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⚠️⚠️ A THREAD ABOUT PEOPLE OF GAZA : Do you know what the situation in Gaza is like right now? The north is labeled a “combat zone,” and the south an “safe area,” as the occupation claims. But where is safety in this hell?

Polls close in Uruguay’s election, with ruling coalition and opposition headed for photo finish apnews.com/article/urugua…

Are there reasons for optimism about the US elections? For the Electoral Regulation Forum starting Monday, Dr Adrian Beaumont has provided a text considering this question. You can submit a question on the text, which we will gather for Adrian: elecregforum.org/us-elections

Author William Dalrymple makes a case for India’s ingenuity in his latest book 'The Golden Road' - Harpers bazaar harpersbazaar.in/culture/story/…

Can’t wait to hear Andrea Carson speak at the Electoral Regulation Forum next Monday elecregforum.org. Andrea is also Charing our second panel on global developments and trends

Thanks Jeong-In YUN for collaborating on this important InfoHub on the #martiallaw crisis in #SouthKorea demoptimism.org/martial-law-so… (Weirdly the webpage thumbnail is presenting incorrectly as Mexico - even though on BlueSky it’s displaying correctly…)

South Korea's ruling party, the People Power Party, announced Thursday that it now believes it is “necessary” to suspend President Yoon Suk Yeol. abcnews.link/gZfDAms

"Targeted aid killings: How Israel starved a population and sowed chaos in northern Gaza." thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations…

⚡LAUNCH - RESISTING THREATS TO DEMOCRACY The word on everyone's mind is 'resistance'. How can institutions, politicians, civil society and citizens push back against wannabe authoritarians? Check out our new focus area on Demoptimism. demoptimism.org/resisting-thre… #democracy

Syria's new PM Mohammad al-Bashir says alliance that ousted Bashar Assad will "guarantee" rights of all religious groups, calls on millions who fled war to return home dailysabah.com/world/mid-east…

Endlessly amazed that Gautam Bhatia has a parallel career as a fiction writer as well as one of the leading constitutionalists in the world. Looking forward to reading this. Congratulations Gautam!

Honoured to be part of this landmark collection - it’s open access, so check it out!

Congratulations again to you Tarun, Dinesha Samararatne and Swati - and all the authors - on such a rich, illuminating and agenda-setting collection. Edited collections are such a hard format but you show how good they can be. This book will no doubt spark many much-needed conversations