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I have been avoiding Twitter and just returned with a vengeance tweeting about the earthquake in Kurdistan, Turkey, and Syria, trying to dig out information for my soul and people who are interested. It is a historic catastrophe and easily overwhelming. Feel free to mute or rt.
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🚨 BREAKING: Chat Control BLOCKED in EU! 🎉
Germany just refused to back the EU's mass surveillance "Chat Control" regulation after public pressure! This blocks the required majority in the EU Council and derails next week's planned vote.
NICE JOB EVERYONE! 💪
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Cameras going dark one after the other. More than ever, all eyes on the flotilla now.
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Alma back online. But the crew are clearly expecting something. Everyone is sitting on deck in a circle, life jackets ready.
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Alma, the lead boat, has gone offline.
People on board the Flotilla say they are surrounded by boats on port and starboard. Unclear if IDF or armed settlers.
There is one confirmed military vessel sailing towards them.
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İstanbul Valiliği, 07–10 Eylül tarihleri arasında Beşiktaş, Beyoğlu, Eyüpsultan, Kağıthane, Sarıyer, Şişli ilçelerinde her türlü toplantı, gösteri, basın açıklaması ve etkinliği yasaklamış; aynı zamanda CHP İstanbul İl Başkanlığı polis ablukasına alınmıştır. Bu uygulama, yalnızca demokratik siyaseti değil, doğrudan halkın iradesini hedef almaktadır.
Toplantı ve gösteri hakkı, Anayasa’nın 34. maddesinde ve Türkiye’nin taraf olduğu uluslararası sözleşmelerde devletin keyfine bırakılmamış, güvence altına alınmıştır. Valiliğin bu yasaklama kararı ve polis ablukası açıkça keyfi olup ve hem Türkiye'nin iç hukukuna hem de taraf olduğu uluslararası sözleşmelere aykırılık içermektedir.
Üstelik İstanbul Valisi Davut Gül, hukuksuz biçimde alınan bu kararları dayanak göstererek yurttaşları ve siyasal aktörleri cezai yaptırımlarla tehdit etmiştir. Bu tehditler, devletin görevinin yurttaşların haklarını güvence altına almak değil, onları baskılamak olduğu anlayışını açıkça ortaya koymaktadır.
Ablukaya karşı çıkan yurttaşların gözaltına alınmaya başlanması ise bu hukuksuzluğun en ağır tezahürüdür.
İnsan Hakları Derneği olarak altını çiziyoruz:
•Hiçbir idari makam, yurttaşların barışçıl toplantı ve gösteri hakkını toplu biçimde ortadan kaldıramaz.
•“Kamu düzeni” bahanesiyle dayatılan bu yasaklar, iktidarın muhalefeti susturma ve toplumu sindirme girişiminden başka bir şey değildir.
•Siyasal partilerin binalarının abluka altına alınması, demokratik hayatın kalbine indirilen bir darbedir.
•Valinin cezai yaptırım tehdidi ve gözaltı uygulamaları, halkın demokratik hak arayışını kriminalize etmeye yönelik kabul edilemez baskı politikasıdır.
İstanbul Valiliği’ne sesleniyoruz;
Bu hukuksuz yasaklar, tehditler, ablukalar ve gözaltılar derhal son bulmalı; yurttaşların ifade, toplantı ve örgütlenme haklarının önündeki engeller kaldırılmalıdır.
Gözaltına alınan herkes derhal serbest bırakılmalıdır.
İnsan hakları savunucuları olarak;
Baskılara karşı özgürlüğü, yasaklara karşı demokrasiyi, ablukalara ve gözaltılara karşı halkın iradesini savunmaya devam edeceğiz.
İNSAN HAKLARI DERNEĞİ İSTANBUL ŞUBESİ
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CHP İstanbul Provincial Building under police blockade
Police closed the streets and roads leading to the CHP İstanbul Provincial Presidency and the İstanbul Governorship imposed a three-day protest ban in several districts.
birgun.net/haber/chp-istanbu…
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Opportunity for a dream post doc to contribute to meaningful work in stimulating environs with two finest individuals and inspiring academics!
@sedyst @linnetelwin
careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft…
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The US @StateDept has imposed sanctions on @FranceskAlbs a UN mandate holder for the first time since the creation of the UN and in flagrant violation of its Charter. The EU is bound by its history and treaties to defend Int. Law and must ensure protection of UN mandate holders.
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Here is the list of state delegations who will be participating in The Hague Group's Emergency Ministerial Conference in Bogotá, Colombia tomorrow
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Boston Consulting Group modeled the costs of ethnic cleansing in Palestine. The people doing this were no doubt paid handsomely for the detailed spreadsheets and PowerPoints they generated laying out these scenarios.
Evil in its most everyday form.
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NYC Gini index of inequality is the highest in the US and within striking distance of Rio de Janeiro. It is 80 percent higher than that of Berlin. Latest Chartbook newsletter just dropped on capitalism & democracy in NYC.
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I think European politicians should be forced to spend a week at 45C every time they debate another greenwashing measure like the one below.
Buying carbon credits, manufactured by clever carbon cowboys in countries where they can intimidate indigenous communities and regulators
EU plans to add carbon credits to new climate goal, document shows reut.rs/40q6L38 reut.rs/40q6L38
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Just a reminder that the West destroyed Iran’s progressive democracy in 1953, deposing a leader beloved of the people, and installed a dictatorship in his place. The US and UK have been terrorising that country for as long as any of us have been alive. It’s sick.
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Amazing. As a condition of letting Nippon Steel acquire U.S. Steel, Trump insisted the U.S. government be given a managing stake in the company, giving it veto power over a host of potential decisions by Nippon. He's effectively nationalized the company.
nytimes.com/2025/06/15/busin…
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"Industrial policy is being deployed asymmetrically across the global economy. The capacity to pursue transformative industrial policies remains enormously shaped by global financial and monetary hierarchies, integration into global supply chains, and geopolitical positioning."
New essay on Industrial Policy and Imperial Realignment, co-written with comrades @drjacktaggart and @TomChodor for @phenomenalworld
phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
@Dept_of_POLIS @CdsCambridge
(In my academic capacity) Israel's strikes on Iran are a prohibited use of force under article 2(4) of the UN Charter, an armed attack under article 51 giving Iran a right of self-defence and likely an international crime of aggression by Israeli leaders
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Chronicle of another massacre foretold.
The Israeli army orders survivors in Khan Yunis to move out, while there is no safe place to go, and knowing very well that, once they have cut off the Internet, most people will not see their orders.
#عاجل ‼️ الى كل المتواجدين في مركز مدينة خان يونس، معسكر خان يونس وحي البطن السمين في بلوكات 63, 64, 100, 107, 108
⭕️جيش الدفاع يعمل بقوة شديدة جداً في مناطق وجودكم لتدمير قدارت المنظمات الإرهابية
⭕️من أجل سلامتكم، اخلوا فوراً الى المآوي في المواصي
⭕️أوامر الاخلاء لا تشمل مستشفى ناصر
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Who would have thought
Paragon Spyware used to Spy on European Journalists schneier.com/blog/archives/2…
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Fascist Merica
The Trump admin this week provided deportation officials with personal data - inc the immigration status - on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown
apnews.com/article/medicaid-…
The silence of EU institutions over the unlawful detention and punitive conditions imposed on EU citizens including MEP @RimaHas speaks volumes to the deep roots of Israelism in European institutional culture.
Rima, French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament and refugee from 1948, now stands before an Israeli court in al-Ramleh. She joined the Madleen flotilla carrying symbolic aid to Gaza—her second attempt to return to her homeland. Israel offered her deportation and a 100-year ban. She refused to sign. She chose prison over submission. Rima is not just resisting—she is teaching us the true meaning of dignity, steadfastness, and the right of return. @RimaHas ❤️
































