The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin
has provoked international outrage
after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday.
Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers
and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions.
They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garag…
The International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science becomes a permanent institution in Göttingen and Braunschweig
The Solar System School, the joint graduate school of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University of Göttingen, and the Technical University of Braunschweig, is now a permanent fixture in doctoral training in Göttingen and Braunschweig. The Max Planck Society will continue the International Max Planck Research School for Solar Syste…
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The Sabines, since they had long been at war with the Ombrikoi, vowed to dedicate everything that was produced that year; and, on winning the victory, they partly sacrificed & partly dedicated all that was produced; then a dearth ensued, and [...] devoted to Ares all the children born that year."
Strabo, Geography 5.4.12
🏛 Relief on the Basis Decennalia of a column, Forum Romanum
Google, which is happy to answer all kinds of questions using their AI, seems to answer with a mix of non-committal results, a few current ones, and plenty outdated results for "who has the majority in the house" and similar questions.
Are you getting better results?
EDIT: I get reports from people that they get better results
#uspol
Trickle-down ‘theory’ was never serious science;
it was always a rhetorical mask for a more straightforward goal:
making the rich richer.
On that front, when we take the stated goal of enriching the wealthy at face value,
suddenly the evidence makes sense.
Across states, the relative income of the richest Americans scales consistently with Republican politics.
So it seems that despite the trickle-down charade, the plutocracy was always the point.
The Trump administration has sought to punish its enemies through mortgage fraud investigations overseen by the Federal Housing Finance Agency
and through criminal probes that Trump personally demanded the attorney general pursue.
Enlisting the Pentagon in this effort poses a unique threat to American democracy, according to historians, retired military officers and legal experts.
Long-standing taboos against using the armed forces to further a president’s political machi…