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In his speech, which will be delivered in Tel Aviv, he says Israel is now widely considered to be a pariah state and that the days of Democrats fretting or vexing over Israeli policy while maintaining unconditional, unshakeable support are conclusively "over".

Rahm Emmanuel, considered one of the most pro Israel members of the Obama admin and a 2028 presidential candidate, is going to deliver a speech on Wednesday where he will call for an end to all taxpayer funded aid to Israel and sanctions on people, banks and companies engaged in settlement activity.

Ideal ceremony length in total is 12-15 minutes. That’s the sweet spot.

Taylor and Travis’ wedding vows were supposedly 20 minutes each and as a wedding officiant that’s done hundreds and hundreds of weddings I don’t think you’re realizing how fucking long that is in wedding ceremony time.

Proposed federal rule threatens far more than scientific research | Opinion www.pressherald.com/2026/07/06/p...

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This event offers attendees the opportunity to learn from experts across the world about how we can face our demographic future with facts, not fear, and develop policies that respect reproductive autonomy, promote gender equality, and support all types of families. 4/

and propose pro-alignment policies to help people avoid both unintended and unrealized fertility, and to foster demographic resilience. 3/

The event will bring together demographers, family scientists, economists, reproductive health researchers, and policy analysts to examine the implications of low fertility, dispel common myths and misperceptions... 2/

Is there really a fertility "crisis"? Beyond Birth Rates: Advancing a Pro-Alignment Approach to Low Fertility in North America A conference on August 20th, 2026. This event is hybrid and can be attended in person at McGill University (Montreal) or online. www.mcgill.ca/popcentre/ev... 1/

I was insanely jealous that @ryanjreilly.com thought of this anniversary and I didn’t. If ever there was a date that called to me anniversary-wise!

"What no competent government can deliver is Scandinavian levels of welfare provision sustained on American levels of taxation, with immigration reduced. Yet since [Brexit], this has been the quixotic demand of the UK electorate." Me, on Starmer, Burnham and Brexit: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

There continues to be no plan for how to maintain R1 universities’ operations without foreign students & federal funding, but the public continues to not realize this, because our leaders - with about 4-5 exceptions - have been totally absent from the National Conversation™️

You might think that the chancellors & presidents of the country’s leading R1 research universities, faced with such an existential crisis, would speak up, loudly & collectively against the authoritarian assault on their institutions. Alas, you would (still) be sadly wrong. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

For a while, scientists suspected that drinking coffee was hazardous to your health. But hundreds of studies have painted coffee in a different light, showing that it may be protective against some major diseases.

“The US is essentially the only democracy where the primary election enjoys legally binding control over who carries a party label in the general election.” www.liberalcurrents.com/make-politic...

literally incapable of conceiving of global relationships (this is Meloni, an ideological ally he has managed to completely alienate in recent weeks) in any terms other than those of a rapist.

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

I, for one, am glad that bluesky uses the World Cup as an opportunity to relitigate every county’s colonial history. Truly what soccer is all about.

This is NOT what the FIFA World Cup is about. The FIFA World Cup is about *opens history book* uh oh *Frantically starts flipping though pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

sometimes the initial world-building is so effective that I'm irritated when actual plot comes along and inevitable starts to change things, because of course a plot is made of events and events aren't static.

But then Douglass and Lincoln will read it differently, and unlock that potential.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Outstanding July 4th reflections from @tmbejan.bsky.social

Any Leveller-style equality-as-parity leftover belongs exclusively to that People, collectively, and not really to its individual parts.

Spot on, as ever, on the Lockeanism of the Declaration—it strikes me that that’s the key (but not the only) work that equality is doing in the second sentence: clearing the way, levelling the platform, on which to constitute a people...

Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever

it’s kind of ironic that the French government better understands and captures the true aesthetics and ideals of America than the groyper weirdos at the White House posting cringe anti-American MAGAslop

This piece does not mention terms like "authoritarianism," "autocracy," or "democratic backsliding" or anything like them. Trump's attempt to subvert American elections is covered as legitimate policy dispute & slight presidential overreach, which is receiving constitutionally ordinary pushback.

The Bicentennial is one of my earliest memories, and was a rare bright spot in the 70s. As a teenager I had a replica print of the Declaration on my wall. For years, my wife and I read the first section aloud at our 4th parties. Didn't expect to be where we are. www.libertyfund.org/250th/dissen...

The Coast Guard just removed the Clearwater from the tall ship parade in NYC for having "Save the Clean Water Act" and "Indigenous Rights, Racial Justice, Climate Solutions” banners. They were escorted out by the Coast Guard, US Navy, and NYPD. www.instagram.com/p/DaYOP8OlIq...

The Bicentennial is one of my earliest memories, and was a rare bright spot in the 70s. As a teenager I had a replica print of the Declaration on my wall. For years, my wife and I read the first section aloud at our 4th parties. Didn't expect to be where we are. www.libertyfund.org/250th/dissen...

Post-Civil War Reconstruction. Postwar Germany. Post-communist Eastern Europe. History has plenty to teach us about rebuilding after authoritarian rupture. At #LibCon2026, Adam Bodnar, Devin Pendas, @jacobtlevy.bsky.social, and @profmsinha.bsky.social will help us chart a path for today.

Love to see a mainline denomination name and blast the American heresy; would love even more to see other denominations follow suit.

hey, @moderation.bsky.app , please lock down @x6622262815272725.bsky.social until you can return it to its real owner.

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Three big Lib Dem WINS 💪 Gaining from the Conservatives in Powys and holding strong in the Cotswolds. Congratulations to our new Lib Dem councillors.

When you say the quiet part extremely loudly, and yet somehow it isn't a massive scandal but Hunter Biden www.realitytea.com/2026/07/03/d...

This appeasement of Trump isn’t free. The 2026 DC “summer surge” costs US taxpayers close to $3 million PER DAY. And who does it truly serve? The nonpartisan Niskanen Center recently concluded the deployment has had zero impact on violent crime.

I’m calling for a symposium on Shame Without Bullying. @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social to give keynote. @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com featured speaker. Who else is in

this too is gender

new and very important from @janetbufton.ca at @liberalism.org www.liberalism.org/p/a-liberali...