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The largest coffee pot in the world has made the journey from Visoko, Bosnia to St. Louis, MO. The pot serves 8,000 cups of coffee & will follow the Bosnian national team throughout their World Cup journey in North America.
@BungieLove It’s truly incredible what this community has done. One of the best examples of how the love of a game and community can translate into real world impact. Hats off to you all!
DRC’s latest Ebola epidemic is now the third largest in history.
WFP experts warn the outbreak risks deepening both health and food crises — unless the response scales up fast. ⤵️ https://t.co/DHis6ndobX
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🚨 REPORT | Earlier this month, World Central Kitchen (WCK), Gaza’s largest provider of hot meals, cut its daily food distribution in half, from around one million meals to 500,000.
WCK said the decision was driven by mounting financial pressure, not a decline in need. Founder José Andrés cited soaring costs linked to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, including sharp increases in fuel, rice, meat, and transportation expenses.
The reduction comes as Israel moves to tighten restrictions on international aid groups operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. This week, Israel’s supreme court upheld new government registration rules requiring NGOs to submit detailed employee lists or face expulsion within 30 days.
Aid organizations warn the measures could cripple humanitarian operations. Some of the world’s largest groups, including Oxfam, Save the Children, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the International Rescue Committee, have already had their licenses revoked after refusing to comply.
WCK is not part of the ban, making its decision to scale back operations even more consequential. The organization has also employed thousands of Palestinians at community kitchens across Gaza, where unemployment has surged above 80%, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
At a protest last week against the cuts, one Palestinian man held up an empty cooking pot and shouted:
“We truly have nothing. Where are we supposed to work? How are we supposed to feed our children? I have two daughters. I’m only asking for what people in any Arab or European country live with: dignity and peace of mind.”
🔗 Full story by @AbdSabbah91 and @sharifkouddous is linked below.
Abdul Carter says he intends to march in the New York Gay parade this year.
“Some teammates stood up for their side, now it’s my turn to stand up for my side.”
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
chatted with the palestinian owner of this bakery whose bosnian mother escaped the 1992 war in bosnia, met her husband in palestine and has outlived 8 israeli attacks since. if you’re ever in mostar, check out her pastries, you’ll be supporting a wonderful family business
To understand the stakes of the progressive vs. centrist fight to control the Democratic Party, just compare Zohran's term so far with Spanberger's.
Zohran:
- Free childcare for 2-year-olds
- Banned junk fees
- Filled 100,000 potholes
- New bike and bus lanes across the city
- Wealth tax on luxury second homes
- Millions of dollars won for tenants and thousands of apartments repaired
Spanberger:
- Vetoed bill to let public workers unionize
- Vetoed bill allowing class-action lawsuits
- Vetoed bill to stop warrantless arrests by ICE
- Vetoed bill legalizing cannabis sales
- Vetoed bill to lower prescription drug prices
Trump was defeated in 2020, only to return in an even more dangerous form four years later. So we already know that it is not enough to beat MAGA once at the ballot box.
If Dems don't pair their next electoral victory with Mamdani's commitment to positively improving people’s lives, rather than Spanberger's model of selling out to corporations, we are going to be right back in the maws of fascism one election later. And this time, we might not be facing an authoritarian as incompetent and self-defeating as Trump has been.
https://t.co/TugdQiSj73
No better illustration of the importance of cleaning house:
The woman voluntarily arguing the pro-Iran war position alongside Mike Pompeo was #2 at the State Department... under Biden.