NEW: Trump aides declared an emergency over Iran to bypass Congress to sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel valued at $660 million. The State Dept. hasn't publicly disclosed info on half of the bombs. US gives $3.8 billion of arms aid to Israel annually. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...
07.03.2026 14:56 — 👍 164 🔁 127 💬 8 📌 16
A map of the railways in Africa and their gauges.
I always drop this or something like it in front of my students and as them what this tells them about the economic paradigms present and how operations in Africa might be effected.
07.03.2026 15:12 — 👍 112 🔁 16 💬 9 📌 4Ok, since I’ve gotten a few “you don’t know for sure it’s not true!” let’s briefly say why. In a hyper-strict Cartesian sense of “know,” you can’t really “know” whether anything or anyone is conscious except yourself. But in the everyday sense, outside the dorm room…
06.03.2026 20:22 — 👍 104 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 7
"I didn't see a single building standing the entire time I was in Gaza. I didn't see one building intact or standing.
Everything was flattened. And when I mean flattened, it was hard to even tell that they were buildings there before."
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07.03.2026 04:32 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
07.03.2026 01:32 — 👍 5834 🔁 1697 💬 107 📌 52He's putting up record job losses, driving the country into a war he can't even explain, and was credibly accused of raping a teenager in the Epstein files released yesterday - so of course it's time to try and ruin more trans people's lives
06.03.2026 14:45 — 👍 1035 🔁 312 💬 14 📌 6700,000 people! There's only 5.3 million people in all of Lebanon!
06.03.2026 02:41 — 👍 26 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0
14 cases, that are known. DHS refuses to respond to inquiries.
“In response to the outbreak, the facility has been closed to visitors and legal advisers and isn’t expected to reopen until March 19”
This is the point about Labour introducing retrospective changes to the immigration system. They set the precedent for any Govt. to say that they can go back on promises to migrants and people of colour as far back as they want.
04.03.2026 12:24 — 👍 191 🔁 72 💬 8 📌 2
“The drones that hover over the skies of Lebanon…collect large swathes of data — Wi-Fi, IP addresses, phone signals — which are then organized by AI…in what some scholars and activists say amounts to a “digital occupation.” Fascinating by @justinsalhani.bsky.social
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Just devastating. A landslide triggered by heavy rains appears to have killed over 200 people, including 70 children, at a mine in the DR Congo.
This is about a month after a *different* landslide killed over 200 people at the same mine www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
The story of slavery we tell in the United States is Black and White. But Europeans also enslaved Indigenous people of the Americas. And our enslavement, spanning over four centuries, helped build the institution of slavery itself. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
05.03.2026 05:49 — 👍 154 🔁 59 💬 1 📌 1Claiming asylum is a right; getting a UK student visa is also both expensive and quite hard in the first place. This is punishing folks from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan for daring to dream of studying here, and daring to wish to be safe. This is, once again, so needlessly cruel.
04.03.2026 10:16 — 👍 35 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0The approximate cause of death for Anne Frank was the Nazis. The specific cause of death was the outbreak of Typhus at Bergen-Belsen camp, which overtook her (and others) from chronic malnutrition and medical abuse. These conditions are not, in character, unlike our system of immigration camps today
03.03.2026 18:39 — 👍 2012 🔁 782 💬 10 📌 6
This is not going to end well
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Another big reason obsessive poll-sniffing is silly: “Public opinion” on most issues quite literally does not exist. It is an ephemeral artifact of the process of polling itself. Ask again a day later with slightly different wording & the numbers change radically.
03.03.2026 16:20 — 👍 552 🔁 123 💬 8 📌 7
‘We’ll run out of food this week’: Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege
03.03.2026 07:30 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0For a new research project in Kenya, we are looking for an updated list of EAs (2019 Census EA frame), ideally with their centroid coordinates. Any help would be highly appreciated.
03.03.2026 02:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Can’t stress enough that it’s actually extremely economically beneficial for everybody in a community if fewer people overdose and die
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this will be a public health disaster.
We could end the transmission of HIV this year. That has been true for a decade. That we have not done so is a public policy choice.
they just won't stop, will they?
a 2.5 year sword hanging over the heads of those fleeing war or persecution - not knowing if the gov will decide to deport you because your home country is declared 'safe'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
President Trump launched strikes on Iran after a weeks-long lobbying effort by Israel and Saudi Arabia, according to four people familiar with the matter.
U.S. intelligence assessments saw no imminent threat, but regional allies argued to strike.
if you assume for everyone immediately affected there's 3-4 also impacted (partners, children, parents, close friends) that's 4-5 million people
or 6-7% of uk adults
whatever the big apocalyptic fears from AI + weapons, the most realistic fear is that it's used the same way a sloppy commander is happy to launch raids based on suspect tips from informants. The AI is a permission structure for targeting, an oopsie-doodle generator that leaves dead civilans behind
01.03.2026 07:08 — 👍 262 🔁 65 💬 3 📌 1
The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood.
These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.
“Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing”
The United States armed and funded Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
Now such atrocities are being inflicted on Iran’s people, but this time the United States is a full participant.
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The government of Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian described the killing of the supreme leader as a ‘criminal attack’ that would not go ‘unanswered’.
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We learned nothing from our experience in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
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