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@tigrayan.bsky.social
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#Tigray, the heartland of the Aksumite Kingdom in the Horn of Africa, has long stood as a beacon of African freedom and sovereignty. Never compromising on liberty: from Gundet (1875), Gura (1876), Kufit (1885), Dogali (1887), and Adwa (1896) to TDF (2020).

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/06/2025
I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Meta is being sued for promoting hateful content in Ethiopia’s Tigray war—posts that led to real-world violence and death. 🚨⚖️ The platform’s algorithm amplified hate for likes and profit. This is more than failure. It’s complicity. 💔 #Tigray #Meta #HumanRights 🔗 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Kenya: Meta can be sued in Kenya for role in Ethiopia conflict
Kenya High Court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear case against Meta over its role in Ethiopia conflict.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
On the production of invisibility in #Tigray.
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The #Palestinians are there to embarrass the world. They are the moral mirror. It would still be a lie, but the world could at least say it didn’t know what was happening in #Tigray, for it was deliberately made invisible. But Palestine is something else. Visibility means nothing
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/06/2025
The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.
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Tulsa announces reparations for the 1921 ‘Black Wall Street’ massacre
It took decades of research by historians and journalists — and reports by state and federal commissions — to uncover the violence that claimed more than 300 Black lives.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2025
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/04/2025
NEW: As Trump’s administration continues its crackdown on immigrants, WIRED has learned from sources that operatives from Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Labor (DOL) have access to systems that house sensitive data pertaining to immigrants.
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DOGE Has Access to Sensitive Labor Department Data on Immigrants and Farm Workers
Three DOGE associates have been granted access to systems at the Department of Labor housing sensitive information on migrant farm workers, visa applicants, and more.
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18/04/2025
Two unvaccinated children have died as a result of the virus in Texas, the epicenter of the outbreak
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US Measles Cases Rise 12% in a Week to Reach 800 in 24 States
The US has 800 confirmed cases of measles, a 12% increase from the week prior in an outbreak that has reached nearly half the country.
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/04/2025
Exclusive: Immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Social Security Administration are showing up at field offices with documents proving they are alive, leading staff to reinstate nearly three dozen people over the past week, according to records obtained by The Post.
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Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker and a minor child.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in DenverZoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The executive targets his opponents w/bogus investigations. His government disappears people w/out due process and vanishes them beyond reach. He usurps legislative power, controls public funds at will, & consolidates power. Loyalty is expected — or else. Authoritarianism isn’t coming. It’s here.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
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EU, China start talks on lifting EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Handelsblatt reports
The European Union and China have begun negotiations on the abolition of EU tariffs on imports of Chinese electric cars, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Thursday.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 05/04/2025
The people are awake. The people are angry. And the people are organized. 📍 Chicago, Illinois #HANDSOFF
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
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Robert P. Jones @robertpjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Here's my response to the banning of my book, White Too Long, at the US Naval Academy. And why this is so heartbreaking and chilling for our democracy. www.whitetoolong.net/p/my-book-wh...
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My Book, "White Too Long," Banned from US Naval Academy
The book bans are coming for American universities.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse. 2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report." 3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes." This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hey, I wonder if there's any economic news today. I'll check out the website of America's biggest news network--Fox! Phew. Nothing's up! Biggest news in US today is a very nice Christian woman was slapped for no reason after sticking a camera in a stranger's face & calling her a baby killer.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Thank you for everything, school librarians & library workers! At a loss for words thinking of how you somehow find a way to continue doing your unnecessarily stressful jobs. I have to think your library kids are a big part of why. Whatever the reason… thank you. We love you, we support you 💛
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/04/2025
NEW: Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance. The Heard and McDonald Islands are known for their populations of penguins.
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Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins
The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Crawford: Today, Wisconsinites fended off an unprecedented attack on our democracy, our fair elections, and our Supreme Court.. Wisconsin stood up and said that justice does not have a price, our courts are not for sale
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 01/04/2025
Every time an authoritarian con-artist is held accountable, every time the mask slips in a courtroom, the spell weakens. It takes pressure. It takes a public that doesn't flinch when the volume gets turned up. It takes faith - not in the perfection of institutions, but in their potential.
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Authoritarian Grift Meets the Grind of Justice
Marine Le Pen has been convicted of fraud, shattering the illusion of far-right immunity—and sending a warning shot to strongmen everywhere.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/04/2025
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.
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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This fabulous little bird is a Long-tailed Silky Flycatcher. Despite the name, they mostly eat berries and forage for insects when they are feeding chicks. They are thought to be related to waxwings and used to be grouped in the same family. 🪶 San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica
A bird with a yellow head and crest, gray on the upper body and wing covert and darker gray on the flight feathers and tail, with more yellow on the bellow. It is perched in a tree that has fine, thin green leaves.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act. As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:
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The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 01/04/2025
Just learned that the entire division of blood disorders at the CDC was put on administrative leave or terminated effective immediately. The people who figured out HIV was infecting people through the blood supply. What could possibly go wrong?
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Trump begins mass layoffs at FDA, CDC, other US health agencies. The Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S. health agencies on Tuesday. #MomSky www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Exclusive: Trump administration begins mass layoffs at health agencies, sources say
The Trump administration fired staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, as it embarked on its plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The gutting of HHS and the CDC will literally and directly lead to the sickening and deaths of millions of Americans, and many more globally. Far more than that will suffer needlessly. This is horrific.
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Critical Threats Project @criticalthreats.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Eritrea and Ethiopia have returned to their decades-old rivalry since the end of the Tigray war in nearly all aspects, with opposed regional agendas, efforts to destabilize each other, and an increasingly militarized border. 5/7
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/03/2025
At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visitors pushed back against the claim that the museum perpetuated anti-American ideology.
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Trump’s executive order targeted this museum. Many visitors question why.
At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visitors pushed back against the claim that the museum perpetuated anti-American ideology.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
This is how disinformation campaigns provide permission structures for human rights abuses
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Data Against Fascism @dataagainstfascism.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is the home of the USA Disappeared Tracker Dashboard. DM to let us know of a person to add to the tracker or to volunteer to help!
A screencap of the Tableau Dashboard "USA Disappeared Tracker" which monitors persons "disappeared" in the USA by ICE.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Senior partners at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, a firm of 115 lawyers, write: "partners at big firms — who often earn millions a year — must be willing to take financial risks when the fate of our nation, the future of our profession & the rule of law itself is at stake. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
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Opinion | For God’s Sake, Fellow Lawyers, Stand Up to Trump (Gift Article)
The time has come to defend the oath we took when we became officers of the court.
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David Mouritsen @davidmouritsen.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
No doubt, Musk and Thiel have been influential:
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How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The fact Trump created a special refugee/asylum status for (white) Afrikaners has been widely reported. This is the first reporting I've seen abt just how much we're doing/spending to essentially recruit Afrikaners to resettle in the US www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“white people own half of South Africa’s land while making up just 7 percent of the country’s population.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...
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‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status
The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States before President Trump took office. But Mr. Trump is making one exception.
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...
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Stanley from Yale to Toronto
Jason Stanley (philosophy of language, epistemology, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Toronto, where he will be thr...
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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Four years ago, I joined hundreds of Tigrayans in Ottawa to raise awareness of the atrocities #Tigray was suffering at the hands of Ethiopia. I can only imagine their concern and disappointment over Canada now resuming military co-operation with Ethiopia. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Canada revives military co-operation with Ethiopia despite genocide allegations
Ottawa is bringing Ethiopia back into Canada’s Military Training and Co-operation Program, three years after suspending defence collaboration over the Tigray war
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @tekgw.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New publication via @politicalgeography.bsky.social 📜 How did the century’s deadliest war become invisible? In this article, I provide a detailed analysis of the tactics & strategies the Ethiopian regime & allies used to commit & conceal #TigrayGenocide. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Tigray war: Modern geographies of mass violence and the invisibilization of populations
The war in Tigray, Ethiopia, which erupted in November 2020, has been marked by widespread atrocities, including organized massacres, the systematic u…
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