40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.

BNO News@bnonews.com · 7mo ago

NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor

What just happened ... Comedy: Jamie Kaler

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

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Welcoming all of us to the 62nd annual Conflict Research Society Conference at the University of Kent this year! Thanks to @kristinmbakke.bsky.social @nadineansorg.bsky.social @finnklebe.bsky.social Ana Lucia Pelaez Echeverria & Isadora Gotts! #CRS2025

Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice

Naomi Smith@pimlicat.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

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🚨 Apply now! ISA Research Workshop Grants (up to $2,500) support collaborative, interdisciplinary research in International Studies. $50K total funding available for 2026! In-person & virtual options. #ISA2026 👉 buff.ly/XsaQQIl

War affects nature in so many ways you would never think of without seeing it first. Birds on the front lines weave their nests from fiber optics. Photo from AzovMedia

Imagine what the news coverage would be like if Hamas had just killed 700+ Israelis. But it’s Palestinians being murdered, so it’s a foot note. Hundreds of children brutally killed with US-supplied weapons, but life goes on like nothing is happening.

Jeder fünfte Wähler hat für die AfD gestimmt. Ein Warnsignal, denn die Partei hat Düsteres vor. Was man ihr nun entgegensetzen müsste. Spoiler: das Gegenteil, was die Union gerade mit der Zivilgesellschaft (s. Kleine Anfrage) macht. Mein Leitartikel: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

(S+) Meinung: Die Demokratie ist in akuter Gefahr, doch die CDU spielt der AfD in die Hände

Jeder fünfte Wähler hat für die völkisch-nationalistische AfD gestimmt. Ein Warnsignal, denn die Partei hat Düsteres mit der Bundesrepublik vor. Was man ihr nun entgegensetzen müsste.

spiegel.de

How did modern democracy spread so widely? @stasavage.bsky.social with an interesting review of our book "The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy" (and other recent contributions on the topic) in the JHPE. Important discussion in these difficult times. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...

For those seeing rapid de-institutionalization occurring in the United States, there's plenty out there on unconstrained executives that stops short of full-blown, North Korea-esque authoritarian rule. There's a term for it, too: Hyperpresidentialism papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...

Zelenskyy has been more faithfully following the Ukrainian constitution (re: elections and martial law) than Trump has been following the US constitution (re: basically everything)

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · last yr.

⚡️ Donald Trump doubles down, calling Zelenskyy "a dictator without elections" and claiming to be "successfully negotiating" an end to the war.

Join us in Helsinki or online on 24 February to discuss three years of Ukraine's resistance Thanks to Aleksanteri Institute, @amtolok.bsky.social, @sierrasalazar.bsky.social, Maija Harju, @unabergmane.bsky.social for organising!

A point to consider.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last yr.

This is probably the most accurate take.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

The (Indian) author forgot to mention that no part of this “relocation” was voluntary and by choice. That it was bloody, traumatic and fractured an entire continent forever. That it tore families apart forever, including mine. @wsj.com has really set the bar for bigotry too low.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

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This was a bad week for Germany, and for the EU. A stable German government seems, after what we have witnessed, further away than ever. This is not good news at a time when Trump is US President, France remains very instable, and everyone is hoping for the next DE government to take on leadership.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

Germany embraced Israel to atone for its wartime guilt. But was this in part a way to avoid truly confronting its past? By Pankaj Mishra

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check on people they are not okay even the strong ones I am not okay I joke a lot I hide it but be nice check on your peoples

Wow. #Merz is so solidly in charge of the CDU and his campaign that no other than Angela #Merkel felt compelled to intervene (not her style at all, under different circumstances). www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de/erklaerungen...

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

404media.co

"It should not surprise us then that, as völkisch-authoritarian racism surged at home, Germany yet again became complicit, through its unconditional solidarity with Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gallant and Ben-Gvir, in murderous ethnonationalism." It'll be decades until German liberals see Mishra's point.

Jonathan White@jonathanpjwhite.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...