Where oh where are those feminists now? Israel is abusing female Palestinian prisoners in its torture dungeons
Dec 25, 2025
A wise man once said, ‘Don’t argue with a stupid person because they will just drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.’
Oh, every day is Black Friday, Xmas in July, Presidents’ Sale Day! But, from the Wise Wolf Substack:
“Somewhere around mid-November, a switch flips in the collective American brain and we all start panic-buying things for people we’re not entirely sure we even like. Uncle Jerry gets another tie. Grandma gets another candle. The kids get whatever toy the algorithm told them they needed. We wrap it all in paper we’ll throw away in thirty seconds and call it tradition.
We stress about budgets. We fight crowds. We refresh tracking pages hoping that package arrives before Christmas morning. We convince ourselves that the quality of our love can be measured in dollars spent and that somehow, if we don’t get exactly the right gift, we’ve failed the people we care about.
But where did this whole thing come from? And does any of it actually matter?
The Romans Started It (Of Course)
Like most things we do in December, gift-giving traces back to the Romans and their Saturnalia festival. They exchanged small gifts called strenae, usually candles, figurines, or gag gifts. It was considered good luck and a way to spread goodwill during the darkest days of the year. The tradition was so ingrained that early Christians couldn’t stamp it out, so they just slapped a new label on it and kept going.
Saturnalia was a wild time. Social norms were flipped upside down. Masters served slaves. Gambling was permitted. People drank too much and said things they probably regretted. Sound familiar? We’ve been doing the same basic routine for two thousand years, just with better wrapping paper and more credit card debt.
The Magi Made It Biblical
Christians eventually justified the gift-giving by pointing to the wise men who brought gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the baby Jesus. Three guys showed up with presents, and two thousand years later we’re trampling each other at Walmart on Black Friday. The connection is a bit of a stretch, but it gave the church a way to baptize a pagan custom into something respectable.
Book analyzes assumptions about the Magi that shape our experience of Christmas and Epiphany | National Catholic Reporter
The gifts of the Magi weren’t random either. Gold represented kingship. Frankincense represented divinity. Myrrh, a burial spice, foreshadowed the crucifixion. These were symbolic, meaningful offerings to a child they believed would change the world. Somewhere along the way we traded that symbolism for Nintendo consoles and gift cards to restaurants nobody actually likes.
St. Nicholas Was a Real Guy
Before he got fat and started working with elves, St. Nicholas was a fourth century bishop in what is now Turkey. The legend goes that he secretly gave bags of gold to a poor man with three daughters so they wouldn’t have to become prostitutes. He literally threw money through their window in the middle of the night like some kind of charitable burglar. That story morphed over centuries into the gift-giving Santa we know today, filtered through Dutch traditions, Coca-Cola marketing, and a lot of shopping mall theater.”
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Jews on Xmas DAY:
Al-Awda Health and Community Association announced early Thursday that it has been forced to suspend all health services at the Al-Awda Medical Complex in Nuseirat, after completely running out of diesel fuel required to operate electricity generators.
In an official statement, the association said:
“To our valued public, we regret to inform you that Al-Awda Hospital – Nuseirat will temporarily cease operations due to the exhaustion of diesel fuel and the inability to operate generators.
This suspension is beyond our control, and God prevails over all affairs.”
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TV? Football? Toothless in Wisconsin tells me about more dirty NFL, racism this, no-racism that.
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale haunts me often: “That was when they suspended the Constitution… There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home… watching television… There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”
NFL players aren’t overwhelmingly Jewish, but to no one’s great surprise, Jews make up a reasonable portion of the professional football community, starting at the very top: the owners.
Arthur Blank, the Jewish-owner of the Atlanta Falcons, will play host to this year’s Super Bowl. Blank is a staple of the Atlanta Jewish community, a co-founder of Home Depot and a noted philanthropist.
Representing the tribe in Super Bowl LIII is New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Among the most regularly practicing Jewish owners of the NFL, Kraft grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, at Congregation Kehillath Israel, where his father was a lay leader.
Kraft delivered a keynote address at Yeshiva University in 2016, discussing his Jewish upbringing, among other topics. He said that his father pushed him to become a rabbi, but he instead went into business, initially working for a packaging company owned by his father-in-law.
Recently, Kraft was a recipient of the 2019 Genesis Prize, sometimes referred to as the “Jewish Nobel,” for his work combating anti-Semitism and support for the state of Israel.
Who’s in the Owner’s Box? Jews!
Fucking house negroes, man, in the NFL. You are slaves to Jews.
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Pax Judaica – One World Government
“That is the grand plan, to create a world government, in Jerusalem” ( video credit: Jiang Xequin, Chinese Professor )
This is the Pax Judaica and “Pax Judaica is a global AI surveillance system.”
But first, they have to get rid of all Palestinians whom they have been using as lab rats to test these surveillance technologics on with devastating effects. It is a global system referred to as “Pax Judaica,” presented as an AI-driven surveillance framework intended to operate at a worldwide scale. The system is described as combining artificial intelligence with existing digital infrastructure to monitor populations continuously.
The stated dystopian objective is the formation of a centralized world authority, identified as being headquartered in Jerusalem. This authority is described as overriding national governments and coordinating governance through technological systems rather than traditional political institutions.
The system is characterized as relying on large-scale data integration. Information sources cited in the material include digital communications, financial transactions, biometric identifiers, location data, and online activity. Artificial intelligence is described as processing this data to assess behavior, assign risk or compliance status, and determine access to essential services.
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Jews: Stephen Miller’s mass deportation agenda for second Trump term, explained | Vox
Meet the tent company making a fortune off Trump’s deportation plans
Deployed Resources, a privately held tent company, is set to operate a new ICE tent camp to hold people awaiting deportation in El Paso, Texas.
The Trump administration plans to open warehouses throughout the United States to house up to 80,000 detained migrants who are slated for deportation, according to The Washington Post.
Border Report Live: US tightens rules on H-1B visas for high-skilled workers
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking contractors to help it renovate at least 22 warehouse facilities for detention use, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing draft documents.
The report comes as the administration plans to ramp up deportations in 2026, and currently is holding the most detainees ever in U.S. history — over 70,000.
Seven large-scale holding centers would be set up in renovated industrial warehouses in key cities, including two in Texas – each facility holding between 5,000 and 10,000 people – where migrants could be deported from. Fifteen smaller-scale centers would be set up in warehouses – holding 500 to 1,500 people – to be used as quick processing facilities, including two on the Texas border with Mexico, according to the Post.
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Anticipating early 2026 opening, Newport, Oregon seeks to block potential Newport ICE facility
And the Jew representative says what?
“Now we have a tool to do something. When all we have are rumors, we can’t plan and we can’t have a real dialogue that helps us convey our community’s concerns,” he wrote. “I hate that it took a lawsuit to get our government to simply talk to us.”
Oregon is one of a few states in the nation that does not have a large-scale, long-term immigration detention facility. People held by ICE in the state are allowed to be detained in processing facilities in cities such as Portland for up to 12 hours, often transferring to a center in Tacoma, Washington, for longer detentions.
According to the state’s updated lawsuit, though, ICE informed potential facility contractors that it would hold most detainees in Newport for less than 72 hours to avoid triggering federal rules regarding heightened space, services and standards of care. The suit alleges the federal agency then “acknowledged stays may exceed the 72-hour threshold, even though doing so would violate its own standards.”
In a Monday newsletter to his consituents, state Rep. David Gomberg, D-Otis, who represents Newport, praised the state’s move.
The plan is only in draft form and subject to change, but according to current documents, the large-scale facilities would be located in:
- Stafford, Virginia
- Hutchins, Texas
- Hammond, Louisiana
- Baytown, Texas
- Glendale, Arizona
- Social Circle, Georgia
- Kansas City, Missouri
The 15 processing sites would be holding locations for a few weeks before migrants are funneled into the larger-scale warehouses. The smaller facilities currently are slated to be built in:
- Los Fresnos, Texas
- El Paso, Texas
- Hagerstown, Maryland
- Highland Park, Michigan
- Jefferson, Georgia
- Jupiter, Florida
- Merrillville, Indiana
- Merrimack, New Hampshire
- Oklahoma City
- Port Allen, Louisiana
- Roxbury, New Jersey
- Salt Lake City
- San Antonio
- Tremont, Pennsylvania
- Woodbury, Minnesota
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Jews, man, Merry fucking Xmas: Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has been rankling his neighbors in Palo Alto as he works on expanding and modifying the 11 homes that he has purchased in the area. To smooth over tensions, The New York Times says Zuckerberg gifted his next-door neighbors noise-canceling headphones as a peace offering.
Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire cofounder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, reportedly gave noise-canceling headphones to his neighbors in the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto in an effort to address years of frustration over ongoing construction and disruption surrounding his expanding residential compound, according to The New York Times.
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Kapos in the UnUnited Inbred Queen-dumb!
We are not involved in the medical management of the Palestine Action hunger strikers, though we have experience of previous such protests (Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy, 22 December). The ethical issues are well established: respect for consent, confidentiality, assessment of mental capacity and vigilance for coercion within the doctor-patient relationship.
These prisoners have not faced trial, with some dates set as late as 2027. The damaging effects of prolonged remand on mental health are well known. In this context, voluntary total fasting may be perceived as their only means of protest against detention, so a valid advanced directive, which provides instructions for their medical management when they lose mental capacity, would be essential.
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Do you fucking really believe “polls”?
Americans are concluding 2025 in a sour mood about Congress, the economy and the direction of the country, according to a new national poll.
A new two-week poll from Gallup released on Dec. 22 shows that a majority of Americans are unhappy about congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country and do not approve of the country’s top leaders in the White House, Supreme Court and the Federal Reserve.
President Donald Trump‘s approval rating for the last month of the year is also weak, standing at 36%, though it’s buoyed by a strong 89% level of support among Republicans. Among independents, his support in the latest Gallup poll is 25%. Democrats’ opinions of the president tanked to 3% in the survey.
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Another fucking pussy pope:
In first Christmas message, Pope Leo decries Palestinians in Gaza being forced to shelter in tents from ‘rain, wind and cold’
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Weird website:
- Veterans Affairs will no longer perform abortions in emergency cases, in light of a new legal opinion from the Justice Department. The VA started providing abortions to veterans in certain life-threatening circumstances in fall 2022. This comes after the Supreme Court ruling on the Dobbs v. Jackson case. The department began the process of rolling back the policy this summer. That process is still making its way through the official rule-making process.(Trump-Vance administration bans abortion care and counseling for veterans – Democracy Forward)
- Another agency CIO is heading out the door. Jeff Seaton, the NASA chief information officer, is retiring after 32 years of federal service. Seaton is taking advantage of the ability to delay his retirement under the deferred resignation program. His last day is Dec. 27. Seaton has been NASA CIO for almost five years and previously worked in senior technology roles at headquarters and at NASA Langley Research Center. The space agency is hiring a replacement for Seaton. Its job announcement said the new CIO will be a career senior executive service member. Applications for the position are due by Jan. 9.(NASA to hire new career CIO – USAJobs.com)
- One nonprofit is continuing to press for investigations into potential Hatch Act violations during the government shutdown. In a new letter to the Office of Special Counsel, the legal organization Democracy Forward called on OSC to open Hatch Act investigations, pointing to multiple incidents of partisan messaging during October and November. The group specifically highlights how agencies posted messages to their websites that blamed the shutdown on Democrats. And in a separate letter to the Government Accountability Office, Democracy Forward also raised potential violations of the Antideficiency Act during the 43-day shutdown.(Hatch Act letters – Democracy Forward)
- The Missile Defense Agency has tapped more companies to support the Golden Dome initiative. The agency has made over a thousand awards under its Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, contract worth up to $151 billion. The new awards expand a pool of pre-approved vendors eligible to compete for future task orders, bringing the total number of qualifying offerors to more than 2,000 companies. The agency said it has now transitioned to the ordering phase and drafting solicitations.(MDA taps more companies for Golden Dome SHIELD contract – SAM.gov)
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- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed all department heads to recognize “outstanding” Defense Department civilian employees with cash bonuses. A new memo authorizes Pentagon leaders to award the top 15% of civilian employees bonuses worth 15% to 25% of their basic pay, capped at $25,000. Hegseth directed department heads to issue the bonuses by Jan. 30. The memo to recognize top talent comes amid Hegseth’s broader push to shrink and reshape the Pentagon’s civilian workforce.(Hegseth authorizes cash bonuses of up to $25,000 for top civilian employees – Federal News Network)
- A top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is no longer reviewing requests for telework as a reasonable accommodation for employees with disabilities. Supervisors have instructed staff to email their medical documentation directly to Lynda Chapman, the agency’s chief operating officer, to “bypass” the traditional reasonable accommodation system, and receive up to 30 days of telework as an interim accommodation. But CDC employees tell Federal News Network that Chapman no longer has access to their reasonable accommodation requests. Former CDC officials say many of the human resources staff trained to handle reasonable accommodation requests were targeted by layoffs earlier this year.(As HHS restricts telework, CDC asks employees to ‘bypass’ reasonable accommodation process – Federal News Network)
- House Democrats are pressing the Office of Personnel Management for answers on how the agency is addressing abnormally high volumes of federal retirement applications. In a letter sent this week, the lawmakers raised concerns about the delays retiring federal employees are currently experiencing. That’s after the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program spurred a major influx of retirement applications. The lawmakers are giving OPM Director Scott Kupor until the end of January to respond with more details on OPM’s plans.(House Democrats question OPM on retirement processing delays – Federal News Network)
- House Democrats are urging the Transportation Security Administration to preserve union rights for TSA airport screeners. Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and 11 of his colleagues say TSA’s push to end union rights will not improve efficiency or security at airport screening lines. In a new letter, lawmakers urge Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to keep TSA’s 2024 collective bargaining agreement in place. TSA plans to void the collective bargaining agreement effective Jan. 11. The American Federation of Government Employees is urging a federal judge to take action, pointing to a preliminary injunction that blocked TSA’s previous attempt to eliminate the union agreement.(House Dems urge TSA to preserve collective bargaining agreement – Federal News Network)
- The owner of a federal contractor is facing up to 90 years in prison after being indicted by a Baltimore grand jury in a scheme to defraud the government that included rigging bids for IT contracts and receiving kickbacks in exchange for influence over IT procurements. Victor Marquez is facing wire fraud charges. The Justice Department said Marquez and his co-conspirators used his access to sensitive procurement information to rig bids for procurements for large government IT contracts. Marquez allegedly received more than $3.8 million in compensation in the form of kickbacks for steering procurements to his co-conspirators, who referred to the payments to Marquez as the “Vic tax.”(Federal IT contractor facing charges of defrauding the government – Justice Department)
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Jews: Judge rules that NSO cannot continue to install spyware via WhatsApp pending appeal
A California federal judge on Friday declined to stay an order preventing the NSO Group from using WhatsApp infrastructure to mount spyware attacks.
NSO Group had sought to stay the order pending a decision on its appeal in the case, which centers on allegations that it targeted 1,400 WhatsApp users with its powerful zero-click Pegasus spyware in 2019.
The spyware manufacturer has said that the permanent injunction will cause “catastrophic” damage to its business and that it will “suffer irreparable, potentially existential injuries” as a result.
“The court does not find that defendants have made a strong showing of likelihood of success on the merits of their arguments regarding liability,” the opinion says.
The spyware industry’s impact on democracy, human rights, and privacy is well-documented. One of the largest spyware companies, the NSO Group, became notorious in 2021 because its software, Pegasus, was used to surveil high-profile individuals and in human rights abuses. In Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy, Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud tell the story behind the story – an inside look at the journalists and human rights defenders who worked tirelessly to uncover the widespread targeting of NSO’s Pegasus spyware.
The book presents a compelling case for the dangers of unregulated and easy-to-use surveillance technology. Through detailed accounts of individuals targeted by Pegasus, Richard and Rigaud, journalists at Forbidden Stories, illustrate how these technologies can support blackmail, imprisonment, and even the murder of dissidents.
A valuable first-hand perspective
One of the book’s strengths is its portrayal of the coalition of journalists and researchers who joined forces to piece together evidence of spyware abuses. The authors offer an insightful first-hand perspective on this collaborative effort. For example, they highlight challenges figuring out who they could trust and what technology they could rely on that arose when some members of the team appeared on leaked target lists. The book also showcases the impressive efforts of Claudio Guarnieri, senior technologist at Amnesty International’s Security Lab, and his colleague Donncha Ó Cearbhaill – whose willingness to dig deep helped reveal flaws in Pegasus’s implementation, aiding both attribution of specific infections from states using Pegasus and victim identification.
Throughout the book, readers encounter noteworthy details – already revealed through media reporting – that underline the pervasive reach of Pegasus. Mexico emerged as NSO’s most active client, selecting over fifteen thousand phone numbers for potential targeting (pp. 8, 33). Even major politicians, such as French President Emmanuel Macron, were not exempt from digital intrusion (p. 43). The infrastructure required to operate Pegasus was significant, including two separate rooms constantly cooled to 65°F, with an uninterrupted power system, fibre optic network, and four different servers (p. 80). One notable passage involves Siddharth Varadarajan, co-founder of The Wire, a prominent investigative news outlet in India. Pegasus initially failed to compromise his device, only to succeed immediately after he updated his phone – a testament to the advanced capabilities of the software and the vulnerabilities it exploits (p. 137).
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Weiss’ decision to hold the “60 Minutes” shortly before it aired led to blowback both inside and outside CBS News, which is owned by Paramount Skydance. Sharyn Alfonsi, who reported the segment, wrote in note to colleagues that the decision was a “political one,” multiple outlets reported.
Weiss said in her memo that she and other CBS News leaders are “not out to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media.”
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[Medics collect blood donations in Beirut’s southern suburb on 17 September 2024, after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon amid ongoing cross-border tensions between Israel and Hezbollah fighters. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding Tehran’s ambassador in Beirut in blasts the Iran-backed militant group blamed on Israel.]
Rashida Tlaib, the Palestinian American congresswoman, has accused a political cartoonist of racism after he depicted her next to a pager exploding days after such devices blew up across Lebanon in what the Arab country has said was an attack by Israel.
A statement from the Democratic US House representative also expressed concern that the cartoon by Henry Payne would “incite more hate and violence against Arab and Muslim communities”.
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USA — 51st state of Israel. Pirates.
Satellite shows tanker seized by US near Venezuela is now off Texas coast
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Duh. Next POTUS?
The old world is dying,” Antonio Gramsci once wrote. “And the new world struggles to be born.” In such interregnums, the Italian Marxist philosopher suggested, “every act, even the smallest, may acquire decisive weight”.
In 2025, western leaders appeared convinced they – and we – were living through one such transitional period, as the world of international relations established after the second world war crashed to a halt.
During such eras, Gramsci more famously wrote, “morbid phenomena of the most varied kind come to pass”. And at present there is no more morbid phenomenon than the crisis of legitimacy for the networks of rules and laws on which the international order was based – the world that the US was central in creating in 1945.
No one can say they were not warned about the wrecking ball that was about to be inflicted on the global order by Donald Trump.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, spelled out with admirable clarity in his Senate confirmation hearing in February how Trump disowned the world his predecessors had made.
“The postwar global order is not just obsolete, it is now a weapon being used against us,” he said. “And all this has led us to a moment in which we must now confront the single greatest risk of geopolitical instability and generational global crisis in the lifetime of anyone alive here today.”
The rules-based international order had to be jettisoned, Rubio said, because it had been built on a false assumption that a foreign policy serving core national interests could be replaced by one that served the “liberal world order, that all the nations of earth would become members of the democratic western-led community”, with humankind now destined to abandon national identity and become “one human family and citizens of the world. This was not just a fantasy. We now know it was a dangerous delusion”.
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And the era of this sort of Cunt Thinking, well, it is already out the proverbial door. Merry Fucking AI Xmas: For Kiara Nirghin, the 24-year-old co-founder and chief technology officer of the applied AI lab Chima, the narrative that her generation uses artificial intelligence as a cheat code is not just wrong—it ignores a fundamental shift in human cognition.
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The Oregon FFA could lose a big chunk of its funding due to state budget cuts. Teachers and other members are urging legislators to continue funding a program that prepares many students for careers beyond just agriculture.
Time to get those AI billy goats and robotic sheep, dudes.
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Science cool story! Merry Xmas from Paulo Kirk!
“It was a complete surprise to see that it was a wolf and not a dog,” said Pontus Skoglund of the Ancient Genomics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute and senior author. “This is a provocative case that raises the possibility that in certain environments, humans were able to keep wolves in their settlements, and found value in doing so.”
Ancient wolves found on a human-occupied Baltic island reveal unexpected and complex forms of prehistoric human-animal interaction.
Researchers have uncovered wolf remains dating back thousands of years on a small and remote island in the Baltic Sea. Because the island is naturally isolated, the animals could only have arrived there with human involvement.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, Stockholm University, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of East Anglia, suggests that gray wolves may have been deliberately managed or controlled by prehistoric communities.
The remains, estimated to be between 3,000 and 5,000 years old, were discovered in the Stora Förvar cave on the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö. This site was heavily used by seal hunters and fishers during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The island spans just 2.5 square kilometers and has no native land mammals, indicating that any large terrestrial animals found there must have been brought by people.
[All modern dogs are descended from a wolf species that when extinct around 15,000 years ago. Grey wolves, pictured here fighting for food with now extinct dire wolves (red), are dogs’ closest living relative.]
Do domesticated animals have common traits?
There are certain traits which are seen as almost universal in many animals. Things like tamer behavior, a smaller brain, floppy ears, a curly tail and changes in skin and fur pigmentation like spots. They allow us to differentiate between what’s wild and what’s considered domesticated. There is a lot of debate as to why these traits are seen in all the different kinds of animals we’ve domesticated, not just dogs. It’s likely that when the genes involved with domestication are expressed, they also manifest with these different traits that are not seen in the wild ancestors. It’s almost like a cute byproduct.
What makes dogs different from other domesticated animals?
Dogs are unique in comparison to other domesticated animals because it appears that their breeding with its wild relative was restricted. If you look at ancient dog genomes, there is gene flow from dogs to wolves but not the other way around which is very unusual. If you look at early domesticated pigs, they mixed with wild boar all the time. The same is true for goats and sheep.
Footnote: Shit, sorry for the fucking Epstein Jew Neuroperverse ender!!
Paul Haeder, Author 