Luca Badini Confalonieri

Director of research at the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research.
E: [email protected]

[Luca Badini Confalonieri @luca_badini]

"Same-sex relationships can be as life-giving and blessed as their heterosexual counterparts. They can fulfil one or more of human sexuality’s non-conceptive meanings, including pleasure, love, comfort, celebration, friendship, and companionship." 👇

[PinkNews @PinkNews]

Bible passages justifying homophobia have been woefully 'misinterpreted', damning study finds https://t.co/JAOmXjVIHD

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Elon, I can give you many, many names of people who have died because of your aid cuts.:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because you stopped paying for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of your cuts in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after you interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when you cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to him.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge you: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

The UN couldn't print the names of Palestinian children murdered and maimed by Israel.

Why?

Because they feared Israel would respond by killing and maiming the families of the children.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

Key Papal adviser and leading Curial cardinal @Tuchofernandez tells cardinals in consistory that Israel’s action in Gaza/Lebanon is aimed at “total destruction”.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Physicists from Austria and Germany have found a major clue to what makes “strange metals” so strange.

Strange metals are not materials themselves. The name refers to a quantum state which occurs in some metals at low temperature, where they violate the textbook rule that the resistance of a metal should rise with temperature squared. In a strange metal, the resistance often rises in direct proportion to temperature, which suggests that the electrons have stopped behaving like well-defined particles. Strange metals are interesting not just because it’s a curious phenomenon but also because the strange metal state often goes together with high temperature superconductivity.

The researchers have now found evidence that a strange metal is a deeply entangled quantum state. They cooled a material known to have a strange metal state to 60 millikelvin, fired a beam of cold neutrons at it, and measured how the scattered neutrons changed energy. From the results, they calculated how many parts of the material are acting together quantum-mechanically. As the strange metal formed, this number rose by almost a factor of 40! This is a big step on our way to understand the “strange” quantum states of matter.

Image: TU Wien / Harald Ritsch

[Piers Morgan Uncensored @PiersUncensored]

"That was meticulously fact-checked..."

New York Times journalist tells Piers Morgan why he 'stands by' his piece on the rape of Palestinian prisoners.

Watch more 👇

📺 https://t.co/VKsYjaEG4S

@piersmorgan | @NickKristof

[Brían Tríagain @BTriagain]

Kincora (Brits kidnapping little Irish boys for their royals and loyalist friends to rape) was Britain's Epstein files, but they handled it more quietly and still today won't release all the files.

#Epstein

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: The Fatwa Committee of the Association of Muslim Scholars of Palestine has issued a statement declaring that participating in the June 26 anti-Hamas protests is forbidden, accusing protesters of betraying Islam, collaborating with Israel, and calling for them to be publicly denounced.

This is exactly how peaceful dissent is demonized: first by branding ordinary Palestinians as traitors and collaborators, then by creating a religious and political justification to execute and persecute them.

The people planning to protest are not foreign agents. They are Palestinians demanding the right to speak, to live with dignity, and to express their views without fear.

Threatening civilians for exercising their right to peaceful expression is unacceptable and disgusting.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are attacking the village of Turmus Ayya in the West Bank right now, setting a Palestinian home on fire in an attempt to burn the family alive.

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

Neanderthals survived for hundreds of thousands of years in Eurasia, enduring ice ages and eking out a hardscrabble living hunting woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses and harvesting edible grasses, tubers, and legumes. Why they ultimately perished has long been a mystery.

New research appears to strike out a leading hypothesis: that they succumbed to harmful mutations brought on by inbreeding within tiny, isolated populations.

Analyzing 27 high-quality Neanderthal genomes from Western Europe, researchers find that at the tail end of their existence approximately 45,000 years ago, our close evolutionary cousins were genetically healthy and appear to have lived in large, well-connected groups.

Learn more: https://t.co/8E6Q0n8NKc

[Emilio Blanco (@eblanco.bsky.social) @dj3mb]

Los sociólogos en sus artículos: "Hay que reconstruir el tejido social".

Los sociólogos en sus facultades:

[Daniel Riaño @danielrruf]

Discutiendo sobre un texto estoico escrito hace 2000 años en un rollo de papiro que quedó sepultado bajo 20 mts de lava en Herculano en 79 dC, rescatado en el s. XVIII y que finalmente podemos leer, sin abrir el rollo carbonizado, gracias a un sincrotron + machine learning

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Ms Rachel calls out world leaders following the UN report saying that ISRAEL DELIBERATELY TARGETS PALESTINIAN CHILDREN.

“Where have you been, leaders? What made you speak out about other people's human rights but not the children of Gaza?”

[Peter Leithart @PLeithart]

Peter Brown's summary of one of the recently-discovered letters of Augustine: "we find Augustine, at the age of seventy-three (only three years before his death), interviewing a terrified country girl who described how her farm had been raided by slave traders. The poor child could not even speak Latin - only Punic. Her older brother translated for her. This was part of a dogged attempt by Augustine and his congregation to break a ring of slave-traders who operated (with the full protection of local bigwigs), out of the port of Hippo."

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

During the action at Filton, Palestine Action activists destroyed several of these quadcopter drones, which otherwise would of been used to commit more death and destruction in Gaza.

For doing so, they've been sentenced as terrorists.

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

We failed here.
If it wasn't us then release that evidence.
If it was, then own up to the mistake and explain what we're doing to prevent it from happening again.

It's not complicated, but the longer this goes on, the worse it looks.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Students were arrested for protesting this.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This report is haunting even for someone who has documented the most horrific aspects of this genocide - which too many world leaders pretend not to see.

I commend the Commission of Inquiry for its effort to bring about accountability and make the truth accessible.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Woman impacted by MAGA abortion bans:

My name is Samantha Casiano. I'm a mother of 5. I never thought a law would touch my family the way that it did. In December of 2022, at my 20 week scan, I received the most devastating news of my life that our daughter's brain and skull would never fully develop and she was 100% incompatible with life. She was going to die. I thought I would be granted an exception. I was told that I live in Texas where there's an abortion ban and that I must go on with this pregnancy.

[Arran Henderson @arranqh]

British, US & Norwegian doctors (among others) who’ve worked in Gaza repeatedly say Palestinian children killed by Israel have V high rate of bullets in central chest or head.

In other words, they were not “unlucky” or “caught in crossfire”
They are targeted.
It’s a Policy

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

According to Haaretz, former Israeli prime ministers, former IDF chiefs of staff, former heads of the Shin Bet, and other senior security officials have warned about the growing threat of Jewish terrorism in the West Bank and called for stronger action against it.

For years, Palestinians have been documenting settler attacks, arson, shootings, land seizures, and assaults on entire communities. Now, some of Israel's most senior former security and political officials are publicly acknowledging the danger posed by extremist settler violence.

The reality of settler terrorism in the West Bank can no longer be ignored.