Stormnelius

Still a Lower East Sider....even if currently in diaspora

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🚨🧵 MAJOR BREAKING: German government has been grooming DSA leaders for over a decade, and nobody noticed? 🇩🇪

Last night, Darializa Avila Chevalier — endorsed by NYC-DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) — beat a five-term incumbent to win New York's 13th congressional district.

@AsraNomani has been reporting on their ties to Cuba and the China/Singham network. But what’s not known is DSA’s deep ties to the German government.

The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) is the political foundation of Die Linke — the German parliamentary party formed from the merger of the Party of Democratic Socialism, itself the legal successor to East Germany's ruling Marxist party, the SED.

Under German law, every party in the Bundestag gets a taxpayer-funded foundation. Die Linke's share is approximately EUR70MM annually.

Most German party foundations sponsor conferences, publish research, and fund exchange programs. What RLS-NYC did was put its own staff inside DSA's organizational leadership — concurrently — for over a decade.

In 2012, RLS opened a New York office. EIN 45-3658022. Their own annual report states: "With the help of funds from the BMZ and the Foreign Office, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung maintains a network of international relationships. This includes financing its foreign offices."

Over the last 13 years, Berlin has sent millions to this office.

Despite these ties, no FARA registration for the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung was identified in the Department of Justice database.

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

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

USAID money killed millions

[Anna Paulina Luna @realannapaulina]

The @SecRubio effect. Once he cut off the corrupt USAID slush funds, look what happened:

June 2023:
🔴Left wing: 10
🔵Right wing: 3

June 2026:
🔵Right wing: 7 (+4)
🔴Left wing: 6 (-4)

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

good luck to us all!

[David Marcus @davidmarcus]

So Iran signs an agreement with the US, turns around, asks Hezbollah to attack Israel. Israel defends itself. Now: closes Strait of Hormuz again. Blames Israel for it all. Objective: strain US-Israel relations. Shame on us if we fall for this.

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

The relationship between the United States and Israel is incredibly valuable to both partners. As CIA director, I saw firsthand how many American lives were saved thanks to Israeli intelligence. We must never forget who are friends - and our enemies - are.

[Stormnelius @stormnelius]

@ValaAfshar He was an anti-Semitic dooosh and the 2nd worst President the country ever had to endure. Other than that, I guess he was okay

[Ari Hoffman @thehoffather]

JD Vance on Israel opposing the MOU: "What is your exact proposal? You’re a country of 9 million people. You can’t just kill your way out of solving every single national security problem that you have."

Israel negotiated or accepted peace deals in 1947, 1949, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1993, 1994x2, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2020x3, 2021

Maybe blame the terrorist orgs that just want Israel & AMERICA'S destruction, rather than the ally that has been fighting alongside the US

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Marco Rubio, Senate floor, September 2015

“I do want to be recorded for history’s purposes, for I know what is going to happen with regards to this, if it goes through. Iran will immediately use the money it is receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities. It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States and it will raise the price of us operating in the region. They’re going to build anti-access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships, continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets, and they’ll make it harder and harder for U.S. troops to be in the region.

“They’ll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target American service men and women, and they may or may not deny that they’re involved but they will target us and raise the price of our presence in the Middle East until they hope to completely pull us out of that region.

“They’ll also continue to build long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States. Those are not affected by this deal, and they’ll continue to build them as they have been doing.

“And then, at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon, and they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high.

“This is not just a work of imagination. It exists in the world today. It’s called North Korea, where a lunatic possesses dozens of nuclear weapons and a long-range rocket that can already reach the United States. And we cannot do anything about it. An attack on North Korea today would result in an attack on Tokyo or Seoul or Guam or Hawaii or California. And so the world must now live with a lunatic in possession of nuclear weapons.

“And this is the goal Iran has as well, to reach a point where they become immune to any sort of credible military threat because the price of a military strike would be too high. And then they become an established nuclear weapons power. And never in the history of the world has such a regime ever possessed weapons so capable of destruction. Iran is led by a Supreme Leader who is a radical Shia cleric with an apocalyptic vision of the future. He is not a traditional geopolitical actor who makes decisions on the basis of borders or simply history or because of ambitions. He has a religious apocalyptic vision of the future, one that calls for triggering a conflict between the non-Muslim world and the Muslim world, one that he feels especially obligated to trigger. And he’s going to possess nuclear weapons?

“This is the world that we are on the verge of leaving our children to inherit, and perhaps we ourselves will have to share in.

“So I want to be recorded for history’s purposes, if nothing else, to say that those of us who oppose this deal understood where it would lead, and we are making a terrible mistake. And I fear that passage of this deal will make it even harder for us to prevent it.

“And I hope there’s still time for us to change our minds, but here’s the good news: Iran may have a Supreme Leader, but America does not. In this nation we have a republic, and soon we will have new leaders, perhaps in this chamber, but also in the executive branch. And I pray that on their first day in office they will reverse this deal and reimpose the sanctions and back them up with a credible threat of military force, or history will condemn us for not doing what needed to be done at this critical moment in the world’s history.”

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. If you've ever been told "your calcium score is zero — you're fine," I need you to read this carefully.

A new study just changed how I think about the most popular heart scan in preventive cardiology.

The NATURE-CT study — published in the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography in 2026 — tracked 205 low-risk, untreated adults with two detailed coronary CT angiograms roughly five years apart. No diabetes. No statins. No prior heart attacks. Average LDL around 112 mg/dL — what most labs still call "normal." Over half had a calcium score of exactly zero at baseline.

What happened over five years with no treatment:

Total plaque volume roughly doubled. From about 30 cubic millimeters to 59.

And here's the finding that should change how every patient and every physician thinks about the calcium score:

Nearly all the growth was non-calcified soft plaque — the lipid-rich, inflamed kind most linked to heart attacks. Soft plaque grew from 27.5 to 53.5 cubic millimeters. Calcified plaque barely moved — from 0.3 to 3.2.

The most dangerous subtype — low-attenuation plaque, the very soft, rupture-prone lesions that cause sudden cardiac events — was present in 9% of patients at baseline. Five years later: 23%. More than doubled.

Even among patients with a true zero calcium score at baseline, non-calcified plaque was often already present and grew substantially. Silently. Without symptoms.

Let me explain why this matters so much — because I've been ordering calcium scores for twenty years and I need you to understand what they can and cannot tell you.

A calcium score measures calcified plaque. Calcium in your arteries is essentially scar tissue — the healed residue of old inflammation. Think of it as a smoke detector that only detects fires that already burned out.

A zero score means: no old scarring detected. It predicts very low short-term event risk — typically a "warranty period" of 5-15 years depending on your other risk factors. That's genuinely reassuring and I still order this test regularly.

But a zero score does NOT mean zero plaque.

It means the scan is blind to the plaque that's most likely to kill you — the soft, active, lipid-rich plaque that's growing right now inside your artery walls. The plaque that ruptures without warning and causes the heart attack nobody saw coming.

This is why I've had patients on my cath lab table who said: "But my calcium score was zero two years ago."

It was zero. And the soft plaque that was already there — invisible to the calcium scan — kept growing until it ruptured.

A coronary CT angiogram with AI-enhanced plaque composition analysis is the difference between seeing old scars and seeing the active fire. It visualizes your arteries in 3D with contrast, quantifies total plaque burden, and — critically — tells me how much is soft and dangerous versus calcified and stable.

The NATURE-CT study used exactly this technology — Cleerly's AI plaque analysis — and it revealed what the calcium score alone would have completely missed: a near-doubling of dangerous plaque in "healthy" people with "normal" cholesterol over just five years.

Here's what this means for you:

If your calcium score is zero — celebrate it. It's genuinely good news. You have time. Use that time wisely.

Do not interpret it as "I'm fine forever." Plaque is building. In most adults over 40, it's already there — just in a form the calcium scan can't see.

Know your ApoB. This counts every atherogenic particle penetrating your artery walls. LDL of 112 — the average in this study — looks "normal" on a standard panel. But those particles were building plaque year after year in every single patient tracked. ApoB tells you the real particle burden. Most people have never had it checked.

Know your Lp(a). Test it once in your lifetime. 1 in 5 Americans are elevated. Completely genetic. Triples risk independently. Diet and exercise cannot lower it.

If you have risk factors — family history, elevated ApoB or Lp(a), metabolic syndrome, autoimmune disease — push for a full coronary CT angiogram with plaque analysis, not just a calcium score. The difference is the difference between seeing the scars and seeing the disease.

If soft plaque is found early, we can stabilize it. Statins don't just lower LDL — they stabilize plaque, making soft lesions harder and less likely to rupture. PCSK9 inhibitors drive LDL even lower. Lifestyle — Mediterranean diet, resistance training, sleep, stress management — reduces the inflammation that makes plaque vulnerable.

The goal of prevention isn't perfection. It's slowing the slope so dramatically that you never have an event. And the NATURE-CT data proves that the slope is steeper than we thought — even in people who look "low-risk" by every standard measure.

I've written on this platform about inflammation as the fire behind heart disease. About AI detecting inflamed arteries years before symptoms. About advanced lipid testing that catches what standard panels miss. This study ties all of it together into one devastating conclusion:

The standard playbook — check calcium score, if zero you're fine, see you in five years — is not enough.

It was never enough.

We were looking for old fires and missing the ones still burning.

Zero calcium buys you time. It buys you peace of mind. But what you do with that time — the ApoB you check, the lifestyle you build, the advanced imaging you pursue when risk factors warrant it — is what determines whether you stay healthy or become one of the patients on my table who says "but my score was zero."

Prevention works best before the calcium rises. Before the symptoms appear. Before the event that didn't have to happen.

Measure what matters. Act early. Stay ahead.

Your arteries will thank you for decades.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 SCANDAL: The Southern Poverty Law Center spent years monitoring hate groups, but one of its top officials was sleeping with the enemy.

A shocking federal indictment reveals a 58-year-old "fascism expert" allegedly funneled $1.2 million in donor money to her neo-Nazi lover.

Heidi Beirich got unmasked for sharing a house and joint bank accounts with an informant from the extremist group National Alliance.

So THAT'S how she became such an expert 😂

Source: NY Post / Writer: Michael

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Not sure if you noticed but we are witnessing the mother of all projections! Maybe the greatest in history!

Ya know how so many people are accusing Israel of all kinds of things?

Well, not only are those things unequivocally false as it pertains to Israel, but every single one of them is indeed being perpetrated… by Israel’s enemies.

Not kidding.

Every single thing Israel’s enemies are guilty of, they project and accuse Israel of.

The list is very long but here are a few examples for your reading pleasure.

Let’s start with the most obvious one.

Israel is committed genocide? Really? 🤣

Have you seen what Hamas (and regular Gazans) did on 10/7? THAT was (attempted) genocide.

Israel is starving Palestinians? Really? 🤣

Have you see what the Israeli hostages looked like upon release? THAT is starvation.

Israel is a colonialist state? Really? 🤣

Have you looked at a map lately and specifically how the Muslims colonized half the world and continue as we speak to take over the west? THAT is colonialism.

Israel is an apartheid state? Really? 🤣

Have you ever tried to walk into an Arab town in Judea and Samaria? If you’re a Jew, I surely hope not. How about Gaza? Can Jews walk freely in Gaza like Arabs can walk freely in Israel? Are there Jews serving in the court system or the medical system in any Arab town? THAT is apartheid.

Israel is ethnically cleansing the Palestinians? Really? 🤣

Have you looked recently how many Jews live in Arab countries such as Yemen, Iraq, Iran, and others? There used to be many jewish communities in those countries and now they’re all a thing of the past. THAT is ethnic cleansing.

Israel is sexually abusing Palestinians? Really? 🤣

Have you read the testimonies of the released hostages and how they were brutally sexually abused and raped in Hamas captivity? THAT is sexual abuse.

Israel is occupying Palestinian land? Really? 🤣

Have you seen what Hamas does to Palestinians in the streets of Gaza? Have you seen what Hezbollah has done to Lebanon and how they ruined the lives of normal Lebanese people just wanting to live in peace? Or what the IRGC has done to Iran? THAT is occupation.

Israel is paying people to spread propaganda? Really? 🤣

Have you seen how many paid protestors there are at every Palestinian march? Have you seen their pallywood videos? Their AI content? Have you noticed how all the popular podcasters who once stood with Israel have all mysteriously made a 180°? THAT is paid propaganda.

The IDF kills women, children, and even babies? Really? 🤣

Have you watched any of the footage from October 7th, the footage taken and proudly live-streamed by the very people who carried out the massacre? Did you see how they burned families alive and raped, murdered, and abducted innocent women, children, and babies? THAT is what killing women, children, and even babies looks like!

The Zionist regime is racist and Israel discriminates against Muslims? Really?

Have you read the charter of the Palestinian Authority? Have you listened to any of their speeches? Have you seen what they say about Jews and what should be done with them? While Arabs play significant roles in Israeli society, to Israel’s enemies, Jews are filthy creatures that don’t have a right to exist. THAT is racist and discriminatory.

Israel is guilty of war crimes? Really? 🤣

Have you seen where Hamas and Hezbollah embed themselves? Right in the center of civilian populations? Have you see how they hide weapons in nurseries and children’s rooms? How they use their own as human shields? THAT is what war criminals look like.

The Jews and Israel control the west? Really? 🤣

I don’t see any jewish mayors taking over cities throughout the west. I don’t see full neighborhoods and even cities in the UK that accept jewish law as their law. Have you seen how quickly Muslims are taking over our cities? THAT is what controlling the west looks like.

Israel is stealing land? Really? 🤣

Have you looked at the size of the so-called "Arab world"? 22 countries, 5 million square miles, carved out by conquest from Morocco to Iraq, all of it taken from indigenous peoples — Berbers, Copts, Assyrians, Kurds, Jews.

Have you seen the 850,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries in the 1940s and 50s, their homes, businesses, synagogues, and bank accounts confiscated overnight? THAT is stealing land.

Israel is erasing Palestinian history? Really? 🤣

Have you heard the PA and Hamas deny there was ever a Jewish Temple in Jerusalem? Deny Jewish ties to the Western Wall? Deny that Jesus was a Jew? Have you seen UNESCO resolutions sponsored by Arab states scrubbing the words "Temple Mount" from history? Have you noticed that every Jewish artifact dug up in the City of David gets denounced as a "forgery"? THAT is erasing history.

Israel is forcibly displacing people? Really? 🤣

Have you counted the 850,000 Jews ethnically cleansed from Baghdad, Cairo, Damascus, Tripoli, Sana'a, and Aleppo? Have you seen what Jordan did to Palestinians in Black September — killed more of them in 10 days than Israel did in decades? Have you seen what Kuwait did to 400,000 Palestinians in 1991, or what Lebanon does to its Palestinian population to this day — no citizenship, no property rights, no jobs? THAT is forced displacement.

Israel is imprisoning children? Really? 🤣

Have you seen Hamas and PA child soldiers paraded in fatigues with rifles at age 8? Have you seen Iran's regime arresting and executing teenage girls for not wearing hijab properly? Have you seen what happens to a Palestinian kid in Gaza whose father is accused of "collaboration" — entire families locked up and tortured? THAT is imprisoning children.

Israel uses disproportionate force? Really? 🤣

Have you seen what Assad did to Hama in 1982? Flattened a city, killed 20,000-40,000 of his own people in three weeks, and the world said nothing. Have you seen what the Syrian civil war did — 500,000 dead, 13 million displaced — barely a peep from the same crowd screaming about Gaza? Have you seen what Saudi Arabia did to Yemen? THAT is disproportionate force.

Israel bombs schools? Really? 🤣

Have you seen how many UNRWA schools were doubling as Hamas rocket depots, tunnel entrances, and weapons caches? Have you seen Hamas rockets that misfire and land on Palestinian schools — like the al-Ahli hospital incident? Have you seen Hamas fire mortars at Israeli kindergartens in Sderot for two decades straight? THAT is bombing schools.

Israel controls foreign governments through lobbying? Really? 🤣

Have you seen how much Qatar pours into American universities — billions in undisclosed funding, buying entire Middle East studies departments? Have you seen Iran's foreign influence operations — fake think tanks, paid academics, the Iran Experts Initiative scandal? Have you noticed who funds the protest encampments? THAT is buying influence.

Israel runs an "open-air prison" in Gaza? Really? 🤣

Have you seen who controls who leaves Gaza? Hamas at the Rafah crossing, beating people who try to flee. Have you seen Egypt — an Arab country — keeping its border with Gaza sealed shut for 15 years? Have you noticed that the only Gazans who ever made it out for medical treatment did so through Israeli hospitals? THAT is keeping people caged.

Israel brutally abuses innocent Palestinians? Really? 🤣

Have you seen what Hamas did to people on October 7th and what they did to the hostages in Gaza? Do you know how they murdered the Bibas family? THAT is brutally abusing innocent people!

Israelis are the new Nazis? Really? 🤣

Have you studied the relationship between the Palestinians and the Nazis? Have you read any literature from both groups? Have you seen what the Palestinian charter calls to do to Jews? THAT is what modern day Nazism looks like!

I feel like I can keep going on and on but I’ll stop for now.

Every accusation is a confession.

For Israel, every innocent life lost is a tragedy.

For Israel’s enemies, every innocent life lost is a strategy!

What did I miss? What other things are Israel’s enemies guilty of that they project onto Israel?

The worst part is that anyone with a brain can see this projection so clearly. The fact that so many cannot is a very bad sign for the future of humanity.

“People have such open minds, their brains fell out!” - My dad

[Stormnelius @stormnelius]

@JewishHockey Do we know for sure that he's Jewish?

[Stormnelius @stormnelius]

@Hyattgolf @MarioNawfal

[Stormnelius @stormnelius]

@Hyattgolf @MarioNawfal

[Caroline Glick @CarolineGlick]

FBI put a $5 million bounty on his head for targeting US troops.
He was in Lebanon planning to invade Israel.
The IDF took him down.

[The Uri @uricohenisrael]

Maine Kampf.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Slovenia's new government has lifted the arms embargo on Israel imposed by its predecessor and reversed the "persona non grata" designations for Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. Imports from Judea and Samaria will also resume.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Turns out that @LeaderJohnThune was totally projecting when he said the SAVE Act was an influencer campaign.

Senator John Thune is compromised by a company that literally exists to sell access to himself.

Pass it on.

[Stormnelius @stormnelius]

@Osint613 So to be clear, ISRAEL was asked NOT to respond to ballistic missiles being launched at her, but the U.S. HAS to respond to the helicopter being hit.
I'm sure there's a LOT going on behind the scenes that we're not aware of, but the U.S. is starting to looking comical right now