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El ciudadano Esteban @macana144.bsky.social · 3h

Posteó algo re bonito en Linkedin la productora musical del Tiny Desk de 31 Minutos, Anamaria Sayre.

www.linkedin.com/posts/anamar...

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 13h

Bella ciao
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

www.aljazeera.com

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 1d

For the children

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 2d

"One soldier held up an Israeli-made drone, called Thor, which can drop bombs and also parachute units of blood from the sky, factoring in the wind direction, to reach wounded soldiers in Gaza."

The drone's use depends so starkly on whether Israelis see you as human.

www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers were badly wounded in Gaza. Here's what saved them

More than 500 Israeli soldiers have survived serious injuries fighting in Gaza, according to the military, thanks largely to lessons learned and advances in medicine.

www.npr.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 3d

“How is it that the country committing genocide is granted any say in the future of the people against whom it has committed genocide?”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

www.theguardian.com

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 4d

The Israeli goal is to continue the war

LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 4d

Very funny things

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 6d

'Those who remain in Gaza will be considered terrorists and terror supporters'
-Israeli Minister for Defence, Israel Kantz -

Catholic Arena just posted.
#LetGazaLive

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 7d

The issue is trying to lower the temperature by claiming it is lower than it truly is. That factual discrepancy benefits no one but himself.

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 8d

Funny how this entry exists on Wikipedia in Spanish but not in English:
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrin...

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 8d

www.adnradio.cl/2025/08/26/c...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 8d

For @thefirethesetimes.com I spoke to Pablo Abufom, Palestinian Chilean activist, on the limits of Palestinian-ness

open.spotify.com/episode/2iWt...

206/ The Limits of Palestinian-ness w/ Pablo Abufom

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 8d

No treats for genocide enablers.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9d

The self-pity in this set of paragraphs is remarkable.

One former Jewish staffer in the Biden administration who worked on national security issues recalled that while once proud of telling people what he did, any suggestion that he was working on Israel and Gaza felt fraught.

“I was afraid of learning what someone might think, especially someone under 40,” he said. People would drop off cookies for those pulling late nights on the Russia-Ukraine war — there was no such warmth for those pushing Biden’s policies ahead on Israel.

Working on Israel “felt like a long nightmare that never really ended,” the former official said. Trying to balance his longstanding affection for Israel and his outrage for what was happening in Gaza was difficult: “There was no welcome middle ground that was at all possible.”

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 12d

They’re going to get eaten alive in the next election.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 13d

The decision followed an exposé [...] revealing how Unit 8200, [...], was housing intercepted recordings of millions of mobile phone calls by Palestinians [...], creating one of the world’s most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group
www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

www.972mag.com

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 14d

Even the OG fascists think it’s gone too far.
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Italy sends navy ship to help Gaza aid flotilla after drone attack

An international aid flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza said on Wednesday it was attacked overnight by drones in international waters off Greece, prompting Italy to send a navy ship to come to its assistance.

www.reuters.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14d

🇨🇱 Chilean President Boric to the United Nations General Assembly:

"I don't want to see Netanyahu torn apart by a missile along with his family, I want to see Netanyahu and those responsible for the genocide against the Palestinian people brought before an international court of justice.”

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 14d

He and Power suit each other perfectly.

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 15d

“Israel cerrará el Cruce de Allenby, la única vía de paso entre la Cisjordania ocupada por Israel y Jordania, a partir del miércoles y hasta nuevo aviso, informó el martes la Autoridad General Palestina de Fronteras y Cruces".
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Israel to close West Bank-Jordan crossing from Wednesday, Palestinian border authority says

Israel will close the Allenby Crossing, the sole gateway between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan, starting on Wednesday until further notice, the Palestinian General Authority for Borders and Crossings said on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 17d

However: muse.jhu.edu/article/964563

Project MUSE - The Myth of Democratic Resilience

muse.jhu.edu

Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 20d

On the concept of immanence, see Guillermo O’Donnell and Laurence Whitehead’s chapter in this book: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/monogr...

A study like this, which uses a comparative lens and resists romanticizing the US political regime, is somewhat unusual (see: immanent democracy).

Project MUSE - Democratization in America

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 20d

Part of the issue lies in the image of the “shining city on a hill.”
The US sees itself as an “immanent democracy” - the belief that it is inherently democratic. This fosters the assumption that whatever happens is democratic, encouraging complacency and hollowing out the norms sustaining democracy.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20d

What America is going through is not unusual in historical terms. Plenty of examples like it today elsewhere in the world.
What makes it unusual is the rapid collapse from a set of widely espoused norms and values that centered on liberty. It is the sacking of the shining city on hill that shocks.

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 22d

“Una comisión de investigación de la ONU ha concluido que Israel está cometiendo genocidio en Gaza y acusó a altos funcionarios israelíes, incluido Benjamin Netanyahu, de incitarlo”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Rodolfo Disi Pavlic @rdisip.bsky.social · 22d

It's really interesting to see how people with the same surnames, often from the same two or three cities in Palestine, and sometimes even the same families, can have such different behaviors based on whether they ended up in El Salvador or Chile.

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