Victor Silverman
@victorsilverman.bsky.social
Author, Filmmaker, Professor of Contemporary US and International History. Emeritus Professor Pomona College.
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Cruzando la línea | Penguin Libros
«Ya es hora de tener un debate público amplio y bien informado sobre cuál debe ser el papel de las Fuerzas Armadas en México y cómo tienen que cambiar sus funciones en el tiempo presente y de cara al futuro.» -Ted Lewis
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Con Miguel TInker Salas contribuimos un capítulo, “La militarización de la política de drogas mexicana: pasado y presente” a este libro importante “CRUZANDO LA LÍNEA: LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS EN MÉXICO”
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The genocide in Gaza is not over:
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The genocide in Gaza is not over:
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
The genocide in Gaza is not over:
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The genocide in Gaza is not over:
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"We live not in a post-Holocaust world of “Never Again,” but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of “Again and Again”
My colleague & friend Raz Segal in @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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[The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal | The Guardian]
“We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’“
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’“
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
[The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal | The Guardian]
“We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’“
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’“
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech www.juancole.com/2025/11/cali...
California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - On October 7, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 715 into law, which criminalizes any criticism of Israel as an act of anti-Semitism, punishable by crimi...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech www.juancole.com/2025/11/cali...
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See for example how #17 in this extortion agreement claims to take measures to “protect Jews” when #29, in close proximity, rolls out a host of measures that discriminate against trans individuals. This is such incredible pile of 💩, shame upon Northwestern for caving to this nonsense.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 AM
See for example how #17 in this extortion agreement claims to take measures to “protect Jews” when #29, in close proximity, rolls out a host of measures that discriminate against trans individuals. This is such incredible pile of 💩, shame upon Northwestern for caving to this nonsense.
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The term "has historic roots, including Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the US and abroad" www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The term "has historic roots, including Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the US and abroad" www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...
They're not drug traffickers if they are right-wingers.
The great American war on drugs in a nut shell.
The great American war on drugs in a nut shell.
“Additionally, I Will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that | greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
They're not drug traffickers if they are right-wingers.
The great American war on drugs in a nut shell.
The great American war on drugs in a nut shell.
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DOJ press release from 2024:
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, 55, also known as JOH, was sentenced today to 540 months in prison and 60 months of supervised release for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses. The former two-term president was in office until weeks before his extradition to the United States in April 2022. Hernández was convicted on March 8 following a
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November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
DOJ press release from 2024:
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
This is an important precedent, though Eck was punished in an international tribunal. The US has tried and convicted its own soldiers for murder as well--dozens were tried and convicted during the Vietnam War, most famously Lt. William Calley for My Lai massacre. Most went unpunished.
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is an important precedent, though Eck was punished in an international tribunal. The US has tried and convicted its own soldiers for murder as well--dozens were tried and convicted during the Vietnam War, most famously Lt. William Calley for My Lai massacre. Most went unpunished.
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Historical precedent of note...
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Historical precedent of note...
Hegseth is war criminal.
This is clearly murder and has been clearly murder from the start. It is almost certainly a violation of US law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and international law.
This is clearly murder and has been clearly murder from the start. It is almost certainly a violation of US law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and international law.
America is committing mass murder as a matter of policy. There is video of two men clinging to a boat after being hit by a missile; Hegseth ordered these helpless men slaughtered by a second strike.
The depravity of it all.
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The depravity of it all.
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hegseth is war criminal.
This is clearly murder and has been clearly murder from the start. It is almost certainly a violation of US law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and international law.
This is clearly murder and has been clearly murder from the start. It is almost certainly a violation of US law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and international law.
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America is committing mass murder as a matter of policy. There is video of two men clinging to a boat after being hit by a missile; Hegseth ordered these helpless men slaughtered by a second strike.
The depravity of it all.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The depravity of it all.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
America is committing mass murder as a matter of policy. There is video of two men clinging to a boat after being hit by a missile; Hegseth ordered these helpless men slaughtered by a second strike.
The depravity of it all.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The depravity of it all.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hegseth is a war criminal and I think it doesn’t get the attention it deserves because he’s also stupid and it’s hard to reconcile the gravity of his crimes with his clownish persona www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Impeachable offense, in a sane world
NEW: DOJ said tonight that it was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem who made the call to proceed with the deportation of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador, despite a judge's order seeking to block the transfer.
w/ @joshgerstein
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w/ @joshgerstein
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November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Impeachable offense, in a sane world
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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Sleeper issue around the data center boom: cooling water used for Amazon's server farms in Eastern Oregon creates major groundwater contamination issue, poisoning local drinking water. thefern.org/2025/11/the-...
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
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November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sleeper issue around the data center boom: cooling water used for Amazon's server farms in Eastern Oregon creates major groundwater contamination issue, poisoning local drinking water. thefern.org/2025/11/the-...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
It's just Monopoly pieces to Witkoff and Trump.
"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
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Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It's just Monopoly pieces to Witkoff and Trump.
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Every time I think this administration has plumbed the depths of incompetence, it goes down another level. Will this make Putin think he should end the war? Or will it make him think that if he keeps pushing, the US will offer him even more?
"Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere."
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
Gift link (for 7 days) ⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
-- Steve Witkoff, in his call to Putin aide Yuri Ushakov
Read the whole transcript of the Oct 14 call. It's amazing.
Gift link (for 7 days) ⤵️
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript
The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Every time I think this administration has plumbed the depths of incompetence, it goes down another level. Will this make Putin think he should end the war? Or will it make him think that if he keeps pushing, the US will offer him even more?
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At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
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Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
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November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
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Ezra Klein's chart doesn't say what he thinks it says cepr.net/publications...
Ezra Klein Needs to Look More Closely at His Housing Chart
A look at why today’s housing shortage stems less from zoning and more from the long shadow of the 2008 housing bubble and its collapse.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ezra Klein's chart doesn't say what he thinks it says cepr.net/publications...
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The level of anti-Muslim bigotry and harassment by MAGA is out of control, folks.
They're going after kids just for praying peacefully and quietly.
Vile stuff. Look what they did to Mamdani. Thankfully, the majority is rejecting it.
They're going after kids just for praying peacefully and quietly.
Vile stuff. Look what they did to Mamdani. Thankfully, the majority is rejecting it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 AM
The level of anti-Muslim bigotry and harassment by MAGA is out of control, folks.
They're going after kids just for praying peacefully and quietly.
Vile stuff. Look what they did to Mamdani. Thankfully, the majority is rejecting it.
They're going after kids just for praying peacefully and quietly.
Vile stuff. Look what they did to Mamdani. Thankfully, the majority is rejecting it.
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Human Rights Watch Report: "The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity" www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity
The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said ...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Human Rights Watch Report: "The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity" www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
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"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes."
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"America’s 902 billionaires are collectively worth more than $6.7 trillion, the most wealth ever amassed by the nation’s ultra-rich, according to Forbes."
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
wapo.st/4ipXaBd
"Trump’s Cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with a combined net worth of $7.5 billion."
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