VidyaKumar 🕵️🪐🚀💫⚖️🇵🇸
@vidyakumar.bsky.social
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Critic, Lawyer, Senior Lecturer in Law, DPhil (Oxon) @SOASLaw School, London UK, ✍🏾 on Revolution, Int'l & Consti' Law, Space Law, Legal Theory & History, Human/Labour Rights, Law+Lit , Feminist, Founder: Race & the UK Constitution Ass'n (RUKCA) (She/Her)
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vidyakumar.bsky.social
To the insane amount of new followers from the X-odus, below is some info about me and my interests, it's a bit dated. New work on "Revolution and International Law in the Americas", on "Race in the UK Constitution" and on "the JCPC in Southern Rhodesia" coming soon. #InterdisciplinaryScholar
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miyyka.bsky.social
The next Verso Palestine Pamphlet from Adam Hanieh, Robert Knox, and Rafeef Ziadah is here 🇵🇸
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jayowens.bsky.social
perhaps we'd all have more fun on dating apps if we reoriented our goals to ‘investigative journalism’
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bryanpeeler.bsky.social
After reading this I may never stop barfing
jayowens.bsky.social
Lede of the year, jesus christ:

‘It is a sunny Sunday in June and I am sitting in a Porsche with a man I recently matched with on Bumble, two Spanish sighthounds, an intersex DJ and Curtis Yarvin.

“Let’s go Team Fascist!” shouts my match as he pulls away.’

Sharing link: on.ft.com/4m5rTV4
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
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vidyakumar.bsky.social
Just read it a few hours ago, it is astonishing.
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leftiestats.bsky.social
🚨 BREAKING | Labour is set to impose a sweeping ban on trans people using any "single-sex space".

In EHRC guidance that Labour is set to approve, trans people will be barred from accessing toilets, gyms and changing rooms that match their gender.

(Source: @TheTimes)
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bestforbritain.org
Is the UK the "dirty man of Europe"?

Apparently so - our bathing water is 5x worse than the EU's.

"Once again, when it comes to environmental regulation, enforcement and protecting people’s health, the European Union leads the charge." @pimlicat.bsky.social
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lrb.co.uk
‘Whatever Graeber is writing about, whether it is the history of democracy or the relationship between slavery and debt, he is usually trying to solve a problem in the present or to expose its latent potential.’

@leninology.bsky.social on David Graeber: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
www.lrb.co.uk
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sandraduffy.bsky.social
Keir on the tv saying he wants to 'make people feel better off.'

You could work on making us BE better off, maybe?
vidyakumar.bsky.social
The view of genocide from Outer Space: Free 🇵🇸!
vidyakumar.bsky.social
3) finally, just b/c Lord Verdirame ascribes to the declaratory approach to state recognition, it is imp to note that the constitutive approach is recognised by int'l lawyers/scholars as a way to achieve state recognition. (IMO, Palestine can be accepted under either approach)
vidyakumar.bsky.social
whether one looks at the 1948 Nakba, its divide & rule politics, or its genocidal actions post-Oct 7th, Israel has systematically attempted to destroy Palestinians claim to statehood by altering its population, territory, forms of effective govt + relations with other states.
vidyakumar.bsky.social
2) his inability to recognise that Israel's clear and indisputable (& illegal) effective control over Palestine/Gaza has allowed it to manipulate/destroy those very "facts" used to meet the Montevideo conventions criteria of statehood;
vidyakumar.bsky.social
Quotation: "For example, if [UK] policy is that the protracted frustration of self-determination justifies recognition of statehood “notwithstanding the facts”, ..."
vidyakumar.bsky.social
Lord Verdirame seems also to think the legal right of self-determination is a question not related to the question of Palestinian state recognition (see quotation 👇🏾) which leads to my second point.
vidyakumar.bsky.social
His only comment on this makes it seem as if it is a discretionary matter of UK foreign policy, rather than a fundamental legal right in international law, one that Israel (the colonial occupier), Britain and the international community must fulfil.
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jadehawk.bsky.social
this is why the "oh, everything is gonna be ok after the midterms/next presidential elections" ppl are blowing my mind.
what are you even saying, the destroyed satellites aren't going to un-destroy themselves and NASA doesn't have any spares lying around

futurism.com/white-house-...
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.
futurism.com
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rmayemsinger.bsky.social
From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
A parliamentary report has been leaked, and it confirms that Canada has been exporting military goods to Israel, including in 2024.

I reached out to Minister Anand’s office about this newly public report.

They said it's accurate -- but it doesn't contradict their statements.

How? Let's discuss:
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adhaque.bsky.social
In December 2024, five months after an initial warning from Dutch intelligence, Lieutenant Cayley, a former military prosecutor, received a direct threat:

"I was directly threatened, and I was told that I was an enemy of the state of Israel and I needed to watch my back."
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ctmccartney.bsky.social
How higher education is going. Student pretends to write an essay, Prof pretends to mark it.