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This piece came out a month ago and yet this is the first time I have seen it....
"US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza"
https://apnews.com/article/palestinian

Two US contractors describe chaos and gunfire as Palestinians seek food in Gaza
American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press. Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, said they were coming forward because they were disturbed by what they considered dangerous and irresponsible practices. The contractor who provided t…

In a week when the Canadian federal government strongly condemned Israel withholding aid and called human suffering in Gaza "intolerable".
City councillor Shelley Caroll of Don Valley North decided that it was the right week to publicly show her support to.. Walk with Israel. She thinks Israel is the country to support and must walk to support)
(Also present, Mike Colle, Brad Bradford, Rachel Chernos Lin, James Pasternak)

Many people are detained at U.S. airports for reasons they find arbitrary and mysterious.
I got lucky—when I was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told me, explicitly and proudly, why I’d been pulled out of the customs line.
“Look, we both know why you are here,” the agent told me.
He identified himself to me as Adam, though his colleagues referred to him as Officer Martinez.
When I said that…

How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
Alistair Kitchen on being detained at Los Angeles International Airport and sent back to Australia because of his reporting on the protests at Columbia University criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The daily extermination of Palestinians continue: Israeli forces kill dozens of Palestinian aid seekers in central Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/11/live-israel-kills-dozens-of-palestinian-aid-seekers…

"I have been teaching classes on #genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.
This is not just my conclusion. A growing number of experts in genocide studies and international law have concluded that Israel’s actions in #Gaza can only be defined as genocide. So has …

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.


Three House Democratic committee leaders have introduced a
⭐️War Powers Resolution
that would limit Donald Trump from escalating a conflict with Iran without congressional approval.

The Democratic resolution
— led by Reps. Gregory W. Meeks (D-New York), ranking Democrat of the House Foreign Affairs,
Adam Smith (D-Washington) of House Armed Services
and Jim Himes (D-Connecticut) of the House Select Committee on Intelligence
— would direct the preside…

Israel-Iran live updates: Qatar closes airspace; IDF expands scope of strikes
Iran reiterated its right to self-defense as President Donald Trump repeated his claim that U.S. strikes caused “monumental damage” to Iranian nuclear sites.

Tel Aviv-based Qedma, which is developing an error mitigation software called QESEM for quantum computers, raised a $26M Series A led by Glilot Capital Partners (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/isra

Israeli quantum startup Qedma just raised $26 million, with IBM joining in | TechCrunch
Qedma specializes in error mitigation software. Its main piece of software, QESEM, standing for Quantum Error Suppression and Error Mitigation, analyzes noise patterns to suppress some classes of errors while the algorithm is running and mitigate others in post-processing.

A BBC journalist describes being detained and held at gunpoint with five other journalists and a cameraman by the Israel Defense Forces in Syria on May 9 (Feras Kilani/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grldkeyv5o

Held at gunpoint: BBC team detained by Israeli forces in southern Syria
BBC Arabic's Feras Kilani and his colleagues were held at gunpoint, bound and strip-searched while filming in the Golan Heights.

Asymptotic and cohomological dimension of surface braid groups and poly-surface groups
Porfirio L. Le\'on \'Alvarez, Israel Morales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10706

Asymptotic and cohomological dimension of surface braid groups and poly-surface groups
In this paper we compute the asymptotic dimension of all surface braid groups, including those associated to non-orientable and infinite-type surfaces, as well as for torsion-free surface groups that are poly-finitely generated. Moreover, we show that in these two classes of groups, the virtual cohomological dimension and the asymptotic dimension coincide. For poly-finitely generated surface groups and braid groups of finite-type surfaces, these results are based on showing that they are virtua…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ClassicalMixtape
Johann Sebastian Bach & Glenn Gould:
🎵 Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)
#JohannSebastianBach #GlennGould
https://open.spotify.com/track/0eKd2VfI5EzrlgVH202x1i