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Thanks for using this to illustrate your incredibly pertinent point. I made this image and - ironically, given the topic - I rarely get credited and never get paid for its use.

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It's pretty simple: Men and women in the same job should get the same pay. The House has passed the #PaycheckFairnessAct to help make equal pay a reality. It's 2019! Let's get it done.

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Mona Chalabi

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Man with less professional experience shares my work with no credit and gets more attention. Gents, bloody story of my life.

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The more crowded a city is, the more people are likely to be killed when a bomb drops from the skies above them.

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Career low: an 8th grader asks to interview you for a school project, you say yes and then the "production team" choose "another direction"

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Mona Chalabi

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5 years

This is how marginal taxes work. Under Labour's plan, rather than paying £27.5k in tax on an income of £100k, people would pay £30k. Calm down. It's really not a dramatic change. Sources: HMRC, the Labour Party

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I can't think what words to write on here any more.

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1 year

I cried a lot yesterday.

The Pulitzer Prizes

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1 year

Congratulations to @MonaChalabi and @nytimes . #Pulitzer

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Mona Chalabi

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4 years

This was such a great thread about the new Covid strain. I turned it into some illustrations for people who are visual learners.

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Why a SARS-CoV-2 variant that's 50% more transmissible would in general be a much bigger problem than a variant that's 50% more deadly. A short thread... 1/

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Mona Chalabi

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9 months

BBC News has shown a clear bias, giving Israeli victims more coverage and more compassion than Palestinian victims.

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Mona Chalabi

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1 year

This won a Pulitzer!!!!!!

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2 years

I was asked to compare US household wealth to Jeff Bezos’ wealth for @NYTmag . But the problem is, the scale is so so so so vastly different that I either needed a much bigger magazine or I needed for all of you to get much stronger eyeballs.

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Mona Chalabi

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American exceptionalism hanging on by a thread

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A child’s guide to apartheid

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my old boss text me

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The President of Columbia was more interested in having cops on campus than graduation ceremonies so some members of faculty organized this event instead. So honored to deliver these words at the People’s Graduation (public speaking = public crying these days)

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Mona Chalabi

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6 years

Banning abortion doesn’t stop abortion, it just makes it more dangerous. #Together4Yes Source: The Alan Guttmacher Institute.

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4 years

These are the NYPD officers with the most complaints against them

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Mona Chalabi

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The Times is now targeting employees who identify as Middle Eastern or North African which is a really robust way to respond to criticism of pro-Israel bias

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The Times Guild sent a note to publisher AG Sulzberger today raising concerns about the leak hunt into @theintercept ’s reporting

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To understand inequality in New York, I spent months (and months!) drawing these 100 people. You can see how each of them are likely to be affected by Covid-19 here

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This is why I left my old job in data journalism. When people explain their experiences of abuse and discrimination, you don't reply with a bar chart (especially when that bar chart is such a crap one).

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I’m going to do a delayed update on a tweet from 9/11 that sparked a lot of outrage. Before I start, however, let me give you some data from the FBI’s hate crimes database, showing victims of hate crimes by motivation in selected years. 1/

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I’m so grateful that this media reporter asked to speak to me.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

11 months

Mona Chalabi, a freelance writer and illustrator who won a Pulitzer for the Times, presented data that suggests the Times devotes less attention to Palestinian deaths than Israeli deaths in the ongoing Gaza conflict — and called out the Times for “bias.”

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Mona Chalabi

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Defund the police

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Mona Chalabi

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6 years

Am I making myself clear?

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6 months

Both of these numbers are estimates from Israeli authorities.

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Mona Chalabi

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5 years

As good a time as any to remind you what happens when a country bans abortion.

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Mona Chalabi

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4 years

I'm already hearing the same "say it ain't so" shit that I did four years ago. It is so. America is full of racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic people. It's been so for a long fucking time.

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Look closer.

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Mona Chalabi

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Please listen to this one hour-long episode on journalistic censorship of Palestine that came from a four hour-long conversation 🌚

Longform

@longform

11 months

Longform Podcast #558 : Mona Chalabi ( @MonaChalabi ), writer and illustrator, data editor at The Guardian, and winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting

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I was asked to compare US household wealth to Jeff Bezos’ wealth for @NYTmag . But the problem is, the scale is so so so so vastly different that I either needed a much bigger magazine or I needed for all of you to get much stronger eyeballs.

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Mona Chalabi

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Why??????????????

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Officers aren’t reacting this way because they were taken by surprise. Training and personal politics has primed them for inaction in the fact of white supremacy. This is the system working as it’s been designed.

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Mona Chalabi

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This article was *censored* by the board of directors of the Columbia Law Review because it was about the Nakba. They preferred to take down their whole website rather than let you read Rabea Eghbariah's analysis. Get it here instead

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For those replying that this isn’t a pattern, may I present a 10 year study that finds… IT IS A PATTERN

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How do you want *your* money to be spent??

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Mona Chalabi

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Wanted to look up jobs data for gender *and* race and visualize it. Here you go:

CNN

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US employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, according to the latest jobs report. Women accounted for all the losses, losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000.

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This is why I always ask "how big is the sample size?"

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Mona Chalabi

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4 years

I really want to speak up, but it's not safe. If you don’t understand that, then you don't understand the powerlessness of BIPOC journalists in a white dominated industry. No matter how hard we’ve worked or how many bylines we shore up under our belts.

Kathryn Casteel

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4 years

And @farai ... and @MonaChalabi ... deserve an apology.

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Mona Chalabi

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Police walking the white terrorists out the door like when you walk a relative to their car after they come over for dinner.

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Mona Chalabi

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I’m one of the people who wrote that piece and I’m British actually. (I’m also a feminist who believes that protecting trans rights does not trample women whatsoever.)

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5 years

There isn't enough social housing in England.

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Mona Chalabi

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9 years

Can Trump's "Muslim friends" please get in touch? I'd love to chat.

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Mona Chalabi

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Every time, they come after our rights, I share this chart (I have had to share this chart a lot)

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Mona Chalabi

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Biden is ahead even if polls are as wrong as they were in 2016. But my q is: what if polls are MORE wrong this time around? What if people are even more reluctant to disclose that they support Trump after 4 years of his presidency than they were after 4 months of his candidacy?

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TWICE AS MANY

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Colonialism at work

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Mona Chalabi

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Data visualization at its finest

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every Fashion Instagram page looking like: 👩🏽👩🏿👩🏾 ⬛️👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏻👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏻👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼 👩🏼👩🏼👩🏼

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She’s not just ignorant, she’s dangerous.

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It’s equal pay day today. Drew this 1 year ago but it’s just as relevant in 2018.

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I made this to send to everyone to who asks me to do a "quick illustration" and follows up with "unfortunately, there's no budget".

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Mona Chalabi

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6 years

Finally sending emails today that I should have sent a long time ago. #BelieveWomen

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Mona Chalabi

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If you speak a language other than English and want to help me translate this, there's a form here thank you thank you thank you

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These 100 tiny illustrations can show you what has happened to a population of 2.2 million people in the space of just a few months.

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I am very bored of getting emails like this.

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Mona Chalabi

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How can you trust someone to take responsibility for a country if they can’t take responsibility for their own dick? #GeneralElection2019

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It would actually be even less if they introduced the new hike at £80k (which is what they're planning). That would mean that taxes only increase from £27.5k to £28.5k!

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Mona Chalabi

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2 years

This is probably an underestimate.

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Mona Chalabi

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6 years

I drew a New York subway carriage for scale because some species are so close to extinction, that every remaining member can fit into a box that's 10 foot x 75 foot x 12 foot.

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without hope or despair

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I don't know what's worse. The people who voted for him twice in a row. Or the people who voted for the first time and chose him. Either way, mfs watched Trump destroy lives for the last four years and thought "yeh, gimme more of that".

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People seem to be mixing up these terms so I made a little guide.

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Mona Chalabi

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I send about a dozen of these emails every week. I am so exhausted.

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Mona Chalabi

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@NYTmag If US household wealth is the height of a chunk of Toblerone. Then Jeff Bezos' wealth is Mount Everest (if Mount Everest was five times taller).

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Mona Chalabi

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5 years

Here's some important context on that ridiculous NYT headline. (sources are the Mother Jones database, 2019 and the International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 2019)

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Had never heard the word "autogolpe" until I started to write to researchers to ask them "is this a coup d'état?"

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Strangers giving strangers champagne

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This is the choice I have been weighing up ever since I saw Kathryn’s tweet:

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I know we’re going to sleep in the same country we woke up in but fucking hell i can’t stop crying

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I’m too emotional to handle this city.

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I was traumatized by my time at FiveThirtyEight. I don’t use that word lightly. I’ve gone to therapy about it. I continue to have nightmares that I still work there and wake up with my jaw throbbing from the clenching and grinding.

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My mums going deaf so she can’t gauge whispering anymore. We’re in a waiting room and she just softly yelled “that baby looks like it was born premature”. Even the baby looked over.

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America's 251,107,404 adults on November 8, 2016

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Hi it's black women's equal pay day so please remember that for every $1 a white man earns, a black woman earn 64¢

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Mona Chalabi

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All I can say is that @farai was not alone. If you are reading this and wondering if your experience of racism in journalism is legitimate, that’s the white supremacy talking. You’ve been gaslit for too long.

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In the Republic of Romania where I was neither born nor raised, Abortion was pretty accessible most of the days, Women were chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool, Getting safe and legal abortions that weren’t at all cruel

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Didn't even bother to cover their faces because they know there won't be consequences.

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Mona Chalabi

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Seeing as it's women's month, I'm going to ask for credit @SenSanders (will also do it the other 11 months of the year). Thank you for sharing though! The original illustration and numbers are here:

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Since 1968, there have been more than 1.5 million gun-related deaths on US territory. Since the founding of the United States, there have been about 1.4 million Americans killed in wars.

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After months of speaking to these researchers, we just published this article explaining what the future death toll in Gaza might look like (note, these researchers did NOT say that 186,000 people *have* died in Gaza as has been reported widely elsewhere)

Why researchers fear the Gaza death toll could reach 186,000

War doesn’t just kill people through direct violence. Malnutrition, healthcare shortages and unsanitary conditions inevitably follow

www.theguardian.com

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Why would you want to honour this?

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Take a closer look. The British criminal justice system is racist too and don't you forget it.

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unfollowing anyone who is surprised

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Mum’s unsolicited advice to me, to you all.

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despair and hope

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Mona Chalabi

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Amazon doubled its profits to $11.2 billion last year and paid $0 in federal and state taxes. In fact, the company got a tax rebate of $129 million. Forget a new accountant, I need a new government.

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Whatever happens, come tomorrow I will still fucking hate polling and how corrupt it is to predict democratic outcomes before people actually vote.

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I've seen two white "friends" in the past 24 hours post that they were lucky to be raised in a household where they were taught not to be racist. nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

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Black people get systematically undercounted by the US Census Bureau. I looked at why that happens and why it matters:

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Here's another exchange from a multi-million dollar company. Why yes, yes I would prefer that you pay me a fee.

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I gave a TED talk on 3 ways to spot a bad statistic. I really hope you like it

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in today's lesson we will talk about hetero problems

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What are you going to do if you see the outcome you want? Who will you thank? Who will you show up for?

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Why would someone write their email address in their email signature? I think about this all the time.

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I fucking hate these good cop videos. The woman is hysterically laughing because when the police first pulled her over, she was petrified. What are we celebrating here? Ice cream?

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lmao. this is how pull-overs are done in Halifax Canada.

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One day, my mum will read this lovely article by @Coneee and on that day she will no longer think I ruined my life by not studying medicine.

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Scientists could learn a lot from @monachalabi 's mischievous chart art

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Sources: United Nations estimates of children who have had limbs cut away from them. This is just over a TEN WEEK period, the number now is likely to be much higher. And reporting from Haaretz about Israeli snipers

'42 knees in one day': Israeli snipers open up about shooting Gaza protesters

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www.haaretz.com

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