LawfareYesterday, Paul Rosenzweig resigned from the Data Protect Review Court, writing that if "one thinks that Trump is a fundamental threat to America’s essential democratic institutions, one cannot, in good conscience, offer any aid and comfort to the prospect." https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/never-means-never
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"The Terrorgram designation is a necessary, yet in and of itself insufficient, step to continuing the fight against white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and other violent extremists."
Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D., Camden Carmichael, and Seamus Hughes on the terrorism designation of Terrorgram. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-the-terrorgram-collective-designation-matters
Leila Al-ShamiMyself and @ayoub spoke with Wendy Pearlman about her latest book, Syrians in exile and more on The Fire These Times.
Recorded before the Assad regime fell, the interview still provides important context
https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/01/17/making-home-in-exile-w-wendy-pearlman/
This is such an important issue. Many Syrians now want to travel home but are fearful of loosing asylum in Europe when Syria's future is still uncertain and the country is destroyed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/16/syrians-germany-ask-allowed-visit-home-keep-protected-status?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/16/syrians-germany-ask-allowed-visit-home-keep-protected-status?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
It is my day off work tomorrow. So I will be able to actively not watch the Inauguration of the Orange Führer.
Oh well, at least the actuarial charts offer some hope. Alas, the rabid followers and entourage may be more worrying even if the Double Macs finally get the bastard.
With Assad gone, Suwayda’s protest movement endures, turning a watchful eye towards the new government in Damascus and planning for the future.
https://syriadirect.org/suwaydas-movement-endures-post-assad/
https://syriadirect.org/suwaydas-movement-endures-post-assad/
In January, the ICJ ruled in Ukraine v. Russia, finding that there was a violation of the convention on racial discrimination concerning the lack of access to education in the Ukrainian language in Crimea. Anastasiia Vorobiova explains what the ruling does and doesn't include. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/missing-histories-in-the-icj-s-ukraine-v.-russia-case
Kristian KiehlingElon Musk could and should already be held accountable under European law for inciting violence in last year's riots in the UK when he promoted the posts of far-right extremist Tommy Robinson and spread the false narrative that the suspect in question was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat in 2023.As a result,X should be forced to comply with EU law before it is too late and he has managed to create an alternate reality significant enough to change the...1/2 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg55we5n3xo
Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦Musk and Farage would have an easier time convincing us that they actually care about people being raped, rather than weighing in on grooming gangs for cynical political point-scoring, if they weren't both keen to show us that they are best mates with a known rapist.
Tjeerd RoyaardsCartoonist Ann Telnaes quits the Washington Post after a cartoon mocking Post-owner Jeff Bezos is refused. Cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/
