holmes was so hyperfixated on testing requiring “only a single drop of blood” that the whole endeavor was doomed from the start and smart people clocked that almost instantly
When you listen to interviews with people who were suspicious of Theranos, it’s kinda striking how simple their red flags were: not a single paper had been published by Theranos, Liz Holmes had only two semesters of undergrad biology and engineering under her belt, etc
@PetriClub@richard_normal Everyone acts like Holmes is some manipulative genius but she was only able to fool greedy investors who liked hearing how much richer they’d become by investing in her technology
something that i think gets lost in the theranos stuff is that it’s not just that the stuff didn’t work and they lied, though they did, it’s that what they were trying to do was straight up not possible in any way.
@CAMPmatic@VeraSweetVera64 Yeah she’s a regular Machiavellian master manipulator if she’s able to fool such discerning minds as the Devos family and random twitter users
@nurahanjum@OrganizerMemes The forced exodus of ~900k Jews from MENA countries to Israel between 1948-1970 is a known historical event. Maybe you just don’t know enough about this topic to say anything
@MaytalKowalski A lot of people treat MAGA like some aberration that can only occur on the right, and I do think it has some characteristics unique to conservatism, but stuff like this makes me think that extremism on both sides is becoming more and more common
For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
https://t.co/6zcGDYIzCC
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“Every day they came to rape me.”
A Sudanese girl, now 13, told NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof that Rapid Support Forces fighters repeatedly raped her and subjected her to genital mutilation after her family attempted to flee El Fasher, in Darfur last year.
The girl now struggles to walk and lacks adequate food and medical care at a displacement camp in Tawila. Relatives corroborated her account, and aid workers told Kristof the family had told them the same story.
In his September 12 column, Kristof examines how Biden and Trump recognized genocide in Sudan but refuse to hold the RSF’s chief backer, the UAE, accountable.
@Keep_t100@NickKristof What does calling it a genocide even matter? If you could read the point of the article is no one’s doing anything about it regardless. Why do you ppl try to hijack literally every conversation, there are ppl who aren’t Palestinians whose struggles deserve to be talked about
@Judster76@tanyaelisabethh Doesn’t this happen after running for miles though? There’s so much footage of her w shit on her legs it’s like she did it immediately after starting, so what happened?
Also at least w running you’re outside and not getting close to each other
@MaxKemeny@TNOQuoProQuid This comic is stupid for many reasons, one of which being we have the opposite problem & everyone complains politicians do nothing. Well they don’t get votes based on action, they get votes based on ideologies. And if we have the same worldview what else matters?
@LiamBadco How can she not be embarrassed. Sure she won but how many people have done that w out shitting themselves. And there’s so much footage of her with it down her legs, like did it happen the minute she started???
Found out what it is. Indigenous Alaskan Women face 10x the national average of violent crimes, with 96% of the perpetrators being non-natives. The police either can’t or don’t do shit about it. White people travel to Alaska just to rape random natives and get away with it.