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I have 141,500 followers. My last 10 tweets have a cumulative 47 RTs. Not each. This is adding all the RTs in my last 10 tweets. 3 of them have zero RTs. I think the free speech absolutist is censoring me guys
I have 140,800 followers. My last 10 tweets have a cumulative 50 RTs. Not each. This is adding all the RTs in my last 10 tweets. 3 of them have zero RTs. I think the free speech absolutist is censoring me guys
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Yeah that’s a pretty big thing to miss
“Maybe I was late in concluding that that wasn’t entirely true—that there was a policy for parts of Gaza to be made uninhabitable,” [Walzer] said. A moment later, he added, “I was certainly slow to see that.”
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Fun fact: the map seems outdated. Texas has already seceded (so post 1836) but Costa Rica is still part of the Federal Republic of Central America (so pre 1838). This map is ~1837. But by then the Gran Colombia had already dissolved into Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela (1831)
Ottoman map of the Americas in the 19th century
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Lol ouch. Truly the best interviewer in the business
Me: "What does it say for your credibility on foreign policy issues, if you've gotten the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime, Iraq and Gaza, both wrong?" Matthew Yglesias: "I don't know, what does it mean to get Gaza right?" New clip: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesias-me…
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The “legal loophole” referenced here is that there is a mistrial when the DA expressly admits he does not have evidence to convict, but the Judge sends him whatsapp messages giving him direct advice on how to make his case and tamper with plea bargains so he can find you guilty
Replying to @Alonso_GD
I mean, we did put him to jail because of corruption, but due to a legal loophole, he was able to be freed, mainly because from doings of the political group that is currently at hold of opposition, the Bolsonaristas. (...)
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The issue with Walzer has never been the in bello / ad bellum distinction, but a Eurocentrism that doesn’t let him accept that the invaded/attacked country is Palestine, not Israel so, ad bellum, the just cause was never the latter’s regardless of the former’s in bello violations
Michael Walzer published “Just and Unjust Wars,” an attempt to delineate the rights and wrongs of warfare in both its causes and its conduct, in 1977. In the nearly 50 years since, no other book on the subject has matched its influence. The precepts are not complicated: it is just to defend your country from an invasion and it is unjust to invade a country that has not attacked you—although Walzer does allow for exceptions, mostly for humanitarian causes. It is just to assume certain risks to avoid civilian casualties and it is unjust to bomb towns indiscriminately to compel an enemy to surrender. The justice of going to war—what philosophers call jus ad bellum—is separate from jus in bello, the justice of how a war is fought. The war in Gaza has made Walzer rethink one of the book’s fundamental principles. “The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy,” Jordi Graupera writes. As Walzer said to him, “There is a sense in which the carnage of Gaza, the ongoing carnage, simply made the war unjust.” Read about why a philosopher of war is now reconsidering his seminal work: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/T7…
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Alonso Gurmendi retweeted
Walzer gets it backwards (again): Israel’s war on Gaza did not become unjust because of its cruelty; it was unjust from the beginning as a modality of a politically, morally and legally untenable occupation. It has always been wrong to think an unjust war could be waged justly.
Michael Walzer published “Just and Unjust Wars,” an attempt to delineate the rights and wrongs of warfare in both its causes and its conduct, in 1977. In the nearly 50 years since, no other book on the subject has matched its influence. The precepts are not complicated: it is just to defend your country from an invasion and it is unjust to invade a country that has not attacked you—although Walzer does allow for exceptions, mostly for humanitarian causes. It is just to assume certain risks to avoid civilian casualties and it is unjust to bomb towns indiscriminately to compel an enemy to surrender. The justice of going to war—what philosophers call jus ad bellum—is separate from jus in bello, the justice of how a war is fought. The war in Gaza has made Walzer rethink one of the book’s fundamental principles. “The wall between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, which had sustained his theory for almost half a century, was no longer sturdy,” Jordi Graupera writes. As Walzer said to him, “There is a sense in which the carnage of Gaza, the ongoing carnage, simply made the war unjust.” Read about why a philosopher of war is now reconsidering his seminal work: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/T7…
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Reading recommendations: “The Souls of Black Folk”, WEB Du Bois (1903) “The Indian Problem”, José Carlos Mariátegui (1928) “The Question of Palestine”, Edward Said (1979)
Name one other minority in history whose very existence was openly and ubiquitously discussed as an international “Problem” to be solved.
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Brazil is choosing between a guy who did a boat orgy during covid with ties to racketeering death squads and a guy who had the entire establishment trying to put him in jail for corruption and couldn’t
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Alonso Gurmendi retweeted
I wonder if winning 1st round of Brazil election wasn't the worst thing that cd have happened to Flávio Bolsonaro. It thrust him + his many skeletons into the spotlight; delivered massive jolt to the left + centre, who have awoken and are mobilizing; & allowed FB to start dreaming of power he doesn't yet hold, which seems to have distracted him. Even Bolsonaristas I've met travelling Brazil in recent days are nervous & seem to think their man has taken his eye of the ball, while the left is on the march.
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Interesting to see every single international law scholar remaining on Twitter (most left for BlueSky/Linkedin) outraged at the US’ backtrack re Myanmar
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Alonso Gurmendi retweeted
Two and a half years ago, your boss said this 👇 Today you are trying to bully ICJ judges into the opposite position. A reversal that exposes the shameful hollowness of his purported concern for the rights of the Rohingya people.
ICJ ad hoc "judge" Navi Pillay is tipping the scales on the ICJ’s current proceedings on Myanmar, intending to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a finger against terrorists that hide behind civilians. Pillay: We see your agenda and we'll be watching the ICJ’s handling of these proceedings very closely. As our actions against the ICC demonstrate, we will not allow globalist, faux-judges to weaponize the law against our troops, undermine our sovereignty, or put American lives at risk.   The Nobel Committee has disgraced itself by awarding the Peace Prize to Pillay. What a shameful choice to "honor" someone who represents an "international community" with a leftist, globalist, antisemitic agenda. President Trump is showing a better way, by actually ENDING WARS, bringing hostages HOME, and making PEACE.
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Sometimes you can’t TACO, Burrito
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Oh that’s a very interesting conspiracy theory but here’s me organising academic events, following the case and using my platforms to raise awareness of it at its height in 2018-2020. What were you doing 2018-2020 re Myanmar?
Replying to @Alonso_GD
You guys do not and never cared that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya. The mass killing of the Rohingya is completely irrelevant to you. But because you're obsessed with third world hatreds of the Arab world, you raise it once there's a Jew connection.
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I wonder if he knows that there’s 16 other judges in this case. That’s at least an 8-judge scale she - one of the leading experts in genocide law, selected to this case back when Western states were anti genocide - is supposedly “tipping”
ICJ ad hoc "judge" Navi Pillay is tipping the scales on the ICJ’s current proceedings on Myanmar, intending to lower the legal threshold for proving genocide so that weakened and false standard can later be weaponized against American and allied soldiers whenever they raise a finger against terrorists that hide behind civilians. Pillay: We see your agenda and we'll be watching the ICJ’s handling of these proceedings very closely. As our actions against the ICC demonstrate, we will not allow globalist, faux-judges to weaponize the law against our troops, undermine our sovereignty, or put American lives at risk.   The Nobel Committee has disgraced itself by awarding the Peace Prize to Pillay. What a shameful choice to "honor" someone who represents an "international community" with a leftist, globalist, antisemitic agenda. President Trump is showing a better way, by actually ENDING WARS, bringing hostages HOME, and making PEACE.
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Insane.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
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For comparison, the Chief Executive of the entire NHS England, overseeing every hospital and every strategic decision for the public healthcare system in England, one of the most complex jobs in the country, makes £270,000
It appears that the Israel lobby group Creative Community for Peace advertised a UK-based job. CCFP is legally the same entity as StandWithUs, which is funded by the Israeli PM’s office. CCFP was key to the campaign against Kneecap. The annual wage is £700,000.
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Alonso Gurmendi retweeted
To understand what is at stake in Brazil: ⬅️ 19 Oct: Visiting Pará state, Flávio Bolsonaro promises to end “environmental obstacles” and says producers can do “whatever they want” ➡️ 21 Oct: Pará has Brazil’s most fire hotspots in 2026, with 571 in the last 48h, @inpe_mcti says
Finally some global engagement with Brazilian politics. Again guys it’s only the place that is deciding how much oxygen the planet will produce for the next 4-8 years, no biggy
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Pitch: "AI will cure cancer" Reality: AI killed the Internet
Whats happening right now is probably way worse than the Hugging Face incident. AI-powered attacks are hitting real organizations while major platforms disclose breaches and critical flaws. - Microsoft reports AI agents targeting hundreds of organizations, reaching privileged cloud access in under three hours in multiple cases. It attributes the ConnectWise compromise to the same group. - CrowdStrike documented four operators running successful AI-agent campaigns. One compromised at least 15 Argentine healthcare organizations. - PHP2Shell: AI helped turn longstanding PHP flaws into working exploits. Cloudflare’s CEO reports millions of exploitation attempts. Their AI involvement is unknown. - Railway disclosed possible access to customer secrets. LiteLLM shipped a backdoored release. Zeabur confirmed another breach and is shutting down. - GitLab patched a maximum-severity flaw affecting 12 years of releases. Node.js patched a serious code-execution vulnerability, with Vercel deploying firewall protections. Feels like a turningpoint.
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Jews are not responsible for Israel's actions, Hen.
Instead of saying “Jews control the economy,” now they say, “Israel is why oil prices are high.” It’s the same bigotry, just a modern mutation.
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