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James Gleick"Criminally charging opposition political leaders at the same time you are dismantling the infrastructure for pursuing public corruption cases is an authoritarian one-two punch."
Christopher Michaels
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Thinking creatively flawed humanoid with a long history of self-education followed by the institutional versions leading to 3 uni degrees in writing and arts in the last half of my life.
As we have seen in the Abrego Garcia case and all the cases involving the removal of Venezuelans pursuant to Trump’s AEA proclamation, the regime will now drag out every aspect of this case. There will be further unresponsiveness to questions about compliance with court orders, there will be appeals by the regime over every order, and there will ultimately have to be entirely separate and dragged out proceedings to determine contempt of court. 16/
“the most disturbing presidential press conference I have seen in my life.”
James Fallows has seen more than anyone else I know. So pay heed.
JeffU.S. District Judge Fred Biery finds that Trump and his apparachiks are demonstrating “the perfidious lust for unbridled
power and the imposition of cruelty”; that they “know no bounds and are bereft of human decency.”
And adds, “the rule of law be damned.”
He attaches a photograph to his ruling.
Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoOthers receive detail. Africa receives blur. Russia is parsed. Asia subdivides. The Americas fracture easily. Only Africa remains whole—in speech and thought. 54 nations characterized not by nature, but by habit. A grammar learned under empire, kept after it left.
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Image; "Rider” by Pierre Cloete (Khoi).
The singular came through administration. Borders were drawn. Kingdoms split. Maps flattened complexity into paperwork. Knowledge followed power: history gave way to classification. Africa became “manageable” once it could be spoken of as one place.
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Image: Map showing the colonization of Africa by European countries in the early 1900s. Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Timeline-of-the-European-Colonization-of-Africa#/media/1/2271296/281547
Long before Europe’s maps, Africa governed itself in plural. Nile states taxed grain and time. Nubia ruled Egypt. Ethiopia traded with Rome and India. Mali controlled gold routes; Timbuktu kept archives. Power moved through institutions, not absence.
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Image: al-Idrīsī's 1154 map of the northern part of the continent —rivered, city-dense, sophisticated trade routes---a connected space, not container. No modern nation-states. No colonial color blocks. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al-Idrisi%27s_world_map_Rotated_180_degrees.JPG
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