Canadian doctors obeying a U.S. executive order that doesn’t even apply to Canada is deeply offensive to both trans people and to Canadian legal sovereignty.

ICE entered into another 1-year $12.2m contract for a system that looks a lot like surveillance tech based on advertising/app data, according to public records reported by The Lever.

The system/program, called 'SAFE HAVEN', aims to track, locate and profile migrants and 'extremists', among others.

Just came back from a workshop. It reinforced my “gut instinct” that so many of America’s problems are rooted in over-financialization.

The “big money” is increasingly made by extracting rents through informational, political, or legal arbitrage.

Renewables are a structural hedge against fossil fuel shocks. In power markets, the more often wind, solar, hydro and nuclear cover demand, the fewer the hours in which gas sets the marginal price, and the weaker the link between global gas markets and domestic electricity costs.

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Amidst the churn in Iran, Ukraine has quietly been turning things around. My latest at The Bulwark.

“Wall Street ensures the efficient allocation of capital.”

Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

Seems to me that the European Commission should suspend the fine only if and when Hungary changes its asylum policy. Given Magyar's right-wing position on immigration, this is far from certain to happen.

Two teenagers arrested over arson attack on synagogue in north-west London Boy, 17, and man, 19, detained as Met says it is investigating claims a series of antisemitic attacks are linked to Iran

“This is recruiting violence as a service, and the people who conduct that violence often have little or no allegiance to the cause and are taking quick cash for their crimes.”

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

Three videos posted by the Israeli military and on social media showed Israel carrying out mass detonations in the villages of Taybeh, Naqoura and Deir Seryan along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

In Iran, the regime has indeed changed: It’s less restrained, more hard-line After the U.S.-Israeli war’s “decapitation” strikes against top Islamic Republic political and military leaders, who is this new generation that has taken the reins in Iran? They are more hard-line th...

Well done, Netanyahu.

“…analysts say the decapitation campaign has, instead, enabled the rise of the most hard-line elements of the IRGC, which now feel freshly emboldened and less willing to compromise to end the war.”

www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle...

Russian economy is faltering despite oil windfall, Sweden warns Stockholm’s military intelligence head says Moscow is manipulating data to make its economy look better

Exclusive: Sweden has intelligence indicating Russia's systematically manipulating data to fool Ukraine’s western allies into believing its economy has withstood the strain of its war spending & western sanctions, Thomas Nilsson, head of Sweden Military Intelligence, told me & @maxseddon.bsky.social

just write any old nonsense just write words just start writing say any old shit fill the page up with half-baked rambling declare war on white space fight the antiblankpagejihad nothing is worse than nothing

They are tedious and represent a rightfully abandoned project in sociological theory. They are also very interesting and an important part of the intellectual history of that field, definitely something I was glad to have read as a PhD student.

Every year Bulgarians vote in a new anti-corruption party and every year they vote out a new corrupt government. 🤷‍♂️

Israeli media's manipulative, selective coverage of sexual violence Selective Reports in the Israeli Media Construct a Collective Image of Palestinian Monstrosity While Ignoring Sexual Abuse of Palestinians in Israeli Prisons and by Settlers

Powerful words from @dahliasc.bsky.social
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

As a Canadian, looking in from the outside, the obvious and only good choice is not to attend in the first place. Not engaging in some obtuse handkerchief code bullshit. Once again I marvel at the brainrot of the US's political journalist class.

Have you ever tried mixing honey and tahini together, maybe with a spoon of water to manage viscosity? I went through a phase where I drizzled this on everything.

one of the most insane aspects of all of this is that "a wide ranging government crackddown after a handful of newspaper cranks said insane things based on misunderstood cherrypicked papers" is considered illegitimate in every field of endeavor except this one

Who's responsible for deadly antisemitism? Everyone will hate the answer A new report makes clear how profoundly both the left and the right have failed to address a growing crisis

Wrote a thing yesterday. forward.com/opinion/8195...

NEW: IRGC Commander Major General Ahmad Vahidi and members of his inner circle have likely secured at least temporary control over not only Iran’s military response in this conflict but also Iran’s negotiating position and approach within the past 48 hours.

Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate04...

By this I mean that the Iranians have realized that if Trump can make outlandish market-moving claims with no evidence, they can too. And given how savvy they are about evading sanctions, it would not surprise me if some regime insiders aren't getting in on the insider trading action.

Mandelson scandal is biggest crisis for diplomatic service in decades, says ex-Foreign Office chief Simon McDonald says Olly Robbins was ‘thrown under a bus’ by the prime minister and the decision feels wrong

Starmer leadership and moral judgement have been so poor, his politics so compromised by neoliberalism and big tech, that he has given Tories the moral high ground. I'm even more terrified by the fact that - if he does go - the replacement is likley to be worse.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The blockade of the Strait by Iran always looked to be Trump's fault, despite it always having been a war crime by Iran. Not sure this changes anything there.

It continues to shock me that some significant politicians and commentators aligned with the (relatively) mainstream Australian right are defending this guy.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I wish good fortune to anyone who wants to rescue the name of Zionism from the murderous and corrupt barbarians who are now its most internationally prominent representatives.

Exclusive: US to delay weapons deliveries to some European countries due to Iran war, sources say U.S. officials have informed some ​European counterparts that some previously contracted weapons deliveries are likely to be delayed as the Iran war ‌continues to draw on weapons stocks, five sources ...

“U.S. officials have informed some ​European counterparts that some previously contracted weapons deliveries are likely to be delayed as the Iran war ‌continues to draw on weapons stocks, five sources familiar with the matter said.”

www.reuters.com/world/middle...