Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire'

Israel has killed more than 700 people in Gaza since last year's US-brokered 'ceasefire' https://aje.news/niqwe0

Fugitivity here is not only a historical phenomenon. It is a present living condition, the logic by which the dispossessed, the colonised, and the native carve out spaces of life that remain opaque to the systems that seek to track, classify, and eliminate them? Firas Shahadeh | The Maroons IBRAAZ

Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired with controversy as academics allege obstruction

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A day like this…

A day like this…

Like a concrete aircraft carrier: was LA’s giant new $724m gallery really worth all the carbon emissions? Built on tar swamps and two tortuous decades in the making, Lacma’s latest addition used twice as much metal as the Eiffel Tower. How did America supersize revered architect Peter Zumthor?

Zumthor’s monumental LACMA ‘required 15,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement, twice as much as all the metal in the entire Eiffel Tower. For every sq metre of floor area, there are 2 cubic metres of solid concrete supporting it’ multiples of ‘typical’ concrete build.
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💥Polls closed in Hungary. No exit poll, but 21 Research Institute’s Apr 8–11 exclusive survey for
@telexhu.bsky.social shows the opposition Tisza party leading Orbán's Fidesz 55–38, with the far-right Our Homeland around the 5% threshold.

Tisza is on the verge of a parliamentary supermajority.

tell somebody who'll tell somebody

another world is possible

And why she’ll almost certainly return to big contract column life on the Times or Telegraph in the time-honoured way (since they don’t quite need to go to ‘Paraguay’ hehe). Steady supply of these fools who, when they get in the room with tangible £power$, pirouette wildly in their neediness.

Bud. Ladybird. Snail. ‘Kin.
Emerging wetlands scrub, Burgess Park, Southwark.

Today I asked Ministers to reconsider suspending visas for students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, including for the prestigious Chevening scheme.

An extremely poor response to an extremely important question.

@sussex.ac.uk's no.1 world ranking for Development Studies makes it a prime destination for Chevening scholars.

This is a truly devastating decision for students in the global south and conflict regions who wish to develop their knowledge to affect positive change in their home countries.

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My love of Dr J just found a limit! After a lifetime of : )

Caught late but caught.

Shabaka - Of The Earth album cover. The artist wearing a hat and black, red and green scarf, glancing skyward.

'Thoughts of exploration are never far from the mind when immersed in this remarkable record. It lives up to its title, sounds apparently sprouting from the seeds of ideas, climbing through the creative consciousness’s soil...'

Shabaka - Of The Earth

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Mutt Not-Sore Goodloser should be rewarded by Reform with the Admiralty of Cornus Cobus Commonwealthia.

Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."

Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.

[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]

Plumber, Plasterer, Parliamentarian! 💚

Warner: "There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."

All There Is with Anderson Cooper on Instagram: "Patti Smith and Anderson Cooper listen to “Farewell Reel,” a song Patti released in 1996 after her husband, Fred “Sonic” Smith, died. “Every line in it... 87K likes, 1,522 comments - allthereis on January 15, 2026: "Patti Smith and Anderson Cooper listen to “Farewell Reel,” a song Patti released in 1996 after her husband, Fred “Sonic” Smith, died. “Ever...

If you’re feeling up to it… one if my favourite songs just got more resonant: www.instagram.com/reel/DTjLINz...

36 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Hormozgan province, Iran. The same doctrine that bombed schools in Gaza is now bombing schools in Iran.

At least 40 students killed so far at a school in Minab according to AlJazeera

Two fascist regimes dragging the world into war.

Even that imperial mouthpiece the NYTimes is not having it.

Israel waged a war of annihilation. Now it wants everyone but itself to disarm | Opinion As Israel Ignores the Sovereignty of Its Neighboring States, the Country Continues to Prove How Dangerous It Is to Leave Unrestricted Weapons and Armaments in Its Hands, and How Much It Endangers Regi...

Israel waged a war of annihilation in Gaza. Now it wants everyone but itself to disarm. Trump is acting on Israel's direction in bombing Iran. Israel ignores the sovereignty of neighbouring states & is a danger to humanity. Israel should surrender their WMDs. www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

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Somehow the Americans have a more cringe war name (Epic Fury) than the Israelis (Roaring Lion)