In Rafah I saw new graveyards fill with children. It is unimaginable that worse could be yet to come | James Elder theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #Gaza

There will be a day of reckoning, even for the Election Commission of India .Spokesperson ECI Election Commission of India #India

Fascists marching unopposed, with no police in sight, Italy year 2024.

“Nothing can prepare you for meeting three year old Ahmed.. he handles his wheelchair like it’s a dodgem.”

Powerful ITV report on a little boy who lost his parents, and his legs, in an Israeli airstrike. He’s been flown to Italy for hospital treatment:

An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi’s India wapo.st/3w3RrgT

Since Aurangzeb has now surfaced in the election campaign, it’s worth noting that he was born in Dahod in Gujarat. #Election2024 #campaign

Happy 100th birthday to Kenneth Kaunda — a great Zambian, a great Pan-Africanist and a great human being!

Here he is speaking in 1986 at the memorial service of Samora Machel.

Sports injury, facial reconstructive surgery, near-total loss of vision in one eye... seven months later, the 16yo ran his second 10k today. Teenagers will teenage! 🌷🌱 #resilience

When College students take on a big American university, what kind of power are they struggling with?
Chartbook Newsletter 279 dips a toe into the political economy of Columbia University Univ.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-27…

NOW: Protestors have dropped a Palestinian flag out of the window of the Washington Hilton, where the White House Correspondents' Dinner is being held tonight.

'Take Five' by The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)

Germany which has shut down discussion on #Palestine and #Gaza (even on zoom)... telling folk not to shout as shouting is not a discussion! .Alfred Grannas you are beyond irony.

From the river to the sea, Israel is fighting the same war

The Gaza assault cannot be understood separately from Israel’s divide-and-conquer strategy against Palestinians in Jenin, Jerusalem, and Nazareth, writes Orly Noy مژگان نوى שיחה מקומית

972mag.com/israel-gaza-wa…

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officer, investigating multiple recruitment scams in Jammu and Kashmir, died in an accident in Jammu. thehindu.com/news/national/…

Who Were the ‘Massacre Victims’ at Mohenjo-daro? A Craniometric Investigation by Brian E. Hemphill 'indicates that the so-called ‘massacre victims’ of Mohenjo-daro likely represent the remains of squatter populations from the west who interred their dead in the decrepit remains

Breaking, breaking:

Just now, the Israeli army kidnaps my brother’s wife and her 3-year old son and one-month-old son at the checkpoint while they were trying to cross from the north to the south to leave Gaza with my mother and my ill sister.

Ma, right arm over the wicket, EME cantonment, Secunderabad, 1960.

A huge number of voters, mostly Muslim, were going to Karimganj to cast their vote.

By evening, six trains are cancelled!

At least 5-10k people, who are now stranded, can't vote because of train cancellation!
Chief Electoral Officer, Assam
Northeast Frontier Railway