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Way early in my career, I helped represent a man from Cameroon seeking asylum. We prevailed. He was granted asylum and eventually got legal status. Worked for DoD in contracting for a time. Got a master’s and PhD here!

If the admin sends him back, he’ll be killed.

This is my least popular post relating to Epstein from the past week.

It is wild to me that so many people believe the Epstein files will ultimately be the thing to take down Trump.

If we were on that path, *this* wouldn’t be a controversial take.

Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

1000s of women gave repeated testimony of how a wealthy group of predators raped and abused them. And when the files to prove it come out, society gives all the credit to conspiracy theorists “for being right.”

“Jakob Hohwy’s much anticipated new book delivers on all fronts. A masterful examination of what it means to be an ‘agent’....Essential reading for anyone interested why they are the way they are.” - @anilseth.bsky.social author of BEING YOU

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you."

That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

Former Israeli Hostage Liat Atzili & “Holding Liat” Director Brandon Kramer: Part 2 Extended conversation with Liat Beinin Atzili, an Israeli American high school teacher who was held hostage in Gaza for 54 days after being seized on October 7, 2023. Her story is the focus of the new...

Extended conversation with Liat Beinin Atzili, an Israeli American high school teacher who was held hostage in Gaza for 54 days after being seized on October 7, 2023. Her story is the focus of the new documentary Holding Liat, directed by Brandon Kramer.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

just seeing the words “I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act” feels revelatory actually???

especially with Senate Dems considering INCREASING their budget

you’ve gotta hope at least that if they’re not listening to us, they’re listening to the angry House reps who know where their offices are

I don't need to watch someone get murdered in cold blood to understand that ICE is a fascist police force that should be abolished.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

London spent at least 3 centuries building the largest Empire in human history, with informal hegemony over much of the Middle East and South America. It took about 3 decades for this to seriously unravel once local populations collectively decided to get the British out.

Snow worsens the suffering of residents in northern Syria’s camps - Enab Baladi Snowstorms are isolating displacement camps in northern and northwestern Syria from nearly everything. Tents packed tightly side by side, blanketed […]

"Snowstorms are isolating displacement camps in northern and northwestern Syria from nearly everything. Tents packed tightly side by side, blanketed by a layer of snow, turn into cramped spaces that cannot keep families warm."

am in the UK where they are cheaper but have got some for like 100-200£ from the outnet and yoox ❤️

Iranian security forces have opened fire on protesters in Lordegan.

European human rights court questions UK decision to strip Shamima Begum of citizenship Begum’s lawyers argue she was child trafficking victim when she travelled to live under IS in Syria in 2015

European Court of Human Rights questions UK govt on 2019 decision to remove Shamima Begum’s UK citizenship, asking how it complies with UK responsibilities to victims of trafficking. Begum went to Syria in 2015 at age 15 and married ISIS fighter.
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May this be the year Gazans find safety and the international protection to which they’re entitled. May Adham see the future he deserves.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s old tweets should not eclipse his courage We were all working out what to do with social media back then, and nowhere more so than in the world’s dictatorships

That rare thing, a sensible article in the Times

Israel Braces for Lebanon Strikes as Hezbollah Disarmament Deadline Passes | Israel Hayom American ultimatum demanding Hezbollah disarm expires tonight. IDF has conducted 390 strikes since ceasefire as terror group commits over 2,000 violations. Security establishment awaits Prime Minister...

Hawkish article published today by Israel Hayom as the deadline for the disarmament of Hezbollah has passed.

www.israelhayom.com/2025/12/31/i...

Might become the kind of person who gets angry about fireworks displays being too woke, as a bit.

The govt is undermining itself and making a Farage government more likely by doing awful things to trans people, disabled people, immigrants, Palestinians, democratic protesters, the environment, the creative industries, pensioners, many of their own MPs and (until recently) children in poverty.

FACT OF THE DAY. 1 January 1973. UK officially became a member of the European Economic Community (EEC). The Daily Mail was very enthusiastic about Britain’s entry at the time.

Lovely fireworks celebrating our amazing city. Moving back here was a highlight of this year ❤️

a white cat is sitting on a plate with sparklers in the background . Alt: a white cat is sitting on a plate with sparklers in the background .

Flipping BBC assuming we are all out socialising when in reality we are sat on our holes, glass in hand, tapping our devices waiting for the next distraction from our hollow, lonely, mediocre lives just like we have been the last 30 years.

Yes, I’m fine, why?

Happy New Year. #HNY #NYE

Heritage Foundation undergoes mass staff exodus as cracks open on the New Right The divisions are no longer just between pro-Trump and anti-Trump conservatives.

“Nearly the entire legal & economic policy staff of the Heritage Foundation is departing” in a “rebuke of Heritage President Kevin Roberts in the wake of his refusal to retract an Oct video defending Tucker Carlson for conducting a friendly interview w/ … [anti-Semite] Nick Fuentes.” 12/22/25…1/

Column | How ancient Sparta explains 2026 Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.

Netanyahu, the Trump administration and others on the global right are drawing renewed inspiration from a Greek city-state mythologized for its militarism.

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It seems to be the clear position of Charlie Downes - the campaigns director of Restore Britain - that Kemi Badenoch "is not British and never will be" as it is dependent on ancestry.

There we all were thinking that being on our own was what Brexit-loving papers such as The Mail craved.

Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and stra...

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com