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“Ainda bem que sempre existe outro dia. E outros sonhos. E outros risos. E outras pessoas. E outras coisas.” Clarice Lispector

Non, rien, juste la beauté sidérante des Chapelles Inachevées du Monastère de Batalha, Portugal.

In 1507-15, the Portuguese crown built the fort of Our Lady of the Conception in Hormuz, to control trade from India and charge hefty tolls to passing ships. From the outset, holding the fort and controlling the Strait of Hormuz required constant fighting with local emirs; by 1662 the Shah of Persia (backed by British forces) took it for good. After a detailed account of the back-and-forth in a fierce and bloody seven‑month naval battle in 1521–22 in the Strait of Hormuz, Commander Saturnino Monteiro, in the first volume of his treatise "Batalhas e Combates da Marinha Portuguesa,” concluded: "...and thus ended this stupid and useless war of Hormuz, with everything remaining as it had been before."

.@jonstewart Iran-splains the ramifications of closing the Strait of Hormuz in a way even Trump can understand

🔵⚪🔴 Sur LCI, le Général Yakovleff rhabille Trump pour le prochaine hiver et explique pourquoi l'Europe a raison de fuir le piège d'Ormuz ! Les Américains exigent notre aide mais sont incapables de fixer un objectif stratégique clair sur le papier. Ils improvisent au jour le jour. En réalité, ils s'en fichent de nos frégates. Ils veulent juste qu'on partage l'addition politique de leur fiasco. Faire confiance à un président qui abandonne ses alliés sur un coup de tête relève du suicide ! Le général Yakovleff conclut avec une métaphore parfaite. Rejoindre la coalition de Trump aujourd'hui, c'est comme acheter un billet pour le dîner dansant du Titanic après avoir heurté l'iceberg. Le naufrage se fera sans nous 🤡 #LCI #TRUMP #IRAN #MAGA #USA #IRANWAR #ORMUZ

Sky's @CordeliaSkyNews reports from the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit a health centre in Lebanon. The strike resulted in nearly the entire medical team being killed. 🔗 trib.al/J0DEQhm

She Called The FBI In 1996. They Opened A File. Then They Told Her It Never Existed. She Spent 29 Years Being Called A Liar. September 3, 1996. A file is opened inside FBI headquarters. Classification: child pornography. The woman who made the call is identified only as "a professional artist." She described photos she had seen inside a Manhattan mansion. She described the man who owned those photos. She described what she witnessed being done to young girls. She gave them everything. Then she waited. Nobody called back. Nine years later, a local detective in Palm Beach knocked on a different door. Found forty victims. Handed the FBI photographs, videos, and documented evidence of child trafficking across multiple states. The FBI opened a formal investigation. Two years later — they closed it. One plea deal. Thirteen months. Out by noon every day on work release. The trafficking continued. The FBI kept receiving tips. For eleven more years, women were brought to his island, his Manhattan townhouse, his private ranch. For eleven more years — the file sat there. It took a newspaper reporter to force the arrest in 2019. Thirty-three days later, he was dead. Now twelve women — listed only as Doe 1 through Doe 12 — are standing in federal court. They're not suing his estate. They're suing the FBI. They want $100 million. And they want every internal document, every memo, every email showing exactly who received each tip — and made the decision to do nothing. But here's the part that changes everything. When the FBI's own internal review was published in 2020 — it didn't mention the 1996 complaint. Not once. For another five years, the woman who made that call was told: your report doesn't exist. In December 2025, the DOJ confirmed it did. One page. Dated September 3, 1996. Which means someone inside the FBI knew that file existed — and chose not to include it in their own review. The question isn't whether the file was real. The question is: who decided to make it disappear? usstories.mstfootball.com/lam/twelve-wom…

PORTUGAL ARE THE RUGBY EUROPE CHAMPIONSHIP 2026 WINNERS 🇵🇹✨

My generation had its criticisms of US journalism, but we always thought it was the freest in the world. Now? “FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war Brendan Carr posts that he may cancel spectrum permits of ‘mainstream news’ outlets for ‘misleading’ coverage”. Appalling.

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In 1348, the Black Death reached England. By 1350, somewhere between a third and a half of the English population was dead. What happened next was, from the perspective of the English nobility, a disaster that had nothing to do with plague. Labour was suddenly catastrophically scarce. Peasants who had survived the decimation found themselves in possession of something they had never previously held: leverage. Lords needed workers to bring in harvests, to tend livestock, to maintain estates. Workers could demand pay. They could demand conditions. They could, in the chaos that followed, demand food. And what they demanded, when they had the power to demand it, was meat. The historical record here is specific and striking. Post-plague wage contracts from the 1350s and 1360s frequently include food provisions as part of the payment, and the food provisions include meat. Fresh meat. Multiple times per week. Not the feast-day and harvest-time access that had previously defined peasant protein consumption. Regular, weekly, contractual meat. Within a generation of gaining access to adequate animal protein, the skeletal record shows measurable change. Average height among the labouring classes increases. Bone density improves. The markers of chronic nutritional deficiency that define pre-plague peasant remains begin to appear less frequently. A well-fed labouring class is a productive labouring class, which is good. It is also, however, a physically capable labouring class, which is rather more complicated. The English nobility was alarmed. In 1349, Parliament passed the Statute of Labourers, attempting to freeze wages at pre-plague levels and prevent workers from demanding "excessive" compensation. The Statute was widely ignored because the economic reality overwhelmed the legal intention. Labour remained scarce. Workers remained able to negotiate. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 brought a well-fed army of common people to the gates of London. They burned the Savoy Palace. They beheaded the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord High Treasurer. They presented a list of demands to Richard II that included the abolition of serfdom and free access to the land. Richard, who was fourteen years old, rode out to meet them at Smithfield. His advisors had the rebel leader Wat Tyler killed during the negotiations. The revolt was suppressed. The lesson the ruling class drew was not that they should keep feeding people adequately. The lesson they drew was that they should never again allow the conditions that had produced an adequately fed peasantry. The Forest Laws tightened. Sumptuary legislation was introduced: laws dictating what foods the lower orders were permitted to consume, framed in the language of moral propriety. Religious fasting requirements were enforced more rigorously. The experiment in meat equity lasted approximately thirty years. The nobility shut it down as quickly as they were able. The Peasants' Revolt is taught as a failed rebellion. It might more accurately be taught as proof of what happens when you feed people properly.

Lecture d'un début de mémoire de master en littérature. Soudain, un doute sur une référence. Je vérifie : le livre cité en note n'existe pas. Pas plus que cinq autres titres, inventés par l'IA. Je vais craquer. Plus aucun moyen d'avoir confiance. On nous tue le métier.

Elon Musk has revealed the algorithm behind X — and it may explain why the internet feels angrier than ever. By publishing the source code for X, Elon Musk has revealed the mathematical engine driving our political divide | ✍️@frasernelson

Germany’s leading business daily gets it.

Want to know why Congress is doing nothing on AI? AI oligarchs have already spent over $185 million buying politicians this year. There it is. It’s no more complicated than that.

Pompier en raffinerie Total, je connais bien les risques sanitaires des accidents sur des sites pétroliers. Bombarder un site pétrochimique c'est condamner des milliers de civils à des cancers.Je vois des centaines de collègues développer des cancers 1/2

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CHE TI MOSTRA IL MOSTRO? Davanti allo scudo di #Caravaggio 50 bambini della scuola fiorentina Diaz sono stati sorpresi da... un vero e proprio monologo della #Medusa. Come facciamo ad affrontare le nostre paure e sconfiggerle, senza restare paralizzati, come di pietra?

#FreeLarryTheCat I miss him and his legendary tweets... 😿 @Number10cat

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES, REPOST PLEASE!