website with a still of fascist leader Robert Rundo being interviewed:

With nearly 90 chapters, it's been described by watchdogs as one of the country's fastest growing white supremacist networks, that are antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-democracy. They also hold mixed martial arts tournaments.

Robert Rundo: We get together with the boys. We box, we travel.

Lesley Stahl: Do you think of it as fun?

Robert Rundo: Of course. You know, there's fun in fascism.

"Fun in fascism?"

Robert Rundo: I'm a nationalist.

Lesley Stahl: What does that mean?

Robert Rundo: A nationalist?

Lesley Stahl: Yeah.

Robert Rundo: It means I put my people first.

Lesley Stahl: Would you say "white supremacist?"

Robert Rundo: No. I think that's like a slander-ish term.

Lesley Stahl: But "My people" are white people. European white people.

60 Minutes script, on the challenge this kind of on-its-face-benevolent influence operation creates:

Many of these outside groups want to build, as one of their posts states, "a pro-white parallel system." One of the more prominent white supremacist groups that showed up in North Carolina was Patriot Front. They cut down trees and handed out bread.

But Freddy Cruz from the Western States Center, a hate-group watchdog, says these white nationalists go to disasters primarily to build a following.

Lesley Stahl: These people come in, they hand out water, they help clean up the debris. Whatever their ideology, they're doing something positive, aren't they?

Freddy Cruz: What we're seeing is actually these groups will show up and generate a whole bunch of social media content. We're dubbing it disaster tourism.

generalistimo@stupw· May 11

"Terror against ethnic Germans [in Poland] grows hourly," writes Münchner Neueste Nachrichten in August 1939, "...One German businessman was so badly injured he had to be taken to the hospital. His death is expected." Anyway, interesting! You say they're trying to soften their reputation, CBS?

The above the fold front page of the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten on 23 August 1939. Ahead of Nazi Germany's September 1939 invasion of Poland, propaganda sought to justify an attack, usually with a focus on harms and risks to German populations in Polish borders.

By this time, the media had been firmly in Nazi control for years. If anyone has some 1932–33 German papers to share, please do.

generalistimo@stupw· Apr 28

Post-Soviet shock therapy eradicated normal people's savings. Sooo... The opposite situation, and the opposite effect, to a one-time tax on extreme wealth. Brin's biography has made his input *less* valuable. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_t...

From linked Wikipedia article:

Post-Communist states

Following the end of the Cold War, shock therapy was adopted and sustained by Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. It was also adopted but eventually aborted by Russia, Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan, [30]

Nearly all of the post-Soviet states suffered deep and prolonged recessions after the collapse of the Soviet Union, [2]:6 [31] with poverty increasing more than tenfold. [32] The hypothesized one time jump in prices intended as part of shock therapy actually led to a lengthy period of extremely high inflation with a drop in output and subsequent low growth rates. 2]:6 Shock therapy devalued the modest wealth accumulated by individuals under socialism and amounted to a regressive redistribution of wealth in favor of elites who held non-monetary assets. 21:5 Contrary to the expectation of shock therapy proponents, Russia's rapid transition to the market increased corruption, rather than alleviating it. [2]:231-232

generalistimo@stupw· Apr 15

How common is this?! It's got to be a recognised career track by now

Screenshot from the LA Times, which reads:

Controversial LAPD chief
By Elaine Woo and Eric Malnic
April 17, 2010 12 AM PT

Daryl F. Gates, the rookie cop who rose from driver for a legendary chief to become chief himself, leading the Los Angeles Police Department during a turbulent 14-year period that found him struggling to keep pace with a city undergoing dramatic racial and ethnic changes, died Friday. He was 83.

Gates died at his Dana Point home after a short battle with cancer, the LAPD announced.

The controversial chief, whose tenure ran from 1978 to 1992, spent his entire four-decade career at the LAPD, where he won national attention for innovative approaches to crime fighting and prevention: He instituted military-style SWAT teams to handle crises and the gentler DARE classroom program to prevent drug abuse. These initiatives, emulated by police departments across the United States, and other advances, such as a communications system that reduced police response times, bolstered his reputation as an exemplar of modern law enforcement. President George H.W. Bush called him an “all-American hero.”

generalistimo@stupw· Feb 27

Ehhhhh. It works real badly until it doesn't. The inversion is relatively recent; this was someone who was quietly lucky until seven or eight years ago, at best. Next to no one, relatively speaking, cared about him a decade ago.

A Google Trends chart, with its first peak selected, 1 Jan 2018, 36% of its (current) peak.

This is around a third of (peaks in) 2022 and 2025.

There is a gradual, then exponential, growth in search interest from 2013 (roughly first highly publicised Tesla near-bankruptcy) onwards. 2017 is the big shift upwards.

Interestingly, the search interest near-halves in 2023 before spiking again in 2025.

To editorialise, the guy was generally pretty well-liked for quite a while, but before the 2022 peak is the last time it was normal to think he was of net benefit to humanity, uncontroversially.

The mess started in COVID when he was crying because he wasn't allowed to send people into his factories because they might die.

Leading to greater search interest.

generalistimo@stupw· Feb 21

And Annie farmer was 16. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The Irish Times:

Freeman, who is representing Maria Farmer in her lawsuit against the federal government, said in a statement: “What’s new today is finally getting the FBI report of Maria Farmer from 1996 – this is triumph and tragedy for Maria and so many survivors.”

“Maria Farmer reported Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes in 1996. Had the government done their job, and properly investigated Maria’s report, over 1000 victims could have been spared and 30 years of trauma avoided,” Freeman also said. “After several years of asking for her records, the [government] finally released at least some of them today.”

Annie Farmer testified at Maxwell’s 2021 trial that she was just 16 years-old when the British publishing heiress gave her a nude massage at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.

The Irish Times:

During Annie Farmer’s time in the witness box, she described how Epstein and Maxwell groomed her for abuse – including using an unwitting Maria Farmer as a means of access. She recalled meeting Epstein at his Manhattan mansion in late 1995, when her sister Maria was working for him as a fine arts painter.

Epstein bought a plane ticket to New York for Annie Farmer, who said she was told by her sister that Epstein was potentially “interested in helping me with my education”. When she first went to Epstein’s house with Maria Farmer, it was to pick up theatre tickets he had purchased for them.

“He seemed very friendly and kind of down to earth. He was dressed casually,” Annie Farmer testified. The next time Annie Farmer met Epstein was when they went to the movies with him and her sister Maria.

He sat between them and, at one point during the movie, Epstein “caressed” her hand. “He was rubbing the bottom of my shoe and then rubbing my foot, my leg,” Annie Farmer said. “I was very nervous.”

Annie Farmer explained that she did not tell Maria as her older sister was “very protective” and she didn’t want to affect her job with Epstein. But in spring 1996, Annie Farmer’s mother told her that she was going on a weekend trip to Epstein’s New Mexico ranch.

Maxwell told Annie Farmer to undress. She complied and got under a sheet that was on a massage table.

“She pulled the sheet down and exposed my breasts, and started rubbing on my chest and on my upper breast,” Annie Farmer said. “I just wanted so badly to get off the table.”

When Annie Farmer woke up the next day, Epstein “bounded into the room, saying he wanted to cuddle”.

“He climbed into bed with me,” Annie said. “He pressed his body into me.” She escaped Epstein by telling him she had to use the restroom.

In the years following Maria Farmer’s report, accusers’ accounts and court documents indicate that Epstein’s abuse persisted. When Epstein was arrested in 2019, prosecutors alleged that he “sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls” from 2002 to 2005 at his homes in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Florida.

The 2008 plea deal that allowed Epstein to plead guilty to state-level prostitution charges in Florida, came during a federal investigation that involved at least 40 teenage girls.

During a CNN interview after the document was released, Annie Farmer pointed out that numerous girls were abused after her sister came forward.

generalistimo@stupw· Feb 12

Excellent. Also, definitely want to hear whatever went on in unimelb's chancellery

Crikey, 17 December:

FOl docs reveal Meanjin axing never debated by Melbourne Uni. And why were all bids to save it rejected?

The University of Melbourne's finance committee didn't invite members to question the closure of the 85-year-old literary journal, instead only waving it through. Meanwhile, all external offers to save Meanjin have been continually rebuffed by MUP.

Crikey, 17 December, same article:

'Complete fiction'

Crikey asked Bebbington and MUP how many entities had contacted them to discuss saving Meanjin, and why the MUP board had failed to engage meaningfully with these proposals.

Bebbington did not provide those details, but told Crikey: "If you have now viewed the University Council records under FOI, you will be aware that the council had not discussed Meanjin at all in its last couple of years, and the allegation promoted in some media that Meanjin's coverage of Gaza was 'used by University Council to terminate its publication' was a complete fiction. I trust your article will make clear that this emotive claim had no basis."

Australian Financial Review, 12 January:

PM's adviser Glyn Davis returns to lead Melbourne Uni

Anthony Albanese's hand-picked former adviser Glyn Davis will return to lead the University of Melbourne as interim vice chancellor after the death of Emma Johnston, reinstating Davis and his wife, Victorian Governor Margaret Gardner, as one of the state's most powerful couples.

Crikey, 11 February:

QUT revives axed journal Meanjin. Its former editor says she and its advisory board weren't consulted

Since Meanjin's closure, multiple foundations, university figures and organisations approached MUP to explore ways to save the journals, but these attempts were all rebuffed.

generalistimo@stupw· Jan 28

Don't worry, I'm sure it's all okay now. He's "due to face court later today" after "spending the night in police custody." It all sounds very warm and comfy. Maybe it was a really soft bomb and the ball bearings were just there for warmth, weight and texture.

Screenshot of the article text:

He is charged with intent to do harm in such a way as to endanger life, health or safety, and with making or possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances.

Police allege he "removed an item from his bag and threw it into the crowd from a first-floor walkway before fleeing the scene."

Police said about 2,500 people were present in the area at the time.

Subhead: Device 'had potential to kill'

Commissioner Blanch said it will be alleged the device was designed to explode upon impact.

generalistimo@stupw· Jan 18

It's amazing how much there is to miss or forget. "I don't think there's anything that's going to get me into heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound." www.fox5dc.com/news/im-not-...

Fox 5 Washington screenshot, headline and lead text:

'I'm not sure I'm going to be able to make heaven,' Trump tells press on Air Force One
By Jillian Smith
Updated October 15, 2025 11:27pm EDT
NewsFOX 5 DC

The Brief
President Donald Trump said that he's not sure he's "going to be able to make heaven," while speaking to the press on Sunday.
"I don't think there's anything that's going to get me into heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound," Trump said.
The comments came as Trump discussed his efforts to end wars around the globe.

generalistimo@stupw· Jan 3

Gonna be fun to watch another Nobel Peace Prize oxidise into irony

generalistimo@stupw· Dec 18

What a novel progression

The comic, "You made me do it" by Matt Bors (@mattbors.bsky.social): https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/30/1981821/-Cartoon-You-made-me-do-it

Someone staring and her phone mentions MAGA folks being racist, a guy in a MAGA hat gets offended and resentfully grabs the Waffen SS uniform he'd already bought and stews about how bullied he feels as he gets a swastika tattoo.

generalistimo@stupw· Dec 17

An excerpt on Nuzzi's use of comparison: "...alongside classical ones. RFK Jr. sees himself as Ulysses, and she comes to share that vision of the man who "heard his own name in the call of sirens, and recognized his fatal curiosity and longing." Of course, this curiosity is not fatal to Ulysses himself. In Dante, the Homeric hero is consigned to eternal damnation because he used his power over others to lead men to their deaths. If Nuzzi made this connection, or wants the reader to, she does not mention it."

generalistimo@stupw· Dec 17

Guys your story is good but your website is awful. If you had less intrusive UI stuff, you could fit more ads (while making it less annoying). You're not making money for including a CBS YouTube video I have to wait 20s to dismiss. I'm not schizophrenic, so I'm not going to scroll to a next story.

It took 20 seconds, okay maybe 15, before I had the option to stop an embedded YouTube video from taking up 30% of the screen. It's not on the Independent's channel, so they're making no money from this.

A screenshot of a news website, where despite me being on it for about four minutes, a 'swipe for next article' overlay graphic is still displayed.

If you're blind, I hope you've blessed to have never seen one of these.

They're based on the premise that people want to scroll horizontally between articles rather than go to the homepage and tap on something they actually want to read.

I respect that it's a salute to broadcast news bulletins, except a person actually decides the order in broadcast news bulletins.

No one has deliberately scrolled between news articles this way, ever.

They maybe let a publication claim time on site or continued engagement, but everyone involved knows it's a lie, including – especially – the advertisers.

generalistimo@stupw· Dec 15

I don't think he's writing his own posts any more. Dictating, in some way, to some extent, probably having them read back. But always? With how much care? This and previous don't read right and are full of non-mistakes.

Truth Social post, around 9 December 2025.

@realDonaldTrump writes:

There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me!

My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best. I've stopped Eight Wars, saving many millions of lives in the process, created the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country, brought Business back into the United States at levels never seen before, rebuilt our Military, created the Largest Tax Cuts and Regulation Cuts, EVER, closed our open and very dangerous Southern Border, when previous Administrations were unable to do so, and created an "aura" around the United States of America that has led every Country in the World to respect us more than ever before. In addition to all of that, I go out of my way to do long, thorough, and very boring Medical Examinations at the Great Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, seen and supervised by top doctors, all of whom have given me PERFECT Marks - Some have even said they have never seen such Strong Results. I do these Tests because I owe it to our Country. In addition to the Medical, I have done something that no other President has done, on three separate occasions, the last one being recently, by taking what is known as a Cognitive Examination, something which few people would be able to do very well, including those working at The New York Times, and I ACED all three of them in front of large numbers of doctors and experts, most of whom I do not know. I have been told that few people have been able to "ace" this Examination and, in fact,

Truth Social post, continued:

most do very poorly, which is why many other Presidents have decided not to take it at all. Despite all of this, the time and work involved, The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am "slowing up," am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before. I will know when I am "slowing up," but it's not now! After all of the work I have done with Medical Exams, Cognitive Exams, and everything else, I actually believe it's seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean "THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES." They are true Enemies of the People, and we should do something about it. They have inaccurately reported on all of my Election Results and, in fact, were forced to apologize on much of what they wrote. The best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful "source" of information. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Dec 09, 2025, 9:11 PM

generalistimo@stupw· Oct 18

Savage interpretation.

A cropped screenshot from the video, in close-up of Newsom's ASL interpreter. He points at his forehead, mouth agape, after Newsom says "... cognitive decline..."

generalistimo@stupw· Oct 16

Sorry for liking your post. It was insensitive.

This post, with 911 likes and an empty heart circled, and "Never Forget" scrawled badly in small caps.

generalistimo@stupw· Sep 13

Excellent thread, thanks. When I saw this, I thought: Ah. Let's try not to read into this too much – but it sure is interesting for the people who know the context.

Screenshot of a tweet by Nick Fuentes, the day Charlie Kirk was killed, writing that:

"Given the gravity of today's events, I will not be doing a show tonight.

"Instead, let us all say a prayer for the repose of Charlie Kirk's soul and for his grieving family.

"How we choose to respond to this watershed moment is profoundly important and we should all sleep on it."

generalistimo@stupw· Aug 19

Perhaps also take a closer look at your cases re: malnutrition. A few accounts, none of which posted before March and which don't have a presence outside Instagram, aren't great evidence. Recent images from Nusuirat: www.gettyimages.ie/detail/news-... Very different pictures just a month before.

The About page for the account called arabesco_2025, showing it was created in June and is based in the US.

Getty image showing a very, very destroyed Nusairat in February 2025.

generalistimo@stupw· Aug 18

Even the most generous reading on its own is... shockingly callous and strangely dehumanised. If those photos represented the average kids, a third of them would have died already, Olivia.

Olivia Reingold, the coauthor of the article, writes before a screenshot of the headline:

I recently looked up the Arabic translation of some of the names of the emaciated children used in coverage of the alleged famine in Gaza.

It turns out that many of them were sick before the war and have long, complicated medical histories. Our reporting shows they do not represent the average. [The final sentence is underlined.]

generalistimo@stupw· Jul 16

Got high, wondered 'How did he actually make his money?' and began reading his Wikipedia, and know what - conspiracy theories are fun. So many strands to chase, so many intersections with history. And people. I get it now. Time to twirl that MAGA-red string between the pins and see who it finds.

Charlie Day from that screenshot associated with conspiracy theories; you probably know the one. A wall covered in printed papers with string and pins linking them. Day's manic expression and the cigarette he's clutching too hard catch the eye.

generalistimo@stupw· Jun 15

That's a genuinely bad way to give the @washingtonpost.com a free pass. The WaPo story is dystopian and shameless. No one likes the Age, etc, but 1) the story is by AP and 2) a straight report contrasting against protests. What do you want, a headline saying someone should knife him in a toilet?

Screenshot of coverage of Trump's birthday military parade in the Washington Post, several pars in.

The story reads like this above and below the snippet copied here, minimising opposing voices despite national protests and the paper being based in a city that voted overwhelmingly for Harris, against Trump. Washington Post copy reads:

"Still, people poured onto the National Mall all day Saturday for the Army’s birthday festivities. Long lines formed in the heavy heat, as people waited to climb in the back of a Stryker armored vehicle, and kids clambered into front seats of attack helicopters, posing for parents snapping photos with their phones. Across the grass, combat medics demonstrated how they treat injuries in conflict zones. A face-painting stand was steps away from a display of 19th-century rifles. Red MAGA hats dotted the crowd."

Tail end of an Associated Press story syndicated in Melbourne paper The Age, which reads:

"A larger-than-life puppet of Trump was wheeled through the crowd, a caricature of the president wearing a crown and sitting on a golden toilet.

"Other protesters waved pride flags and hoisted signs, some with pointed messages such as “I prefer crushed ICE,” referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Other messages were: “The invasion was HERE Jan. 6th, NOT in L.A.” and “Flip me off if you’re a FASCIST.”

"AP"

generalistimo@stupw· Jun 11

Wait, which state is Tom Cotton from again… Oh, Arkansas? Thanks Wikipedia! Glad all is normal, the birds are singing and the institutions are operating correctly.