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  1. Center-right Mayor of La Paz Iván Arias visiting the Plaza Murillo to express indignation at the military mobilization. x.com/AygunBoDigital/status/1806052223618609227
  2. Bolivian President Luis Arce is speaking from the balcony of the presidential palace: "Nobody can take away the democracy that we have won in the ballots and in the streets with the blood of the Bolivian people." x.com/ErbolDigital/status/1806089167643853031
  3. Bolivian right wing distancing itself from ongoing coup attempt by Army commander. x.com/LuisFerCamachoV/status/1806063159666421894
  4. Commander of Bolivian Army announces #coup: "There will be a new cabinet of ministers, surely that will be changed, but we cannot continue with our State as it is. We want to recover our nation, enough with impoverishing our homeland." eldeber.com.bo/pais/zuniga-vamos-a-recuperar-esta-patria_373299
  5. Tick-tock coverage of evolving military deployment against Bolivia's elected government... eldeber.com.bo/pais/asalto-militar-a-palacio-quemado_373295
  6. Employees in Bolivia's presidential palace are barricading corridors to prevent entry of military. x.com/ErbolDigital/status/1806060634271826340
  7. The daily nightmare of the Trump candidacy.
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  8. It takes 38 states to amend the constitution, and 60 senators to pass a law, but one man can start World War III. Democracy in the USA is profoundly broken already.
  9. Perpetually, decisions on war or peace, on genocide, on our planetary future are made through the prism of ego and loyalty. This problem may be most acute in presidential democracies but it afflicts electoral and revolutionary parties, agencies, and bureaucracies of all kinds. x.com/ettingermentum/status/1803421946836582773
  10. Bolivian legislature approves mining contracts without environmental review in special session attended by miners. x.com/noticiasfides/status/1803817067528786395
  11. The Biden administration has sent Amos Hochstein as its envoy to the Israel-Lebanon crisis. Hochstein is Israeli-American and served in the IDF. Personnel is policy, and this is a signal of total alignment with the Netanyahu government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Hochstein
  12. Perfectly executed passive voice backflip lurks behind this headline, describing a possible Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
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  13. Fundamental Wikipedia policy: stop quoting sources that repeatedly get facts wrong, and don't correct their errors. Light years ahead of mainstream journalism. x.com/AsafShaloo/status/1803153431349305613
  14. Wikipedia Reliable Sources discussion excludes ADL as a source on Israeli-Palestinian conflict. x.com/AsafShaloo/status/1803153431349305613
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  15. SCOTUS justices who claim commitment to sanctity of human life seem very willing to approve machine-gun upgrade kits.
  16. Detailed platform of the French Popular Front, a broad left-green coalition in snap elections called for this month. x.com/edwyplenel/status/1801555282843119722
  17. Colombia's government publicly acknowledges responsibility for mass killings that destroyed Unión Patriótica political party. UP was an effort to move from armed struggle to electoral participation and the hunting down of UP members prolonged the civil war. x.com/CancilleriaCol/status/1800834559207948704
  18. Insight into the long-term journey and motivations of Noam Chomsky, whose antiwar affinity group included Howard Zinn, Dan Ellsberg, and this author, Fred Branfman. salon.com/2012/06/17/when_chomsky_wept/
  19. Even if it wouldn't stop the war, an offensive arms embargo on Israel is an absolute moral imperative at this point. x.com/DanielEstrin/status/1798812156496142658
  20. Nightmare scenarios continue to pile up: diplomatic warnings that Israel's long-threatened war on Lebanon could begin this month. x.com/bat020/status/1797912850763338010
  21. Putting all value judgment aside, the political relationship btw the US & Israel is more like France/colonial Algeria than a normal alliance. x.com/JakeSherman/status/1797722272670855679
  22. Trump scrambling to stay ahead in backing extremist Israeli policies. t.co/4xhaXMWoEJ
  23. Every few days I remember that Congressional Democrats voluntarily cut off funding to the major agency sheltering, feeding, and looking after the needs of 1.5 million Gazans.
  24. Good summary of the major substantive ways the first Trump administration was a disaster. x.com/MarkDStrauss/status/1795168284150489239
  25. Two years ago, @TheAtlantic won a Pulitzer for a piece that asked: "What happens when … rationalizations become denial or outright delusion? When one’s understanding of the line between right and wrong gets overridden by a boss’s screaming insistence?" x.com/wawog_now/status/1794777955400393034
  26. Picasso’s Blue Period was set off by a night in which Carles Casagemas attempted to shoot Germaine Gargallo before killing himself. Usually this double trauma is glossed as "his friend's suicide." Never is it called "his friend's near-murder for refusing a marriage proposal." x.com/avolantes/status/1327588700121952256
  27. The mass death of children, at a quantity rarely seen in recent warfare, is the most astounding fact about the assault on Gaza. As a scholar of political violence, thus fact propelled me to understand HOW. The mainstream US media is still inventing hypothetical scenarios. x.com/wawog_now/status/1794777955400393034
  28. Holy shit. NYT front page on Israel that's actually almost 10/10, no notes.
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  29. A particularly thoughtful essay in response to "Man vs. Bear" bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/ h/t @RebeccaSolnit
  30. 1: Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs' understanding of Muslim rule in Iberian peninsula 2: Leading Torah scholar from Al Andalus, Maimonides 3: Decree banning Jews from Spain, two months after the end of Muslim rule in Granada
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  31. Say what now? The White House has a policy forbidding the soldiers from building a pier to Gaza from… touching Gaza.
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  32. The Obama administration diplomats objected so much to Palestinian statehood that they wrote a letter objecting to the State of Palestine committing to ban child soldiers.
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  33. Waiting to see if @maddow retains her principles now that the Biden administration is threatening the International Criminal Court. x.com/maddow/status/1301297916745744384
  34. The core promise of America made to my generation, raised in the Cold War, is that we are free to think, while rival powers persecute ThoughtCrime. Yet here we are, with a Democratic administrations interrogating historians, beating marchers, and mass arresting camping students.
  35. Israeli minister joins far right rally in Spain uniting parties w/ histories of antisemitism across Europe. x.com/EoghanGilmartin/status/1792134428061282369
  36. The belief in the "good intentions" of one's partisan allies is so strong that one can actually believe a president is "trying to stop" the country they've just given $14B in new weapons to. x.com/stealthygeek/status/1790377013036851480
  37. UN confirms that there has been no "downward revision" of death toll in Gaza, responding to anti-Palestinian misinformation. theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/gaza-ministry-revises-figures-for-women-and-children-killed
  38. Saying college activists "don't know much" is a strategically unwise as calling half of Trump voters "deplorable." But while there were endless think pieces about the minds of Trump voters, the media has much less sympathy for opponents of genocide and settler colonialism. x.com/therecount/status/1788637341541679256
  39. "The purpose of the enemy is to break your bones, the only target he can see. Your purpose is to defend the collective imagination now gathering momentum."
  40. "The bubble is now all teargas. Students are assembling… Professors are reassessing their morals."

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