Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler:

“Over the last 40 years, the US has been exposed to something that our biology was never intended to handle: Energy dense, highly palatable, rapidly absorbable ultra processed foods that have altered our metabolism and resulted in the greatest increase in chronic disease in our history.”

But why would the government allow the food industry to essentially poison people? Because conservative and centrist parties are in league with corporations, including those that make our food.

This is the core problem with allowing capital to control the government. Every law, every budget, and every decision made prioritizes corporate profits over the health, safety and well-being of the people.

#Food #Health #Disease #Capitalism

““The struggle means to me… not just that we would get the boot off our necks, but that we would destroy the boot.

If you want to say that the endpoint of our dream, of our struggle is to simply get us into positions of power, to integrate us into the machine and not to change the machine, then don't talk about Fannie Lou Hamer. Don't talk about Martin Luther King.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

#CivilRightsMovement #BlackAmericans #MartinLutherKing

A small boat carrying two women, a child and a dog was running out of fuel in Alaska. A witness says the Coast Guard repeatedly called Zuckerberg’s nearby $300 million yacht—but another vessel had to perform the rescue. #MarkZuckerberg #Alaska

https://allchronology.com/2026/08/09/a-childs-boat-was-stranded-in-alaskan-waters-then-mark-zuckerbergs-300-million-yacht-allegedly-ignored-the-coast-guard/

I absolutely loved Raiders of the Lost Ark when it came out, one of the first movies I went back to see more than once, and I laughed out loud at this scene along with everyone else in the audience. I realize how much I've changed that it now makes me as ill as Harrison Ford was that day filming it.

#Movies #Films #Cinema

If you could spare a few dollars, the Sameer Project in Gaza is well established and doing incredible work.

https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project

#Gaza #genocide #Palestine #zionism

This is neo-liberalism. We don't give a fuck about our guy beating up a toddler and breaking its collar bone. We want to win elections.

Dems make the same argument. Don't worry about all of the people we're helping to kill in Palestine, vote blue no matter who.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rnc-chair-downplays-max-miller-abuse-allegations_n_6a78d3eae4b0a6d70bb1fb4c?oxe

Here's one way to keep your :catroll: entertained 😂

I recall less than 10 years ago when Taika Waititi said that New Zealand was, “racist as fuck”, and thinking to myself, "Yes, but...". Now I know there is no "but". I read this Substack post by Ganesh Ahirao and wept inside. There are many things this government has done that deserve condemnation, but the deliberate and not-so-deliberate normalisation and fanning of racism in Aotearoa is the most contemptible and unforgivable.

https://ganeshnana.substack.com/p/go-home-to-where-you-came-from

“During the rally, another group of hecklers yelled out ‘Paxton protects pedophiles.’ Security quickly escorted them out as well.

‘You protect the Epstein class,’ a member of the group shouted as he exited the Angry Elephant. ‘You protect the pedophile president. You’re all pedophile protectors.’” https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-news/hecklers-crash-ken-paxtons-u-s-senate-campaign-stop-in-san-antonio/

"Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it to her. No Parliament ratified it .. Nobody asked you."
#auspol #Australia #israel #zionism
https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/

@dbattistella I've never heard of 'PEN America'. The most prominent American free speech group _to me_ is https://www.fire.org/

So far they seem pretty nonpartisan, unlike the ACLU or perhaps the UK's Free Speech Union.

I listen to their podcast fairly regularly.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117067304141978877

Se souvenir que les propriétaires de gros Yachts sont ceux qui donnent le moins à la https://www.snsm.org !

Mais sont heureux d’être secourus par les équipages bénévoles qui interviennent par tous temps…
La solidarité des gens de mer, un truc de vieux…

Pour ceux qui doutent, ce lien de juillet 2018 de mer-océan.com qui m’avait sidéré naguère… (enfin, non…!)

Les propriétaires de yachts n'ont pas daigné répondre à l'appel aux dons des sauveteurs pour payer une pièce de rechange du canot
En juillet 2025, la SNSM peinait à renouveler sa flotte…

Bref… Ceci explique aussi pourquoi j’ai coupé les ponts avec tous les outils de Meta, entre autres…

Last September comedian Fred Armisen gave a hilarious impression of Diana Ross’ confused drummer performing the intro of “I’m Coming Out” as if it’s the first time he’s ever heard it.

Talented comic and pretty good drummer!

The point is, your learning really doesn’t stop because you left school. It stops because you think you’ve done enough. And if you don’t take responsibility for continuing your education throughout the rest of your life, you’re the one who will pay for it.

13/13

I think the greatest thing a person can do after their formal period of education is complete is dedicate at least some portion of their time, every day and every week, to learning. Really learning. Reading, viewing, and analyzing the information necessary to learn a skill, a fact, a new area of expertise.

10/13

It’s the fault of the schools, sure. But it’s also the fault of parents who turn their children’s education into a painful, constant struggle. It’s the fault of education theorists and government regulators who are tasked with deciding what information, from the entire store of human knowledge, should be crammed into a little over a decade of schooling.

It all adds up to create a negative, dragging, shitty attitude to learning anything.

You Don’t Have To Let Yourself Graduate.

7/13

Sure, they can go to university or college and extend their formal education, but they’re back in the same sprint that they ran in high school. They’re trying to get through a track as fast as they can, and jump every hurdle.

But they’ll eventually reach another graduation ceremony and gain another certificate that says they’ve ticked the boxes and learned enough.

It is complete.

5/13

Most people reach the end of their school journey, go through graduation, and then stop learning. They stop seeking out new information and new lessons because they’ve already been there, done that. They literally have a certificate.

And so the entire period in which they were at school being required to learn something that would improve their lives or equip them for the real world, that becomes their only education.

4/13

What’s worse, though, is that when we finally reach the end of that tunnel, we go through a graduation ceremony and treat it like a happy funeral for our learning period.

People give speeches, and everyone reminisces about a part of their lives that is over forever.

It’s a celebration of the fact that your learning is finished.

May you never endure the hardship of cracking open a book ever again.

2/13

Our entire attitude toward education is flawed.

We spend years in primary school and then secondary school being coerced into absorbing information and hammered with the misconception that the point of learning is meeting arbitrary goals and being measured on our ability to memorize facts and formulas.

That’s bad enough...🧵

1/13