7 Things About Afghanistan the U.S. Wants You to Forget, Five Years After Kabul Fell America promised not to forget Afghans who worked with its troops, reporters, & diplomats. Now, thousands are stranded, refugee routes have been dismantled, & the country is in chaos. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/7-things-a...

7 Things About Afghanistan the U.S. Wants You to Forget, Five Years After Kabul Fell

America promised not to forget Afghans who worked with its troops, reporters, and diplomats. Now, hundreds of thousands are stranded, refugee routes have been dismantled, and the country is in chaos.

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This entire disgusting situation with Arday has shown the horrible priorities of a society built for the ruling class. Our press isn't free, and it is used solely and exclusively to pursue the interests of the ruling class which owns it.

Girls in Afghanistan have been barred from formal education beyond grade six since September 2021, and women from universities since December 2022.   Read more: https://unicef.link/3TMjEUZ

🚨Anas Al Sharif journaliste d’Al Jazeera qui documentait le génocide en cours à Gaza inlassablement a été assassiné ce 10 août 2025 par un bombardement israélien visant la tente des journalistes à l’Hôpital Al Shifa.

Increasingly, health authorities are announcing new regulation in medical journals instead of traditional routes with full transparency and public consultation. This new @bmj.com analysis examines the pitfalls of this approach www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Solemn Anniversaries: The UN Refugee Convention turns 75 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260811-solemn-anniversaries-the-un-refugee-convention-turns-75/

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Becoming rain

when conscience becomes water

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‘Some people in Springfield suspect that the letter-and-monitor strategy is an attempt to make ICE’s actions less visible. Street kidnappings and raids draw attention, and the midterms are approaching.’ @bhatiap.bsky.social on ICE in Ohio: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/au...

Pooja Bhatia | In Springfield

It has never been easy to get asylum in the US, but during the last two years it has become almost impossible. The Trump...

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A new study shows that smoke from wildfires is also reversing the health benefits of reducing emissions from vehicles, refineries, factories and other human sources, and impacting society’s most vulnerable population: babies in the womb.

Wildfire Smoke Now Threatens Prenatal Health More Than Harmful Human Emissions

Increasing wildfires are offsetting the gains from reducing vehicle and industry sources of air pollution.

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Brilliant organ donation campaign in New York….

🎥 Israel strikes medical warehouse, displacement tents in Gaza An Israeli strike destroyed 2 central medicine warehouses at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, including critical supplies & equipment for kidney dialysis on Sat. Hospital director Raed Hussein told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader...

A piece we just published in Transplant International: url7417.frontierspartnerships.org/ls/click?upn...

Frontiers Publishing Partnerships | Gaza: not to act is to act

compared with 1100 at the start of the war 2 . At that time, half the respondents in one study received 2 or fewer dialysis sessions per week, and 42% had an...

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“What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their troubles, when it is their own transgressions which bring them suffering that was not their destiny.” ~ Homer, ‘The Odyssey’ (c. 8th century BC) #Sculpture, Louis Navarrete.

Too bad only smoke from Canada crosses the American border instead of universal healthcare

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

Mother Nature has joined the resistance.

“It was stunning to realize how closely many of the grievances our founders asserted toward King George III mirror the issues we are facing with the tyrannical despot currently occupying our White House.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-i...

Snapshot: Independence Day Is Resistance Day

What the Declaration of Independence says about getting rid of a tyrant—and how it speaks directly to this moment

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“When a person has been permanently disfigured...the goal of surgery isn’t to make them look how they did before, which is often impossible, but to restore a kind of recognition—to make them feel once again that their body belongs to them.” —Mary Turfah

Safety Is When There’s No One Dying | Mary Turfah

The Ghassan Abu Sittah Children’s Fund is based in the Blue Building, a medical center across from the American University of Beirut, in the city’s Hamra

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New in @thelancet.com with @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social, Martin Cetron, and @drdebhoury.bsky.social — we argue the current US response to the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo and Uganda is breaking with longstanding global health policy in very worrying ways. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The US Ebola response and the future of global health leadership

The worsening outbreak of Ebola virus disease caused by Bundibugyo virus (Orthoebolavirus bundibugyoense; BDBV) in DR Congo and Uganda,1–3 declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern b...

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An estimated 680,000 children are in need of humanitarian assistance following the catastrophic earthquakes that struck Venezuela. UNICEF is scaling up its response across health, nutrition, water and sanitation, child protection and education. Learn more: https://unicef.link/4f6lckG

UNICEF: 680,000 children estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance after Venezuela earthquakes

First UNICEF aid flight arrives in Venezuela with medical supplies, water and sanitation items

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The inwardness of the ocean below me keeps turning, the way that we adults use our tails to slow down. I have been teaching them, the winter-born, to surface for the sake of respiration ‘Bowhead Whale’, one of two poems by Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stephanie Burt · Two Poems

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52 people died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody during the first 500 days of President Trump’s second term, reflecting a soaring mortality rate. In a new report, HRW and Physicians for Human Rights document the increasing number of deaths in ICE custody: https://bit.ly/4oNOlo4

On the cover, ahead of #WorldRefugeeDay, a new Editorial: 'Migration: a reality, not an emergency' Read this & more in our latest issue: spkl.io/633217EJRU

It's always tease, tease, tease You're happy when I'm on my knees One day it's fine, and next it's black So if you want me off your back Well, come on and let me know Should I stay, or should I go?

The phrase "sanctions" sanitizes what is actually happening. In Cuba, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Essential medicines are becoming unavailable, infant health outcomes are worsening, and more families are struggling to secure adequate nutrition.

“Libraries, by their benevolent nature, want to scatter,” Christian Donlan writes. Yet “constancy and stability are to be found...in the bright human impulse” that has “encouraged generations to keep [them] intact.”

The Archbishop’s Library | Christian Donlan

In an article for Wired in 1999, William Gibson idly mentions a coffee shop in Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. It sounds like a typical Turkish cafe, except for

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🇺🇸 Just about every statue in Boston 👏🤣 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍺 😎