Omar Gabriel Torres Valencia, MD, MSc

Cápsulas de Gozo #2 Pequeñas reflexiones sobre arte, cultura, y otras curiosidades que me ayudan a mantenerme cuerdo en este mundo.

En mi última “Cápsula de Gozo” en mi #Substack les cuento sobre mi visita al Palacio de Hampton Court y mi experiencia con las grietas de la #historia.

Pásenle a leerme por acá abajo 👇🏽

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Nobody Is Coming to Save Us. We Owe Each Other Everything. The Epstein Files show their depravity. Our response must show our humanity.

The #EpsteinFiles show the depravity. But don't miss the larger point: their private sins fuel our public suffering.

Realising no one is coming to save us isn't the end. It's the beginning.
We must save each other.

My new essay on my #Substack 👇🏽

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Cápsulas de gozo #1 Pequeñas reflexiones sobre arte, cultura, y otras curiosidades que me ayudan a mantenerme cuerdo en este mundo.

En este artículo les cuento un poco sobre Judith, La Mazzafirra, y cómo trato de mantener la cordura en medio de tanta barbarie. Me pueden leer acá:

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nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21

The nurses are pissed

JFC

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers.

I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

You reap what you sow. This is a historical lesson for Europeans. To survive the horrific times we are living through, we need to reflect historically on how we got here to begin with.

Let’s talk about #Trump, #Greenland, and how #Europe helped build a world in which all of this is possible.

My opinion right here on my #Substack

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Hola, Mundo / Hello, World Hola a todos.

I’m giving it a go at starting my own #Substack.

Let’s see where this leads us.

You can read me here: open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content X has continued to allow users to post highly sexualised videos of women in bikinis generated by its AI tool Grok, despite the company’s claim to have cracked down on misuse. The Guardian was able to create short videos of people stripping to bikinis from photographs of fully clothed, real women. It was also possible to post this adult content on to X’s public platform without any sign of it being moderated, meaning the clip could be viewed within seconds by anyone with an account. Continue reading...

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool

who could have predicted that stopping international students, care workers and nurses from coming to the UK would damage the economy/public finances while yielding precisely no political benefits?

Oh. Me.

[& lots of others obviously]

Fascism is swallowing the planet.

And we are all UNDER-REACTING.

Keir Starmer under fire for silence on US attack on Venezuela

Keir Starmer is under fire for failing to condemn the United States for its 'illegal' bombing of Venezuela, with Zack Polanski claiming that Donald Trump believes he can act with impunity

Overthrowing the government of Iran and installing the shah led to the Iranian revolution and the Ayatollah. Funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan led to the taliban and Al queda. These unlawful actions could have destabilizing consequences for decades and this will haunt the US for generations.

Fascism always turns to war because of its inability to manage domestic contradictions. Watch for the other shoe to drop; a widening crackdown on domestic political dissent in the United States. What a terrifying time to be alive.

We’re back in the 1930s, but now with even deadlier technology.

Do people really think that the same guy who tried to overthrow American democracy when he lost an election is going to bring democracy to #Venezuela?

International law died in the rubble of #Gaza and we’re now seeing the consequences.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Secretive UK team met in Venezuela to promote British energy interests A record of meetings seen by Declassified provides further evidence that Britain’s attempt to remove Venezuela’s government is guided by an interest in the country’s vast oil resources.

Britain has long sought the removal of the Maduro government in Venezuela, with evidence suggesting that the policy is guided by an interest in the country’s vast oil resources.

www.declassifieduk.org/secretive-uk...

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Dans les Caraïbes, les récifs coralliens ont réduit de moitié depuis 1980 Conséquence du réchauffement climatique et de l'acidification des mers, provoquées par les émissions de gaz à effet de serre de l'humanité, la couverture en coraux durs dans les Caraïbes a diminué de 48 % entre 1980 et 2024, indique le rapport d'un réseau mondial de surveillance des récifs coralliens diffusé mardi par la préfecture de Guadeloupe.

Dans les Caraïbes, les récifs coralliens ont réduit de moitié depuis 1980

US–Africa bilateral health deals won’t help against diseases that ignore borders The COVID-19 pandemic, Ebola, mpox and AIDS all show the importance of strengthening Africa-wide surveillance and response systems that protect everyone.

US–Africa bilateral health deals won’t help against diseases that ignore borders:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
“The #COVID19 pandemic, #Ebola, #mpox and #AIDS all show the importance of strengthening #Africa -wide surveillance and response systems that protect everyone.”
#GlobalHealth #pandemics

Iceland Joins Growing Eurovision Boycott Over Inclusion Of Israel

Iceland’s national broadcaster voted Wednesday not to participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, joining Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in a growing boycott over the inclusion of Israel.

I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.

The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.

UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.

A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.

Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.

In the foreword to settlement consultation, the Home Secretary tells us that "My father came here in the early 1970s, and my mother a little less than a decade later."

No prizes for guessing who grok chose sorry

I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond