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This is so satisfying.

If he's allowed to kill people to avoid going to trial - then he's going to keep killing people to avoid going to trial.

Kaja Kallas on war in Iran 🇮🇷: “We haven't seen Gulf countries and Netanyahu help us with Russia. It can't be a one-way street.”

if Israel isn't expelling your diplomatic representatives, or you're not withdrawing them and imposing sanctions, then you're staying silent in the face of genocide and war crimes it's pretty simple

450 children a year used to die in the U.S. from swallowing pills they found at home. The morning-after pill weighs less than a raisin, and its pack is the size of a chocolate bar. That annoying oversized design is the main reason the death count dropped to 33. I looked into this because the waste really bothered me. Turns out the U.S. passed the Poison Prevention Packaging Act in 1970 specifically because of those deaths. By 2005, child-resistant packaging had brought the annual number down to 33. The Consumer Product Safety Commission credits designs like blister packs with saving around 700 kids' lives since the '70s. That foil you push through with your thumb is slow and annoying on purpose. A toddler's fingers can't do it. The packaging also keeps the pill alive. Blister packs made with aluminum foil block roughly 259 times more moisture per day than regular plastic, based on pharmaceutical packaging tests. That matters because the hormone in Plan B (called levonorgestrel) breaks down when it gets wet or too hot. The FDA says it needs to stay between 68 and 77°F, away from moisture. You might toss this in your nightstand and forget about it for two years. That foil seal is the reason the pill still works when you finally need it at 2 am on a Sunday. The card is also that big because of labeling laws. The government requires the drug name, dose, instructions, and expiry date printed directly on the blister card, separate from the outer box. The card needs enough flat surface to fit readable text next to a single tiny pill. Manufacturing specs also require at least 2.5mm of sealed border around each pill pocket to keep the foil from peeling apart. I went looking for the waste data next, and yeah, it's bad. Researchers in Germany measured pharmaceutical blister cards and found that 69% of the material is literally just the gap between pill pockets. Germany alone throws out roughly 8,533 tons of this stuff every year. The WHO estimates the entire pharmaceutical industry produces around 300 million tons of plastic waste annually, half of it single-use. And blister packs, plastic fused to aluminum, can't be recycled. No facility can pull those layers apart. The German researchers also found something frustrating: just rearranging where the pill pockets sit on the card, using the same machines, same materials, same everything, would cut that waste by 37%. No new tech needed. Nobody has done it. So the packaging is big for three real reasons: child safety, drug stability, and legal text requirements. All of those are legit. The part that actually deserves criticism is that this blister pack design hasn't changed in any meaningful way since the 1960s, and a 37% waste reduction has been sitting in a published paper, collecting dust, while billions of these packs end up in landfills every year.

Zelensky just reminded JD Vance that calling Ukrainian territory a "scrap of land" isn't a negotiating position. It's an insult. With full diplomatic courtesy and zero diplomatic softness, Zelensky explained what Vance apparently doesn't know: the territory in question has 200,000 residents, strong fortifications, and sits exactly where Russia wants to build a bridgehead for its next offensive. Giving it up doesn't end the war. It stages the next one. Then the closing line: "Every square meter of our land is Ukrainian land and, with all due respect to any of our partners, it is definitely not theirs." There's no misreading that sentence.

We are Donald Trump’s 7th and final bankruptcy.

Airports warn of 'systemic' fuel shortages due to Iran war trib.al/Y9WTy56

The US vice president goes to a foreign country to campaign in an election. Blatant intervention in another nation’s domestic affairs - and for a government that supports Putin and views US NATO allies with contempt. Different US, radically.

@factpostnews Is anyone investigating this pedophile

Fox host complains about low teen pregnancy rates: "The problem is teens and young adults. From ages 15-19, the fertility rate is down 7%"

@Eve_Barlow Israels current government under Netanyahu is slaughtering people en masse. I say this as someone with a Jewish husband and Jewish family. You're blind and genocidal.

Israel doesn’t have an image problem. The world has a Jew hating problem.

@ma1ybe Total**

@ma1ybe They actually need to sue these people. Fake influencers trying to monetise off their names. Totalise bullshit artists

i need more celebs to start calling out these liars trying to sell diet plans and courses using their names

Scientists have added emperor penguins to the 'Red List' of species at risk of extinction, warning that global warming has plunged the population into steep decline. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said climate change was rapidly melting the ice in Antarctica where the penguins breed and find food. The Antarctic fur seal has also been put on the endangered list.

Long queues have built up at some airports around Europe as the EU's new digital border system comes into force. The Entry Exit System will now apply at every crossing point into all 29 countries in the Schengen area. It means travellers from non-EU countries like the UK must first register their fingerprints and photo as well as a passport scan.

Everyone knows that most of the world will have universal healthcare before the US does. The US is owned by capitalism. You'll have to pay for everything till the day you die.

By now France, Spain, Ireland and Slovenia want to suspend the EU-Israel association agreement

The plan for a Greater Israel extending over the West Bank into Lebanon and Syria laid out with great clarity by a senior government minister. This is of course completely illegal, goes against all the stipulations of International Law and should lead to immediate sanctions

John Kerry just confirmed that, yes, Bibi made the exact same pitch about striking Iran to Obama, to Bush, to Biden… They all said NO! It’s really that easy when you’re President of the United States.

🚨 PIERS MORGAN: Does Israel have nuclear weapons? WILL CHAMBERLAIN: Yes, almost certainly… but not officially acknowledged. PIERS: Why don’t we know this? Why does Israel get a pass? WILL: Because Israel is a US ally… and Iran is an enemy. HYPOCRISY EXPOSED 💥