🇵🇸 UN Amb: “Killing of aid workers from WCK is not an isolated incident, it is confirmation of what you all knew for months now, Israel is targeting those that laws of war were est to protect…it took killing of foreign nationals to acknowledge the fate reserved for Palestinians”

Really good David M. Barreda story about Meroë Morse, a remarkable scientist in the early history of Polaroid.
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She made Polaroid into a cultural icon. But few know about Meroë Marston Morse and her vital contribution. nationalgeographic.com/history/articl… National Geographic #WomensHistoryMonth

“During her relatively short time at the company, a young art history grad named Meroë Marston Morse was one of Polaroid’s most important visionaries.” Story by David Barreda ⁦David M. Barreda⁩ ⁦National Geographic⁩ nationalgeographic.com/history/articl…

Journalists must secure university approval in order to gain access to campus according to a policy shared Wednesday by Vanderbilt University.

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Scene reporter Eli Motycka (Eli Motycka) was arrested by Vanderbilt police while reporting on student protests.

Once you’ve taken a nap with a dog in the middle of the day, how can you continue to believe in capitalism even a little bit

For context, SCOTUS just allowed Texas to go forward with its new version of the 'show me your papers' law, which allows Texas to round up any brown person on the street for a 'suspected' violation of immigration laws.
I explained the problem here:
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Please hold out until 1/1/2026

It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls - one for each child killed in Gaza during the war.

They’re dying from airstrikes and now malnutrition and dehydration.

These are some of their stories.

If you know me via my longtime work on theocratic politics, please read this. Then ask yourself why you're reading it in the (excellent) Bucks County Beacon instead of a major newspaper, none of which are meeting the moment we're in.

BBC Dad content

Today is the 7th anniversary of the BBC Dad blooper.

So here it is again, with some recent family pictures in the thread below.

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Something is missing here but I can’t quite put my finger on it

Swedish PM’s thoughts during SOTU:

- you have a 1000 billionaires?
- your platform is progressive because it includes literacy by third grade and affordable insulin?
- you have poison water AND 1000 billionaires?
- they only pay 8% in taxes?

I've tweeted this before, but if you're a writer or editor who's been laid off and needs new headshots, I will do them for free (natural light) or in a studio (if you cover the rental cost) :) or even if you haven't been laid off and just need new photos lmk

Kamala Harris in her speech makes increased aid delivery contingent on the release of the hostage. This means she’s using mass civilian famine as a bargaining chip in negotiations. This is a clear war crime, but we’ve lost count of those.

Such a joke. These girls are playing water polo. Looks horrific.
Suspend the game. Not fair.
U.S. Women's National Soccer Team
Concacaf
#GoldCup

Ad $ is ruining this championship. Stop the game. #USWNT

The New York Times wrote a Haiku to avoid saying Israel massacres Palestinians that they’re deliberately starving in Gaza.

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