It's a sign of a failed society when it continues to platform people who consistently get big things wrong. We should not still be subjected to most of the people writing Op-Eds at the New York Times who spent DECADES getting everything about war AND peace wrong.
Exactly one year ago today:
"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."
I'm telling you, the solution to many problems in education is to hire school librarians (at a liveable wage, with administrative support, and adequate resources). Your students don't need an LLM, they need a librarian.
Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"
we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling
I think this is true, and part of the Everything is Gender theory. We are governed by that section of the populace that believes that Father having violent tantrums until everyone else cowers, even as his life falls apart around him, was an aspirational display of power and mastery.
As a US senator, I do not support Donald Trump committing war crimes in Iran. But if I don’t let him commit them, I could be primaried by a far right challenger who also lets him commit war crimes, enthusiastically.
Did you notice that each time he said “exterminate” I coughed loudly exactly 9 minutes and 11 seconds later? it was subtle yet pointed.
They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free? A free preschool center opening in one of New York City’s wealthiest neighborhoods raises questions about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to expand universal child care.
the new york times executes its anti-mamdani, anti-progressive agenda (just like its anti-trans agenda) not on the editorial pages but in very clearly biased "news" articles disguised as news stories. liberals fund the times doing this.
what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?
Imagine being a US pilot in Iran after Pete Hagueseth declared “no quarter” (take no prisoners alive — a war crime).
According to Mehr News Agency, a semi-official Iranian outlet, Kamal Kharazi, a former Iranian foreign minister, was injured in what it described as an attack on residential buildings in Tehran by the United States and Israel on Wednesday. Kharazi was considered a veteran policy expert and a moderate politician and the head of Iran’s Foreign Policy Council, which sets the country’s overall foreign policy. Two Iranian officials said Kharazi had been overseeing engagement with Pakistan for a possible meeting between Iranian officials and Vice President JD Vance. The officials said the targeting of Kharazi is being viewed as an attempt to derail diplomacy.
This is the sort of gangsterism that even Genghis Khan found to be offensive, it breaks a taboo that predates the very idea of true international law.
This, alongside the assassination attempt of Hamas negotiators in Doha, on the sovereign soil of a neutral country which was given the explicit role of meditation, demonstrates Israel's basic non-compliance with the most fundamental norms of international relations.
A photo of Ali and Fatima in their press vests and hats, smiling at the camera with Lebanon in the background
Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni.
They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years.
Unprecedented.
(📸 Cradle Media)
I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc.
But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
Yeah in some ways I feel like the Biden admin was close to a golden age, but the hysterical response to Gaza protests while feeding Israel's barbarism was a total moral collapse by America's elites. I've been surprised by how easily so many of them folded vs. Trump but the signs were there
When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
"Questions are flying, ever since the start of Sepharax the Cruel’s Thousand-Year Blood Reign. Whether it’s the Pit of Souls or the Child Reapers, there’s a lot to be worried about. But most of all? The price at the pump."
The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions.
Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.
“The indispensability of a liberal education is the freedom from being tied to the zeitgeist of one’s age or situation to love what is true, good, and beautiful, and to be initiated into the world while cultivating a love for it.” www.liberalcurrents.com/upholding-li...
I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation
In a savvy move, Trump undoes sanctions on Russia after Russia helps Iran target Americans.
Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time
I believe this is called an intelligence operation. In this case, using a senator as an asset.
Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...
Tweet from Abbas Araghchi reads: The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran's infrastructure is a dangerous move with grave consequences. The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran.
US-Israeli targets include schools, health care infrastructure, Tehran’s airport, and now, if what Iran’s foreign minister says is accurate, a desalination plant providing water to 30 villages.
What a precedent to set, hitting desalination plants around the Gulf which so heavily relies on them.
They were engaged in diplomatic relations and welcoming people to visit as recently as the Obama administration.