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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The majority of genocide scholars think it's genocide Why this and not other wars? Intent matters and (I admit) is debatable But the possibility of genocide should be entertained Solidarity to you against the pinheads and antisemites on this thread www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
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Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
The determination by the International Association of Genocide Scholars could serve to further isolate Israel in global public opinion and adds to a growing chorus of organizations that have used the ...
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For those who claim tourism isn't affected by Trump And we had the World Cup
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gonna use this against the next troll
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Been missing @filipecampante.bsky.social He's the most perceptive analyst of America's slide into competitive authoritarianism
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Oh God, please make me write like this guy
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Could not have said it better
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
You don't even need to get into the debate of whether college is for human capital or signaling. Both of these are fundamentally about interacting with other humans. (If you think people will give up on learning from humans bc of technology, let me tell you what happened when writing was invented.)
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
On my watchlist
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
An overdue shoutout for @renanetjes.bsky.social She has been a vox clamans in deserto for years Standing your ground against death threats, online harassment and public opinion, takes backbone. A lot of it
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
More chronicles from banana republic
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The best summing up
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
He nails it
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
If you support industrial policy b/c it worked in 🇰🇷 For every 🇰🇷, there are 10 stories like these
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Chronicles from banana Republic Self-dealing settlement edition
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 15/11/2025
The formula is set. Any crony who committed crimes in the past sues the government now, then DOJ “settles” with a vast payout. Result: limitless payments straight from Treasury to cronies. Breathtaking corruption poisons us. It steals money from every Conservative and Liberal American taxpayer.
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Michael Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks Over $50 Million Claim
The Justice Department has been discussing settlements with two former officials from Donald Trump’s first term who — like the president — claim they’re owed major payouts from the US government as vi...
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Next time someone brings up Putin as a bulwark for Western values quote this thread
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Chronicles from Banana Republic - Wall Street edition
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A real econ reporter
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
May this NOT be the epitaph of Milei's presidency Argentina badly needs to turn the page But I'm afraid @filipecampante.bsky.social is on to something
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Xi and Putin way younger than Trump Not 100% germane to @mclem.org point. But still worth noting
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A pithy summary of my life on social media
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Stephen Miller, this is on you
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
How a democracy dies, Russia edition
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
About twice as many people at Solihull Moors versus Forest Greeen Rovers (1568) as at all the anti-asylum protests at Saturday. It was one of a dozen non-league games in the 5th tier of English football. Many more people at Charlton v Watford today (21,178) than at all asylum protests all summer
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
#itsnotacold
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Budapest on the Potomac www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"In just under six months, only an eighth of his term, Trump has made huge strides in his war on everything that made the US successful. Only the Maga base, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping should feel happy" www.ft.com/content/acf6...
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Trump’s assault on American greatness
In just six months, the US president has made huge strides in advancing his agenda
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thread
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"Chronicles from Banana Republic" are morphing into "Chronicles from Prison Island" Kudos to the WSJ for standing alongside media it disagrees with
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Again, the scale of the slaughter is unprecented No whataboutisms, please
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Unlike the misinterpreted Harvard study, here is a direct estimate of the deaths From the Israeli press
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This looks like a must-have for any applied researcher...
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I wish this thread was an exaggeration but @filipecampante.bsky.social knows whereof he speaks
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Chronicles from banana republic-installment XXX
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
On this quote from the @newyorker.com Yarvin profile: while patently absurd, it contains a grain of truth about authoritarian regimes: you can "think and pretty much say whatever you want" (though "pretty much" is doing some heavy lifting there), but always with a huge "as long as" attached. 1/
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Chronicles from Banana Republic - CBS edition
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Please, please, please somebody translate this in Italian and publishes it Diary www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Jérôme Tubiana · Diary: Safe and Unsafe Ports
In 2019, I made several visits to Dhar al-Jebel, a Libyan detention centre better known as Zintan, after the nearest...
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
There is no fog in this war anymore. The destruction is well documented. What will happen next? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Gazans Once Escaped To Rafah. Now Israel Is Razing It.
In the last few weeks, Israel has demolished extensive areas of Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Seeing through the fog of war in Gaza By the foremost expert on famine www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza
The IPC’s results, published in summary form on 12 May, estimated that 925,000 Gazans (44 per cent) were already...
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
From somebody with ears and eyes on the ground www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
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With Israel’s expanding war and plan to take over aid, my colleagues and friends in Gaza fear a “death blow”
People in Gaza fear being permanently corralled into an even smaller pen of misery where they have to beg their occupiers for a loaf of bread.
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Why Ukraine doesn't surrender land to Russia - installment 2 "Vika’s body was returned with several body parts removed, including parts of the brain, the larynx, and eyeballs – consistent with a possible attempt to hide the cause of death." forbiddenstories.org/russia-detai...
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Russia’s ‘Ghost Detainees’: The Investigation That Cost Viktoriia Roshchyna Her Life
Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna was pronounced dead in Russian captivity in October 2024, after being secretly held for months in Russian-occupied Ukraine and a Russian prison. In February 20...
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Why doesn't Ukraine surrender land to Russia? Here is why "This continuous, regular cruelty and torture over months and years, this long-term torture for whole groups, I never heard of this in the Russian prison system before" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Inside Taganrog: beatings, electrocution and starvation at prison where Ukrainians were tortured
Russia is holding an estimated 16,000 civilians in arbitrary detention at 180 separate facilities. Taganrog was the most notorious.
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Chronicles from Banana Republic - Trump resort edition
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A Russian recognizes an autocrat when he sees one (I read similar statements from Serbs, Turks, Arabs and Africans-all people who should know) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article)
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
You're better off reading @s-stantcheva.bsky.social than all the pundits Wanna chew on this thread a long time
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Chronicles from Banana Republic - regulatory edition Traditionally the opposition party holds two seats at the FTC Trumps is doing away with checks and balances
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Chronicles from Banana Republic - installment 3 (For 1&2 see the OTHER site) @filipecampante.bsky.social is the one to follow to understand America's ethical lapse
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Re-upping a series from 4+ (on the OTHER site) Those who suffered from authoritarianism recognize the symptoms
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
If you think forcing Ukraine to surrender land will bring "peace" you're not seeing 2 inch away from your nose. If Putin gets to redraw borders with force, he and others will follow suit somewhere else A point sadly lost on our POTUS. His wits are in real estate, not IR
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rickyalberto62.bsky.social @rickyalberto62.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I'm not Polish I don't live in the UK I've never shopped in a Polish store Yet I seldom enjoyed a read this much. Writing at its best www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/a-cultural...
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A cultural history of the polski sklep
How the polski sklep changed British food culture, by Kasia Tomasiewicz and Marta Zboralska
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