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Machiawitz

@machiawitz

Reads and reflects on law, history, arms control, space, scifi/fantasy, film

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David Pfau(@pfau) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Alternate history where Wiener went with the Latin rather than Greek root and called it 'gubernatics' instead of 'cybernetics', leading William Gibson to call it 'guberspace' and 'guberpunk'.

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Assal Rad(@AssalRad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Democrats will keep telling you to vote for Biden to prevent the things that are already happening, from happening.

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Handsome B. Wonderful(@EricHartMN) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This exact lock was promoted with a discount to students by Columbia University Public Safety. How can you say students at this exact University don't bring it to school?

This exact lock was promoted with a discount to students by @Columbia Public Safety. How can you say students at this exact University don't bring it to school?
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Filippo Fontanelli(@cometoblame) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Flag State responsibility in international human rights law for individuals on board private vessels ejiltalk.org/flag-state-res…

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Anna Meier(@AnnaMeierPS) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The utter depravity of a university that milks Edward Said's name starving out and brutalizing students fighting for a free Palestine.

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Lara Friedman(@LaraFriedmanDC) 's Twitter Profile Photo

McCarthyism on steroids: Johnson to kick off wide-ranging House probe on college campus antisemitism -- At least half a dozen GOP-led House committees are involved in the probe, sources say

foxnews.com/politics/johns…

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Medea Benjamin(@medeabenjamin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Today, I disrupted Secretary of “Defense” Lloyd Austin during a House meeting. I couldn’t just listen to him talk about U.S. leadership while the whole world is watching U.S. complicity in the genocide occurring in Gaza

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Barrie Sander(@Barrie_Sander) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In his Declaration, ICJ Judge Tladi seeks to clarify the plausibility test for provisional measures, suggesting that it 'includes whether there is a plausibility that the rights are being or have been infringed' (para. 8) 👇

In his Declaration, ICJ Judge Tladi seeks to clarify the plausibility test for provisional measures, suggesting that it 'includes whether there is a plausibility that the rights are being or have been infringed' (para. 8) 👇
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Lara Friedman(@LaraFriedmanDC) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Nation: The Bipartisan War on Pro-Palestinian Activism -- A House bill asks the Treasury to revoke the nonprofit status of suspected “terrorist supporting organizations.” Advocates are already singling out Muslim and Palestinian groups.

The Nation: The Bipartisan War on Pro-Palestinian Activism -- A House bill asks the Treasury to revoke the nonprofit status of suspected “terrorist supporting organizations.” Advocates are already singling out Muslim and Palestinian groups.
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Bruno Maçães(@MacaesBruno) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If a minister in any government besides Israel said this the country would be declared a state sponsor of terrorism, disconnected from global financial system, slapped with an embargo, this individual would have an Interpol search warrant…

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zeynep tufekci(@zeynep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My office was right by the encampment, and I cannot understand how it interferes with exams. It’s that little red circle.

Not a single notable the protest in the history of modern protest would meet the requirements of “acceptable” protest from many past free speech advocates.

My office was right by the encampment, and I cannot understand how it interferes with exams. It’s that little red circle. Not a single notable the protest in the history of modern protest would meet the requirements of “acceptable” protest from many past free speech advocates.
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Joanna Lillis(@joannalillis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The private jet that brought the UK foreign secretary to on his tour last week cost £42 million. He announced a mere £50 million in development funds over five countries during the visit
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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Mouin Rabbani(@MouinRabbani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

THREAD: The eruption of protests in solidarity with the Palestinian people at numerous Western universities, and throughout the United States in particular, represents a pivotal moment.

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Alonso Gurmendi(@Alonso_GD) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I find it very troubling that now Israel, a party to a dispute at the ICJ, is using a BBC interview as authority to interpret an order of the Court in ways that contradict the individual written opinions of sitting ICJ judges. Seriously, what was Judge Donoghue thinking

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