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Corruption, democracy, rule of law, Eastern Europe, Ukraine. Words in WaPo, Slate, Foreign Policy. PhD, political science. He/him. Subscribe at https://www.readthedetox.com

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He said, "How'd you like to waste some time?"
I said, “uhh, no thanks,” I think I’ll dox you online

Sorry, I’ll stop.

30.08.2025 23:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Uhh, “trusting the experts” is rather famously *not* a feature of religion and totalitarianism…

…which might give RFK Jr. pause if he had any self-awareness.

30.08.2025 22:47 — 👍 38    🔁 9    💬 6    📌 0

(Sorry, that’s the beginning of Prince’s Darling Nikki if it were about the cop)

30.08.2025 22:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I met a cop, Fearomega
I guess you could say he was a sex fiend
Found him at a protest rally
His personal life is quite humiliating

30.08.2025 22:41 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Read this whole thread. A cop threatens Amanda, who then proceeds to unmask his socials, revealing him to be a sex fiend with a kink for cuck.

Who the hell uses social media for porn anyway?

30.08.2025 22:29 — 👍 155    🔁 43    💬 3    📌 2

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

30.08.2025 20:10 — 👍 1706    🔁 728    💬 65    📌 237

👇🎯 University presidents, take note & start getting in front of microphones, en masse, now:

30.08.2025 21:48 — 👍 614    🔁 152    💬 6    📌 4

It’s that time again

20.08.2025 22:45 — 👍 3317    🔁 871    💬 27    📌 23

Ya might want to, I don't know, CHECK WITH SOME ACTUAL EXPERTS before writing some stupid-ass atrocity denial like this.

20.08.2025 01:55 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Photos of a starving baby in Gaza shocked the world. Here's how he's doing now Images showing baby Mohammad Al-Motawaq captured world attention last month. In Israel, they were used to support claims that mass hunger in Gaza does not exist.

Here's NPR's follow-up: www.npr.org/2025/08/05/n...

20.08.2025 01:52 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

This is so, so stupid. Yeah, they did follow up on it. Turns out that kids with preexisitng conditions are more vulnerable to starvation, and that this kid, in particular, actually was suffering from starvation. (link in next skeet)

20.08.2025 01:52 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

I emailed Olivia yesterday and editor Peter Savodnik today to point out a couple of glaring errors in this piece about famine classification. No response from either of them.

20.08.2025 01:33 — 👍 303    🔁 29    💬 10    📌 5
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The Detox with Neil Abrams | Neil A. Abrams | Substack Taking on autocrats, imperialists, war criminals, and their apologists. Click to read The Detox with Neil Abrams, by Neil A. Abrams, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

As always, if you like what you’re seeing, please consider subscribing to The Detox or upgrading to a paid subscription. www.readthedetox.com

19.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

If we really are committed to the value of universal human dignity which underpins those agreements, then we cannot blind ourselves to human suffering or the criminals responsible for it. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-is...

19.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

The core foundations of international humanitarian law, the Fourth Geneva Convention and the UN Genocide Convention, were adopted in response to the Holocaust. But here we are, 75 years later, as Israel trashes those agreements in the name of the Jews. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-is...

19.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

There is a reason why collective punishment is banned under international law. Inflicting harm on children and the elderly for other people’s misdeeds is reprehensible no matter which side is doing it. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-is...

19.08.2025 20:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

Yes, Hamas has also committed atrocities—above all, its massacre of innocents on October 7th and its mistreatment of the hostages it continues to detain. Evil as they are, however, Hamas’s crimes do not grant Israel a free pass to commit its own. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-is...

19.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

All of these claims are demonstrably false. Even if you doubt the statements of the UN, aid organizations, and rights experts—and there is no reason to doubt them—look closely and you'll find that Israel admits what it is doing. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-is...

19.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

The whitewashing bears striking resemblance to the sort that tries to absolve Russia of its own crimes. There is no starvation, we are told. If there is, it's the doing of Hamas and the UN, not Israel. And if it is Israel, it's not part of a deliberate plan. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-is...

19.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

Over the past few years, I have spent a lot of time countering pro-Kremlin atrocity denial that blames Ukraine for Russia’s crimes. Nowadays, one sees the same sort of propaganda aiming to exonerate Israel over its forced starvation of Gaza. www.readthedetox.com/p/the-fix-is...

19.08.2025 20:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Fix: Israel Admits What It Is Doing Israel is intentionally starving Palestinians. Its leaders, officials, and soldiers acknowledge it.

Recent weeks have seen an upsurge in atrocity denial absolving Israel for its famine in Gaza. In my latest, I show that Israel is, in fact, deliberately starving Gaza’s Palestinians. I do it using Israel’s own data and the statements of its leaders, officials, and soldiers. 🧵

19.08.2025 20:41 — 👍 26    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

“Ignoring polls and being coarse pushed swing to Republicans, giving them a trifecta. But if Dems too ignore polls and be coarse it will push swing voters away.”

Pretty sharp.

10.08.2025 15:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Believe polls as if they’re divine revelation except when they violate my personal priors.”

10.08.2025 15:29 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Read this whole thread about trad wives shiving each other on Twitter.

10.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

If that will be the outcome it's just because the western democracies want it that way. So far nobody has made any real effort to resist Russia. They all plan for having Russia around, they all fear that Russia would lose because they lack the imagination to deal with that.

10.08.2025 14:51 — 👍 77    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0

which is to say that now is probably a good time to log off.

03.08.2025 06:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It could go either way. Let's see what they end up writing.

03.08.2025 06:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tomorrow's Reuters: "The Tigers jizzed all over the White Sox this afternoon."

03.08.2025 05:56 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The video states that Israel was founded in 1948 “on British land”, and refers to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria”, the biblical name controversially used for the region by the Israeli government. The original Jewish homeland comprises parts of modern-day Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, the video states.

The video states that Israel was founded in 1948 “on British land”, and refers to the West Bank as “Judea and Samaria”, the biblical name controversially used for the region by the Israeli government. The original Jewish homeland comprises parts of modern-day Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, the video states.

Get a load of the ADL's "antisemitism training" material that Northwestern University, at the Trump administration's behest, is forcing students to learn.

Nice, huh?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

03.08.2025 05:52 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt.

Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.

01.08.2025 21:48 — 👍 3528    🔁 907    💬 116    📌 130

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