In less than a year, Mamdani went from Free Palestine to aligning with every possible politician and leader the Palestinian movement has demanded accountability from.

We didnt engage in one major war where we fired first btw

Gaza’s Greek Orthodox Church held funeral services today for Maysa Daoud and her daughter, Mary, who were killed while sleeping when an Israeli strike hit their apartment in western Gaza City, according to Gaza’s Civil Defense. Civil Defence said five civilians, including three women and a child, were killed in the strike, and shared footage of its crews joining members of Gaza’s Christian community at the funeral for the victims.

1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal. usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

⭕️ Jared Kushner's investment firm is the largest shareholder in an Israeli financial company with at least $456 million invested in nine firms supplying Israel's military, CNN reports. Kushner's Affinity Partners holds a 7.4% stake in Phoenix Financial, worth over $1 billion. Phoenix's holdings include: 
➤ $265 million in Elbit Systems, Israel's largest arms maker 
➤ $40 million in Reshef Technologies, which makes fuzes for shells used in Gaza 
➤ $68 million in Next Vision, which makes cameras for military drones ➤ Phoenix also holds stakes in Caterpillar, whose D9 bulldozers are used by the Israeli military to ethnically cleanse communities in Gaza (as well as other parts of occupied Palestine and Lebanon), and in Israel Shipyards, a key Israeli Navy supplier. Kushner sits on the Board of Peace overseeing Gaza. In August, after Hamas accepted a Board of Peace disarmament roadmap, Gaza saw its first week-long lull in new killings since October 2023. Kushner then met Netanyahu in Jerusalem, who showed him public opinion polls finding most Israelis want strikes in Gaza to continue, Axios reported. The talks ended with Kushner giving Israel a “green light” to keep striking Gaza, Haaretz reported. Israel has killed more than 200 Palestinians since. Kushner said last year he meets Phoenix's leadership every few weeks. The White House called the conflict-of-interest concerns a "tired narrative."

The Westphalian Peace Prize was awarded to NATO, while members of the public booed Mark Rutte and Friedrich Merz. Europe seems to be drifting into a political legitimacy crisis, and giving themselves peace prizes does not reverse it.

Finisht de Formule 1 dit jaar in Abu Dhabi, of in Italië? Door de oorlog in Iran is dat onduidelijk. Die oorlog leidt ook dit weekend tot een bizarre situatie, met een grand prix die min of meer in twee landen tegelijk plaatsvindt. nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/01/nu-…

Een kleine minderheid is bereid het leven op aarde te vernietigen om zijn kapitaal en militaire macht uit te breiden, concludeert Willem Schinkel. De filosofie van Franciscus van Assisi biedt tegenwicht. nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/10/01/zel…

Genoeg over wie wint en wie verliest. Kunnen we alsjeblieft een keer serieus naar een kiesdrempel gaan kijken? De eindeloze parade aan splinterpartijen maakt regeren schier onmogelijk. #peilingen

The probability that Claude is conscious is the same as the probability that Anna Karenina is conscious. Zero. Period. But inviting religious scholars to a series of meetings to instil the idea that Claude might be conscious and deserve moral status is not just wrong. If it were merely wrong, we would all be laughing at it. The problem is that it is very dangerous. Because granting AIs moral standing opens the door to trade-offs between human lives and AI “welfare”. Assign each AI even a tiny moral weight and add those weights across enough copies: you can end up justifying the sacrifice of human lives for machines. We should strongly push back against the idea that Claude might be conscious.