US blocks -- for the third time in a week -- the adoption of a joint UN statement calling for a halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence u.afp.com/UeM6 📸 The father of a 12-year-old girl killed in an Israeli airstrike holds her body at al-Shifa hospital

Who Vaccinates the World? via The Wall Street Journal

A villager in southeast China's Fujian told me how local people protected their temple during Cultural Revolution half a century ago: they added figurines of Red Guard to the roof decorations, and put up posters of Mao's words. No one dared to smash the gods or temple after that.

What has he been smoking for the last twenty years?

The cost was $309 million for 2.2 miles...way more expensive than your standard European tram project. Except it's not a tram, it's a bus lane sfmta.com/projects/van-n…

A strange and exotic concept called long-term planning

In your 20s, meet as many people as possible. In your 30s, spend as much time as possible with a handful of people who share the same values and bring out the best in you.

Mapping all the battles fought in recorded history

World's greatest democracy

Neat concept Tower Hamlets Council. If you're open to additional suggestions on names that'll give a more comfort/closer to home feel, I'd like to put forth Abu Ghraib Square, Falluja Birth Defect Avenue, Guantanamo Bay Court & Julian Assange Road 🙏

Elon Musk “[It took] five days to impose sanctions against Putin. 70 years of oppression of the Palestinians and it wouldn’t be … ‘helpful to impose sanctions’.” Irish lawmaker Richard Boyd Barrett slammed the Irish government’s inconsistent response to conflicts

"We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would…drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap…giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." Zbigniew Brzezinski US National Security Advisor As interviewed in 1998 dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/brzezinski_int…

The state of the US #SupremeCourt in a nutshell ...

This simple label made an entire generation of kids 100x more likely to purchase a music album. The most genius marketing campaign of all time?

This is HILARIOUS! Republican Jesus is the funniest thing you will see on this site ALL DAY. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Remember, there’s infrastructure, and then there’s Dutch infrastructure.