For this week's episode of Notes from the World, I spoke with Michael Pierse of Queen's University Belfast 🎓 about post-Brexit Northern Ireland, the recent far-right agitation there & global actors helping to stir it & the future political trajectory on both sides of the border. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/episode-7-a-…

The MAGA Republican tent: no room for Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney; ample space for Russian agents and Holocaust deniers.

Michael K. Williams passed on this day in 2021. "The Wire" came out when I was living in Haiti & watching it there I was struck by how much his portrayal reminded me of the complicated moral universe some of the young men I spent time with in Cité Soleil inhabited. RIP.

During #Haiti visit, U.S. Sec of State Antony Blinken urged transitional authorities to quickly commit to elections while calling on international community to do more to fund international security force there alterpresse.org/spip.php?artic…

Florida’s senate race being neck and neck is something…

Speaking of someone who deserves to be in jail...Scandale BNC: « La présence des conseillers présidentiels indexés est un handicap pour le CPT», selon André Michel lenouvelliste.com/article/250098…

"She saw among the stones lining the gutter the wisps of grass green as the most tender human hope." - Clarice Lispector, A hora da Estrela

That the U.S. and E.U. still seem to think Serbia's current government is some kind of "partner" at this late date boggles the mind...

People are kidnapped, tortured, raped & murdered by the thugs of Venezuela's dictatorship on a daily basis but the GOP's mentally declining would-be dictator claims Caracas has "almost no crime."

This is beyond horror to bury your 3 daughters and the wife…💔Russia is s terrorist state #LetUkraineStrikeBack

"Since 25 April, no one can say the country is doing better with 9 people at its head than with an elected president or no president at all...71 days after the deployment of the first contingent of Kenyan troops, the security situation is deteriorating." lenouvelliste.com/article/250068…

No, having memaw and pawpaw help watch the kids is not effective policy to address rising childcare costs. Kamala Harris’s expanded child tax credit for working families is. The choice is clear.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was a U.S. citizen slain - almost certainly by the IDF - in the West Bank today, where fanatical messianic Israeli settlers are currently running riot. She is far from the first American to be killed by the IDF, either. news.sky.com/video/middle-e…

👇

The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) endorses a convicted criminal & adjudicated rapist. Patrick Yoes led its all-male "executive board" to this kind of nonsense.

May you all have a "tudo legal" Friday: As Feras - Guilherme Coutinho youtu.be/_GsLRLWG-2o

Fake journalist and white supremacist Tucker Carlson and his buddy, fake historian and Nazi sympathizer Darryl Cooper, the faces of two men you wouldn't leave alone in a room with $100 or a small child.

Seriously, Florida, it is time to send far-right supervillain-looking Rick Scott back to the private sector so he can go back to defrauding consumers and ripping off Medicare. tampabay.com/archive/2014/0…

Dear Brazil, what would you be prepared to do in response if the illegitimate Maduro regime in #Venezuela sacks the Argentina Embassy this weekend housing democratic opposition leaders under your diplomatic protection? Would there be consequences? If so, what? Sincerely, World