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#NewsMap The Ukrainian Army cleared four settlements of Russian infiltrators and liberated #Serednie in Donetsk oblast. Different from over-optimistic maps, Brigadier General Andrii Biletskyi did NOT confirm the liberation of Shandryholove and four other eastern settlements. https://t.co/niUSSoli7V #Ukraine #Donetsk #MilitaryNews #UA #RU

I accuse settler terrorists of ethnic cleansing in areas of the West Bank; I do not believe the British people want us supporting the occupation by accepting products from settlements in our shops and supermarkets; from today we are bringing in an import ban on goods from illegal settlements in the occupied territories.

I say Paris has taken the decision to enforce the sanctions because the West Bank is on the brink of explosion. I denounce unchecked expansion of settlements in violation of international law, a surge in violence committed by extremist settlers against Palestinians, and acts of terror condemned by the Israeli authorities themselves.

This is a welcomed step and that the UK is aiming to "target those who finance, facilitate or construct new settlements" is really good news. These settlements are illegal under international law and every state should take action to make it difficult to continue to do that. #InternationalLaw #Settlements #HumanRights #UK

I will continue to push for the EU to prohibit trade with settlements in line with its obligations under international law. We are working closely with our international partners to protect the two-State solution, which is the only realistic path to a peaceful settlement. #EU #InternationalLaw #TwoStateSolution #EU

More and more countries are committing to taking action on trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. I welcome today’s announcement by the UK, France and a number of other countries, adding to the measures already taken by Ireland and Spain. https://t.co/Kk741UCgDW #IsraeliSettlements #Palestine #TradeSanctions #UK #FR #IE #ES

✅ Sustainable energy: hybrid renewable systems for remote settlements, making electricity more affordable and reliable. ✅ Digital connectivity: better internet and mobile connections, including in some of Greenland’s most remote communities. https://t.co/4Twby3VfnX #SustainableEnergy #DigitalConnectivity #RenewableEnergy #GL

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

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).

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

My appeal to the member countries of the Security Council: Summon the spirit of compromise that is essential to peace. Keep the channels of dialogue open. And spare no effort in the pursuit of peaceful settlements of disputes — a founding principle of the @UN. https://t.co/DZS9x6dpTI #Peace #Dialogue #SecurityCouncil #UN

Today marks an important step as the Israeli Settlements Bill completed its passage through the Oireachtas. This legislation reaffirms Ireland's commitment to international law, human rights and a just and lasting peace based on a negotiated two-State solution. https://t.co/OMDfMUJiZt #IrishPolitics #HumanRights #TwoStateSolution #IE #IL