South Lebanon is under threat of total ethnic cleansing

"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another though. The process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts" - Lynn Hunt

WHY did I have to keep going down this path? Nate Cavanaugh was part of DOGE outing Mohammed Halimi, who was exiled from Afghanistan. DOGE accused Halimi of sending money to the Taliban through his work at the Institute for Peace. The Taliban then kidnapped Halimi’s family.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written. Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

Stay beaver, folks.

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”

Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The Palestine Festival of Literature has launched an online publication, and the intro essay is worth your time. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

Pretty sure this is not what "Keep calm and carry on" means.

Separately Colvile has the brass neck to complain about "the soft left calling us racists" after adding his own voice to the ethnonationalists "remigration" agenda. bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

I remember seeing Jared Kushner at the Israel-Palestine “negotiating” table on the news here in Holland and it was like a slap across the face. Why the hell was he there? Why wasn’t he being mentioned? This article by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social explains A LOT. Hold on to your hats ladies & germs 🧵

It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.

Daily reminders of what we’re up against, pretty much for the rest of our lives.

this is one oil depot, the US and Israel hit at least two more and a refinery, nightmare

I know what the Western press called it when Iraqis used IEDs against Americans in 2004. It wasn't an "anti-American demo."

Just get Keir Starmer to give the Hugh Grant speech from Love Actually and be done with it...

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

The reason she SHOULD have been fired.

Philosophers! I am now eligible to act as a supervisor for Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Vienna. If you’re interested in applying for one, you can find the details here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...

The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say www.reuters.com/world/middle...

It seems like the most obvious thing to say in the world, but people need to be held accountable for the murder of children during an illegal war. Yet any real accountability for this will clearly require a radical political break.

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

Carney *explicitly campaigned* on increased funding for the CBC. Just a straight up lie.

Impressive timing by Shabana Mahmood for today to be the day she announces her asylum policy 'inspired by Kristi Noem'.

Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada "with some regret"

What annoys me about this is, even before the revealed preference of 'if it is so popular, why are Labour polling so badly'...who cares? I am 'very diverse'. I believe any number of stupid things! Make an actual argument for your policies!

Congratulations to future Iranian Supreme Leader Kushner

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing". Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

"The Dena sent a distress signal after it was hit. The Sri Lankan Navy sent ships to help and was able to rescue 32 Iranian sailors. At least 80 people on the ship were killed, according to the Sri Lankan authorities."

Very dystopian timing. I’ve been working on this since November. Thanks @thedialmag.bsky.social

Has the Canadian government condemned this strike? or is this just part of the world as it is? @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime. And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

Again, a central reason we are here again now is because the <only> people who went to jail, even briefly, for Iran-Contra were low-level functionaries like this guy. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

This just isn't true. The 1951 convention requires state parties to facilitate the integration and naturalisation of refugees because the people who drafted it weren't moral vacuums or stupid enough to think that persecution that made people flee for their lives would magically go away in a year.

"Inspired by those volunteers seven decades ago, Wesleyan University and a network of hundreds of schools and allied organizations are uniting for Democracy Summer, a nationwide program to educate citizens and protect our elections in the coming year."

#Stateless Ukrainian soldiers struggling for recognition www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

1/ PM Carney: you can and must categorically rule out participation in this illegal war. Your unqualified support of Trump and Netanyahu’s war was bad enough. It’s unconscionable that you’re now considering putting Canadian forces in harm’s way.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

This Carney statement is puzzling. If, as he says, we must accept "the world as it is" – including the purported failure of previous diplomatic efforts and of the international order – then why call for a diplomatic solution, de-escalation, and respect for international law?

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst

This absolutely is how legality works. Some people like vanilla ice cream; others chocolate 🤷🏽‍♀️

“Altogether, more Indians live in the Persian Gulf than there are citizens of Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain combined. No one expects these millions to flee overnight, though South Asian workers have been among the first fatalities caused by Iranian retaliatory strikes” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/b...

The High Court of England and Wales ruled that the UK government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful. JACOB ROWBOTTOM on the chilling effects of proscription, organisations as vehicles of expression, and the wider effects of the decision. verfassungsblog.de/proscription...

Some questions that no one has asked: Why Kristi Noem put an inexperienced 20-something in charge of terrorist prevention. www.propublica.org/article/trum...