"The [Iraqi] people want to be free, people will rejoice ... We have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction ... There's no question that Saddam Hussein possesses biological and chemical weapons.''
- Ari Fleisher, March 2003
Absolutely incredible footage from today, the biggest protest of the 21st century in The Netherlands.
150,000 people in The Hague to protest against the genocide in Palestine.
🚨 BREAKING: Vance Boelter voted in last year’s Presidential primary but didn’t vote in the Democratic Primary, according to data from the state party.
The state Republican Party has refused to reveal whether Vance voted in their primary, citing “privacy.”
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🚨BREAKING: Associated Press reports at least 38 Palestinians have been shot dead on Monday near U.S.- and Israeli-controlled GHF food distribution centers, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
In the deadliest day yet of the near-daily shootings, witnesses said Israeli forces
Pano raised a $44M Series B for their wildfire early detection eyes-in-the-sky startup. Wildfires have only become more fierce over the years and now we have software, computer vision and smart cameras to stop them before they become giant & unstoppable
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What happened to science and innovation when we restricted immigration in the past? The US anti-immigration quotas prevented at least a thousand major scientists from immigrating. Their loss not only deprived us of innovation, but made native scientists less productive too.
🚨Gaza – Six-year-old Mira Abu Shamala, who lost her mother at the beginning of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, was killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike.
200 years ago, in 1825, Michael Faraday extracted a clear, sweet-smelling liquid from the oily residues of London’s gas lamps. He named it benzene and nothing in chemistry would ever be the same.
What set benzene apart, even from the moment of its discovery, was its resistance