"There should be no mystery why younger Americans are as pro-Palestinian today as their forebears were once pro-Israeli. Rabin staked his life on peace. What will posterity say of Netanyahu?" My column on why America is falling out of love with Israel. www.ft.com/content/353e...
Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.
Spain, Slovenia and Ireland have asked the EU to discuss the suspension of its association treaty with Israel, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg
www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
On the left: an image of two jars filled with coins, one with a man's silhouette and one with a woman's, on a red background. The male jar contains a greater amount of coins. On the right: text that reads “$28,600 a year: what the average older Canadian woman lives on. Many choose flexibility or family over pay, only to arrive at retirement with a meagre pension.”
The gender pension gap isn’t just about retirement. It’s about a lifetime of unequal pay and missed opportunities compounding over decades. If today’s trends hold, what will retirement look like for the next generation of women? https://thewalrus.ca/canada-pension-gap/
So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism, writes Dave Karpf. With its ‘manifesto,’ Palantir wants to remind you that it reached that conclusion first, he says.
China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, called this week for the Strait of Hormuz to reopen, his first such comments since Iran effectively closed the strategic waterway last month in response to U.S.-Israeli attacks on its territory.
Almost half of US data centres that should be built this year will face delays
• Shortage of electrical gear like transformers, switchgear, batteries partly explains delays
• Manufacturing capacity for these devices cannot meet demand and builders rely on imports
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
"While the US military says it has turned around over 20 vessels and ‘completely halted’ Iranian trade, Lloyd’s List Intelligence shows a steady flow of shadow fleet traffic in and out of the Middle East Gulf."
As Trump's war on Iran continues, reminder that his own son-in-law Jared Kushner — who is leading negotiations with Iran — stands to profit from lucrative contracts with its regional rivals.
War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth.
"My brother is a seaman on a ship called the Liana off the coast of Iran,” it read. “He is one of three Indian sailors on board, they need to sign off and get home. Please help them.”"
The story of three out of thousands of sailors stuck for weeks in the Persian Gulf for @theobserveruk.bsky.social
In China battery electric trucks and hybrid trucks now outsell diesel trucks for the first time.
IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.
Both are war crimes punishable under international law.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
"You can have massive trades on a financial instrument that clearly show that someone was privy to what Donald Trump was about to declare. Yet there is a strong chance that no-one will be prosecuted."
The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency: www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Concerns
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
"Trump said the Navy stopped and boarded an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman, “blowing a hole” in its engine room after it ignored warnings to stop"
Ceasefire!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Iranian officials warned that its oil exports cannot be restricted while “expecting free security for others,” through the Strait of Hormuz.
🚨🚨Fascinating @politico.eu report on how Donald #Trump has become so politically toxic in Europe that even his closest ideological #far-right allies increasingly view him as a liability. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/trum...
Breaking news: President Trump says U.S. seized Iranian cargo ship trying to bypass American blockade of Strait of Hormuz.
The operation marks the first ship boarding by U.S. forces since the naval blockade took effect Monday.
A bombshell new report reveals that top military officials have kept Trump out of the room during Iran war operations because they fear his erratic behavior will put troops in harm’s way.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
“The shuttering of Hampshire College … feels different, not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition of progressive education in the US.” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
“What struck me about Sudan is the sheer level of violence.”
Reem Alsalem, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social the situation in Sudan is a manifestation of the “lawless order that we live in.”
Watch here: zeteo.com/p/did-mass-r...
Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—
If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”
Some techbros are more open about their politics than others. But the politics are pretty similar all round.
I'll say again: the richest man in the world regularly posts racist content on the social platform he purchased which, since said purchase, now regularly disseminates explicitly white supremacist content to millions of people.
I feel like we're sleepwalking into something and none of it is good.
Many congratulations Carmen! 🎉🥂
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Tehran’s Digital Insurgency: How Memes and AI Reshape Geopolitics
https://www.europesays.com/2928321/
The modern battlefield is no longer found solely in the Strait of Hormuz or the corridors of the…
Breaking News: Iran said it was closing the Strait of Hormuz until a U.S. blockade was lifted. Two Indian-flagged ships reported being hit. Follow live updates.
