Kate Whittle
@katewhittle.bsky.social
all things politics ~ mostly intl, some local ~
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“No Other Land” has won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. “This is a big deal,” Alexandra Schwartz writes: the film, directed by a team of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, still does not have American distribution. #Oscars nyer.cm/sQYyjO0
March 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
“No Other Land” has won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. “This is a big deal,” Alexandra Schwartz writes: the film, directed by a team of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers, still does not have American distribution. #Oscars nyer.cm/sQYyjO0
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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
February 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
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For Kash Patel, a fluency in fringe narratives and a commitment to a form of politics that openly flaunts aggression aren’t liabilities. They are his principal assets.
Kash Patel’s Political-Persecution Fantasies
How Donald Trump’s presumptive F.B.I. head whitewashed the J6ers’ political violence.
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February 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
For Kash Patel, a fluency in fringe narratives and a commitment to a form of politics that openly flaunts aggression aren’t liabilities. They are his principal assets.
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“Morality is of no interest when there is a real-estate deal to be made.” David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s declaration that two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip.
The Madness of Donald Trump
To Benjamin Netanyahu’s delight, Trump proposes the wholesale ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the creation of a new “Riviera.”
www.newyorker.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Morality is of no interest when there is a real-estate deal to be made.” David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s declaration that two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip.
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On Tuesday, Donald Trump declared that the two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip. Even if it isn’t more than a provocation, there will be a price for his madness, David Remnick writes.
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February 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
On Tuesday, Donald Trump declared that the two million Palestinians in Gaza should be forced out of the Strip. Even if it isn’t more than a provocation, there will be a price for his madness, David Remnick writes.
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This would be an unlawful seizure of territory in violation of the United Nations Charter, and the forcible transfer of the population of Gaza would constitute crimes against humanity.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Trump Proposes the U.S. Take Over Gaza: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This would be an unlawful seizure of territory in violation of the United Nations Charter, and the forcible transfer of the population of Gaza would constitute crimes against humanity.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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i mean this has literally always been true www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Private Sector on the Front Line
Big Tech and the risky blurring of commercial and security interests.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
i mean this has literally always been true www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...