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Via "One First," my longer take on #SCOTUS's ruling in the birthright citizenship cases. TL;DR: The short-term significance may well be blunted by the answers to two procedural Qs the Court didn't address. It's the broader implication (the death of the legal process school) that's especially grim:

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“White House has recommended terminating U.S. funding for nearly two dozen programs that conduct war crimes and accountability work globally, including in Myanmar, Syria and on alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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A lot of “Ground Zero Mosque” talking points getting rinsed and repeated with respect to Mamdani. Hate is so boring.

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💥 “Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month.” No paywall: archive.is/3LjoW

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New paper estimates 75,200 violent deaths in Gaza from Oct 7, 2023 to Jan 5, 2025. Note potential sources of "downward bias." Estimate of nonviolent deaths is much lower than others. If correct, an amazing testament to Gaza's health workers and family support.

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Trump shook Democrats’ hold on non-White voters in 2024, report finds www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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🧵 THREAD: Why the Cato Institute’s new paper on “misinformation panic” is dangerously wrong, and why it completely misunderstands the real crisis we face. www.cato.org/policy-analy...

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‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi

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Israeli settlers from illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank attacked a Palestinian village, setting houses on fire while families were inside. Israeli soldiers then turned up & shot the Palestinians who were trying to rescue people from their homes. Nour Odeh reporting

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"Transnational repression of human rights defenders: The impacts on civic space and the responsibility of host states" - Study on transnational repression with @mmichae1sen.bsky.social and @saipirafurstenberg.bsky.social now online.

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Congress rolling in their graves watching this.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Is this "one and done" for Trump or will there be more US strikes? -my guess is Trump prefers the one and done option -... but if Iran retaliates, 100% Trump hits back, even harder -which is why I assume the US will signal to Iran that it is open to resuming talks now

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

what a stupid presidency, what a stupid fucking war

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Come work with us!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Even a broken dick is right twice a day. Let’s not resuscitate Tucker over this. He’s still the absolute worst.

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My new piece for Chatham House: "The new reality is a more unequal regional balance of power in which a weakened Iran has no good options left to defend its shrinking influence, while Israel benefits from much greater room for manoeuvre." www.chathamhouse.org/2025/06/iran...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Trump's economic threat against Canada is going to make a lot of our human rights ideals bow down to our financial interests. And we are going to regret it.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Seeing my prime minister shake hands with a man behind the murder of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil turns my stomach. Mark Carney will talk about rule of law and human rights, but at the end of the day, it’s economy, economy, economy, no matter the cost.

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Totally normal brain stuff.

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Look geopolitics is messy. On one hand you have a theocratic axis Regime with mass protests & masked troops in the streets; a self-glorifying military parade; the targeting of everyday people, protestors, the press and opposition; aims to wipe an entire people off the map. And then there’s also Iran

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I spoke to a dozen of activists inside Iran. They have one thing in common: They oppose the Israeli attacks and they want the war to stop. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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My latest: "The MAGA Terror Movement" Donald Trump and the entire Republican ecosystem have normalized and celebrated hate, fear, and violence against the majority that is rising to confront their reign of terror. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

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Boelter is apparently facing federal charges. Which opens to door to a presidential pardon if convicted (if not before). There should be a state prosecution here to make sure justice actually gets served (and so evidence re motive is not selectively presented to conform to predetermined narratives)

submitted 11 days ago • 341 comments

holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.

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Utterly depressing numbers. Republicans (78%) are nearly eight times as likely as Democrats (10%) to favor the deportation of undocumented immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. Close numbers for white Christian groups as well (65%). prri.org/spotlight/ne...

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

This is the dumbest mafakah who has ever dumbed.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Mapping the Far Right Groups Targeting LGBTIQ Events During Pride Month

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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Ehud Olmert, the former prime minister of Israel, discusses why he believes Israel’s war in Gaza can no longer be justified. open.spotify.com/episode/7nEK... youtu.be/TkyGyjvikmU?...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Who knew the next country the United States would invade based on a lie would be the United States.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Amazing how hard it is to write: “Police shoot at journalists.”

submitted 17 days ago • 85 comments

That part.

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My Instagram feed is usually just hip-hop, basketball, and stand-up comedy. Now it’s wall-to-wall “fuck ICE.” Picking a fight with a city full of people with massive online and offline influence is so hilariously stupid.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Been waiting on this Waymo foreverrrrr

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

About damn time.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Third Amendment scholars, buckle up! 😂

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

The inability or refusal of many to grapple with the horrors of this war, which is aided and supported by the U.S., is simply a moral failure. This administration could end it if it decided to. The strategic costs are a secondary consideration.

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"Simply halting PEPFAR, which provided about 20 million people with HIV antiretroviral drugs at a microscopic cost, has already killed an estimated 54,500 adults and 5,800 children. Many, many more will follow." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Ideologically-motivated Terrorism arrest in Canada: “Investigators fear the youth will commit terrorism offences related to the COM/764 violent online network” www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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“It’s not ‘complicated.’ “ And it’s too late. But let the image of Ward grab hold and save what lives we still can.” A short column for @thestar.com. #Gaza

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

I mean, absolutely resign to spend more time with your family.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

New article out in New Media & Society: Dror Walter @drorwalter.bsky.social, Yotam Ophir @ophiryotam.bsky.social , Edu Fabregas, and I examine how the Wayfair conspiracy theory moved across platforms. We find Twitter and Reddit played very different roles. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KUIFU...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Openly negotiating the price of the bribe being paid to the President to grant approval to a regulatory merger. Happening right in front of us.

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments

A shameless and incredibly stupid assault on democratic freedoms that millions of Americans gave their lives to win and protect.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

This should make it painfully obvious that Telegram's security features are a joke and the company is sitting on huge amounts of identifying information about its users. There's absolutely no other reason that an AI company would invest 9 figures into it.

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