This piece contains a number of thoughts well worth pondering. Sharing just 2:
1. "How does one boycott & strike in a country where the government wants the economy to collapse?"

Good news via UN:
Humanitarian scaleup in Gaza is underway & "today brought some real progress." For 1st time since March, cooking gas entered the Strip. More tents for displaced families, frozen meat, fresh fruit, flour & medicines also got in. UN & partners distributed 1000s of hot meals & bread

“”but ultimately were only influenced by legal opinions that were given directly to the president, and the president then executed based on those opinions.””

This episode considers many grave arguments worth reflecting on, including ““I suspect that the legal opinions that led to all of the things that are happening in the Caribbean and perhaps the posting of troops… in various cities weren't influenced by what jags said to their commanders…”

13 October 1942 | A French Jewish boy, Jean Stolowicz, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 10 October 1943 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from #Drancy. He was among 491 of them murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/aYKx_zpLSqA

@kschake.bsky.social: ““Where I think there's a misunderstanding among the public is the mistaken belief that the American military can refuse to follow immoral orders or lawful but awful orders. And militaries work on strict chains of command. And they don't have that kind of latitude.””

Exactly. I think this is noteworthy.

Mali has announced that US nationals visiting the West African country will be required to post a bond of up to $10,000 (£7,500) for business and tourist visas, in response to a similar requirement the Trump administration has imposed on its citizens.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Civilian self-protection. This is the United States too

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

2. "I worry that when the gritty cities I love are the focus of attack — and let’s be clear, they have already been violated by ICE — they won’t get the same treatment [as Portland] because they’re not “nice,” even though their people are just as deserving of support."

This piece contains a number of thoughts well worth pondering. Sharing just 2:
1. "How does one boycott & strike in a country where the government wants the economy to collapse?"

In short, the government had two separate grounds when it ordered him deported years ago:

1. The murder conviction
2. The controlled substance trafficking conviction.

The second one may be what dooms him to deportation — despite the 43 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.

What a mess. It is inhumane to put these folks through this stress. Who knows how long reversal will last.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

#UPDATE Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Sunday that they killed dozens of each other's troops during a night of heavy border clashes between the two countries ➡️ u.afp.com/SmRo

Had dinner tonight with a friend who’s a middle school teacher in the southwest. They told me schools now have trainings for when ICE agents sweep through schools to take children, and it’s worse than active shooter trainings, because it’s the government kidnapping children.

This is where we are.

More than 1,000 Israelis have joined forces with a Palestinian-American neurosurgeon to fund an orphan village in Gaza, offering education and care to hundreds of children who lost their parents in the war

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

None of this is popular, which makes the whole thing even more dangerous

What a mess. It is inhumane to put these folks through this stress. Who knows how long reversal will last.