🧵 While Gaza is being destroyed, Israel’s parliament is quietly advancing apartheid laws against Palestinians — both inside Israel and across occupied Palestine. Here’s what they just did:

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Ümit Bektaş is one of Turkey’s most talented photographers.

His photos here are going viral. You’re not looking at AI: these are real photos from Turkey’s current pro-democracy protests. Despite mounting police repression, the demonstrations are expanding. Erdogan hopes protesters will tire out.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Highly recommended, and it takes only 10 minutes.

Timothy Snyder - WATCH: Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Recipe for happiness in Khabarovsk

For #smallpoemsunday, this beauty.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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What a super shot!

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That’s not entirely correct.

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A Little Rusty Place There is a little rusty place, Inside my soul Only returning to you can polish it Late at night, I study the objects of my house As my own cosmology, The backyard as my solar system, The lemon tree is...

A stranger in my own land,
Only 7 kilometers far away
But it feels like you are moving further.
Tell me,
Will I ever feel your warmth again?"

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YouTube video by Asian Paints Ultima Protek - “The Safe House” powered by Graphene ft Ranbir Kapoor | (45 sec)

This, very unsettling, wall paint advertisement.

Damn. I thought I commented on the Columbia’s expelled Indian.

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Her research was on Gold and Cyanide: Family, Caste, and Post Extractive Landscape, says the website.

How the WHO leaves poor countries exposed to dangerous Indian drugs This story is part of “Pills, Perils, Profits”, a Himal investigative series on Southasian pharmaceutical manufacturing and exports.Reporting for this story was

"Even now, more than two years later, the deaths of more than a hundred children from consuming toxic Indian-made cough syrups have failed to spur any comprehensive action by Indian or global health authorities," write Vidya Krishnan and Arshu John.

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I don’t think there are any plans to govern, just to destroy.

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Photo of a dark coloured boulder on reddish sand which is dotted with stones. The flat face of the boulder has inscriptions on it. In the distance to the left are other boulders

In the final chapter of my book, Between Two Rivers, I talk about rock art and inscriptions in Saudi Arabia that tell us a bit about Nabonidus, the Babylonian king.

This dark boulder sits on reddish sand outside of Tayma, a major, multicultural hub of ancient trade. It seems unremarkable at first.