Ken Miller

Ketanji Jackson issues a stay on the order forcing Trump to fully pay SNAP now? WTF? Here's a good explanation: she's making the best of a bad situation, forcing things to move quickly; if she didn't do it, the rest of the court would have, and would have let everything slow walk thereafter.

And if it is 2AFC -- then is it phenomenologically just the same as blindsight, and the question for both is what that phenomenon means? Or is there something phenomenlogy distinct from blindsight?

So they say they did not see anything, but they can explicitly report where it was, what color it was? What does explicitly mean -- was it a two (or multi) alternative forced choice, as in blindsight? Or you just asked them and they told you??
Thanks --

I'm completely ignorant about this line of research so forgive what is probably a dumb question but: how is this different from other phenomena, like priming, or blindsight, in which a stimulus that does not enter consciousness nonetheless influences subsequent choices?

Israel denying it's limiting aid

Israel to allow 600 aid trucks into Gaza every day: Report

Isn't it amazing that IL was never limiting aid entry, never deliberately inducing hunger/starvation, or denying medical supplies so medical care couldn't function, no drugs, anesthesia/analgesia, proper sterilization; yet when there's a ceasefire Israel can suddenly "allow" 600 trucks/day to enter?

So outrageous. Head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, "detained" by IL since Dec, held w/o charges at ILi torture ctr Sde Tieman, beaten, tortured, held in solitary confinement, starved, lost >40kg (~90 lbs), denied med treatment. They'll eventually claim he's Hamas but if so they'd have charged him.

This is the professor at Rutgers who studies fascism and anti-fascism, got doxxed by some rt-wing group, was getting death threats, and decided to move to Europe.

Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing what comes out of the group --

Graphic of an IDF sniper along with a quote from a sniper: "There's a line that if the Gazans waiting for food cross, I can shoot them. It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different way every time, and I'm there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, 'Take it down, take it down.' I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I've stopped counting Xs. I have no idea how many I killed, a lot. Children."

Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line.

www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...

SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Again & again, the Supreme Mullahs rule that Trump can act unlawfully & unconstitutionally & violate constitutional rights w/o restriction, at least until the courts finish the process of officially resolving the legality of these acts (and S.M.'s may well ultimately decide they're legal).

What Columbia Sacrificed In Its Deal With The Trump Administration Ken Miller

I wrote a substack article:
open.substack.com/pub/youngert...

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

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A $ doesn't go very far, unfortunately: money has to first go through money changers who take a significant %, then it has to buy food on the market at wildly inflated prices. But it seems to be the only way to help other than pushing gov'ts to change. I attach a FAQ from the baby formula group.

North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...

For anyone wanting to contribute to get aid into Gaza: I've been told that Project Sameer is "the gold standard" for this, one of their projects: chuffed.org/project/help...
& a friend tells me this is a trusted source, getting baby formula in: chuffed.org/project/1387...
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“A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres.
"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC.

My understanding is Dem state legislators are afraid to leave the state for 30 days to prevent redistricting because they will incur $15K fines. A wealthy person could offer a gift of $21K ($15K after taxes) to everyone who is fined at a cost, for 50 people, of ~$1M. Is there such a wealthy Dem?

notice: unusual activity, need to change pwd. But w/o account's email, I can't change my pwd, so can't login. Attempts to get xitter support to do something thus far utterly fruitless. I'll keep trying, but not hopeful. I made an account @zzkmzzkm just to read, but no followers so not posting.

By the way, for anyone still on xitter: I stayed on it to read and post about Palestine/Israel/Gaza. It's still where most people living there post, so it's news you can't get anywhere else. But I've been kicked off X since June 12. It looks like someone hacked to change associated email; I got 1/

Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza Health ministry says dozens have died this month as aid agencies warn that even their workers are suffering from malnutrition

link 1: on.ft.com/46iUoK6
link 2: www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...

Twitter thread described in main post.

Graphic showing that there were 68 recorded starvation deaths in Gaza from Oct 7 2023 to July 20 2025, and 43 starvation deaths reported on July 21-23 2025, an enormous acceleration.

Invaluable xitter thread on famine momentum, famine response and the current disastrous state of Gaza from Jeremy Konyndyk, President of Refugees Intl and former lead for COVID (46) & disaster relief (44) @USAID: x.com/JeremyKonynd.... Note the alarming increase in starvation deaths; links in reply.

This was posted on xitter, x.com/malonebarry/..., with the comment "This 18-month-old child is Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq. Photograph by Anadolu's Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini."

Photograph of a sad and possibly emaciated-from-hunger (very thin face) Gazan woman holding her 18-month-old child inside a tent in a madonna-and-child kind of pose. The child, seen from the back, is skin-and-bones from starvation, his spine and ribs sticking out, his arm thin as a twig

Abundant aid is sitting on the border, if IL would let it in. After complete blockade for months they now are allowing in only a trickle. That combination is creating the current, rapidly worsening situation. How many people must die of starvation before the world will pressure IL to open the gates?

In the past when the situation was not yet this desperate people were saying mass death would soon begin, & it didn't. I'm not sure if that's because IL let in more aid then or if people just overestimated how dire the situation was. But this time is much worse than anytime in the past. 2/

Posts from Palestine on xitter are all reporting a level of hunger & desperation they've never reported before - people collapsing on the street, no food anywhere, maybe 1 inadequate meal in 2 days or 5 days. Mass death will likely soon begin. Here is a set of posts to give an idea. 1/

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TX Dems are afraid to leave state for 30 days to break quorum so gerrymandering can't be enacted, because they'd be fined $15K each. About 50 need to leave, say they need gifts of $22K to end up with $15K after taxes. That's $1.1M. GET SOME RICH PERSON to offer gifts of $22K to all who are fined.

It's not entirely clear that this policy is meant to apply to basic research as well as to studies of disease treatments, they motivate it in part by failures of disease treatments successful in animals to transfer to humans, but the way it is written it would apply to all proposals.