Marcel Swart

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

Trump wants to distract from the failing economy, ICE murders, and his corruption scandals

Netanyahu wants to distract from the Gaza genocide, West Bank settler attacks, and his own corruption scandals.

Both are using the same playbook: wage war to blot out everything else.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

Nah.

And about the five years ahead: yeah, that’s what happens if you just got tenure. Many opportunities ahead. Good luck!!

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Or MeCN, I must confess

Or actually Acetonitrile, as I usually do?

Wilders:

"Kon ik die debatten maar skippen",
"Waarom moet ik dan naar die stomme debatten?" en
"Verzin een smoes dat ik niet hoef te gaan", citeerde de Volkskrant.

Hij zei in de appjes ook dat hij zich "niet oké" voelt, maar bang is om "als lafaard" gezien te worden als hij afzegt.

Tsja

😂

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that.

Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

RFK Jr. wants to end the “war” on unproven treatments like stem cell therapy What could go wrong?

Sure, let's approve the unproven treatments
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This one?
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Amazing. Even for that time.

In the think tank (Council on Foreign Relations), experts say the war is unwarranted and illegal without congressional authorization. Some who see this “justified”, refer to the fact that Iran has been “killing Americans since the 70s”. My Q: are you aware this tactic does work then both ways?

So, for an “operation” of 4-5 weeks that includes elimination of a foreign leader (regardless how bad he is) and already led to casualties, there is no congressional approval nor anyone is raising this question on the decision-making level..

I grew with Amerika being used to describe the USA. As I grew up and learned more, I learned how to differentiate between the US and America. Slowly, even the Dutch television is now mostly using US for USA, and avoids the use of America as a term specific for one country

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My heart breaks for the three service members who have lost their lives, and I am praying for those who were wounded.

America’s sons and daughters are being put in harm’s way because of Donald Trump’s illegal war.

Congress must act to rein in Donald Trump before more lives are lost.

(1) Well, it’s been almost 3 years since I left my tenured position at Newcastle Uni for life in sustainable tech start ups and I have a few plusses and minuses for both academia and industry (obv n=1!)

Anyone wanna hear whether I regret leaving academia after 20 years?

Older people can get jobs in a tech startup. I was 48 when I got my job in my first start up and 51 when I got my job in my 2nd . Academics have a huge amount of transferable skills , it’s all about how you present them in both your CVs and at interview

This all began with a concerned mutual reaching out to me, stating that they saw a notification that pointed at me using the Meta AI app and asking if my stance on generative AI had changed. That’s when I learnt that Meta has been quietly using random people’s accounts to promote their app. The catch is… these people never actually downloaded the app. Including myself. I just wanted to make this post to warn people. If you see a notification like that - know that it’s a lie, I never downloaded any AI app and never will. I’m an artist who values hard work and human effort, and generative AI repulses me to an unimaginable degree.

If you follow me on Instagram and you receive a notification about me joining or downloading Meta AI well, IT'S A FUCKING LIE. Meta is blatantly lying to us in order to make us download that fucking sludge-generator. I would never touch GenAI with a 10 foot pole.

OP www.instagram.com/p/DVN3Ac2DG9p/

Antonio Guterres is up first at this Security Council meeting. He condemns this morning’s strikes by Israel and the US on Iran, and the return strikes by Iran on countries in the region. There is, he says, no alternative to the peaceful settlement of disputes

Trump’s Reckless Decision to Pursue Regime Change in Iran And the risks Democrats face if they fail to strongly oppose his war.

"There are multiple arguments that Democrats need to be making, including the fact that he’s acting illegally, and the fact that he’s acting strategically stupidly. So make all of those arguments. Don’t just ask for a briefing," says @mattduss.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

Homepage Anthropic Copyright Settlement

They can check if their books were used here:

Flashback to January 2024

do i need to have done all of that to believe that bombing an elementary school and murdering 85 school girls is not acceptable?
How many children must die for you to stop supporting the US' illegal strikes?

The Senate must immediately return to Washington and use our Constitutional powers to pass a War Powers Resolution to stop this.

This war will not make us safer, nor will it help Americans afford groceries or health care or rent.