« Israël a reçu un permis de torturer les Palestiniens », dénonce Francesca Albanese, rapporteuse de l’ONU, devant le Conseil des droits de l’homme

Europeans when asked to help unblock the Strait of Hormuz:

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

“Whatever comes out of this conflict, Iran is still going to have this worsening water-security crisis." Bloomberg cites comments from @123tomellison.bsky.social and Swathi Veeravalli during a CCS webinar on how the US-Israeli conflict with Iran could worsen regional water and food security.

Lost track of the euphemisms the host and his guests used for the mass slaughter of Iranian children. One word never came up: “crime.” Framing this atrocity as a mere accident, error, or mistake only serves to preemptively absolve those responsible for this abject failure.

Americans promised death and destruction from the skies. Now airstrikes have killed children, and toxic rain is turning Iran’s capital into a hellscape. Is this how they convince tens of millions of Iranians that they are not, in fact, their “Great Satan”?

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

The very idea of the "target" has been rendered meaningless in the post-Gaza world. Targets are no longer encountered or searched, they are manufactured, industrially, digitally, with AI, as a means to hide the carpet bombing of civilians in war.

Several hours in, and all that’s trending here is SNL and Star Trek. Not a word about Khamenei, murdered schoolgirls, or the start of Gulf War III. Really makes you wonder about this platform.

Major outlets covering this as a "mass casualty event" instead of a war crime is beyond jarring. After their chronic failures to report on atrocities in Gaza, Sudan, and elsewhere, it’s hard to have any faith in print journalism.

Anyone else seeing totally random and irrelevant stuff trending on their Explore tab? A literal regional war is breaking out in the Middle East, and all I’m seeing is sports and entertainment news. Is this by design?

The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.

Another diversionary war of aggression by a weakened rogue state and backed by a clicktatorship desperate for a rally ‘round the flag effect to stem the deepening unpopularity of a senile tyrant before the midterms. War is peace, right?

The very “mainstream media” that Trump has spent years ruthlessly attacking has now become a pliant, subservient arm of the administration, adopting its language to carry water and give the White House room to get away with murder.

Welcome to 2026 where imperialism is alive and kicking.

L'an passé je publiais ce livre sur l'énergie, le climat et la géopolitique. Conclusion : la relative stabilité post-1945 reposait sur les énergies fossiles, et la crise climatique fait exploser cette paix de carbone en fragmentant l'espace mondial.

On a beaucoup commenté la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine. Retour à la doctrine Monroe, défense de l'aire d'influence continentale, rivalité affirmée avec l'UE : c'est la fin des bénéfices partagés de l'intégration économique, on le savait. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/0...

A literal wake-up call for Europe: the old alliance is over. Efforts to align the White House with the Kremlin’s strategy to destabilise the EU have now fully crystallised as policy. This guidance will likely change how U.S. embassies and CIA stations operate in the region.

Defacing the stolen headquarters of a congressionally mandated institution shows one thing: the regime loyalists will stop at nothing to appease their vain, petty tyrant. Try as they may, he will never go down in history as a peacemaker.

Still trying to process that my country might be invaded in a ‘wag the dog’ operation, bearing a thinly veiled juvenile phallic joke for a name. All to distract the U.S. public from the unseemly scandals plaguing the offender-in-chief.

Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.

If the Trump administration’s goal in Venezuela is to secure U.S. interests, it would be wiser for Washington “to return to the negotiating table than to gamble on the chaos that regime change would unleash,” argue Alexander Downes and Lindsey O’Rourke.

If you keep working hard at the art and craft of academic writing it can become a super power. So speaks a boy who barely passed English in school, still cant spell well and knows nothing of grammar beyond feel. Dont let AI close down your ability to become a great writer.

Take a deep breath. Exhale. Repeat.

Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, invites us to engage other formations of knowledge.

Saying climate change won’t spell the end of “humanity” embraces the deeply uneven geographies of vulnerability. By centring the resilience of industrialised nations, it disavows the disposability of others. We must resist these efforts to normalise climate necropolitics.

The U.S. has moved a destroyer to Trinidad and Tobago for an apparently unscheduled exercise just a few kilometres off Venezuela’s coast. I’m no military expert, but doesn’t it seem like a rather convenient target if a covert false-flag operation were underway? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Maybe the changes coming to the bad place will help convince a critical mass of folks from the Global South to come over and mix things up. It’s a nice platform and space, but the user base here is still missing the mark when it comes to regional diversity.

I do wonder if we’ll ever be able to customise the trending topics here. It’s getting rather tiresome being stuck with endless sports and gaming “news” while the world collapses.

Washington déplace la pièce maîtresse manquante dans son nouveau théâtre d’agression militaire au sud de la mer des Caraïbes. L’étau se resserre autour du régime de Caracas et les rouages de la guerre sont bel et bien en marche…

L’ONU a 80 ans. Et après ? Une organisation indispensable pour des millions de vies… mais aujourd’hui en pleine crise budgétaire et politique. Que reste-t-il de la promesse de 1945 ? 🧵

It is striking to say the least that so many people who made huge efforts to decry and even organize around drone strikes under the Obama administration are basically silent about Trump deciding he has the right to drone any boat in the Caribbean without justification or proof.

We have just rejected our first submission where the use of Gen-AI to rewrite the article was acknowledged. Given the way that they commandeer public water resources and contribute to climate collapse, we do not think that there is an ethical way to use such tools.

Perhaps the next #NoKings 🇺🇸 protests should be a massive, peaceful March on Washington to rally against the blatant corruption embodied in the construction of a gilded “White Palace,” as people face cuts to healthcare, soaring costs of living, and an endless shutdown.

There’s no way to stop climate change without consuming less.

What fresh hell is this?

🧵 The #NoKings demonstrations in the 🇺🇸 seem to have all the right elements: a broad tent, decentralised structure, nonviolent discipline, joyful energy, and a simple message. The challenge is turning that momentum into political action, such as mass voter registration. 1/3

🇮🇷 According to recent reporting from The Guardian, #Iran's water crisis has grown so severe in the Tehran region — where nearly a quarter of Iran’s water is consumed — that the Iranian president has led calls to move the capital. He has highlighted that this may be the only solution.

Blessed be the courageous souls who still log in to LinkedIn and can brave the waves of self-congratulatory AI slop for more than five minutes at a time. I salute you.

Opening this app and seeing my country trending gave me rather a sinking feeling. Doomscrolling has taken on a whole new dimension with these U.S. airstrikes. Somehow, it feels as though a fog of war has begun to drift over the Caribbean.

D’autant plus que l’actuel secrétaire « à la guerre » des É.-U. revendique l’abandon des règles d'engagement, au nom d’une doctrine mortifère où la protection des populations civiles ne doit plus jamais freiner la létalité de ses soldats. En effet, ce serait un véritable cataclysme.

A thoughtful thread that really resonates with me — especially as I'm being compelled to incorporate and encourage the use of AI entities in a graduate course this semester.

Didn't she also spend much of the past two decades lobbying both parties in Washington for harsher sanctions and trying to build support for U.S. military intervention in her own country? Oh well, at least they didn’t give it to the other guy.

We must accept that there are certain people and ideas that we cannot be in conversation with if our goal is human dignity, freedom, and flourishing futures.

🧵 The other day, someone tried to explain to me that AI is just a tool, like a calculator, and it’s our responsibility to teach students how to use it wisely. I didn’t know how to respond at the time, so here are some delayed thoughts for no reason. 1/5

Only one week into the semester here, and I’m already accepting thoughts, prayers, and setting up an emergency GoFundMe to finance my green tea supply in this tariff-ridden economy.