Anyone who does translation work should take a look at Grok's posts about Hebrew (x.com/search?q=gro...). Grok (Elon?) has ideas about good/bad translation that strike me as pretty weird.

1/3 In the last few days something odd has been happening with posts on X in Hebrew. Non-Hebrew speakers would click “translate” and, for some posts, would get a translation. Other posts, though, would trigger a message saying “Hebrew is not currently supported for translation”.

🧵1/6 UKLFI, the pro-Israel organisation whose chief executive claimed the Gaza war could increase the life expectancy of Palestinians by reducing obesity rates, has come up with another grotesque idea ...

Re Zelenskyy's attire: In WW2 Winston Churchill wore a one-piece "siren suit" for meetings with Roosevelt (at the White House), Eisenhower and Stalin.

At least 365 people have been arrested at a demonstration in London in support of proscribed group Palestine Action, police say. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

1/4 Activists campaigning against Britain’s military presence in Northern Ireland faced surveillance and prosecution during the 1970s. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/s...

It seems very likely Bob Vylan will be prosecuted, if only to make an example of them. Worth noting, though, that it's the sort of case where juries sometimes turn bolshie and deliver the "wrong" verdict.

If the atrocity denialists at @UKLFI really think: "promoting the idea that Israel has committed a genocide is likely to stir up religious hatred against Jews, contrary to Section 18 of the Public Order Act 1986" then they are welcome to report me.

🧵UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) is getting a lot of attention following disgusting remarks by its chief executive, Jonathan Turner. For anyone not aware of the group's activities, here's some background ...

🧵(1/5) The war in Gaza may be improving the health of Palestinians and increasing life expectancy, according to the head of UKLFI, a British organisation that works to stifle criticism of Israel.

Amnesty International has documented the Saudi authorities’ increasing crackdown on freedom of expression, targeting citizens and foreign nationals, many sentenced to lengthy prison terms solely for peacefully exercising their right to free expression. www.amnesty.org.uk/urgent-actio...

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

The Fisher Bendix factory in Kirkby had been built with government help to ease unemployment in the area but it wasn’t a success. In 1972 when the owners tried to shut it down workers occupied the factory and later began running it themselves. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/b...

The International Garden Festival in 1984 attracted more than three million visitors and helped to regenerate Liverpool. But what benefit did the visitors get from it? liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/04/13/i...

In 1971 there were two notable court cases in Liverpool where black men accused of possessing cannabis were acquitted after claiming police had planted it – a practice known in the force as "agriculture". liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/01/07/p...

Litttlewoods football pools once provided jobs for thousands of Liverpool women. Former employees describe what it was like to work there. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/2025/03/13/l...

Liverpool People’s History is intended as a collaborative project and public participation is strongly encouraged. liverpoolpeopleshistory.org/about-liverp...

Same story, posted same time: Bluesky - 393 reposts, 551 likes Twitter/X - 3 retweets, 7 likes

This is unbelievable in that way that only Trump stories can be. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Shaheed drones are hitting Kyiv as we speak. This might be the weakest a U.S. President has ever looked.

1/4 Today the Sunday Times has begun serialising a new book about the assassination of its chief foreign correspondent, David Holden, in 1977. Holden was shot dead shortly after arriving in Cairo on an assignment. Who killed him, and why, has been a mystery ever since.

A constructive step by the new Syrian authorities towards resolving the chemical weapons issue. #OPCW www.opcw.org/media-centre...

Holocaust Survivor Summoned for Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity March – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/03/04/h...

Zelensky to meet King Charles tomorrow. 🤣Trump is going to be furious.

Another of the almost uncountably pieces of very sinister news coming out of the US

New Banksy

Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world's first openly gay imam, has been shot dead in South Africa www.mambaonline.com/2025/02/15/h...

We live in a timeline where "literally Bashar al-Assad's son" is less committed to Assadism/atrocity denial (for obviously cynical reasons) than the folks at The Grayzone and Electronic Intifada: x.com/HafezALAsssa...

Exclusive: Egyptian firm charges trucks entering Gaza $20,000 in ‘bribes’ www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-o...

Just got a surprise windfall from my bank. Can't decide what to do with the money.

Names of Syria's Preparatory Committee emerge: "Provided these names are confirmed in the coming hours, the breadth of the group represents about as good a result as might have been imagined." www.syriaweekly.com/p/new-syrias...

Before the Trump Plan, no reputable news channel or thinktank in Israel even dared poll the popularity of mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza as a "solution". The extreme right has been advocating for this for 15 months, but it remained beyond the pale. 1/

Very useful update on state of play of Syria-OPCW relations.

A series of meetings in Damascus last week has raised hopes that the full extent of Syria’s chemical weapons activity under the Assad regime will finally be revealed. al-bab.com/blog/2025/02...

OPCW chief's meeting with Syrian leader raises hopes that the full extent of chemical weapons activity under the Assad regime will finally be revealed. brian-whit.medium.com/opcw-chief-m...

THIS MUST STOP

Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something

📽️ WATCH: At ProPublica, we’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing the second Trump administration. If you are a federal employee and have tips, documents, data or stories you can share that the public should know about, reach out: www.propublica.org/tips/

A reporter asks Trudeau what it says about his and Trump's relationship if Trump isn't taking his calls. Trudeau says, oh, you know how busy he's been

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

The entire USAID website has disappeared www.usaid.gov

‘We were raided regularly’: with Assad gone, banned books return to Syria’s shelves

Syria’s ruler Ahmad Al Shara has demanded at a meeting in Damascus that Russia hand over former president Bashar Al Assad and an estimated $2 billion in liquid assets held by the exiled dictator's family in Russian banks, sources told The National. www.thenationalnews.com/news/2025/01...

An advertisement containing the word "genocide" has been removed from a billboard in London after pro-Israel lawyers claimed it posed a threat to public order. al-bab.com/blog/2025/02...

Some people might wonder why France is discussing the deployment of troops in Greenland. Here is why. Just look at the map. Two €-countries and two $-countries in close vicinity.

i smell a pulitzer

Survivors describe the night in 2013 when sarin rockets struck Ghouta, killing hundreds. Report by @Nicole_Di_Ilio for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...