Dr Maha

What will the overall factional balance on the HEC be now?

I regret to inform you that Ryan Grim is actually stupid enough not to understand this:

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Is there a link rather than a screenshot? This is not a very accessible format...

"Government goes to war by deleting the risks section of the pro-con intelligence analysis" is literally the plot of In The Loop.

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

When assessing threats from fascism, the most important thing is not to assess how ridiculous those threats seem, but to assess the scale of the resources - both military and financial - that the fascists can use to carry out those threats. What seems ridiculous today can be executed tomorrow.

Yeah for sure - I was thinking he meant "official state *agency* like army/navy/intelligence services." Not a lot of cases that meet that definition.

Oh no, I think he'd count despite that but Yair's criterion was assassination by another *state* and the Rwandan suspects were all non-state actors.

Often leaders are deposed before they are killed, so they are no longer a head of state at the time of assassination: e.g. Patrice Lumumba.

Some Pakistan experts think the Zia plane crash was assassination by foreign state, but no consensus on which state - the man had many enemies.

Praying no. But she posted something herself of visiting a mosque after a racist attack. She's also been to a few iftars in the community while campaigning. It's not inconceivable there will be footage of her at an actual service, though it'd have to be a mixed one. www.instagram.com/p/DVMFf91CtQi/

article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court

continuation of article 8bis

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

Sssh Charlotte, we were planning to keep this a secret until after Ramadan.

UK followers: I'll be on BBC News sometime between 4:30 and 5pm talking tariffs that were, tariffs that are, and tariffs to come.

Yeah me too, but we can't have everything, alas

The opera AU fan fiction where Rigoletto and Figaro are lads on tour in Egypt and meet Aida who is besties with Madama Butterfly is maybe of niche interest but it is so my niche. God bless the Italians for this gift. #milanocortina2026

Will I make it past the montage scored to "Con Te Partiro" without tearing up? No, no I will not. #milanocortina2026

Gotta put a crash test dummy in a bobsled and push it down the hill so we can get a better sense of what exactly the bobsledders are doing besides hanging on.

My other half had one in Zone 2 but had it instead of microwave, coffeemaker or any other countertop appliance. It was also 12 years ago so I'm recalling vaguely.

I made a bingo card for the tariff press conference

Kaori still a goddess. Absolutely breaking me to see her devastated by this result, even though *she* and the model she set is the reason there are so many greats today.

Well whoever wins women's gold figure skating singles is atop an actual pile of the best athletes and top performances the sport has ever seen in one place. Fantastic stuff.

Like half these women - even people with no shot of medaling - are going to finish with a score above the men's *gold* medalist. Bananas.

That Sakamoto is crying because she knows that *wasn't* good enough for this field is just deranged.

This whole women's field is ridiculous, probably the strongest in about 20 years.

Having the absolute time of her life.

Did I dance in my seat a little to that routine? Yes, yes I did.

I have so much trauma still from the men's that I am half looking away during the big jumps, but so far, so good.

Every year of UCU elections, I point out the voter turnout rate. Every year, it is like 12-14% of all eligible members who vote.
Every year, I see people talk about how out of touch and frankly bonkers the decisions of the national union exec is.
Every year, I explain that these are all connected.

Yeah, for this reason I think there is ultimately going to be a Boris Johnson documentary in which these two - and the way they broke the state - feature as enabling. (Johnson actually isn't tragic, but you can see how a filmmaker might try to paint him that way.)

This came across to me powerfully in the fall, when I saw the UK tour of Hamilton, a show I last saw during Trump's first term. This time, in the shadow of January 6th, it was Washington's Farewell that brought me to tears. He taught us how to say goodbye, but some of us did not learn.