In Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian forces killed two children and their mothers in a missile strike.
Seven people were killed, and several others were injured. Among the killed were a primary school teacher and her 9-year-old son, and a 13-year-old girl and her mother.
I spoke to someone running an aid kitchen in Beirut. He told me way less donations are coming in this time. Also Western Union and Whish money transferring services have blocked them from receiving money transfers.
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Not to mention one of the vilest fundamentalist regimes on earth, in Afghanistan. Gender apartheid, virulent religious persecution, state murder of LGBT+ people, torture used as criminal punishment.
Mahmood wants to abandon ppl to: the Sudanese Civil War, deadliest armed conflict on earth. Myanmar Civil War, in 5th year w/ no end in sight. War b/w Pakistan Army & Afghan Taliban, 10,000s displaced in just days since its start. Cameroon's dictatorship, ordered killings & mass arrests last Oct.
policy positions, and this war is so evil and insane (and if, god forbid, it goes on for longer, massively economically damaging) that some Ref & Con voters might just have enough of the civilisationalist BS on this one issue.
I think now that Farage has idiotically lined up w/ Starmer & Badenoch behind war on Iran, there is a bit of a hope that Polanski can reach beyond the left-of-centre vote. There is nothing about right-wing views on domestic issues that necessarily implies agreement w/ right-wing parties' foreign
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HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.
A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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Family visas also down, student numbers just about holding up.
Small boats still top way for people seeking to reach us through irregular means
Primarily from the most dangerous countries on earth, who have NO SAFE ROUTE TO ESCAPE: Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan & Somalia.
We'll see Meloni at Columbia yet, doing joint lectures with Hillary Clinton
Unless, that is, it's Prime Minister Farage or Badenoch by that time, and UK withdrawal hanging over everything...
And the ECtHR may find it safer to deliver a strong ruling on these issues in a judgment against the UK rather than more conservative states, right? (Not a good thing for adjudication to have this kind of stuff taken into consideration, but as a practical matter)
We reject the EU’s enforcement of ICE-style immigration policy.
The proposed Deportation Regulation violates human rights - and will leave people too scared to seek healthcare out of fear of deportation.
Public spaces should NEVER be used for imprisonment and control.
Connected q - I seem to remember an (academic IR?) article arguing that airstrikes can't (basically ever) produce regime change (perhaps also that misconceptions to the contrary are a big problem w/ policy-making re mass atrocities). Does it ring a bell by any chance? No luck w/ my own searches.
Stephanie Hallett is still around and is currently U.S. ambassador to Bahrain 👍🏼
3d, we’re waiting for a follow-up ruling by Judge Eric Tostrud, who entered a temporary restraining order on 1/24 barring govt from “destroying or altering evidence” relating to the Pretti shooting. News reports say Tostrud played it close to the vest at the hearing.
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A dissenting judge (below) would have allowed the ¶ that barred pepper-spraying nonviolent protesters. Majority said order was a vague, “obey-the-law” injunction, which is forbidden. (Majority judges apptd by GWBush & Trump; dissenter by GWBush.) ...
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Three updates on MN cases ICYMI.
1st, in Tincher v Noem, brought by 6 observers, 8th Circuit extended a stay blocking Judge Menendez’s order trying to ban illegal stops, arrests, & violence vs peaceful protesters. ...
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storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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An appeal to the hive mind: I'm hoping to reach out to Tibetan writers to seek reviewers for @mekongreview.com (and also just to be in touch more generally in case there are pitches/ideas/translations Mekong Review could potentially publish)—who should I be talking to?
"[A]s for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief [before gunshots are fired]"
Dennis Skinner also voted leave (but of course he wouldn't in a million years do the slightest thing that helps Farage, let alone join his gang)
1000 days ago we woke up to my then 3 year old asking me if I could turn that horrible sound (of gunshots and explosions) off, because it’s scary. My heart goes out to everyone, especially those parenting while surviving this war in Sudan and elsewhere. May it all end inshallah. Everywhere.
Congratulations! Enormously fascinating, I look forward to reading it.
well, well, well if it isn't the book I started working on in 2017:
academic.oup.com/book/61769
Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
ICYMI: My piece on Quebec's provincial constitution bill's problems in The Line.
Quote: “The Várhelyi affair poses a question the Union has never had to answer so starkly: What happens when a member state treats the institutions it helped create not as a common project, but as hostile territory to be infiltrated and undermined?”
EU Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi faces allegations of involvement in espionage by Hungary against the European Union.
ALBERTO ALEMANNO (@alemanno.bsky.social) explains why the Várhelyi Affair is a test of institutional self-defence – and how the EU can respond.
verfassungsblog.de/varhelyi-com...
