Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.

Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

photo of ceiba tree roots in Ghana

In Jamaican folklore duppies (spirits) are reputed to live among the roots of the mighty cotton tree (aka silk-cotton tree/cottonwood tree). They emerge between 7pm and 5am and again at midday.
#FolkloreThursday

France’s new restitution law passes final vote Procedures for returning objects will be “strictly supervised” and the law applies only to items illegally taken between June 1815 and April 1972

Big news in the restitution/museum world. Nine long years after 'that' Macron speech in Ouagadougou, France has passed a new framework law for the deaccessioning of colonial cultural loot.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/04/14/f...

All the work he did for Minnie Ripperton, and Syreeta post-divorce, it's really humbling

Stevie Wonder's generosity is really something to behold

This is the recently conserved 1753 foundation deed of the British Museum, where Hans Sloane’s executors vest his collection into the hands of the Trustees. It’s now safe to be viewed & exhibited after being permanently folded since the 1750s. Harwell have done a great job! #britishmuseum #archives

❗️An unknown man breached a restricted area at Shannon Airport in Ireland, climbed onto the wing of a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, and damaged the fuselage with a tool resembling an axe. He was later detained.

A British surveillance drone flew over Lebanon for hours shortly before one of the deadliest Israeli attacks in the country in years. The aircraft reportedly took off from RAF Akrotiri, a UK military base in Cyprus.
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Screenshot of sophiafornc from Threads: This is eleven year-old Genesis and six year-old Denis, two Durham elementary school students whose families came here to seek asylum. On Monday, they were detained by ICE and immediately sent back to Honduras without due process. Don't you dare tell me that this is making our country safer.

I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process.

Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.

Two Durham elementary students detained by ICE, deported to Honduras within 48 hours ncnewsline.com/2026/04/09/t... #ncpol #ICE

The deadliest 10 minutes in decades: Lebanese reel from Israeli strikes that killed hundreds Beirut residents and officials say civilians were main casualties in operation that bombed 100-plus targets in 10 minutes

“The deadliest 10 minutes in decades: Lebanese reel from Israeli strikes that killed hundreds”

Cornish Mazraa Beirut just now. Israel is bombing throughout Lebanon

I see ppl in DE freaking out abt authoritarian crackdown: we really did try so hard to warn you & we’re sorry you preferred to wait until the train had left the station- where we are now stuck, forced to listen to the bitching of those who prevented us from catching said train in the first place.

It's a reverse shibboleth

If someone says Raleigh-Durham, you know they're lost

Both stylin hard 🧐

The Myeonje baegap vest, consisting of faded darkened cotton fabric, there are 2 seals with decorative drawings on the bottom belly flap. It very much looks like a modern soft bullet-resistant vest .

The 1st modern soft bulletproof vest was invented in Korea, the Myeonje baegap.

After defeating a French punitive expedition in 1866, Prince Heungseon Daewongun noted the superiority of Western guns, and commissioned these vests made of 13-30 layers of densely woven cotton.

Two spaces remain for this guided walk of Cambridge on Friday, looking at the stories, lives and haunts of some of the many writers of the supernatural who have lived in the city...
gwotc26.eventbrite.co.uk

I cannot stress how quickly the threat level is escalating.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

28 March 1885 | A Pole, Antoni Jakubski, was born. Professor of zoology, Polish Army officer.

In #Auschwitz from 30 August 1940.
In 1944 transferred to KL Mauthausen & liberated there. After the war he settled in London. He worked at the British Museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Jakubski

The burglar who stole your telly charging you to watch it at his house

Harvard Peabody Museum Still Holds 46 Percent of Native American Ancestors, New Data Shows | News | The Harvard Crimson The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology still holds 46 percent of the Native American ancestors in its collections, according to newly released data, falling short of a 2022 pledge to…

The Harvard Peabody Museum still holds 46% of the Native American ancestors in its collections, falling short of a 2022 pledge to repatriate all ancestors and their funerary belongings within 3 years.

Shalini N. Ramchune reports.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

War is ecocide.

Movie poster for the documentary "The Empty Grave"

The Empty Grave: Screening and Discussion Thursday, March 26 | 5:00PM-7:30 PM CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NYC Posnanski Auditorium (concourse level) The documentary The Empty Grave (Germany/Tanzania 2024) follows the emotional journey of two Tanzanian families in search of their stolen ancestors. Their quest leads one family to Germany where tens of thousands of human remains from former colonies are stored in museum depots - a haunting legacy of colonial plunder in the early 20th century, taken for racist research and as macabre trophies. The other family locates their ancestor in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York. The film unveils the enduring traces and traumas inflicted by colonial crimes on families and highlights their resilience while probing the complexity of identifying and repatriating these human remains. Konradin Kunze, an artist and researcher who worked with the Kaaya family, will be present to discuss the challenges of repatriation, and will deliver remarks on behalf of the family. Introduction by Marta Millar (CUNY), moderated by Jonathan Bach (New School). Admission is free. Non-CUNY participants will need to show a government-issued ID to enter the Graduate Center. This event is co-organized by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center and the African Studies Initiative and Global Studies Program at The New School. Link to register: https://forms.gle/V8S9cTfgArudazff8

The US just denied a visa to a Tanzanian man coming to visit to remains of his grandfather in the American Museum of Natural History where they're - bafflingly - still held.
You can still support him by coming to a free screening of this gorgeous doc about his quest in Manhattan on 3/26!

German Redemption Theology Jerusalem, 18 March 2008.

R.I.P. Jürgen Habermas. My intellectual obituary from 2024:
criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...

14.25 من لبنان أصبح تحت تهديدات التهجير الإسرائيلية

Israel has so far ordered around 14.25% of the entirety of Lebanon to be forcibly evacuated.

That’s in less than 2 weeks

The intensity of the Israeli bombardments in Beirut’s southern suburbs....
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

this is one oil depot, the US and Israel hit at least two more and a refinery, nightmare

British Museum faced previously undisclosed 1991 theft Historian Barnaby Phillips’s book also recounts a separate case in which a museum employee stole more than 350 artworks.

A previously undisclosed 1991 theft at the British Museum included a gold disc pendant from the Asante Empire in modern Ghana and two pre-Columbian vases, according to a new book by historian Barnaby Phillips.

www.urgentmatter.press/british-muse...