Dr. Jenny Morber

How I feel, every day.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Literally

International law — here the UN Charter, the prohibition on the use of force against other states with the narrowest of exceptions — is enforced through the outrage of other states.

It is how the world responds to violations that will determine whether these rules continue to stand.

Me: Sleeping in on a Saturday.

Child: Enters room. Did you see the news? We are at war with Iran?

Me: Why?

Child: Regime change? Apparently bombed a school of girls.

I mean.

“for all intents and purposes, we live under an elected (for now) monarch who makes tax, spending, and war decisions on his own by executive fiat and completely disregards Congress because he feels confident that no one will hold him to account.”

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Whoop whoop

apnews.com/article/henr...

My god, can you imagine how amazing things would be today if a cabal of foreign agents, working together with the world's corporate oligarchs worked for the last three decades to bolster human rights, democracy, and protect girls vulnerable to exploitation, instead of the opposite?

Brazil revokes decree privatizing three Amazonian rivers after Indigenous protests Brazil has revoked a presidential decree that placed sections of three Amazonian rivers — the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins — under a state-led privatization program. Indigenous groups had protested…

Brazil revoked a plan to privatize parts of the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins after Indigenous protests.

Following a 33-day blockade of Cargill’s Santarém port, the government scrapped the grain export initiative.

Hegseth believes he's in a Salem Witch Trials period piece

Vegetarians have ‘substantially lower risk’ of five types of cancer Study shows lower risk for multiple myeloma as well as pancreatic, prostate, breast and kidney cancers

🧪 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is the front cover of the new edition of @thelancet.com (thanks to @profstevegriffin.bsky.social for sharing) #HealthPolicy #Science 🧪🧵

Gigantic Form Energy battery to power Google data center in Minnesota The startup has struck a deal with Xcel Energy to build a 30 gigawatt-hour battery plant that will deliver clean energy, round the clock, to a Google…

NEW: Google will pay Minnesota’s Xcel Energy to build tons of wind and solar generation — and the power produced will be stored in Form Energy batteries.

oh my god

How community solar turned a Superfund site into savings in Illinois A new 9.1-MW solar array will help residents of Waukegan, Illinois, reduce energy bills. State incentives for low-income solar made the project possible.

"Now, Amador has become an evangelist for something that can provide a modest measure of relief: a community solar project, built on a Superfund site too polluted for much else...

From @canarymedia.com

www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

In Karen Joy Fowler’s foreward to Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed:

“Without a serious, insistent recommitment to the idea that no man is above the law, we will soon see [the US] experiment end.” 👀

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

Anthropic says of Hegseth demands: “we cannot in good conscience accede to their request.”

www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

A 65 year old legally blind and disabled woman says she has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can’t afford enough food under the Trump administration.

“Like the previous caller said, the end is coming near, and it couldn’t be any more true than for me.”

Heartbreaking

Yes. Thank you, @theoatmeal.bsky.social. It's about time someone created something new, worthy of the naked mole rat. It's been a minute since The Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, and this take is both scientifically accurate and appropriately deranged.

theoatmeal.com/comics/naked...

Hey remember this

How did the aliens get bank accounts, John?

Or are aliens the true founders of crypto?

Woman Says Catholic Hospital Canceled Sterilization Surgery to ‘Protect Her Sacred Fertility’ The Tennessee woman said she was already waiting in pre-op with an IV in her arm when she was given the news.

The Tennessee woman said she was already waiting in pre-op with an IV in her arm when she was given the news.
www.jezebel.com/woman-says-c...

Lovely! Things I noted: the unique perspective, deep layered saturated color, movement, joyous emotion evocative of my own happy memories. This is a good thing on the internet today. Thank you.

I’m still reporting on how immigration officials detain U.S. citizens. Send me tips Nicole.foy@propublica.org or signal nicolefoy.27 www.propublica.org/people/nicol...

Ohhh I love this. Did you make this?

We don't deserve dogs

This Looks Like an Insider Bet on Aliens Someone just put a lot of money on ET.

Is it finally happening???

(If we discover aliens before we get a woman President....)

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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