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She/her. Spinster of the Parish in Ao/NZ. Travel a lot & obsess about Byzantine /Ottoman things; ancient and modern Near East politics and history; dilettante Witch; daydreaming about tea on the Bosphorus. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Get the fuck out of Lebanon. 🇱🇧
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Ukraine asked for NATO membership, we said no because of Russian nukes. Ukraine asked for security guarantees, we said no because of Russian nukes. Ukraine asked for long-range weapons, we said no because of Russian nukes. So Ukraine got rid of Russian strategic nuclear bombers

i saw gazans being burned alive on here and it was the most horrific thing i ever witnessed and i can’t imagine anyone who was devastated by that thinking that the correct response is to do it in turn to people half a world away who simply want their friends and family back

Rowling is a demon. She’s been completely consumed by hate. You cannot participate in her IP, even for free, without aiding her evil. Don’t do it.

Waiting for all those who clutched their pearls for weeks over Wellington Mayor getting a wee bit tipsy with mates to show the same shocked concern for Chris Bishop’s inebriated mouthing off at the music Awards…..no?

“… Musk is one of the most malignant people ever to hold a position of influence in American politics. His actions, without exaggeration, have devastated the health and security of American society and directly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people all over the world …”

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

The US is at "opening montage in apocalyptic thriller film" stage now I see.

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

French president calls establishment of a Palestinian state ‘a moral duty and a political necessity’.

For those not familiar, here's the opening paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for the term "remigration," a term which popped up in Europe over a decade ago and until very recently has not been part of the U.S. political discourse. It is NOT a neutral term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigra...

NEW: Harvard President Alan Garber gets a standing ovation at the University’s graduation ceremony as he takes a swipe at Trump: "Members of the class of 2025, from down the street, across the country AND around the world. Around the world - just as it should be.” 👏 (🎥 MSNBC)

Not sorry 🤭

Tired: Having the world’s greatest higher education system, luring global elites here to learn our ways & defray costs for American students Wired: ha ha fuck that

finding out donald trump genuinely is enraged by this is amazing and i hope people keep pressing him about this so we can destroy the US by basically playing chicken with him

stop writing that he’s leaving DOGE without mentioning that just a few days ago the solicitor general told the United States Supreme Court that he is not part of DOGE

Ah yes, the notoriously over recognised and over paid ECE teachers fucking up the economy by not letting centre owners make enough money. All ECE should be nationalised and it’s a fucking grotesque and immoral way to make money. I said what I said.

Services that shouldn't be profit-focused: Health care Education Housing Child care Aged care Basic food supply A wealthy society ought to provide all of these via taxation with basic costs for maintenance factored in. Anything else is exploitation.

I finally watched Conclave. I like that Ralph Fiennes has the same energy as Kermit the Frog trying to keep The Muppet Show from going off the rails.

I have a PhD in Genome Sciences I have taught graduate level courses on human genetics I have taken graduate level courses specifically on "the Evolution of Sex" and "Sexology" (the study of sex) Never once did I hear the terms "biological sex" It's a political dogwhistle, not science

Day by day, we’re seeing the Justice Department effectively decriminalize and wave away crimes by Trump’s friends and instead selectively focus investigatory resources on Trump’s adversaries and enemies. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/crime-is-n...

Related key point from @dandrezner.bsky.social: Banning foreign students also will help drive up costs for US students. More in my piece and thread below on another angle on the deep perversity of all this. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

The other week, they INSISTED that pulling the rug out from under the pay equity claims wasn’t reducing women’s pay And now they actually are reducing pay in a women dominated industry

You don't need to be a prophet. Images like this - of starved Palestinians hammed into fenced cages by Israel - will be remembered for generations as hideous evidence of a terrible crime. And history will remember not just those who cheered it on, but those who stayed silent.

Better to ask shadow president Stephen Miller

People work so hard in life only to discover that they fucked up by not being white people who commit fraud

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

NEW: After an 86-day blockade of food into Gaza, starving residents are pictured being herded like livestock & surrounded by fencing and barbed wire as they await food parcels. This photo was posted in the last hour by Gaza-based journalist Motasem A Dalloul.

You can tell the president has a Very Good Brain, Perhaps the Best Brain Ever? because his staffers are doing everything possible to hide the record of his solemn pronouncements.

When I see Yoda I think “that dude’s got a cloaca, no question”

Israel killed 25 mostly children & women as they slept. Set ablaze they were. We won’t hear their names or learn the ambitions they once held.

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

This is correct, they also tie traffic fines to income so the richer you are the more you pay. We could learn a lot from the Finns.

Absolute clown show. The original tariff deadline lasted 2 days. Governing on vibes and the whims of the last person Trump speaks to is not sustainable.

The most corrupt presidency in the history of the United States.

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

PRESI-DEMENTIA/CON-MANDER-IN-CHIEF/FATTY SHACK/AYATOLLAH COMPLAINI/TANNIBAL LECTER/SCAMMY DAVIS JR./RICH LITTLE HANDS/HIPPOPOTUS/OUR FONDLING FARTER/TRUMPELSTILTSKIN/HUNGRY HUNGRY HYPOCRITE/DICTATOR TOT/UNCLE SCAM/QUID PRO COMBOVER/MANGO MUSSOLINI/FRANCIS FORD GROPE-ALA/ALEXANDER SCAMILTON <the end>

And they accuse liberals of indoctrination!

Bold prediction: Cancelling of Pay Equity is a much bigger deal than Nats thought it would be, it'll slow burn into the next election & will cost the Nats enough support bled to Labour to go out Greens & TPM will be in a strong position to form govt From most right to most left govt ever #NZPol

This is actually hilarious.

The implication here from the BBC is that al-Najjar children could’ve been legitimate targets if their parents had ties to Hamas. Children are not targets. We must side with the child over the bomb every single time, no matter whose bomb and no matter whose child. Every time.