The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine. These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square.

An Egyptian general admitting, in May, that protesters had been forced to submit to “virginity checks.”  (via officialssay)

(via officialssay)

We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back. We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.

An unnamed source familiar with a virus that’s infected America’s Predator and Reaper drones tells Wired it’s ”logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.” Sweet Jesus.

(via negevrockcity)

Amy Winehouse dead, Egyptian military has opened fire on new wave of protesters, heat wave, Norwegian terrorist attack.

Goddamn. 

Add: Chinese bullet train falls off bridge, injuring 89. 

(Source: journalofajournalist)