40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.
What just happened ...
Comedy: Jamie Kaler
New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar
“Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive”
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Welcoming all of us to the 62nd annual Conflict Research Society Conference at the University of Kent this year!
Thanks to @kristinmbakke.bsky.social @nadineansorg.bsky.social @finnklebe.bsky.social Ana Lucia Pelaez Echeverria & Isadora Gotts!
#CRS2025
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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War affects nature in so many ways you would never think of without seeing it first. Birds on the front lines weave their nests from fiber optics. Photo from AzovMedia
Imagine what the news coverage would be like if Hamas had just killed 700+ Israelis.
But it’s Palestinians being murdered, so it’s a foot note.
Hundreds of children brutally killed with US-supplied weapons, but life goes on like nothing is happening.
Jeder fünfte Wähler hat für die AfD gestimmt. Ein Warnsignal, denn die Partei hat Düsteres vor. Was man ihr nun entgegensetzen müsste.
Spoiler: das Gegenteil, was die Union gerade mit der Zivilgesellschaft (s. Kleine Anfrage) macht.
Mein Leitartikel:
www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
How did modern democracy spread so widely? @stasavage.bsky.social with an interesting review of our book "The Deep Roots of Modern Democracy" (and other recent contributions on the topic) in the JHPE. Important discussion in these difficult times. www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
For those seeing rapid de-institutionalization occurring in the United States, there's plenty out there on unconstrained executives that stops short of full-blown, North Korea-esque authoritarian rule.
There's a term for it, too:
Hyperpresidentialism
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Deliver...
Zelenskyy has been more faithfully following the Ukrainian constitution (re: elections and martial law) than Trump has been following the US constitution (re: basically everything)
Join us in Helsinki or online on 24 February to discuss three years of Ukraine's resistance
Thanks to Aleksanteri Institute, @amtolok.bsky.social, @sierrasalazar.bsky.social, Maija Harju, @unabergmane.bsky.social for organising!
A point to consider.
Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
The (Indian) author forgot to mention that no part of this “relocation” was voluntary and by choice. That it was bloody, traumatic and fractured an entire continent forever. That it tore families apart forever, including mine. @wsj.com has really set the bar for bigotry too low.
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
This was a bad week for Germany, and for the EU. A stable German government seems, after what we have witnessed, further away than ever. This is not good news at a time when Trump is US President, France remains very instable, and everyone is hoping for the next DE government to take on leadership.
check on people
they are not okay
even the strong ones
I am not okay
I joke a lot
I hide it
but be nice
check on
your peoples
Wow.
#Merz is so solidly in charge of the CDU and his campaign that no other than Angela #Merkel felt compelled to intervene (not her style at all, under different circumstances). www.buero-bundeskanzlerin-ad.de/erklaerungen...
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
"It should not surprise us then that, as völkisch-authoritarian racism surged at home, Germany yet again became complicit, through its unconditional solidarity with Netanyahu, Smotrich, Gallant and Ben-Gvir, in murderous ethnonationalism."
It'll be decades until German liberals see Mishra's point.
