Nah

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Disgusting Zionist monsters

[ParaPower Mapping @KlonnyPin_Gosch]

If CTE was a country

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

The schools that had the most prevalent protests - including Columbia where I work - either suspended or expelled most of the students protesting Israel's genocide of Gaza. One of my former students has a 3 year (!!!) suspension.

Then, the schools enacted rules making protest nearly impossible. And the very people who pressured the schools to do this are now saying "Where are all the protests?".

Idiots.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Apartheid became part of the name of the country, as in, “apartheid South Africa.”

Apartheid Israel should be the same. The word Israel should never be mentioned without the word Apartheid.

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

They’re taking down buildings without warning with people inside all across Beirut, this is devastating, it’s criminal.

This is demonic.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: The United States has fired 2,400 Patriot interceptors in 31 days. It manufactures 650 per year. Replenishment at current production takes three and a half years. It has consumed 40 percent of its global THAAD inventory. It produces fewer than 100 THAAD interceptors annually. Full replenishment takes four to five years. Each interceptor contains neodymium and samarium-cobalt magnets sourced from Chinese-controlled supply chains. The US defence rare earth stockpile has approximately two months remaining.

Read those numbers again. The US military has consumed more precision weapons in one month than it can manufacture in three years, using materials it can only source from the country it may need to fight next.

Every Patriot fired at an Iranian Fattah-2 over Riyadh is a Patriot that does not exist for a Chinese DF-21 over the Taiwan Strait. Every rare earth magnet consumed in Gulf interceptors is a magnet that cannot be installed in a replacement built for the Pacific. The Iran war is not just depleting American arsenals. It is depleting American deterrence against China. And the country counting the interceptors from both sides of the table, as supplier and as future adversary, is the same country hosting peace talks in Beijing right now.

China controls 90 percent of rare earth refining. China produces 90 percent of the world’s high-performance magnets. China buys 80 to 91 percent of Iran’s oil exports. China provides BeiDou navigation and ammonium perchlorate propellant to the Iranian missiles that are forcing the US to burn through its interceptor stockpile. China is simultaneously the supplier of the weapons America is using, the supplier of the weapons Iran is using, the primary customer of the oil the war is disrupting, and the only country with the leverage to end the disruption.

The arithmetic of the grand bargain is not complicated. The US needs Chinese rare earths to rebuild its interceptor inventory. China needs Hormuz open to receive Iranian oil. The US needs the war to end before its stockpiles hit zero. China needs tariff relief, semiconductor export control rollbacks, and Taiwan arms-sale restraint. Both sides need something only the other can provide. The question is not whether a deal happens. The question is how much of America’s strategic position in the Pacific gets traded for the minerals needed to survive the Gulf.

RAND estimated that 78 percent of US defence contractors would face production shutdowns within 90 days of a Chinese rare earth cutoff. The 2027 deadline to ban Chinese-sourced magnets from Pentagon procurement is nine months away with no domestic alternative at scale. MP Materials operates the only US rare earth mine and ships its concentrate to China for processing. The mine-to-magnet supply chain that the Pentagon needs to survive a Taiwan contingency runs through the country the Taiwan contingency is designed to deter.

This is not a supply chain problem. This is a civilisational dependency. The United States built the most advanced military in human history on materials processed by its principal strategic competitor. It is now fighting a war that burns through those materials at a rate that makes replenishment impossible without the competitor’s cooperation. And the competitor is sitting in a conference room in Beijing today, across the table from Pakistan’s foreign minister, calculating exactly how much of America’s future it can extract in exchange for the minerals America needs to have a future at all.

The deal of the century is not a choice. It is arithmetic. And the arithmetic leads to Beijing.

https://t.co/dAOBBMrIOk

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

my response to Mayor Mamdani, the reporters calling me, etc.

[Andrew Lokenauth @FluentInFinance]

Median family income in the US increased from $10,000 in 1971 to $106,000 today, a 10x increase.

However, the median cost of homes increased from $25,000 to $445,000, a 17x increase.

And the median cost of cars increased from $3,600 to $50,000, a 14x increase.

The median cost of college increased from $2,900 a year to $45,000, a 16x increase.

And the average cost of healthcare per person increased from $350 to $14,600, a 42x increase.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Cuba's fuel crisis is getting worse. Surgeries postponed. Universities closed. Public transport gone. Blackouts lasting hours. AJ+ reports on the human cost of Trump's sanctions.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.

What they found should concern every single person reading this.

ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.

Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.

The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.

Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.

It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.

Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.

The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.

MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.

The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

There are few things more dangerous to humanity than billionaire ownership of our media.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

How fucking hard would it be for Mamdani and Polanski and all those trading on their anti-war credentials to say "now isn't the time to talk about the internal politics of a country which has just been illegally attacked and is now being carpet bombed." Too hard, obviously

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I went out this morning with a truck loaded with fresh water to one of the camps, carrying more than 3,000 liters of water to distribute to the families there. This camp rarely receives water trucks, and this was the first one to reach them after more than two full weeks without any water.

As soon as I stepped down from the truck and we began preparing for the distribution, people started gathering very quickly. Within minutes, the place was full of women, children, and elderly people. Everyone was holding empty jerrycans, hoping for a chance to fill them. The scene was very painful everyone was afraid the water would run out before their turn came.

Because of the intense thirst and desperate need, some arguments and small fights broke out among people trying to get closer to the truck to receive water. It was a very difficult moment, because everyone here is truly suffering from thirst, and every family is simply trying to get enough water to survive for a short time.

We managed to distribute more than 3,000 liters of water, but even that was not enough for everyone. Many people were still standing with their empty containers, waiting and hoping for even a little water, but in the end many had to return home with their containers still empty.

When I spoke with some of the families, they told me that water almost never reaches this camp, and that many of them are forced to drink unclean water that causes illnesses, especially for children.

What is even more painful is that this is not just one area. Gaza City is suffering from a severe water crisis. Many water wells have been destroyed, and there is no fuel to operate the remaining pumping stations.

[Manolo De Los Santos @manolo_realengo]

Cuba is in the dark. A massive blackout has hit millions in all of Havana and provinces to the east. Let there be no confusion: this is not an accident. Trump’s fuel blockade is a deliberate act of economic warfare, designed to strangle the island. This is the consequence.

[Clint Russell @LibertyLockPod]

You occasionally get a moment that symbolizes everything wrong with this country. In this case it's a U.S. Marine veteran screaming out that no one wants to fight for Israel and a U.S. Senator breaking his arm. A perfect encapsulation of US foreign policy.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

This is what the US of Israel does every time. We do an obvious war crime— kill an American journalist, bomb a hospital etc—and then claim we’re “investigating” while barring the UN or any other independent investigation, until 3 years later they admit wrongdoing after everyone has moved on.

Pointing this out in 2024 got you labeled an antisemite.

[SARA 𓂆 @ZaqoutMe]

When you see that merely halting Qatar’s liquefied natural gas exports caused gas prices in Europe to rise by 50% and triggered a global crisis, you realize that the war of genocide could have been stopped after Oct 7 simply if Arab leaders had signaled a halt to oil exports.

But it is Arab inaction.

[Nah @jahnohhey]

Having more left candidates in office and some momentum (!!!!) presents particular challenges that the left imo is unfamiliar with. As the hausa proverb says, when the music changes so does the dance.

[Nah @jahnohhey]

@briebriejoy really enjoyed your interview with @cmkshama on the pit falls that the left is facing. Didn't agree with everything though, and I think having a friendly debate/discussion about these questions, specifically Zohran's path in NYC would be really good

[Karim Franceschi @karimfranceschi]

The CNN report feels completely detached from reality. The premise of the CIA "arming" Iranian Kurdish groups ignores the fact that these factions— like PJAK and the KDPI — are already well-established militant organizations with their own significant arsenals.

This raises a glaring question: if the existing groups are already armed, who is the intended recipient? Kurdish civilians? Furthermore, the "leak" itself is a massive red flag. An operation of this magnitude would require total OpSec;

The idea that the CIA would hand this story to the press just days before a supposed uprising reeks of a setup. It doesn’t look like journalism; it looks like a tactic to put Kurdish "sleeper armed units" in the crosshairs. By broadcasting these claims, they trigger immediate, heavy-handed repressive measures from the regime. This puts the units under immense pressure, forcing them to either move prematurely or get crushed in the crackdown.