‘Famine and widening food insecurity are the foreseeable consequences of military aggression in the Gulf. That reality ought to weigh heavily on a world that has largely understood this war through the narrow lens of oil-price instability’ www.ft.com/content/3634...

Looks like the Secretary of Labor is... (puts on sunglasses) out of a job.

Ah yes, the hallmark of all great art: needing to have done homework

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Person of (lack of) Interest

Illiberal actors like Palantir weaponize Karl Popper's tolerance paradox, insisting liberal societies accommodate viewpoints that seek to undermine or oppose pluralism. But equality and democracy demand that tolerance and pluralism be regarded as *normative*, not merely descriptive, traits.

Personally don't recommend these. As the article notes, these properties are typically achieved through PFAS, which can shed carcinogens in your home (which you then inhale) or come out in the wash (polluting waterways for decades). Will try to do a thread on how to treat stains in the wash.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

In these times of intellectual adversity, when the academy is under attack by an aggressive regime, who will take on the difficult and controversial projects and positions? By which I mean, of course, an ethnography of the Jewish campus a cappella boom of the 90s and early-to-mid 2000s.

I appreciate that Mr. Rupar's function is to collate & re-present relevant news items, but sharing this commentary without qualification is insulting, as it uncritically re-presents a view from within Christianity that the "Old Testament" (i.e. Hebrew Bible) is deficient & characterized by severity.

In politics, the medium (internet) is not the message (building a robust and resilient constituency). People learned too much from the JFK/TV example and from the somewhat idiosyncratic phenomenon of the US presidential election, which largely elects a figurehead.

This article is pure wreckerism. Anyone on the left who falls for it (see below) is going to create the situation it claims to describe. The reception of this article hews almost exactly to GOP op-eds telling the Dems how to run their party. You did not support AOC until you could punch left.

Also worth noting: Hungary held the election on Sunday, a day when people tend to have more free time.

Mamdani really pulled a "buh gawd, that's Bernie's music" moment at his 100 day rally

Great job, crypto-boosters

We've really entered the "international law never existed, but I sure miss it" era of post-history, haven't we

This is what right-wing knee-jerk opponents of international law do not adequate appreciate: the erosion of international legal norms around, say, war has the knock-on effect of eroding international legal norms around, say, commerce and transit.

"I’m most interested in ... people who are not driven by avarice or cruelty but have simply found themselves captured by a system that requires evil of them in order to stay afloat." @jordanharper.bsky.social is fucking aces and you should read this book. www.hachettebookgroup.com/articles/cri...

As a baseball fan of many years, I’ve never seen anything like this before. I love it. Normalize giving your fellow humans hugs.

The "One King" rally in Toronto was pretty inspiring

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

Manifesting a Pritzker / Ossoff 2028 ticket

People talk a lot about AI leading to de-skilling, but an underappreciated element of its implementation is also a depreciation of professionals’ understanding of information material to their work

One of the main problems with US law is that everything is a constitutional question, which processes every issue through a very strict framework Bracketing that, why is this not a statutory issue? How is it not the case that police's extraordinary powers are in exchange for duties they must fulfil?

"Bunch of guys obsessed with Ancient Sparta can't beat the Persians at sea" was probably one of the known-knowns, come to think of it.

I dunno. I’d rather he stop caping for Tucker Carlson

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

This really underscores the idiocy of the war's defenders crowing that "blowback" has been decisively disproven. The material aftershocks of this immoral adventure, along with the destabilization that comes from rending the int'l legal order to shreds, will deeply and adversely affect our lives

Let this radicalize you

More like Reality Loser

It just never had legs

Can someone do the Jeb Bush meme but with Carney and Canada?

Absolutely correct. Besides his actual contribution to the current war, *this* is the liability Netanyahu & his regime hold: gross negligence as to the knock-on effects of their policies and priorities on global Jewry.

This guy is a straight-up Nazi and one of the more dangerous people in American politics, you do not ever have to hand it to him

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Thank you for definitively disproving rational market theory

This specious, ignorant and frankly racist view really boils my blood. It's the laziness and prejudice of dropping your anti-imperialism at the mezuzah. Why, pray tell, did many Jewish families have those surnames? Did it have to do perhaps with being subjected to the hegemon?

The chicken shop date gal asked Ethan Hawke if he had advice for unrequited lovers. He says, "The one who's in love always wins. It doesn't matter if you get your heart broken. You're living when you're feeling alive. The sun doesn't care if the grass appreciates its rays. It just keeps on shining."

Bring back chat roulette

This is a funny dunk, but the problem with Discourse™ is that all it's interested in is dunks. Ballet and opera are struggling and need actual, material support & sustained interest, not petulant fits of umbrage protected at a careless actor

What if acting is not a trick but a craft? What if there are many ways to be great?

This is a description of fascism and an inversion of the rule of law - the law as a force that serves and supports the state and its representatives, rather than constrains it and protects the people from its invasive force

Cf. Starlight tours en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlig...

He's right, but the omission of dead Iranians from his account shows the need for a revival of internationalism within American liberalism.

This is a classy and principled response, but I also wonder whether using this as an opportunity for political rejoinder cedes the (imo important) legal opportunity to redefine norms as to what is appropriate public speech. A Mayor being a public figure does not make any speech-act "public comment".

What a wicked world

This is Exhibit A in the destruction of international law: now that its norms have been neutered, the wrongness of Iran's alleged mining of the Strait (bracketing the obvious wrongness of the US' war) can only be a political wrong, and Trump's only recourse is to either cajole or force Iran to stop.

Besides the historical & theological errors OP makes, I don't understand their point: taxes are funds that allow a community to provide essential services (provision of public space, food, clothing). Relying on voluntary charity (i.e. philanthropy) is neoliberal privatization of a social function.

Hannah Arendt vindicated