Google wants you to believe that if they pay money directly to news publishers (with the explicit purpose of that money going to pay for the salaries of journalists) that will 'create more ghost papers.'

This is a scare tactic, but it's not a very good one.

Here is a thread of wild reactions to OJ Simpson death. Wild comments.

this was the cover of the constitution of Tocantins (one of the states of Brazil) until one year ago

Unlike Guernica, which dared to publish an essay by an Israeli whose only fault was the passport she carried, nobody will resign from Verso for this, no essay will be taken down, no one will offer a “fulsome explanation”, nobody will bat an eye

Some famous professor in Geneva, New York wrote an article, duly published by Verso, as to why killing civilians is great & how she was so excited about 10/7.

What else is new? For these bored folks, we, the people of Middle East, only exist as subjects of their fantasies

The eight most terrifying words in the English language are 'There are like a million TikToks on this'.

A look at the gender breakdown of the U.S. CEOs who met with Xi Jinping in Beijing last week....
Aaron Mc Nicholas

🧵 On Nazi 'efficiency'

It's a good point!

I can speak mainly from the perspective of the Holocaust but I can give a few examples here:

OPINION: Tehran’s ongoing attempts to dominate the Wider Persian Gulf are spreading far beyond Gaza. trib.al/BB8ATgO

Three mariners were rescued from a remote atoll in the Pacific on Tuesday after a U.S. Navy plane spotted a sign reading “HELP” that the stranded men had built on a beach with palm fronds.
trib.al/P3w2hBz

The biggest problem with this video is you have law students about to graduate Berkeley Law who think they have a 1A right to protest in someone else's private backyard.

It’s a big deal, as ⁦Daniel W. Drezner writes, that our Congress is increasingly devoid of foreign policy experience, ⁩understanding, and ideas… The Waning of Congressional Expertise in Foreign Policy danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-waning-o…