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King of the who?
Still hits. Harder than ever.
#MontyPython #PowerAndLegitimacy #StillRelevant

Loved his music, an intelligent man.

"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel."

From my Piers Morgan debate with Israeli spokesman Doron Spielman.

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What a decent President says.

Hungary election: Viktor Orbán ousted after 16 years in power as opposition heads for landslide - follow live The long-serving prime minister concedes defeat to Péter Magyar, who has promised closer EU ties and an anti-corruption drive.

Yes. Finally.
One less autocrat.
Power looks permanent. It isn’t.
It cracks. It ends. It falls.
#Authoritarianism #EndOfPower #DemocracyWins #Panarchy

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

Entire villages erased. Not collateral. Pattern.
When civilian space becomes a target, law has already failed.

#InternationalLaw #WarCrimes #Lebanon #NetanyahuWarCriminal

What is he going to do? Make genocidal threats again? Surrender again? If this is a play for anything it would be to make sure the US negotiators get a personal cut. But Iran’s victory is so decisive that I am not sure why they would even consider paying off Kushner, Witkoff, and new guy Vance.

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu.

Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran?

Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Projection.
#BlameShift #AuthoritarianPlaybook #ElectionInterference

“We want to live in a free, European Democracy. After 16 years of sorrow, corruption and Russian influence. We have had enough”

The organisers & singers at the massive Budapest concert told me why Orban has to go.

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

Strong thread by Timothy Snyder.
Clear, precise, and necessary.
Read it. Share it. 🌍🌎🌏

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

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‘Killing machine’: Lebanon mourns as Israeli raids shake US-Iran ceasefire UN human rights chief Volker Turk describes Israel's attacks on Lebanon as 'horrific' coming so soon after ceasefire.

The Trumps. The Netanyahus. The autocrats. And others.
No clarification. No hesitation.
Create facts first.
Make the system adapt.

#StrongmanPolitics
#MightOfPower
#ActThenJustify

Netanyahu is bombing Lebanon because his political career (and therefore avoidance of prosecution) depends on constant war. How many more people must die for the sake of one man's standing?

The combination of a very strong #ElNiño - which should reduce harvests across Asia, Australia, Africa, and parts of the Americas - with soaring fertilizer and fuel prices, owing to the ongoing closure of the Strait of #Hormuz, could make for a devastating year of food shortages and social unrest.

Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu
He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.” #cdnpoli

Nobody has ever seen numbers like this. Beautiful numbers. Strong numbers. Some say the strongest numbers. It’s going up, up, up. That’s how you know it’s working. Very sophisticated. People don’t get it. They say “price is high.” Wrong. It’s value. It’s future. It’s… generational. Big word.

In an age of creeping relativism, a universal moral law still exists.

Threatening to end an entire civilization of 90 million people in order to bend a nation’s conduct to your will is grossly morally wrong. It is evil. And we should say this loudly.

Deflection

If Orbán Loses Hungary's Election, It Will Dispel the Air of Invincibility Around Strongmen This would prove that consolidating power does not protect authoritarians from self-destructing, especially when a smart opposition exploits their vulnerabilities

Power concentrates. Then it cracks.
#Panarchy

Climate activist Greta Thunberg slams Trump’s threats against Iran Polls have found that young people in the United States are more sceptical of foreign intervention and war on Iran.

"We have normalised genocide, total annihilation of entire people, the systematic destruction of the biosphere which we are all depending on to survive, and that corrupt, racist war criminals can act with complete impunity,”
--Greta Thunberg

Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.

For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.

Not the first time he is hiding... A pattern

This is not rhetoric. Genocidal framing. It lowers the threshold of violence. Complicity extends across the chain. Silence is agreement. So must legal consequence.
#ThisEmboldensAuthoritarians

Yup.

Trump is the embodiment of FIFA

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.