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@TheMikeKeating retweeted
A Boston jury just ordered a scientist’s accuser to pay him $6 MILLION. For those who haven’t followed the case, here’s what happened.
David Sabatini was a prominent MIT researcher running a major lab at the Whitehead Institute.
In 2018 he began a sexual relationship with a younger colleague, Kristin Knouse. He says it was consensual and ended when he started seeing someone else. She later claimed it was coercive because of his power over her career, and that he fostered a sexualized lab environment.
Whitehead investigated in 2021, found policy violations, and Sabatini resigned.
His career was effectively destroyed.
He sued her for defamation and interfering with his livelihood, arguing her statements were false. She countersued for sexual harassment.
After a three-week trial, the jury (7 women, 6 men) sided with him, awarded the $6 million plus interest, and rejected her claims.
Her lawyers say they will appeal. The verdict doesn’t erase Whitehead’s internal findings, but a jury has now concluded the core accusations against him were not true.
Former MIT scientist wins $6M defamation verdict against colleague who accused him of sexual misconduct trib.al/q1cVlXE
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
They were at war.
His orders were to kill them.
He saved 422 of them instead.
1942. The Java Sea.
British warships were sunk.
422 Allied sailors were floating in burning oil, surrounded by sharks, waiting to die.
Then, a Japanese destroyer appeared.
The drowning sailors closed their eyes.
They expected machine-gun fire.
Instead, Captain Shunsaku Kudo hoisted the rescue flag.
For five straight hours, in submarine-infested waters, his crew pulled every single enemy from the sea.
They washed the oil from their burning eyes.
They shared their own fresh water and biscuits.
Then, Captain Kudo walked onto the deck, saluted the captured British officers, and spoke in English:
"You fought bravely. Today, you are the honored guests of the Imperial Japanese Navy."
He delivered all 422 men safely to a hospital ship.
And after the war?
He never told a soul. Not his friends. Not even his wife.
He took it to his grave.
Save the enemy at the risk of your own life.
Then speak of it to no one.
This is who we are.
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@TheMikeKeating retweeted
This man was 10 days in Ireland before he was caught trying to meet up with kids in order to rape them.
This is the kind of scum we are letting into our country.
#MakeIrelandSafeAgain
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
德国 DW 电视台拍过一部关于巴黎郊区移民的纪录片。
镜头对准了生活在同一片区域的两个群体。
一边是大约七万人的法国华人。
在巴黎北郊的欧贝维利耶，他们建起了欧洲最大的服装批发中心。
这批人的生活方式很简单：
起早贪黑，开小作坊、看店、跑货运。
赚了钱继续投入生意，遇到难处自己想办法扛。
平时低调安静，很少向政府伸手要特殊补贴，也不上街制造混乱。
几十年下来，越来越多家庭买了房，把生意做了起来。
另一边，是同样生活在这片街区的北非移民群体。
从整体上看，他们在当地的经济融入相对滞后。
但纪录片捕捉到了一个细微却现实的心态变化：
一种把自食其力者视作威胁的情绪，正在悄悄蔓延。
按片子里的观察，
一些融入受挫的人，习惯以受害者自居，觉得社会欠自己太多。
可当他们转头看到身旁的华人时，心态变了。
他们不仅没有去学怎么做生意，反而把华人当成了竞争对手。
这种敌意到底从何而来？
最现实的冲突在于：华人的日子越过越好，受害者叙事就越难自圆其说。
大家同样是外来者，同样面对异国他乡的壁垒。
甚至华人刚来的时候连法语都不会讲，更谈不上本地人脉。
如果有人靠一天干十几个小时，能把日子一点点撑起来，
那句“我们过不好全怪外界不公”，就很难再理直气壮地说出口。
一个闷头自立的人，往往会让习惯归咎环境的人感到刺眼。
更深层的错位在于对财富的理解。
在很多索取者的认知里，财富是一块固定死的大饼。
他们看不到那些批发店是怎样一箱一箱货物搬出来的，
只觉得华人的店铺赚到了钱，就是占了自己的便宜。
再加上华人素来习惯忍让，遇到纠纷往往选择息事宁人，
这种心态上的失衡，很快就落成了现实中的治安麻烦。
抢劫、尾随、街头袭击，接二连三指向这群只想安分过日子的人。
靠双手养活自己、靠信誉积累财富，放在任何健全的社会都是最基本的尊严。
但如果一个地方习惯了把受害者身份当成通行的筹码，
那个默默把日子过好的人，
往往最先成为被针对的对象。
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
Look at what is happening to the Congolese people in their own country 💔 😢
People are being buried alive !
Armed groups continue to terrorise civilians, loot homes, burn villages and subject women and children to rape and sexual violence.
Human beings are being subjected to unimaginable cruelty while those responsible for protecting civilians continue to face questions about their failure to stop the bloodshed.
President Félix Tshisekedi must answer for the security situation under his government.
How can a country so rich in gold, cobalt, copper and other natural resources continue to witness such horrific suffering?
The world cannot keep looking away while Congolese lives are destroyed.
Their mineral wealth has made others rich, yet millions of ordinary people continue to pay the price in blood, displacement and misery.
The people of Congo deserve justice.
They deserve security.
They deserve to live in their own country without fearing that they could be buried alive.
How many more atrocities must be recorded before the world takes the suffering of the Congolese people seriously?
Free Congo 🇨🇩💔
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
Burnham had seven significant meetings with Man City and Abu Dhabi chiefs, not one. He’s been caught lying again. Now Reynolds and Powell are implicated. The ‘Etihad Coup’, which got rid of Starmer in double quick time, is beginning to unravel. The PM’s toxic Manchesterism…
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
People across the world actually believe that the protests in France are about "students".
The so-called "French Revolution" was also portrayed in a similarly deceitful manner. Nothing is ever as it seems. #EyesOpen
📍PARIS, FRANCE
Are they still pretending this is about education?
Macron has been obsessed with Putin, and in the mean time lost his capital, and country.
CR: @LucAuffret
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
One minute you’re voting for your own conquering and the next minute you’re experiencing it.
Islam comes at you fast.
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
The chilling effect: a situation where people stop exercising their legal rights or free expression because they fear punishment, lawsuits, or social backlash. #FreeGrahamCarey
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
The face you make when you realise you backed the wrong horse & the people you called far-right were trying to warn you but you didn't listen.
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
This is Mohammed Yaseen, he was a member of the Al Qaeda group that beheaded Ken Bigley.
He arrived in Britain on a small boat, released from prison after just 6 months but can’t be deported due to his "human rights."
Costing us £85k per year & £500k for legal aid. Disgusting!
@TheMikeKeating retweeted
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
— Winston Churchill
France 🇫🇷 fed the crocodile, and now it's being eaten.
