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Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Awards for Palestinians, impunity for Israelis.

Truly vile, but also a rip-off of Golda Meir.

This is the enduring legacy of authoritarian regimes, even after their fall: the destruction of trust and social capital.

“the CAH group had extraordinarily high scores on the Interpersonal/Affective facets yet relatively low scores on the Lifestyle/Antisocial facets. LPA identified the expected four latent classes, with most CAH men located within the Callous-Conning class.”
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En la cabeza de Punta Peuco, la dupla de psicólogas que evaluó rasgos psicopáticos de 101 exuniformados presos: “En general las conductas no eran impulsivas, eran organizadas" | The Clinic Un estudio clínico a 101 condenados de Punta Peuco detectó altos niveles de frialdad emocional y manipulación. La psicóloga Elizabeth León-Mayer explica los hallazgos.

“[E]l primer estudio científico directo sobre violadores de derechos humanos en Chile […] revela un hallazgo incómodo: menos impulsividad que en la delincuencia común, pero niveles excepcionalmente altos de frialdad emocional, manipulación y ausencia de culpa”.
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I don't say all this in anger, but with profound sadness. For the first time in my lifetime, the United States has become a place where I neither want to be nor want to send my children to study. That a majority of voters in the United States chose and enabled this political project not once but twice and continue to endow it with a healthy level of support, gives me sorrow beyond measure. It is the sorrow the comes from knowing that we cannot unsee what we're seeing. Whateverhappens in the future, this stain will stay. And as Geoffrey Firmin, the aging drunken consul in John Huston's movie "Under the Volcano," had it, "Some things you can't apologize for"

Having spent half my adult life in the US, earning my BA and PhD, and making so many friends, this essay captures much of how I see things unfolding there.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

A member of the Israeli bobsled team is a reservist in the 188th Armored Brigade, a brigade that carried out the triple-tap attack on journalists at Nasser Hospital.

There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.

I remember him from a 30 Rock episode where he gives political advice to Jack Donaghy.

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Bajando el cartel en Davos Rodolfo Disi Académico Escuela de Gobierno U. Adolfo Ibáñez In Davos, Suiza, el Primer Ministro H canadiense, Mark Carney, dio un / discurso que está dando que ha-blar. La clave es su sinceridad. Carney dice que no estamos en proceso de transi-ción, sino de ruptura: repetir la fórmula del orden internacional basado en reglas, como si operara igual que siempre, es como vivir dentro de una ficción en el mundo actual. El no es un outsider: es la voz de un país plenamente inserto globalmente y, en varios sentidos, gran beneficiario del orden internacional que lidera EE.UU., por lo que lo dice es muy revelador. Para nombrar esa ficción, recurre a Václav Havel, escritor y disidente checoslovaco que fue presidente de su país tras la caída del comunismo. En sus escritos describe a un almacenero que pone en su vitrina un cartel del Partido Comunista: no porque crea en él, sino para evitar problemas con el régimen. El sistema se sostiene no porque sea objetivamente poderoso, sino porque millones lo perciben como tal; basta con que algunos dejen de hacerlo para evidenciar su fragilidad. Lo llamativo es que esa metáfora, nacida para describir una sociedad detrás de la cortina de hierro, aparezca ahora en boca de un líder de la cúspide del sistema internacional vigente. Que el primer ministro de un país del G7 y de la OTAN hable así sugiere que el "cartel" dejó de servir incluso a quienes estaban más cómodos bajo él. Vale la pena, enton-ces, escuchar lo que propone Charney, quien aboga por un realismo basado en valores que opera como geometría variable: sostener principios como derechos humanos, soberanía e integridad territorial, pero armar coaliciones pragmáticas por problema. Cuando el comercio, la tecnología y las finanzas pueden usarse para presio-nar, la respuesta no es el "sálvese quien pueda". Fuera de las grandes potencias, la alternativa es compartir el costo de resistir coacciones y promover la cooperación selectiva. Chile no es una potencia…

Mi columna del viernes pasado en La Segunda

Meanwhile, in Israel… www.aljazeera.com/features/201...

I see this as a direct consequence of decades of allowing them to do the same thing to Palestinian homes in illegally occupied territory.

La respuesta chilena para cuadrar presidencialismo con multipartidismo es el cuoteo. Kast no será la excepción.

FAI (Fuerzas de Abigeato Israelí).

Documents released during the judicial review showed that the decision on 11 March 2024 to grant refugee status referred to "substantial evidence of systematic discriminatory practices against Palestinians in Israel: apartheid, forced removal, restrictions of rights and exclusion from society".

Palestinian citizen of Israel wins UK asylum over ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ Exclusive: Refugee status granted despite attempt by former home secretary James Cleverly to block 26-year-old’s claim

As a country that claims to be a democracy, it should be sobering to see your citizens seeking asylum in allied states www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

January 7. The year 2026 has 51 full weeks left.

Important thoughts by @rdisip.bsky.social :
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8/ Just some thoughts, partly thanks to that Catholic university undergrad just war theory class I took years ago.

7/ Even here, calling Oct. 7 “self-defense” risks sanitizing a campaign that has not been about protection but about punitive, indiscriminate, and genocidal violence.

6/ Anyways, I think Walzer’s assessments of Israel (1948, 1967, etc.) are consistently tilted in Israel’s favor - he tends to treat Israeli force as “defensive” by default and then debate excesses as after-the-fact.

5/ this points less to a constrained defensive action and more to punitive and indiscriminate war-making inconsistent with just war requirements.

4/ Walzer himself states that the campaign drifted into “crazed, criminal revenge” and condemns siege tactics as morally wrong and lacking military value; combined with the enormous foreseeable civilian harm and operational choices that endangered and killed even Israeli hostages,

3/ In that setting, “self-defense” rhetoric obscures the legal structure of the occupation and its duties toward the Palestinian population. Morally, even if one grants a prima facie protective cause, just war theory still requires right intention, necessity, proportionality, and discrimination.

2/ On the Court’s assessment, Israel remained capable of exercising key elements of authority over Gaza. It was therefore “not entirely released” from obligations under occupation law, commensurate with its effective control.

1/ Walzer frames Israel’s response to Oct. 7 as morally “self-defensive,” but that framing is legally and morally misleading. Legally, the ICJ’s 2024 advisory opinion clarifies that the decisive criterion for occupation is not permanent troop presence but the ability to exercise authority.

very democracy promotion. much anti-narcotics. wow liberation.