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NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

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It seems grimly appropriate that so much of higher ed is leaning into “The future is STEM; the humanities are dead” at a time when the most significant recent advancement in STEM, AI, is raising fundamental questions that are as much philosophical and humanistic as scientific.

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Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online: 🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank 🔎 Great Replacement theory 🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism 🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party

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החברים של טראמפ:

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Kingsley Wilson, appointed in January to be deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, last year tweeted a neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank.

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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

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סגן דוברת משרד ההגנה של ארה"ב, מינוי טראמפ, צייצה בעבר הלא-רחוק .האשמה אנטישמית מלפני יותר ממאה שנה

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We appear to have a literal neo-Nazi in leadership of pentagon press office.

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Post-pandemic civilizational collapse. A story humanity has experienced many times but I never thought I'd be living through. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/h...

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Admin is infested bsky.app/profile/tris...

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סגן דוברת משרד ההגנה של ארה"ב, מינוי טראמפ, צייצה בעבר הלא-רחוק .האשמה אנטישמית מלפני יותר ממאה שנה

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Kingsley Wilson, the newly-appointed DoD Deputy Press Secretary, believes in a thoroughly-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory. I've mostly only seen this theory promoted by mask-off neo-Nazis. archive.is/dPvse

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When the obit at the top says someone was a "German emigre" to the US who served in the OSS, and gets around to saying he was Jewish around the 90th paragraph, it has not told the story well. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/d...

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Important piece from @joshtpm.bsky.social. “We’re in a constitutional interregnum and we are trying to restore constitutional government. The courts are a tool. But it’s really about public opinion.” Scientists take note.

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סרט מעולה. מומלץ לצפות!

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תל אביב, היום לפני 50 שנה. מחבלים משתלטים על מלון "סבוי" ברחוב גאולה ולוכדים 9 בני ערובה. כוכבה לוי, צעירה שהייתה במלון, מתגלה כגיבורת הלילה כשהיא מנסה לתווך בין הפלסטינים לצבא הערב נשדר את הסרט #סבוי, שמשלב בין קטעי ארכיון והקלטות, לשחזורים דרמטיים. בתמונה: דאנה איבגי בסרט, מול כוכבה לוי ב-1975

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ABC News is killing off 538, which is incredibly stupid but means there will be a lot of really exceptional people on the job market.

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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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It's called "Golden Dome" because it'll be absurdly expensive despite its inherent worthlessness.

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Burying the lede 12 feet under in NYT piece on Mush/Trump slashing the staff at the Internal Revenue Service. @bgrueskin.bsky.social

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מי אמר אני ולא קיבל שיימינג מנשיא ארה"ב או מסגנו היום? www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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‘Like a horror movie’: ICE is detaining German tourist indefinitely www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 26 yo German Jessica Brösche—a tourist who had a visa waiver & a return ticket to 🇩🇪 in her passport—has been in a detention center for a month+ after being denied entry from 🇲🇽 Adios 🇺🇸 tourism!

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The former head of the Social Security Administration says he expects the agency to miss on some payments over the next three months, interrupting some people's benefits, for the first time in Social Security's history of eight decades: www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

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No one would ever use these bullshit euphemisms in covering Hungary or Venezuela or the early days of Putin's Russia

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כואב כל כך. כל ההאשמה של דני אלגרט נגד נתניהו נכון. אך ההאשמה העצמית (המובנת) של דני אינה נכונה. הוא עשה את הכל האפשרי ועוד. אנחנו נכשלנו להוריד את ממשלת החורבן. לא הוא. www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

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Polish PM Donald Tusk, speaking before his flight to London for the European Ukraine summit: “500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians. [...] Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force.”

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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

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SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

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“End the war Bring the hostages home” On the street filled with protesters outside the crime minister’s house in Jerusalem.

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A reminder for these times.

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Seems like a pretty important detail

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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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I'm not even American, but as a democrat (with a small "d") I feel total shame watching Trump in the White House. That the world's flagship democracy has produced that is a shattering blow to almost every ideal vested in this system. It's a stain on democracy that will be hard to live down.

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A sitting GOP senator says publicly it appears the U.S. president is embracing Putin:

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This by @snellarthur.bsky.social is both a nice summary of the available evidence and, I think, convincing:

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‏משפחת אלגרט מודיעה בצער רב: איציק שלנו הופקר למותו בשבי החמאס. פרטי טקס הפרידה, טקס הקבורה והשבעה: 👇 משתתפים בצערכם דני, עמית ומשפחת אלגרט היקרים 💔 ושותפים למאבק עד הסוף, עד החטוף האחרון, עד השחרור המוחלט ✊

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Silver lining: Europe became a Union yesterday. 🇪🇺

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Yes

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Rubio cancels fellowships to study Eastern European languages. Just a reminder that in the days after 9/11 the FBI was desperately looking to hire translators of Arabic, Pashto, & other languages it had ignored. www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/n...

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Probably the most prescient article I ever read ran in @theatlantic.com in the summer of 2001, describing the CIA's lack of agents on the ground in Afghanistan. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Rubio cancels fellowships to study Eastern European languages. Just a reminder that in the days after 9/11 the FBI was desperately looking to hire translators of Arabic, Pashto, & other languages it had ignored. www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/n...

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The Oded I knew would have told me to look unflinchingly at what we in Israel have suffered—and at the deaths of Palestinians. He would say that the enemy always has faces, & that the way out of the labyrinth depends on seeing them. @afalkhatib.bsky.social‬ @dahliasc.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mua4j6tp

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A must read piece: The Hostage I Knew Oded Lifshitz would have said to look unflinchingly on Israeli and Palestinian pain. By @gershomg.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Oded Lifshitz was the hostage I knew. He came home in a coffin. I listened to his voice, recorded years ago, & heard its demand: to remember even in war we must see the human faces of the other side My latest @theatlantic.com: tinyurl.com/mua4j6tp @lkrozen.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social

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During the telecast of the hostages' bodies returning, I listened instead to my recording of Oded. Uncannily alive, he spoke to me in a gravelly baritone, a matter-of-fact voice of restrained passion. www.theatlantic.com/internationa... @lrozenberg.bsky.social @ishaantharoor.bsky.social

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