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It was never a democracy. He's just talking about the last few years, but there are about 5 million people in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza who have been subject to Israeli military occupation since 1967, yet have never been allowed to vote for the government that controls their lives.

Starmer: I can't condemn Trump until I've seen his press conference and know the facts Trump at the press conference: We've colonised Venezuela and stolen their president and we mainly did it for the oil Starmer:🦗🦗🦗

Can't wait to see Venezuelans on TV talking about how their families got bombed or whatever being asked if they condemn Maduro

I can think of at least one other country. Weird that the NYT can't.

I don’t want to argue with Democrats all day but goddamn why do people never look at the US War machine and be we should dismantle this system and not just hope it never gets in the other guy’s hands.

Surely the NYT will say Venezuela has a right to defend itself

As we all said, international law, such as it was, no longer exists. The United States, following Israel’s precedent, considers itself to have the explicit authority to blatantly violate sovereignty anywhere in the world and abduct even leaders of other states. There are no guardrails whatsoever.

These people were foreign nationals who had not committed crimes. The Israeli navy kidnapped and imprisoned them anyway. Then Israeli prison guards raped them. This came three months after protests in Israel demanding that prison guards be allowed to rape prisoners. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can't believe the only democracy in the region would do this.

"If Europeans in the United States were immigrants, they would have joined the existing societies in the New World. Instead, they destroyed those societies and built a new one that was reinforced by later waves of settlement.” inthesetimes.com/article/roxa...

Yesterday, Reuters unveiled a report in which they discovered that Israel re-purposed armored personnel carriers into truck bombs, loading them with up to 3 tons of explosives and then using them to destroy residential buildings in Gaza.

"In some areas, the Israeli military later moved the markings westward, into territory that was meant to remain under Palestinian control, in violation of the agreement, forcing dozens of families to flee once again, at times under live fire."

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team Free Lexi Alexander, one of the most important voices on this platform.

🔴 Major INGOs barred from Gaza for refusing to help Israel build a kill list Israel has moved to block 37 international NGOs from operating in Gaza after they refused to hand over names & addresses of local staff. The reason is obvious: Israel has repeatedly used such information to target and...

"Trump reiterated his support for another strike on Iran." "Israel is seeking greater latitude to escalate again against Hezbollah in Lebanon, an end to U.S. accommodation of Syria's new leadership." #Iran #USA #Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Syria #Lebanon #Military #Weapons

Tomorrow, Israel will ban Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and 30 other humanitarian organisations from Gaza. Allegedly because they support terrorism or w/e. The reasons aren't real or important. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12... Why does Israel get to decide who aids the victims of their genocide?

Nope. There isn't an ethical way to use an ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis-harassment machine. Stop enabling this. "Enablers are those who continue to make atrocities possible even after the true nature of actions and their perpetrators has become apparent." buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Good thing UNRWA operates in Palestine and not in Israel, so Israeli laws can't touch it. Right? Two states and all that. Right guys? Guys...?

If this unprovoked airstrike means America is at war with Venezuela, then it is also at war with Yemen, Syria, Nigeria, and Somalia. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. What word we use to describe these attacks is less important than accepting that the US is a white supremacist rogue state.

This article really irritated me. Rausing collapses political language (“resistance”, “settler colonialism”) into endorsement of murder, then calls that moral clarity. Does she believe what she's saying? Probably. But that just makes it worse. 1/

This is at least the second time Bluesky has suspended her

This is bad but not in the way liberals are crying about. Most of it will never be built. It's going to take decades to clear the rubble, and especially west of the 'yellow line', Hamas isn't just gonna let them build resorts. It's a scheme to give Israel another $100 billion while Kushner profits.

Even Sky News can’t unsee it news.sky.com/story/airstr...

The failing New York Times. A lot of people are saying it.

Not just hate and discrimination - Bluesky mods deleted itsmeio.bsky.social's account in response to targeted reporting by apparent nazis

I want to wish you all if not a merry, a peaceful Christmas Keep our Palestinian siblings close to your hearts, in spirit, in generosity, in every way that we as humanity should bond & protect each other I’ll link the campaigns of my friends whose accounts are being erased Share with and for them 🧵

According to Muhammad Shehada, writing for +972 Magazine (Dec. 12, 2025), the UAE has quietly played a significant role in Israel’s effort to build armed proxy militias in east. Gaza, explicitly favoring a model of managed chaos—even long-term instability—over any scenario in which Hamas survives...

The UAE has surfaced repeatedly in reporting on Israeli-backed militias operating in Gaza. The Sunday Times reports that the largest of 5 such militias is the Rafah-based “Popular Forces,” whose fighters have been seen carrying “locally rare Chinese-made Type 81 assault rifles” — the same weapons...

Imagine if you saw a headline like "Russia approves establishment of 19 new settlements in Kharkiv province" or "North Korea approves establishment of 19 new settlements in Seoul province" and everyone just treated it like a normal thing for a non-rogue state to do.

It's illegal for Palestinians to collect rainwater.

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

Trans instructor: “you didn’t do this assignment” Supervising professor: “she didn’t do the assignment” Student: “I didn’t do the assignment” University: “isn’t there someone you forgot to ask” some days I just want to scream and scream

Look I'm obviously not in government but, politically, what can Labour possibly hope to gain by arresting a woman, peacefully protesting to support hunger strikers, who was also *very publicly* kidnapped and tortured in an Israeli prison just 3 months ago? www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

"City of London Police said a 22-year-old woman has been arrested for displaying a placard in support of proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000." Read her sign again:

It's tough to be worse on Palestine than the Sunak government but Starmer never misses.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Meanwhile the UK government is strangling protestors who are trying to get medical assistance to said hunger strikers, none of whom have been convicted of a crime, yet who have remained in detention without trial for over a year. novaramedia.com/2025/12/19/d...

"It creates additional confusion by instructing school districts to follow a 2023 Biden White Paper [that] refers to the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which conflates anti-Zionist and anti-Israel sentiment with antisemitism." Anyway Newsom already signed this, obviously, because he's terrible.

Just try to contemplate that those who marched in protest of such murders occurring (in much greater numbers) are now being blamed by the Liberal Party for the Bondi Massacre.

Egyptian geese, ca. 11th-13th century (Egyptian, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, MS T-S NS 324.2, fol. the only one)

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. Ethnonationalism is progressivism.

I got LLMs to summarise my own work back to me and every single one (including the AI feature on adobe which had the PDF in front of it) just made shit up to fit a general average of what scholarship on this topic over the last 100 years might generally say. Utter garbage.

Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

"Israel's strategy since the ceasefire has not been to rebuild Gaza, but to manage its collapse." "By controlling what enters and leaves, Israel dictates the pace of Gaza's decay." "It is a deliberate and cynical policy to keep Gaza broken." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Aid #Healthcare #Genocide

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

There is simply no way to teach the ethics of the trolley problem without running someone over with a trolley.

FYI there is no ethical use case for a machine built by plagiarising authors and artists. That's besides the fact that said machine is offsetting years of progress on the green energy transition and wasting unfathomable amounts of drinkable water (see: www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-data...)

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Can someone please tell me a single useful policy that the Democratic caucus actually supports? Apparently "healthcare for trans kids" isn't one. BTW "affordability" is not a policy, nor is "accountability" or "sustainability" or "peace."