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Elizabeth Broderick 
@Jonia_Elizabeth
2L International Law student at , undergrad. The Bill of Rights is my love language. #PrinciplesFirst
Joined February 2014
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Creeping civil society curbs in Europe threaten rights in 2023.
Not only in Russia, Turkey, Hungary and Poland.
It now also comes from elected governments in states whose democracies appear in better health, such as the UK, France, Italy and Greece...
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Op-Ed: Enough with the political games. Migrants have a right to asylum latimes.com/opinion/story/ / Sharing my op-ed about Biden's lack of courage and principle to do the right thing and comply with US and international obligations.
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“Who needs sports or sitcoms when you can watch Kevin McCarthy step on the same rake time and time again?”
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Things are super weird on Capitol Hill right now. I tried to capture the scene for @NYMag sometime between the 8th and 9th ballot nymag.com/intelligencer/
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When you can’t go home but can’t do anything else either
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Per a GOP source, they moved to another ballot because the votes to adjourn were not there.
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Reminder that you are getting better TV and photo coverage of what's happening because some of the customary restrictive rules of the House do not apply.
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BREAKING: Kevin McCarthy just lost his bid to be Speaker of the House for the TENTH time. Since voting began on Tuesday, Kevin hasn’t gained a single vote. The Republican Party is incompetent & incapable of governing & we must stop pretending like it can. Utterly pathetic.
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Buffalo in 9 months:
Supermarket massacre in May. 10 murdered.
Nov. snowstorm sets record, 75 inches. At least 2 dead.
Dec. snowstorm. More than 3 dozen dead.
Bills player Damar Hamlin collapses during game.
My Buffalo peeps have absorbed a lot. Keep them in your heart.
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The primary job of the press is to hold the state accountable. And this person got fired for doing that.
So many media outlets want to do public relations for the government. It’s grotesque & a total perversion of the job.
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I was let go from my job at WVPB last week following threats from DHHR about my reporting on DHHR’s treatment of people with disabilities.
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I am sickened by these reports out of Nigeria. This is a gross violation of human rights and must be immediately addressed by the administration and the international community.
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This menorah was lit tonight in Berlin. The German President “called the rebirth of Jewish life in Germany after the Holocaust a ‘miracle’, noting that there were now menorahs glowing in ‘tens of thousands of windows’ across the country this Hanukkah.” amp.france24.com/en/live-news/2
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This photo always takes my breath away, taken in Germany during Hanukkah 1931.
On the back of the photo Rachel Posner wrote this of her family menorah:
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"Death to Judah"
So the flag says
"Judah will live forever"
So the light answers
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VICTORY! ⚡️
By a vote of 29 to 8, with 16 abstentions, the Islamic Republic of Iran was just expelled from the U.N. Women's Rights Commission. First time in United Nations history that any member state was removed from this body. Bravo to all who helped to make this happen! 🙏
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This story gets in the weeds but points to some hugely important oversight problems Congress is facing as it tries to make sure the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is working:
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The “white paper protests” in China are the most visible challenge to Xi Jinping since he took power in 2013, writes . Few expect the protests will topple the regime, but suddenly, Xi no longer looks infallible.
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In China, the deaths of 10 people in an apartment fire in the city of Urumqi spurred protests against Covid restrictions, which protesters say were responsible for the tragedy. But the protests have evolved into broader demands. Here’s what videos show: nyti.ms/3EN2Em3
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Animals are very sensitive and can tell when a social network is going down long before people can
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A flock of Sheep in Inner Mongolia have been walking in a circle for over 10 days straight and no one knows why.
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Elon: Listen, you need to know this will be a terrible, hostile place to work. And I need you all to affirmatively consent to this abusive sprint to make the company profitable for me. And at the end, I’ll still probably fire you. Cool?
Twitter engineers: No.
Elon: Wait, what?
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2d Cir.: prison officials not entitled to QI where Muslim inmates alleged that the officials prevented them from congregational prayer without establishing that the policy served a compelling interest, and this was clearly established to violate RFRA. ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isys
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Looking forward to interacting with fifteen checkmarked accounts all paying $8/mo to represent the same prominent person and how this will equalize the marketplace of ideas ✨
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Your Friday rage read: Police in Arizona arrested a 78-year-old woman for the crime of...feeding the homeless.
If she does it again, they say they'll jail her. Lots to unpack here. My latest:
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This is incredible! uses his platform to support every woman who fights for freedom in Iran and worldwide, and then… joins him on the stage.
#MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests
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The UN Human Rights Council rejected the motion to debate the Uyghur genocide 17-19. Shame.
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it is pretty wild to see somebody finally stop nibbling around the edges on criminal justice reform and take a big bite out of the middle
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Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. Hear from @POTUS on the three steps he is taking to right these wrongs.
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We Didn’t Start the Fire, the Rewrite ™️ has four verses per hour and stretches into the eternities
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As a good friend likes to say: What a day, what a day, what a day
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In a fairer world, each ridiculous story would have had the Twitter limelight all to itself for at least 24 hours, right? Right? 12?
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MEANWHILE the US news reveals that Trump packed his own boxes in January, one US Senate candidate killed puppies (literally!), while pro-life guy paid for an abortion, and the FL governor stopped hurricane disaster aide for photo ops while wearing tall, *spotless* white boots.
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It’s not every day that Japan has a nuclear bomb scare from NK, Elon Musk makes an unsolicited peace plan for Ukraine, Russia’s secret nuke wing moves towards the Ukrainian border, the U.S. threatens Iran with a human rights ultimatum, and Pakistan sends a drone over India…
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Tonight on Twitter has been… a lot.
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There hasn’t been a night like this on Twitter for quite sometime.
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This is a banner with names of children who died at residential schools. It is so long, it takes about three dozen people to march it.
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The six horsemen of an impending hurricane, in order of severity:
- Publix begins selling hurricane cakes
- Midwestern family starts checking in
- Disney closes
- Editor asks you to check out plywood supply at Home Depot
- Jim Cantore arrives
- Waffle House closes
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"The level of violence that women are facing in the street is really horrific." Mahsa Amini’s death has ignited a wave of protests across Iran, exposing an anger among Iranian women about their treatment by the regime.
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I wrote about how not to talk about the Holocaust:
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1) serious bodily/mental harm,
2) physically destructive conditions of life,
3) measures to prevent births,
4) forcibly transferring children, and/or
5) other evidence of government intentions to destroy Uyghur population in whole or in part.
Thanks in advance.
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Dear Twitterverse,
I'm working on an in-depth mentored research paper establishing the international legal elements of genocide for gov acts against the Uyghurs.
Please pass along any primary sources (or reputable reporting) you come across related to... [see next tweet]
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And no woman should. Hijab like prayer and fasting is an act of faith. With coercion, it stops being faith and becomes authoritarian rule, oppression of the people. Which is exactly why an authoritarian state would impose it. It’s about control, not faith.
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Iranian women carry Iran on their backs.
They make up over 60% of college graduates. They are business owners, physicians, writers, truck drivers, and stay-at-home moms.
And even if they were none of those things, they should not be forced to wear a hijab.
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Zelensky’s UN General Assembly speech highlights:
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OK. Zelensky will be speaking very shortly #UNGA and I'll be livetweeting here-- unless it is so gripping that I am transfixed.
Russia, of course, attempted to block him from speaking but, ICYMI, got crushed in the vote 101-7.
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Right, everyone. I need to be serious for a moment. Because the greatest thing that ever happened is happening right now.
I don't particularly care either way about the Queen. But the queue? The Queue is a triumph of Britishness. It's incredible.
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