For , I wrote about the Failed war on drugs, which seems destined to continue failing forever, in ways that are both amply documented historically and that dependably serve the material and ideological interests of broad segments of society
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¿Negociar con narcos? ¿Qué se negocia con criminales?
Negociar es acercarse a la posición del otro. ¿Qué tiene el Estado de Derecho que acercar de la posición del crimen organizado?
Negociar con narcos es la claudicación de la LEGALIDAD.
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“Anyone who destroys a life is considered to have destroyed an entire world.”
Our former opinion editor is an enduring stain on the Forward. Those who enabled her rise through our newspaper should condemn what they helped create.
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I ride the subway a lot. Not a week goes by that a mentally ill person doesn't get on and terrorize the entire car—especially women, especially Asians. Usually the men just sit there and pretend it's not happening. It's a disgrace that working New Yorkers have to live like this.
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“especially women, especially Asians” is a very very interesting formulation of both innocence and victimhood here.
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I ride the subway a lot. Not a week goes by that a mentally ill person doesn't get on and terrorize the entire car—especially women, especially Asians. Usually the men just sit there and pretend it's not happening. It's a disgrace that working New Yorkers have to live like this.
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Pues parece que no tan lenta, o se quedó dormido para el segundo acto
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… vivieron del boom de gas producto de la apertura de los gobiernos anteriores, expropiaron el sector, se cayó la inversión, usaron los recursos del boom para aumentar el tamaño del estado y el gasto de manera insostenible… en fin la misma película pero mucho mejor llevada y en… Show more
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imagine presenting this fantastical argument to the people of Vietnam or Iraq. Or families droned to death by this "better and morally superior" country
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The overwhelming majority of Americans—including Ron DeSantis—have the potential to do bad things, but less so the potential to commit evil.
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Cobra command releases comunique to the president of Mexico
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Eliminating the drug cartels is in both America and Mexico’s interests.
Here is my message to the President of Mexico, @lopezobrador_:
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I’ll wrap up with his own chilling conclusion:
“Flames of jealous murder sweep the earth, while brains of little children smear the hills. This is education in the [1935]th year of the Christ; this is modern and exact social science, this is the university course in “History.”
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Latin America is full of so many stories of injustices that need to he more thoroughly told - war! displacement! corruption! ecocide! - and yet somehow we still end up with so many articles about Colombian Narco-hippos.
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My article on the history of state prison overcrowding, and the Armed Career Criminal Act is out in the Journal of Policy History!
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standpoint epistemology comes to the military-industrial complex
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Replying to @SenWarren
Senator, once you’ve run a business in the Defense Industrial Base, I’ll follow your advice, opinions, and counsel in earnest.
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Thought, Through, Though y Thorough
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You will be accused of cultural hegemony; you will be accused of trying to force the indigenous interpretation into your own external imperialist-oriented model."
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"Because, if you proceed into a situation [...] and you do not attempt to develop with respect to those specific situations, but rather merely to transfer a body of knowledge in a fixed static form from another part of the world, then you will be accused of being irrelevant."
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A massive coalition of NYT contributors (180 and counting!) have signed an open letter calling out anti-trans editorial bias in the paper. Please share widely: nytletter.com
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reprehensible retaliation from , which is also cutting off striking workers’ health insurance. support the strikers here: tugsa.org/strike
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Colombia's military contracted a retired colonel to review doctrine, including on human rights, just weeks after a transitional justice mechanism indicted him for war crimes for his role in dozens of false positives killings. & I investigated:
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore described the recording of Rodney King's beating as an act of "nation building."
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How much lithium is needed to electrify the car-dependent status quo vs transforming the transportation system to increase mass transit, walking & cycling? Our new report finds dramatic differences. We can achieve more mobility with less mining 1/ climateandcommunity.org/more-mobility-
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Quién lo dijo? Un colonialista europeo tratando de justificar la colonización de África/Asia en el siglo XIX? o un peruano blanco hablando de los Andes entre 1990 y 2023? Hilo de encuestas.
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Not sure people realize just how close Brazil came to a coup. This week, cops found a draft presidential order formalizing the coup in Bolsonaro’s ex-Justice Minister’s house. Prominent military, cops & politicians all implicated in the conspiracy.
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We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES!
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Más normal resultaría si la realidad no fuera exactamente lo contrario
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Es normal que en el orden nacido despues de la segunda guerra mundial, se le tenga mucho más miedo al fascismo que al comunismo por 2 razones: El fascismo sí logró poner en muchos aprietos a "occidente" y, por lo visto, puede ganar más rapido simpatizantes.
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so many organizers (over DECADES) poured their blood sweat and tears into this -- congrats grad workers at Yale!!!
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We Won! Grad workers at Yale said overwhelmingly: UNION YES!
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“Has become” doing some work here
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I do think there's a case to be made that Florida has become a fascist mecca, not just in U.S. politics, but in exporting fascist ideas, resources, & tactics worldwide.
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When neo Nazis came came to Queens 's NYPD allowed
- permitless amplification to blast hate speech at kids
- illegal wood/metal sticks to hold up flags and signs
- personal escorts and protection
- free subway rides
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NYPD help Proud Boys commit fare evasion & then tell journalists to go back and pay for the fare. Everyone should see this video.
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And here’s the kicker…
If the NYPD were held to its 3% cut, instead of just 1.1%, the city wouldn’t have to make any cuts to Housing, Preservation and Development, Public LIbraries, Parks & Recreation, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Department for The Aging, and CUNY.
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Si te crees “patriota y de derecha” pero andas adorando a Messi que es globalista de la agenda 2030, caíste como bobo en la operación de propaganda masiva de los comunistas.
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To our readers: We did not make this decision lightly. We are deeply committed to the success of the . We also know that we produce our best work when we feel valued and are treated equitably. Thank you for standing by us today.
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If I owe you an email, writing etc…
“I don’t know any parent who hasn’t recently been home with a sick kid, been sick themselves, or in some other way been reminded of the continued miserable frailty of our national human infrastructure.” -
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