Holmes＃世論の理性

I have a friend in Cuba and what they just reported should end careers in Washington. Every single patient on a ventilator in their hospital died tonight. The power went out. The ventilators stopped. This isn't a rare incident anymore. Cuba's grid has collapsed 3 times THIS MONTH. The hospital staff told them they've had more emergency deaths in the last 30 days than in all of last year combined. A patient with leukemia at a Havana hospital told reporters: "Without fuel or affordable transportation, life has only gotten harder. We are fighting every day." NICU babies are on bare minimum power right now. Dialysis patients are playing Russian roulette with every blackout. Cuba has received ZERO oil in 3 months. That's not a shortage. That's a blockade. The US blocked a Russian rescue mission — 730,000 barrels of oil heading to Cuba — turned it away. Then the official story went: "We're sending $6 million in humanitarian aid." $6 million in aid. 930,000 barrels of oil blocked. You can't fix ventilators with $6 million when the grid is dark. And Trump's own words from March 6, 2026: "Cuba will fall. After 50 years, this is the cherry on top of the cake." The people dying in hospitals tonight are his cherry on top. I'll keep you updated. Turn on notifications. 🚨

I am a Japanese citizen, and I oppose the attacks on Iran carried out by the U.S. government and Israel. I cannot forgive the tragedy in which American missiles took the lives of so many innocent children. Prime Minister Takaichi told President Trump, “Only Donald can bring peace and prosperity to the world,” but I do not share that view. Unlike Prime Minister Takaichi, the majority of the Japanese people oppose the U.S. government’s attack on Iran and hope for an end to the war as soon as possible. @oyamada_maki

The funniest thing happening in the world right now is the way the western political/media class is asking us to be shocked and outraged that Iran would attack US allies who are actively collaborating toward its destruction in an unprovoked war of aggression. It's hilarious. Think about how dehumanized the Muslim world would have to be in your perception in order for that kind of thinking to make sense. You'd have to see them as so unlike yourself that it would astonish and baffle you for them to be retaliating against unprovoked aggressions like any normal human being. Your view would essentially have to be, "Why are those Iranians hitting us back? Don't they know their role is to be killed, and our role is to do the killing? They've got the natural order of things completely backward!" Iran is fighting for its very existence as a state. Obviously it's going to respond aggressively toward everyone who's helping to destroy it. It's a symptom of a profoundly sick and twisted civilization that this would seem abnormal or surprising to anyone.

Unbelievable, insane night in the West Bank. Hundreds of Israeli settlers are rampaging across more than 15 villages and towns right now, torching homes, cars, and fields, and attempting to burn people alive. The Israeli army is showing complete failure and total indifference.

BREAKING: Iran warns it will target US and Israel‑linked energy and IT infrastructure, along with desalination plants in the region if its power plants are hit, following Trump’s threat to strike Iranian plants over the Strait of Hormuz. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x3n3wk

I have been reporting on and documenting settler terrorism in the West Bank for three years, and I have never seen anything like this. Tonight’s major pogrom across the West Bank was highly organized and fully backed by the Israeli government and the Israeli army. It did not happen in a vacuum -- it was fueled by incitement from Israel’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, and other Israeli Knesset members. If this tells us anything, it is that this is not the peak; it is a warning of something far worse that may soon unfold in the West Bank: Genocide and ethnic cleansing.

I don't want to be one of those people who wastes their time criticizing "hypocrisy" in foreign policy, but holy fucking shit, dude. Jesus Christ. My God. I will never, ever express sympathy for Israelis. Ever. Under any circumstances. To do so would be irresponsible, because Israel always weaponizes sympathy and then uses that weapon to commit mass atrocities. If the world gives Israel sympathy for civilians injured by an Iranian airstrike over the weekend in a war Israel started, by Friday they'll be using that sympathy to justify nuking Tehran. I don't enjoy holding this position. It goes against every natural human impulse inside me. But Israel, by its nature, has made it the only responsible position to hold. History has clearly established that the world was wrong to give Israel sympathy for October 7. The correct and moral thing to have done would have been for everyone to say "That's what you get for being a murderous apartheid state," and then sanction Israel into the Stone Age until they dismantled their abusive ethnonationalist regime. That would have been the right position for the world to take. And that's how we need to be with Israel going forward. No sympathy. No support. We've got to treat them the same way you'd treat a malignant narcissist who solicits sympathy and then weaponizes it at every opportunity. To do otherwise would be irresponsible. It's just not safe.

It’s Unethical To Have Sympathy For Israelis, And Other Notes Israel’s Foreign Ministry has posted a statement on Twitter which reads, “The Iranian regime devastated Arad and Dimona by deliberately striking civilians with missiles. Over 100 people were injured, including children. A blatant war crime. Pure terrorism.” I don’t want to be one of those people who wastes their time criticizing “hypocrisy” in foreign policy, but holy fucking shit, dude. Jesus Christ. My God. I will never, ever express sympathy for Israelis. Ever. Under any circumstances. To do so would be irresponsible, because Israel always weaponizes sympathy and then uses that weapon to commit mass atrocities. If the world gives Israel sympathy for civilians injured by an Iranian airstrike over the weekend in a war Israel started, by Friday they’ll be using that sympathy to justify nuking Tehran. I don’t enjoy holding this position. It goes against every natural human impulse inside me. But Israel, by its nature, has made it the only responsible position to hold. History has clearly established that the world was wrong to give Israel sympathy for October 7. The correct and moral thing to have done would have been for everyone to say “That’s what you get for being a murderous apartheid state,” and then sanction Israel into the Stone Age until they dismantled their abusive ethnonationalist regime. That would have been the right position for the world to take. And that’s how we need to be with Israel going forward. No sympathy. No support. We’ve got to treat them the same way you’d treat a malignant narcissist who solicits sympathy and then weaponizes it at every opportunity. To do otherwise would be irresponsible. It’s just not safe. ❖ Trump is now tweeting that “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST…” Iran has of course responded that if its power plants are attacked it will attack the energy infrastructure of US allies in the middle east, saying that “the critical infrastructure, energy infrastructure, and oil facilities throughout the region will be considered legitimate targets and will be destroyed irreversibly.” It’s starting to look like it’s only a matter of time before the US and/or Israel does something in Iran that makes the world a much darker place than it already is. Someone’s got to rein these psychopaths in. ❖ MAGA was an eleven-year practical joke where at the end the cameras come out and the prankster goes “Haha joke’s on you, we’re not making America great again, we’re going to war with Iran!” ❖ It’s so silly how the propagandists are trying to convince us to be concerned about an Iranian attack on a British-American airbase in the Indian Ocean. It’s the funniest thing happening in the world right now that the western political/media class is asking us to be shocked and outraged that Iran would attack US allies who are actively collaborating toward its destruction in an unprovoked war of aggression. It’s hilarious. Think about how dehumanized the Muslim world would have to be in your perception in order for that kind of thinking to make sense. You’d have to see them as so unlike yourself that it would astonish and baffle you for them to be retaliating against unprovoked aggressions like any normal human being. Your view would essentially have to be, “Why are those Iranians hitting us back? Don’t they know their role is to be killed, and our role is to do the killing? They’ve got the natural order of things completely backward!” Iran is fighting for its very existence as a state. Obviously it’s going to respond aggressively toward everyone who’s helping to destroy it. It’s a symptom of a profoundly sick and twisted civilization that this would seem abnormal or surprising to anyone. ❖ So, like, we’re going to start having mass protests at some point, right? Against this horrific US-Israeli war of unfathomable consequence? I mean, that’s on the agenda, right? Because it would be really weird if it wasn’t.

イラン侵略を支持するイスラエル人は全体で93%であり、右派97%、中道派93%、左派76%であることを伝える記事。この数値はイスラエルという国の異常さを示して余りある。 mondoweiss.net/2026/03/foreve…

「トランプは私が言葉を尽くしても教えられなかったことを、一発で学生に理解させた」。これ以上の皮肉はないがまごう事なき現実がこれ。私は古典を読みながらなかなかに呑み込めなかった幾つもの行が、ネタニヤフやトランプのお陰でいまありありとわかるようになった。著者たちの怒りや憤懣の深さも。

My wife Yara tells me that the world has forgotten us, that no one is thinking about us anymore, and that she has lost hope. But I told her that the world still thinks about us, and that many people love us and stand with us. So I posted this tweet to prove to her that there are still many people who care about us and who love our children, Imad and Adam. So my friend, if you see this, please leave a 🍉 or 🇵🇸 or even just a dot(.). It gives my family hope and strength.

「繊維工場」は、冷戦期にフランスが加担してイスラエルに作られたDimona（ディモナ核施設）など、イスラエルの非公表核戦力の中枢。イスラエルは核に対して曖昧性を維持し、一方でイランは国際監視対象だった。 share.google/L3fv9vglKPjFw7…

【あとがき公開】 学費値上げに反対します――学生たちの生活と主権 佐藤雄哉 chihei.net/?p=7214 ＝＝ 本書の執筆に着手したのは、2025年4月のことでした。本書を執筆している最中にも学費問題をめぐる状況は、ますます厳しさを増していました。 国立大学だけにしぼっても、名古屋工業大学、埼玉大学、山口大学、電気通信大学が授業料を年間約10万円値上げし、熊本大学がその後に続こうとしています。 また文部科学省が、博士課程の学生を対象として生活費などを支給する次世代研究者挑戦的研究プログラム（SPRING）を「日本人」に限定する決定をし、それに続くように留学生のみを対象とする授業料値上げ方針を発表する大学も現れました（東北大学［年約40万円］、筑波大学［年7万3000円］、広島大学・早稲田大学［上げ幅未定］）。 さらに京都大学は、独自の入学料・授業料減免制度の縮小・廃止を決め、筑波大学は、学生宿舎の寄宿料を最大約2.1倍に値上げすることを発表しました。こうした困難な状況に対峙するうえで、本書が少しでも参考になればと願っています。 本書を編集・執筆した動機は「序章」の冒頭で「学費をめぐる不公平を随所で体験していた私」と記したように、私の個人史と切っても切り離せません。そのため、ここでは私の体験について書くことから始めさせてください。 私は小学生の頃、ドライブのときに父が座る運転席と母が座る助手席のあいだのスペースにおさまり、外の景色を眺めるのが好きでした。あるとき、そこで両親に小学校を卒業したあと、どうなるのかを聞いたことがあります。父は「別に勉強したくなかったら高校に行かなくてもいいんだよ。高校は義務教育じゃないからね」と語っていました。そのとき私は、実際に父が中学校を卒業してすぐ工場で働いていたので、そういうものだと思っていました。 その後私は、両親の離婚によって母子家庭で育ちます。引っ越した先の私が通うことになる中学校は、当時近所では「ガラが悪い」と言われていて、学校選択制の影響からか校区の小学校から進学してこない人が多く、1学年80人ほどしかいませんでした。

“アメリカ・アローン”トランプ政権に異変 揺らぐ攻撃の正当性と広がる“終末論” 出撃の影に翻弄される日本【報道特集】 newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/254… 「もはやアメリカが『ならず者国家』で、世界に十字軍のような戦争を仕掛けているのです。それは間違いで憲法違反です。止めなければなりません」

採掘をやるなとは言わないけど、この論理はいつか来た道…

衆院選の投票所に「男女別受付」…東京と千葉の5市町村　トランスジェンダーへの「参政権」侵害の懸念が tokyo-np.co.jp/article/476472/

ニューヨークタイムズの高市さんの記事、かなり興味深い。 「米連邦議会立法調査官」だった頃の経緯が書かれているけど、 読めば読むほど、人物像が浮き彫りになる内容。 松下政経塾時代、テレビで見たシュローダー氏に憧れて、 「なんてファッショナブルでセクシーで魅力的な女性だったのでしょう」と回想。 選挙敗北後に手紙を送り、そこからワシントンへ。 当時は月1200ドルほどで生活し、 同僚から「敵国のスパイ」のように見られながらも、 朝7時から夜11時まで働いて信頼を得たという。 ただ、興味深いのはここからで—— 著書での語りが、 政策の中枢にいた人の視点ではなく、 どこか“外部から観察している人”の視点に見えること。 有権者の手紙、クーポン、少ない報酬で働く公務員への感動。 描かれているのは「中の駆け引き」や政治の実務ではなく、 見学者としてでも目に入る部分への驚き。 文章の視点そのものが、 当時のポジションを語っているように見える。 さらにNYTがわざわざ引用しているのが👇 シュローダー氏が、 「自分らしくいること、そして女性や男性に媚びる必要はないと助言した。」こと。 「好かれるために皆に媚びへつらわなければならないなら、私は政治家を辞める」 という言葉を、高市さん自身が著書で記しているという部分。 ——この一節をどう読むかも含めて、 なかなか示唆的な記事だと思う。 経歴って、何をしたか以上に、 「どう語られているか」と「どう読めてしまうか」で評価が決まる。 そして時に、そのズレは文章の視点にいちばんはっきり現れる。 nytimes.com/2026/03/19/wor…

前も書いたけど、高市氏がインターンをした民主党政治家シュローダー氏はむしろ軍事費削減のために尽力した人なんですよね。 一方、シュローダー氏は医療のジェンダー平等の文脈で女性およびマイノリティの臨床試験参加に尽力した人である。

高市氏の政策において、前者は真逆を行っており、後者はかろうじて継承されていると見るべきか。まあ、石破政権も比較的素直に性差医療や、さらに踏み込んでジェンダードイノベーションの方を向いていたので、継承路線なだけかもしれません。

日本の文化予算は先進国と呼ばれる国々の中では異常に低い。それをさらに下げようとする高市政権を批判する朝日新聞社説。軍事費だけ突出して増大させ、文化予算は削りたがるくせに、学問・文化に口出しだけはしたがるでは先進国とは程遠い。 asahi.com/articles/DA3S1…