newsweek:

popartinferno:

newsweek:

Julian Assange has a hole in his sock.

I wonder if the person who runs the Newsweek tumblr is satisfied with his/her choice of career.

So satisfied.

Glowing cats shed light on Aids

Cats that have been genetically modified to glow in the dark are being used to gain insights into Aids.

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Lochailort, Scotland.

Forest fires have been sweeping through the UK and Ireland this past week.

They were only 10 or 12 years old at the time of the 9/11 attacks, but this week, college students are among the most fired up about news of Osama Bin Laden's death. Facebook and Twitter helped propel flash mobs into the street. But many young people, who have spent more than half their lives at war, are struggling to make sense of the world they inherited and are asking where to go from here. →

"It’s worth remembering that Osama Bin Laden knew perfectly well that his motley band of fanatics was never going to be able to defeat the United States in direct confrontation. He wanted to drag us into an expensive, dispiriting, unpopular, polarizing war that would bleed our treasury and drain our morale."

IlyaGerner (via loveyourchaos)

He learnt from the best - that was the US strategy in Afghanistan when Russia invaded: Bait and Bleed.

(via warningdontreadthis)

"Osama was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims."

Barack Obama

The BBC has obtained images of alleged police brutality against peaceful protesters in the Bahraini capital Manama, where fears of a systematic crackdown on pro-democracy activists are growing.

Pictures sent by a human rights activist show police from Bahrain’s Interior Ministry, and others in plainclothes, their faces hidden by balaclavas.

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Updated informative and interactive Al-Jazeera map, now including Syria.

The five-month-old Republican gay group GOProud wanted to create a big splash with its first convention, Homocon 2010 (that is a real name that we did not make up). And to do so, they lined up a whopper of a headliner. Says chairman Christopher Barron:

“The gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of politics, with their endless list of boycotts and protests. Homocon is going to be our annual effort to counter the ‘no fun police’ on the left. I can’t think of any conservative more fun to headline our inaugural party then the self-professed ‘right-wing Judy Garland’ - Ann Coulter. I can promise you, Homocon 2010 will be a hell of a lot more fun than chaining yourself to the White House fence.”

Comparing Ann Coulter to Dorothy might strike you as a little odd, considering she throws around the word “faggot” in a derogatory way. (Someone, perhaps more aptly, compared her to the Wicked Witch of the West on this particular issue.) But somehow her presence is almost less offensive than the fact that Homocon’s recruitment poster kinda calls all Democrats gay.

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thedailywhat:

Also Obligatory of the Day: Context.

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"Obama is under relentless attack now from the Right. That’s a great help. I have been arguing in his defense, asking, please, what can he do to “handle” the crisis? We are told he hasn’t seemed “concerned” enough. He flies to the Gulf states for his fourth trip and is attacked for having a goddamn ice cream cone. He expresses concern. He says he’s mad. He gives a speech from the Oval Office in which he comes up with no answers because there are none. “This is Obama’s Katrina,” shouts the Right, forgetting that they said Bush did a good job with Katrina."

Here’s Another Fine Mess: Roger Ebert’s blog entry on the oil spill. (via synecdoche)

inothernews:

Tony Auth / The Philadelphia Inquirer

(via the New York Times)

staff:

As we’re all aware by now, one of the worst environmental disasters in recorded history is underway in the Gulf.

As helpless as you may feel, you can do something right now by donating to a Gulf protection group like Save Our Gulf, the National Audubon Society, or the Greater New Orleans Foundation.

To get all of you involved this week, we’re replacing Tumblr’s usual ocean blue with a new heart-of-BP-executive black and letting you donate without leaving your Dashboard.

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