Curator

Formerly an outpost of the Save Your Face music blog. Currently just tracking the ongoing catastrophe.

[Curator @4CPcomics]

If the evil is baked into the fundamentals, then "no fundamental change" cannot be considered the lesser of two evils.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just assassinated Ali in South Lebanon.

Not a fighter. Not armed.

Ali was a nurse.

They hunted him down with a drone, and executed him as he made his way to work at Hiram hospital in Tyre.

Israel isn’t targeting combatants.

It’s targeting the people who save lives.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

According to (dis)@HonestReporting, a major crime of @DropSiteNews is that it allows US readers to actually hear what America's "enemies" have to say in their own words, rather than presenting them as voiceless homicidal bogeymen who do nothing but fire missiles. Dangerous because audiences might end up thinking Hezbollah are human beings.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Here are the 117 Democrats who voted with Republicans against Rashida Tlaib's Lebanon war powers resolution.

Thomas Massie was the one Republican to join 91 Democrats — who all bucked party leadership — in voting for it.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis has vetoed the strongest anti-surveillance pricing bill in the country.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

The fact that billionaires still want more money should be studied by the same people who study serial killers.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

The average undocumented immigrant paid nearly $9,000 in taxes in 2022. (Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy) ⬇️

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

I had 20 patients in my Pediatric War Injuries Clinic today, for follow-up care.

Of the 20 children, Israel had killed one or both parents of 19 of them.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Let it be known far and wide that Democratic leaders @RepJeffries @RepGregoryMeeks @RepAdamSmith @JAHimes might vote against ending U.S. support for the Israeli war on Lebanon.

That would put them on record as supporting Israel’s intentional killings of dozens of journalists, well over 100 medical workers, over 200 children, entire families, over 3,400 people since March 2.

That would mean they’re okay with Israel blowing up entire Lebanese villages, destroying over 50,000 homes and displacing over a million people in a publicly stated plan to empty a fifth of Lebanon of its inhabitants.

If they vote against @RepRashida’s resolution, they are giving their stamp of approval to these horrific, unforgivable crimes against the Lebanese people. And we won’t forget it.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Paramount's general counsel Makan Delrahim says opposition to the Paramount-Warner merger is driven by anti-semitism.

He really believes that. These people are total lunatics.
https://t.co/S26HrmDifo

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

Before February 2022, not a few months would go by without Poland raising the alarm because Ukraine renamed some street, square, or stadium after a Nazi collaborator who butchered the Polish and Jewish people during the war. These frustrations were swept under the rug but never went away. The alliance of Polish and Ukrainian nationalisms has long been fragile — a bond held together by the glue of anti-communism. It was only a matter of time before these grievances resurfaced.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Schumer marching in a parade with actual ethnic cleansing organizers he supports is a political scandal.

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Holy shit! They changed the rules for Elon again...

They waved the profitability rule & are adding SpaceX to indices only 5 days after IPO... normally it's 90

This forces 401k retirement & passive funds to buy SpaceX at elevated IPO pricing, holding the bags the entire way down

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This isn’t an apocalyptic film.

This is Tyre, South Lebanon, today.

A 5,000-year-old city.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Israel is wiping it out.

Turning one of humanity’s oldest cities into ash.

This is the destruction of civilization itself — unfolding in real time.

[Vaelor💥 @vaelor0]

Generative AI is a political project orchestrated by the US government to pollute the information ecosystem until it becomes impossible to verify information, the goal is unchecked corruption and impunity

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Nothing to see here, just Israel live streaming its war crimes.

[Richard @ricwe123]

Here we have Victoria Nuland in 2016, bragging to US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup.

She spelled it all out without shame:

🔴US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries.

🔴American-trained cops patrolling 18 cities.

🔴The US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet.

🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military.

This wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid.

"Unprovoked"
😂😂😂😂😂

[Curator @4CPcomics]

You can live the next decade in one of the following time zones. Which do you choose and why?