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[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

They are everything Hollywood told you the Nazis were

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’re 35. Someone raises their voice and suddenly you’re 7 years old again, sitting at the kitchen table, trying to disappear. Your brain is literally reverting to the age you were when the original wound happened.

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux at NYU found that your brain has a fear shortcut. Sensory information hits your amygdala (the brain’s alarm system) before it ever reaches the part that thinks logically. The alarm fires in about 12 milliseconds. Rational thought takes over 250. In someone carrying old trauma, the alarm wins every time. Your body reacts before your mind even knows what happened.

Bessel van der Kolk’s team put trauma survivors in brain scanners and watched what happens during a flashback. Three things go wrong at once. The amygdala floods the body with stress hormones, preparing you to fight or run. The prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that says “calm down, you’re safe, this is 2026,” goes quiet. And Broca’s area, the region that lets you put thoughts into words, shuts off entirely. Van der Kolk compared it to having a stroke. Trauma survivors sitting frozen and silent in emergency rooms aren’t choosing not to speak. The brain region for language has gone offline.

The missing piece is the hippocampus. It’s the part of your brain that tags memories with a time and place, filing them as “this happened years ago.” Chronic stress hormones physically shrink it. MRI scans of PTSD patients consistently show this. When your hippocampus can’t do its job, your brain stops distinguishing a 20-year-old memory from something happening right now. That’s why a slamming door in 2026 can put you right back in a room from 1998. Your brain genuinely cannot tell the difference.

The CDC ran the largest study on childhood trauma ever done. 64% of American adults report at least one adverse childhood experience. Those who had four or more were 12 times more likely to attempt suicide, develop depression, or struggle with addiction. The annual cost: $14.1 trillion.

The good news: this isn’t always permanent. A study of PTSD patients found that after treatment, the hippocampus grew back by 4.6%. The part of the brain that files memories as “the past” can be rebuilt.

[Rula Jebreal @rulajebreal]

Italy's PM Meloni lost a referendum on her flagship reform of the judicial system, suffering a crushing political defeat to her ruling neo-fascist coalition ahead of next year's general election.
The Meloni government facilitated a pedophile war criminal, Almasri, flee justice, to Libya, in defiance of international law and an ICC arrest warrant.
They weaponized Paragon—Israeli surveillance technology—to spy on journalists and opponents, and continue to sell weapons to Israel while it commits genocide and bombs Iran and Lebanon.

This represents a long trail of criminality, corruption and complicity that the overwhelming majority of Italians have now rejected.

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

there’s something so special about nature consistently being on your side. the earth doing what it can to show them they’re not alone

[Mohammed jawad 🇵🇸 @Mo7ammed_jawad6]

If Rafif’s page does not return as strong as it was in the past weeks… we will not come back again.

We are not asking for much. We are not asking for the impossible…
Just a share. Just a comment. Just a simple interaction.

That alone is enough to keep Rafif’s voice alive—
and not let us leave in silence. 😔💔

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@an_jmy40244 .

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@aboodaljbour16 .

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

This video is as close to a self-portrait of western civilization as it gets. This is who we are. This is where we're at. Might as well have giant letters with a big red arrow saying "YOU ARE HERE" overtop it.

It captures so perfectly the creepy dance between suffering, apathy, frivolity and corporate profiteering that makes our particular dystopia so distinctive, in just a few short seconds of footage. This is the dance that makes the empire go round.

It's got everything:

- A man splayed out on the concrete because it hurts to be human in this global ghost town, and because he was unsuccessful at becoming a productive gear-turner in the capitalist machine, and because social safety nets have been stripped bare in order to help millionaires become billionaires.

- Automation being used to eliminate workers' wages for the maximization of corporate profits, when it could be getting used to bring about a permanent end to toil and poverty for the entire human species.

- Technological innovation stagnating at fast food delivery robots and predatory service apps instead of inventions which help save our biosphere, provide for the needful, heal the sick and improve our quality of life, because sending someone a Big Mac in a snackbot through an app will generate profits, while making the world a better place will not.

- The machine calmly navigating around the unfortunate soul on the pavement in the same way all the human pedestrians have been doing all day, because that's what we all learn to do in a society which casts those who can't keep up to the side of the road like so much refuse.

This is where we are. This is what we have become.

That robot steering its way around that man on the sidewalk is revealing more truth about the kind of world we are living in than you will ever receive from the corporate news media.

That robot has the real story.

That robot is giving you the real on-the-ground scoop on what's really going on here.

That robot is a better reporter than Jake Tapper. It certainly has more journalistic integrity.

We're all following that robot off a cliff, into an abyss of madness and oblivion.

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

This is heartbreaking.

"Dr. Hossam’s lawyer warns: his heart is exhausted, his body shattered from continuous torture, and the freezing temperatures in his cell are worsening his suffering.
Between cold walls, the doctor who saved hundreds of children and the wounded is left with no adequate food, no heating, and his health is deteriorating day by day.

🔴 Every moment of silence is a contribution to his suffering.
Any delay in saving him could be the moment that costs him his life.

✊🏻 Speak about him… spread his name… do not let the voice of the doctor who saved lives fade away."
https://t.co/NZnI5jZILW

[Mohammed jawad 🇵🇸 @Mo7ammed_jawad6]

We are still here, despite being largely ignored.
If you see our picture, leave a dot (.) — so our voice doesn’t fade away completely.
💔🇵🇸

[Olive 🌿 (Unavailable) @oliveegirl]

My tweets about stupid stuff get thousands of interactions but fundraising tweets get 0 views.

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@Mo7ammed_jawad6 .

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@noor_supernova7 .

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Bisan is one of the last sole SURVIVING journalists‼️WE dont understand her courage‼️ She still has BRACES on‼️ The parallel crystal clear‼️ It’s pure RACISM and prejudice‼️ I don’t want Bison to be a martyr‼️ I want her to live a full long life along with everyone else Gaza‼️

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@yazanomarrr .

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@RDAOA305 .

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@yousefmohmoud25 .

[Mohammed jawad 🇵🇸 @Mo7ammed_jawad6]

If a thousand voices don’t say: ‘We are with you, Rafif. We hear you’
we will fade away in silence, as if we were never here at all…

[Rachələ🍉⋆.ೃ࿔*:･ @alehcre]

@Mo7ammed_jawad6 I am so sorry for this. I pray for your safety as always. Love and thoughts and prayers from italy🫶