Very proud to see #TheGoldenRoad on this shortlist Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation Announce Shortlists for the 2026 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project | Columbia Journalism School share.google/XsdMGbkBOH8KxEI…

The Song of the Banyan Tree @jasonsinghthing, the Mozart (or maybe Brian Eno) of Biosonfication, attaches electrodes to our banyan tree to record its biofeedback and turn into a soundtrack for @oliviafraserart's new British Council @inbritish show, A Journey Within, opening Thursday

No thanks!!!! We in Greenland 🇬🇱 are healthy and doing well, sustained by our own traditional foods — including seal blubber, which is rich in vitamins and nutrients that have kept our population strong for generations. Instead, you may want to focus on the internal challenges in the United States, where many citizens are in need of healthcare and cannot afford necessary treatment!

Giant Buddha, Bamiyan, Afghanistan, 1931. Doesn't exist anymore, the Taliban regime blew it up in 2001.... For more than fifteen centuries, the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan stood carved into the sandstone cliffs of central Afghanistan, towering over a valley that was once a vital stop along the Silk Road. Created in the 6th century, the statues reflected a time when Buddhism flourished in the region and traders, pilgrims, and travelers moved between India, Central Asia, and China, exchanging not only goods but ideas, art, and culture. The larger of the two figures stood about 180 feet tall, while the smaller reached nearly 125 feet. They were not simply carved from solid rock. Artisans shaped the cliff face, then added layers of mud plaster, painted details, and even wooden supports to create flowing robes and lifelike features. At one time, the statues were brightly colored and decorated, visible from miles away across the valley. By the modern era, the Buddhas had become one of the most important cultural and archaeological landmarks in the world, recognized as symbols of Afghanistan’s deep and diverse history. In March 2001, the Taliban ordered their destruction, declaring the statues un-Islamic. Despite international protests and diplomatic appeals, explosives and artillery were used over several weeks to reduce the ancient monuments to rubble. The loss was widely condemned as one of the most significant acts of cultural destruction in modern history. Today, the empty niches remain, silent reminders of both the region’s rich past and the fragility of cultural heritage in times of conflict. In recent years, archaeologists have discovered traces of what may have been the world’s largest reclining Buddha buried nearby, suggesting the Bamiyan complex was even more extensive than previously believed. #archaeohistories

This is not the first time Israel has starved the people of Gaza to death. After the Nakba, Gaza's population tripled almost overnight as roughly 200,000 refugees arrived from villages in what became the State of Israel. Before organized aid arrived, refugees were living on less than 600 calories a day. By mid-December 1948, only about half of the refugees were receiving even a basic flour ration. Israel would not let them return to their homes and preferred to see them freeze or starve to death, offering no aid. People starved to death. One survivor remembered, "In those first months, we ate boiled weeds, pieces of bread to feed 10 people, anything that could keep the children alive until the next morning." Infants and children were the most vulnerable to the combination of malnutrition and exposure to the cold. Meanwhile, the lack of clean water and sanitation in the makeshift camps led to widespread disease, which, compounded by starvation, significantly increased the death rate. In response to this deprivation UNRWA was established in 1949 specifically to provide food aid, including flour, lentils, and milk powder. Today Israel will not let it operate as it starves the people of Gaza again.

For me, he is just a neighbor in Jerusalem who represents the most powerful nation on earth and is hoarding kerosene and matches, waiting for his moment. Local talent.

Because “respected” mainstream news anchors like @jaketapper and @DanaBashCNN have spent more than 2 years parroting Israeli talking points and demonizing or ignoring pro-Palestinian voices, we now have to depend on people like Tucker Carlson to offer basic journalistic pushback.

Nearly 40,000 children in Gaza are facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe after losing one or both parents, in what UNICEF has described as the largest orphan crisis in modern history. trib.al/tLT9o7v

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@DalrympleWill and @tweeter_anita are joined by Simon Goldhill, Professor in Greek Literature and Culture at King's College, Cambridge, to discuss whether Homer wrote History… Listen or watch now wherever you get your podcasts linktr.ee/empirepoduk

🏺NEW EPISODE🏺 Did Homer Write History? The legendary ancient Greek poet, Homer, is a key source to our understanding of the Bronze Age Collapse, but did a single genius named Homer even exist?

Did you know that God originally had a wife...? 🤔 @DalrympleWill and Josephine Quinn break it down...

No! We do not teach our children to kill. We teach them to live

Imagine taking a vacation abroad & being disappeared to a jail for 40 days for no reason. That’s what this Admin is doing to foreign tourists. It's outrageous & hurting our businesses.  When will other nations start holding the Admin accountable for mistreating their citizens? theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Remarkable that a US Amb can effectively call for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians- many presumably into Jordan- right as US is filling its bases in Jordan with materiel, a key country for defence in a war with Iran and as Trump is supposedly pushing for stabilisation of Gaza

Footage shows Israeli national team player Yarden Shua alongside Beitar Jerusalem fans chanting ‘Death to Arabs.’ And yet Israelis claim that Arabs live ‘normally’ under occupation while being subjected to daily threats and violence. Will you do anything @FIFAcom @ISRAELFA?

Pretty incredible. This candidate went to the West Bank to see the violence of the occupation herself. And Israeli settlers — apparently flanked by a soldier — immediately showed it to her by throwing eggs at her as she walked with an ex-soldier, a priest, and Jewish activists:

Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is becoming a government sponsored epidemic. x.com/AJEnglish/status/20252…

New York Times ran multiple articles on the statements of random Columbia University students about Israel but so far hasn’t run a single story about the US Ambassador saying Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria have no right to exist and Israel has a divine right to take them over

RT @RamAbdu: A terrifying CNN report reveals how Israel buried hundreds of starving Palestinians. “Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves —…

While parts of the MAGA right increasingly view Israel with suspicion -- supporting genocide can be unpopular -- some Christian evangelicals still offer twisted religious justifications for closing their eyes to Israel's severe repression of Palestinians. trib.al/S3iuxDm