xrayastroh.bsky.social
Astrophysicist | Physics PhD | Father | Space cadet | Amateur guitarist | Avid Skater🏒| Trying to navigate our 21st century dystopia while maintaining a rational mind | Opinions are mine alone. 🇵🇸 🍉.
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Thank you for your service to humanity👏🙏
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We are witnessing the reincarnation of the antebellum Confederacy & Apartheid South Africa, all rolled into one. Heavy indeed is the white man’s burden…
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Why not just Cliffs, I mean Gulf of Insanity! I do not think it means what he think it means…
#GulfofMexico
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Maybe start by remembering what it means to be a lawyer, at a minimum, respecting the rule of law! (11/11)
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perhaps 30,000 children on their hands. Is it any wonder Congressional approval levels hover near 15%? Well @repsuhas.bsky.social, you’ve started off with a disgraceful and shameful vote. That means there’s lots of room for improvement! (10/11)
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The double standards are staggering! The ICC will act as a tool of US hegemony, or not be allowed to act at all. Rather than address a litany of internal problems the country faces, the new House seeks in one of its first votes to protect & defend indicted war criminals with the blood of (9/11)
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@RitchieTorres.bsky.social. Congress here reveals itself not so much as law-makers but simply gangsters, threatening & coercing an international legal institution carrying out its mandate to try & protect all of us & deter the more egregious international crimes. (8/11)
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An act like the ICC sanctions vote would be categorically condemned if done by an official enemy. But if they do it, fanatical US exceptionalism ideologues cheer & claim ludicrously that the ICC is “weaponizing international law” in the words of AIPAC marionette (7/11)
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such mountains of evidence, none of which can be acknowledged or accepted, can US officials even pretend to craft a reasoned, factual narrative that would excuse such wanton disregard for international law? Of course not! So we get lies, propaganda & utter hypocrisy. (6/11)
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Indeed, The UN's Acting Humanitarian Chief, Joyce Msuya, reported that, among other things, "The entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying," and concluded her comments with the summary, "Such blatant disregard for basic humanity and for the laws of war must stop.” Faced with (5/11)
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More recently, virtually every major international human rights organization, including Israel’s B’Tselem, have condemned US-backed Israeli actions in Gaza as genocidal. UN agencies have reached similar, damning conclusions. (4/11)
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The evidence of comprehensive war crimes in Gaza is overwhelming. In its initial advisory opinion the ICJ ruled it a plausible genocide. Remarkably, Israeli officials had publicly, indeed gleefully, proclaimed their intent to collectively punish the entire Gaza population. (3/11)
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The past year has seen relentless assaults on the UN & the last remnants of international law by virtually every branch of the US govt in support of its genocidal frontier state in West Asia. It took the ICC 6 months to issue warrants in this case of live-streamed atrocities! (2/11)