Lindsay P Cohn

Good lord don’t give them ideas

As Russia's Africa Corps fights in Mali, witnesses describe atrocities from beheadings to rapes The Associated Press has spoken to over 30 refugees from Mali who say they witnessed beheadings, rapes and other abuses committed by Africa Corps, a new military unit under Russia's direct command.

New AP reporting from the Mali–Mauritania border reveals widespread allegations of killings and sexual violence by Africa Corps fighters.

The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab — Grist Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish.

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FDA claims on COVID-19 vaccine safety are unsupported by reliable data – and could severely hinder vaccine access The agency’s plan to change the well-established process for safety testing vaccines is not realistic.

The death of children due to an unsafe vaccine is a serious allegation. What the FDA is saying about the Covid vax is not based on fact.

Article by a pediatric cardiologist who's studied the link between Covid vaccines & heart-related side effects such as myocarditis in children. No pay wall.

If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

Bend but Do Not Break: Shaping the Future of the All-Volunteer Force Amazon.com: Bend but Do Not Break: Shaping the Future of the All-Volunteer Force: 9780197821121: Wharton, Jaron S., Carter, Keith L., Kuzminski, Katherine L., Margulies, Max Z., Dempsey, Jason K., Lee, Carrie A.: Books

Pre-order your copy of "Bend But Do Not Break: Shaping the Future of the All-Volunteer Force," edited by a wonderful group of civ-mil researchers. Ron Krebs and I have a chapter in the book entitled “Polarization, Politicization, and the Future of Democratic Civil-Military Relations.” a.co/d/cLomX8g

One of my favorite movies. Used to show it for movie night w my undergrads and there was SO MUCH to talk about.

ICE Arrest Data Shows Many Immigrants With No Criminal Record In high-profile operations, more than half of those arrested had no criminal record, an analysis shows.

You knew it, right? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

I made the mistake early on of reading MSS the way I did for classes in grad school - shredding them. That was not good or useful.

Think about is as though you’re reading a draft of a student’s paper that needs constructive feedback for the final version. You still make a judgment over whether it’s (mostly) ready or not, but try to give feedback that would help the authors improve.

What were their experiences like?

This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it's likely illegal A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nob...

This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it's likely illegal

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In Burned Forests, the West’s Snowpack Is Melting Earlier - Inside Climate News As blazes expand to higher elevations, the impacts cascade downstream.

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Two jars, the first with very few coins says swear jar. The other jar has May coins and says: telling people about history when I wasn’t asked jar

Me in one image.

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.

You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.

I run the political science DDRIG.

By far the LARGEST growth in people arrested by ICE and thrown into detention centers across the country are from people with absolutely no criminal history on record. See the data below (and here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/breaking-i... ).

Guinea-Bissau soldiers announce Gen. Horta N’Ta as junta leader, cementing coup days after election Thepolitical opposition in Guinea-Bissau has accused President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of staging a coup to avoid defeat in the presidential election.

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau announce Gen. Horta N’Ta as junta leader, cementing a coup days after election.

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

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I, for one, cannot wait for your book. So sending you strength.

Epic take-down of Roger Pielke Jr's appallingly shoddy academic "work", which he's used--as an attack dog of the Koch Brothers-funded think tank AEI--to discredit the case for climate action:

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

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Lots of contemporary commentators lament the lack of a draft bc they think a draft would “bridge the gap” between the military and the general public. But we note that the classical American expectation is NOT a draft, but that state militia and later reserve and guard would serve this function.

S. Korea pushes for soldiers, civil servants to have right to refuse unlawful orders The South Korean government is moving to remove long-standing obedience requirements for civil servants and soldiers, on the heels of former President Yoon Suk

South Korea intends to abolish provisions obligating soldiers and civil servants to follow superiors’ commands even when they may be improper or unlawful.

A roundtrip LAX-JFK flight in the late 60s was around $3K in today’s dollars. The people who wore suits on those flights were the people who regularly wore suits. Complaining about informally-dressed fliers is complaining that the wrong sorts of people are flying today.

ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.