@ninanaidu.bsky.social
mother, plastic & reconstructive surgeon, anokha®
Happy Presidents' Day. No, not him.
16.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 1391 🔁 124 💬 27 📌 8To be very clear: if bringing down the largest child abuse ring in history will “collapse the world as we know it” then the world as we know it needs to collapse.
11.02.2026 18:07 — 👍 52 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0
Researchers say they’ve identified the “battery” that powers at least one kind of aurora—aurora arcs
09.02.2026 21:56 — 👍 1347 🔁 268 💬 10 📌 7
08.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 8992 🔁 2291 💬 184 📌 124
🇸🇩 BREAKING | A new report from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab finds that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are operating at least two loitering-munition drone launch sites in RSF-controlled Nyala, sharply expanding their long-range strike capability and raising severe risks for civilians. Using satellite imagery from January–February 2026, Yale researchers identified at least 85 objects consistent with “suicide drones” across two locations. Around 40 loitering munitions were observed near Nyala airport as of February 4, at a site previously linked to RSF drone operations in 2025. A second, newly identified launch site roughly 2.5 km east of the former UNAMID Sector South headquarters held at least 51 loitering munitions with launch platforms in early January, which were removed by January 22, suggesting active deployment. The drones match Shahed-136–style systems, including Chinese and Iranian variants with estimated strike ranges of 1,500–2,500 km. Yale also identified a mobile anti-aircraft system near the new launch site, indicating efforts to protect the drone infrastructure. The findings come amid a surge in reported RSF drone attacks across Sudan in January, including strikes on markets, neighborhoods, and military targets in Kordofan, Gezira, Sennar, and the White Nile. While not all attacks can be conclusively linked to the Nyala drones, Yale warns that RSF’s expanding loitering-munition capacity carries “significant implications for human security,” given its documented pattern of attacks on civilian infrastructure. The report underscores the accelerating drone arms race between RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces as the war nears its 3-year mark.
See new posts Conversation Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH 🚨NEW REPORT 🚨 Yale HRL identifies 51 suicide drones (loitering munitions) at a new launch point near Nyala in January 40 loitering munitions are visible in 4 February 2026 satellite imagery at previous Nyala airport launch site #KeepEyesOnSudan 🛰️ @Vantortech https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/publications/reports/
🇸🇩 A new report from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab finds that Sudan’s RSF are operating at least 2 loitering-munition drone launch sites in RSF-controlled Nyala, sharply expanding their long-range strike capability & raising severe risks for civilians.
Using satellite imagery from Jan.–Feb...
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
06.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 45650 🔁 11802 💬 637 📌 591
04.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 10 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Utterly ridiculous that there are like five different canonical groundhogs. Either there should be one, housed in a temple of graven idols in Washington DC and propitiated with sacred offerings, or you should just have to go out into the woods and find your own.
02.02.2026 23:45 — 👍 215 🔁 21 💬 12 📌 9Peter Mandelson embroiled in scandal on Groundhog Day. Apt.
02.02.2026 21:05 — 👍 1150 🔁 122 💬 13 📌 10
"On top of their medical duties, the trio feel like they are fighting an information war, practically begging for American news organizations to discuss that our tax dollars are contributing to the genocide they’re witnessing."
www.rogerebert.com/festivals/su...
30.01.2026 18:33 — 👍 6831 🔁 2061 💬 123 📌 96
"To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable."
-- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
What ICE is doing on US streets looks terrifying, but don’t forget: it could happen anywhere | Nesrine Malik
19.01.2026 07:26 — 👍 316 🔁 125 💬 29 📌 20
DHS Shooting Victim in Minneapolis Was a ‘Sweet’ and ‘Principled Person’
Zeteo spoke with two doctors who worked with Alex Pretti, a nurse who is the latest victim of Trump’s violent invasion of Minnesota.
Read now: zeteo.com/p/dhs-shooti...
On this day in 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell received her medical degree from the Medical College of Geneva, New York, making her the first woman in the United States to receive a medical degree. Her Feb. 3 birthday now celebrated each year as National Women Physicians Day.
Image: Harvard University.
It has been one year since the Trump administration issued a series of executive actions that upended global health and humanitarian programs around the world.
Facing the fallout from 2025: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/how-u...
George Orwell "They will have tyranny and they will call it justice, lies and they call it truth, war and they call it peace."
2026 Donald Trump - 'Peace Board'
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
On the 17th of January, 1961, the US, UK and Belgium assassinated Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the Republic of Congo, because he sought to restore national control over the country's mineral reserves. Remember Lumumba!
18.01.2026 16:43 — 👍 587 🔁 246 💬 7 📌 10
America’s Fascism Didn’t Start with Donald Trump
c4ss.org/content/60516
#socialistsunday
Boot
"For science and medicine to prosper and deliver on their potential, medical leaders must not become creatures of the state."
@kamranabbasi.bsky.social in our latest Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
When Trump uses ancient law against people in Minnesota, we remember a great woman's quote: “What presents itself to us as bourgeois legality is nothing but the violence of the ruling class, a violence raised to an obligatory norm from the outset.”
― Rosa Luxemburg (murdered Berlin 15 January 1919)
[FR] 🚨 Nouveau podcast : Retour de Goma, la vie sous occupation 🚨
🗣️ De retour de RDC, François Calas et Rony Brauman décrivent le quotidien des populations et des travailleurs humanitaires vivant sous l'autorité du M23.
👉 Retrouvez le Debrief sur notre site : msf-crash.org/fr/podcasts/...
"There comes a time when silence is betrayal"
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cover of The Lancet's Jan 10, 2026 issue. Quote on cover reads "African communities hold a wealth of knowledge from empirical lived experiences that remains untapped in addressing the growing threats of climate change and building context-specific resilience."
The growing climate change-related health risks that are facing Africa demand urgent action.
@lancetcountdown.bsky.social is launching a new initiative in Africa to strengthen regional capacity to track & monitor progress on health & climate change.
Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/yca66tev
To call it any semblance of a ceasefire is embarrassing
13.01.2026 13:26 — 👍 38 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0
via the exceptional Chris Hedges:
The Machinery of Terror
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
