Ben Schiff
@bschiff.bsky.social
Retired professor of international politics and law, Oberlin College. Wrote books on IAEA, UNRWA, Afrikaners after Apartheid (with June Goodwin), and the International Criminal Court. Garage woodworker.
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When they're replaced.
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
When they're replaced.
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Shame Shame Shame
Primary Dick Durbin
Recall the other 7
Primary Dick Durbin
Recall the other 7
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Shame Shame Shame
Primary Dick Durbin
Recall the other 7
Primary Dick Durbin
Recall the other 7
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Until Citizens United is repealed, we have absolutely no hope of having a government of the people. We can vote in new representatives, but when big donors start screaming, they’ll capitulate as well.
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Until Citizens United is repealed, we have absolutely no hope of having a government of the people. We can vote in new representatives, but when big donors start screaming, they’ll capitulate as well.
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Gaza Center for Human Rights reported that nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an escalating humanitarian crisis as winter nears, amid severe shortages of safe shelter, tents, blankets, and warm clothing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Gaza Center for Human Rights reported that nearly two million Palestinians in Gaza are confronting an escalating humanitarian crisis as winter nears, amid severe shortages of safe shelter, tents, blankets, and warm clothing.
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I think hardly any of them actually go to church.
Just a reminder that all of the republicans in congress who are at church this morning and quote scripture on Xchan all the time are currently starving their own constituents to protect the Pedo in Chief from the release of the Epstein files.
November 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I think hardly any of them actually go to church.
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Every day, Palestinians in eastern Gaza wake to Israeli gunfire and shelling, despite the ceasefire.
November 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Every day, Palestinians in eastern Gaza wake to Israeli gunfire and shelling, despite the ceasefire.
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Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.
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Israeli forces detonated residential buildings east of Gaza City.
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Israeli forces detonated residential buildings east of Gaza City.
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I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
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Those of us who study the Theo Bros have long suspected a financial connection between them & the Tech Bros, but were unable to find it. Forbes just did. The connection is thru Marc Andreessen (who advises DOGE & is involved w/ Network States) & New Founding (led by Nate Fischer & Josh Abbottoy). 1/
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Who could possibly ever think you could subjugate a population and a country the size of the United States unless they were living in a bubble?
This was destined to fail again, which it is doing, and much faster than anyone could have expected.
This was destined to fail again, which it is doing, and much faster than anyone could have expected.
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Who could possibly ever think you could subjugate a population and a country the size of the United States unless they were living in a bubble?
This was destined to fail again, which it is doing, and much faster than anyone could have expected.
This was destined to fail again, which it is doing, and much faster than anyone could have expected.
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Get rid of Citizens United, impeach the current regime and speaker into political oblivion, then nuke the entire financial-panoptical cluster from orbit through taxation and aggressive criminal prosecution--"that's the only way to make sure."
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Get rid of Citizens United, impeach the current regime and speaker into political oblivion, then nuke the entire financial-panoptical cluster from orbit through taxation and aggressive criminal prosecution--"that's the only way to make sure."
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The central node features three people--Thiel, Sacks and Musk--who grew up in apartheid South Africa. Think of them as three well-heeled spores endeavoring to create a white ethno-state on these shores, because if you strip out the digital/high-tech filigree, that's exactly what's happening.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The central node features three people--Thiel, Sacks and Musk--who grew up in apartheid South Africa. Think of them as three well-heeled spores endeavoring to create a white ethno-state on these shores, because if you strip out the digital/high-tech filigree, that's exactly what's happening.
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Not only that, but if German elites (esp von Papen and Hindenburg) hadn't caved, Hitler wouldn't have been chancellor. People think Hitler rode into office on some big democratic wave, when in fact he snuck in through the side door due to the incompetence of a few men.
I’ve been going through every NYT daily beginning in 1933 and it is remarkable how quickly Hitler consolidated power after becoming chancellor. It was sudden, and there was very little resistance.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Not only that, but if German elites (esp von Papen and Hindenburg) hadn't caved, Hitler wouldn't have been chancellor. People think Hitler rode into office on some big democratic wave, when in fact he snuck in through the side door due to the incompetence of a few men.
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"One prisoner... had boiling water poured on him, while another lost sight in one eye after it was damaged by the muzzle of a dog that attacked him. A second prisoner... said he was raped with a stick by prison staff, who laughed as they abused him."
www.ft.com/content/d4e7...
www.ft.com/content/d4e7...
Freed Palestinian prisoners recount beatings and abuse in Israeli jails
Testimonies from former detainees spotlight worsening conditions since October 7 2023 attack
www.ft.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"One prisoner... had boiling water poured on him, while another lost sight in one eye after it was damaged by the muzzle of a dog that attacked him. A second prisoner... said he was raped with a stick by prison staff, who laughed as they abused him."
www.ft.com/content/d4e7...
www.ft.com/content/d4e7...
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I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well
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Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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Noted
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Noted
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Let's be clear: The MAIN issue is that the gvt is fighting tooth & nail - NOT to figure out a way to feed the citizens - but how to REFUSE to feed the people it's entrusted to govern.
Everything else is irrelevant.
#SNAPstarvation
#TRUMPstarvation
#RepublicanStarvation
#JusticeJackson
#3rdWorldBS
Everything else is irrelevant.
#SNAPstarvation
#TRUMPstarvation
#RepublicanStarvation
#JusticeJackson
#3rdWorldBS
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Let's be clear: The MAIN issue is that the gvt is fighting tooth & nail - NOT to figure out a way to feed the citizens - but how to REFUSE to feed the people it's entrusted to govern.
Everything else is irrelevant.
#SNAPstarvation
#TRUMPstarvation
#RepublicanStarvation
#JusticeJackson
#3rdWorldBS
Everything else is irrelevant.
#SNAPstarvation
#TRUMPstarvation
#RepublicanStarvation
#JusticeJackson
#3rdWorldBS
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In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
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i will probably need to delete this lmao
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
i will probably need to delete this lmao
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Just a pathetic, needy, egomaniacal cult leader
Sources: Trump wants D.C. stadium named for him
A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the $3.7 billion dom...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Just a pathetic, needy, egomaniacal cult leader
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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