🇺🇳 Utopian who’d love to be a polymath but knows as much as Socrates & Jon Snow. Fascinated with literature, art, law theory, faith, nature, games with agency
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Se ha publicado un cuento corto que he escrito: israelpintor.com/noches-sin-…
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Recalls the memorable end of “A Face in the Crowd “—but maybe these people are being paid & that is why they endure the abuse.
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Welp I know what I’m doing for the next month.
Tomorrow we're releasing a full UATX course for free: all 19 lectures of Professor Isabella Reinhardt's Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome, filmed in class with our students.
It runs from Rome's mythical founding to the Third Century Crisis. It ends on a question the class spent a whole session arguing about: did Rome ever really fall?
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An important essay by David Armitage, reflecting on the intellectual roots of his landmark book, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), published 25 years ago. He reconstructs and reconsiders his own contribution and arguments and the scholarship that was produced on the subject since its original publication. It was an inspirational book for me when I started to work on imperial ideologies in the history and theory of International law in the Americas back in 2007. Really worth reading!
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“The easiest thing for a political leader to do is to appeal to our bigotry and our hatred and xenophobia and prejudice, and point to people who are unlike us and say they’re the ones who are damaging our country," Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., August 5, 2016 on Larry King Now.
There was a time when I completely agreed with my brother. Today, I am deeply ashamed of him.
Arab and Muslim people alike have made extraordinary contributions to the world across literature, science, mathematics, medicine and countless other fields. To name a few, Omar M. Yaghi won the Wolf Prize in Chemistry in 2018 and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2025. Ahmed Zewail won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999, and Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988.
A person’s race, religion, ethnicity or socioeconomic background does not determine their intellect, creativity or capacity to contribute to humanity.
My thoughts are with all those hurt by my brother’s false, cruel and derogatory words.
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Exactly what we need in the absence of a functioning U.S. Department of Justice. An organization of ex-prosecutors and investigators who help can put cases together for current and future prosecutors who will restore accountability for corrupt federal officials and those who benefit from that corruption.
We are facing a crisis of impunity. That's why we built The Rule of Law Project — to investigate unlawful conduct by federal officials, and work with state and local prosecutors to hold them to account.
Watch former DOJ prosecutor Mark Blumberg and human rights leader Brad Adams launch this critical accountability initiative on MSNOW with Nicolle Wallace.
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It should confuse everyone. It's why nobody takes MAGA Christian faith seriously. It's insane to pretend to care for migrants and then elect someone who has build an entire political empire on demonization and dehumanization of migrants. It makes your gospel look small and stupid
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🇱🇺, on behalf of #Benelux, welcomes the annual debate on the veto initiative, which contributes to transparency & accountability of #UNSC.
The veto is a responsibility - not a privilege nor a carte blanche for impunity or a license to disregard the UN’s collective interests
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🕊️ Pope Leo XIV: “There is no such thing as a holy war: only peace is holy!”
In a video message marking 40 years since the historic interreligious gathering in Assisi, convened by St. John Paul II, the pope condemns the growing acceptance of war and calls for dialogue and peace
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cuando Dostoievski dijo «quiero hablar de todo con al menos una persona de la manera en que hablo de las cosas conmigo mismo» y (como si fuera casi lo contrario) cuando Clarice Lispector dijo «es dentro de mí donde debo crear a alguien que comprenda»
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This is how ethnic cleansing always starts. You have to delegitimize the ethnic minority's claims to equal rights.
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Israel’s operation in Hebron has forced over 2,000 Palestinians from their homes. Collective punishment is a grave violation of international law, and threats to empty and erase entire neighbourhoods raise serious concerns about ethnic cleansing.
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“Years do odd things to identity.” A poem by Ursula K. Le Guin.
ALT Leaves BY URSULA K. LE GUIN Years do odd things to identity. What does it mean to say I am that child in the photograph at Kishamish in 1935? Might as well say I am the shadow of a leaf of the acacia tree felled seventy years ago moving on the page the child reads. Might as well say I am the words she read or the words I wrote in other years, flicker of shade and sunlight as the wind moves through the leaves.
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Let us continue to pray together for peace. The day after tomorrow, on 27 October, let us join in spirit with the heads of churches and religious leaders who will gather in Assisi to mark the 40th anniversary of the meeting convened by Saint John Paul II. Never before has it been so clear that wars, as well as sowing death and destruction, impoverish and harm the world. May the Lord inspire choices of dialogue and peace! #PrayTogether
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Pope Leo: "War can never be waged in the name of God. For us believers, to fight in the name of religion means attacking religion itself. There is no such thing as a holy war: only peace is holy." vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/…
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This is quite something ! Serbian RTV channel starts yesterday's bulletin by apologizing to viewers👇
"For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly and failed to ask necessary questions. We owe our viewers an apology”
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L’Ambassadeur a reçu le patriarche Bartholomée Ier et salué son engagement pour le dialogue œcuménique et la paix. Il a salué l’attachement de la France à la liberté de religion et son engagement pour la protection des chrétiens d’Orient.
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This “Palestinians are not a people” hasbara is worse than moronic, it’s evil.
It doesn’t matter if Palestinian was a distinct identity historically. What matters is there were specific people with specific property on specific land who were wrongfully dispossessed of it.
Their argument is like saying “Californians were never historically a people, they are just a subset of North Americans. Therefore, it’s acceptable to take their land and homes, expel them to Canada, and never let them return.”
Palestinianism is not an ethnicity. It is an invented subset of Arabism, which can be hardly separated from Islam. This means the Arab Muslim ethnicity, with its vast population and land, can make room for 8 million Israeli Jews, concede some land for them to be sovereign. This is especially needed because Arabs/Muslims have proven their inability to treat non-Arabs and non-Muslims as their equals. Not only Jews should get their sovereign state, but also Druze, Christians, Kurds, Alawites. It’s a matter of preserving diversity, which is impossible under Arab/Muslim sovereignty.