Important piece. Antisemitism is a real problem & always evil. But no matter what the propagandists say, the massive decline in global support for the nation-state of Israel is clearly a result of its disproportional, belligerent, murderous conduct since Oct 7. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Israel was told ‘you are not alone’ – but year of war has left it isolated

For many Israelis, the shedding of support since 7 October attack has revived a belief that they cannot rely on others

When it's depressing to read the news about your own university

starting my morning off right in the restaurant car

Russian troops executed 16 Ukrainian POWs in towns outside Pokrovsk, says Ukraine’s Prosecutor General. Footage circulating online shows prisoners lining up and being shot, with wounded POWs being “finished off.” t.me/pgo_gov_ua/26457

As they say in Russian, it would be funny if it wasn’t so sad

Kulikov, Kyrgyzstan's #1 pastry chain, has now opened a branch in Houston, Texas www.kulikovusa.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Ich habe eine ganze Kolumne geschrieben, die sich durch dieses eine Meme ersetzen lässt.

Like there’s an assumption among many well-meaning leftists I know that Ukraine is getting the best and latest Western weaponry and a blank check of military support, which….just isn’t actually true

There’s also a complete aversion on the left in understanding how the military functions, the nitty-gritty details of arms shipments and their subsequent use. I hate war/weapons as much as anybody else on the left, but I have come to the conclusion that it’s important to try to understand

I've got a very broad Twitter TL, politically speaking, and it's got perfect symmetry rn. Left-wing accounts insisting the government won't rescue western NC bc it spent all the $ on Israel, right-wing accounts insisting the government won't rescue western NC bc it spent all the $ on Ukraine.