Curious_Seeker,MD

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[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

You cannot write a better storyline.

20-year-old Lionel Messi giving a 5-month-old baby a bath in 2007 - the two met for a charity photoshoot organized by UNICEF.

That baby grew up to be Lamine Yamal.

Messi 🇦🇷 and Yamal 🇪🇸 will compete for FIFA World Cup 2026 championship.

[Eva Galán @clariateka]

Cuando tu jefe te dice: "Estamos todos en el mismo barco"

[Jewish Voice for Peace @jvplive]

A Jewish state can never be democratic. Zionism is a political ideology that envisions the establishment of an ethnostate where Jews have more rights than Palestinians. This racist and violent ideology has always used the same blueprint. First, destroy the land and ethnically cleanse the people who live there. Then, colonize it and erase all traces of a Palestinian presence.

The goal remains the same: To gain as much territory for the Israeli state, with as few Palestinians or Arabs on it, as possible.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.

I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.

I was looking for my family.

My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.

I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.

I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.

Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.

It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.

The realization stayed with me.

Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.

I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.

It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The @WSJ reports on physical and sexual abuse of Palestinians inside Israeli prisons, including a named prisoner saying that he was raped: https://t.co/MNNMbUbTF7 Instead of stonewalling, Israel should a.) investigate, and b.) allow the Red Cross to interview prisoners.

[Evan Calabrese, MD PhD @ecalabr]

Most people (including plenty of radiologists) misunderstand "resolution" in medical imaging, and the recent @midjourney debate hasn't helped. What resolution actually is, why your scanner's limit is set on day one, and the limit set by a Swedish-American named Nyquist 🧵1/10.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Nothing says “indigenous to the Middle East” like using “camel riders” as a slur.

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨HEARTBREAKING : Israeli forces killed Dr. Enas Mahmoud Youssef, along with her child and other members of her family, in a missile strike on their home in Gaza during the ongoing war on the Strip.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Amer Rabee was a 14 year-old American boy from New Jersey. But to the IDF, he was a terrorist. He was accused of throwing rocks, which should not come with a death sentence.

Listen to his father, Mohammed, wiping away tears, sharing how they still have Amer's bedroom unchanged.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

An illuminating report by @JDiamond1, capturing the out-of-control violence by extremist settlers.

[italymystery 🦢👑 #SwanQueen forever🦢👑 @italymystery]

'Don't mention the children'

Written in 2014 by the children’s author, poet and activist Michael Rosen after the Israeli government banned a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

🚨HORRIFIC : An entire family erased.

Four sisters. Four futures erased. On July 10, Israeli forces killed Taqwa, Yaqeen, Ihsan and Iman Shabana, along with their mother and younger brother, in an airstrike on their displacement tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis southern Gaza Strip.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

The situation in the US right now

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit.

Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people ​for mass layoffs.

https://t.co/iMKXjhkzV1

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

Unstoppable tears and a cry choked by simple words: ‘We just want to live.’
In Ad-Dirat, east of Yatta, the occupation didn’t just demolish the walls of a house; they carved an indelible scar into this child’s heart.

[NEJM @NEJM]

Are E-Cigarettes Really Safe?

@NEJMClinician Editor-in-Chief Raja-Elie Abdulnour, MD (@BageLeMage), discusses a population-based study investigating the relation between e-cigarette use and lung cancer risk. Read the key results and comment from Sara Turbow, MD, MPH: https://t.co/h65XlRuCqQ

Visit https://t.co/Cgkwvhdhl8 to discover what else matters this week, including:

🏃 Exercise for Hypertension: What Works Best?
🔬 Colonoscopy vs. FIT for Colorectal Cancer Screening
💨 Oxygen After Cardiac Arrest: Conservative vs. Liberal Strategy
🍷 Alcohol Consumption Remains Common during Pregnancy

[Airway of the Month @AirwayOTM]

The July 2026 Airway of the Month is here! 🫁 (2nd try the first seemed out of order)

The cords are visible. The ETT is…less convinced. 😅

This case shows why laryngoscopy must be optimized not only to see the glottis—but to create a path for tube passage.

🎥 https://t.co/5zZ3xEZaSR⁠�

A glottic view can look “good” and still be poor for tube delivery. 👀

Here, a right-lateral, oblique blade position creates competing angles between the blade, glottis, and ETT.

First optimize the laryngoscopy. Then troubleshoot the tube.

The ETT stops.

That’s feedback—not a challenge to push harder. 🛑

After 1–2 gentle attempts, withdraw and change something meaningful: re-center, suction, rotate, restyle, use a bougie, downsize the ETT, or reset

Repeated pushing can turn a geometry problem into a trauma problem: bleeding, less working space, a contaminated view—and then a “sundowning” epiglottis. 🩸🌅

When the view deteriorates, pause and rebuild the pathway.

July’s airway sequence:

CLEAN → CENTER → ALIGN → PASS → PIVOT 🔄

A view is not a pathway.

Keep pushing airway education forward—just don’t keep pushing the ETT. 😉

#DifficultETTpassage #Sundowning #LeadWithSuction #FOAMed

[NEJM @NEJM]

An ICU physician believed letting her father die at home meant comfort, dignity, control, family close by, and the quiet reassurance of hospice. But she didn’t realize what it would require of her family. Read “For Those Left Behind,” a Perspective by Danielle D. DeCourcey, MD, MPH: https://t.co/bFfjGYcn4o

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Some folks criticize @RoKhanna for not arranging his trip through the Israeli authorities. If he wanted to see how members of Congress are treated, that might make sense. But that wasn't his aim. And as he says, his experience is nothing compared to what Palestinians face.

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

Imagine this:

You’re sitting in your living room on land your ancestors have lived on for thousands of years.

Suddenly, an armed settler from Eastern Europe or Brooklyn knocks on your door and tells you to evacuate your home immediately.

His excuse is:

“My God promised me your land 3000 years ago.”

If you resist, the atheist liberals of the West call you a terrorist because his God promised him your home!

So you just sit with your family out in the open, watching the armed settlers demolish your home.

Video from today in the occupied West Bank.