Let me get right to the point. The Senate should not confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general.
Here's why: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-senate-should-not-confirm-this
If true, I have serious concerns about this being a war crime.
Under the laws of armed conflict:
Proportionality: the military advantage has to outweigh the anticipated civilian harm.
Hard to see what military advantage would outweigh robbing 20k people of drinking water.
The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said.
The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes.
Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.
Happy Wednesday.
The attempt to capture and contain us in nation-states inevitably leads to massive resentment, b/c no nation-state can live up to its promises.
Reducing communities to "nations" creates false alliances (cross-class) and false enemies ("the foreigner"), and is how fascism is seen as an answer.
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The poverty of "left internationalism" is on full display in the latest @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social show.
Matt Duss (Bernie's former foreign policy adviser) shows how "internationalism" is just another nationalist project, in his case, promoting "more equal" relations between "nations."
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"Nation-to-nation" rhetoric fails to properly analyze the scale and scope of human society, which is not national but planetary
To contain human society in nation-states leads, as the issue of immigration shows, to the kinds of inequality that "internationalists" say they can ameliorate.
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2026 and still we we must fight for equity…..
When media outlets broadcast the ethnicity of suspects in their headlines when it's of no relevance, its because they want to incite violence. It has to be. At this point, they know what they are doing.