Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

The Israeli ambassador protested the publication of this clip on social media platforms and asked some companies to delete it entirely. Let's make it go viral around the world (Recorded by B’Tselem, OpsHQs)

"Neither my credit card, which I use to pay, works, nor can I make transfers; my health insurance has been canceled, and I can't book hotels. I feel like Pablo Escobar. All because I said, 'In Gaza, Israel is committing genocide.'" Francesca Albanese UN Special Rapporteur (Palestine)”

"We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient." Why did no one try this before?!

Serious question: is there anyone practicing originalism (or something of the sort) outside of the US?

When you think you've heard it all. German courts have ruled that a family who entered Germany on German passports in 2020 had never been German citizens, because a 1908 marriage between a German colonial official and a Togolese woman was not legally valid under colonial law.

The UN couldn't print the names of Palestinian children murdered and maimed by Israel. Why? Because they feared Israel would respond by killing and maiming the families of the children.

"The ICRC’s Legal Division is offering paid traineeship for a period of one year at its headquarters in Geneva." Deadline June 28 careers.icrc.org/job/Geneva-%...

The double standards is simply outrageous.... #WhiteWestComplicity #WhiteWestMSM #BiBiC #zi0Propaganda

Ms Rachel questions the silence of world leaders (including you, @albomp.bsky.social) in the face of a UN report documenting Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children— “Where have you been, leaders? What made you speak out about other people’s human rights but not the children of Gaza?”

BBC: UN commission of inquiry says Israel is deliberately targetting children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

8/8 The Commission must propose a ban. And if it fails to, or claims unanimity is needed, member states should bring it to the EU Court. Enough "two-states solution" slogans while bankrolling illegal settlements. The law is clear, @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu. Deal with it: hrw.org/news/2026/06...

"The European Union has no credibility in relation to rights, human rights, the most basic norms of international law." - Michael D.Higgins, former President of Ireland. Some truths are self-evident.

TU Eindhoven becomes latest university to freeze collaborations with Israel | NL Times nltimes.nl/2025/06/17/t...

Reminder that 2 years ago the EU signed an agreement with Tunisia whereby the latter rounds up migrants & dumps them in the desert on the Libyan & Algerian borders, where many die. When EU leaders boast of reducing the number of drownings in the Mediterranean remember they've just outsourced death.

Here are some thoughts on the new Court of Appeal Palestine Action ruling, written with @alangreene.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social for @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

The European Parliament has just ratified🇪🇺President von der Leyen's 'surrender deal' trade capitulation to Trump. It is now EU law. Her 🇺🇸placation-minded EPP group says while they "deliver certainty, others risked renewed trade war". But The Left says this locks Europe into American servitude.

Breaking: Israel has cut contact with the EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas after reports she privately compared treatment of Palestinians to South Africa's apartheid. Questions are being asked about the timing of the leak, amid intra-EU turf wars seeking to hobble her.

Le paure prendono la forma della persona in cui albergano, e il razzismo è una piaga mai curata, perché gli italiani hanno preferito dimenticare gli orrori del proprio passato colonialista, e raccontarsi di essere “brava gente”. @giuliab.bsky.social è bravissima. Sapessi scrivere come Lei...

We have to be very clear on this. This is what the advent of fascism in the European Parliament looks like. It was long in the making and the centre-right has paved the way. It is now out in the open, unabashed. We have to wake up - now. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

The Guardian geolocated and verified images showing the Israeli military using excavators made by six companies—Caterpillar, Volvo, Hyundai, Doosan, Hitachi and Komatsu—to destroy homes, public utilities, shops and other structures across southern Lebanon, in clear violation of international law.

⏳15 July is the LAST DAY to sign the Justice for Palestine European Citizens' Initiative. 1.2 million Europeans already have. The EU Commission will have to respond by April 2027. Don't let this moment pass. Sign now 👉 eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public

A leaked memo shows the European Union has known since 2017 that it had the legal right to freeze Israel's trade deal due to Israel's persistent violations of international law in the occupied West Bank. euobserver.com/221434/stric...

After over eight months in pre-trial detention, the defendants in Germany’s controversial Palestine Action trial finally spoke out. Their target wasn't just Elbit Systems, but German complicity. hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/ulm-5-in-s...

Billionaires only exist because of grotesque failures in competition law, regulation and monopoly enforcement; because of the fundamental distortions of late-stage capitalism; and because of vast, indefensible exploitation. A trillionaire is the same thing, only a thousand times worse.

L'Italia è il paese che amo

“You didn’t cite my paper”

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

They all know. Hand wringing after leaving office is probably better than nothing.

Because reasons let’s jump on the Zotero discourse. You can use a citation manager (it is probably a good idea!) but the point is: you need to know how to do your references by hand. All types of them. The books, the articles, the archival documents, the manuscripts. You need to know the trade.

Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge Dr Hussam Abu Safiya now in cell barely big enough to sit in, says son, after UN experts demanded his release in March www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Not that we need more evidence of genocidal intent to recognise what we are seeing. But deliberately shooting children? That's about as clear as it gets. #Gaza www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. share.google/mbOrgZ69hd87...

Wow, that's an endorsement

Decades of neoliberalism have done massive damage to the democratic foundations of many of key institutions of liberal democracy, not in the least academia. Not to say that far-right states would not have taken over universities without neoliberalism, but it would have been much more difficult.

Enxhi Seli-Zacharias, AfD deputy leader in the North Rhine-Westphalia parliament, took a broom to a tough Gelsenkirchen area, forcing Roma and Sinti residents to sweep on camera. Born in Albania and in Germany since age six, the state MP is one of AfD's fiercest remigration backers.

And EU, too.

For the first time, Germany has lost a campaign for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council👇 The world cares about int’al law, & this is a lesson for states: whether it’s Venezuela, Gaza, Iran, or Lebanon, promoting the consistent application of int’al law is good politics.

Germany failing to be elected to the UNSC might be the most delightful news of this whole wretched year

The final solution for AI in academia is a scenario where students are submitting AI-generated homework to be graded by AI-generated faculty using AI agents, all of which is being overseen by highly paid administrators who are extracting money from the students in exchange for a degree. The end.

it has come to my attention that busytown is anti pig

After having seen mediocre scholars from so-called top universities and top scholars from so-called mediocre universities, I can say that this is the way: University of Zurich withdraws from international university ranking. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/educatio...

I don't want AI in my email I don't want AI in my search engine I don't want AI in my house I won't click AI with a mouse I don't want AI in a box I don't want AI in firefox

In Gaza, all men of military age were deemed legitimate targets. “And military age is really open to interpretation,” said Jonathan. “It could be from 16 to 60 or even younger...Most of the people that my unit killed were not armed.”

Tyre is the city whose colonists founded Carthage. It has been inhabited for thousands of years. Until now.