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Hala Jaber @HalaJaber 🚨BREAKING | Israeli shells struck the Nepali battalion headquarters of UNIFIL in Mays Al-Jabal, southern Lebanon, wounding several peacekeepers & setting parts of the compound on fire. The Nepalese consulate in Beirut confirmed & condemned the attack targeting the Nepali battalion headquarters within the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Not even UN peacekeepers are spared from Israeli strikes.

🔴 Israel shells struck and wounded UNIFIL peacemakers in southern Lebanon:

For Batoul Hamdan and her two children, seven-month-old Fatima and Jihad, three, Monday’s iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, was special. For a week, they had eaten to the sounds of bombs in their home in Arab Salim. Hamdan eventually decided to leave for Al-Nimiriya, the sleepy town where she had grown up. Surrounded by her parents and siblings in the family home, she hoped they could finally enjoy the festive mood of Ramadan. They had just finished their meal when the bomb fell. The Israeli airstrike collapsed the two-storey building instantly, killing all eight members of the Hamdan family: grandparents Ahmad and Najib, their children, including Batoul, and grandchildren Fatima and Jihad – three generations wiped out in a moment. On Thursday, only snarled rebar and broken concrete remained of the Hamdan family home. The fragments of their lives – a certificate of achievement from the children’s schooldays, cutlery from their cabinet, frayed purses – had been ejected by the force of the blast and now littered the ground. “There was no warning before the strike. My own two kids started to cry, I picked them up and started to run away from the explosion when it happened,” said Qassem Ayoub, a neighbour and town police officer, as he stared at the wreckage. “Why were they targeted? I don’t know, ask the Israelis.”

Israel's campaign of murderous ethnic cleansing and genocide continues in Lebanon. How can any human hand-wring about this? The 'both sides' are the side of life and the side of death.

Israel is obsessed with mass-murdering children and they must be stopped

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Tell Wegmans Food Markets to Stop Supporting an Institute that Has Paid to Suffocate, Sicken, and Slice Open Animals | PETA Urge Wegmans Food Markets to restrict its funding to the Food Research Institute’s non-animal research fund and join PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program.

Tell Wegmans Food Markets to restrict its funding to the Food Research Institute’s non-animal research fund👇

This is the hidden reality behind a slice of bacon. 🥓

👉 See how you can help pigs: https://veganfta.com/resource-hub/pigs/ 🐷

Clip from vivacharity (IG)

#pigs #animalrights #farming #animals #govegan

Everything about him is awful, but I don't understand why, if he wants to come across as an aggro tough guy, he doesn't do something about that grating high-pitched whiny voice.

Help Countless Monkeys and Other Primates Now One page, multiple opportunities to help monkeys and other primates used in experiments and for entertainment. Complete these PETA action alerts today.

Despite decades of promises & hundreds of thousands of dead monkeys, primate experiments haven’t resulted in effective vaccines for HIV, malaria, or other human illnesses.
 
Urge NIH to stop using monkeys in HIV research! www.peta.vg/46ir

each of those is $1.3 million-$2.2 million depending on what's included in the estimate so X20 in less than 15 seconds there goes the healthcare, education, housing, research and art we couldn't find any way to pay for

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.

I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.

The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.

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Trump’s DHS Nominee Made Profitable Stock Purchases Days Before US Military Strikes As a member of a key Senate committee, Mullin was privy to information regarding planned military actions.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin — Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security — profited from stocks in oil and security companies that he invested in just days before U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and Iran.

Insurrectionist Brunch: Trumpists plotted to deploy military on U.S. soil Before the 2024 election, a cadre of MAGA loyalists met over brunch to plot ways for Trump to use the military domestically.

This is just astonishingly great reporting.

All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.

And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

You should also just read the article on disability dongles. The framework it lays out could be valuable for pushing back against a wide array of proposed "AI" use cases.

Once on a panel for a professional conference, someone asked me if technology gives me hope for access.

I said let’s get ramps on every building first, and the tech bro manager was PISSED. People want to believe that they invented the answer to systemic issues…without understanding the issues.

Street scene of people, street signs and traffic lights in foreground of main City College of San Francisco Downtown Center campus building

City College of S.F. to Close Downtown Center Campus https://bit.ly/4bddAJX

Please can you help us reach our fundraising goal? We’re at 76%!

These funds will pay for much-needed hay that has more than doubled in the UK hay shortage crisis

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Please share! Thank you so much 💚

#animalsanctuary

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

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

OpenAI diagram about its educational research workflow.

Here is how OpenAI is reimagining educational research. It's basically GPT accesses all student records and "over-time signals" for constant tracking. It's total student surveillance for its model improvement.

Ecocide.

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

That means hundreds of millions more people worldwide are already living dangerously closer to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated. More information: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c... (gift).

Study published in "Nature": www.nature.com/articles/s41...? 🌎

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Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

gonna be so cool to watch the government try to explain and implement gas rationing by odd-even days to 2026 America

Dying #chicks … for #Easter…is cruel. The dye can make chicks sick and most will be dumped once they are no longer “cute” colorful chicks…

#AnimalsAreNotForOurEntertainment

Tweet from Paula Scanlan that reads, "the number of people I still see wearing face masks in the year 2026 is genuinely concerning" Tweet from Jerome Adams that reads, "Why do you care? Honestly asking. I thought the original mantra was “to each their own.” It sounds like you’re wanting to impose your priorities/belief systems on others while saying they shouldn’t impose theirs on you? What am I missing? Also, beyond Covid – many people have found wearing a mask, has lowered their allergy symptoms- and pollen counts are rising this time of year. And Asian cultures have worn masks for years – are you bothered by Asians? Again honestly asking. 🤷🏽‍♂️"

Appreciate former Sugreon General Jerome Adams pushing back on anti-mask sentiment on Twitter/X

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Jesus, I had no idea. These things are such a blight.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

if a tv show did this bit today people would complain it's unfairly mean to republicans

I'm reminded of Jean Baudrillard's 1991 "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place." Yet again.
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