> The lesson is: A lot of Americans just aren’t as opposed to vengeful monarchs as you might have thought. #trump didn’t just rebrand himself via many of the same spectacles MBS embraced—fights, races, football, and “edgy” comedians. Like MBS and the oppressive state over which he presides, his […]

> The survival of American rights and liberties may now turn less on the question of whether Pam #bondi is a person of integrity—which we already know the dismal answer to—than whether she is willing to risk her career and maybe even her personal freedom for a president on his way to repudiation […]

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> Charlie #kirks Standpunkte zum »Großen Austausch«, zum angeblichen Wahlbetrug 2020, zum »Kulturmarxismus« erfüllen Kernkriterien für die Einordnung als #rechtsextrem. In Deutschland wären vor allem seine rassistischen Äußerungen und die fortwährende Delegitimierung demokratischer […]

"Doctors in #gaza observed a disturbing pattern: #children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors who are among the last international eyewitnesses."

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> Ukraine’s drone units, like Adama’s, have pioneered one of the most consequential innovations in modern #warfare. It has nothing to do with materials science or weapons design. Rather, it is a new approach to killing: #ukraine has gamified war, awarding points to pilots […]

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"When it comes to #Kirk’s death, empathy helps prop up Republicans and Trumpists as legitimate and normal political actors. Cooing praise of “persuasion” sends the message that there is some common ground, some kind of fellowship to be had between the right and the left at a moment when […]

"But this is remarkable enough that it bears repeating: Inside the 50th-birthday book for Jeffrey #Epstein—a man charged with sex trafficking—is a photo of a massive, novelty size check, seeming to reference the sale of a human being from one powerful man to another. The man whose supposed […]

> America is adrift. It has no coherent foreign policy, no team of senior professionals managing its national defense and diplomacy, and a president who has little interest in the world beyond what it can offer him. Little wonder that the men who gathered in Beijing—three autocrats whose nations […]

> “We have spent so much of this year watching this weird shame cycle of self-flagellation by the White House press corps, who is saying that they didn’t dig into Joe #biden’s decline aggressively enough or early enough, and now seem intent on repeating that exact set of mistakes and blind spots […]

> The trouble is, people still don’t talk about it the way they talk about Hungary, not inside the US and not outside it. That’s partly the It Can’t Happen Here mindset, partly a reluctance to accept a reality that would require, of foreign governments especially, a rethink of almost everything […]

> And it sure sounds like #pritzker wants to put his hands to the task right now. “If you hurt my people,” he said, “nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.” In a week where Beltway #democrats passed […]

> The scale of the killing was partly owing to the nature of the conflict, said Mary Kaldor, professor emeritus at the LSE, director of the Conflict Research Programme and author of New Wars, an influential book about warfare in the post-cold-war era.
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> International humanitarian law was […]

> The report on #germany, a highly functional #democracy, is equally strange. The State report speaks of “significant human rights issues,” including “restrictions on freedom of expression.” One specific example: German law “required internet companies, including U.S. internet platforms, to take […]

> The moment I heard what Trump had done, I had a flashback. It was January 2021, and it had just been reported that Trump, after losing the 2020 election, had tried to pressure Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” him enough votes — exactly 11,780, Trump said — to overturn the […]

> Funding for American science has fluctuated in the decades since. It spiked after Sputnik and dipped at the end of the Cold War. But until Trump took power for the second time and began his multipronged assault on America’s research institutions, broad support for science was a given under […]

"Earlier this month, #Iran’s parliament approved legislation that would impose prison sentences of up to five years for sending images to foreign media outlets—a punishment that could be upped to twenty-five years during times of war."

#journalism #islamicrepublic #israelirancrisis #iranwindow […]

#tsunami warning live updates: #russia declares emergency after flooding in #kuril Islands; #hawaii prepares for first waves

Hazardous waves from strong 8.8 quake are possible on the coast of Russia, #japan, Hawaii, #alaska and some Pacific islands after #earthquake struck […]

> Welcome to the American #oligarchy. America always had rich people, and they always influenced #government. But never before have the rich amassed money and power on anything like this scale, and #trump helped them get there. After Trump’s 2017 tax cut, the combined wealth of America’s […]

„Die Lage ist ernst, #Teheran hat wirklich kein Wasser mehr“, erklärte Präsident Massud Peseschkian. Um eine #naturkatastrophe zu verhindern, schloss er sogar eine Verlegung der Hauptstadt mit über 15 Millionen Einwohnern nicht aus.

#Iran #klimawandel […]

"The #Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company announced this week it had reduced water pressure to such low levels that in Tehran — a city of 10 million people, many living and working in high-rise buildings — water could not flow above the second floor of apartment buildings."

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> Since even genocide-aware media are not reporting how #israel’s policies are made possible by wider Western support, they are also very weak in identifying policies that might break it. A state is committing #genocide, but governments can continue to trade with it, allow its companies to […]

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say #israel is committing #genocide against Palestinians in #gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.

[...] The two groups said Israel had targeted civilians […]