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I have friends at Indiana University and they've been saying there are snipers on IU Bloomington campus. And theres a bunch of cops everywhere. This is wild.

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biologist here! why are plants green? well they suck up air from the sky (blue) and mix it with the sunlight (yellow) i fucking love science.

#NOT THE LITERAL ACTUAL WAY IT WAS EXPLAINED TO ME IN MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Yemen’s armed forces threatened on 22 April to expand military operations against Israeli-linked ships in the Red Sea, Arab Sea, and Indian Ocean following the discovery of mass graves in Gaza’s Nasser Medical Complex. “For the seventh month in a row, the genocidal crimes of the Israeli enemy continue, the latest of which is the brutal massacre in the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis,” the armed forces said via a statement on Yemen’s Al-Masirah channel. The statement continued, “the genocidal crimes that the Palestinian people are facing in Gaza and the occupied West Bank reflect an unparalleled level of Zionist hatred and crime.” The statement by Yemen called to “escalate their operations in the Red Sea,” adding that Sanaa continues its full support for the people of Gaza. On Sunday, over 200 bodies were found across two mass graves located in Khan Yunis’ Nasser Medical Complex. Gaza’s Government Media Office announced that about 700 victims are expected to be found. “We found in the Nasser Complex corpses without heads and bodies without skins, and some of them had their organs stolen,” the media office said. “The occupation executed dozens of displaced, wounded, sick, and medical staff.”

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UPDATE: Even More Vegetables for Rafah Camps!

Amazing news!! This time, Hussam put together the biggest round of packages for the people of the camp and surrounding areas! He and his team put together 350 packages of veggies, each with 10 kilos of assorted vegetables, and to pair with that he also distributed 350 cans of feta cheese!

As you can see in the video, so many people are coming together to help these efforts, all thanks to your donations in HelpGazaChildren! Please continue donating and spreading the word — every penny means so much! Feel free to share our campaign link to other platforms as well!

Donate to our GoFundMe which goes directly to Hussam, who manages camps in Rafah, with NO middleman in between!

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TWO HOURS AGO: israeli tanks are headed towards rafah, they are moving forward with their ground assault. as we all watch the solidarity encampments across the us, REMEMBER WHAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE FIGHTING FOR! DO NOT LOOK AWAY FROM PALESTINE!!

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The months since October 7 have aggravated the most extreme campus panic I have witnessed. To judge by the American mass media, the campus is the most urgent scene of political struggle in the world. What is happening “on campus” often seems of greater concern than what is happening in Gaza, where every single university campus has been razed by the IDF. When all the Palestinian dead have been counted, it seems likely that these months will be recorded as having inflamed a campus panic no less intense than the one that accompanied the Vietnam War. The correspondences between that moment and this one were unmistakable to those of us who watched, in person or through screens, as the NYPD hauled 108 Columbia University students off of their institution’s campus on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Like the campus panic of the 1960s–70s, this one is aroused by the spectacle of young people speaking out against the inhumane actions of the US and its imperial client states, as well as against the complacency and complicity of their own educational institutions. Now, as then, the act of protesting against injustice undergoes a curious transfiguration in the media, which refashions this action into the object of frantic scrutiny, surveillance, and suppression.

Harvard University professor Walter Johnson, in an essay about experience of working at Harvard since October 7 titled “Living Inside a Psyop”—the psyop being, precisely, “the campus”—calls this the “two-step maneuver” of campus panic: (1) Look over here, (2) Do not look over there. Overreact to this, overlook that.[1] Look at the US, not at Palestine. Look up at what is happening in the clouds over Cambridge, Massachusetts, where a plane trails a banner declaring, “HARVARD HATES JEWS”; do not look at what is happening on the ground in Gaza, do not look at the masses of the displaced, the bereaved, the starving, the wounded, the sick, the dying, and certainly do not look at the dead, murdered with artillery supplied by the US government and funded by American citizens’ taxes. When student protestors chant, “From the river to the sea,” hear a speculative antisemitic canard; do not hear a reference to an actual river, an actual sea, an actual and ongoing history of dispossession and occupation.

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The Sudanese Ministry of Health has revealed that at least 11,000 cases of dengue fever and some 9,000 cases of cholera have been reported in the country in the recent period.

In a press release, Sudan's Health Minister, Haitham Ibrahim, said these include 325 fatalities from dengue fever and another 66 cholera-related deaths in 12 the states.

He made the remarks after meeting with Sovereignty Council Vice Chairman General Malik Aggar. "The health sector has witnessed a significant improvement in pharmaceutical availability and medical consumables after the Ministry of Finance committed to providing monthly support, in addition to support from several donors,” he said.

The meeting discussed the reports of health emergencies and reports received from the states.

20/04/24

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There's something underlooked and vicious about how all immigration discourse has been reduced to moralistic whinging when anyone left of hitler should be opposed to the brain drain and displacement the west imposes on the global south

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CONTEXT: the gaza freedom flotilla coalition aims to bring emergency aid (food, medical supplies, etc) to a starving and besieged gaza. activists and journalists from all over the world (including diaspora palestinians like dylan) will be participating, and they know the risk — in 2010 turkish activists attempting a similar mission had their flagship raided by israeli forces, who murdered 10 activists aboard (9 died on site and another died later from critical injuries).

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FUCK YEAH COLUMBIA UNI STUDENTS!!!!!!

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Xi Jinping wants things to change, and the socialist buzzword is “common prosperity.”

Among the aims of common prosperity are raising the income of urban and rural residents, reducing the wealth gap and promoting equal access to services, officials have said.

Entire sectors have been ordered to change the way they do business. The once hugely lucrative after-school education industry was decimated overnight by a regulatory decision to ban for-profit tutoring and big tech was hammered by a wide-ranging anti-monopoly crackdown. Then came celebrities who evade taxes, food delivery giants who hire workers without full contracts and video-gaming giants who let youngsters play on their platforms. It seems nowhere is safe from scrutiny. The question is, where will the ax fall next?

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Jittery investors have been dumping stocks in areas affected, and hunting for clues as to Beijing’s next targets, while the wealthiest individuals and biggest corporations have suddenly upped their philanthropic game and poured cash into good causes. Now there’s speculation that Beijing may introduce taxes on property, inheritance and capital gains as a means of redistributing the wealth accumulating in relatively few hands.

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And if the bearish mood of investors doesn’t fade, it could limit the ability of Chinese companies to raise financing, depress innovation and entrepreneurship and ultimately undermine the economy

Lol bloomberg's scared

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Don’t even fucking look in my direction right now I am a mess

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do people even know the extent of sanctions on the iranian people? my mom's family can't afford fruit anymore. it's a state of psychological warfare; literally nobody living there has any sort of hope for the future. added sanctions from the EU are going to destroy the lives of 87 million innocent people