When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

"Living under constant surveillance is to exist in a permanent state of hypervigilance. This isn’t an accidental side effect of digital surveillance; it is a carefully designed mechanism of pre-emptive deterrence. When governments weaponize uncertainty, a person’s mind becomes its own prison."

Gaza's Ministry of Social Development has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis, saying the territory is experiencing a "silent famine" amid a sharp decline in the flow of humanitarian assistance. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260624-gaz...

Sudan's war refugees describe horrors in Egypt's jails, surging deportations www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Albanese indicated that the larger concern was the willingness of officials to accept lobbying claims without scrutiny. "Nothing justifies swallowing a rotten lobbying campaign whole without checking the facts and sources behind it."

The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday called for international action after Israel withheld around $11 billion in Palestinian funds, warning that the move poses a serious threat to the ability of Palestinian institutions to continue operating. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260624-pal...

Israel’s new separation wall will sever Jordan Valley from rest of West Bank The army is issuing evacuation orders and seizing land to prepare a massive barrier — part of a wider project to annex the Palestinian ‘breadbasket.’ @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/jordan-valle...

🪰 A new wormlion fly species - Vermitigris tsangyanggyatso - is described from Xizang, China, named after the 6th Dalai Lama, a Tibetan poet-monk renowned for his romantic verse. 🕵️ Our blog post: blog.pensoft.net/2026/06/24/n... 📖 Original study in @zookeys.pensoft.net: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

Even I - as a grandson of a Nakba survivor and as a historian - still find myself baffled at the deep connections between the IDF and British colonialism in Palestine, not to mention the ongoing legacy of British colonialism in Ireland. William Darlymple on @zackpolanski.bsky.social’s podcast

What they call 'white guilt' is just history. And then they accuse others of living in a fantasy land.

"The political operative in question and their apparatus (not named deliberately for legal reasons because our defamation laws are stacked against truth) has had a few runs at me previously, ... But this time, I was warned, it was more ‘vicious’ than usual." @amyremeikis.bsky.social #AusPol

So where are the allies? Why has there not been mass resignations of boards ? Backbones needed not jellyfish. 🖤💛❤️

Overnight, the United Nations has released another report confirming that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza. Read our full statement calling for Australia to impose country-level sanctions on Israel at: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/06/jewi...

A group of Australians have accused the government of violating their human rights by continuing to export coal and gas and are asking the UN to take action. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"All the winning candidates share Mr. Mamdani’s progressive economic platform, and they each ran campaigns that focused intently on ending American support for Israel, a sign of how far public opinion has shifted on the issue, even in New York."

When my cousin got beat up by a white guy and was massively upset they arrested her for some minor thing and let the guy go about his day.

Again, I encourage people to read @mikeduncan.bsky.social book: Storm Before the Storm. It's about the generation of Roman Republicans *before* Caesar. It's about how norms, once broken, cannot be restored. And, it turns out, it's about the fall of our republic too.

"The problem The Free Press has with Parsi is not his alleged ties to the Iranian state but rather his real influence in Washington. Bari Weiss knows she is losing in the court of public opinion. Since she can’t effectively debate her ideological opponents, she prefers to deport them."

Saying it again: constantly calling one of the most well-liked politicians in America an antisemite without any evidence whatsoever is not going to advance the goals of fighting antisemitism

Brilliant followup from @richharidy.bsky.social on a Frontiers publication that should never have made it out of the gate Dosing an+80yo longterm nonverbal dementia patient without consent using 5g of Enigma strain Psilocybe cubensis is heinous. It's not research

Sunshine Coast students push back as Australia positions itself as a global AI leader www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Thousands rally for Palestine in Chile as activists pursue UN action against Israel

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Very trenchant and important commentary by @karimbitar.bsky.social in this piece.. Can the US-Iran deal survive Israel's war on Lebanon? www.newarab.com/news/can-us-...

John Mearsheimer and I discussed the latest in the US-Iran talks on the Switzerland podcast. We agreed that neither side has any choice but to seek a deal. Trump is looking at a complete global economic disaster if he doesn’t find an exit from this war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=okSl...

JD Vance has described the violence in Lebanon as "These things are always a little bit messy" Israel has so far killed 4,106 and injured 12,153 people since March 2

"Khalil, 76, ran a sanctuary called the Orange House Project near the Mediterranean city of Tyre. She hosted volunteers in her house to clean and monitor a mile-long beach and welcomed tourists to stay and learn about conservation."

Remember to follow Megaphone News, Lebanon’s most prominent independent progressive media outlet.

The way that security discourse has warped to such a degree that it is never even considered that Palestinians and Lebanese might feel insecurity via the illegal presence of the Israeli army is impressive.

Al Sharaa continues to rebuff Trump's plea that Syria invade Lebanon on Israel's behalf

Something I've been quietly working on with various partners is addressing this issue in the UK, and making sure it's talking about democracy in the current moment, not some 20th Century ideal.

Bibi exercised his veto.

Demonstrators chant "Albania is not for sale," challenging coastal projects tied to Kushner amid environmental concerns https://aje.news/q28j7f

If the Trump admin won't use U.S. leverage, then Congress must pass mine & @sarajacobs.house.gov bill to stop arms sales to the UAE until they cease arming the genocidal RSF. [2/2]

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 6, including 2 children and an Al Jazeera cameraman apnews.com/article/isra...

Number one question every so-called foreign policy realist should be asking themselves is why Washington DC consider Israel's right to bomb Lebanon more important than the global economy?

Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza and 28 in Lebanon since October 7, 2023. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel’s killings of journalists in his new feature documentary Journacide: The War on Truth.

Stealing from Matthew Petti Remember: the reason Ben Gvir is bad is not that he says uncomfortable things. The reason he is bad is that he has power over prisons and police which he uses to torture real human beings.

People who argue that Iranian leadership isn’t serious about Lebanon seem to be missing (among other things) the Iranian’s need to establish effective deterrence. They need the rest of the world to believe that failing to rein in Israeli attacks triggers intense economic pain.

With the question of Lebanon now at the center of the US-Israeli-made crisis, it is imperative to think about the question of why the US so desperately wants to impose an Israeli hegemony onto Lebanon and Syria (and Palestine), and why this doesn't work when this doesn't offer them anything

Nie wieder.

"Hayoun introduces us to self-identified Arab Jews from across the region, including Egyptian Magda Haroun, Moroccan Abraham Serfarty, Moroccan Sion Assidon, Tunisian Habiba Messika, and Egyptian Ezra Harari."

Palestinian communities in Tulkarem have lived in the toxic shadow of the Nitzanei Shalom industrial settlement. Now, our year-long investigation reveals how European companies are quietly linked to environmental crimes in the occupied West Bank:

Paris granted honorary citizenship Thursday to Palestinian civilian populations and journalists, according to French public broadcaster RFI. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260618-par...

"During a period supposedly defined by restraint and protection, a child has been killed, on average, every single day for more than eight months," UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva, speaking from Amman.

Could the HPV vaccine eliminate cervical cancer deaths? https://aje.news/1cvzgy

i’m reading the new @quinnslobodian.com on Musk and the book makes a very persuasive case that Musk’s upbringing in apartheid south africa are at the core of his ideology

No one should take pleasure in the tears of a single mother, Jewish or Arab, but the level of racism, supremacy, and sense of entitlement exhibited here for the world to see is nauseating.

‘Ecuador was the first country to set nature’s rights into law, amending its constitution in 2008 to recognise Pachamama (Nature) as a right-bearing entity, followed by Bolivia in 2009.’ @jayowens.bsky.social on Natalie Bennett’s Nature’s Rights Bill, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...