I only object to one thing in what he says:

“We can protect LGBTQ rights and basic human rights at the same time…"

They’re the same thing. It’s not like some people’s rights are an optional extra. Either everyone has basic rights or no one does. And that’s why it should be central to the political platform: abandoning it is abandoning your commitment to basic human rights, which should be pretty foundational.

Yair Golan, a left-wing politician and former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), sparked outrage on Monday when he said: "Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country.

“A sane state does not wage war against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the goal of depopulating the population,” he told Israeli public radio’s popular morning news programme.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back, describing the comments as “blood libel”.

Fuck Netanyahu and his cynical exploitation of “antisemitism” accusations for his own murderous ends. The thing that made the blood libel libellous, and the accusation antisemitic, was that the people accused weren’t killing babies, and they were accused because they were Jews. It’s not blood libel to point out the fact that the IDF, under Netanyahu, kills children without a second thought every day.

The Department of Homeland Security said it revoked Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification because the private school’s leadership “has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment.”

“Many of these agitators are foreign students,” DHS said.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who ordered the revocation, said, “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”

We know that’s all a pack of lies. These fascists pick their enemies, then pick the lies to pursue them with.

Hyperrealist artists paint this kind of thing all the time. It’s quite possible to paint this using actual paints.

More specifically, to hurt and kill those they judge to be weak.

Before prostate cancer gets stage 12 Donald Trump, you mean.

Under Biden the USA wasn’t just letting the genocide happen. It was providing the weaponry to enable it. Harris didn’t distance herself from any of Biden’s policies, so both candidates were active supporters of the genocide. That’s not to say they were equally bad. The USA would still have been better off without gloves-off fascism at home and alienating all its allies through aggressive, nonsensical and incompetent foreign and economic policy.

Knowing how Israel operates, they probably just missed.

Just to be clear, this “white genocide” in South Africa is entirely fictitious. It’s not even an exaggeration of some small trend. The rate at which white people are killed in South Africa is no higher than for other population groups.

And yet, on the basis of this racist fiction, Trump’s regime is giving “asylum” to white South Africans.

Just fly him to a remote island and leave him there. Maybe the one with the penguins who pay tariffs.

I suspect Trudeau winning the handshake-wrestle is one reason Trump wants to crush Canada now.

Given how basic and severe the security failings were in TeleMessage, I’m not sure this can really be called stealing.

I know journalists need to get people’s attention, but I wish all these stories about the closure of one of the USA’s leading science institutions didn’t have to go so hard on the angle of “it’s above a diner that was in Seinfeld.”

Republicans are going to kill so many of us with their absolute dedication to greed and stupidity.

Oh it won’t be a general principle that the government should help people. It should help when, and only when, not doing so would make Josh Hawley look bad.

This would also create employment, to which the current regime is also actively hostile.

It seems to be true. A number of sites have photos.

Some Copilot functions are done locally on some computers with the appropriate NPU chips. But it’s Microsoft, so they’ll be sending data home either way.

Most people don’t realize how slow Windows is. When you try something else, you realize how much time you have been spending just waiting for Windows to do things. Our computers can be a lot faster than Windows lets them be.

Some senior exec at Microsoft asked for this.