Two of Israel's leading human rights groups - B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights - come out with reports acknowledging Israel is committing a genocide. This on the heels of Palestinian and international organizations saying the same
1/ THE SINKING OF MOSKVA, PART 2: The sinking of the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship on 13-14 April 2022 was the greatest loss for the Russian Navy since World War II. The father of one of the dead sailors has published an inside account of how it happened. ⬇️
1/ A detailed inside account of the sinking of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva has been published. It describes how the ship was overwhelmed with fire and smoke, safety systems failed, interior structures collapsed and crewmen jumped out through portholes to save themselves.⬇️
8/ The soldiers are exhausted and fed up with the war, and the rate of desertions is so high that few are allowed to go on leave. "There are people who have been serving since 2022."
An outright lie. Autism rates have risen but diagnosis is more widespread and has wider definition. Not a single respectable study shows any link with MMR. The Wakefield study, which claimed there was, involved 12 (!) kids and is universally decried as fraudulent. Proper studies in Japan, Denmark, Britain and US show no link between autism rates and vaccine rates. When Japan suspended MMR for over a decade autism rates continued to rise. Stop spreading lies.
In New England, especially Massachusetts, we call milkshakes frappes and we suck them from a straw in the Winter. They can pry my frappe from my cold, dead hands.
Don’t eat soup in “public” is particularly wild to me because it implies that soup is indeed effeminate but too irresistible. Therefore you are allowed to eat it in private ONLY
An update on the war following a recent trip. The situation has improved compared with Fall 2024. Russian offensive momentum slowed significantly over the winter, though it is premature to claim that the front has stabilized, especially following AFU withdrawal in Kursk. /1
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski: "A classic Soviet diplomacy. Russia threatens us with retaliation for withdrawing from anti-personnel mines convention, to which it itself is not a party."
Wow – Meta got a legal order gagging the whistleblower Sarah Wynn Williams, who provided the SEC with documentation that Zuckerberg lied to Congress about Meta's coordination with China
👀 The DOGE team at the Social Security Administration is one of the largest I've seen to date with the most extensive access to sensitive systems. https://t.co/qspBV5LPPK
This isn’t just historic in a post-Assad context. It’s historic in modern Syrian history since WWI and the fall of the Ottoman Empire. For the first time, a Kurdish figure has come to Damascus and been recognized by the head of state. Syria’s Kurds will gain their rights including using and teaching their language, which were banned for decades under Assad.
Me: Hen breeders and egg producers appear to be purposefully throttling the recovery of hen flocks from avian flu and refusing to expand output in a bid to keep egg prices high
Neolibs: The high egg prices are just the cost we have to pay to induce selfless egg producers to expand production!
We are witnessing the greatest assault on campus free speech in decades--and many of the centrist/center-right commentators who once raged about "cancel culture" are completely silent