El Gran Gus

[Patty Bustamante A. @PattyBust]

AYÚDAME A DUPLICAR... PARA ENCONTRAR A MI HIJO
Se busca! Se extravió hoy al rededor de las 3 pm por la plaza de armas, traía la ropa de la segunda foto porfavor si lo viste o sabes dónde está...
comunicarte a la policía porfavor! Ya se dio parte a las autoridades!

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Someone I've known for twenty years lives a couple of blocks away. He is not a partisan, he does not post about the Middle East, and he is not the sort of person who chants anything.

Out of the blue, he asked me: "Do you think there's a genocide in Gaza?"

No, I told him. By every metric that matters — legal, historical, statistical — there is not.

He looked at me the way you look at someone who has just told you the earth is flat. Netanyahu wants to eliminate the Palestinian people, he said. Everybody knows that.

Not a study. Not a court ruling. Not a casualty figure. Just a thing everybody knows.

I have spent forty years as a reporter learning that "everybody knows" is where investigations begin, not where they end.

Tomorrow on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies: a plain-language piece on what the word actually means under international law, how Gaza compares on every relevant metric, and why even the strongest case for the genocide charge still doesn't clear the bar the word requires.

By the way, I know the title will bother some readers, and I address that directly in the piece. My argument is not that the subject is trivial — it is that the word is being used by people who cannot define it, at a threshold they have never examined, with a confidence that bears no relationship to the evidence.

[El Gran Gus @el_grangus]

@dolfandave @schadjoe @grok quiénes son?

[Jesús Osorio @jesus_osorior]

Gracias por llegar hasta aquí 🙌

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[El Gran Gus @el_grangus]

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[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

This is a superficial and ultimately destructive way of framing the problem.

Women deal with the profound biological burden of reproduction: menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. That is real, costly, and non-negotiable. No serious person denies it.

But the complementary burden that has fallen on men for the entire history of our species is equally non-negotiable and far more lethal.

Men have been the ones who die in war — by the tens of millions. Conscription, combat, and the obligation to stand between the tribe and existential threat have been almost exclusively male responsibilities.

Men occupy the overwhelming majority of the most dangerous occupations on the planet: commercial fishing, logging, mining, roofing, heavy construction, oil-rig work, long-haul trucking. The workplace fatality statistics are not subtle. Year after year, 90–95 % of occupational deaths are male.

Men also take more physical and psychological risks. That is why they invent more, explore more, and die younger — from accidents, from violence, from suicide. The male suicide rate is not a minor footnote; it is a catastrophic and chronic reality.

These are not interchangeable complaints. They are complementary sacrifices. One sex carries the primary cost of creating new life. The other sex carries the primary cost of protecting that life and extracting the resources necessary to sustain it from a dangerous and indifferent world.

To reduce the entire male side of this ancient division of labour to “what do men deal with?” as if the answer were “nothing of consequence” is not compassion. It is a deliberate refusal to look at the hierarchical and sacrificial structure of reality itself.

The proper response is not grievance. It is gratitude for the complementary burdens that have kept the species alive, and the individual responsibility to carry one’s own share of them without self-pity.

[El Gran Gus @el_grangus]

@schadjoe Yes

[Reyna Rodriguez @ReynaRo78488165]

No soy Grinch, se los juro; ayer grité, lloré y me emocioné. El fútbol viene en mi sangre y lo he vivido desde que era una niña. Pero lo que quería transmitir es una profunda frustración: ¿por qué no sentimos esa misma intensidad por México?

Nuestra realidad no es solo un balón; son hijos desaparecidos, miles de familias sin justicia y un país convertido en tierra de nadie, donde un día entran a tu casa, te llevan, te matan, y al día siguiente estamos festejando un gol o llorando porque nos metieron tres. ¿Cuándo vamos a llorar juntos, con esa misma pasión, la verdadera desgracia de México?

En fin, no pretendo cambiar nuestra cultura ni la afición al fútbol. Solo vengo a decir que México está mal, terriblemente mal... y no precisamente porque hayamos perdido. Nos duele más un gol en contra que la vida de un mexicano, y esa es la verdadera derrota.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Sun has only 22 galactic orbits left.

Earth races around the Sun at ~67,000 mph (107,000 km/h), giving us our familiar 365.25-day year and changing seasons.

But the Sun is in motion too—hurtling through the Milky Way at ~514,000 mph (828,000 km/h) on a grand orbit around the galactic center. One complete lap, known as a cosmic year, takes roughly 225–230 million years.

When the Sun finished its most recent galactic orbit, the earliest dinosaurs were just beginning to roam Earth.

Since its birth ~4.6 billion years ago, our star has completed about 20 such orbits.

Stellar models predict the Sun will keep fusing hydrogen in its core for another ~5 billion years before it swells into a red giant and eventually fades into a white dwarf. At its current orbital speed, that leaves roughly 22 more laps around the Milky Way.

Each cosmic year sweeps the entire Solar System tens of thousands of light-years across the galaxy—through dense spiral arms rich with star-forming regions, past ancient globular clusters, and amid countless other stars.

Continents drift, mountains rise and erode, entire species evolve and vanish—all within a tiny fraction of one galactic circuit.

Human civilization, from the first cities to today’s digital age, has existed for less than 0.001% of a single cosmic year.

We are passengers on a star halfway through its ~10-billion-year galactic journey across a 100,000-light-year-wide disk—witnessing just the briefest sliver of one ongoing lap in an unimaginably vast cosmic dance.

[Cleveland Clinic @ClevelandClinic]

We performed our first robotic lung transplant in the U.S., expanding a minimally invasive option for patients.

The approach uses small incisions to help reduce pain and support faster recovery.

Every transplant depends on the generosity of organ donors.

https://t.co/ts2Q8T5FgX

[Anti Kommunistic @antikommunistic]

Communism isn’t politics or economics.
It’s the religion of the malcontent — a cult for people who resent success more than they want to achieve it.

Every single time it’s tried, it produces poverty, tyranny, and mass graves. The pattern never changes because the believers never change.

Tired of pretending this failed religion is just “misunderstood”?

Follow for daily truth.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A coded poem written on wooden box in 1952 by a soldier in Odessa during the war to process his hidden sorrow after fighting in WWII...

Poem in English:

​When you are bent beneath the heavy weight of life,
And youth’s sweet years have turned your dark hair white,
With tiny, faltering steps, leaning upon a cane,
You'll search the closet for youth’s lost refrain.
You'll lift this album from a dusty shelf,
Where every scattered hope reveals itself.
​A life so sad, so restless, unraveled, and in vain,
No longer will you be so sweet and fair,
As you are now, and once were yesterday.
Perhaps by then, enclosed in wooden boards, I'll lie,
But that I walked this earth, these very lines will testify,
Which I have written while thinking of you,
And when you read them, please, remember me too.

The code appears to be the Substitution Cipher, where numbers and equations stand in for letters or words. This was a common way for people to hide personal thoughts in plain sight. The repeated use of x, ÷, =, and numbers suggests a structured substitution system rather than random notation.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. A 42-year-old mother of two came to my office complaining of jaw pain and crushing fatigue. She ran half-marathons. Her EKG was normal. Another doctor had sent her home with anxiety medication.
When I got her into the cath lab, I found severe microvascular disease — plaque choking the tiniest vessels of her heart, the ones standard angiograms routinely miss.
Her heart had been starving in silence while everyone told her she was stressed.
She is alive today. Too many women like her are not.
Heart disease kills more women than every cancer combined. And medicine is still diagnosing it through a male lens.
84% of cardiologists report having patients in the past year whose heart disease was misdiagnosed by another physician. Women with a STEMI heart attack have a 59% greater chance of being misdiagnosed compared to men. Women with an NSTEMI — 41% greater chance.
The reason is structural. For decades, we screened, tested, and treated women using a template built for men.
Men's heart attacks announce themselves — the crushing chest pain, the clutched fist, the Hollywood collapse. Women's hearts whisper. Crushing fatigue that feels like wearing a lead vest. Jaw pain written off as TMJ. Nausea blamed on a stomach bug. An ache between the shoulder blades blamed on a long week. Shortness of breath blamed on being out of shape.
For years, medicine called these "atypical" symptoms. They are not atypical. They are female-typical. Half of humanity is not a variant.
And the biology runs deeper than symptoms.
Women have smaller hearts and narrower coronary arteries. Plaque doesn't only clog the big highway vessels — it hides in the microvasculature, the tiny branches feeding the heart muscle itself. A woman can have a heart attack with a completely "clean" standard angiogram.
SCAD — spontaneous coronary artery dissection — occurs 90% of the time in women. Often young, fit women with zero traditional risk factors. It's the leading cause of heart attack in women under 50, accounting for roughly one quarter of all cases in that age group. Most doctors have never diagnosed one.
And some of the most dangerous cardiac risk factors are hidden in women's medical histories where no one thinks to look:
Preeclampsia or gestational hypertension doubles to quadruples lifetime heart disease and stroke risk. Pregnancy is the body's first cardiac stress test — and these complications are early warning sirens, not closed chapters.
Autoimmune disease — lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis — far more common in women, turbocharges inflammation and plaque formation at any age.
Cardiovascular disease in women aged 20-44 is projected to surge nearly 50% by 2050.
The youngest patients in my practice keep getting younger.
What every woman should ask her doctor — and what every doctor should be asking:
"Given my pregnancy history, autoimmune status, and family history — what is my full cardiovascular risk?" If they don't ask about preeclampsia or gestational diabetes, volunteer it.
"Should I have an Lp(a) test and a coronary calcium score?" Standard cholesterol panels miss too much. Lp(a) is genetic, one-time, and most women have never been tested.
"My tests came back normal but my symptoms haven't stopped — what's next?" Normal stress tests and angiograms can miss microvascular disease, spasm, and SCAD. Persistent symptoms warrant coronary CT angiography or cardiac MRI.
And if something feels wrong — say these exact words to your doctor: "I am concerned this could be my heart."
That single sentence changes the workup. Do not soften it. Do not apologize for it.
80% of heart disease is preventable. But the playbook has to be built for female biology.
Two decades ago, I wrote one of the first books warning that heart disease was the number one killer of women and that medicine was diagnosing it through a male lens. It was recognized by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House during the early years of the national conversation about women's heart health.
I'm haunted by how much of that book I could republish today unchanged.
The science has advanced. The awareness has grown. But the gap between what we know and what happens in the exam room is still costing women their lives.
Share this with every woman you love — and every doctor who treats them. READ MORE: https://t.co/4LRugiY8q2

[Carla @carlaconwifi]

la claridad llega después, no antes 🧠

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

1/5
I'm a cardiologist. I have spent twenty years watching cholesterol destroy arteries, trigger heart attacks, and kill people I care about.
Today, Eli Lilly presented data that may begin to end that era.
VERVE-102. A single infusion. One dose. It uses base editing to permanently turn off the PCSK9 gene in your liver.
Presented today at the European Atherosclerosis Society Congress:
88% reduction in PCSK9.
62% reduction in LDL cholesterol.
Sustained up to 18 months.
No treatment-related serious adverse events.
One infusion. Not daily pills you forget to take. Not monthly injections. One dose — and your cholesterol may stay low for the rest of your life.

[Lucia Etxebarria @LaEtxebarria]

Tajikistan es un país con un 97% de musulmanes.
Como país musulmán, saben de sobra que el Corán NO exige que las mujeres lleven hijab.
Que lo exige la sharia,una ley Medieval, ESCRITA HACE 5 SIGLOS
Por eso han prohibido el hiyab.
Para proteger su cultura

[Pía Wohlgemuth 💚💜 @Pia_wn]

La familia de Sofía la está buscando. Ayuda con un RT!

[Gabriel Quadri @g_quadri]

Los tlaxcaltecas y muchos más pueblos originarios deben exigir a la Presidente Sheinbaum que denuncie y pida perdón por los asesinatos masivos de niños y mujeres, desollamientos, extracciones de corazón, y antropofagia que los mexica cometieron sistemáticamente contra ellos...

[LuisCardenasMX @LuisCardenasMx]

Se van a infartar en la 4T pero…

Washington acaba de publicar la National Drug Control Strategy 2026 y lo que describen no es un plan antinarcóticos tradicional: es una doctrina de guerra.

1. Guerra química, no combate al narcotráfico. El gobierno estadounidense designó formalmente al fentanilo como arma de destrucción masiva. Así, textualmente: Weapon of Mass Destruction. Los cárteles mexicanos ya no son organizaciones criminales a secas: son organizaciones terroristas extranjeras. El lenguaje importa, porque activa poderes legales que antes se reservaban para Al-Qaeda o el Estado Islámico y considera al tráfico de drogas UNA GUERRA QUÍMICA.

2. No van solo por los capos: van por toda la red. La estrategia es explícita: el blanco incluye liderazgo, redes financieras, logística y —aquí viene lo que van a alegar como violación a la soberanía: "the corrupt officials who enable their operations."

3. Apuntan a la falta de voluntad política. El documento señala sin rodeos que los países de tránsito y origen, México juega en ambos, han tolerado el tráfico por "ausencia de voluntad política para tomar acciones decisivas."

4. Un solo centro de mando con todas las agencias. Se creó el HSTF National Coordination Center, que integra DEA, FBI, DHS, CBP, y comunidad de inteligencia en expedientes unificados. La información de cárteles designados como terroristas se pasa al NCTC —el mismo centro que coordina la lucha global contra el terrorismo—. Un solo expediente, todas las herramientas, cero silos burocráticos.

5. No piden permiso: usan todos los instrumentos del poder nacional. Clarito: "all available diplomatic, intelligence, military, and economic tools." Ya ejecutaron ataques militares contra embarcaciones del narco.

Es triste —y habría que decirlo sin eufemismos— que el vecino tenga que venir a poner orden porque la casa dejó de gobernarse a sí misma.

Si México quiere seguir siendo el principal socio comercial de la economía más grande del mundo nos conviene cooperar y dejar las ideologías trasnochadas en donde pertenecen: al basurero de la historia.

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[EsⓂ️E @GMinimi]

RT, porfa 🙏🏻 #HastaEncontrarla