drug doc

Me: Is it okay if I have another baby?

4yo: No, just two.

Me: What if I want three?

4yo: Just pretend you have one more, godddddddd.

Boy, 7, dies of brain condition caused by world’s most contagious disease — years after he had it as a baby Even those who make a full recovery from the initial infection face a lurking threat: a deadly disease that remains latent until striking — and killing — years later.

California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.

The Seven Seens of Haft Seen an illustrated guide to an Iranian new year tradition

As someone who immigrated to the US from Iran, setting up the haftsin (seven s’s) was one of the few ways I was able to maintain a connection to my culture and history. I set it up every year now with my kids and look forward to sharing the significance with them as 4yo is old enough to understand.

Friday, March 20th at 10:46 AM (Eastern) marks the start of a new year for many people across Asia, including in #Iran (“Norouz” meaning new day). It’s a beautiful holiday, celebrated for over 3000 years.

As my baba used to say, “I don’t know why you’d want to start and end your year with winter.”

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

During the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald in 1945, many of the camp guards tried to escape by disguising themselves as prisoners or civilians. Newly liberated prisoners recognized several guards immediately, and you can imagine how that ended for them.

Right?! There are people who have been on this site for some time now, using it regularly enough for me to know they have to have seen posts talking about the nazis and other fascists on substack, platform alternatives, post migrations, etc., yet they continue on substack.

Thank you, Eileen 🫂

More people should buy this book. Not just because I wrote it. But because it’s about grief and surviving the worst stuff with dark humor and a flask.

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

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😭 Thank you!

We had parent death in Bambi and The Lion King.

We had animal cruelty in Dumbo and 101 Dalmatians.

We had child hunger and poverty in Aladdin.

We had deforestation and pollution in Fern Gully.

Should I go on?

Thank you 🫂 Being the one who “got out”, I long envied my cousins, growing up together, their closeness with our grandmother, aunts, and uncles. Now, I feel the weight of my privilege as I hope the landlines are functional and someone is alive to answer the call.

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From my family in #Tehran— “It felt like night at 9 a.m. because of the smoke. The air is poisoned. I’m so angry.”

There is also fear the smoke will be used as cover for more attacks on civilians. #Iran

I am so sorry 🫂 I remember the look on the person’s face the moment she knew there was no heartbeat.

My 4yo found my stethoscope, and we took turns listening to each other’s hearts. He asked me if I liked it, and I started crying as I said, to me, it’s the most beautiful sound in the world.

Being progressive is being right too early for normie tastes. We’ve been right on Gaza and so many other issues, and Iran will be no different.

Or they know and say they can’t wait for SAVAK to go after people who oppose him.

Figures we get a women’s day and it’s only 23 hours

Poster flyposted on a wall in Iran. It reads “Pahlavi, is another Khomeini”

Neither Ayatollah nor Shah!
Poster flyposted on a wall in Iran.
It reads “Pahlavi, is another Khomeini”
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Between Iran International and Manoto, it’s reminiscent of the propaganda leading up to the 1953 coup.

Alabama set to execute man who did not kill anyone Unless Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey intervenes, Charles “Sonny” Burton, 75, will be executed Thursday. He is among thousands in America convicted under a controversial felony murder law.

Sonny Burton is set to be executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday. There is a direct line between a government that murders its own citizens and the devaluing of life abroad. The sin has always started at home.

Tehran residents warned of acid rain after oil storage attack Iran’s Red Crescent Society tells locals to avoid exposure as capital is engulfed in smoke

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An autistic man called police for a wellness check. He was fatally shot. Alex LaMorie, 25, had recently moved to a community in Maryland for people with disabilities, and was shot after police say he approached officers while holding a knife.

"Every parent of a child with autism knows this is their worst nightmare," his mother said.
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(Polio. It's polio)

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I will, however, fall back (into the abyss).

This “chopping babies’ heads off” is false rhetoric in support of genocide. We saw it with Gaza and now with Iran. The realities of the Hamas attack on October 7th and the actions of the Iranian regime are bad enough. They do not need to be embroidered to turn them into horror porn. It’s disgusting.

Trump as the grim reaper, knocking at a door as he passes by open doors with leaking blood for Guaido and Machado.