Leilani (she/her)

US struggles to evacuate American personnel from facilities under fire in Iraq: Officials Some U.S. staff were flown out by the British air force, officials said.

wait, we had to ask *THE BRITISH* to evac US personnel? holy christ these people are incompetent abcnews.com/Internationa...

Their sample is also only 17.7% female, & they found F are MORE likely to get LC than M, 25.9% of the total.
By my math, that means their odds of getting LC are over 62%, & if the population of those infected was 50% F with the same proportions, 50.7% would have LC.

CONCLUSIONS In our sample of 650,173 COVID cases among active-duty military personnel, a total of 278,278 were identified as having post-COVID-19 syndrome (42.8%). Of these, 273,405 reported post-COVID symptoms in at least two visits (42.1%). Our findings showed that the top three symptoms of post-COVID-19 syndrome in military personnel are related to pulmonary, neurological, and fatigue issues. Mild to moderate cases of this syndrome could leave military personnel with long-term deficits in their overall fitness and readiness. This readiness is a critical aspect of military effectiveness, ensuring that personnel can respond rapidly and decisively to threats. Thus, continued assessment and potential treatments are needed to assist active-duty military personnel to improve their overall health outcomes.

Oh look, the 🇺🇸 military concludes over 40% of COVID infections lead to Long COVID, among a population sample that is all adults, & on average in better physical condition & younger than the national/global population.
www.amjmedsci.org/article/S000...

Coffee should be $1. Halal cart should be $5. New pants should be $20. Rent should be $500.

absolutely jaw-dropping levels of Being Too Offline To Realize You're Literally a Meme

“You say you want a big tent, and yet you won’t include me, a person who hates you and everything you stand for.”

At this point it's barely even a boycott, I've just stopped thinking of Target as a place to buy the things I used to buy at Target.

It’s all of us, all together, all the way to freedom or it’s nothing and apparently the majority of the world would still rather Nothing than Justice.

Like, this is breaking my very brain.
I want all of us to be much freer than this. All of us.

This nation has never properly reckoned with chattel slavery. The trafficking and exploitation of west African people is at the root of all this. We wouldn’t even have to imagine reparations for victims of ICE if there’d been reparations for Native people or the descendants of enslaved Africans.

Civil forfeiture is one thing I’ll never respect; stealing from ppl overwhelmingly ILLEGALLY JAILED is that on another wild ass level. They are making certain the ppl they target don’t have shit. Even if they get out of all these court proceedings with their lives.

This phrase is so gross. The violence, the racism and pure ignorance behind assuming an enemy force lacks any agency.

Real fix your hearts or die hours.

One of my kids didn’t get a flu shot this year, because his pediatrician kept running out or we kept getting sick when we’d made an appt - appts that are being scheduled several months out. Pharmacies often won’t vaccinate kids, and community vaccine clinics are getting harder to find.

I will be viewing Reuters through an entirely different lens with this revelation.

Man, I had missed the stickers. The perfect detail for an over-the-top satirical novel of our stupidest downfall

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

$98,329 piano
$12,000 fruit basket stands
$139,224 doughnuts
$6.9 million lobster tail

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. iranian families are dying

Many areas of the world experienced this in gas just a couple of years ago. Europe was writing (state funded) blank cheques like it was going out of fashion, and places like Pakistan couldn't get an LNG shipment as the ability to pay evaporated.

Wonder want happened there? Read below...

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Increasing energy dependence on a volatile, globally traded commodity delivers neither energy security nor affordability. Hope that helps. 🫡

Guest post: How heat pumps became a Nordic success story - Carbon Brief A common criticism of heat pumps is that they do not work in cold weather. But how did heat pumps became a Nordic success story?

”The decision to move away from oil heating provided an important stimulus for research and development of heat pump technology, followed by various promotional government programmes, including information campaigns and grant payments.”

#EnergyCrisis

www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h...

Six photos from Ahmed showing his landscape, selfies, and standing in the middle of the flooded ruins.

We in Gaza are still living under annihilation every day; a suffocating siege, skyrocketing prices, and severe shortages of food and water, even during Ramadan. 💔🇵🇸
Your donation, no matter how small, can help us secure our basic needs and survive.

Donate and save us.⬇️🕊️💸
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this is also my ongoing frustration. you can not run for office on "democracy is under threat" and then lose and go "oh well, nice game everyone"

they put us in a constant state of hypervigilance & terror begging for our last $5 to save the country and then they do the joint softball game.

i’d like for some people to grapple with the fact that “the most important election of our lifetime,” if you actually mean it, implies that the governance period following it is also the most important governance period of our lifetime, and adjust their demands/expectations/behaviors accordingly

Trump Antisemitism Inquiry Demanding List of Jews at Penn Heads to Court The Trump administration, which said it is investigating harassment, sued the University of Pennsylvania after it refused a request to provide information about Jewish students and staff.

Jewish Penn alum here to tell you that nothing about this makes anyone safer from antisemitism.

And only “caring” about antisemitism as you dismantle programs that serve other marginalized communities is the exact opposite of what safety looks like.

None of us are safe unless we are all safe.

I really can't wait to see how big the lawsuit against grammarly gets and I hope the plaintiffs sue them into complete and fundamental nonexistence. Like, "the company has to scrap their code rather than sell it as assets, and then also dissolve" nonexistence.

If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible

definitely a question you want the judge asking you

Memory, land, and language: Sitting down with Joséphine Bacon Innu poet Joséphine Bacon reflects on how her working life began as an interpreter and translator for Elders.

Through her poetry, Joséphine Bacon carries the voices of her elders and the stories of the land.

She joins Kim Sullivan to talk all about it on this week's new episode of Face to Face.

Abstentions:

• Argentina
• Paraguay
• Iran
• Iraq
• Mali
• Sudan

And even more than that -

AGAINST: United States

Result:

37 in favor
1 against — United States
6 abstentions

The conclusions focus largely on women’s access to justice, including:

• eliminating discriminatory laws
• strengthening legal protections
• improving justice systems for women and girls.