In barring girls and women from secondary and university education, the Taliban are not only causing countless personal tragedies for individuals, but also damaging #Afghanistan as a whole and its future. It’s like running a marathon and deciding to saw off one of your legs before the race begins.

My Daily Brief today:

📰 English: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/06/10?story=paragraph-8508

📰 Français: https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2024/06/10/mille-jours-dabsence

📰 Deutsch: https://www.hrw.org/de/news/2024/06/10/eintausend-tage-abwesenheit-afghanistan-0

🔊 Listen: https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/audio/2024/06/10/one-thousand-days-absence-daily-brief-june-10-2024

We live in a country with people so narcissistic they are easily manipulated by propaganda that plays to their weakness

A Republican party once so opposed to Russia they had the slogan “better dead than red” now supports a Putin puppet

Smoothbrain non-voters and 3rd party voters believing Russian disinfo because it plays to whatever “moral objection” they hold this week

Fascist sympathizers always think they’ll be part of the power structure

…they’re always surprised when they’re not

Carsized.com is a great tool for illustrating car bloat.

Here's a Yukon next to a Civic

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/honda-civic-2016-sedan-vs-gmc-yukon-2020-suv/