On Thursday, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights and StandWithUs sued the state of California, its Department of Education, and several school districts, alleging that officials allowed antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students to “fester” in K-12 schools. The lawsuit seeks court-ordered oversight of campus antisemitism and limits on funding for districts that fail to enforce nondiscrimination policies.

Earlier in the week, the Trump administration’s Justice Department filed suit against UCLA, accusing the university of permitting a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli employees following pro-Palestinian encampments in 2024. And at UC Santa Barbara, former student body president Tessa Veksler sued the university, alleging it failed to protect her from antisemitic harassment after she condemned the October 7 attacks.

Against that backdrop, antisemitism was the dominant theme at Thursday’s forum.

Candidates pledged to enforce Assembly Bill 715, a law signed last year aimed at combating antisemitism in K-12 schools, and to ensure its implementation across districts. They denounced the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and affirmed Israel’s right to exist, even as some voiced criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

AB 715 bans the teaching of Palestinian history in schools...

What is also interesting is that advertisements for smoking, and for fossil fuels and fossil technology are often remarkably similar.

For example, ads for cars show a lone man in a shiny verhicle in front of a lonely, desert landscape with a clear, wide sky. Such a breath of fresh air, LOL!

Who would associate such a view with burning forests, cities crowded with traffic jams, flooded communities, children with heavy asthma (produced by NOx emissions from cars, causing photochemical smog), and relatives painfully dying in hospitals from circulatory failure during a heat wave? These ads are everything but enigneered to mislead about the effects of pollution and climate change.

The attack on Iran was “clearly a violation of the ban on the use of force under the UN charter and international law, which is the linchpin of the international order since 1945,” he told Guardian Australia on Sunday.

“Domestic criminal acts like the IRGC’s interference here, of course, are not armed attacks which would somehow justify military self-defence against Iran.

“You may not like Iran, you may not like what it does, but that doesn’t justify an aggressive armed attack on Iran.”

I said as i walked into the Burger King on Mayfield Road in Mayfield Heights, Ohio on July 16th, 2012

Leaders in Damascus, Caracas and now Tehran have all discovered that Russian support only goes so far.

As Tehran was being pounded by U.S. and Israeli bombs on Saturday morning, its top diplomat dialed Moscow’s number.

On the other end of the line, according to an official Russian statement, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offered his Iranian counterpart sympathy and promised his — verbal — support.

Iran, thus, became the latest country after Syria and Venezuela to feel firsthand what partnership with Russia does, and doesn’t, mean.

Since launching its full-scale war in Ukraine four years ago, the Kremlin has flexed its rhetorical muscle as the flag bearer of a so-called multipolar world. But, at decisive moments, its response on the ground in allied nations has been conspicuously anemic as their leaders came under attack.

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Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide.

Read more on: forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

The Norwegian Consumer Council is an independent, governmentally funded organisation that advocates for consumer’s rights. It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day. Consumers have the right to be protected against exploitation – both financially and digitally. To ensure this, we work to provide easy access to information, enforceable rights, and sufficient redress options when something goes wrong.

I've always been under the childlike impression that my tap water is clean clean, but when thinking about it today I realised that it's unlikely that tap water is completely sterile, certainly not by the time it reaches my house through miles of pipes. So, just how unsterile can it be and still pass muster with the local government?

If we accept a certain number of rodent hairs or cockroach shells in each helping of our processed foods, I can only imagine what's considered acceptable when it comes to tap water.

For reference, I'm in N. Ireland, which is, regrettably, the UK. But obviously the island of Ireland is where my water comes from. From this nightmarish swamp, to be precise.

Stay moist, hydrohomos.