Agnostic Pessimist

A highlight of the day is a very loud return of al-Qaeda to the Yemeni battlefield. AQAP was supposed to attack Aden government loyalists in Shabwa province in several locations, AQAP came in force today. Silent support of ongoing Houthi offensive. To watch. #Yemen

Keep in mind that while broader AI development involves all kinds of milieus, skills and approaches in the rest of the US, Europe, China, India and so on, Amodei and Altman are a product of an intellectually narrow and overspecialised clique concentrated around the Bay area

Accounts of Palestinian schoolgirls afraid to cross military checkpoints because soldiers had exposed themselves stayed with Dr. Rubin Minhas long after he reviewed the evidence.

Macron says France has agreed with Saudi Arabia to dispatch French “soldiers, radars, defensive systems” to protect the Yanbu oil terminal on the Saudi Red Sea coast, which was recently hit by Iran-allied groups. www.tf1info.fr/politique/cr...

The far right in Europe and the US very much depends on people seeing the superiority of our civilisation over the formerly colonialised peoples as permanent rather than a product of particular factors. Its anti-educational and anti-science attitudes are also likely to hasten our relative decline.

Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-france-italy-and-greece-allow-netanyahus-overflight-despite-icc-arrest-warrant

Israel is demanding compensation from the US after being notified of its intention to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, according to Israeli news outlet Walla

This is a truly evil Administration

Israel's Institute for National Security Studies has issued a rare warning that institutions are at risk of collapse due to surging settler terrorism:

Israeli settlers attack CNN crew and independent journalists in the occupied West Bank

A controversial German bill that could punish denial of Israel's right to exist with up to five years in prison has sparked debate over free speech:

Egypt's World Cup exit to Argentina has sparked allegations of refereeing bias, prompting the country's football federation to file a complaint with FIFA:

If this was a synagogue it would accurately be described as fascist and make national headlines. It’s the same thing. bsky.app/profile/dup-...

UPDATE: FLA claims to have repelled the Russian military convoy from Gao, in statement saying it has suffered major losess before withdrawing. If true, then JNIM and FLA will be aiming to massacre the Russians holed up in Anefis. Next hours key for Mali's future.

🚨URGENT: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s life is in immediate danger, Physicians for Human Rights Israel & his lawyer warned Saturday, after a prison visit revealed the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital bearing fresh, severe injuries to his head, eyes, ears & neck, so disfigured his own attorney initially...

Every time you think the UAE can't fall lower, it does. It's kind of echoing the deployment of US troops to Saudi Arabia being the ideological foundation for the formation of Al Qaeda

Israel’s definition of victory is framed by a distorted reality shaped by a leadership promising that threats can and must be eliminated through invasion and occupation, and by a media that rarely provides insight into the human costs of their actions. www.crisisgroup.org/opd/middle-e...

Beyond being the Rhodesia of our time, Isrsel also appears to host the Sednaya of the 2020s

The Israeli cabinet has quietly greenlit the construction of 34 new settlements across the West Bank— the largest single approval of outposts in a single step, nearly doubling the recent total from 69 to 103 www.i24news.tv/en/news/midd...

But they are the new norm, because the world failed to act when Israel blew up hospital after hospital in Gaza. And of course they were aided by our gutless mainstream media that hemmed and hawed and hedged until it was barely even news for babies incubators to be blown to smithereens.

Reminiscing about my time living in DC. If you've lived in DC or spent time there, especially in the Cap Hill area, let's look at some of the places you could be killed for being in range of the blast radius of a Mk 84 2000lb bomb dropped by the USAF or Israeli Air Force on a legitimate target

"Best paragraph explaining why the Iron Dome does not actually save lives".-- @katewillett.bsky.social jewishcurrents.org/iron-dome-is...

She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

The fact European allies have restricted what the US could use their bases for—protecting allies in the Gulf, not striking Iran—has also infuriated Trump & could reinforce his belief that the US has to “own stuff” (in this case, Greenland) if it really wants to protect itself 2/2

EU officials rightly worry that the Greenland risk may actually increase after Trump’s failure in Iran, as Greenland would, militarily if not politically, be an easier win and show of force for a president seeking to recover damaged credibility 1/2

Thinking about when I was a refugee caseworker and nice liberal folks would call us asking if they could host a Ukrainian family. When told there weren't any available for rent, but they could host a Congolese or Afghan family instead, we never heard from them again. This happened a lot! Like, A LOT

Brilliant piece: “America does not know how to exist in a world it does not control. Since its inception, America has assured itself it was simply too big, too far away and too richly endowed to suffer any serious consequences for its actions. But there will be no escaping the cataclysm in Iran.”

And the only place Blinken should be answering questions from is The Hague for his role in the Gaza genocide Ukraine deserves better allies than these criminals

NATO is being undermined by its biggest military power, the US, which literally threatened to invade another member. Turkey, its 2nd biggest, is threatened by politicians from Israel, the country allied to most NATO countries. You don’t need Putin when you got Trump and Netanyahu.

Today Israel has made it legal to hang Palestinians who are found Guilty in Israel and who have a 99.74% conviction rate in their courts For Israelis who have a 1.9% conviction rate for crimes against Palestinians the death penalty is still illegal This is yet another War Crime

"Without moral strength, we have no right to exist" is quite the soundbite from a bunch of ex-MOSSAD/Shin Bet heads. Not sure about the historical prevalence of the aforementioned moral strength though.

Socotra Island is, last I checked, near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, is part of Yemen, and nowhere near anything happening in Iran.

Dying empire embroiled in a quagmire of its own making attempts outlandish conquest to restore faith

Let me translate this: 90% chance we see a US ground invasion of some sort by next week

There is evidence that Israeli soldiers tortured a 21 months old child in Gaza. Obvious content warning for the video www.instagram.com/reel/DWQ9UUV...

This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.

At least 1,243 people have been killed by drone strikes in Haiti as of January 21. Drone strikes. In Haiti. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Israeli soldiers extinguished cigarettes on 18-month-old Karim Abu Nassar, pricked him, and forced metal nails into his skin, according to a report. The boy was then handed over to his family by the Red Cross at the Al-Maghazi market in central Gaza. A medical report confirmed his injuries.

With world distracted by the wars in Iran and Lebanon: Israeli Settlers Prepare for a Large-scale West Bank Rampage as Palestinians Report Attacks and Arson www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...