Hier sind die Kulturtipps der «NZZ am Sonntag» https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/ein-fuehrer-durch-die-berliner-kneipen-szene-ein-guter-kinderfilm-party-mit-robyn-hier-sind-die-kulturtipps-der-nzz-am-sonntag-ld.1932610?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041369d98f0176eb411b9128d7ce
The takes on the Hungarian elections are not particularly weird, actually. International supporters of Orbán don't tend to be social conservatives believing in democracy. They are a weird mix of often corrupt, pro-Putin, fascist-adjacent, anti-EU, authoritarians.
Der 31-jährige Belgier realisiert den wichtigsten Sieg in seiner Karriere. Pogacar verpasst seinen ersten Erfolg in Roubaix erneut. https://www.nzz.ch/sport/rad/wout-van-aert-war-in-belgien-als-ewiger-zweiter-verschrien-bei-paris-roubaix-ueberspurtet-er-tadej-pogacar-und-erringt-den-ersehnten-triumph-ld.1933355?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041269d98f0176eb411b9128d7cd
Our four kittens have left us today. We found a loving home for each of them, but it was still hard to see them go. The house feels eerily silent right now and I miss their presence.
Nun haben alle 13 Zürcher Parlamentsstädte gewählt. Der Kanton rückt klar nach rechts. https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/gemeindewahlen-in-zuercher-staedten-die-svp-ist-die-grosse-siegerin-ld.1933166?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041269d98f0176eb411b9128d7cc
Kevin's integrity should never be in question. He has done more for humanity in the last 5 yrs than anyone I know On X.
Um Kinder mit einem dunklen Teint dreht sich die neue Schauspielhaus-Produktion «Monster». Trotzdem bleiben sie Statisten dieses Stücks, das seine Themen kaum entfaltet. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/buehne/monster-im-schauspielhaus-zuerich-aktenzeichen-rassismus-ungeloest-ld.1932951?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041269d98f0176eb411b9128d7cb
8/10 Extremely important topic is the storage clock: Iran has ~50-55M barrels of total onshore oil storage, roughly 60% full. Spare capacity: ~20M barrels. With 1.5M bbl/day of surplus production that normally exports, storage fills in ~13 DAYS. After that, Iran must shut in wells.
Why is this very important: when mature oil wells shut down, bottom water rushes in, a process called water coning. Oil droplets get permanently trapped in rock pores. This oil can never be recovered. Iran's fields already decline 5-8% annually. Forced shut-ins could permanently destroy 300,000-500,000 bbl/day of production capacity, that's $9-15B/year in revenue, gone forever.
Trainerin Eta und Union schreiben Bundesliga-Geschichte: Erstmals wird eine Cheftrainerin bei den Männern an der Seitenlinie stehen. https://www.nzz.ch/sport/marie-louise-eta-wird-bei-union-berlin-zur-ersten-cheftrainerin-der-bundesliga-sie-ersetzt-steffen-baumgart-ld.1933335?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041269d05481d2d3b66987fbf354
Ein Aspekt, der in dem Tagesschau-Beitrag kaum Beachtung fand, sind die nicht oder fehlerhaft übersetzten Aussagen der „Lehrerin Sepideh“. Beispielsweise spricht sie zu Beginn dieses Videos über die „Achse des Widerstands“ (Jebhe-ye Moghavemat), während gleichzeitig etwas völlig anderes übersetzt wird.
Ich möchte für einen Moment davon ausgehen, dass alles andere, was in diesem Video über diese Frau gezeigt wurde, korrekt war. Mit dieser Prämisse bitte ich die @Tagesschau als Iranerin, deren Muttersprache Farsi ist: Veröffentlichen Sie die Aussagen dieser Frau ohne Voice-over zur vollständigen Transparenz. Wir möchten hören, was genau sie über die „Achse des Widerstands“ sagt, da Ihr Dolmetscher scheinbar kein ausreichendes Persisch beherrscht.
Zudem bezweifle ich stark, dass die „Achse des Widerstands“ derzeit das Hauptanliegen der Mehrheit der iranischen Bevölkerung ist. Wenn das das Bild ist, das Sie als Repräsentation der Mehrheit der Iraner zeigen, dann lassen Sie uns selbst hören, was Sie den Iranern da eigentlich zuschreiben.
FDA Has Warnings on This. Pfizer and Moderna Can Cause Heart Damage. Here's What That Means.
A small patch of inflammation in the heart can be enough to trigger a lethal arrhythmia. It doesn't have to be large. It doesn't have to show obvious symptoms first. The FDA's own warnings acknowledge it. The question is why that information wasn't front and center before mandates were issued.
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#MedicalFreedom
The Royal Thai Embassy in Berlin extends its warmest greetings on the occasion of Songkran, the Thai New Year.
We wish all Thai nationals, our diplomatic colleagues, German partners, and friends around the world good health, happiness, and continued success.
#Songkran #Berlin
Quick update on the H-1B state contractor analysis and a preview from a small subset of parsed HHSC Contracts.
The most interesting finding (to me) so far:
A single H-1B dependent contractor received payment for $10,460,376.99 in staffing contracts from the state of Texas since Greg Abbott has been in office. In only 12 days of April 2026, they've netted $309,113.
They also received over $2.7M in forgiven PPP loans and approval for at least 35 H-1B workers.
The images below are just a snapshot of recent HHSC state contracts for IT Staffing Augmentation - only one job has a billable rate below $90 an hour.
Also of note - most of the "workers" names I've searched list different employers on LinkedIn than the contractor reporting them as the assigned worker. It almost makes you think that many of these people are either not actually working on these contracts or they can't say they are because their H-1B visa was sponsored by a different employer. However, some also show a location in India - so who knows...
@GregAbbott_TX how much more of this do you need to see?
Again, it had nothing to do with an energy drink and everything to do with cardiac damage from an experimental gene product for a potential respiratory infection. @HEB needs to contact me to put a team together for defense.
Your reporting is spot on, @SophiaCai99. This I KNOW. 🙂 But don’t expect Grafstrom to admit to any daylight between himself and his boss. Mattias knows, very well, that he, and his staff at FIFA, are in for a very hard time this summer…
Vance just met Ghalibaf
Just saying
Very detailed reporting here on the Iran going to the World Cup situation.
Pfizer, BioNTech halt US COVID vaccine study after recruitment struggles--safety concerns weigh on participants
Fatal side effects are a strong deterrent to enrollment in clinical trials. Pfizer BioNTech learning the hard way. Who would risk it now? @stinchfield1776 @pfizer @BioNTech_Group @twc_health
Bei einer rekordhohen Wahlbeteiligung muss Orbans Partei Fidesz ein Debakel hinnehmen. Magyars Tisza könnte sogar die entscheidende Zweidrittelmehrheit im Parlament erringen. https://www.nzz.ch/international/ungarn-vor-einem-machtwechsel-peter-magyar-feiert-einen-triumphalen-wahlsieg-debakel-fuer-viktor-orban-ld.1933044?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041269d956c176eb411b9128d3ce
Public Health Agencies Lost Trust by Altering Results Reporting
Clear stroke signal after COVID-19 vaccination downplayed by agencies. Dr. McCullough, Amanda Head, and John Solomon on Real America's Voice. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2023.1199745/full @twc_health @AmandaHead @jsolomonReports
Inside FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s desperate attempt to keep #Iran in the World Cup
Investigation by @SophiaCai99:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/12/gianni-infantino-fifa-world-cup-shuttle-diplomacy-iran-00866973
If it was an "autocratic regime", then how did people just vote in free democratic elections to replace him?!
Can the Iranians also vote to get rid of their "autocratic regime"?
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Bullshit grok.
Bancel himself has a patent warning about DNA remnants being oncigenic.
https://x.com/KUPERWASSERLAB/status/2043428974781718879?s=20
#Magyar hat angekündigt, zügig die polnisch-ungarischen Beziehungen reparieren zu wollen. Warschau wie auch Budapest haben zuletzt nicht einmal versucht, Abneigungen zu verbergen. Eine substanzielle Verbesserung der Beziehungen ist wahrscheinlich, eine Wiederbelebung des Formats #V4 eher nicht, meiner Meinung nach.
«Wer denkt, findet in der KI einen Verbündeten», sagt Andrea Colamedici https://www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag-magazin/wer-selber-denken-kann-hat-in-der-ki-einen-verbuendeten-sagt-der-philosoph-andrea-colamedici-ld.1932840?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041269d956c176eb411b9128d3cd
Elon Musk was right.
The federal government was just writing checks to anyone who asked for years on end.
ZERO Verification Requirements.
Today, I confirmed a pattern:
Dissolved business entities billing Medicaid at scale.
In just one small batch, I’ve verified over $15MM. One was dissolved in 2011, yet between 2020-2024 it billed medicaid over $1.8MM.
Our tax dollars are paying businesses dissolved over a decade ago.
They don’t even check.
They just send them money.
It’s infuriating.
Die Chancen auf eine - dringend notwendige - Reform der EU sind mit dem heutigen Tag gen null gesunken. Von der Leyen mag jetzt die Champagnerkorken knallen lassen, aber jeder, dem Europa wirklich wichtig ist, geht eher mit schwerem Herzen zu Bett.
Louisiana: Proposes bill to transfer students who hurt teachers
Teachers Union: This bill is bad bc it hurts restorative justice efforts 😑
Efforts toward Equity by W.T. Moore et al.: From Clinic to Community — The EveryONE Project in Family Medicine https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2509686
#HealthPolicy #MedicalEthics
Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Unterschreiben Sie bitte unverzüglich die "Berliner Erklärung". Die Demokratie ist in Gefahr! Der freiheitliche Verfassungsstaat ist in Gefahr! Daher müssen wir Bürger die Sache nun selbst in die Hand nehmen. Es ist ein Irrtum, daß die Politiker – die Deutschland an den Rand des Abgrunds geführt haben und nun betonen, ihr "Fortschritt" müsse, noch beschleunigt, so weitergehen – bestimmen könnten, was wir Bürger überhaupt sagen dürfen! Denn die Meinungsfreiheit (die die Politiker nun abschaffen wollen, es sei denn, man gibt ihnen Recht!) ist der eigentliche Kern der Demokratie. Die Liste der Erstunterzeichner unserer Berliner Erklärung liest sich daher wie ein "Who is who des kritischen Bürgertums", so der legendäre Radiomoderator @AndreasDorfmann. Here we go! Let's rock...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PlyvKD_uzU
Again, it had nothing to do with an energy drink and everything to do with cardiac damage from an experimental gene product for a potential respiratory infection. @HEB needs to contact me to put a team together for defense.
Nach 16 Jahren verliert Viktor Orbán in #Ungarn seine Macht. Dem Wahlsieger Peter #Magyar haben die Ungarn ein mächtiges Mandat für grundlegende Reformen erteilt. @phil_ipp_fritz mit einer ersten Analyse aus #Budapest. https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/plus69dbfba10695c741e3c2b1ad/parlamentswahl-der-abend-an-dem-ungarn-das-system-orban-abwaehlte.html
The flight path of a dedicated NASA aircraft at the landing location, shortly before the Artemis II crew’s “return to Earth,” and how NASA previously prepared for the mission.
Homicide rates for US cities below. For reference London was at 1.1 / 100k in 2025, ~79x lower than St Louis or ~11x lower than Los Angeles.
There's not a single sizeable city in the US with homicide rates as low as London.
My thoughts on the newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary, Magyar Peter.
Manche sehen einen neuen kalten Krieg zwischen den USA und China heraufziehen. «Falsch», sagt Odd Arne Westad, Geschichtsprofessor in Yale. Die gegenwärtige geopolitische Lage gleiche eher jener in Europa 1914 – vor Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs. Sein... https://www.nzz.ch/nzz-am-sonntag/report-und-debatte/was-hat-die-welt-von-heute-mit-1914-zu-tun-ein-historiker-warnt-vor-parallelen-ld.1932646?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026041269d956c176eb411b9128d3cc
Pinned: Perverse "Book and Bill" Practices at Cancer Centers Promote Expensive Anti-Neoplastic Agents
Dr McCullough with Amanda Head and John Solomon on the promise of ivermectin-mebendazole and why these and other generics are not trialed in modern oncology. @AmandaHead @jsolomonReports @RealAmVoice @twc_health
Would doctors practice what they preach?
I propose a simple study to improve vaccine trust. Anyone advocating vaccine mandates, volunteer to receive the full 6-month old vaccine schedule.
Follow them for 5 years. Compare outcomes to adult controls who don’t receive those vaccines. We’re told severe reactions are “one in a million” —so this should be easy to get thousands of volunteers.
DTaP, HIB, HepB, IPV. PCV. Rotavirus. Flu. RSV. Same day.
If we “can’t” study vax vs unvaxxed in kids, why not study it in consenting adults? I’d genuinely be interested in those results. Thoughts?
Es freut sich: die Präsidentin der Ukraine - die 90 Mrd können jetzt fließen...
#Ungarn