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500+ Students Senior Skip Day Water gun event turns fatal, as 5 students have been confirmed to be shot by live rounds. 11 teenagers have been arrested as of last update

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Welcome to the official home for discussions related to US politics! 2020 US Presidential Election (op will be under construction for a little bit) Please, remember to be courteous to other members because not everyone will see every issue in the same way. Flame bait, name calling, trolling, and other disruptions will not be tolerated. Friendly debate is welcome and encouraged

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Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking because of water extraction and the increasing weight of their rapid expansion, researchers say. Some cities are subsiding rapidly, with one in six exceeding 10mm per year. China's rapid urbanisation in recent decades means far more water is now being drawn up to meet people's needs, scientists say. In coastal cities, this subsidence threatens millions of people with flooding as sea levels rise. Put another way, this means 67 million people are living in rapidly sinking areas. The researchers say that the cities facing the worst problems are concentrated in the five regions highlighted on the map shown. The scale of decline is influenced by a number of factors, including geology and the weight of buildings. But a major element, according to the authors, is groundwater loss. This essentially means the extraction of water underneath or near cities for use by the local population. This has already been seen in several major urban areas around the world including Houston, Mexico City and Delhi. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68844731.amp Welp.

ATRL supports a free Palestine. We are also sympathetic to innocent citizens of both nations during this conflict. We hope members understand that criticism of the Israeli government is not criticism of the Jewish religion and that criticism of Hamas is not criticism of the Free Palestine movement itself. Posts that cross the line and drift into criticism of Jewish and/or Muslim religion and people as a whole will be properly warned. ATRL reserves the right to close this thread at any point and create post restrictions, thread bans, or complete bans to members who break the rules in this thread.

Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from App Store under orders from China https://www.axios.com/2024/04/19/apple-china-whatsapp-threads-app-store This is a good thing, many US companies are known to spy on users and harvest data.

Couple Gordon Burton and Charlotte "PS2 Hagrid" Stevens, as well as Paul Bennett, are the proprietors of Burton and Bennett Snacks, a new business that opened in Burnley, England in March 2024. On opening they received considerable attention due to their limited stock, individual sale of multipack items, and the fact all the furniture seemed to have been obtained for free on Facebook Marketplace. Since then, other businesses have started donating stock to them, a floor fitter paid for and installed new flooring for them, and a local graphic designer created a new logo and signage. But the shop is still covered in mould and their attempt at painting the walls is shoddy at best. Their first attempt at selling baked potatoes was immediately put to a stop by health inspectors given the fact they were preparing food on an old office desk (which doubles as the point of payment) and had neither a sink nor a refrigerator to store the ingredients. Since then, some worktops have been installed for food preparation but there's still no sink The shop has recently had its first official food safety inspection and fans are eagerly awaiting for the report to be published and the star rating revealed. Recently some clips have circulated of the gang farting and smoking in the store, near the food preparation area. https://www.tiktok.com/@notburtonbennett/video/7358555393817300257 (this one won't embed properly) The saga hasn't been without controversy as various allegations have been made about Paul, who apparently appeared on Jeremy Kyle. A prank caller uploaded a video of what is allegedly a stream of homophobic abuse from Gordon and Paul in response to his call. In conclusion, what a mess.

Russian Invasion of Ukraine PLEASE NOTE: Want a resource link to send funds to besides the armed forces? Please check out the tweet below. I try to update this OP at least weekly with new Ukraine war maps from Al-Jazeera further below. This OP was originally oriented around an original thread on Five Eyes intelligence of an upcoming invasion first posted here in November 2021 that was changed to reflect the invasion that officially began in February 2022 and then subsequent posts were deleted as a result of the April 2022 forum reset. Al-Jazeera Live Daily Tracker Before the war - Maps in Context RESOURCE CONTEXT Sourcing: Shorter source list (English only) Verified and/or Highly Cited: CLICK NAMES FOR LINKS No endorsement of any of their other positions or those of their employers; news focused only Phil Stewart (Military correspondent, Reuters) Christo Grozev (Executive Director, Bellingcat) Eliot Higgins (Founder/Creative Director, Bellingcat) The Kyiv Independent (Ukrainian independent outlet) Kyiv Post (Ukrainian newspaper) Kevin Rothrock (Editor, Meduza English) Andrei Soldatov (Senior Fellow, CEPA) Liveuamap (Global independent outlet) Andrew Roth (Moscow correspondent, The Guardian) Liubov Tsybulska (Stratcom Ukraine Information/Hybrid Warfare Security Center Founder) Stratcom Centre (Ukraine Ministry of Culture's Strategic Comms / Info Warfare) Oleg Shakirov (Russian Center for Advanced Governance, consultant at PIR Center) Daria Kaleniuk (Executive Director, Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Action Centre) Paula Chertok (Kyiv's Mohyla Journalism School; Writer, Euromaiden Press) Nataliya Gumenyuk (Kyiv-based founder of Public Interest Journalism Lab) Myroslava Petsa (BBC Ukraine reporter) NEXTA (Former Belarusian-based outlet covering Eastern Europe, now based in Poland) SUSPILNE NEWS (Ukrainian Public Broadcaster) Max Seddon (Moscow Bureau Chief, Financial Times) Michael Kofman (Director, Russian Studies at CNA) Maria Shagina (Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Sanctions in post-Soviet regions) Polina Ivanova (Financial Times Ukraine/Russia correspondent) Illia Ponomarenko (Defense reporter, The Kyiv Independent) Euromaiden Press (Ukrainian independent outlet) Maria Avdeeva (Research Director at Euro Expert Association, Security Ops/Disinfo in Ukraine) Michael Horowitz (Le Beck International Geopolitical Consulting Firm) Anton Troianovski (Moscow Bureau Chief, New York Times) Mary Ilyushina (Washington Post/CBS Russia correspondent) Olga Tokariuk (EFEnoticias freelance correspondent in Kyiv) Julia Davis (Russian Media Analyst, The Daily Beast) Shaun Walker (Eastern Europe reporter, The Guardian) Samuel Ramani (Bylines in Washington Post/Foreign Policy, Fellow, RUSI) Neil Hauer (BNEIntellinews independent journalist in Ukraine) Jack Detsch (National Security Reporter, Foreign Policy magazine) Christopher Miller (BuzzFeedNews, reporting on Ukraine) Shashank Joshi (Defence Editor, The Economist) Unofficial OSINTtechnical The Intel Crab Caucasus War Report

In a mind-boggling scene straight out of "A Weekend at Bernie's,” a Brazilian woman reportedly wheeled the corpse of an elderly man into a Rio de Janeiro bank Tuesday to try to get him to co-sign on a loan. The bank customer, identified as Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, was captured on video standing next to the deceased seated in a chair and seemingly holding up his drooping head. The wild footage, which was first aired by TV Globo, Brazil's largest broadcaster, captured Nunes talking to the dead man, whom she addressed as her "uncle,” and asking him to sign financial documents that would allow her to take out a $3,400 loan. "Uncle, are you listening? You need to sign [the loan contract]. If you don't sign, there's no way, because I can't sign for you,” Nunes says in the video, while thrusting a pen between his limp fingers and instructing him to hold it "hard.” "Sign so you don't give me any more headaches, I can't take it anymore,” she adds. When a bank worker tries to point out that the man's color looks off and he appears "not well,” Nunes dismisses his concerns. "He is like that. He doesn't say anything,” Nunes says. "Uncle, do you want to go to the [hospital] again?” Unnerved bank staffers quickly called the police, who arrived and arrested Nunes. "She tried to pretend to get him to sign the loan. He already entered the bank dead,” Police Chief Fábio Luiz told TV Globo. "The main thing is to continue the investigation to identify other family members, and find out more about this loan.” Nunes could face charges of theft through fraud, or embezzlement, and abuse of corpse. TW (censored pic): Censored video with English subtitles below: https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/lifestyle/brazilian-woman-brazenly-wheels-elderly-mans-corpse-into-bank-to-co-sign-a-loan-for-her-uncle-are-you-listening/

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Both CNN and ABC are reporting multiple explosions in the Iranian city of Isfahan. This city is home to an airport, military base, and nuclear plant. Against the advice of the US, Israel may have just started another world war. Footage of strikes

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13304671/amp/Riddhi-patel-gaza-bakersfield-threat.html not 18 felony charges and $1 million bail

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Infuriating The valedictorian is a muslim woman, but the school canceled her commencement speech because of her pro-Palestine stance You already know what would've happened if the valedictorian was pro-Israel

Arsenal, the smallest football club in London, has crashed out of the Champions League after a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich. The tournament is the highest level club competition in the world. The club's failure to achieve any success in Europe in its history stands in stark contrast to its neighbours. Tottenham Hotspur has won the Uefa Cup (now known as the Europa League) twice, giants of the game Chelsea have won two Champions Leagues and two Europa Leagues, and even West Ham boast a Conference League title to their name. Arsenal's latest failure is sure to come under internal and external scrutiny after the club spent £1 billion and trusted former Barcelona B player Mikel Arteta with the keys over the last five years. The club hasn't won major silverware since the 2003/4 season and has suffered the indignity of one of its players, Declan "Basmati" Rice, pooping himself on the pitch.