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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-15 08:17:02

“The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The Doctors Without Borders report — completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press — found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18…

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-05-15 16:15:57

Rep. Steve Cohen ending campaign in Tennessee after redraw of his Memphis district (Stephen Groves/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/steve-cohen
memeorandum.com/260515/p54#a26

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-06-15 15:55:04

Russia has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites since 2022 — prosecutor general calls Lavra strike deliberate erasure - Euromaidan Press
euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15

Donald Trump touched off a redistricting arms race last year
by pushing Republican states to create more GOP-leaning congressional districts
to help his party maintain its thin majority in the House.
Texas, North Carolina and Missouri responded,
and then Democrats counterpunched by passing a referendum to create five new blue-leaning districts in California.

Virginia is the next biggest prize for Democrats;
Its 11 House seats are held by six Democrats and fi…

@doktrock@toad.social
2026-06-15 19:02:26

#Dylan on life on your '80s, New York Times

Bob Dylan, 85 

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Nobel Prize recipient.

The Best Thing

The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It's freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don't chase the parade anymore. You're an old king from some vanished country. You're harder to program. You're not rushing to become anything and you're not haunted by things that you did. You're haunted by how little of it really mattered i…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2026-05-16 13:43:40

Horrors of #ReligiousBigotry - not restricted to any one faith. But appalling nonetheless.
#Palestinians forced to demolish own homes to make way for Israeli theme park

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2026-05-16 13:43:40

Horrors of #ReligiousBigotry - not restricted to any one faith. But appalling nonetheless.
#Palestinians forced to demolish own homes to make way for Israeli theme park

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-05-14 21:51:03

This except from Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath stings like a taser:

The decay spreads over the State, and the sweet smell is a great sorrow on the land. Men who can graft the trees and make the seed fertile and big can find
no way to let the hungry people eat their produce. Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten.
And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thin…

Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke the law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters just days before Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election,
a state election board found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, currently split evenly between Democrats and Republicans,
voted 5-1 in a closed session last week to refer the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office,
the commission's spokesperson Emilee Miklas told the Associated Press.
The panel r…

The Trump administration is executing a controversial plan to allow dirt bikes, ATVs, trucks, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles
to drive through tens of millions of acres of public lands and national parks,
which environmental groups warn threatens endangered species and the environment.
The plan’s opponents say the impacts will be wide-ranging
and that the vehicles will likely destroy sensitive habitats, harm waterways, drive large predators like grizzly bears …