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If you’re going to hold someone down you’re going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

-Toni Morrison

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

-W. E. B. Du Bois

One of Musk’s DOGE bros explains how he flagged “DEI” grants for termination

Do not bless all the changes; change must be progressive; if not, we must not call it as change; the correct name is deterioration or decaying! Beware of the changes! Any change which is not progressive is just a rotting!

-Mehmet Murat Ildan

Capables de cartographier des milliers de kilomètres carrés, les corbeaux ne sont pas les perdreaux de l’année

© Libération
March 13, 2026

Ceux qui pensaient qu’ils avaient une cervelle de moineau peuvent se rhabiller. Charognards opportunistes, les corbeaux ne font pas que suivre les prédateurs, mais cartographient et mémorisent les endroits où sont attaquées les proies, a avancé jeudi 12 mars une équipe de chercheurs internationaux. Dans une étude publiée par la revue Science, ils montrent que les corvidés mobilisent des capacités de navigation et de mémoire spatiale sophistiquées pour parvenir à leurs fins.

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I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits.

-Albert Einstein

Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of Gaza detainee abuse

Emma Graham-Harrison © The Guardian
March 12, 2026

Israel’s top military lawyer has dropped all charges against five soldiers accused of the violent abuse and rape of a Palestinian detainee from Gaza.

The military advocate general, Itay Offir, said prosecutors lacked key evidence after the victim was sent back to Gaza, and that the conduct of senior officials had affected the chance of holding a fair trial.

Medical records show the detainee was taken to hospital in the summer of 2024 with injuries including broken ribs, a punctured lung and rectal damage, according to Israeli media reports on the indictment.

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