“We’re under no illusions about what it is we’re trying to challenge.”
Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla joins @meadwaj.bsky.social to unpack South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ - and what it reveals about the myth of a “rules-based international order.”
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Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
The greatest threat from AI is not that it will displace human work but that it will displace human thought. My latest. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
I find amazing the deafening silence from US universities on Trump's explicit threats to commit war crimes. It is astounding how he has managed to silence them/us. Is this what we agreed to when we bought into institutional neutrality?
"The Times’s analysis shows that the damage was often caused by strikes in crowded neighborhoods"
"In most instances examined by The Times, the intended target of a strike was not clear. In some cases, schools and health care facilities ... were directly hit."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The countries hardest hit by the energy crisis are low in income and high in import dependency for fossil fuels, for example Morocco and the Philippines. They have nothing to do with this illegal war, yet their economies and livelihoods are being destroyed.
Ugly rich vs poor politics of BIDDING WARS in shortages. We saw it with masks, vaccines,LNG in 2020.
Chief economist at Berenberg Bank, said he is not expecting widespread energy shortages in Europe or US. These countries are “rich enough to outbid anyone else if we have to”
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what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?
NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.
The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.
Is Electric World Order gonna go Petrodollars to Electroyuan?
Countries that make electricity for free don't need to import so much oil or LNG -- and don't need to earn dollars either
"And suddenly, your whole fiscal situation changes." @mkblyth.bsky.social on our new podcast @katemac.bsky.social
UNGA adopted resolution condemning the transatlantic slave trade as one of humanity’s gravest injustices.
It also recognizes lasting impacts of slavery & colonialism, frames reparations as a step toward addressing historical wrongs.
123 in favor, 3 against (US, Israel, Argentina), 52 abstentions.
even setting aside the intended effect of campus crackdowns: one difference between now and two years ago is that half or so of them are gone, having received their four year degrees, and "students" (2026) and "students" (2024) refer to two largely different populations of people
jk rowling discourse is insane because people treat her like she's roald dahl but she's basically like if kanye west and elon musk were the same person
Rare reverse Betteridge’s where the answer to the question posed in the headline is just “yes”
![But he had a broader critique as well.
"You simply cannot compete with literary critics and theorists [who have recently weighed in on this subject]," he wrote.
His rejection, in the end, was unequivocal. I had spent several years in his colloquium at the Institute for Social Research and even longer refining my understanding of the language. His decision came as an utter shock and was wounding. The sting would linger for years.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rpe6pcxtult5zx2ossmkqxp3/bafkreievrm4dycb2l3dzzb7whndlotewek5pjge3374olhtrx33zm4r4p4)
But he had a broader critique as well. "You simply cannot compete with literary critics and theorists [who have recently weighed in on this subject]," he wrote. His rejection, in the end, was unequivocal. I had spent several years in his colloquium at the Institute for Social Research and even longer refining my understanding of the language. His decision came as an utter shock and was wounding. The sting would linger for years.
Alex Karp of Palantir wrote an op-ed for Politico that essentially boils down to “Habermas told me I suck once.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 17, 2026 ~ Triggered.
"Methane emissions cause 25% of global heating today, and there has been a 'scary' surge since 2007 ... this acceleration seriously risks triggering catastrophic climate tipping points."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I would say I’m fairly knowledgeable about the corruption, violence, coercive authority, and brutal imperial power that pervades extractive sectors and yet I am still in shock at this Trump admin move to secure Zambian minerals
Someone needs to send an ambulance to X
"introspection didn't exist until sigmund freud invented it" is something you can only think, let alone say outright, if you have never in your long ass life read a book you didn't buy at the airport
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Tariffs to support our struggle domestic meth industry!
And over a half century later, the war machine grinds on and on and on, leaving burning bodies in its wake - a despoiled, toxic wasteland.
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
Kinda weird how the lines cross in January 25... what happened that month?
Trump’s DHS is detaining thousands of immigrant children across the country in horrifyingly cruel conditions. Kids are being separated from their families, their schools, and their communities. This is heartbreaking and unacceptable. Read their stories: t.co/Kmq0o09Y6X
Al Jazeera investigation reveals how US-supplied thermal and thermobaric munitions burning at 3,500ºC have left no trace of nearly 3,000 Palestinians. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
An utter roast of Ring's dystopian police state mass surveillance business model.
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
