Fahad Shah, a respected Kashmiri journalist, has been held for a full year under India’s anti-terror law. He must be released.
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@nominallybright@mastodon.social Mostly a journalist ( Europe/Canada editor), a bit of a lawyer and IT pro. Keen on free flow of information.
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NEW: Twitter polls -- which has used to help make big decisions about the platform -- are "more prone to manipulation than almost anything else [on Twitter]," Yoel Roth, the company’s former Head of Safety tells me.
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Huge congrats to CSM's
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1/6: @csmonitor Congressional correspondent @christacbryant has been awarded the 2022 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress from the National Press Foundation. Congratulations!
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My sense is this is not an intentional Russian attack. Either a malfunction or the results of Ukrainians shooting down a Russian missile. But a clear reminder of Russia's reckless willingness to shoot too close to Polish/NATO/EU border. Article 4 Consultations seem appropriate. twitter.com/McFaul/status/
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"There’s a great part of the Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup where Groucho says of Chico, “He may look like an idiot, he may talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you, he really is an idiot.”
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What Is He Even Doing?
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This was definitely worth an unplanned surprise hearing. My god.
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Holy shit, the aides literally had to wrestle with Trump in the car to get his hands off the steering while.
Jesus Christ.
#January6thHearings
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Lavrov says it’s not about Ukraine, it’s an attack on all things Russian - language, culture, religion.
Well, Putin’s destruction of Russian-speaking cities in eastern Ukraine is indeed the worst thing anyone has done to Russian interests and language since WWII.
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"Even by the standards of Russian legislation, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was unlawful," reports Meduza meduza.io/en/feature/202 via
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Monitor correspondent arrested in Kashmir csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Sou
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It’s not as salacious or shocking as this article intends. The only shocking thing is it was granted on behalf of this defendant but never has been on behalf of my defendants… which I believe says something 👀
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This is a routine defense request that pros not be allowed to refer to victims as such bc it alleges a crime has been committed prior to the determination that a crime has been committed.
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The judge in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial says lawyers cannot call the 2 people he killed "victims."
Rittenhouse killed 2 people and wounded another with an AR-15 style weapon. The judge says "victim" is too "loaded" but will let lawyers call them "rioters, looters or arsonists."
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Senator, my name is James Erwin. I've lived in Iowa my whole life. My great-grandfather's great-grandfather settled in Keokuk before statehood. My kin joined the GOP the day they could, and they bled under the flag of this state and this nation:
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Chuck Grassley tells Lucy Koh, a Korean American judicial nominee in a hearing today, that her Korean background reminds him of his daughter-in-law telling him that Koreans have "a hard work ethic" and "can make a lot out of nothing."
"So I congratulate you and your people.'"
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It is extremely unlikely that the Taliban would have observed the U.S. generals’ semantic distinction. slate.com/news-and-polit via
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Gen. Milley: "It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken." He also says, "My dad didn't get a choice to resign at Iwo Jima."
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Very sad to hear about Sean Lock. He’s a very funny guy, and it’s hard to imagine the British comedy scene without him. bbc.com/news/entertain
"The 122-page report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, tends to confirm President Joe Biden’s view that the mission was doomed to fail, regardless of how much longer U.S. troops were kept there.”
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Never Trumpers are conservatives who understand the grave threat posed to truth, democracy and the rule of law by Trump/MAGA world while Democrats are liberals who understand the grave threat posed to truth, democracy and the rule of law by Trump/MAGA world. Does that help?
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What’s the difference between Democrats and Never Trumpers?
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➡️Seeking #Classof2020 college grads🎓
Was your job rescinded or delayed during the first year of the pandemic? If so, I'd value connecting for my reporting at - DMs open / matuseks@csmonitor.com
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"Trump would have been worse so anything does Biden does is okay" is not a "principle," it's tribalism. It's okay to say: "I like the guy, I'm glad he's president, but he's not perfect."
You can do that. It's healthy.
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Come on, Tom. The Former guy would have been cheerleading for Derek Chauvin and throwing gas on the fire. Seems like Biden spoke out when it was appropriate.
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almost like there's a difference between a murderer going free and not.
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Chauvin's conviction was not difficult on a legal/factual level. His guilt was clear. The trial of the other 3 officers is far more nuanced and complex. What legal obligation do cops have to intervene and stop one of their own from engaging in criminal conduct?
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Live as the verdict was read and people erupted into cheers and started sobbing when the jury announced Derek Chauvin was guilty of murdering George Floyd
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Murder in the second degree.
Murder in the third degree.
Manslaughter.
Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.
Three counts after 10 hours of deliberations.
Both stories, via lawandcrime.com/live-trials/li via
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Analysis | The risk-reward calculus of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, visualized
For , I wrote about The Birdcage and how laughter can be a force of queer healing
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Year ago today.
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”We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here… isn’t that refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama?” — Kayleigh McEnany, 2/25/20
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“So we talked, and he just point blank asked me the question: Will my family be welcome in your church? I’ve never had anybody ask me that question before, but I knew in my heart I couldn’t say no.” slate.com/news-and-polit via
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Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup theguardian.com/global-develop
Life amid the ruins of QAnon: ‘I wanted my family back’
A delivery driver got stuck in a client’s driveway during the Texas storm. The couple took her in for five days. … washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021
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Paid sick leave is often presented in a zero-sum narrative, with small-business owners as the losers. But some Canadian entrepreneurs are trying to reframe it as a benefit to everyone – employer and employee alike.
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Only learnt this today: 69 percent of Palestinians are aged under 29. That is an incredible figure. Great reporting from and on how a whole generation of young Palestinians feel out of step with political leadership.
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