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Cats are plants.

Jag är prenumerant på Kvartal. En nöjd sådan. Uppskattar mycket av journalistiken där, i både text och ljud. Men jag visste inte att Kvartals redaktion anser att jag och mina kolleger på DN har svikit vårt grunduppdrag – att vi inte längre är journalister utan propagandister.

Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite. Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws. Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant. In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

När Ulf Kristersson och Birgitta Ed ville ha en ny köksmatta kostade konsulterna tre gånger så mycket som själva mattan. Regeringens upplägg fördyrar minsta inköp – en brödspade för 675 kronor kostade skattebetalarna 2363 kronor. expressen.se/nyheter/sverig…

Häng med en av Sveriges bästa journalister @nilofarlangar1

Anna Lindh-biblioteket (skyddsobjekt) x/10 Det v⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ och ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ men ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️

Kulturbiblioteket: 3/10 Inga sittplatser. Inget bibliotek. Mer papperssamlingar? Gillar Kulturhuset dock! Tranströmerbiblioteket: 8/10 Mysigt Fint 🥰

Vilket är Stockholms bästa bibliotek?

Granskning av Ivo avslöjar allvarliga brister och lagbrott i flera av landets kommuner arbete med barn och unga. I Malmö gäller det bla långsamma utredningar, bristande kontroller av familjehem – och otillräckligt arbete mot jäv och korruption. sydsvenskan.se/malmo/granskni…

@salonium OMFG!!! You are amazing!

I gave a TED talk today!

Anti globalist globalism and anti imperialist imperialism has got to be the most successful cons in modern day politics.

Att man känner en lättnad över att Orbán erkände sig besegrad. Demokratiska normer man tog för givet innan Trump.

Sofie Löwenmark skrev om Folkets Mujahedin i Expressen. Efter det anmäldes hon på Facebook så många gånger att kontot stängdes ner. S-profilen Annika Strandhäll insinuerar att det är självförvållat. ”Jag är förvånad”, säger Löwenmark. Läs @AHeimersson. expressen.se/nyheter/sverig…

"Ja skiter i att det är fejk, det är förjävligt ändå"

Throwback to when I was trying to remember where they shoot It’s Always Sunny and I said New Jersey

We are living in the worst timeline.

Assimilation should not mean giving up religious practices. What it means is that those religious practices don't separate you from Americans of other religions on a daily basis. (The worst assimilators here by far are the ultra-Orthodox Jews, btw, not Muslims)

About 20% of American-born Muslims marry non-Muslims. A century ago, for Catholics, the number was ~10%, and for Jews ~3%. So Muslims are assimilating MUCH faster than historical religious minorities.