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Amazing driver. I love Eleanor Roosevelt. Big hair. Bread eater. Ex @Twitter - Sounds like eeeee-fa.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza & Lebanon wars, says Elbit Systems who supplied Tzayad digital army programme to map people, vehicles & other objects in real time https://t.co/B6keoc7AFf

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Scandalous.
18 months in arbitrary detention. No charge. No evidence. Torture attested by his lawyer, marks visible on his body.
And instead of covering this, @BBC amplifies Israel's unproven claims casting doubt on a hostage doctor.

>BBC's journalism in the time of genocide.

[Muslim Sisters of Eire @Msoe_Dublin]

Tonight we had more hot meals than we usually do, thanks to the incredible generosity of our restaurant partners.
A huge thank you to Darba Restaurant, who already provide our weekly meals at a reduced rate of €3.50 per meal. Every fourth week they donate those meals free of charge, and they have now gone even further by committing to donate an extra 50 hot meals every week, completely free. Their kindness is truly amazing.
Even with all these extra meals, the queues were much longer than expected. We had hoped to give two or three meals per person, but we could only give one. Sadly, one person was left without a hot meal, but in a beautiful act of kindness, another person gave them their own.
It was another very hot evening, and many people were asking for tents and sleeping bags. One young man, clearly sleeping rough, came to us with a bad toothache. As we can't provide medication, he simply asked for salt and hot water to help ease the pain. Stories like these are heartbreaking.
Thanks to your support, we distributed 430 meals, along with fresh vegetables, fruit, yogurts, sandwiches, cereals, and plenty of groceries for families. Everyone left our table with bags full of food, including a hot meal.
A huge thank you also to SACFO Fine Foods, who have been donating 50 falafel burgers every week since 2020, completely free of charge. Their continued generosity means so much to us.
We also want to give a big shout-out to Al Khair Restaurant, who prepare 100 hot meals every week for us at the reduced price of just €3 per meal. Their continued support makes a huge difference.
The support we receive from our restaurant partners is incredible. Meals that would normally cost around €25 are being provided to us for just €3 or €3.50, and in many cases completely free. Combined with your weekly donations, this makes everything we do possible.
Finally, we'd like to thank every single one of you who supports us. The people we meet every Friday night are always so grateful, and that gratitude belongs to you too. We couldn't do any of this without your kindness and generosity.
Have a lovely weekend. Please support us at: https://t.co/cCYEpNiaFw

[Adam Analysis @adamemedia1]

Whitney Webb has completely exposed Polymarket.

And of course it was funded by Israel. Literally Netanyahu’s family.

And it’s connected to the worst people on earth.

Don’t take their bribes.

[BazzaCC @bazzacc2]

Bastards....😢😢

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Many academics are losing jobs in the UK. But @edgehill case stands out: a distinguished human rights scholar fired while battling cancer. Hope justice prevails & students consider universities' human rights records & treatment of staff when deciding where to study.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The war in Lebanon has reached a point where it can no longer be described as anything other than genocide.

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

Naomi Osaka is her ✨

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Thank you, Secretary Kennedy, for releasing the $700 million in behavioral health funding my father’s administration authorized.
But it should not have taken this long. The delay cost lives.
Putting people living on the streets first is right. They are the easiest to see and the easiest to ignore.

I have no problem with the mission.

I have a problem with one sentence in the guidance: STREETS grants cannot pay for harm reduction.

Harm reduction is not an ideology. It is a clean syringe, naloxone in a backpack, fentanyl test strips in a pocket. A place where someone can be kept breathing instead of being found dead.

I personally know people whose lives were saved by harm reduction. I know you do too. I know what they have done with those lives since. Not one of them would be in recovery today if they didn’t have access to harm reduction. The would be dead.

Anyone serious about recovery knows harm reduction saves lives. Ask people in the rooms. Ask the families keeping naloxone in the kitchen drawer.

If you want the Great American Recovery to mean something, fund what keeps people on this side of the grave. We do recover, but only if we make it out alive.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@DaniMayakovski The mama of fools is always pregnant. (Italian saying)

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

Israel has bombed Lebanon over 100 times in 24 hours.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

Yes they are. Stop lying.

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

Carl Jung said that one of the most destructive forces a person can carry is unused creative energy.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING: "Greater Israel" is now marketed in London. Like in Montreal and in New York.
Apartheid without borders.

P.S. This explains why criticism of Israel is being restricted (and "anti-antisemitism" laws keep appearing). Apartheid is not only a crime. It is a business model.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Si los israelies no donan su propia piel ni sus órganos, por motivos religiosos, ¿como es posible que tengan el mayor banco de piel y órganos del mundo? ¿De donde lo sacan? Están expoliando a un pueblo hasta llegar a quitarles la piel".

La activista turca Aycin Kantoglu, miembro de la flotilla humanitaria Sumud, se cuestiona de donde salen los órganos y la piel que compone el banco donante más grande del mundo de "Israel".

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 Zohran Mamdani announces the launch of 5 city-run grocery stores in NYC.

Experts predict this will significantly increase access to nutritious food in low-income areas.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[JonnyUtd @Fx1Jonny]

Huge violent riots explode across Italy to demand their government boycotts israel.

Be like Albania and be like Italy and get israel fucked all the way off out of our nations!