Andre Van Mol, MD

Board-Certified Family Doc, writer/speaker, husband and dad. Interest in bioethics & Christian apologetics. Bringing good stuff all over.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐘𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐓 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐋 — 𝐔𝐊 𝐌𝐏: 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐑

A Russian naval vessel fired warning s∗ots at a British civilian yacht sailing in the English Channel. The crew of the yacht had made clear they were not near any Russian vessel or exclusion zone and were actively moving away. Russia fired anyway.

GB News' interview with Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Calum Miller MP captured the significance directly:

“𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦-𝘶𝘱 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒. 𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘒. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺.”

The Channel incident is not an isolated provocation. 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲. Russia has separately been accused of 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫 — a domestic intelligence operation on British soil targeting the head of government. Russian cyber attacks on UK institutions have been documented repeatedly over the past several years.

What this amounts to is a multi-domain hybrid war campaign: kinetic provocations at sea, arson on the PM's home, digital attacks on infrastructure, and now warning s∗ots at civilian vessels in one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞.

And the backdrop to all of this is a United Kingdom that spent the last decade gutting its own military. The Lib Dem MP himself acknowledged that when his party was in coalition with the Conservatives, defence spending dropped by approximately £𝟏𝟑 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧. Labour's current government has been slow to reverse the trend. Weak governments invited this.

America's closest ally is under active Russian attack through multiple channels simultaneously, and the UK is only now waking up to what Moscow already knows: the war is already underway.

𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐲𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐌'𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞. 𝐈𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫?

[Andre Van Mol, MD @docvanmol]

The official rape-gang report is here. Nothing can prepare you for it. | Not the Bee https://t.co/zgT0aHiL5Z

[Andre Van Mol, MD @docvanmol]

Another Major Transgender Suicide Study Crumbles https://t.co/5wFrNYfAnr

[Andre Van Mol, MD @docvanmol]

Prominent Christian adoption agency will no longer place children with homosexual ‘couples’ - LifeSite https://t.co/oE3HgzuBLz

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Elon Musk on why he slept on the Tesla factory floor for 3 years

“I was living in the factory in Fremont and the one in Nevada for three years straight. That was my primary residence. I’m not kidding. Literally. I slept on a couch, and at one point a tent on the roof, but for a while there, I was just sleeping under my desk which was out in the open in the factory.”

As Elon explains, he did this for an important reason:

“I slept on the floor under my desk so that during shift change, the entire team could see me. This is important because if the team thinks their leader is off somewhere having a good time, drinking Mai Tais on a tropical island [it’s demoralizing]… Since the team could see me sleeping on the floor during shift change, they knew I was there. That made a huge difference, and they gave it their all.”

This principle that leaders must be visible is something Elon emphasized in a memo to Tesla employees ending remote work and requiring a minimum of 40 hours per week in person:

“The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence. That is why I lived in the factory so much – so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt.”

[Andre Van Mol, MD @docvanmol]

Chastity before marriage? No cohabitation? Data says couples who skip both may have stronger unions https://t.co/BUV48Dq802 #FoxNews

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is nuts

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

The same people who are vilifying Elon Musk for being wealthy are not calling for the confiscation of George Soros’ wealth, despite him making billions in sinister ways.

Why?

Because he funds their Marxist causes!

We call out the hypocrisy on the latest episode of Verdict: https://t.co/7lslmHOtwJ

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem:

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist."

"I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra."

Elon breaks it down:

Step 1: Question the requirements.

"Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question."

Step 2: Try to delete it.

"Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there."

Step 3: Optimize or simplify.

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete."

Step 4: Speed it up.

"Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist."

Step 5: Automate.

"And then the fifth thing is to automate it."

Elon explains why the order matters:

"I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

SHOCKING: The Rwandan immigrant Emmanuel Abayisenga had his asylum application in France rejected repeatedly since he filed it in 2012. Despite the deportation orders, he remained in the country illegally for years.

The local priests entrusted him with the keys to the Nantes cathedral, assigning him the task of closing and caring for the building.

After he set the cathedral on fire in 2020, destroying the organ and the choir, Father Maire took him into his own home, offering him shelter while awaiting trial.

He then murdered Father Maire the following year.

Suicidal empathy in a nutshell. Almost unbelievable.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk: “The reason I felt that it was important to acquire Twitter was because I could feel the walls closing in. It was outrageous that they suspended the account of a sitting president

And I think it was only a matter of time before they suspended my account.

Twitter and, well, pretty much all the social media companies, and Google and everyone, are controlled by far-left activists. That’s the truth of it.
How do you know what’s real when it’s all filtered through a far-left San Francisco Berkeley lens?

They just manipulate the truth constantly."

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

🚨🚨 UPDATE: In a jaw-dropping interview, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. credited Elon Musk with being the lone hero who rescued U.S. free speech from government censorship.

RFK Jr. declared, "I don't think we'd have free speech in this country if it weren't for Elon Musk."

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

How did a Christian worldview give positive inspiration for science?

A well-known science writer named Loren Eiseley points out that many great civilizations have risen and fallen without developing the scientific method--which implies that that it requires some kind of "unique soil in which to flourish."

And what is that unique soil? To his own surprise, Eiseley discovered that: "It is the Christian world which finally gave birth in a clear, articulate fashion to the experimental method of science."

Why is that? Eiseley goes on to explain that "Science began its discoveries . . .in the faith, not the knowledge, that it was dealing with a rational universe controlled by a Creator who did not act upon whim nor interfere with the forces He had set in operation."

He is using the term "faith" not to say it was irrational but in the sense that it had to PRECEDE actual scientific investigation. Before science can get off the ground, certain tacit assumptions have to be in place--for example, that there is an intelligible order in nature, what we call "laws" of nature.

Here's how one historian put it:
"The use of the word ‘law’ in such contexts [in talking about nature] would have been unintelligible in antiquity, whereas the Hebraic and Christian belief in a deity who was at once Creator and Law-giver rendered it valid. (A. R. Hall, The Scientific Revolution, 1500-1800)

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

"Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks,
and the ear without knowledge of sounds?"

--Isaac Newton, Opticks

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Democrats Criticize Trump For Holding MMA Match On The Hallowed Ground Where Biden Hosted Topless Trannies

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

Watch this poor British cop get stomped by a gang of migrants.

[Neo @Realneo101]

Iranian-Jewish Doctor Drops Truth Bomb No Feminist Will Touch:

Dr. Sheila Nazarian:

"I studied Islam classes while I was at Columbia University, because I wanted to know what it says in the Quran that made my family have to escape Iran under gunfire, by border police.

I've read the Quran. I know what it says to do to Jews in the Quran, and no one can deny it to me because I studied it.

Shariah law is not compatible with the West.

Women are worth half as much. Women need their husband’s permission to travel outside the country or go anywhere. Women can be stoned. This is why my family got me out of Iran under the Islamic regime."

I couldn't agree more with her. Shariah law is simply not compatible with any non-Muslim country.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Elon Musk: There are no lords and peasants at Tesla. Everyone eats at the same table.

“I actually know the people on the line, because I worked on the line, I walked the line, I slept in the factory, and I worked beside them. So, I'm no stranger to them.

There are many people at Tesla who have gone from working on the line to being in senior management. There are no lords and peasants. Everyone eats at the same table. Everyone parks in the same parking lot.

At GM, there's a special elevator only for senior executives. We have no such thing at Tesla.

We give everyone stock options. Many people who are just working the line, who didn't even know what stocks were, we've made them millionaires.

And I just want to say that I'm incredibly appreciative of those who build the cars, and they know it.”

New York Times DealBook Summit, 2023

[CBC Network @CBCnetwork]

This week, Rep. Scott Perry has introduced two bills aimed at addressing some of the most troubling shortcomings in the surrogacy industry.