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Man shoots 2 officers in Paris police station after grabbing gun (www.lemonde.fr)
A man arrested for allegedly attacking a woman with a box cutter shot and seriously wounded two officers in a Paris police station on Thursday, May 9, after grabbing one of their weapons. According to Agence France-Presse (AFP) the incident happened in the French capital's 13th arrondissement shortly before 10:30 pm and that one...
Russia claims capture of villages in northeast Ukraine as more than 1,700 civilians flee (apnews.com)
.Russian forces have captured five villages as part of a renewed ground assault in Ukraine’s northeast, the country’s Defense Ministry said Saturday. Ukrainian journalists reported Friday that Russian troops took the villages of Borysivka, Ohirtseve, Pylna and Strilecha, all of which lie in a militarily contested “grey...
Mexico heat wave melts temperature records in ten cities, including Mexico City (www.rnz.co.nz)
A searing heat wave has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink.Mexico registered record-high temperatures in 10 cities, including the capital, authorities said on Friday, amid a searing heat wave that has prompted blackouts nationwide and pushed the power grid to the brink....
Kristi Noem Now Banned in More Than 90 Percent of All South Dakota Tribal Lands (www.thedailybeast.com)
Macklemore’s anthem for Gaza is a rarity: A protest song in an era of apolitical music (www.vox.com)
Daughters and Fathers
This is a serious question, mostly addressed to the adult women among us but also to anyone else who has a stake in the matter....
This Jerk Parks His Cybertruck in an SF Crosswalk Every Day (brokeassstuart.com)
The State Department said that Israel's military campaign in Gaza may have violated international law. (www.nytimes.com)
The Biden administration has concluded it is “reasonable to assess” that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has violated international law, but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of military aid, the State Department told Congress on Friday....
Russian firms buy $4 billion worth of India-made arms, pay in Indian rupee (www.firstpost.com)
I'm so tired of hearing about US police brutality and China being authoritarian. Why does it feel like everyone is a hypocrite here? Where are the posts about Chinese protests and police brutality?
I bet if the kind of things happening in the US happened in China, I wouldn’t be able to stop hearing about it. I mean, people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn’t anything happened since then? It’s like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination or 9/11, those are old news.
Belgium's King Leopold II as a rubber snake (baraza.africa)
By Edward Linley Sambourne - www.punchcartoons.com/…/product_info.html, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5279252
What the hell is the reverse of impostor syndrome called?
I’ve never been a reporter....
Warner Bros. has a Lord of the Rings fan film, The Hunt for Gollum, taken off of YouTube (www.joblo.com)
How ‘Putin’ Will Test Audience Appetite for AI (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...
As a little background, I didn’t actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I’m never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter)....
Israeli whistleblowers detail horror of shadowy detention facility for Palestinians | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
At a military base that now doubles as a detention center in Israel’s Negev desert, an Israeli working at the facility snapped two photographs of a scene that he says continues to haunt him.
Michigan woman found living inside rooftop store sign with desk and coffee maker (www.theguardian.com)
The woman told police she had been living inside the grocery store sign for roughly a year, and had been able to get electricity
Israel Rejected a Cease-Fire. The Media Isn’t Telling Us. (jacobin.com)
If you had to give one piece of advice that is pretty much universally applicable, what would it be?
I wouldn’t dare defile Douglas Adam’s memory by not mentioning that you should keep a towel with you at all times, but my second contender is a surprisingly short three-parter:...
How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?
To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of...