Muhammad Cajee

IO Psychologist | Director | Strategist | Co-Founder | Fmr CDO: Primedia Broadcasting | AJ+ Project Architect | Fmr Bureau Chief: Al Jazeera US and Americas |

[Muhammad Cajee @Mo_C]

In our lifetime we will be free. Sing it and play it everywhere they are. Call to action. 🇵🇸 Make it trend.

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

Meanwhile in South Africa ❤️❤️

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Omer Bartov is an Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. His new book, “Israel: What Went Wrong?,” argues that Zionism has morphed into an ideology of extremism that led to genocide in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7th. He joins David Remnick on #RadioHour to discuss. Listen to the full episode: https://t.co/N13NpruPW0

[Acyn @Acyn]

Question: I'm a waiter at a local restaurant in Queens, a full time college student who sleeps an average of four hours a night and is still thousands in debt. How is a war in a country half the world away funded by the taxes pulled from my check, helping me in any way?

[@DumaGqubule @DumaGqubule]

i wrote an article with @NeilColemanSA
about the jobs crisis we must never normalise the situation. it is a national emergency. we must understand the scale of the crisis

Why the current jobs debate fails to grasp the scale of SA’s unemployment crisis https://t.co/rhggNdux59

[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.

A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.

Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.

The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.

A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.

Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.

The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.

The investing angle nobody talks about.

Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.

Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.

The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.

Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.

(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

I can’t help but think the idea here is that they have calculated in the very high possibility that they stand no chance of returning to power in 8 months, after elections. So, Dada, competent or not, must make way for them to use this remaining 8 months to also accumulate as much as they can, since there is no guarantee that they will be back into power.

These are not people who have ever put the interests of the city first. These are not believers. They are looters, driven by the parasitic loot logic and will stop at nothing to loot! So sad to watch!

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Bombing a hospital or a school isn't a "miscalculation."

Killing a paramedic isn't "collateral damage."

Starving civilians isn't "negotiating tactic."

These are war crimes. Full stop.

Call it what it is.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change.

That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder.

In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book.

Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing.

A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens.

UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain.

One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off.

The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

China just dropped its 15th five year and I genuinely think this is the most important document of 2026 & almost nobody in the West is talking about it

what gets me isn’t any single number…it’s the systemic vision, in one document they’re planning GDP growth, highvalue patents, digital economy at 12.5% of GDP, non-fossil energy at 25%, CO2 reduction, surface water quality at 85%, life expectancy at 80, forest coverage rate, grain production capacity…ALL of it in the same table with hard targets & binding indicators through 2030

in the West we treat economy, ecology, education, healthcare & energy security as separate ministries fighting over budgets, China treats them as organs of the same body, every line feeds the others, urbanization fuels productivity, R&D fuels patents, patents fuel the the digital economy, non-fossil energy fuels strategic independence….every variable is designed to accelerate all the others & that reflect china’s deeply HOLISTIC worldview

look at line 5, high-value patent going from 16 to over 22 per 10,000 people by 2030, quietest line in the whole table and probably the most important, a high value patent is the intellectual property of a technology that will structure a market for 20y MINIMUM

China is literally planning who owns the technological future, the licenses & dependencies other countriees will rack up on Chinese tech, this IS the economic and industrial colonization of the 21st century I keep talking about in my threads but with patents instead of cannons

while america bombs & europe debates, China plans, builds & executes and the scariest part is that based on their own audits the previous plans hit ove 90% of their targets

Western leaders rotate every 4 /5 years and make promises they’ll never have to keep, CCP plays on a 50 y horizon…this table isn’t a campaign platform, it’s a national spec sheet & that changes everything about how you read each number in it

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

The owner of the largest Navy in the history of the world would like sailors from other countries to die in a war he started without consulting anyone.

Pass, thanks.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Pentagon burned through $5.6 billion worth of munitions in the first two days of its Iran assault, according to U.S. officials, alarming some on Capitol Hill over how quickly the military has depleted scarce supplies of America’s most advanced weaponry. https://t.co/sVENnbocWM

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

A helpless Vietnamese family watches as US soldiers set fire to their home 💔

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

A clip that left the world in disbelief and horror.
Israel did this.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Prof. John Mearsheimer: Between 1971 and 2021, the US murdered 38 million people

[Mondoweiss @Mondoweiss]

READ: Israel developed a doctrine of total societal destruction that is used in Gaza — and is now deploying it in Lebanon and Iran with full US backing.

This is one of the most important things you'll read today:https://t.co/gaFAdC10k1

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Spain’s PM Sánchez:

“They say that Spain is alone.”

“They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.”

“We are not alone. We are the first.”

“Those defending the indefensible will be the ones left alone.” 🇪🇸

[CNN @CNN]

Evidence compiled by CNN suggests that the United States military was responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, in what is the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Israel's almost week-long war with Iran.

CNN's Isobel Yeung reports.

Read more: https://t.co/hgqYd7Np8O

[Khaled Beydoun @KhaledBeydoun]

The faces and names of many of the 165 schoolgirls slain in Minab, Iran.

[Reuters @Reuters]

US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation https://t.co/7PkajtDYp4

[TheHillOpinion @TheHillOpinion]

The world is watching America lose its moral compass and its global credibility https://t.co/8TcX8OvgNe