"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Please read this @nickkristof.bsky.social article. It is one of the most upsetting things I’ve ever read — so prepare yourself. But please do not look away. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Thank you, invisible onion-cutting ninja.

⚡️NEW: A document obtained by The Times of Israel shows the US-led “Board of Peace” told Gaza technocratic committee officials that Israel would no longer be expected to uphold key ceasefire commitments if Hamas refuses the proposed disarmament framework. The letter, signed by former UN envoy...

Lebanon's Ministry of Health reports that the Israeli war on Lebanon has claimed 2,659 lives and 8,183 injuries. Until today, Israeli forces have issued evacuation orders for 12 villages and continued artillery attacks across southern Lebanon.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Despite a "ceasefire", the past 48 hours have witnessed an increase in deadly Israeli attacks across Gaza, resulting in the killing of more than 12 Palestinians and the wounding of dozens of others

i will never not be amused when i see mentions of 'Global debt'. All 8.3 billion of us are indebted to, um..... [source: IMF. www.imf.org/en/blogs/art...

Video: Tamer | تامر via X (@tamerqdh)

this little update made me exceptionally happy. ❤️ #TimelineCleanse

Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history. Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes. But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year. Trickle down hoax.

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Fortune is a cheerleader for profit. This is a damning article. "Thousands of executives aren't seeing AI productivity boom, reminding economists of IT-era paradox" share.google/FEfsv8N4I9Ro... But I did love that little quote, where the author laments that those who saved some time.. enjoyed it 😆

Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been detained in Kuwait for six weeks without charge amid broader criminalization of speech and a denaturalization campaign | @lsmwilson.bsky.social 

I wonder how it feels to have the world's most respected sports/wo/men having a veeeeeery public laugh at your expense 😆😆

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Word.👇🏽

It's worth noting here that these aren't bombings. This is demolition The IDF are able to freely walk around here and rig these obviously residential properties with demolition explosives, so it's not like there's any threat at all to them This is, VERY clearly, the war crime of wanton destruction

This is one of the worst things I have ever read and I study frontier genocide as a profession.

Israel bombed Gaza on 36 of the past 40 days while the war raged in Iran flip.it/Cf2E5R

Walked past St. Paul's Cathedral today - Easter Friday - and a tiny group of mostly elderly "Christian #Climate Action" activists staged a sit-in on the steps. It ended.. as poorly as it could have. #London

INSANE reports from #Lebanon. The Israeli genocidal machine is in full force. They are OBLITERATING entire villages. RAZING the southern half of Beirut. Issuing orders to people to "NOT HIDE Shia Muslims in their homes".

The Meowatollah!! 🤣 [One question though - what/who is the squid?]

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️ It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology

Tehran is hit by 'a wide-scale wave of strikes' as US President Donald Trump's 48-hour ultimatum is set to expire soon https://aje.news/8dy8l9

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

Meta promised to make all messages across their platforms (including Instagram DMs) end to end encrypted by default. Now they're doing an about face and removing encryption from Instagram DMs, probably because they want to use your messages to train AI and make money. This will get people killed🧵

The title doesn't do this article justice - it is putting price tags on the war crimes being committed, and it is fascinating

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

They murdered 41 people, levelled a tiny village, dug out graves, out of pure hatred.

Doctors in a hospital in Gaza try to save the life of a Palestinian girl who sustained severe injuries in an Israeli attack that hit her and killed her father on their way to her preschool. Israel's attacks on Palestinians in Gaza have continued despite the ceasefire agreement.

Whenever you see the words "AI targeting", mentally replace them with "indiscriminate bombing".

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The Minab school was struck deliberately. Twice. www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...

This is the confirmation message when you apply for a job at the @britishacademy.bsky.social. In a sea of "only shortlisted candidates will be contacted", this was refreshing. (and funny).

Basma Alloush's story of her return to Syria is unmissable. timep.org/2026/02/03/m...

Since we published this @timep.bsky.social explainer on how Lebanon got pulled into the war on Monday, the death toll has risen to 72 people, 437 have been injured, and the number of those officially displaced (and registered with the state) is now 83,847.

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

facebook is censoring even news links about child casualties. Manufacturing consent requires keeping the public in the dark about the real cost of war.

Nobel Peace Prize, my ass.

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families. How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

So Iran had a supreme leader who agreed to a deal with robust international monitoring to curtail his country's nuclear program, Trump tore it up because he hates Barack Obama, and then we murdered him. I'm sure the assembly of experts will replace him with a US lackey. Totally.

This from 3 days ago. Voila. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

Last year, thousands of Egyptians risked migrating to Europe via the Mediterranean crossing, becoming the top African nationality to arrive on its shores. TIMEP's @tekaldas.bsky.social speaks with @afp.com's Menna Farouk about the root causes of this emigration surge. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Fantastic speakers tomorrow (Monday), do register!! @timep.bsky.social timep.org/2026/02/16/t...