A personal hero. Lumumba lives!

"Concordia University in Canada expels a student after she raised the Palestinian flag during graduation ceremonies and prevents her from completing the ceremony"(QNN) #Canada #Palestine

You can go through the strait free, but it takes 2 days, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Plus.

Oliver is so good at this. Absolutely devastating account of how Rufo and DeSantis destroyed a college and fucked up its students’ education. youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

Just watch Thierry Henry once Lalas is done

Protecting women #cartoon

The Turkiyest thing you'll see today: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Journal of Peace Ethics (JPE) invites contributions from scholars & practitioners. Journal 2B published biannually by Responsible Peace, dedicated to promoting ethically grounded peace policy. Inaugural Issue: What Is Peace? Towards Responsible Peace-craft www.jpethics.com

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates. www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

THAT’S TWO BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP GOALS IN THE FIRST HALF FOR TEAM USA

Israeli airstrikes reported on Biyad and Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon.

Geaux Knicks!

To bring a smile to your face, here’s an ancient Egyptian sketch of a cat serving a mouse! 😄 Some 3,000 years ago, the artist used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. 📷 Brooklyn Museum www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/object... #Archaeology

You can't make this up: House Republicans just snuck a provision to help private jet owners avoid state and local taxes into a major AIR SAFETY bill! Instead of working to prevent another mid-air collision, the GOP is more concerned with making their wealthy donors even richer.

Who owns the media matters. End billionaires before billionaires end all of us. #Ellison #TaxTheRich bsky.app/profile/ledb...

ICYMI: Last week we published Mohammad Ali Kadivar's insightful essay on the power of protest in Iran. Check out "Rethinking Political Change in Iran from Protest to War"! buff.ly/C9vg4a4

Dedicated to his job

"The moment Palestinians managed to recover the body of fisherman Mohammed Mousa Abu Jiab from the sea off the coast of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, after he was shot and killed by Israeli occupation forces earlier today"(QNN) #Israel #Gaza #Palestine

A cat rescued after 129 hours under earthquake rubble in Turkey refused to leave firefighter Ali Cakas's side, leading the first responder to adopt him and name him Enkaz.

Russian milbloggers count over 1,200 long-range drones fired at Ukraine in one day and still can't figure out why Ukraine's drone production is intact. They're also starting to worry their air defense won't be enough.

"Fire erupts as the Israeli occupation aircraft target a residential building in Al-Salam camp in Mawasi, Khan Younis city"(QNN) #Israel #Gaza #Palestine

Use the tax revenue to build TOD housing in LA.

I got through a bit of this already notorious report, written by very prominent philosophers about the “decline of the humanities.” Everyone on this report is smarter than I am, yet none of them seems to understand what it’s been like to navigate the academy since the late 1990s.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Err, that's not how citizenship is meant to work.

An interview with Gulan media on current events, covering sectarianism in history, Gulf conflicts, security architecture, and today's ongoing Gulf conflict. secure-web.cisco.com/1_YQqvty7id-...

GILLIBRAND: How did we bomb 22 schools? COOPER: There's no indication we have G: So how do you explain publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals? C: There's no way we can corroborate that G: Have you investigated those claims? C: We have not

Well yeah, but she thinks my tractor's sexy.

When music wasn’t in the cloud.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

From our Campus Politics Issue: "'Real Revolutionaries Don't Punch Down'--Remembering Muzan Al Neel" Walaa Salah, Rana Aziz and Raga Makawi remember their comrade and friend in the struggle for Sudan's liberation.

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

No no keep letting ChatGPT write articles this is ART

This is a really neat discovery: www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

What Steve Miller is actually trying to bring about.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion. I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

'Zack Polanski is calling for the introduction of a 10:1 Pay Ratio as part of a package to tackle the "affordability crisis". ... a good idea?' via Politics UK Yes - it starts to tackle obscene wealth of the superrich who - not migrants - create poverty, wars & climate change

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

I'm quoted in this for signing & sharing a testimonial about an incident in which Vancouver Police edited their press release after I'd published an article about it to make it look like I had lied. Anyway, long live the Wayback Machine! www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/jour...