Mikaël Scaramucci

Very simple lesson here:
Faculty governance will defend academic values, like academic freedom, even when it is unpopular.
Political appointees who serve as Regents will blow with the ideological winds, which in Texas are anti-speech.

Illicit Arms in Sudan How foreign actors and lax arms export regimes are fueling genocide in Sudan

Using the Sterling Arms XLCR as an illustrative example, I discuss the web of money and guns that the UAE operates to fuel the RSF's activities in Sudan, where it has been credibly accused of committing genocide. Until something is done about this, the killing will only continue.

"challenge scientific orthodoxy"

‘I Wanna Blow This Up’: How Bari Weiss Is Trying to Overhaul CBS News The new editor in chief is personally recruiting potential anchors, booking guests herself and asking staff what they do.

I think she’s going to succeed.

just earlier today all EU states issued a unanimous statement which does not name the UAE at all. ok so what? why should sudanese or any arab or black person find this more impressive than chinese indifference or russian malevolence?

Tlaib Introduces Resolution Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12), alongside 20 other Members of Congress, introduced H.Res.876 – Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza. This resolutio...

Feels really under discussed that AIPAC has had multiple Democratic members of Congress they endorsed and fundraised for as recently as 2024 turn around and change positions immediately.

Maxine Dexter is one of them, cosponsoring Tlaib's resolution to recognize the Israeli genocide on Gaza.

Corruption at every level of government. Inconvenient truths are eradicated.

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

Calling the ABC reporter’s question “insubordinate” explains everything about how Trump sees press freedom.

The Eurozone’s chief banking supervisor has called for greater powers to over-rule national restrictions that stop lenders moving capital around the single currency bloc and deter them from merging with cross-border rivals. on.ft.com/4nZRy1y

New migration policy guaranteed (meant?) to fail: keeping people in limbo for twenty years is the absolutely best way to make sure they cannot integrate and become part of society. It will also fail to appease the insatiable far-right.

The EU must reinvent itself... or die | The Observer World peace cannot be safeguarded without the making of creative efforts proportionate to the dangers which threaten it.

I have just re-read this. When it first came out I was taken aback by the headline &picture (probably not the decision of the author). We can quibble about details.But in essence Nick Clegg is right: we need more Europe,not less,we need to focus,&we need the U.K. back. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.

After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

The reason they said no was because it was unrealistic. The reason they said it was unrealistic was because Israel would never agree. The reason Israel would never agree is because the US under both parties preemptively swears off ever imposing consequences onto Israel. This is a circular logic.

Sam Altman Tweet: “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes in your custom instructions, it finally does what it's supposed to do!”

AGI any day now

I was told that the joint Israeli-American war on Hezbollah was about restoring Lebanese sovereignty.

One of Powell's quiet legacies will be a clean up of the Fed officials’ trading. Several resignations have (apparently) been tied to missteps.

Over 500 economists and inequality experts from 70 countries are urging world leaders to establish an “IPCC-style” body for inequality. Some surprising new names, including Former US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen or Daron Agemoglu

www.equals.ink/p/500-econom...

Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, welfare agencies have reported.

Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft

news.un.org/en/story/202...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has stated that the US air strikes on “alleged” drug smuggling boats will be treated under international law as crimes against humanity.

Government’s last chance to keep control of digital Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.

In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.

The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

MP Adnan Hussain quits Your Party over ‘persistent infighting’ Blackburn MP criticises ‘struggle for power’ amid tensions between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana

Lmao

UK borrowing costs jump as investors lose faith in Reeves’ Budget Gilts sell off after government ditches plan to increase income tax rates

Seems like Starmer’s downfall is now a matter of time. I think this is almost entirely a result of his incompetence as a political actor.

BBC

Bias is often in the eye of the beholder

So let’s stick to measurable facts

During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times

Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority

47 were from UKIP/BP

23 times Farage

I'm mostly an Epstein conspiracy theory skeptic, but it has been incredibly insightful in demonstrating the double standards in how Trump uses power

Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?

Je pense que tout le monde devrait écouter cette prise de parole et mesurer ce qui vient de se produire avec cette tentative d'annulation, validée en haut lieu, d'un colloque scientifique au Collège de France

If Dershowitz was the most informed advisor to Obama on this issue before John Kerry came along to fix things for him then it's not a surprise that Obama only ever saw a map of the settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank for the first time in the winter of 2015.