If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.
Harvard is only just putting together a testing center for accommodations? That sounds like incredible administrative incompetence—my 3000-student college had a few rooms set aside in the basement of the library for testing.
This is madness. I wrote about "peptides" a few years ago, before the trend really hit. People are injecting themselves with black-market liquids purported to contain experimental drugs that were abandoned for failing to show benefits or being unsafe.
gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-tells...
Being able to hold two facts in mind is crucial. Israel shouldn’t have made their rail system dependent on contested territory but they sure did and any peace plan has to deal with that. The same is true of several hundred thousand settlers—they shouldn’t be there! But they are so now what.
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
“Would legal marijuana have saved the Soviet budget?” a question no one is asking because it’s very silly but which I do kind of want to know the answer to.
ok I would definitely watch baseball if each team got one (1) animal to let loose during the game. when will you use your animal delay. what animal will you choose
(One reason we know that unionization has been of massive benefit to both teachers and schools is that there is an educational sector that is mostly NOT unionized - charter schools - and the jobs in them are dismal, while their educational performance mostly ranges from mediocre to bad.)
Also, of course, we shouldn't exaggerate the damage these spectacular failures do to international law in general. No nation state is going to say "Trump's actions in Iran show that international law is dead, so screw you and screw your General Agreement on Commercial Telecomms Standards".
International law is a charming delusion popular for less than 300 years and reliably enforced for less than a 100; a fragile, sickly newborn of a norm. Recognizing this doesn’t make continuing the delusion any less important—int’l law will only BECOME real if we keep acting like it is.
ive said this before but i do think second-age eregion would be an incredible ttrpg setting. you got government by a junta of magic smiths, pro-galadriel jacobites, some neo-feanorians out causing trouble, probably a bunch of sindar really embittered by the loss of doriath, etc
Maya figure of a lord, 550-950 CE, from the Jaina region in Campeche, known for its rich artistic output, particularly the creation of finely crafted figurines that depict royalty, deities, and individuals in ceremonial contexts. An excellent representation of the Maya artistic styles.
A well-preserved Roman leather shoe with elaborate cutout patterns. The design features a high ankle and open section
An adorable #Roman shoe, made for a #baby too young to walk. The shoe imitates the footwear of Roman soldiers (caligae). The cut-out design would have shown off the kid’s socks!
From Bordeaux, dating 1st/2nd AD.
📷 Bordeaux, Musée d’Aquitaine
🏺 #archaeology
Even liberal Jewish voices end up supporting an illegal status quo because removing the IDF from the West Bank WOULD probably lead to Jewish deaths. The fact that the settlers clearly know this and are exploiting it to act with impunity doesn’t stop the trauma and guilt from working.
The fact that bellicose settlers cannot be physically dragged back within the internationally recognized borders of Israel and as long as they’re in Syria/East Jerusalem/the West Bank they’re another mass casualty event waiting to happen does seem to drive a lot of fears.
The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
“Allies shouldn’t act like that and if they won’t stop they shouldn’t be our allies” is consistently the median American view. Naïve but consistent. Israel is getting the brunt of the scrutiny due to social media/anti-semitism but we very much did cut off Saudi arms sales for a while over Yemen.
Only 21% of Americans supported selling arms to Saudi Arabia in 2021 58% are in favor of stronger consequences for the Saudi crimes that HAVE made the US news (Kashoggi’s murder).
Even the argument that the Israeli gov will react to any drawdown of support with violent backlash and quixotic escalation against their neighbors (very possible!) raises the question of “okay, so do we just go on like this forever?” Better to get the ugly over with now.
Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.
Danish Defense Minister: Continue.
Migrant workers in the Gulf states live in extremely precarious situations and will not have and will even be refused the resources to protect themselves and be able to leave.
On this Disability Day of Mourning, let’s honor Wael Tarabishi, a disabled man who died when ICE took his caregiver away.
Wael told them he would die without his father who was his “arms, legs & lungs”.
ICE took him anyways.
Wael died 3 months later:
www.disabledginger.com/p/ice-took-w...
![A bar of Ghirardelli 128% Super Fucking Dark chocolate: "the abscence [sic] of time and space"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreibecwr5tfr4razvvr46hkem6swo55psshk7afw74z62g32vianpce@jpeg)
A bar of Ghirardelli 128% Super Fucking Dark chocolate: "the abscence [sic] of time and space"
Relaxed sanctions in this instance would help people (there are specific medicines that ARE being held up by overzealous self-enforcement of sanctions and people suffer for it) and destroy Iranian government credibility (since they wouldn’t be able to blame shortages on sanctions anymore).
For example, Iran has been facing major medical shortages, only ~20% of which are a result of US sanctions, the rest is likely mismanagement and graft. But because the sanctions exist it’s been easier for them to avoid accountability from their own people for it.
Serious answer: Magnitsky style sanctions on high level politicians and oligarchs are probably the best bet. There’s not a lot of evidence broader sanctions do anything and they give sanctioned governments a built-in excuse anytime something goes wrong.
Trump 1.0 refused, in violation of Roe v Wade, to let a pregnant teen leave a Texas detention facility to get an abortion.
Now that Roe is overturned, Trump 2.0 can just do this:
Easy way to determine whether someone is a bloodthirsty hack or not is to ask them how Ahmadinejad was a military target
