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[they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza]

The AMOC has reliably transported heat from the equator to the North Atlantic for the past 12,000 years, and sporadically for a lot longer than that. It’s the reason Europe is warmer than its latitude would suggest. Its collapse would be an irreversible ramping up of planetary climate chaos—a paradoxical deep freeze on a warming planet, with New England and especially Europe getting much colder temperatures and higher sea levels (in fact sea levels near me are already elevated from AMOC weakening). Like the date of its collapse, the overall effects are not fully known, but the AMOC has global impacts, regulating weather systems that feed billions. This isn’t just one more thing we’ll have to learn to live with; it would be calamity, a tipping-point-of-no-return that will split human history in two.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The U.S. has killed more than 200 people in over 60 strikes on boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, claiming without evidence that the boats were engaged in narcotrafficking. Amanda Klasing (@AMKlasing) of @amnestyusa says these are extrajudicial killings that constitute murder. “U.S. taxpayers should be outraged, absolutely outraged, that their money is going to murder as a policy,” says Klasing.

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

I don’t know if anyone will even care about what I’m saying now but the truth is harsher than any person can imagine.

A large number of children in Gaza are being born with shocking deformities: open spine defects, severe heart abnormalities, missing limbs, deformed heads, and faces that look as if they were burned inside the womb. They come into the world already marked by the war before they even take their first breath.

Mothers have been inhaling rocket gases and toxic smoke for months, drinking water contaminated with explosives residue, and living on soil saturated with toxins.

I saw photos and videos myself of children in extremely difficult conditions unbearable to look at. Babies screaming in pain during their first hours of life, their tiny bodies horribly deformed. Doctors say they have never seen such cases in their entire lives, and they warn: “These deformities are unprecedented and will increase because of the pollution.”

Here, we don’t just suffer from hunger and epidemics we are giving birth to an entire broken generation from the moment they are born. We live inside a giant prison, deprived of medicine, clean food, electricity, and even the basic right to have healthy children.

[kathleen @kmcginger]

If this was in the hunger games people would say it’s too cruel

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Habiba Nabisubi.

[aly! ଘ(*. .)੭ @theblessedbhie]

i don't think some people realize that they won't have a future to plan or worry about if they don't focus on what's happening to the world at this very moment.

respectfully, please get out of your bubble.

[🌋 @hum_dunkin]

What's happened in Lebanon over the past week is categorically worse than Oct 7 and if you say this most people will, at best, shrug or look at you like you're speaking another language

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

What a haunting image from Lebanon after Israeli strikes

[rome @romeramreem]

In my mind, Lebanon is grandiose, but Lebanon is tiny. Smaller than the state of Connecticut, and it just had to absorb 160 Israeli bombs in 10 minutes

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️🇺🇸🇱🇧Lebanese American Mia Khalifa (@miakhalifa) breaks down in tears following Israel bombing Lebanon:

“We’ve watched a genocide play out before our eyes for decades but even more so in the last 3, 4 years.

160 airstrikes in 10 minutes on residential buildings, on schools, on hospitals, on civilian infrastructure, on cemeteries with funeral processions, in the midst of a ceasefire.

I don't know how to reconcile my tax dollars doing this to my homeland.

[Habib Battah @habib_b]

No rockets were launched from Beirut, so Israel’s attacks on the city are explicitly aimed at spreading terror and chaos. Israel’s attacks on residential areas should be called by their name: terrorism.

[R @jhumkawali]

250 deaths and 1000 injuries in lebanon just today.....and this isn't breaking headlines...how???? i hate the narrative that if this happened in new york city the world would be at its knees but really, it really doesn't matter to anyone unless it's white people being killed

[kathleen @kmcginger]

People really just be saying anything. Losing my mind at the multiple outlandish claims being made here. As if pumped up kicks wasn’t anthemic for YEARS

[doomer @uncledoomer]

its crazy that for millenials this was just a mid throwaway indie pop one hit wonder amidst hundreds of others during a golden age of indie music destined to be forgotten, but has recently been rediscovered because music right now is just that fucking bad

[yazan𓂆 @yazanomarrr]

My friend told me something shocking… He said that anyone who survives Gaza and goes abroad, even with advanced medical tests, discovers cancer in their body. The number is staggering, countless people, and every day new strange diseases appear… Here in Gaza, these rare illnesses, never seen by doctors before, keep emerging without explanation, with no proper testing equipment and no treatment available.

How is this even possible? How can we live amid the destruction and siege, watching our bodies deteriorate with no way to understand or confront the damage? Here, we have no tests, no treatment, as if we are living experiments left to collapse.

The weapons dropped on us do not just kill immediately they leave survivors suffering for life. Advanced missiles, destructive munitions, everything is used against us without mercy, as if our lives mean nothing. Those who survive the bombing… will never truly survive the diseases that follow.

It is truly shocking and bewildering… We are in the largest human testing ground on Earth. Children grow up amid fear and pain, our bodies break down relentlessly, and the whole world ignores us as if we don’t exist.

Each day, our sense of helplessness grows, and every day brings a new shock at the scale of the damage that is almost impossible to believe.

[Damon Linker @DamonLinker]

This is the perfect illustration of why I hate this stupid, playground taunt of a slogan. It was sociopathic to threaten to wipe out a civilization. It's GOOD it ended up (for now) being only bluster. Trump shouldn't be mocked or goaded into proving he didn't "chicken out."

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

I simply think that no American President and in fact no human being at all should ever have the capacity to destroy civilization and it is sheer madness that we exist in a world where this is possible even when that isn’t foremost in our minds and headlines

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

Remember the American government can send a rocket to the moon and finance three wars simultaneously, and apparently an inevitable nuclear apocalypse, but it can’t afford day care, social security or a functioning healthcare system….

[yc @yc]

So does the 25th amendment stuff go away now? Is he suddenly sane enough for everyone in congress? Lol

[leila @ainiladra]

it will never not burn the heart, the suddenness with which the usa-zionists can just massacre hundreds in minutes ... their satanic bloodlust remains horrifying