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Two leading Israeli rights organizations say Israel’s conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide. / BBC News
Emily Tamkin: Israeli officials have not only admitted to restricting aid for Gaza, but bragged about doing so. / Forward
A Palestinian journalist who helped make the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land is killed during an attack by Israeli settlers. / The Guardian
See also: What has Israel’s denial of food done to Gaza’s people? / Al Jazeera
Lauren Evans says Americans have decoupled their belief that helping out abroad is worthwhile from the institution that was responsible for actually doing it. / Devex
Democrats attempt to divert blame for their part in assisting the genocide. / Forever Wars
Chinese companies with problematic links to Myanmar’s rare-earth supplies list customers like Ford, Siemens, and Tesla. / Bloomberg [$]
The other Morning News snubs a private equity takeover following a plea from the paper’s co-founder’s great-grandson. / Nieman Lab
Today’s long read: Africa’s colonial borders are said to have endured counterintuitively because of contemporary African states’ Pan-African origins. / Noema
At least 30 people are dead and more than 80,000 evacuated after record rainfall sweeps across Beijing. / ABC News
Four people are killed in Manhattan’s deadliest shooting in 25 years. / Politico
Some details on how artificial intelligence is playing a part in the military’s conflict simulations. / IEEE Spectrum
Crypto scams are up 456 percent over the last year, thanks to AI tools. / Gizmodo
Why do some people believe social media broke democracy? “My sense is that its popularity has more to do with vibes, anecdotes, and subjectively compelling stories.” / Conspicuous Cognition
This year’s Tour de France in photographs. / The Athletic
What is the political legacy of Jerry Garcia? “Exercising freedom rather than waiting on the government to grant it or being afraid of the government taking it away.” / The New York Times [$]
Unrelated: Seventeen ways to design an ashtray. / dezeen
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