one of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in

It seems the pro-Israel consensus among Democrats is well and truly dead at this point. Dem primary voters prefer candidates who refuse to travel to Israel (by net +45%) and back a bill to end military aid to Israel (by net +61%). www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/202...

I published two stories today. It was a great honor to work with Afeef Nessouli on the one documenting the genocide and famine in Gaza. Afeef spent 9-weeks there, and we tracked how the U.S. dismantling USAID & UNRWA has made getting food deadly for kids, men, women, queer & trans Palestinians

I'm at an international law conference in Canberra at the moment and during one of the sessions I was sitting behind someone who spent most of the time putting names of presenters into an 'Anti-Israel Academics' folder (?) on ChatGPT. 1/7

The brain sickness of the Australian commentariat is beyond words.

New essay from me: The End of Reality, published by @theshot.net.au thanks to @davemilbo.bsky.social 🙏🏽💜 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

If you've been horrified by the failure of NZ media to effectively, or even *objectively*, cover Israel's attacks on Iran then hopefully we've put together an episode that can alleviate that disgust at least a little Really thankful to @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social for joining us at such short notice

The fact that Iran is striking back without hesitation at an Israel that is governed by bloodthirsty psychopaths AND HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS suggests that nuclear deterrence may not be all that it's cracked up to be.

The ways in which 'Western' politicians and diplomats have been willing to systematically dismantle their own credibility to protect a fascist, genocidal regime in Israel has just been mind-bending to observe. Totally incomprehensible.

Full masks off for US Empire, huh? There it all is, laid out in plain text for all the dummies out there. Unbelievable.

Let's be clear: Israel's attack on Iran is not simply a violation of the UN Charter. It is a manifest violation of it. Few acts are more unequivocally illegal than preventive (non-imminent) self-defence. So Israel's attack is both unlawful and criminal -- the crime of aggression.

Western leaders must rein in these warmongering, genocial zealots. Sanction them individually. Expel Israeli ambassadors. Cut off supplies of any material that could be used by the IDF. Place trade and financial sanctions on Israel. Make them truly feel what it is like to be a pariah state.

Hard to believe that any sentient being could believe that the best way to secure their future is to continuously bomb all of their much larger neighbours.

It should go without saying that attacking Iran is simply the latest in a long line of moral atrocities by a fascist, genocidal Israeli government that absolutely refuses to treat human lives with anything resembling the respect and dignity they are due.

This is the obscene violence that they've normalised. This should never be considered normal.

If NZ outlets could finally dispense with using Israeli PR as their main source that would be fantastic Given the number of genocide apologists throughout media leadership and editorial in NZ I'm not overly hopeful

Can't be long before we hear this being framed in terms of 'freedom', 'democracy' and 'humanitarianism'.

ok but this is literally just murder of civilians

A state literally baying for its own destruction, at a time when it is more isolated and exposed than ever.

I just hate that every few years massive peaceful protests break out and without fail the protesters start getting beaten gassed and shot while every media outlet and politician from both sides of the isle say shit like "oh peaceful protests are fine but THIS ONE just went too far".

More stellar investigative reporting from Jack Poulson. More insight into the endless descent into genocide complicity and absurdity within the US administration. open.substack.com/pub/jackpoul...

Um, what? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not sure if Radovan Karadžić ever said anything this explicit about Bosnia even if he undoubtedly thought it. Anyway, he’s in prison for the rest of his life for genocide.

America is collapsing in the most garishly and ostentatiously violent manner imaginable. All that plastic surgery, fake tan, tough-guy rhetoric and false smiles as they continue to ravage and despoil the middle east and face internal uprising. Repugnant.

R2P has been oddly silent on the confict in Israel/Gaze. Our new interventions forum explores why this is the case, with pieces by @jhornung.bsky.social @jeremymosesnz.bsky.social Elisabeth Austrheim and Sarah Teitt brill.com/view/journal...

Greta Thunberg, arriving back in Europe after her abduction by Israel in international waters, explains in 40 seconds why western governments are colluding in genocide:

A perfect example of the absolutely monstrous mentality of police/security the world over. Absolutely sick.

If their goal was to disperse a crowd the strategy would be simply to wait, and people will filter away. But their actual goal is to assert authority, so they go in swinging to make sure everyone knows who’s untouchable. You saw it with the campus protests and you’re seeing it now.

Extraordinary levels of cowardice on display from Stuff here. Just look at the dissonance between the selected image and the solemn commitment in the text below it.

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

Imagine being sold out by your own employer like this, even when there is clear footage showing exactly what happened.

At times I seriously worry about our industry’s ability to respond adequately to this moment. Between incidents like this and the more than 200 Palestinian journalists killed in the last year and a half, it feels crazy that media outlets aren’t going scorched earth right now.

It's not even just about how media reports this, imagine how *the US Government* would talk about this if it happened in China, Iran, or Russia.

"This normalization of military style tools in police arsenals creates a mindset that views civilian protests as combat situations requiring aggressive force." internationalpolicy.org/publications...

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

The US and Israel really showing off how cooked they are today, huh?

Folks, the way to read the NYT article about OpenAI and higher education is to recognize that the person OpenAI hired to lead their effort came from Coursera. Remember when Coursera and MOOCs were going to cause the reinvention of higher education?

I've got a new shortish piece out today on what the genocide in Gaza tells us about the militarization of humanitarianism and the problem of hypocrisy within the Responsibility to Protect. brill.com/view/journal...

Former NZ politicians who seem to advocate isolating Taiwan and abandoning it to its fate in order to curry favour with the PRC need to be honest about what they are actually proposing. In effect, such actions amount to selling out Asia's most free and democratic society.

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

Sometimes genuine courage and leadership comes from the most unexpected places.

Some of the most chilling 2 minutes you've ever seen. Look at what's being said, openly, on one of the most popular TV channels in Israel. History is happening in front of our eyes. Don't look away. Please help share this widely. Read the full story here: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

Radio New Zealand's news editors continue to scrape the bottom of the barrel on Gaza, still persisting with the 'Hamas-run' nonsense to discredit casualty figures. There is no terror mastermind behind the scenes putting out fake numbers of people killed, you absolute dolts. Complaint submitted:

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

"Think how far we’ve come: pointing out Israel’s bombing of humanitarians was a 'blood libel.' Now, it’s a punchline."