We're in a good ol' fashioned quagmire!
13.03.2026 15:44
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We're in a good ol' fashioned quagmire!
A significant line crossed there.
World Cups have been hosted by some grim regimes in the past.
But this is the first time a team which has qualified has been told to stay away by hosts who won't guarantee their safety.
The competitive integrity of the tournament already in tatters.
The abusers, interviewed today on Israel's public channel
Antisemitism in America does not justify apartheid in Israel, apartheid is Israel does not justify antisemitism in America, a very simple concept that people seem to have a lot of trouble grasping.
Kaschuta describes the New Right as a sort of "masculine cargo cult": Masculinity is in abeyance in the broader culture, but, the movement believes, if they all say the right things, adopt the right postures and politics, the manliness and status that are their birthright will return and life will be good again. Within this fantasy, Kaschuta says, misogyny has the structure of antisemitism. Like the Jewish person, the modern woman is simultaneously wretched and all-powerful, feeble and defective and responsible for everything wrong in the world. "There is this feeling," she says, "that women are inferior and intellectually incapable, that they should be relegated to care work but, at the same time, that they have this horrible, total agency over the world and that they work in mysterious ways to warp the culture."
Astute
nymag.com/intelligence...
“A person can know enough from reading books to make judgement calls about these things without traditional education”
“What books have you read?”
“There were no books.”
Headlong into ethnonationalism
Reminder that this wasn't just an accusation, this was captured on film
There's so much to unpack in the words of the Israeli Defense Minister here... the use of "blood libel" to describe specific actions caught on camera by specific IDF soldiers, and his open admission that the IDF legal system is designed to protect IDF soldiers, not prosecute them where necessary.
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
Tweet from Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: Justice has been done. I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them. This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled. The role of the IDF's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas. I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path.
The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.
Apocalyptic scenes following a deadly Israeli airstrike which targeted a building at the entrance to the village of Maarakeh, southern Lebanon. Several casualties, QNN reports
"The detainee underwent surgery for a perforated rectum and was released back to Sde Teiman days later.
The military’s top legal official acknowledged authorizing the leak of the video to the TV station, and she resigned."
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"
The 3 genders
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire,
A king on a sumptuous, much elaborated throne; in one hand he holds a sceptre of office, in the other, the leashes for two fierce stone dogs that guard the throne. The king's head has been replaced with a character who was used as the basis for MAD Magazine's Alfred E Neumann. The new head sports a conical dunce cap. Behind the king is a large group of 1960s business men, seated and standing, in conservative suits. The background is the view from the 80th floor of World Trade Center 3. The floor has been carpeted in sumptuous tabriz from the Ottoman court. Image: Aude (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:80th_floor_of_3_World_Trade_Center_-_OHNY.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/a...
#Pluralistic
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Tommy Robinson is writing for Jerusalem Post, and that makes some people uncomfortable - opinion When journalism abandons the debate over ideas and focuses instead on policing who is permitted to speak, the search for truth quietly gives way to the enforcement of acceptable opinion. Tommy Robinson wears a UTK logo ("Unite The Kingdom") on his clothes as he is seen at a rally in solidarity with protesters in Iran on January 11, 2026 in London, England.
ByTOMMY ROBINSON MARCH 8, 2026 18:30
Robinson had previously tried to address “the Jewish Question” in a 2022 article which he deleted shortly afterwards. He divided the Jews into two types – acceptable ones and disreputable ones. He particularly had it in for the Anti-Defamation League – in his eyes a cesspit of Jewish liberalism and subversion internationally.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They're platforming an ACTUAL NAZI NOW
I'm laughing to keep from screaming
Or alternatively this is creative oil price management just before a final wave of big strikes
We exist in a meme stock economy in case some of you haven’t realized that yet.
25+ years derelict. In Dublin City Council ownership since 2019. No funding from the Department of Housing to rebuild.
The two derelict houses on 19 & 21 Connaught Street have been abandoned by the state. They're now structurally compromised and a risk to the neighbouring houses on the terrace.
If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli forces of using white phosphorus incendiary shells in strikes on residential areas in a Lebanese village in violation of international law. https://to.pbs.org/46RZQDf
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
In all, six Palestinian civilians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran just over a week ago, in what appears to be an intensification of settler violence while worldwide attention is focused elsewhere.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/w...
just before Christmas, I wrote about how CitizenGo – a far right group funded by international dark money – tried to interfere in the Irish presidential election
yesterday, they had a stall at the Aontú Ard Fheis
www.ontheditch.com/the-foreign-...
They are probably laughing at us.
Israel has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian women and girls in its genocidal war on Gaza.
On International Women's Day, we look at the number of women and girls Israel killed in Gaza in 2025.
#Infograph
What's going on in Israel re: propaganda, so ppl know:
Was talking to family there this AM & they had TV on. It was reported to me (w/eyeroll) that there was a segment on "what a tough masculine hottie" Hegseth is, "with the tattoos and everything."
"Did they mention the Nazi tattoo?"
"What?!?"
They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175
Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...
