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rambles. stories. sarees. never wanted to know about politics, but there’s no choice.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly.

Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species.

She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines.

Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks.

What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

PERMISSION MIL GAYI. AB PRADHAN KI BAARI 🔥

REPORTER: What next?

VIJETA DAHIYA 🎯: The protest will stay peaceful. Pradhan will go. A capable minister must replace him. Paper leaks have become normal. This

REPORTER: But Rajnath Singh once said resignations don’t happen in NDA governments.

VIJETA: That is a shameless statement. What does it even mean? That you are so arrogant that you don’t care?

VIJETA 🔥: Pradhan posted “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam.” The comments had only one message: resign. Thousands are telling him he is not fit for the post.

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

“लोग कहते हैं आंदोलन, धरना प्रदर्शन और जुलूस निकालने से क्या होता है ?
इससे यह सिद्ध होता है कि हम जीवित हैं !”

सरकार के लिए हम हो सकते हैं कीड़े मकौड़े, लेकिन हम जीवित है और अपने हकों की लड़ाई लड़ने के लिए सक्षम है

#cjpprotest

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I visited the southernmost tip of India.

I stood at Indira Point. I walked under trees that have stood for centuries. I dove into coral reefs among the most vibrant on earth.

And I sat with the people who live there. Tribal communities, whose land is being taken away by violating the Forest Rights Act. Settlers, many of them former soldiers, placed on these islands by the Indian government, who aren’t getting fair compensation.

The Modi government and BJP tells you Great Nicobar Project is about defence. It is not.

Expand INS Baaz - we will back the government fully. The Navy has been asking for expansion for five years - it has been ignored.

They tell you it is about a transhipment port. It is not. India is already building one in Kerala, which is on the mainland.

What it actually is: 1.5 crore trees felled. Coral reefs erased from official maps. Soldiers and tribals displaced - so one businessman can build hotels and casinos on India’s most irreplaceable ecological land.

Every young Indian I have spoken to understands this. You know that no amount of profit is worth destroying what can never be recovered.

I stand for ecologically balanced development. These islands can be the most extraordinary sustainable destination the world has ever seen. That is the India worth fighting for.

#GreenOverGreed
#NicobarMatters
#WorldEnvironmentDay

[indrani @indiscribe]

@AnujGurwara @twilightfairy @RahulSeeker agree with and share your sentiments till we come to blaming others. no. not this time. this was us.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Attempts are being made to derail the movement and defame us.

The CJP does not endorse such videos and strongly condemns them.

I appeal to all CJP supporters to remain careful and remember that our protest is peaceful and democratic. We won’t violate any law to make our voices heard.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

On my way to India…

Leaving my fate in the hands of the Constitution. #JaiBhim

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

Vedant, Sarthak, and Nisarga are the voice of millions of students whose futures are at stake.

These three students did what the media was supposed to do.

[Moksh Yadav @MokshYadav007]

I’ve got a mail from CBSE saying that there is no problem with the answer sheet provided to me .
Even when there is a clear difference between both the handwritings @cbseindia29 is not taking accountability for their actions.

I urge @cbseindia29 to look deeply into this matter

[Tanmay Kashyap @TanmayKOfficial]

Honourable President Droupadi Murmu Ji, @rashtrapatibhvn

Respected Madam,

I am a CBSE Class 12 student writing this with a shattered heart and tears that refuse to stop

For two years I gave my blood, sweat and every single night to studies. But CBSE's new OSM (On-Screen Marking) system has destroyed everything. Answer sheets are blurry and unreadable, the revaluation portal keeps crashing for days, payments fail repeatedly, students are being overcharged huge amounts, hackers have targeted the site, and deadlines are extended but nothing works. Lakhs of sincere students like me have failed in multiple subjects despite our best efforts.

I lost my close friend to suicide after seeing his marks. He couldn't bear the pain. Many more students are having severe emotional breakdowns and attempting the same. Families are crying day and night. Our JEE, NEET and college dreams are completely crushed.

Madam, we are your children. We are not just roll numbers. Please intervene and save us. Kindly direct the authorities to award grace marks of 15-20 in all subjects this year for students affected by this OSM crisis. This will give hope and save 50-60% of us from ruin.

We have nowhere else to go. Please listen to our cry for justice. With folded hands and a broken heart, A devastated CBSE Class 12 Student of India

@cbseindia29 @EduMinOfIndia @dpradhanbjp @PMOIndia @narendramodi @cbseindia29

#CBSE2026 #GraceMarksForCBSE #JusticeForCBSEStudents #Osm #Cbsestudents #OsmControversy #SaveCBSEStudents #Cbse

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Deeply moved by my visit to Mother House. Mother Teresa's legacy of faith, compassion, and service inspires us all.

[प्रणव @PranavaBhardwaj]

Those who called our kids Pakistanis need to be named and shamed.

This is the list of those anti-nationals.

Please keep adding names.

1- Ashok Srivastava

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

We stand with Vedant. All he has done is expose the mismanagement in #CBSE exams.

Education Minister must resign!

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Most people have no idea about the real history of Al-Aqsa Mosque, because they’ve only been fed the Islamic Palestinian propaganda version of events.

They believe that Al-Aqsa has always been Islam’s third holiest site, that it has belonged to Muslims since the dawn of time, and that Israel is the oppressor for merely existing near it.

None of that is true.

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the holiest site in Judaism for over a thousand years before Islam even appeared in history. It housed the First and Second Jewish Temples, the center of Jewish worship and pilgrimage.

When the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD, they built pagan shrines over it, but its Jewish identity never disappeared.

In the 7th century Islam emerges and expands through conquest, and begins hijacking Jewish and Christian sites, prophets, and narratives.

At first, Jerusalem had no major significance in Islam. Muhammad never set foot there. There was no mosque. There was no pilgrimage. There was no Islamic history tied to the city.

But that changed during the brutal power struggle between Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan and Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr.

By the late 7th century, Islam was deeply divided. Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr controlled Mecca and Medina, the two holiest cities in Islam. And Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, the Umayyad Caliph, controlled the Levant.

But Abd al-Malik had a problem, he didn’t want the people of the Levant traveling to Mecca for pilgrimage, because that would give power to his rival.

Abd al-Malik declared the Temple Mount as Alaqsa mosque that was mentioned in the quran, and he made it an alternative place of pilgrimage.

He ordered the construction of the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to divert attention from Mecca.

And just like that, Islam manufactured a holy site for political gain.

The real Masjid Al-Aqsa referred to in the Quran was not in Jerusalem, it was between Mecca and Ta’if. There was no mosque in Jerusalem at the time. There was no Islamic presence there.

Yet, centuries later, after Islam had conquered the city, the Islamic narrative retroactively applied this Quranic verse to Jerusalem, again, for political convenience.

If Israel wanted to act like Islamic conquerors, it could have easily done to Al-Aqsa what Turkey did to the Hagia Sophia.

It could have converted the mosque into the Third Temple, banned Muslim prayer on the site, erased any trace of Islamic history, as Muslims did to Christian and Jewish sites throughout history.

But Israel didn’t do that. Israel allows Muslims to pray there freely. Israel protects Al-Aqsa, even as it is used to spread anti-Semitic propaganda and incite violence.

Yet, despite this, the world condemns Israel for merely existing in its own capital.

[Moksh Yadav @MokshYadav007]

I am a CBSE Class 12th Student

When i saw my copy i only got 33/80 so I applied for my scanned copy.

Yesterday I received my scanned copy from CBSE and when I opened it , it wasn’t even my handwriting , black pen was used when i didn’t even use it .

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

You gave Modi a third term. He tripled your cylinder prices.

5 kg LPG cylinder:
2014 – ₹351 (subsidised ₹155)
2026 – ₹910

Commercial LPG:
2014 – ₹1080
2026 – ₹3071

Wish for another term?

[Iqra @AiWithIqra]

I am a CBSE Class 12 student.

After receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, we applied for photocopies of my answer sheets through the CBSE reevaluation process.

Today we received the copies.

And I am shattered because the Physics answer sheet uploaded by CBSE is not mine

[VEDANT @VEDANTSHRIV17]

Thanks to the people who supported us in these tough times and we faced so much mental harrasment because of this . People called us antinational and Pakistani just because we raised a genuine concern and at the end Truth has prevailed .

[Vaishali Mathur @mathur_vaishali]

Cannot get over these trees. Even at night they are a source of beauty