Dr. Jenny Morber

Hunger in Havana: Can the U.S. Cutoff Bring Change to Cuba? | International Crisis Group Cuba is facing its biggest humanitarian crisis and the greatest threat to its political status quo in decades, after the U.S. clamped down on its energy supply. In this Q&A, Crisis Group explains the ...

Is Marco Rubio literally going to starve the people of Cuba while everybody is paying attention to Iran? www.crisisgroup.org/qna/latin-am...

A photo of a blue Global X plane seen from a distance with a bus and five white vans in front of it.

FORTY-SEVEN NEIGHBORS shackled and loaded onto this Global X ICE flight today at Baltimore’s BWI.

There are four ICE flights a week now taking our Maryland neighbors to detention centers down South.

I Sat in Silence for 240 Hours. My Anxiety Has Never Been the Same Since One chronically overstimulated guy headed to a silent meditation retreat to spend ten days tuning into his psyche. That’s when the real noise began.

I enjoyed reading this tonight instead of whatever terrible news is happening.

www.menshealth.com/uk/mental-st...

Imagine spending your life building these networks and funding mechanisms and just seeing all that wiped out in, what, 14 months?

I'll be thinking about that for a long time. Build sustainable programs folks. No idea how....

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

"Instead of relaxing in the sunshine, Mettee told NBC News on Monday, they had “seen and heard a lot of rockets,”
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Her 16-year-old son was “holding it together,” she said, adding, “He’s so cool, calm, and collected.”

LOL. Girl, he DOES NOT care that you might be gone for "10,12,14 days."

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.

Photo: IRNA

Satellite images provide view inside Iran at war Satellite images from commercial companies show the extent of U.S. and Israeli strikes, and how Iran is responding.

Commercial satellite images are providing a unique look at the extent of damage being done to Iran's military facilities across the country.
@npr.org's @gbrumfiel.bsky.social
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Me: I like all types of music
Friend: No you don't! You don't like...death metal.
Me: Hell yeah, I do.

Closet metalheads, I see you.

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this one fucked me up so much. guy turns his life around after a drug conviction, becomes a happy, beloved, pet rescuing houseboat dad who undersells his mechanic services so poor folks can afford them. ICE grabs him one day out of the hospital for heart problems which then kill him. horrifying

We voted for this in my state, but the feds won't approve it.

My kid has eczema. Doesn't look like that.

Sammeee

Microbe Challenge Our Fourth annual Museum of Beadwork Challenge is open to submissions until May 1st, 2026.This challenge is once again being co-sponsored by Miyuki Co., Ltd. and Caravan Beads and being joined by The ...

For the beautiful people who make #sciart #art #microbes

www.museumofbeadwork.org/pages/microb...

Political storm in Wyoming as far-right activist caught handing checks to lawmakers Photograph shows conservative activist handing slip to Darin McCann and Marlene Brady holding a similar paper

meanwhile, in Wyoming

Every time Western allies justify Donald Trumps breaches of international law, they pave the way for him to do it again, further sending the global system into a downward spiral.

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

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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

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