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PMO: Benjamin Netanyahu decides full IDF occupation of Gaza | The Jerusalem Post The Prime Minister's Office conveyed the message to the Chief of Staff: If this does not suit you, then you should resign.

Think about every pro-Israel person who denied this was the plan for the past 22 months; who gaslit you; denied this to you; pretended this wasn't the plan.

And then never believe those liars about anything ever again.

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Martin Shaw: Gaza genocide is backed by Israeli society and western powers

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‘Boiling frog’ effect makes people oblivious to threat of climate crisis, shows study Research shows people’s response to binary data could drive more effective ways of communicating gravity of crisis

'Surveys show that the increasing number of extreme climate events... has not raised awareness of the threats posed by CC. Instead, people change their idea of what they see as normal. This so-called “boiling frog effect” makes gradual change difficult to spot.'

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SAVE SOCIOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY We urge Macquarie University management to reverse this decision and preserve the vital disciplines of Sociology and Politics. Sociology has a key place in the social sciences as the broadest and mos...

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“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold

God measuring Earth

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave the way The Panguna mine has been the cause of immense social and environmental suffering, but it’s also seen as Bougainville’s main resource to achieve independence.

Bougainville wants independence. China’s support for a controversial mine could pave the way
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Schadenfreude is awful but I really need to post this

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

‘Woman, life, freedom’: the Syrian feminists who forged a new world in a land of war In a society riven by conflict and misogyny, the autonomous region of Rojava has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world

And now for some positive news

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

The high pay for Vice-Chancellors does not deliver better outcomes for students Australia's university vice-chancellors are among the highest paid in the world, and yet all that money does not deliver better outcomes for students.

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Narratives, information and immigration policy | Crawford School of Public Policy This seminar shares latest data on Australians’ attitudes towards immigration and results from a survey experiment testing what changes them.

On Tue 11 March, Alyssa Leng will speak about the new paper on Australians' attitudes to immigration that she co-authored with @ryanbedwards.bsky.social and I. What do Australians really think? Can their views be changed? Find out. Zoom & in person: crawford.anu.edu.au/event/narrat...

I love this so much!

At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions.

This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

How Trump’s Greenland Plan Could Hit Ozempic, Legos and Hearing Aids Putting tariffs on Denmark unless it cedes the island of Greenland could hurt access to a few key products, including popular medicines.

Trump is going to make Ozempic more expensive for Americans because Denmark won’t give him Greenland. (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence out.)

Afghanistan shows what investing in women’s education – or divesting – can do to an economy New research shows that Afghan women earned 13% more for every additional year of schooling they received after the Taliban fell in 2001. That progress is now in peril.

Afghanistan shows what investing in women’s education – or divesting – can do to an economy

Homegrown. Domestic. Terrorists.

Trump response to recent attacks offers ominous outlook for terror in next term President-elect says ‘USA is breaking down’ in bleak post seeming to wrongly pin two violent attacks on immigration

Levin, a former New York city police officer, fears that forces from across the political spectrum unleashed by Trump’s political renaissance, coupled with destabilising global events, could produce a “perfect storm” of political violence during the president-elect’s second term.

Until abortion is legal in every state, lets require men to get a mandatory vasectomy until they are proven emotionally mature, financially responsible and ready to be a father.
Wait, what do you mean regulations on men's bodies make you uncomfortable?