Jurgen Habermas' death ends the illusion of a universal European philosophy - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/jurgen-habermass-death-ends-illusion-universal-european-philosophy

Amen.

Every single word.

Attacks on synagogues and Jewish shops in the UK, Europe and the US don’t hurt Netanyahu. They just hurt ordinary Jews | Jonathan Freedland

Children killed, a school turned into a graveyard: even in wartime, we can’t accept this | Gordon Brown

Israeli strike in Tebnine brings Lebanon death toll to 634 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-tebnine-brings-lebanon-death-toll-634

Women receiving worse treatment for back pain – UK study

If you think I'm overstating concerns about the loyalties of US tech companies - check out this memo from Anthropic CEO to staff on their battle with the Trump administration.

At least 131 Iranian cities affected by US-Israeli attacks, Red Crescent says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-131-iranian-cities-affected-us-israeli-attacks-red-crescent-says

NEW: The Victims Who Fought Back An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison? By @pamelacolloff.bsky.social

49 years ago Sister Midnight is a pre-single release from Iggy Pop's debut album The Idiot, released February 1977. #punk #punks #punkrock #iggypop #sistermidnight #theidiot #history #punkrockhistory

UN peace keepers 'said this was not the first time Israeli forces had dropped unknown chemical substances from aircraft over Lebanese territory'. Lebanon says Israel sprayed southern villages with concentrated herbicide share.google/Ifom3vdm1hMk...

Israel continues to deliberately starve the Palestinian people. Our governments are facilitating this crime. But we can help Palestinians trying to feed the people of Gaza. Please give whatever support you can. chuffed.org/project/1602...

‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village

A snow study #art #oilpainting

A third of 16-18 year olds girls say in surveys that they experienced unwanted sexual touching at school. There are several hundred rapes reported in schools every year.

When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

The dismantling of US science continues. RFKJr fired the director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, basically for believing in the germ theory of disease. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Great article on autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Dit gaat niet (primair) over "populisme" maar over "nativisme" (xenofoob nationalisme) en zelfs "racisme".

The Royal Parks has rejected Nigel Farage's claim that migrants are killing and eating swans from their grounds. The RSPCA has also poured cold water on the claim, saying a video that has been circulating on social media was from 15 years ago news.sky.com/story/royal-...

Incredible good news

UK officially recognises Palestine as a state Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK - alongside Australia and Canada - was taking the step "in the face of growing horror" in the Middle East news.sky.com/story/uk-off...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Ed Davey has written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join him in condemning Elon Musk's remarks yesterday

Brazilian institutions, notably the judiciary, rose to the challenge of defending democracy. The US failed to and now is descending into authoritarianism. Gift column in the Times.

Ahem

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

An important read on the epidemic of loneliness: "In England today, local authorities spend nearly £330m less per year on parks and open spaces than a decade ago, which has led to the rapid deterioration of those spaces." www.thersa.org/rsa-journal/...

State organizations that advocate for disabled residents in New Jersey and Arkansas announced that they will have to limit their work after not receiving the full funds they are owed by the US federal government.

Yikes. They froze the funding of 14 of 35 Alzheimer’s disease research centers?! amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/04/...

At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say

Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

If the military academies are purging libraries of “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.,” “Einstein on Race and Racism,” and a biography on Jackie Robinson, how long will it be before they eliminate classes on the Geneva Conventions and military obligations under international laws of war?

Why aren’t you wearing a suit? Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

✏️ « L’histoire ne se répète pas. Je ne pense pas que le nazisme soit en train de revenir, mais les analogies servent à comprendre la réalité et à adresser des signaux d’alerte. » - @oliviermannoni.bsky.social 

Appropriate question. Poignant metaphor (Vichy on the Hudson). And this is of course precisely the point, as it's laid out in think tank pieces: they want to destroy the universities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What labor powers our clicks, likes & views? 📱 Prof. Ashley Mears (sociology) unveils the hidden economy of attention, in her inaugural lecture 'Attention! A New Labor Theory for an Old Commodity', tomorrow - 27 March at 16:30 CET. 🎥 Watch it live: hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Thoughts on Signal gate, as someone who spent 19 yrs at CIA. I'm thinking of all the times I accidentally brought my phone into the office and had to not only immediately walk it across the massive parking lot to my car, but report myself to security. Do that too many times=real repercussions

It's 5 yrs today since lockdown started in England, but "We must never have lockdown again" is the wrong lesson. Lockdowns are terrible but so are deadly pandemics. Our choices 5 years ago were limited - we can & must do better in the future. Do read my post. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

South African ambassador expelled from US welcomed home by supporters

MPs could axe clause in bill banning forced labour in GB Energy supply chain

“Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/mor...

"I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky." Canadian entrepreneur and actor Jasmine Mooney, who was detained in the US for two weeks, writes for the Guardian about her experience.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.

New paper out with @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social in @bjse.bsky.social on students’ interactional cultural capital and school performance @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...