I’m a tech mayor

My cousin Mohammed sent me a picture of the house that he fled from when the bombs got close. He went back to see what was left of it. And found this. Thankfully he & his little ones fled just before the bombs hit.

Evacuating was hell. They had to walk for 2 hours to Rafah. He…

Leaked USAID memo: “deterioration of food security and nutrition in Gaza is unprecedented in modern history, exponentially outpacing in six months the long-term declines that led to the only other two famine declarations in the 21st century”

Just damning
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An NBC News investigation into seven deadly airstrikes has found Palestinians were killed in areas of southern Gaza that the Israeli military had explicitly designated as safe zones.

Hala Gorani reports from Israel.

Refaat Alareer wrote a poem called “If I Die,” asking people to fly a kite in his name if he’s killed to give hope to orphaned children.

He wrote it for his daughter, Shaima.

Israel killed him. Months later Shaima had a baby.

Israel killed Shaima.

And her husband and baby.

Ben Collins running The Onion is arguably weirder than Donald Trump becoming president.

I’m pretty sure any big US technology company would also act this way? Would OpenAI or Google or Nvidia even consider selling off their core IP and tech stack just to preserve access to the EU market, or the Chinese market?

'If you were to take the five hundred members of the US media who talk about college campuses the most and cast them all into the sea, the overall quality of our national discourse would rise significantly' hamiltonnolan.com/p/college-is-a…

Israel today assassinated the eldest daughter of our Professor Refaat Al-Areer (Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸), Al-Shaimaa, along with her husband and newborn baby. I am out of words, tears, and ways to comprehend this endless loss, this pain, this criminal annihilation of our people.

🚨Six-year-old Sara Abu Ewemer was killed by the Israeli army, while her grandmother and several other family members were injured, following the bombardment of their home last night .
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The saddest image out of Gaza I have seen - in her final moments, this little girl still holds on to her candy. Photographer Jehan Kawera describes the child “gasping for breath, and the piece of candy, still stuck in her hand stained with blood.” ⁦From ⁦Democracy Now!⁩

🚨Mohammed Hassouna, son of the writer and poet Amna Hamaid, pleads with journalist Ismail Abu Omar to help him in clearing the rubble of their home.

His mother, brother, and several other family members were killed in an Israeli missile strike on their house in #Gaza !

Norm Finkelstein addresses Columbia students. Doesn't give a barn-burning speech. Instead, soberly lectures on the need for messages to resonate, now is the time to persuade 80% of Americans, and criticizes activists for extremist ambiguous slogans.
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The funniest part of this is that the San Jose mayor’s security officer appears to have absolutely zero ability to do security officer stuff and may have actually just coasted through an entire security career by pretending

I was always a bit skeptical that the Chinese communist party is secretly brainwashing America but seeing a balaclava clad member of the security services dragging away the chair of a university philosophy department makes me think they’ve really made inroads

I sense a huge crossover opportunity for these two authors of gift-shop books

no clue what's happening here but 'Global Tetrahedron' has been The Onion's default fake name for generic corporations for a quarter century now theonion.com/u-s-populace-l…

Tom Gara long-running Onion joke

Global Tetrahedron