DouglaGal 🇬🇾🇺🇲 💛🐝🪷Bartica 2 Bklyn & Beyond

#EnviroSci, adventure seeker, traveler, wannabe chef, veteran Marine, ... feline fancier & lover of growing things

[DouglaGal 🇬🇾🇺🇲 💛🐝🪷Bartica 2 Bklyn & Beyond @LittleFootLady]

We are still deep in #PlagueTime with the emergence (or is it resurgence) of
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#Orthopoxvirus

[Raina MacIntyre @Globalbiosec]

Concerning outbreak in Jayapura, Indonesia, picked up by our @EPIWATCH_bsp early warning system. Rash looks like it could be an orthopoxvirus, and this needs to be excluded as a cause.
https://t.co/UxRsoLEj5C

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we never question why the super rich are never satisfied with what they already have.

[DouglaGal 🇬🇾🇺🇲 💛🐝🪷Bartica 2 Bklyn & Beyond @LittleFootLady]

The 5:30 AM walk across my pillow if I'm not up to feed my feline overlords.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

Every pet owner has accidentally created a daily ritual and now lives under a tiny furry dictator.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"

"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"

"Other people had guns inserted inside them"

"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"

Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony:

[Maher El-Masri @maherme01]

@DoubleDownNews During the "Me Too" movement, the media and the legal system were fully behind the victims. Now that the perpetrator is Israel, these first-hand testimonies of rape and sexual abuse are being actively ignored!

This is hypocrisy at its worst.

[Brunella C. @BrunellaCapitan]

The Story of Wesam Mekdad
“I am a Palestinian from #Gaza. I fled my homeland in search of safety and the opportunity to work so that I could send money back to my family, who are surviving under the horrors of war.
The road was grueling and full of obstacles. First, I went to Egypt, where I waited a full year just to secure a Turkish visa. From Turkey, I attempted to cross into Greece. I failed twice, enduring imprisonment both times. It was only on my third attempt that I finally reached Greek soil.
Once there, I was placed in a refugee camp for a year, waiting for a residence permit. But the moment I finally received it, my life was shattered again: I was unjustly imprisoned for four years. My trial was a sham, and it became deeply clear to me that refugees are not treated equally under the law there.
Eventually, I was released. Seeking a fresh start, I traveled to Berlin, where I met my wife and we were married. Together, we moved to the Netherlands to apply for asylum. I truly believed that the Netherlands, as a nation built on human rights, would understand our plight.
Because I am an innocent man and had absolutely nothing to hide, I was entirely honest with the authorities. I openly told them about my imprisonment in Greece. Tragically, my honesty was weaponized against me.
We were shuttled endlessly between different reception centers. During this time, my wife became pregnant. We held onto the hope that the authorities would show compassion for our situation and for our unborn child. Instead, the hammer fell: we received a negative decision.
My asylum application was rejected. I was handed a deportation order to Egypt and a two-year entry ban from Europe. My wife’s application was also rejected; she was ordered back to Germany. They told us coldheartedly that even if our child were born on Dutch soil, it would change nothing. The fact that my family in Gaza is trapped in an active war zone seemed to mean absolutely nothing to them.
Desperate to prove who we are, I went to the Palestinian Embassy in the Netherlands and obtained official documents confirming my Palestinian nationality and the identity of my family in Gaza. I handed these papers to the authorities. Yet, it feels as though we are screaming into a void. No one is listening.
Is this fair? Why is this happening when all I ever wanted was to build a stable, quiet life for myself, my wife, and our daughter? Why am I being condemned for a prison sentence I served unjustly in Greece? I had hoped the Dutch authorities would help me prove my innocence, but instead, they simply wronged me again.
Where are human rights? Where are the rights of a child? Where are the rights of a woman?
I have lodged an appeal and am now awaiting the judge’s decision. In the meantime, the stress, anxiety, and suffocating uncertainty mount every single day. I am constantly terrified of what tomorrow will bring. I have been stripped of my right to work and my freedom of movement is heavily restricted.
Then, the breaking point came. One day, I received devastating news. In a flash of pure despair, unable to contain the agony inside me, I smashed a television and damaged the door. It was inside my own room—not someone else's. I harmed no one.
The center staff called the police. They knew my wife was nine months pregnant. When the officers arrived, I told them myself. My wife looked them in the eyes and told them that I would go with them voluntarily and respectfully. I had not used violence against a single soul. I remained calm because I believed I would simply give a statement at the station and return to her. Yet, they treated us as if we were dangerous. They treated a heavily pregnant woman as a threat.
This is my story. I feel that my wife, my daughter, my family in Gaza, and I have been deeply, profoundly wronged by the system. But I still believe that eventually, the truth will come to light. Justice cannot remain hidden forever.”
Baby Reem born premature (5 days after the attack)

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

A woman is most likely to be abused or killed by her partner when she’s pregnant or trying to flee:

This bill will legalize men murdering their pregnant partners.

All they need to do is say they were trying to stop an abortion.

Femicide written into law.

[Isuzu Pleshette ™ @isuzu_pleshette]

@TeamTalaricoHQ @Martina From the mother…

[dhwani @dhwanisaraiya_]

They scraped the internet for every last bit of data, stole information from books, articles, art etc. all created by HUMANS, and now want to sell it back to you at a premium because you all have convinced yourselves this is the future and it’s inevitable lmao

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I love Tyre.
It is a truly beautiful place and you can't scrape the ground anywhere without disturbing ancient archaeology from the heart of the great Phoenician civilisation.
Israel is carpet bombing it.

[Kayla @KaylaDavis2000]

Adam Hoffman raped his son’s best friend for 3 years

First-degree felony. Life without parole.

Ken Paxton’s office gutted it to 60 days. He walked free after 30.

No sex offender registration. His record scrubbed clean.
Texas protects predators with power!

[Peter Darker @IAmPeterDarker]

Myrlie Evers-Williams just turned 93 on March 17th. This history ain’t old.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Scientists at Stanford Medicine have proposed an explanation for the rare cases of myocarditis that can occur after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The research points to a two-step inflammatory process involving the cytokines CXCL10 and IFN-gamma.

According to the study, vaccine-activated immune cells, particularly macrophages, produce high levels of CXCL10. This molecule then stimulates T cells to release IFN-gamma, creating a potent inflammatory signal that can damage heart muscle cells. The team confirmed this pathway through experiments using human heart tissue models, immune cells, and mice.

Importantly, blocking CXCL10 and IFN-gamma reduced signs of heart injury in laboratory models while largely preserving the protective immune response generated by the vaccine. The researchers also tested genistein, a natural compound found in soybeans, which showed anti-inflammatory effects in the models, though further clinical studies are required.

Myocarditis following mRNA vaccination is very rare, occurring in approximately 1 in 140,000 people after the first dose and 1 in 32,000 after the second, with higher rates observed in young males. Most cases are mild and resolve with full recovery. The study notes that COVID-19 infection itself carries a significantly higher risk of myocarditis, roughly 10 times greater than vaccination.

This work may inform the development of safer future mRNA vaccines while underscoring the established benefits of current ones in preventing severe COVID-19 outcomes.

[Cao, X., et al. (2025). Inhibition of CXCL10 and IFN-γ ameliorates myocarditis in preclinical models of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination. Science Translational Medicine, 17(828)]

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Two Black lawmakers were arrested for their opposition against white state legislators eliminating Black representation in the state of Tennessee.

Absolutely insane things are happening in the year 2026.

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

In 2018, North Carolina held an election using congressional maps that had already been ruled unconstitutional. The winners were seated anyway. In 2022, Ohio did the same thing. Georgia and Alabama moved forward with racist maps in 2022 that violated the Voting Rights Act. The winners of those elections were seated anyway. When it’s Republicans disenfranchising Black voters and Democrats, illegal maps are suddenly good enough to keep in place during the election. None of those states even put their maps up for approval by the public like Virginia did. Virginia should proceed with their election under the map their voters just enacted. Anything less would establish an unfair precedent.

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

The highest rate of growth in the history of the US economy occurred when the US had its highest tax rate on the wealthy. The reason you didn’t know that is because of propaganda.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Damn if only the airlines didn’t block bullet train service in Texas.

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

Endometriosis, a condition affecting 190 million women and girls worldwide and causes internal bleeding, was given funding for a study in 2013. Instead of studying the causes what could help cure or ease it and what may make one more susceptible to it... They studied the "Attractiveness " of women who had it. Yes, this is a real study.

[Moe Weber @missmaree73]

@musharbash_b It is disturbing the way people just keep ignoring the Spirit CEO’s own words and the situation with Frontier. Not to mention JetBlue’s anti-competitive behavior, even as it faces its own troubles. Bashing Democrats trumps the facts.

[Nidhi Hegde @nhegde]

Btw Citadel, Ares Management & Cyrus Capital just killed Spirit Airlines. They calculated they’d recover more money liquidating Spirit’s gates and airport slots than accepting a government bailout. 17,000 workers lost their jobs. Wall St got paid! 6/