Tarek Loubani

Cats and Football. Opinions my own.

[Nora Barrows-Friedman @norabf]

Bay Area! Join me and some spectacular speakers (Alanna Hadid, @trklou, Lara Kiswani, Quentin Quarantino, Bridget Rochios) to raise funds for Glia’s healthcare projects in Palestine! May 30th, 12-5pm. Tickets: https://t.co/RXtefDCPDh

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

Happy Birthday Emma, and thank you for the incredible generosity ❤️❤️🎂🎂

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

For my birthday, please consider donating to The Glia Project (link below) 🇵🇸❤️

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

If you're not following Dr. Eveline Hitti, you should be.

[eveline hitti @EvelineHitti]

Bearing witness: the first victim to arrive to our Emergency Department on Wed after Israel’s strikes on residential buildings was a four year old cloaked in dust, made blind by debris that had weaponized and penetrated his eyes.

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

@___RLB___ @majorityfm Thank you for your kind words, my friend. It was a tough interview, and every day is devastating here. Stay strong and keep it up❤️

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

🚨⚡️Newsflash: Protesting with ketchup is still not criminal in Canada and London police are bullies. Crown office takes 16 months, spanking by judge before they figure it out. Genocide and supporting it still is a crime, though, in case any of them are looking for honest work...

[Savards LLP @SavardsLLP]

Media Statement re Tarek Loubani and David Heap

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[Ben Thomson 🇵🇸 (He/Him) @BenNephrology]

Like many humanitarians, I've been confused and disappointed that @MSF chose to release names of Palestine staff to Israeli military authorities.

A brief explanation of relation to medical ethics and the therapeutic misconception

When researchers study marginalized populations In conflict (eg Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine) the informed consent process must have an extra level of care. It is often difficult for potential research participants to differentiate participation in research, from receipt of aid- those who think they need food or water or health care or shelter aid may think that participation in research is compulsory to receive those items. Researchers are required to be extra cautious to differentiate the research and aid goals. This conflict is called " therapeutic misconception."

Getting back to Gaza @MSF staff - similarly, this group of people, like everyone in Gaza , is now being asked by @MSF staff if they are ok with their names being given to authorities of the country that has already killed record numbers of humanitarian workers since October 2023, including murder of Omar Hayek and at least 14 other @MSF Gaza staff.

Two major ethical problems with this request :
1. The local Gaza @MSF staff relies on @MSF to Feed, cloth, shelter their families. They almost certainly CANT differentiate between the request to be identified (and risk being targeted by Israel) versus giving up the literal means to live (food, water, shelter)
2. The commitment for people on Gaza to serve their community members brothers is such an integral part of Palestinian society as to be essentially inseparable. It would be like asking a parent to choose his or her life over the life of their newborn child - an impossible choice and one that one can't be expected to answer without an abundance of feeling coerced.

There are other choices that @MSF could have made
1. Don't give the names to Israel. Work with other NGO/charities/governments to collectively advocate governments/UN/WHO to remove a country committing genocide from being involved at all (to a certain extent this has been done , but not with collective international cooperation as expected/hoped)

2. Promise local staff that their salaries (and ability to feed, cloth and shelter families) won't be in any way impaired (keep paying them) and promise not to ever compromise their safety as egregiously as giving a country that is targeting humanitarian their names.

Confusing in all this is that msf itself has described the therapeutic conception as part of their own research ethics board- I summarized this in 2024with the brilliant Courtland Robinson and Sujay Mehta

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A burrowing owl returned with a twig stuck in its wing, leaving its pals hilariously confused.

[📹 Lydebug]

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

At least this one is exciting after the first 60 seconds.

[Outlander Magazine @StreetFashion01]

Seletti just turned the iconic BIC pen into a wall light😮‍💨

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

Not cool, man. Where's the sportsmanship?

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

GG 🤝

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Broncos-Bills: *Back-and-forth nail biter that came down to the absolute wire in overtime*

Seahawks-49ers:

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

One of those "the gods are angry" types of photos

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Beautiful footage from beneath the waves in the crystal clear water off Oahu, Hawaii, providing a stunning example of patterns of light known as caustics, occurring when light is refracted and reflected from a surface.

📽: Nolan Omura
https://t.co/pjPZjatMah

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

Every Brock Purdy dropback looks like a scene from 28 Years Later

[NFL @NFL]

No looking back after this opener.

(by @DKSportsbook)

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

Are they trolling us?

[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

Final.

[Tarek Loubani @trklou]

Big if true

[Mt. St. Helens @MtStHelensWA]

If the Seahawks don’t win today I’m taking out the west coast

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[nick wright @getnickwright]

Listen… I’ve believed in the Bills all year.

I’ve repeatedly said Josh Allen is the 2nd best QB alive.

I bet the equivalent of a decent, used Honda Civic on Buffalo today.

BUT…

ALL YEAR, I’ve had to listen to how Josh Allen is QB1, arguably the “most talented quarterback ever”, and all of this other objective nonsense… only to see him turn the ball over 4x (including one of the most cartoonish TOs of the season before the half), miss a wide open Kincaid for the win, AND not come thru in OT.

I get that my “smartest” colleagues think it’s passé to wait for someone to actually win something before anointing them, but that was really, really rough.