Alexandra

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It's starting to rain and we're expecting a severe thunderstorm. This also applies to so much more going on right now.

There's a storm coming...

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Hi everyone,please pay attention, last days no clear water here in gaza 🇵🇸😭 and every child have hepatitis A Please support us to reach our voice to human🫶🚨💔 1000 litres of clear water cost us 300£ This is my family link , do your best for us please, repost and donate as u can gofund.me/0a1c6d87

Help Walaa, who is paraplegic, and family in Gaza, organised by Amanda Graygofund.me Hi, I am Amanda and I am a Brit who has become friends with a family and… Amanda Gray needs your support for Help Walaa, who is paraplegic, and family in Gaza

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Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance has been named Trump’s 2024 vice presidential pick.

Trump names Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as vice presidential running matenpr.org Sen. Vance’s selection as Trump’s VP comes as the Republican Party leans into the former president’s MAGA messaging that has fired up the party’s base — yet could alienate a broader audience needed t...

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Reuters: Trump to announce VP at 4:30pm ET

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

Yup.

Every time a story comes out that a violent boy or man was bullied in school, I really wish they’d talk to the girls and women who had to be around that guy. Killings are rarely a first act of violence.

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MAGA boards are lighting up with declarations of civil war, with a NY-based Proud Boys channel calling for feds, Democrats and reporters to be “hung in the streets.”

Far-Right Extremists Call for Violence and War After Trump Shootingwww.wired.com "They should all be hung in the streets," one person wrote of Democrats, the media, and others. "War now," another wrote.

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Hey, a reminder I give people every now and then: a friend of mine got blackout drunk and emailed Bush on the night of the 2000 election and said “I’m going to kill you and you’ll never find me.” Six hours later he was in cuffs and it cost him thousands in legal fees and he’s still on a list.

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CBS spoke to an emergency physician who was attending the rally and who did CPR on an audience member who had been shot in the head. Video here, but CW: some graphic details x.com/JakeMRosen/s...

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Butler County DA Richard Goldinger tells me Trump was grazed by gunfire but is safe. An audience member was killed and the shooter is dead. Another person is in serious condition. — Meryl Kornfield, WaPo (WTAE's Mike Valente earlier reported this from same source, but I'd been waiting to confirm)

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The Baby Economy. “Before Guatemala moved to end the practice in 2007, about 5,000 children were put up for #adoption each year, mostly by American couples who paid about $50,000, according to human rights groups. In total, the adoptions were estimated to generate around $250 million a year.”

Guatemala Apologizes To Family Torn Apart By Forced Adoptionwww.barrons.com Guatemala's president on Friday offered an official apology to one of the many families whose children were taken away and adopted abroad in a multimillion-dollar black market.

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Assassination attempt on DJT 8 Shots fired at Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, as former president is seen with blood across his face. A bullet grazed his face [ ear ] . (By Will Potter For Dailymail.Com) And the idiot fights w SS who are trying to protect him, saying “ Wait, Wait!”

Oh my.

Apparent gunshots reported at Trump rally in Butler, PA, just now. Trump's ear appears bloodied as he's taken off-state. In the video, Trump is speaking, then there are some pops, then Trump touches his head, then everyone jumps on the ground. He pumped his fist a few times while leaving.

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AP photos by Evan Vucci

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Two Democratic U.S. senators announced Tuesday that they are seeking a criminal investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over gifts of travel, a loan for a recreational vehicle and other benefits he received from wealthy benefactors. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Democratic lawmakers seek criminal investigation of Justice Thomaswww.washingtonpost.com Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden want a special counsel to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for possible tax and ethics violations.

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Why dentists are not signing up for the Canadian Dental Care Plan | The Monitor monitormag.ca/articles/why...

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Future News: Post Trump election, MAGA Government breaks relations with, and ejects diplomats of, “Woke Kanada”.

www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Canada draws link between June heat wave and climate change in landmark study | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca For the first time, the Canadian government has conducted a rapid analysis of extreme heat and determined its connection to human-caused climate change.

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Over the course of 15 months and with 62 Lakota speakers involved, The Avengers has been dubbed fully into Lakota by the original cast: reactormag.com/the-avengers...

The Avengers Cast Reassembles to Dub Film in Lakota Language - Reactorreactormag.com Working with The Lakota Language Reclamation Project, the actors came together once more for a very important cause.

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Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease in Sri Lanka. The trend is most striking in young men, but some women and children as young as 10 are starting to show early signs of kidney trouble.

The Killer Stalking Sri Lanka’s Menwww.nytimes.com Climate change and contaminated water have combined to create an epidemic of kidney disease.

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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested. There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic. Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃 www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox... Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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This site has around 9,000 free French audiobooks. Listening and reading along is the way. Dual-language texts (or if you can get text in first and second language) also makes it easier than stopping to look up words. #LanguageLearning #French #Linguistics www.litteratureaudio.com

And I will say, you NEED a real voice actor to shadow for properly using audiobooks for #LanguageLearning. Books that are read by AI text-to-speech does not work as well. We want to sound humans, not like a machine. So many foreign language audio books on YouTube, Internet Archive, other sites.

Plus de 9000 livres audio gratuits ! | Litteratureaudio.comwww.litteratureaudio.com La référence du livre audio gratuit francophone : plus de 9.000 livres audio à écouter et télécharger gratuitement au format MP3 !

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Harder than hunger,harder than the shelling,harder than the entire war,there is one thing:displacement.In this war,continuous displacement has been our cruel fate,a relentless and eternal escape. 💔🇵🇸🍉 🔗 gofund.me/6d3bce17 Cont'd⬇️

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Massive plume of black smoke erupting from the industrial district in Kingston Ontario. Not sure what's going on but we called it in. Be safe if you're in the area. #onnews

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Since so many of you have cancelled the NYTimes, here is a gift link to an incredible story. Really it is two stories, interwoven, about themes I’ve been thinking about - kidnapping, misogyny, inheritance, survival, and trauma — a sometimes difficult read and very thoughtfully considered 🎁

The Kidnapping I Can’t Escapewww.nytimes.com Fifty years ago, my father’s friend was taken at gunpoint on Long Island. Then he went on with his life — and that’s the part that haunts me.

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Anti-Netanyahu protests nationwide. Tel Aviv. Karkur. Caesarea.