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[Rob. @Robsitoo]

me da vergüenza vivir en un mundo en el que esta gente puede admitir abiertamente que esta causando un holocausto y que no les pase nada

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

May we all live long enough to see Afghan women taking revenge against the Taliban and everyone else who was involved in their suffering.

[zee 𓇢𓆸 @holdyourhurt]

this is the best she’s ever sounded. ON. OPENING. NIGHT.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Netanyahu is actually hitler but people don’t care since his crimes ain’t against white people

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

WE ARE LITERALLY WITNESSING AN ETHIC CLEANSING AND ANOTHER HOLOCAUST LIVE

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Just days after scientists found that bee venom can kill cancer cells, the Trump administration is set to close the nation’s primary bee research laboratory.

[YFK 友 @YourFriendKyle_]

Just watched this last night. Didn't think I would find it to be as good or unsettling as everyone else did. I was wrong. This movie is fucking insane lol

[S @even_steven8tht]

This is so insane. A evil genocidal country went and illegally kidnapped peaceful protesters on international waters and now they are parading them around like cattle and NOT A SINGLE major news network is covering it.

[Dyylas @DylanDyylas]

a lot harder to brainwash people when everyone has access to all the footage and news of you slaughtering innocent children like animals you rotten fuck

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Her story needs to be taught just like Anne Franks was

[Abier @abierkhatib]

I love seeing Jews go up against Zionists and rip apart their whole argument in just a few minutes.

[Globethotter 🌍 @BrianMcLight]

This is insane. And exactly what all of the wealthy people and corporations were terrified of. A politician proving you can enhance the quality of life for your constituents, by not taking away from the working class, rather taxing the rich.

See how socialistic views aren’t bad?

[ShibaDad8 @shibadad8]

If the Democratic Party was anything close to Zohran, we would be in for generational change in this country.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The kind of quote that used to end political careers

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

One of the most horrifying and brutal scenes ever captured on camera in modern history.

Israeli soldiers opened fire on thousands of starving Palestinians in Gaza as they ran in desperation trying to get a piece of food during the war on Gaza.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Emma Chamberlain Access @EmmaAccess]

Emma Chamberlain photographed by Sinna Nasseri inside the Met Gala.

[talia @taliasbonnin]

Put me unmedicated in a room with RFK Jr. for 30 mins and he’ll come out saying we need Lexapro in the drinking water

[𝚂 °.🥥⋆❀˖°🏝️ @ERAOFMONE]

THE DETAILS WHEW.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This takes courage…

The Strokes closed their Coachella set flashing images of the governments the CIA has overthrown, the leaders the US has assassinated including MLK 👀, the war crimes the US is committing in Iran, and the genocide Israel is committing in occupied Palestine.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.