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[WHAT'S THE DIRT? @Whats_the_dirt]

The reaction to Drake performing for the city last night was described to me by Boi-1da as the loudest crowd reaction that he had ever heard. Truly insane 🇨🇦

[tay @hairball1952]

it’s really sad to see your parents get caught into the habit of doomscrolling

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Someone should buy LinkedIn and turn it off

[dro 🇲🇽 @FutbolFax]

The hate Argentina got this tournament made me realize how easy it is to brainwash and program people. Would love to see someone publish work on this some day as it’s a very interesting case study.

[Sina @itsdasda]

Ego

[Adam Freedman @acfreedmanlaw]

Why does it seem like everyone in hip hop actively hates each other??

no showing studio sessions, not paying producers, ruining relationships over small %s, etc

maybe that's why the music is in such bad shape these days

[Sina @itsdasda]

Canada’s national team genuinely plays like some nervous U18s in the Ontario Cup

[Kaveh Kavoosi, MD 🧬 @kavehkavoosi]

“Just” 2020.

This is not new, it’s already known but needs to be reminded til it’s seen as a drug.

Younger brains have more permanent, potentially irreversible changes to the brain.

Get smartphones out of the hands of anyone under age 18
Regulate its use for any older age 18.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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[Del Bigtree @delbigtree]

Listen to what @BretWeinstein is saying here. It’s one of the most gut-punch breakdowns I’ve heard about why the people inside these broken institutions can look at devastating evidence of harm to children… and still choose silence.

He calls himself a “de facto atheist,” and yet he sees something most people refuse to admit:

When you don’t believe in anything bigger than yourself, it becomes far too easy to make peace with evil.

How do you ignore when studies show severe harm to kids? How do you watch the vaccine program keep rolling when the data screams danger?

You tell yourself the same lie they all tell themselves:
“It won’t make a difference anyway.”
“The system is too corrupt.”
“If I speak up, I’ll be destroyed.”
“No one’s going to listen. The government won’t act. Institutions are untouchable.”

That’s the utilitarian calculus they run: “The greater good is keeping the machine running, even if it crushes a generation of children.” And once you accept that logic, you can justify literally anything...slavery, genocide, medical experiments on kids. History proves it.

Here’s the part that hits hardest:

Faith in a higher power is not gameable.
You can lie to yourself. You can lie to your colleagues. You can lie to the public. But you cannot lie to God. You cannot convince an all-knowing Judge that “it wouldn’t have mattered anyway” or “I had to protect my career.”

That internal moral compass - knowing someone is listening to your thoughts - keeps you from crossing lines that pure utilitarianism happily sprints across.

Brett nails it: Science displaced faith in the modern world, but we never replaced what faith actually did, especially when it comes to the heavy moral lifting...

This is why the cover-up continues. Because too many of them have no fear of anything higher than a paycheck, a title, or peer approval.

We are in a spiritual crisis masquerading as a scientific one.

Watch Brett lay this out below 👇—it’s raw, it’s real, and it explains exactly why we can’t wait for the system to fix itself.

Share this far and wide. Our kids deserve adults who still believe some things are more important than self-preservation.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

They’re doing this because more and more people are becoming aware that this company needs to be shut down and everyone involved in it arrested

[Sina @itsdasda]

So many questions

[KJ Dhaliwal @kjdhaliwal]

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[Scarlett Grace @ScarlettGrace92]

There haven’t been this many Canadian flags flying in the streets of Canada since the days of the Freedom Convoy. Thank you, Iranians, for always flying our flag. 🇮🇷🇨🇦

[Kaveh Kavoosi, MD 🧬 @kavehkavoosi]

@danielhangan_ Every damn thing is leveraged for attention.

Then we wonder why the human experience, our sheer efficacy of being a human, is being blunted.

[Timur Kuran @timurkuran]

Iranian-Americans are better educated and richer than the average American. Though they have attachments to their ancestral homeland, these don’t define them, and they don’t play identity politics. They are living proof that the American dream is still alive.

[OnThinIce @OnThinlce]

4batz shares a clip of OVO 40 🦉

[Sina @itsdasda]

@kavehkavoosi The most common place I've seen this is in relationships. Groupthink & distractions enable us to delude ourselves, acting like a double-edged sword.
It helps us keep going in the short-term, but is this the healthy/righteous path?
Surely this prevents reflection and growth.

[Sina @itsdasda]

Your most prized possession today is your attention

[Kaveh Kavoosi, MD 🧬 @kavehkavoosi]

There is a particular way that people are speaking, more & more. It lacks authenticity. I’m seeing it in the ER especially & I notice it more with younger populations.

I theorize that people are not having enough in-person dialogue listening & expressing themselves & therefore resort to the way they see it most often; through social media apps incentivizing inauthentic tonality, cadence & fluctuations for engagement.

The more uncanny, the more a human pays attention.

I feel it’s eroding human basic skills.

[Kaveh Kavoosi, MD 🧬 @kavehkavoosi]

humanity needs to realize:

Your attention is the most powerful & most exploited resource.

What you pay attention to shapes:
A_what you believe,
B_how you feel,
C_what you desire,
D_how you cope.

In a world engineered to hijack your focus for clout, profit, power, or influence—your attention is constantly being pulled away from what actually matters: connection, presence, understanding, and meaningful action.

Reclaiming your attention is an act of resistance, self-preservation, and care for yourself & others.

Reclaim it. Awareness first.