Doug Coulson

China's Gen Z women embrace centuries-old secret script.

Nushu, meaning "women's script", emerged around 400 years ago. Barred from attending school, the women secretly learned Chinese characters and adapted them into Nushu, using the script to communicate with each other
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VIDEO: Aftermath of a strike on a tent where journalists from Al Jazeera were staying in Gaza City.

The Qatari broadcaster said that five of its journalists were killed in the strike, including prominent reporter, Anas al-Sharif

With poetry and chants, Omanis strive to preserve ancient language

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"A two-state solution is humanity's best hope to break the cycle of violence."

Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

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Not enough people are talking about the chilling subtext and imagery in the messages being sent by the official DHS accounts

BBC: “Al Jazeera’s entire team in Gaza city has been killed.”

Fraudulent research is 'destroying trust in science' – DW – 08/10/2025 Organized networks are infiltrating the academic publishing system to promote fake science, say experts investigating research fraud. A new study highlights the major challenge for modern science.

"Organized networks are infiltrating the academic publishing system to promote fake science, say experts investigating research fraud. A new study highlights the major challenge for modern science." www.dw.com/en/fraudulen...

AI could widen the wealth gap and wipe out entry-level jobs, expert says A tech expert says AI is adapting faster than the economy can adapt, potentially eliminating entry-level jobs.

A tech expert says AI is adapting faster than the economy can adapt, potentially eliminating entry-level jobs.

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

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No showers, sleeping on concrete floors: The “squalid” conditions for immigrants in NYC Detainees at 26 Federal Plaza are being denied access to attorneys, medication, hygiene products, and adequate food, according to a legal filing.

No showers, sleeping on concrete floors: The “squalid” conditions for immigrants in NYC

Detainees at 26 Federal Plaza are being denied access to attorneys, medication, hygiene products, and adequate food, according to a legal filing. @motherjones.com
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Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.

An entire team of journalists, outside a hospital in a tent for journalists, killed by Israel. www.bbc.com/news/article...

More journalists murdered in Gaza than in WW2: Vietnam : Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

Buddy Mize - Neon Cowboy [Nashville, Country-Synth](1975)

Buddy Mize - Neon Cowboy [Nashville, Country-Synth](1975)
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Pam Bondi fired him for prosecuting January 6 rioters. He’d do it again: ‘it’s about justice’ After volunteering to take on cases, Mike Gordon became known as a skilled litigator who took on high profile defendants

“I got fired because I prosecuted people that this administration wanted protected”
Terrorists protecting terrorists.
#GOPtraitors
#J6

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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

I'm seeing almost nothing about Sudan in the English-language news. People are dying of malnutrition in North Darfur and the world is turning a blind eye.

ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.

Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

⚠️To Whom It May Concern, The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza. For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless bombardment from land, sea, and air. Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded. If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop. Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.

Heartbreaking. Anas Al-Sharif posted this 1 hour before being assasinated tonight.

“If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased. Please share this message & tag everyone who…has the power to end this massacre. Silence is complicity.”

*looks directly at camera*

"Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths."
–Timothy Snyder

“The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, alongside Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, by Israeli forces in Gaza.” - CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg

Great news!

I'm kidding, there is absolutely none.

This is utterly unconscionable.

A photo of Anas Al-Sharif and his Al Jazeera colleague Mohammad Qrere in their press bullet proof vests looking at their phones. Both are reported killed. Photo credit to Motassem A Dalloul.

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif.

He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza.

Speechless.

Those aren’t reviews. Those are opinions, and they have their place and uses, but they do not substitute for deeply informed and engaging critical writing, which is a skill that takes time, practice, and experience to develop.

One major point is that while the Trump administration is pursuing Democratic cities and his political enemies, they are not doing their actual job

NEWSMAX * • Follow NEWSMAX 2d • Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was once again refused a pierogi from an unwilling vendor at a Martha's Vineyard market, the latest in his controversies over pierogis in the celebrity hot spot. newsmax.com Dershowitz Again Denied Pierogi, Told to Leave Farmer's Market 1.2K 750 comments 66 shares

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

Purple cans of AriZona Iced Tea, with the 99-cent price printed on them, are in a factory. A headline reads: "Can AriZona's 99-Cent Iced Tea Survive Trump’s Tariffs?" Photo by Brian Fraser for The New York Times

The 99-cent price of AriZona Iced Tea’s signature tallboys has stayed the same for nearly three decades. President Trump’s 50% tariff on imported aluminum may change that. “I hate even the thought of it,” the founder and chairman Don Vultaggio said. nyti.ms/4lkTrVg

'Out of view': Trump demands Obama portrait be moved to hidden stairwell President Donald Trump has ordered the official White House portrait of former President Barack Obama to be relocated once again — this time to a "hidden" staircase out of view of visitors.CNN reporte...

Trump ordered the relocation of former President Obama’s official White House portrait to a hidden staircase, out of view of visitors. This move contradicts White House protocol, which calls for recent presidential portraits to be prominently displayed.
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