To capture rights, China and Russia are hollowing the UN's human rights system ⬛️ Countries with experience in silencing independent institutions at home are now following the same playbook at the United Nations, targeting the UN's human rights office.

We’re facing the capture by malign actors of the human rights language and system ⬛️ Trump’s capture of the Kennedy Center is part of it: a will to capture liberal arts and the public’s appreciation for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center

Internal emails and documents demonstrate the political capture of the institution, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection.

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Saxony-Anhalt, 6 September: AfD 43.8%, just short of a majority. BSW 5.3%, now in talks with the AfD. A route to the first post-war far-right government in Germany runs through the BSW. BSW, party of reason and justice? Reality is different ⬛️⤵️

President Aliyev calls @europarl ‘a nest of corruption’ and a body of Islamophobes. He uses the vocabulary of accountability, turns it around, pointing it at the institution that used that vocabulary against him ⬛️ Worth a thread 🧵⤵️ @operativmedia.bsky.social

İlham Əliyev (@azpresident) on X

Avropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır.

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JD Vance closed the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on 10 September ⬛️ He did not say the words human rights once. He still built a rights claim, from first line to last. That is what capture looks like now ⤵️

JD Vance keynotes the Republican midterm convention in Dallas tonight, and we will be reading the speech for the mechanics: which right is invoked, who it protects, and who disappears from the account. Stay tuned for more analysis on JD Vance's capture of human rights language.

The AfD took 43.8 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, double its 2021 result ⬛️ Watch how the party claimed human rights language in the weeks ahead, to capture it ⤵️