Another irony: this is the one area where the intetests of many EU policymakers are at odds with EU interests. The EU has nothing to gain from sending its kids to UK universities. Continental universities are just as good. And a lot to lose, in economic and soft power terms

Ali Bani Odeh, 37, his wife and two of their children, 5 and 7, were killed in the West Bank's Tammun when Israeli forces fired on their car. Two other children survived the attack. One soldier said "we killed some dogs." www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

cave Idus Martias...

To little surprise, the EPP, championed by Weber, apparently has not only voted but actively strategised with the radical and far-right to push through asylum policies. They've been lying to the public to enable a coalition with the radical and far-right on migration matters.

I like Habermas. I think many of his ideas are fascinating. It’s also fascinating how he went publicly pro-Israel in the last 5 minutes of his life just to ruin all the fun at the end of the party

Germany Tried to Silence Me, a UN Official, for Talking About Israel’s Genocidal War in Gaza

Shame on those talking greenlash and pointing at their electorate and saying “well but you told us you didnt want climate policy”. Yes people may be capricious and not fully educated but ultimately want to be led. If govts had greened energy, the current fuel crisis would be much smaller. See 🇪🇸.

As we all know, the billionaire class is really invested in improving the life of the working class.

Let's assume that censoring Russian culture makes sense. Shouldn't we censor the US and Israel too? Someone might think the EU just wants to score political points and doesn't really care about international law, Ukrainians, or culture.

The students are incredibly interested, and it made me think that, while this is not a good time for justice and accountability, and law is being violated by states, it's also galvazning youngsters to care about it, and advance it. I left more hopeful than I came in. The kids are alright.

I lrecently reached the peak of my academic career as I was interviewed by ARTE on the topic of sexy priests www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

This is absolutely INSANE! Israel has attacked Israel and Lebanon, unprovoked, but for the EU Hezbollah is the problem. 🤷‍♂️

"Leqaa, I want so badly to tell you that the world has stood by you. But I refuse to lie to you. The truth is that the world has failed you, and so have we. I cannot grasp that you remain, a full year later, thousands of miles away from your home, from your family, from the life you were building."

The EU and individual European countries have no idea how much damage their protection of Israel does to their reputation in the Global South — and some progressive parties to their voters at home. This can have generational effects!

A cosa serve il Sí al referendum sulla magistratura ? A “toglierla di mezzo”. Interpretazione autentica fornita dalla capa di gabinetto di Carlo Nordio, che ha scritto la riforma. Togliendo di mezzo i giudici, si tolgono di mezzo anche le regole, cui pure il governo deve sottostare. Stiamo sereni?

FWIW - I have been regularly using Gemini, ChatGPT and a few others to 'ghost' tasks I'm doing, eg, figuring out emissions intensity of a gas turbine or something myself and then asking the same once I know the real answer It's remarkable how subtle the errors, false references and mistakes are

The hypocrisy of outrage for only some children not all children being violently killed is unbearable.

Parler d'homosexualité à son enfant, c'est très compliqué hein ! Démonstration: "Tu sais, tu peux aimer une fille ou un garçon et parfois, les enfants peuvent avoir deux papas ou deux mamans. - Ok." Voilà.

I remember when this was cancel culture and campus free speech advocates were against it

like, did you know that visually impaired skiers participate with a guide in front of them with whom they communicate by voice during the descent, going at *110km/h or more*, without being able to touch them? this is stuff for heroes only

"This is why the European Union has now suspended visa-free travel for US diplomats and officials..."

🚨 Spain’s Prime Minister just said what no Western leader has been willing to say: “If we really care about Iranian women — let’s stop bombing them.” Spain refused to join the war. Denied the White House’s fabricated claim of military cooperation. Got threatened with trade sanctions by Trump for

"Graduation speakers will no longer give live remarks at school-based ceremonies + must instead record their statements for a video... The transition... comes after NYU faced nationwide backlash for its response to a grad condemning the “genocide currently occurring in Gaza” in his speech last May"

Via the NYT: Israel's state comptroller reported last year that, as of early 2025, "only 37 of the 11,775 public shelters are in Arab municipalities, and eight of those are not fit for use." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

"Either US and Israeli forces relied, ... on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank.... which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge to inflict maximum societal shock."

Remember the t-shirts and campaign to “bring back our girls” kidnapped by Boko Haram? Well, turns out you are the Boko Haram of Iranian girls.

The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA

The NYT style guide

I hope you all stop bragging about the EU’s “commitment to international law", is "support for multilateralism", its "normative power", and the like. This is getting grotesque. I’m not thinking only of EU scholars, but them too. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

🇩🇪Chancellor Merz effectively proclaims international law irrelevant. “Classifications [of the Iran attack] under international law will have relatively little effect." The framework failed to solve the Iranian nuclear ambition problem were fruitless and so it is no longer a guiding framework.

As always, my point about international law is that either you take it seriously or you do not. It is hardly international law when you invoke it only against some nations but not others. The clue is in the word “international”.

Ah but the woke mind virus triggered a reaction that moved reasonable people away from the centre, and into fascism so it is really the fault of some 19yo college students who were using pronouns that those Iranian school children are now dead. Check mate, libs.

Mass killing of elementary school girls - are they less human bec they are Iranian? Are they legit “collateral damage”? Means to an end? I doubt that this kind of mass killing would be even contemplated for, say, Denmark.

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years. Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

"We condemn Iranian attacks on countries in the region in the strongest terms" but we will certainly not condemn unlawful US-israeli strikes, specifically we will not condemn the attack on a school that killed over 80 people. This is a farce www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktu...

President of the European Commission @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu recommits to destroying the international legal order every time she invokes “international law”, but acquiesces to blatant illegality by Western powers.

US/Israel unilaterally attack #Iran, blowing up negotiations, killing already 200+ people, Iran responds. #EU official: 'Iran's unjustified attacks' must stop bsky.app/profile/vond...

if the public statements of our most senior EU diplomat were your only information source you'd have no idea the strikes against Iran had even happened, much less that they were an unprovoked act of aggression that killed 85 after hitting a primary school

Iran must be bombing itself

La legge elettorale è solo l'ultimo tassello di un puzzle normativo composto da premierato, autonomia differenziata e riforma della magistratura. Lo Stabilicum - ammesso che regga ai dubbi di costituzionalità - completa il disegno. Quale sia il disegno, mi pare del tutto palese.

American sympathies in the Middle East have shifted dramatically toward the Palestinians, according to new Gallup polling, after decades of overwhelming support for the Israelis.

Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025. The Israeli military has committed more targeted killings of journalists than any other government’s military since CPJ began documentation in 1992. Read more in CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: cpj.org?p=553549

Starmer has repeatedly called out specific Russian war crimes but when he's asked to do the same for Israeli war crimes he says its not the role of politicians to do that.

Here's the only reasonable rhetoric about Europe's role in the world. And no, it's not about the promotion of supposedly "European values"

How to be a woman in politics? Very happy that my article with @genderedform.bsky.social , analyzing the responses to Italian PM Giorgia Meloni's posts, has been published by Critical Discourse Studies www-tandfonline-com.colorado.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

@adamtooze.bsky.social rightly recalling the European Defence Community, arguing for its revival, calling out the absurdity of 27 armies & no joint #EU political decision on common defence giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Only an army — and true integration — will solve Europe’s defence problem