"“What Netanyahu is doing now in Gaza is outrageously brutal,” [former Prime Minister] Mr. Olmert said. “How can ministers at the highest level say all Gazans are Hamas and then herd them into camps? We are in a fight for the soul of Israel.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/w...

Reflections on political violence: bapuvaitla.com/on-political...

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What is the point of all this? Who becomes safer?

The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...

300k dead, of whom 200k are children. This is not only or primarily on Musk. This is on the thoughtlessness and cruelty of the Trump administration.

The new right's core philosophical belief is the same as it ever was: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. What's different is their skill in shaping culture by exploiting the intersection of human cognitive biases, loopholes in democracy, and digital information networks.

Republicans in Congress, is letting children die what you signed up for?

This is a personal message. The views expressed are my own, and do not necessarily reflect those of City Council or the City of Davis. Above all, the job of an elected official is to protect the community. They don’t always succeed, as the tragic shooting on Picnic Day made clear. 1/10

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“Sell all you have and give to the poor” is in the Bible (Matthew 19:21). “Cut Medicaid so the rich can become richer,” as far as I know, is not.

Go @tobykiers.bsky.social go! Amazing work.

“People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

“Competent white men,” Beattie wrote last October, “must be in charge if you want things to work. Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.”

Give credit where credit is due. UC Davis under Chancellor May's leadership has done a stellar job of building housing over the last seven years.

Infuriating. Not only is this completely unjust, but I can't think of a more asinine foreign policy move to make as an incoming president.

Absolutely love this. We're going to get there, step by step.

This is a very useful catch-up primer on how the Trump administration is running NIH/NSF/CDC so far. Empathy for @dereklowe.bsky.social writing and rewriting repeatedly - the situation seems to change every half hour. www.science.org/content/blog...

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

Health care for all. Housing for all. Education for all. Transit for all. Clean air, water, and energy for all. Is that not coherent enough?

This is beyond inhumane. "One study estimated that if PEPFAR were to end, as many as 600,000 lives would be lost over the next decade in South Africa alone." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...