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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 23m

It is self soothing to say that if only Palestinians accepted Israel then everything would be unlocked and peace would be possible. OK well that already happened, more than once, and what did it result in? When will people seriously grapple with the idea that perhaps Israel is a lot like Russia?

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 27m

PLO recognized Israel in 1988 and 1993 and then what happened is a question nobody seems to answer on here

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 16m

Oh for sure—but he also seemed to want to make the jump from “no legal legitimacy = full rebellion is required” and it’s not clear that one must do that. Also, since you blocked him, you did miss out on a rather funny follow up in which he clarified that he is a “John Adams” not a “Sam Adams,” so

erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 5h

fwiw it was extremely fun and satisfying to watch unfold from the sidelines, as I—not a lawyer but a political theorist—had been having my own aneurysm over his insistence that “illegitimacy” means one and only one thing, with only one political implication

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 17h

🚨BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News’ @jeremyscahill.com

www.dropsitenews.com/p/breaking-h...

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17h

DropSite receives confirmation that Hamas has agreed to a finalized version of the ceasefire framework and is prepared to sign it tonight

BREAKING: Hamas and Palestinian Factions Agree to Gaza Ceasefire Framework

“From our side, yes,” a senior Hamas official told Drop Site News.

www.dropsitenews.com

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how many readers were hoping to learn something about political theories of civil disobedience and wound up immersed in Buddhist epistemology instead

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 1d

Amongst the author copies of my book there is a text with my cover and someone else’s book inside

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Consider that you're not only surrendering your autonomy and your trust to a state that publicly despises both, in order to win some money and some favour for a while. Consider that, for anyone uninterested in your personal self-justifications, you're making yourself an accessory to this, and more.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

No university that signs the compact will be a university, in the accepted sense, anymore. They will be mere Trump Institutes, teaching only what subjects Trump doesn't bar them from teaching -- and only until he does. Signing is an abdication of responsibility and an act of great moral cowardice.

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

www.thedp.com

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sharing my essay Jannis!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I support nonviolent action. It's literally what I do. But telling people that allowing themselves to be harmed to demonstrate the character of their enemy will be politically transformative denies the desensitized reality of the present.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Drop Site confirmed this morning that our journalist Alex Colston has been released from Israeli detention. Alex has been imprisoned since Thursday as one of 462 participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which Alex was covering for Drop Site. He was among 131 deported to Jordan today.

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 2d

He has been released! and deported to Jordan per @dropsitenews.com

Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 3d

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Drop Site Urges the Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants, Including Drop Site Journalist Alex Colston

All of us at Drop Site News are deeply disturbed by the reports of inhumane and abusive treatment of nonviolent activists and journalists detained by the Israeli military while on board the Global Sum...

www.dropsitenews.com

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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 3d

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Drop Site Urges the Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants, Including Drop Site Journalist Alex Colston

All of us at Drop Site News are deeply disturbed by the reports of inhumane and abusive treatment of nonviolent activists and journalists detained by the Israeli military while on board the Global Sum...

www.dropsitenews.com

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 2d

when I was in college contending with Bari Weiss’s astroturfed witch hunt turning my classes and my department upside down so she could make a name for herself, it simply never occurred to me that it would WORK and I would have to spend the rest of my life hearing her name

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 2d

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 2d

of the two, ChatGPT is the better writer

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 2d

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 4d

they have their ways

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

Do Nothing and Cry Anyway Award is cross ideological btw. The ostensibly left wing people who complain about No Kings, liberals who criticize Thunberg for actually putting herself on the line for Gaza, and right wingers who complain about protesting after a political event are the same types of ppl.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

Rule of thumb is always if they're actually out there getting the shit beat of them by government or by police then 99% of the criticism is from Do Nothing and Cry Anyway Award winners

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 4d

One way (not the only way, but one way) I am a nerd is that I feel compelled to tell you that some creatures do hunt this way. Foxes for example will kill up to twenty chickens in an hour and save them for later. Don’t begrudge the raptors the chance to restock their pantry

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