"The Israeli airstrike that destroyed a prominent synagogue in Tehran confirmed the fears of many Iranian Jews that Israel and Netanyahu don’t really care about their fate." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Yeah - I can't speak at all to their methodology.
According to this study, Harris' Gaza position cut both ways: there were nonvoters who cited her being *too* supportive of Palestinians (though more cited her being insufficiently supportive and I suspect the breakdown is going to look very different in future elections given how poll have shifted).
“Fraudulent messages promising safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for cryptocurrency have been sent to some shipping companies... [A]t least one of the vessels, which tried to exit the strait on Saturday and was hit by gunfire, was a victim of the fraud.”
The European Commission's new age verification app has already been found to have structural security flaws, reports Joana Soares. For critics, the tool is a symptom of a wider problem: EU policymakers are focused on who can access the internet, not on how platforms are built.
Feels kinda silly to say that rich people from the center to left of things politically can’t build a successful media environment when the onion is doing it basically using donations from semi-employed forum goblins
Hungary’s PM-elect Peter Magyar says he would enact an ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and detain him on arrival.
The election winner said Hungary would stay a member of the International Criminal Court which his predecessor Viktor Orban began withdrawing from last year.
Regardless of what one thinks of the "emergency docket" or the Clean Power Plan, leaking confidential court materials poses a real danger to the integrity of the justice system.
I mean, come on. What universe are you living in?
I'm not going to go deep into the weeds regarding the rules of professional conduct, but the overriding problem with this piece is its deep denial over how thoroughly this court has utterly shredded its institutional legitimacy over the past few years.
Hardly the only person persecuted under a marxist system to find his way back around the circle into fascism.
Put another way, I think the Jewishness of the army and the state is basically incidental. This is simply what happens when you have a racial supremacist state and a racial supremacist army and a racial supremacist law. The soldiers, regardless of the particulars, will act as if they are supreme.
I had the pleasure of editing a paper by @nathaliemarechal.net, @janrydzak.bsky.social & @hackylawyer.bsky.social that proposed corporate governance reforms along these lines, and which is (unfortunately) still timely: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
One fairly straightforward fix would be to crack down on dual class share structures, which is how companies like Palantir and Meta get to enjoy the benefits of being publicly traded without any actual accountability to their shareholders.
It's a scam and there's no reason it has to be legal.
Harvard and Yale obviously have some incredible professors. They also have some awful ones.
But the bottom line is, for 99.9% of undergrads, whether your professor is a world-leading name or a proficient, middling academic isn't the main determinant of what you're going to get out of their classes.
Hard agree here. The real problem is America's obsession with elite universities, when there are hundreds of schools across the country that provide an essentially equivalent education to those at the top rank. It's not education being rationed, it's elite access.
If you're early-career /a student /new grad wanting to pursue tech policy, @christopher-parsons.com has given you an incalculably valuable gift: a comprehensive guide, w/ his trademark thoroughness, on how. Also contains good advice for aspiring tech lawyers, & I'll add a few notes on that front 🧵:
“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...
Doesn’t the fact that people around the world voted out their governments immediately following Covid argue against this idea?
Shouldn’t we have seen more of a groundswell of popular support for UBI and remote work?
This honestly belongs in a museum exhibit about how American democracy died.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
You don't have to hand it to him for a billion reasons (or about 3,000 reasons in Iran) but Trump accurately saying that if he says stop, Israel stops is kind of nice. 2 years of Biden "working tirelessly" shown, once again, for the brazen lie that it was
I feel like this is less about AI and more that the company was burning the equivalent of NASA’s budget every year chasing sunk costs on the metaverse.
Canadian Healthcare is a trade where you accept many aspects of it are individually frustrating in exchange for the far more valuable bedrock of essential care will always be available and won't bankrupt you.
Burgundy graphic with quote "“The time stolen from me by the U.S. government belongs not just to me, but to the children and youth I have dedicated my life to advocating for. With them in mind, I am choosing to return home as planned to continue my career as a woman scholar without losing more time to the state-imposed violence and hostility I have experienced in the United States – all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights.” The quote is attributed to Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk, Scholar unlawfully detained by the Trump administration for her speech, on her decision to return home to Türkiye. Below the quote is a photo of Dr. Öztürk in graduation garb, standing in front of a book shelf.
Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk has returned to Türkiye after completing her Ph.D. program in child study and human development.
Last year, her life was disrupted when ICE targeted her unlawfully with detention and deportation in retaliation for an op-ed she co-wrote in support of Palestinian human rights.
Really can't overemphasize how 18 months ago these same pundits reacted with incandescent rage to university protesters calling for America to cut support for Israel.
Now they realized they've lost the public debate so they're adopting the same position.
As is tradition.
Ok that explains things - the website just had COVID.
The ironic thing is this is *exactly* what they accuse DEI of being: it promotes mediocre people to an elite level they could never attain on merit, purely to establish a quota.
But instead of historically disadvantaged groups, it's being used to benefit acolytes of America's dominant ideology.
