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2026, day 238 Good morning from Asia. ‘U.S. Squeezes Iran but Avoids Targeting Its Biggest Lifeline: China’ (WSJ); ‘China defends cooperation with Iran, warns against disrupting it’ (BBG); ‘China warns US it could retaliate over Iran sanctions’ (FT); ‘Rubio tells allies U.S. shifting from strikes to sanctions on Iran’ (Axios); ‘U.S. Said to Be Returning Diplomats to Middle East Embassies’ (NYT); ‘Iran, Oman say discussed Hormuz temporary corridor, mine-clearing’ (AFP); ‘Iran says Hormuz remains closed despite Oman route deal’ (AJ); ‘New Tanker Strike in Hormuz as Iran Vows Retaliation for U.S. Economic Offensive’ (WSJ); ‘Iran is running out of money. Can Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ force a deal?’ (Gulf News); ‘Analysis: Iraq may show how US can squeeze Iran’s trade partners’ (Reuters); ‘US envoy Barrack hails dissolution of Kurdish-led force in Syria’ (AFP); ‘Jordan’s Beijing pivot: what it really means for Israeli security’ (Ynet); ‘In rare warning, Board of Peace tells Israel to limit Gaza fire to ‘genuine’ threats’ (ToI); ‘Trump sends Saudi nuclear deal to Congress but says Riyadh must recognize Israel’ (JPost); ‘’Not going to sacrifice my life.’ Russia mobilisation fears grow’ (AJ); ‘Putin will soon order a full mobilisation. This may be his Afghan war moment’ (Telegraph); ‘CIA director travels to Moscow for secret talks’ (Telegraph) - “US tells Ukraine to halt air strikes on Russian capital as John Ratcliffe flies in on military plane”; ‘Vatican envoy, in Moscow, says Ukraine war must end urgently’ (AFP); ‘UK to warn citizens to stock up on food amid threat from climate crisis and hostile states’ (Guardian); ‘The Civil defence planning accelerated over threat from Russia’ (Telegraph); ‘Sweden revives frozen Russian assets row’ (Euractiv); ‘Trump's Arctic saber-rattling boosts Iceland's pro-EU campaign’ (Politico) - “Icelanders vote on Saturday in a referendum on resuming membership talks with the EU”; ‘Iceland could join EU by 2028, says enlargement chief’ (Euractiv); ‘Burnham faces Chagos showdown at UN’ (Telegraph); ‘Canadians are fighting for their sovereignty. Americans don’t even realize they’re in a war’ (Globe & Mail); ‘Trump Threatens to Rename Lake Ontario as Spat With Canada Escalates’ (WSJ); In geoeconomics, ‘Canada hits back with tariffs of up to 50% on US goods as trade war escalates’ (Euronews); ‘In the face of tough new tariffs, Carney doubles down on government spending’ (National Post) - “Canada needs icebreakers and electricity, but where's the plan to keep industry from fleeing?”; ‘U.S.-Canada Tariff War Jolts Korean Supply Chains’ (Business Korea); ‘US grain farmers face worst crisis in decades as Iran war sends costs spiralling’ (FT); ‘US robot curbs lay bare industry's dependence on Chinese parts’ (Nikkei Asia); ‘Nigel Farage wants to scrap GDPR for the U.K.’ (Politico); ‘Burnham mulls insolvency law shake-up to help bring utilities under public control’ (Guardian); In politics, ‘Judge issues setback to Trump administration plans to restrict mail-in ballots’ (WaPo) - “The ruling is not the final word in a fast-moving legal fight over the administration’s efforts to change voting rules before the midterms”; ‘Muslim Brotherhood networks embedded into Canadian politics, schools, report says’ (JPost); ‘Japan's PM. I'm so lonely I befriended a cockroach’ (Telegraph); ‘No immunity: how Xi’s anti-corruption fighters are zeroing in on fresh targets’ (SCMP); In markets, ‘Hong Kong’s property, financial markets face test under cross-border anti-corruption law’ (SCMP); ‘Asia's rising wealth to propel finance industry past US: report’ (Nikkei Asia); ‘Six months into Iran war, almost half of global oil flows from war zones’ (Reuters); ‘Short Squeeze in US Long Bonds Shows ‘Bessent Put’ at Work’ (BBG)

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🍰 BrownDust2 | Lydia’s Birthday 🎉 Happy Birthday to Lydia, the rookie spearman of the new mercenary group! 🎉 “You came at the perfect time! Could you take a look at my journal? See? I wrote ‘Best Day of My Life’ in huge letters right here! Until last year, I was such a fool that I spent my birthday training without even realizing what day it was... But this year, I circled it on the calendar and waited for today! Thanks to your trust, I managed to finish my training with this old wooden spear... And more than anything, I’m being congratulated by someone very precious to me. I’m so, so happy! Thank you!” #HappyBirthday# #Lydia#

No daily prison overcrowding from the Irish Prison Service today, and we're also waiting on the May 2026 summary report (which will show non-Irish prisoners and Top-5 nationalities). Meanwhile, schoolteacher Enoch Burke (32) has now spent 721 days of his life in prison - 611 in Mountjoy & 110 in Castlerea prison, 20 hours a day in a cell for his peaceful (albeit unlawful) protest after being forced to treat a 15-year old boy as a girl.

Title: A Day in the Life: The "Forbidden City" Scroll That Feels Like a Movie Step into the year 1550 and witness the most detailed "slice of life" ever painted. While most people think of Chinese art as quiet mountains and lonely poets, Qiu Ying’s masterpiece, Along the River During the Qingming Festival, throws you into the bustling chaos of a thriving metropolis. Imagine a 22-foot-long panoramic film where the camera never stops rolling. You aren’t just looking at a painting; you are eavesdropping on the daily gossip of the Song Dynasty. 🔍 Look Closer: The Drama in the Details As you scan the ink-washed streets, you’ll find a world vibrating with energy: • The Hustle: Watch a team of laborers sweat as they haul heavy goods, while a grumpy official argues with a boatman over a tax dispute. • The Street Food: See a cook fanning a fire under a wok, steam rising from freshly made buns that look almost edible. A street vendor shouts his prices to a crowd of hungry onlookers. • The Commute: A privileged scholar rides a mule, looking thoroughly unimpressed by the peasants dodging his path. Meanwhile, a mother struggles to control her toddler on a bridge crowded with shoppers. • The Crisis: Look at the bridge! A massive grain boat is losing control in the rapids, and the crowd leans over the railings, holding their breath as men rush to pull the ropes. Qiu Ying didn't just paint buildings; he painted the noise, the smells, and the sheer human struggle of a city that looks surprisingly modern. It is a 400-year-old documentary captured in silk and ink.

A Russian scientist stood up in Paris in 1904 and told a room full of doctors that old age was a disease caused by rotting bacteria in your gut, and that the cure was sour milk. What we now call yogurt. They thought he had lost his mind. A hundred years later, kimchi and kefir are a 270 billion dollar industry built on the exact idea they mocked him for. His name was Élie Metchnikoff. He ran the Pasteur Institute in Paris, the most respected biology lab on Earth at the time, and he already had a Nobel Prize coming for discovering how your white blood cells eat invaders. This was one of the sharpest scientists alive. And he became obsessed with a question nobody else was asking. Why do we get old? Most scientists treated aging as just something that happens. The body wears out, you die, end of story. Metchnikoff refused to accept that. He thought aging had a cause, a physical mechanism, something you could point to and maybe even stop. He went looking for it. He found his clue in a strange place. While traveling through the Balkans, he kept hearing the same thing about peasants in the mountains of Bulgaria. Poor people. Brutal winters. Almost no medicine. And somehow they lived far longer than the rich, comfortable people in Paris and London. Some were said to be over 100. A few were rumored to be 130 or more. Metchnikoff wanted to know what these dirt-poor mountain people had that the wealthy of Europe did not. The answer, he decided, was in their food. Every single day, at nearly every meal, they ate a sour fermented milk (now yogurt). It was cheap, it kept without refrigeration, and it was everywhere in their diet. Then he made the leap that got him mocked. He said your large intestine is full of bacteria breaking down the food you did not digest, and that process creates poisons. Slow, quiet poisons that leak into your body every day of your life and gradually wear you down. He called it autointoxication. Self-poisoning. In his mind, that daily drip of toxins from your own gut was a major reason you age. And the fermented milk, he argued, was the defense. The good bacteria in the yogurt would move into your gut, crowd out the rotting bacteria, and shut down the poison factory. Eat the right bugs, live longer. He said this out loud, in public, as a Nobel-caliber scientist. And the reaction split in two. The public went wild for it. Newspapers ran headlines asking if old age could be cured. A shop opened in Paris selling Bulgarian yogurt as an anti-aging elixir, and Parisians lined up for it. In America, papers promised you could drink sour milk and live to 180. The yogurt craze that followed him around the world started with this one lecture. The scientific establishment went the other way. Autointoxication sounded like medieval nonsense dressed up in lab language. The idea that specific bacteria in fermented food could reach your gut and rearrange your health was, to most doctors of his era, a fairy tale for gullible people. When he died, mainstream medicine quietly filed the whole theory under embarrassing overreach and moved on. Here is where the story gets complicated, because they were not entirely wrong to doubt him. Metchnikoff oversold it. Badly. Those Bulgarian peasants living to 130 were a myth. The real life expectancy in Bulgaria at the time was around 40. The old-age numbers were exaggerated by locals who were better at sounding ancient than actually being ancient. And Metchnikoff himself, who drank his sour milk faithfully every day, died at 71. Not exactly the walking proof of immortality he had promised. So for most of the 20th century, it looked like the skeptics had won. Yogurt was just food. The gut was just plumbing. Autointoxication was a punchline. Then the tools caught up. Starting in the 2000s, scientists finally got the ability to read the DNA of the bacteria living inside us. And what they found rewrote everything. Your gut is home to trillions of microbes, up to a thousand different species, and they are not passive passengers. They train your immune system. They pump out chemicals that talk to your brain. They influence your metabolism, your weight, your mood, your risk of heart disease and diabetes. The specific word autointoxication never came back. But the core of what Metchnikoff was reaching for did. The bacteria in your gut really do shape how healthy you are and how you age. Feeding the good ones with the right food really does change your body. He was pointing at the right mountain. He just described it with the crude map of 1904. The fermented foods he championed turned out to be one of the cleanest ways to do exactly what he said. Kimchi. Sauerkraut. Kefir. Kombucha. Real yogurt. Every one of them is a delivery system for living bacteria and the compounds they produce, the same trick those Bulgarian peasants were running without knowing why. And the scale of it now is staggering. Gut health is on track to be a 270 billion dollar market. Searches for microbiome and probiotics spike every single year. It is the number one thing food companies are chasing going into 2026. Kimchi went from a Korean side dish to a global superfood. Your grocery store has an entire shelf of fermented drinks that did not exist a decade ago. Every bit of it traces back to a man who stood in a Paris lecture hall in 1904 and got laughed at for saying the bugs in your gut decide how long you live. He got the details wrong. The yogurt was not magic. He did not reach 130, or even 80. But the instinct underneath it, the one his own colleagues buried him for, turned out to be one of the most important ideas in modern medicine. He was a hundred years early to his own funeral, and right about the thing that mattered.