🔇🔇🔇Announcing new work from DAIR which is very close to my heart, 3 years in the making. When #TigrayGenocide, the deadliest genocide of the 21st century thus far, started in November 2020, it was 1 month before I got fired from Google. 🧵 english.elpais.com/internationa...

Ethiopia’s forgotten war is the deadliest of the 21st century, with around 600,000 civilian deaths

Estimates by European institutions and academics say over half a million non-combatants have died during the Tigray conflict as a result of a government blockade that kept out humanitarian aid

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Its all about "free markets" and "let the market decide" until you have competition that shows how full of shit you are and then you run to daddy US government begging to stop these "bad" Chinese models from entering the market.

I think that we have to admit that post-apocalyptic movies seriously underplayed how much diarrhea and disease are involved in social collapse.

Remember why they are in the US in the first place: the Trump administration lobbying on their behalf to free them from Romania.

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Andrew and Tristan Tate arrested in Miami on charges of rape and sex trafficking. UK to seek extradition over sexual exploitation, 'extreme pornography' and assault and indecent images of a child. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

The day just gets better.

Tate brothers arrested in US after more charges laid against them in UK

The new charges announced on Saturday include rape and sex trafficking.

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A Palestinian doctor, who has been in Israeli custody for 18 months with no charge, fears “imminent death,” as the UN and experts urge for his release.

Palestinian doctor held by Israel for 18 months is in dire condition, advocates say

“This is the last time you’ll see me,” Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya told his attorney in their last meeting amid fears for his life, Physicians for Human Rights Israel said.

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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won a landslide victory in last month's elections. I went on the Proximities podcast with the one and only @barrymalone.bsky.social couple of weeks ago, to discuss Ethiopia's democratic backsliding, the threat of war & the geopolitical chaos in the region.

Ethiopia: What happened to Abiy Ahmed? | Proximities

YouTube video by The Proximities Podcast

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"at a moment when countries across the region, from the Haftar family in Libya to governments in the Horn of Africa, are recalculating between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, Ethiopia appears to be the only state that has lost the luxury of recalculation…." www.noonpost.com/en/378382/amp/