Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.

-Howard Zinn

#marxistmonday

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison

Useful advice for our times.

More than 38,000 women, girls killed in Gaza war by end of 2025, UN says

I can’t even log into my Facebook account at this stage of life.

My book on the history of British South Asian political activism is available for pre-order now.

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Trump has begged Denmark and Greenland to stop selling weapons-grade Lego to Iran... 🇬🇱🇮🇷

Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed For decades, Cuban doctors have served the Caribbean’s most marginalised. Now, as Cuba faces its own crisis, the region looks away, waiting on Trump’s approval

Cuba’s doctors were a lifeline for the world. Now the Caribbean is shamefully complicit in the US drive to expel them | Kenneth Mohammed

“The Lebanese people cannot be an afterthought. Families are doing everything they can to stay safe, but the scale and intensity of the conflict has made daily life increasingly dangerous, if not impossible."

Read our full statement on the situation in Lebanon: www.rescue.org/press-releas...

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

Guernica by Picasso 1937

Guernica by Picasso, 1937, a symbol of peace and resistance against fascism.
#war #art #picasso

Everything has been leading us to this point, to this modern Caligula.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

"Lebanon must not become another #Gaza." China DEMANDS Israel immediately withdrawal from #Lebanon.

America, we really need to have that talk.

Cleft lip surgery ‘risks going back to the 1980s’ Plans to scrap specialist training could leave patients with permanent speech difficulties and problems with eating

The Telegraph reports that scrapping specialist cleft training could leave children facing lifelong complications. Our President says ending support for TIG Fellowships risks undermining the future cleft surgery workforce and threatens other complex services, too.

More: https://ow.ly/LVCz50YAxLP

yay!

“If tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” -Thomas Jefferson #NoKings

Caffeinated coffee and tea boost cognitive health, reducing dementia risk significantly, especially at moderate consumption levels.

by Zhang Y, Liu Y (...) Wang DD et 10 al. in JAMA #MedSky

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"What is lost in Palestine will be lost to us all"

Francesca Albanese at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday on how all of us will ultimately pay the price for the destruction of international law, wherever we live.

A Spy Among Friends friendship, black umbrellas, and "The Young Ones"

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What matters is not so much the color of your skin as the power you serve and the millions you betray.

- Frantz Fanon

Gaza’s patients remain trapped: WHO says 18,000 people need medical evacuation www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2I74o…

It's uncomfortable for many to talk about, especially the mainstream media, but the deep, wide ingrained vein of racism in the United States is one of primary reasons for the rise of both Trump and his fascist enablers we're suffering with now.

I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold. -Eartha Kitt

Surgeons Hall Museums has released a special IWD episode of the 'Beyond the Knife' podcast series called 'The Edinburgh Seven', which examines how both supporters and opponents shaped the campaign that sought to secure women's access to medical education at the University o... https://bit.ly/4ujhbPl