Never forget the Nabka.

It may have 'started' in 1948, but the reality is it never actually ended.

https://mondoweiss.net/2026/05/same-goals-same-tragedies-separated-by-78-years-gaza-elders-who-survived-the-nakba-on-being-displaced-by-israel-again/

'Sportswashing'.

https://fair.org/home/jules-boykoff-on-world-cup-and-sportswashing/

As if I don't have enough reasons to avoid it.

Is this for real?

Pretty messed up, but it's saying a lot.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/hezbollahs-cheap-fpv-drones-are-making-israels-high-tech-military-obsolete/290927/

Now playing in theaters of reality near you - > 'hyperimperialism'.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/05/13/trumps-state-visit-to-beijing-and-the-new-cold-war-on-asia/

Trump’s state visit to Beijing and the New Cold War on Asia

What is on display in Beijing this week is not a thaw, and the executives traveling with Trump are not a sign of moderation. The economic and military aggression against China are two halves of the same project of containment. This is hyperimperialism: an empire turning increasingly to force as its economic dominance erodes, with China and other Global South countries defending their sovereignty as the primary targets. Trump’s transactional style is not a departure from US imperialism but the form it takes when its economic instruments no longer deliver.

If you want to see a religious direction in the United States (and what that will lead to), look no further than India.

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/05/12/the-unraveling-of-nehrus-vision-of-india/

Sunrise on Mount Rainier and Downtown Seattle.

They literally happen everyday,  but didn't want this moment to pass me by.

Why I don't really know, nor can I really say.

Normally I don't post things from social media outlets.

Like many sites, LinkedIn has its share of cesspool and idiocy.

That being said, this came up, and it does reflect a lot of what I have both observed - 1) in the past, 2) and today.

Here are 8 signs burnout is a systems problem, not a people problem

0/ Constant urgency with no real priorities
1/ Too much work, not enough capacity
2/ Boundaries ignored once pressure hits
3/ No time to recover between pushes
4/ Success rewarded with more load
5/ Feedback up, pressure down
6/ Fixing people instead of fixing the process
7/ Leaders firefighting instead of redesigning work

In true fashion, LinkedIn doesn't make it easy to post outside their site (why would they; like all social media, their owners think the world revolves around them), so here's a screenshot -