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On top of the raw cruelty and the lack of any reason for this beyond the GOP commitment to allowing every rip-off they can imagine, this is also a decision to make prison *worse* at reforming/rehabilitating people, because we're making it harder for them to stay connected with people outside.

People who still support Israel can be divided into two categories: Those who would have supported the Nazis in World War II; and those who would have opposed them solely because they were on the other side, not because they have any moral objection to their actions

I don’t care if I lose followers for saying this, but there is absolutely nothing redeemable about Israel or the UAE, and there is no hope for humanity until both genocidal imperialist states are dismantled brick by brick

Between the genocidal massacre by the UAE-backed RSF in El Fasher and Israel’s resumption of the genocide in violation of the ceasefire, today is one of the darkest days for humanity

The UAE is a parasitic state, an artifice built on the backs of slave labor and funded by stolen wealth obtained through genocide. The day it’s leveled to the ground can’t come fast enough

…criticism (s/o @joelbaden.bsky.social) and linguistic dating (cf. @azforeman.bsky.social @olawikander.bsky.social @bnuyaminim.bsky.social), popular among but not exclusive to American and Israeli scholars, are far from exact sciences, but at least they are somewhat grounded in empirical evidence

Hot take, but it feels like some continental European biblical scholarship just consists of coming up with just-so stories of biblical composition history, and declaring everything that contradicts those hypotheses to be late developments/insertions. I know that documentary textual criticism…

Congrats to Ireland on joining CERN! 🥳 Now (long past) time to kick out Israel. Genocide, occupation and apartheid should have no place in particle physics or any other science

Israel violating a ceasefire deal as a mob of Israeli settlers attack an American journalist and Palestinian grandma & an Israeli soccer match has to be cancelled because of violent fans is all the worse when you remember the deal calls to "de-radicalize" Palestinians and not Israelis

That’s what Wiktionary says en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%94%...

…an etymological pharyngeal in Proto-Semitic? @bnuyaminim.bsky.social @phdnix.bsky.social @olawikander.bsky.social @likethemagician.bsky.social @mattboot.bsky.social

Question for Semiticists: The Semitic root ḥ-r-m (related to holiness, consecration, taboo) has a pharyngeal in West Semitic languages, even those that preserve velar/uvula fricatives. However, an apparent Akkadian cognate is ḫarmu. Why not the expected a>e coloring instead of a velar if this was…

immigrant grocery store owner who voted for Trump to lower grocery prices and then got wrecked by tariffs. mfer you run a business called "Wong Kai Imports" what the hell did you think was gonna happen

"In the West Bank and Jerusalem, far from Hamas-controlled Gaza, more than 19,000 Palestinians were swept up since Oct. 7. As of this month, more than 11,000 Palestinians were still locked up in Israeli prisons, almost a third of them under “administrative detention,” without charges or a trial."

It’s only a violation of the ceasefire when the subhuman side is the one that violates it. Otherwise it’s just a sparkling “test” and “fragile ceasefire holds”

I love that “breakfast” and “dinner” have the same etymology (literally “break-fast”), but one is Germanic and the other is Latin

Now that the Israeli POWs have been released, I’m really worried the Israelis will resume the genocide again now that they have nothing to lose. These next moments will be critical

“Say the line, Bart!” Meme with the dialogue: “Say the line, ATLAS!” “no significant excess over the SM expectations is found”

When I’m giving an experimental particle physics presentation and inevitably get to the “results” section

I miss the age of electronic anarchy 😢

Someone once said that deities always answer prayers in the most ironic way possible, and they were not joking

A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes.

An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.

Also, “bearing false witness” means giving false legal testimony, not just lying in general. Not that the former isn’t something Vance, or at least the people in his circles, have done as well…

When people bring up the False Witnesses commandment as a gotcha for Christians, it reminds me of when people use “taqiya” as an exoticizing way to characterize lying as a Muslim habit. Lying is just something people do, for better or worse, regardless of religion

There are a lot of things JD Vance does that are at odds with mainstream Catholicism, but lying is just something most humans do regardless of their professed dislike for it. Devout Christians lie all the time

The rise and fall of prohibitive ʕan When I was writing my dissertation I learned of Zanzibari Arabic, a relatively obscure and oft-overlooked variety of Arabic. Arabic came to the Zanzibar archipelago by way of migrants from Oman and…

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Palestinian writer Refaat Alareer’s poem “If I Must Die” has echoed across the world since his killing—translated by volunteers into dozens of languages. We share it here in English & Arabic.

inthesetimes.com/article/refa...

Israeli activists including the conductor Ilan Volkov arrested at the Gaza border. They call for lifting the siege of Gaza and for a global boycott of Israel.

www.instagram.com/reel/DO1H-Ec...

How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression

Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well.

www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...