[תגובות למסרים… יותר קונטרוברסליים, מהיום] לירי בורק שביט: https://x.com/lirishavit/status/1936026071494713381 https://x.com/lirishavit/status/1936022115490161135 נאווה רוזוליו: https://x.com/rozolyo/status/1936027131051491421 משנים כיוון […]

"A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war."

[griping about 3.5% rule discourse, actually looking at the dataset from the book] getting annoyed at the "3.5%" rule discourse i'm seeing mostly on bsky that's like "governments never survive when 3.5% of people protest." the original ted talk claim was […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]

🇧🇩 Amid escalating Israel-Iran conflict, Bangladesh has set up emergency hotlines for citizens in Iran and their families: 📞 Tehran: +989908577368 / +989122065745 📞 Dhaka: +8801712012847 Bangladeshis in Lebanon are also urged to stay cautious and indoors at night. 📞 Beirut hotline: 70635278 […]

Hi all! My server, fediphilosophy, is sadly shutting down. So I have to migrate. Any server suggestions? I'm a philosopher, academic, leftist, living in Israel/Palestine (but American) I post a lot of Israel/Palestine politics from a left/not-anarchist-but-adjacent angle, but also some academic […]

"A busy, busy day at the airport."

I have a question for the philosophers, ethicists, and adjacent people reading this. Suppose you discovered that all of the people you most ethically admire in the world shared the same metaethical view. Would you take this as a reason, even a small one, in favor of that metaethical view? If yes […]

Anybody know of maps that reconstruct land use patterns in Europe over the past 1000 years or so? Boosts welcome. #askfedi #geography #environment

כבוד לספיר סלוצקר עמראן ן"באות למפציצים" שגם היום עמדו מול בסיס ח"א (חצרים) עם תמונות של #מעורבים_בעל_כורחם כדי שהטייסים יצטרכו להתמודד עם תוצאות מעשיהם (נכתב בלשון זכר אך מתייחס גם לרוצחות) יש לכם אינסטוש? פרגנו להן https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKWo0HcJ7ZQ/ #תסרבו

Hallucinating #goldstandard science "The #maha Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist." https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors "Health Secretary #rfkjr says his “Make America Healthy Again” Commission report harnesses “gold-standard” science […]

As US role in Gaza intensifies, expect violent responses in the West: Terror attacks in Europe over past 20 years should offer stark warning as US aids Israel in displacing Palestinians […] [Original post on newsie.social]

2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated in Three Zones 2 Million Civilians to Be Concentrated *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* *Concentrated* They are ANNOUNCING concentration camps archive.is/Q7klW

העיפו אתמול את רוב העיר מהקואליציה בחיפה והוציאו את סאלי עבד מהועדות שהיו תחת אחריותה. הסיבות הרשמיות הן שסאלי עבד לא עשתה את תפקידה כחברת מועצה ובשנוסף שהיא פגעה באופי הליברלי דו קיומי של העיר. בפועל לא בא לאנשים בטוח ערביה ישראלית שמדברת נגד מה שנעשה בעזה. זה מכעיס וזה גם מפחיד. נראה לי כדאי […]

Wow. Doing everything they can to boot progressive voices that threaten the stagnant status quo. "The credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee voted on Monday to void the results of the internal party vote that made David Hogg a party vice chair, ruling that the election had […]

For everyone in the #usa who can contact a member of congress: Please contact your member and remind them that Library of Congress is a legislative branch agency and the president does not have authority over it. DOGE is trying to pull something regarding the Copyright Office […]

Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution is out! In Episode 1, @leilashami and I go through what the STIR podcast is about, and why Syria? Available for free on Patreon and wherever you get your podcasts https://www.patreon.com/posts/128666665 Part of From The Periphery Media Collective

ביום שבת הבא נצא לעבוד עם שותפינו מדיר אסתיא. נבדוק ביחד את התפיסות שלנו ואת המציאות. נבטא סולידריות ביחד. ניפגש בשעה 7:00 בתחנת הרכבת של ראש העין צפון. אחרי הסברים ובניית התכוונות ניסע לכפר. נהיה בחזרה בראש העין עד השעה 16:00. מידע מלא (כולל לגבי טרמפ במידת הצורך) נשלח למי שיירשמו דרך הקישור […]

#RadicalRoutes 'Co-op Principles' tea towels are once again in stock. Get them at this weekend's RR gathering at Highbury Farm or email [email protected] for wholesale or mail order prices. Also available from Veggies online store, at the […] [Original post on social.coop]

This past Tuesday was the 20th Annual Israeli-Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony, presented by Combatants for Peace. Along with the ceremony, they hosted screenings across Israel/Palestine as well as in various cities across the world. (You can watch the ceremony recording here […]

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I feel like educators around my generation (I'm 41) are still trying to impress the youths with what we take to be 'cool' technology. But the younger generation now is in a moment of backlash against at least much tech that is more flash than substance. Case in point: With my lectures, I […]

one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

Saying he has lost journalistic independence, the executive producer of 60 Minutes is resigning. (Full disclosure: I appeared recently on the CBS program along with VOA colleague Patsy Widakuswara) […]

Someone (i think UCSB prof Danielle Harlow) made this incredibly useful and devastatingly sad "United States Disappeared Tracker" which currently lists 1,957 people abducted illegally by the U.S. government […]

"A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests. Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact […]

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share. How come? I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

עצוב להגיד כמה מופרך שאותה ממשלה קיימת מאז הטבח, מנהלת מלחמה, ועכשיו גם רוצה להפציץ באיראן? הממשלה שבה השמות החזקים הם ביבי, דרעי, רגבת סמוטריץ', בן גביר - הם מורשים לצאת למלחמה באיראן? #פוליטיקה

Update. "The National Science Foundation (#nsf) has abolished its chief mechanism for getting the scientific community’s input on its programs." https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-scraps-most-outside-advisory-panels (#paywalled) #defendresearch #Trump #uspol #uspolitics

A new US company, Massive Blue, is helping law enforcement agencies deploy AI-powered social media bots to interact with suspected criminals. Unfortunately this can also be used against activists… www.wired.com/story/massiv... #activism #ai #deepfakes #socialengineering

Update. Here's the letter of demands from the #Trump admin to #Columbia. https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/6d3c124d8e20212d/85dec154-full.pdf Note that it's much shorter and less extreme than the letter to #Harvard […]

#handsoff ‼️ #USA #USProtests #USProtest #Protest

On 9 April 2025, we will host the Fifth #groningen #metaethics #workshop Keynote by James Lenman (Sheffield): “The Truth in #Conventionalism” Papers by: Singa Behrens, Sofia Berinstein, Graham Bex-Priestley, Nils Franzén, Will Gamester, and Thomas Schmidt For info and registration, see […]

I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.

TURKIYE PROTESTS More than 2,000,000 against the Erdogan administration in Turkiye. #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Turkiye #Breaking #breakingnews

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/29/when-the-physicists-need-burner-phones-thats-when-you-know-americas-changed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Notable that the truly fascistic abductions of lawful immigrants purely b/c Trumpists dislike their views have all focused on criticism of Israel. The overlap between MAGA authoritarianism & a pro-Israel stance is striking. I knew a shadowy group (Canary Mission) was feeding students' names to […]

[FREE Palestine/Israel Webinar!] Hi, All That's Left, a local (to Palestine/Israel) activist group, is hosting a Zoom/webinar tomorrow, 19:00 local time (18:00 Germany, 11:00 New York/EST) with Israeli activist and journalist Andrey X and Palestinian […] [Original post on fediphilosophy.org]

Speaking of, does anyone know of a good source that distills threats to higher ed weekly? Some kind of link roundup?

Hi all, tl;dr If you have questions for a (leftist but attempting to be fair-minded) local in Jerusalem about the current situation in Israel or the West Bank, please ask them below. It's been quite a while since I've done this - and I don't know if there is any desire - but I'll have some […]

Very happy to see the report "The University of St Andrews and the Legacies of Empire, 1700-1900", which emerged from a project headed by @aileenfyfe. It examines in detail the ways in which the University of St Andrews has benefitted from, participated in, or supported British colonialism and […]

1/2 Free marketeer John Chubb once said, “The problem with public schools is that they must take whoever walks in the door.” The key word here is "problem." Debbie Meier, by contrast, argued that the problem with *private* schools is that they *don't* have to do this. Thus, they "cannot serve […]

Jimmy Wales won't tell you this but here is the secret page that lists all of the good articles on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_that_are_excessively_detailed

On February 10th, the Educational Bookshop in Occupied East Jerusalem was raided by Israeli police - books were confiscated and the owners Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna were arrested. ( […] [Original post on fediphilosophy.org]

Re conferences people should probably just do virtual ones if possible. If it’s not safe for others to enter the U.S. it’s also not safe for many people to leave it.

"I think war crimes should be prosecuted regardless of who commits them." That's a statement that could result in my residency revoked and deportation from Israel if a new law introduced into the Knesset passes. And no scholar who has said such a thing would be admitted into the country either […]