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400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

Far away from the noise in a sleepy little town in Limpopo, South Africa, waiting for another deranged action by a deranged hegemon far away.

One of the largest oak trees in the university forest has fallen over today: www.dw.com/en/celebrate...

The nurses are pissed

January has already been a dramatic month. What is in store for the rest of 2026? Sam Lichtenstein from RANE (Risk Assistance Network & Exchange) joins Chris to dissect their annual geopolitical and security forecast. 🎧 pod.fo/e/37f9e3 🎥 youtu.be/tfD9vZLHYRI

Pastors working for ICE Sex workers running mutual aid for immigrants Which one looks more like Jesus???

The radicalization of Silicon Valley is the subject of my forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and The War on Democracy." It exposes a decades-long campaign to use tech power to overthrow democracy and destroy nations. Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

The Bluesky government accounts want unhinged engagement with their accounts to screenshot and provide to Fox News to justify their authoritarianism and I’m not going to do their work for them it’s my day off.

About a hundred journalists and activists held a vigil in Johannesburg on Thursday evening in memory of Palestinian journalists who were murdered by Israel. Read groundup.org.za/article/sout... by Ihsaan Haffejee

NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.

Now THAT's a cease and desist letter

A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today. #wipolitics

Really disturbing to see this framed as though it is unclear whether this is an abomination.

Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

“Now is your time to stand up to the authoritarian Trump regime.” An elderly activist was forcibly carried out of Mike Lawler’s town hall as attendees booed the New York Republican.

Trump’s Easter message: Jesus had it coming. Woke loser with terrible numbers. After all that effort only 12 disciplines and one of those had doubts and another betrayed him.

So Meta jacked multiple editions of my two books to train their AI. They even ingested the Spanish-language version. I don't recall granting permission. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I am already hearing many European academics becoming unwilling to travel to the US for political reasons Stories like these 👇 add safety concerns to the list. Especially, as access to social media accounts are required to enter How do we best support our US academic colleagues as things escalate?

Stories like this are becoming increasingly common. A British woman is now in detention after getting caught up in the U.S. immigration dragnet. Organizers of upcoming conferences in the U.S. should make virtual options a priority.

"This attempt to restrict #AcademicFreedom and #FreedomofSpeech has now reached Finland. The University of Helsinki has already been issued demands to remove terms like ‘climate change’ and ‘egalitarian society’ from Fulbright scholarship announcements" www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

For a man born in 1930 George Soros seems to have incredible organisational ability, if Musk and co are right about what he’s been up to. Why isn’t Soros President?

🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.

As an author of a book devoted to modern propaganda methods, I can attest that all of this looks incredibly professional. Impressive operation.

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly: “President Trump poses an existential threat to Canada and Europe is next.”

Over 80 years of post WW2 allied support gone in less than 40 days of Trump's time in office. Germans' trust of the US is now on par with Russia, with 3 times as many Germans trusting Ukraine over the US. Only 16% of Germans now trust America, with 75% "do not trust".

Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

Philosophy Job: Fully funded PhD position in Practical Philosophy at the Stockholm Center for the Ethics of War and Peace here at Stockholm University 🇸🇪 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... No Swedish skills required. Deadline March 5. #philsky

My baby is sick and has been in hospital for 2 nights in a row. She is just a kitten, not even a year old yet. Please keep her in your thoughts. #sphynx #kitten

Open access: Philosophical Theologies in South Africa: Genealogies, Traditions, and Speculations. ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/uj...

From 1932

S7 Ep13: The Ideology behind Elon Musk buying Twitter secretsandspiespodcast.com/episode/s7-e... For those who are still bamboozled.

Here's a post I wrote arguing against bucket lists (I think they are simply not useful, contribute to harmful mass tourism without enriching people's experience, encouraging people to put off goals for play and recreation until retirement. helendecruz.substack.com/p/against-bu...

This.

Erm ... Is Musk the president of the United States?

Hi, I’m God. Vaccines save lives. Love, God

My personal most romantic film of all time: Drifting Clouds (Finnish: Kauas pilvet karkaavat) by Aki Kaurismäki.