3/ We need a stronger common stance on the ongoing humanitarian and security challenges in the Middle East, especially the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the terrible humanitarian situation in Gaza. #MiddleEast #HumanRights #Gaza #IL #PS #JO
Israel is annexing the West Bank. States need to ban trade with settlements. The Financial Times editorial board as well spells out EU and Member States minimal (legal) obligations. Today's meeting needs to address this. https://t.co/G6mJe1ivVn #Israel #WestBank #TradeSanctions #IL #EU
@strakajakub $18B lawsuit settlement - there was supposed to be several weeks of trial - that would show the world on how Meta works internally, with witness testimony prepared from many AGs and states. And they took the easy way out - and its a shame... What was in play was hundreds of #Meta #Lawsuit #Justice #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweet.
Meta's settlement is just a starting point. Governments can use it as leverage while considering the social media ban for minors, as noted by the #FinancialTimes, observing how "when this... (translated)
The Great Feminization, Measured Seventy-two percent of men under thirty hold a positive view of women; among women under thirty, 50% (a 22-point gap). Among women under twenty-five, the share is 35% (a 37-point gap). Where the manosphere and “toxic masculinity” dominate headlines, the data points elsewhere: young women increasingly sort men into the enemy column. The class divide is sharp. Among working-class young women, 61% view men positively; among professional-class women, 36%—a 25-point gap tied to exposure to universities, HR departments, media organizations, and NGOs. The pattern runs through institutional conditioning. Helen Andrews argued this in 2020: between 2015 and 2020 many Western institutions became majority-female, including the New York Times newsroom (2018), law schools (2016), medical schools and the college-educated workforce (2019). Affirmative-action mandates, discrimination settlements, and diversity requirements helped drive the shift. As institutions changed, so did missions: justice increasingly focused on protecting “oppressed” minorities; newsrooms shifted from reporting toward narrative enforcement; universities moved from arguing to “safe spaces.” The result is a “daycare governance model”: infants to be protected (the oppressed), caregivers to provide protection (the allies), and predators to be removed (the dissenters). Research shows the same frame in speech: FIRE’s 2026 college speech rankings found women less tolerant than men across ideologies, including less tolerance for their allies. A woman entering kindergarten in 2005 has spent twenty years inside this system—she didn’t invent it, she inherited it. The 35% figure suggests sorting into victim, ally, and predator, with no grey zones. Working-class women, less conditioned by these pipelines, still view men positively (61–36). None of this is entirely new; Gustave Le Bon described the mechanism in 1895.
The Belyaev Fox Experiment: Selective Breeding, Tameness, and Domestication In 1959, Soviet geneticist Dmitry Belyaev began a long-term experiment at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk to investigate how wild animals might undergo domestication. Working with silver foxes (*Vulpes vulpes*) from fur farms, he selected approximately the tamest 10% in each generation as breeding parents. Selection focused mainly on behaviour—reduced fear and aggression and greater willingness to interact with humans—rather than on physical traits. The results were rapid and striking. Within about six generations, some foxes licked researchers’ hands, accepted physical contact, wagged their tails, and actively sought human attention (Dugatkin, 2018). Over time, selection for tameness was accompanied by changes in coat pigmentation, ear and tail shape, reproductive patterns, physiology, and behaviour (Trut et al., 2009). These traits resembled features found in domestic dogs and other domesticated mammals and became associated with the “domestication syndrome,” which includes reduced aggression, increased social tolerance, juvenile behaviours, pigmentation changes, and altered craniofacial development. Belyaev proposed that selection for reduced fear and aggression could affect wider developmental and physiological systems. Later research suggested that changes involving neural crest cells might help explain how behavioural selection could produce multiple physical traits (Wilkins et al., 2014). The experiment also offered a model for dog domestication. Early wolves that were less fearful and aggressive may have remained near human settlements, where they experienced a new selective environment. Over generations, increasing tolerance of humans could have led to further behavioural, physiological, and morphological changes. Belyaev’s experiment remains important because it shows how behavioural selection can rapidly influence development, genetics, and evolution, while also highlighting the need for caution when applying the concept of a universal domestication syndrome. **References:** Belyaev (1979); Dugatkin (2018); Lord et al. (2020); Trut et al. (2009); Wilkins et al. (2014).
Sweden aligns with this statement. The Israeli government should immediately retract the E1 plans and end all settlement activity, which are illegal under international law and undermine the two-state solution. https://t.co/MkgFr1NWXF #Israel #Palestine #InternationalLaw #SE #IL
A welcome move. A sign of increasing international frustration with Israel’s current government. The settlements have become a real bone of contention even for countries traditionally highly supportive of Israel. 👇 #Israel #Settlements #InternationalRelations #IL #US
Internal migration leaves Kazakhstan villages empty — Its population dropping from 10,000 people to just 216, the village of Zaozerny is one of hundreds of rural settlements in Kazakhstan hollowed out by waves of migration to the country’s ever-expanding cities #Kazakhstan #InternalMigration #RuralDepopulation #KZ
POTUS is mistaken if he believes concerns about the provisions in his tax lawsuit settlement are limited to me and Senator Tillis
During my visit to Cyprus, I heard from many Cypriots. Their message was clear: they want a future defined by cooperation, opportunity & peace. The @UN remains fully committed to supporting a process towards a settlement of the Cyprus issue based on dialogue, respect & good #Cyprus #Peace #Cooperation #CY
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to a $5.5 billion settlement to resolve longstanding lawsuits alleging that its talcum powder products caused cancer, marking a significant step in addressing over 76,000 claims related to the controversial product. #JohnsonAndJohnson #Babypuder #Vergleich
Our fourth @JungNaiv interview from our trip to Israel & Palestine: Yisrael Medad, Jewish settler in the illegaly occupied Westbank talks to me about the future of his settlement, peace with Palestinians, International law and voting for Netanyahu https://t.co/CwlxdSqq7W https://t.co/8BidOeZN4V #Israel #Palestine #WestBank #IL #PS
