Famine Review Committee Alert❗

The FRC has determined that #Famine is currently occurring in Gaza Governorate. Furthermore, the FRC projects Famine thresholds to be crossed in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks.

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Excited to see the @restofworld.org x @contextnewsroom.bsky.social partnership video we produced last year win a Murrow Award for Excellence in Video. www.rtdna.org/2025-nationa...

Watch the film and rest of the series here: restofworld.org/2024/gig-wor...

this is why scientists and scholars of every stripe cannot be silent or stay on the sidelines. There are no more sidelines. Huge swaths of people put their faith in "Grok" and related "AI" for basic knowledge. If there is not a tsunami of resistance then this BS becomes baseline "knowledge."

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

Children's doctors shared their views and frustrations about how child poverty is affecting their patients' health in our new report with @rcpch.bsky.social

'I am fed up of sending children back to homes that are making them sick.'

Historians who work with oral history etc know this effect. It increases significantly around traumatic events, & over multiple retellings, which is one reason testimony around eg the JFK assassination is contradictory. Memory isn’t a record of events; it’s your brain forming a narrative for you.

Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.

“By tracing how ... archaeological objects were taken from their contexts, and where they traveled, we can start to understand how U.S. imperialism jumbles historical landscapes—and contemporary ones.”

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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

When I became an academic, his work continued to inspire me, and specifically his early insistence on seeing and seeking the connected, entangled, permeable nature of cultural matter.

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This week on Wonkhe: International students may be being misled by false promises from recruitment agents. But for Michael Salmon, constant changes to visa terms and post-study work arrangements represent a much deeper deception

How Protest Became a Crime in the UK: "We’re All Arrestables Now"

We’re thrilled that #PENPresents & #PENTranslates award-winner Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq, trans. from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi has won the #InternationalBooker2025, the first work translated from Kannada to appear on the @thebookerprizes.bsky.social shortlist. Congratulations to the winners!

Yo entiendo que hay boicots comerciales que resulta difícil llevar a la práctica. Pero negarse a ver Eurovisión, donde se blanquea a un Estado que está cometiendo crímenes de lesa humanidad, no me parece que implique un gran sacrificio, sinceramente.

The dismantling of the ICC has begun and it won't stop there. When we look back eventually, Israel's genocide in Gaza will have been the last nail in the coffin of the post war liberal order.

Recorded sessions from the Caste as Practice research network are now live on CRASSH's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/playlist?lis....

📍 Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan, May 2025