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Some victims get candles, others silence – it’s a leader’s choice. A deep dive into the staged politics of selective pity in three arenas George Orwell famously remarked, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”In the brutal realities of war and suffering, where borrowed beliefs replace independent thought, Orwell’s warning cuts to the core: liberty is a hollow promise if it shields us from truths we resist.1. How to break free of black-and-white propagandaTrue compassion demands stories that challenge our biases and stretch our empathy beyond neat…

  Logo of Tea Dating Advice. Credit: Screenshot from Google Play In a contentious move to empower women in the dating world, the Tea app surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store charts last week, allowing anonymous sharing of warnings about men’s “red flags”. The celebration was short-lived as hackers struck, leaking thousands of private images online and sparking outrage over digital safety. Tea Dating Advice Inc., based in San Francisco, swiftly confirmed the breach and enlisted cybersecurity pros to lock down their systems. They assured users that no emails or phone numbers were compromised, urging calm without…

Russia is proposing the creation of an alternative “Silicon Valley” tech company cluster on Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud island for companies within the BRICS anti-U.S. bloc and Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) countries in Latin America, the Cuban state media outlet Cubadebate reported over the weekend. According to Cubadebate, the proposal, called Cayo Digital (“Digital Key”) will occupy a 450-hectare area in Isla de la Juventud and will be mainly focused on the development of “artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, digital art, and sustainable technologies.” The proposal would reportedly be supported by both Russia’s Industry and Digital Development and…

Senior officials in Syria are scheduling an election to populate the nation’s Parliament, expected to take place in mid-September, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) revealed Sunday. A top election official – Mohammed Taha al-Ahmad, chairman of the Higher Committee for People’s Assembly Elections – told SANA that elections will likely be held between September 15 and 20. Voters, he claimed, would be able to choose representatives for 140 seats out of 210; another 70 would be appointed directly by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the jihadist terror organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The government would identify eligible…

President Donald Trump meets with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, July 28. Trump held a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday before announcing a new trade deal with the European Union. The president stated the EU was “agreeing to open up their countries to trade at zero tariff” as part of the deal. Read the full article here

The “Brusselian elite” proposes giving billions to Ukraine while leaving EU citizens with “crumbs,” Hungary’s prime minister has said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has described Brussels’ recent seven-year fiscal proposal as a “war budget,” focusing on support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia instead of EU citizens.The €2 trillion ($2.17 trillion) 2028-2034 spending plan published by the European Commission earlier in July includes around €100 billion in aid for Kiev and funds for its potential EU accession.Speaking at a students’ summer camp in Romania on Saturday, Orban said the proposed fiscal plan does not serve the interests of…

A federal judge on Monday expanded a preliminary injunction and blocked Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Provision barring funding for Planned Parenthood nationwide. Earlier this month Judge Talwani, an Obama appointee, issued a TRO and temporarily blocked the reconciliation bill’s provision barring funding for Planned Parenthood. Last Monday, the judge granted a preliminary injunction in part extending a block on barring funding for Planned Parenthood. Today, Judge Talwani expanded her injunction nationwide. The judge’s ruling comes after the US Supreme Court largely restricted lower courts from issuing nationwide injunctions. CNN reported: A federal judge in Boston has widened her block on…

Millions of undergraduate and graduate students are on Medicaid.getty “The uncertainty is really scary,” says Garth Bittner, a 28-year-old studying aerospace engineering at College of the Canyons, a community college in Santa Clarita, California. So scary, that he actually read through parts of the 800-plus-page tax and budget bill President Trump signed into law on July 4th. Surprisingly, Bittner wasn’t looking for answers about the new law’s $307 billion in cuts to the student loan program over the next decade, which (among other things), will make repaying loans on income-based payment plans more burdensome. Instead, he was focused on the…

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) – U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in Ukraine, shortening a 50-day deadline he had given the Russian leader two weeks ago. Russia fired an overnight barrage of more than 300 drones, four cruise missiles and three ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian air force said, as the Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities continued despite Trump’s pressure for it to end. U.S.-led peace efforts have also failed to gain momentum. Trump had said on July 14 that he would implement “severe tariffs” on Russia…

European leaders appear to be in two minds about the historic trade deal negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, with some praising the pragmatism of avoiding a broader trade war and others lambasting the deal as an effective surrender on behalf of Brussels. Divides quickly emerged in the halls of power across Europe on Monday over the EU-US trade deal, which saw Brussels agree to buy $750 billion worth of American energy, purchase potentially hundreds of billions in U.S. weapons and military equipment, and invest $600 billion in America-based businesses, while at the same…