Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
It’s sad she felt this way about herself but it couldn’t have been any other way because she wouldn’t have been such a great artist otherwise. She’s more beautiful than any hot girl nepo baby influencer with lip filler and ozempic birdchest because she’s a rare sort of person and not a moral loser. People will think I’m trolling or mentally ill or doing some evil internecine female competition thing but if you really think about it, you know it’s true.
Mamdani’s wife was exposed for saying “fgts” back in 2013 when it was still forbidden and the lefties are fat shaming their political enemies on the TL, truly the vibe has never been more shifted
This scene is perfect. The two screen split in the middle gives the impression of a mirror. Modern Narcissus meeting his greatest fear. Everything is here. The awkward gestures. The flood of Pepsi revealing the character’s obsessive traits. The inability to form a word. Narcissus contemplates in awe what he could have been in a parallel reality, if not for the genetic lottery of life. It’s the moment he realised that this is the energy he feeds off.
this is becoming a larger and larger problem, extremely quickly
this is NOT just because of “dark money”, which is a mild-to-moderate problem in and of itself—this is because there is currently no mechanism to protect against these groups waging influence through using social media creators as megaphones without telling their audiences. there are no safeguards to prevent this from happening, there are no consequences for the dark money groups themselves, and therefore there's no disincentive for them to keep doing it
Democracy Unmuted isn't even a formally registered entity of any kind. their website isn't even registered with any public copyright directory, and they have no tax designation or known business address of any kind. when this election is over, the people that ran this operation can just start a new group and do the exact same thing again—and we will never know who they are