Beka Feathers

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Thinks a lot about governance, rule of law, peace & conflict. Consequently depressing at parties. Author of RE:CONSTITUTIONS, WHY THE PEOPLE.

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“MSF international president Christos Christou told AFP that after 15 months of brutal conflict in the northeast African country, nearly one in three wounded have been women or children under the age of 10.” Sudan, 2024. english.alarabiya.net/News/north-a...

MSF urges UN, aid groups to return to Sudan amid escalating humanitarian crisisenglish.alarabiya.net United Nations agencies and international aid groups must “come back and do more for the people of

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I will repeat myself. In the absence of a ceasefire deal *this summer*, the displacement of close to two million Palestinians in Gaza (and beyond it) could very likely become permanent ethnic cleansing. Just like it happened in 1948.

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I'm floored at the prospect that the UN's OSESGY may successfully negotiate the release of Mohammed Qahtan, the Islah leader forcibly disappeared by the Houthis nearly a decade ago. He is a symbolically significant figure and this would signal good faith in the wider negotiations. menasky

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UN experts declare famine has spread throughout Gaza strip 09 July 2024 t.co/96J995ijba

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“Americans continue to insist that 1/6 was an anomaly, but we are naïve about the strength of our institutions. Too many of us…rely too heavily on historical precedent to safeguard our electoral present. What a nation like Greece shows is that 1/6 is an anomaly only once before it becomes routine.”

Clear eyed as always by Tressie McMillan Cottom "...our electoral politics no longer care about representing the winning ideas." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/o...

Opinion | Whoever the Democratic Candidate Is, Americans Have Already Lostwww.nytimes.com The American Republic feels fragile.

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Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military last week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ground operation, the latest UN figures show.

Almost entire population in Gaza now displaced amid fresh Israeli offensive | CNNwww.cnn.com Nearly 2 million people have been displaced in Gaza – almost the entire population – after the Israeli military this week ordered a further 80,000 people to evacuate parts of Gaza City amid a renewed ...

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Tomorrow #Malawi turns 60. Read what our editor-in-chief @dadakim.bsky.social tells us are the lessons we learn from Malawians' democratic resilience: goodauthority.org/news/malawi-...

What to celebrate during Malawi’s 60th birthdaygoodauthority.org Malawi’s 60-year journey shows how civil society organizations and an independent judiciary can preserve democratic principles.

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Don’t forget: The American Flag was waved during the Civil Rights Movement, w/ Mexican Americans in legal cases, there w/ Asian Americans, and almost always w/ Native Americans. It’s our #July4 too #july4th #4thofJuly

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Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

This is the work. Jurisdiction by jurisdiction, on the ground, in communities, doing what we can do together.

BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.

Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona submit needed signatures to put the issue on November ballotapnews.com Abortion-rights advocates in Arizona have submitted more than enough signatures to put the issue on November’s ballot in the key swing state.

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Americanists and lawyers ask, what does the Constitution say? Comparativists ask, who controls the High Court, the militia, and the clerics?

6-3 for total immunity is devastating. This isn’t a ruling for 45, this is permission for 47.

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"Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours...Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies, aid groups say." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

Gaza’s remaining hospitals will stop working in two days, health officials warnwww.washingtonpost.com Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, aid groups warned. Fighting goes in Shejaiya, Gaza City, the IDF said.

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"96% of the population [of Gaza] is facing acute food insecurity at crisis level or higher." NINETY-SIX. Famine is a choice made by the powerful. Famine in Gaza is a choice made in Jerusalem and supported in Washington.

WFP response to new IPC Food Security Assessment on Gaza | World Food Programmewww.wfp.org ROME – The latest food security assessment on Gaza confirms the concerns of the World Food Programme (WFP) about the ongoing levels of severe hunger across the Gaza Strip and shows the critical import...

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The Houthis have abducted at least 17 UN workers, dozens of other NGO workers, last number I saw from a pro-government source was over 70 Per a statement from the heads of UN agencies, this number of abductions against UN workers in particular is unprecedented I need you to see who the Houthis are

Yemen: Houthis Disappear Dozens of UN, Civil Society Staffwww.hrw.org Houthi security forces have since May 31, 2024 arrested and forcibly disappeared dozens of people, including at least 13 United Nations staff and many employees of nongovernmental organizations operat...

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The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma just took back 45 acres of its land! The land called Peehkahkionki hasn’t been controlled by the tribe since 1846! ¹/

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The present situation in Sudan is terrible, and there is a real risk of famine on a massive scale: “We’ve seen mortality projections estimating that in excess of 2.5 million people, about 15% of the population in Darfur and Kordofan – the hardest hit regions – could die by the end of September,”

‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 yearswww.theguardian.com Millions face disaster as Sudanese army and RSF accused of using food access as a weapon in on-going war

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The Black Seminoles went to El Nacimiento, Mexico in 1852 and found freedom. But they still interacted with Black Seminoles in Texas who brought them Juneteenth in the 1870s. To celebrate Juneteenth, Black Seminoles in Mexico had to survive slavery, the Trail of Tears, and the US-Mexico Border ²/

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Juneteenth has Indigenous history. When Black people escaped slavery in Florida many joined the Seminole tribe, becoming Black Seminoles or Mascogos in Spanish. Why Spanish? Because many Black Seminoles migrated to Mexico, where slavery was already abolished ¹/

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Second, and possibly third, vessels sunk by the Houthis over the last eight months this week. VERBENA is evacuated and not looking great.

Frachtschiff nach Angriff durch die Huthi gesunken. Ein Seemann wohl tot, die anderen wurden evakuiert. Die Tutor war von einem ferngelenkten Boot mit Bombe getroffen worden. M/V Tutor Sinks After Houthi Attack in Red Sea gcaptain.com/m-v-tutor-si...

M/V Tutor Sinks After Houthi Attack in Red Seagcaptain.com The M/V Tutor appears to have sunk after it was struck in the stern last week by an unmanned surface vessel in the Red Sea. The sinking marks the second...

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The removal of four huge dams on northern CA's Klamath River has freed up thousands of acres of land that were forcibly taken from Indigenous people a century ago to create the dam reservoirs. Today, the Shasta got 2800 acres of their homeland back.

Shasta tribe will reclaim land long buried by a reservoir on the Klamath Riverwww.azcentral.com California Gov. Gavin Newsom is returning 2,800 acres of land to the Shasta Indian Nation as part of the largest-ever dam removal on the Klamath.

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It's official, Hubble has successfully transitioned to one-gyro mode and is back to doing science. 🔭 science.nasa.gov/missions/hub...

NASA’s Hubble Restarts Science in New Pointing Mode - NASA Sciencescience.nasa.gov NASA successfully transitioned operations for the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyro, returning the spacecraft to daily science operations Friday. The te...

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ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan just announced a campaign for information gathering on international crimes being committed in Darfur and Al Fasher. First glimmer of hope for accountability and a modicum of justice for the Sudanese.

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Statement from Mwatana identifies detention of staff from at least UN HRC and OCHA and OSESGY, plus NDI, the Social Fund for Development, Yemen Partners, the Civil Alliance for Peace, Deep Root Foundation, Resonate Yemen, the World Health Organization, among others. 1/n

Immediate Release of All Detainees by the Ansar Allah (Houthi) Group Authorities Demandedwww.mwatana.org Wide-Scale Arrest Campaign Targets Employees of International and Local Organizations

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“Narrowing access to asylum at the #border doesn’t make it more orderly. It makes it unnecessarily complicated.” From yesterday: More migrants are being stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border under Biden's executive order.

Suspending Asylumwww.texasobserver.org More migrants are being stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border under Biden's executive order.

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This is a very good piece on the failure of counterterrorism efforts in west Africa, but hell, how many times do we’d need to learn the same lessons? www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...

U.S. Confronts Failures as Terrorism Spreads in West Africawww.nytimes.com American and French forces have been ordered out of several countries after a series of coups.

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I would like to think that the US are not completely dumb and therefore they are doing this because they have good indication that Hamas would take this (preferably in the next 36 hours before Netanyahu chickens out). However I can't rule out that they are, in fact, completely dumb.

If you overlaid the closing sequence of All the Presidents Men with the soundtrack from a suburban horror movie, this is the image you would produce.

One more for the pile.

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Radley Balko

Yep.

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I'm not celebrating the verdict. I'm celebrating the working of the rule of law -- despite ongoing attempts to undermine it. And in that sense, I'm celebrating a victory for democracy. Without the rule of law, no democracy. Period.

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"Eighteen of the 22 schools examined by The Post employed at least one credibly accused priest, sister or brother for 91 consecutive years." Gift link: wapo.st/3R5v5mo

‘In the name of God’: Native American children endured years of sexual abuse at boarding schoolswapo.st Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.