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Yet more evidence that American unis will support any 'buzzword' that they think will net more tuition money, up to the moment it costs something. Social justice, gender studies, etc. Of course, this also provides the model for disrupting things like 'Israel Studies' and 'professor of AI'

NORTHWESTERN: *appoints prof as inaugural Chair of Social Justice in Reporting* PROF: *supports social justice* NORTHWESTERN: No not like that

On the exact same day that Israeli Jewish settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank held a US Congressman at gunpoint with US made rifles, they also attacked a CNN news crew

Right well that's 4 more patriot interceptors gone. We already spent 1,000+ in the first round of this war and only made 172 in FY2026.

"Well technically I was kidnapped in the Palestinian Territories so I don't think it's fair to blame Israel"

The headlines have fallen off but Israel continues to bomb Lebanon dozens of times every day. They also continue to occupy more territory in both Lebanon and Gaza, even advancing beyond the 'yellow lines' that they themselves unilaterally imposed.

There’s always a guy on CNN going “in Persian culture killing you is considered a grave insult”

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

If you use AI, you are an antiblack environmental racist. Full stop. Own that about yourself & stand proud.

They intentionally put data centers in Black communities instead of elsewhere to kill us, they figure, we don't care if Black people breathe in the waste from our industry, it doesn't matter if they're alive or dead.

The fundamental political rift of our time. Neocons: Russia is targeting American warhawks because American intervention in the Middle East is bad for Russia Liberals: Russia tricked Americans into being warhawks because American intervention in the Middle East is good for Russia

Which party is the one where all the politicians refuse to listen to experts?

Can you read this? Paleo-Arabic is the most important material witness to the immediate context of Islam's rise. Learn to analyze these documents and how they help write history in the last course of EI's summer cycle: Intro to Paleo-Arabic (Aug. 10-14): tinyurl.com/4shnfv7j

Who does this benefit?

"Under the draft law, anyone who publicly denies Israel’s right to exist or calls for the state’s abolition could face up to five years in prison or a fine." Anyway if I disappear you'll know why

Computer! show me stern catholic priest vs white lesbian and crowd of concerned brown people. include default gAI font and stanchions that warp spacetime

Lander says the right things in this interview, but the problem is that, as he admits, "a liberal Zionist is a Zonist." He wants to separate himself from "Zionist[s] like Ben Gvir," but this is often a distinction without a difference. He still supports a Jewish ethnostate built on occupied land.

Mitch McConnell is not dead, he has merely gone into occultation.

First the Committee to Protect Journalists redefines "journalist" to exclude reporters at state-funded outlets. Now the UK can prosecute journalists who get info from "state-supported terrorist groups," by which they mean the IRGC and anyone else they decide to ban (but definitely not the IDF).

“Just flatten [Gaza]. We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo.” -Lindsey Graham

Iran has no fucking chill and I don’t blame them

Imagine if armed Palestinians detained a sitting US Congressman

I can’t believe people are making me defend Ro Khanna

Looking forward to all the "nonstate actors must be disarmed" folks explaining why it's okay for armed Israeli settlers to hold an American politician at gunpoint

So many great lines here: Only when the troops began to refuse orders, leading to summary executions, followed by the “fragging” of COs, did the generals and the politicians begin to accept that there were no vulnerabilities, that, at least within its boundaries, “the anomaly was universal.”

Someone remind me what authority the Israeli military has to stop and frisk Syrian citizens in Syria

This gets to my suspicion of Burnham’s expression of mild regret around Gaza. You’re the party who dragged Britain into Iraq. If you want to show you’re serious about ‘mistakes’ over Gaza then tell me who’s facing arrest or which Israeli arms manufacturers you’re going to kick off British soil.

I’ll share it, because I think this rampant anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry is not only accepted by a dying wing of our party but being used to win primaries (see Abdul). It’s on us to see it, shun it, and protect our coalition.

There are a lot of people who get really mad when you point out rape apologists that they like and follow. I don’t know man, it’s kind of a line in the sand.

Too many of y'all need to accept that there are humans beings who say and do things based on their own beliefs, not because they're Russian plants.

"The world may not like Rahm Emanuel's 23-state plan — but there is no alternative."

The University of Cambridge should sack and then very publicly condemn this literal actual white supremacist whom they, quite explicably, continue to employ.

Some days in the transcription mines are less forgiving than others

Yet another poll showing how the protest movement has been very effective at shifting public opinion since 2023

Morcoccan Quarter in the Old City of (East) Jerusalem. Israel invaded and bulldozed the entire thing in 1967. It's now the big empty plaza in front of the Western Wall where tourists take selfies with the IDF.

There's much to see on this folio: an archer and a hare; two dragons; and a cat and a dog. Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Or. 81; Rashi, Commentary on the Torah; 1396; Pescia (Italy); f.95v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Searching for endnotes in a book. #academicchatter

IRAQ UPDATE: Tomorrow has been declared a nationwide public holiday by the Iraqi government to commemorate Iran's murdered by America Supreme Leader Ali Al Khamenei's funeral procession in Najaf province.

Sometimes it's just beyond parody

unfriendly reminder that what killed #metoo was a woman coming forward with sexual assault allegations against biden and the entire lib media circling the wagons to protect him. when we see the exact same thing play out with platner know it's because he's just as protected by the establishment

As with everything I’m not saying this for any other reason than that I need people to pay more attention & be more serious. He did the exact harm to the party that many of you claimed his critics were doing except by far greater orders of magnitude.

He lied about every single thing. Everyday. He ran knowing full well who he is while presenting himself as someone else (poorly). He wasted everyone’s time & money & shattered people’s credibility. He used the political process as a vanity project to the detriment of the folks he wanted to represent

Take a shot every time I have to expand this thread edition.cnn.com/2026/07/06/p...

The corollary to all of these solutions, including the American FP one, is that Israel should also take neighboring countries by force, partly to deny safe havens for Palestinians but mostly to expand the territory available for ethnic cleansing.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

You can't call yourself an ally for what's in your heart - and that's what you're doing by saying it's not a betrayal because Jackson was supportive in her opinion. She RULED against trans rights. Like, that's it, that's where the rubber meets the road, that's what MATTERS.

Maybe this makes me a bad person but I care very little for the procedural excuses those with power use to excuse their in/actions as the blood of my trans siblings stains the ground. If your rules have brought you to this moment and prevented the actions nessecary, what was the point of the rules?

I wonder if a single western outlet will talk about that child-sized coffin. All I'm seeing is wall-to-wall "security and state control" as if Iranians don't experience genuine grief. It was his 1-year-old granddaughter, Zahra.

In case you were wondering: yes, Israel destroyed all the MRI machines in hospitals that treat 2 million people. And all but one cardiac catheter machine. And they blockaded all the cancer medicine. And blew up 200 ambulances. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-br...