The two of us are humanitarian surgeons. Together, in our combined 57 years of volunteering, we’ve worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on four continents. We’re used to working in disaster and war zones, of being on intimate terms with death and carnage and despair.
None of that prepared us for what we saw in Gaza this spring.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697?src=longreads
A group of Finnish neo-Nazis and a few international friends have convened once again in Finland’s picturesque lake district for a secretive summertime festival.
via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07/11/to-blur-or-not-to-blur-exposing-finlands-lakeside-neo-nazi-meetup/
But just a short time later the video had been taken down, edited and reuploaded. Comparing the two videos frame-by-frame, Bellingcat noticed that, in the newer version of the video, more structures seen in the background had been blurred out compared to the original. For instance, towards the start of the video first uploaded a green house with a red roof is visible for a brief second. However in the second video that was uploaded this house was entirely blurred out.
The streaming hit, “The Boy’s Word,” about youth gangs in the last years of the Soviet Union, says grim things about the national mood.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/magazine/the-boys-word-russians.html
The streaming hit, “The Boy’s Word,” about youth gangs in the last years of the Soviet Union, says grim things about the national mood.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/magazine/the-boys-word-russians.html
The authorities didn’t seem to pay attention to the Gilbert Goons until one boy was dead and seven others were charged with murder.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/07/01/how-a-homegrown-teen-gang-punctured-the-image-of-an-upscale-community
A group of older guys followed them. Because they were “tall and strong-looking,” one of Lord’s friends said, he thought they might be football players. Many of them were dressed as gangsters, in fedoras and suits with pocket squares. They taunted the younger kids as they left, singing “Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, hey, goodbye.” One witness described them as “skipping.”
