#Torture

Alex Abdo

AlexanderAbdo

A federal court just held that about 1/4 of all Office of Legal Counsel opinions probably fall w/in the provision of the Freedom of Information Act requiring proactive disclosure to

Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈

leahmcelrath

https://twitter.com/joshdcaplan/status/1349886817420668929 "As Iran tensions remain high, moving Israel to CENTOM’s area of responsibility would enable Israel, the United States and Arab partners to conduct joint exercises and planni

T.K. of AAK!

AskAKorean

A thread on Park Won-soon, the deceased Seoul mayor.There are lots of easy takes available about his death following allegations of sexual harassment, especially in connection with other S Korean

Roderic Day

RodericDay

Absolutely fascinating Foreign Policy article about China, Xinjiang, and Uyghurs from May 2014!Before Obama's "pivot to Asia" got going, propaganda was still wall-to-wall "Muslim Terrorism", so people wrote about Chi

Carrie A. Goldberg

cagoldberglaw

Let's talk about victim impact statements. My greatest joy in life is listening to my client read his/her victim impact statement on the day of sentencing in court which occurs

Mamadou Sow

MamadouSowICRC

ThreadOn the 31st anniversary of the release of #Mandela from prison, I am pleased to share again a peak into our work in South Africa during apartheid, with few #exclusive

Jack Shenker

hackneylad

A humanitarian crisis is rapidly unfolding at Napier barracks - Britain's first modern-day refugee camp, run controversially by the @ukhomeoffice - where a Covid outbreak is spiralling out of control.

mary 🍂 sam culture

mardybumps

this is gonna be a long thread I'm sorryidk who needs to hear this but some of u seem to be confused about the purpose of season 4 with cas

Ben Winograd

benwinograd

It’s been more than a week since SCOTUS halted the effort to rescind DACA, and I haven’t seen much response to the premise of Justice Thomas’ dissent—i.e., that DACA itself

Eliza Mondegreen

elizamondegreen

Some quotes and thoughts on Eric Hoffer's The True Believer, which I've been reading this week... “All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful

Ryan McMorrow

rwmcmorrow

Colin Huang founder of $170bn Pinduoduo quietly set up a web of ecommerce and gaming ventures in Shanghai. On paper, a "white-glove" Gu Yanping, 69, from rural China owned many

lingering christmas trash

reisdrothepoet

If you consider yourself a Marxist and support Bernie Sanders I hope you can reconcile the fact that he:- Had Burlington peace activists arrested for protesting a weapons manufacturing plant-

Claire

ClaireRedacted

This is what Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini did to men convicted of being “counterrevolutionary”. https://twitter.com/Khamenei_tv/status/1265677848142123010 Rouhani is responsible for over 3,800 executions.Raisi is head of judiciary, presi

Taylor Green on lore and fantasy (aka DAG)

LoreAndFantasy

The Emperor's New Clothesby Hans Christian AndersenA story perhaps more subtle than you may remember- a thread (I know: thread/clothing pun acknowledged)1. The Emperor's New Clothes is a story so

Yashar Ali 🐘

yashar

1. Please remember as you're praising the audio of Tom Cruise yelling at crew members who don't follow Covid restrictions that he's the chief enabler of a criminal organization that

Ruth

Cousycousy

#cyberpunk2077spoilers cw: sexual violenceI feel the need to blab about a quest line that made me kind of really, really hate Cyberpunk 2077: the Judy Alvarez quest line and I

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