Karin Ryan

"The Little-Known Bureaucrats Tearing Through American Universities" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Y’all 😰

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

Take the small victories for press freedom where we find them. And this one is bigger than it looks. Trump-appointed judge’s ruling for the AP via @dbauder.bsky.social https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-media-court-white-house-events-access-f346a0efe87c1dec4d6f90e6041abd09

Indeed…

This is incredibly frightening. Our SCOTUS is saying a human being can be disappeared by the USG and that person has no recourse. Dangerous and wrong

Murderers keep murdering when there’s no one to stop their bloodthirsty rampages 🤬

A Hostile Corporate Takeover of our Democracy Never before has one billionaire so thoroughly infiltrated our government and bent it to their will for personal gain. By Alex Jacquez, Elizabeth Pancotti ( Otherwords.org) – Befitting a presidency inaugurated by a parade of tech billionaires, President…

A Hostile Corporate Takeover of our Democracy

a man wearing glasses and a sweater says " it 's obvious and it 's simple " ALT: a man wearing glasses and a sweater says " it 's obvious and it 's simple "

We are at this inflection point in American democracy being no more bec a majority of adult white people can’t handle black & brown (& women) being treated w/dignity & equality to their humanity, & most white Americans would rather destroy🇺🇸democracy & their comfort than see that come into fruition.

Kagame's Hidden War in the Congo | Howard W. French Although it has been strangely ignored in the Western press, one of the most destructive wars in modern history has been going on in the Democratic

Just change the dates and everything falls right into place. www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

Hello. It’s not like these people have peoples LIVES in their hands 🤬

The tragedy of Rwanda’s decades long r*pe of the Congo is beyond horrific and getting worse. Why does the world not care? How can we make the world care?

Horrific. Some lives are valued more than other. As we know. We have so so far to go in this country

Finally. Now, keep an eye out for spoilers. Netanyahu is a genius thrower of monkey wrenches and usually gets away with it.

“Do not be overwhelmed by the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it.” -Rabbi Tarfon

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When Jimmy Carter refused to be bullied into retracting his statement that Israel is guilty of Apartheid

He stood his ground. Bless him 🙏🏼

❤️🙏🏼

‘He Saved Our Lives’: Former Hostages Recall Carter’s Quest to Free Them The Iran hostage crisis became a symbol of a failed presidency, but for some of those who lived it, Jimmy Carter was the one who brought them home at the expense of his political career.

Of all the people mourning the death of Jimmy Carter at age 100 this week, few could say that he changed the course of their lives more directly and consequentially than the Americans taken captive by Iranian militants at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979.

Pentagon Releases Detainee Held at Guantánamo Since Day 1 (Gift Article) The prisoner, who was repatriated to Tunisia, was never charged. His transfer is part of a Biden administration push to further reduce the dwindling detainee population at the wartime prison.

It was a busy Guantanamo news night last night, on the eve of 2025. In case you missed:

--The Pentagon repatriated a Tunisian prisoner who got there in 2002, was cleared to go in 2010 and was never charged at the war court.
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Say you could choose 5, 10 or 15 favorites as part of your bundle …I think it would help everyone get paid.

Would be great if a bunch of high quality independent publications could sell bundles so people don’t have to pay for dozens of subscriptions per month…

This calamity is happening under our noses and with our money and weapons. This is one of the most shameful episodes of human cruelty and evil in modern times. It’s incredible that so called liberal democracies are acquiescing to genocide and war crimes of this magnitude. 🤬💔

Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws: From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Post-election America finds itself in a panic. Voices from across a wide political spectrum warn that the country stands on the precipice of a potentially unprecedented and chaotic disregard for the laws, norms, and policies upon…

Once Upon a Time, a Nation of Laws: From the Global War on Terror to Donald Trump’s Second Term

Palestinians file Landmark Lawsuit against Blinken over Israel military Aid ( Middle East Monitor ) – A groundbreaking federal lawsuit has been filed against US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accusing him of systematically failing to implement US law that prohibits military assistance to foreign security forces involved in…

Palestinians file Landmark Lawsuit against Blinken over Israel military Aid

Maybe @joebiden will do the right thing and actually close Guantanamo 🤷🏻‍♀️

America Is Cursed by a Foreign Policy of Nostalgia Washington needs something better than “America first” and “America is back.”

“Simply put, building a healthy and secure democracy is incompatible with an endless quest for global dominance.”

Read @nancyokail.bsky.social and @mattduss.bsky.social on how the U.S. foreign policy establishment can break away from the failed approaches of the past:

Today, I'm leading 20 Members of Congress to demand that the Biden Admin withhold offensive weapons from the Israeli military.

U.S. law is clear: if the Netanyahu government does not allow sufficient food & medicine to enter Gaza, then the U.S. cannot send weapons.

When will we see how we have normalized violence? The kids are not ok.

Israeli strikes on Lebanon must be ‘investigated as war crimes’, says Amnesty Human rights group criticises attacks on civilians where no evidence was found of any potential military targets

Israeli strikes on Lebanon must be ‘investigated as war crimes’, says Amnesty

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