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🐸 Empathy1st ❌👑
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I'm an educator who cares about human rights, science, and democracy.

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#CovidIsAirborne
#EndGunViolence
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Canadian/American living in Los Angeles County on Chumash land.

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Ayman is finally free and he’s speaking out.

“The greatest fear of an oppressor is not weapons, it’s not political pressure. It’s an awakened righteous anger.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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2/12 THE CORE THREAT

Hathaway's central contention: The "foundational norm" of the entire post-war system—the prohibition on taking land by force (from the 1945 #UN Charter)—is "under unprecedented challenge."

This changes a "centuries-old view of the legitimacy of state violence."

#WorldOrder
November 11, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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12/12 THE FINAL WARNING

"We tend to notice international law only when it is failing," Hathaway concludes.

She stresses the need to explain the system's impact, "otherwise people may not realise what they have until they lose it.”

By The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
Willing states must act to save international legal order, warns top academic
Yale professor says wars in Ukraine and Gaza and threats from Donald Trump risk the ‘total collapse’ of the global courts system
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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On 7/29/16, Tech billionaire Peter Thiel met w/ Kevin DeAnna who wrote under the pseudonyms ‘Gregory Hood’ & ‘James Kirkpatrick. In 2012, DeAnna (as Hood) had written that, “It’s time to fight for a country of our own. It’s time to stop being Americans. It’s time to start being White Men again.” 1/
April 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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“Over a dozen people with ties to Thiel — including current and former employees of his companies, as well as people who have helped manage his fortune or benefitted from his investments and charitable giving — have been folded into the Trump administration” 2/
August 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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17/ “JD Vance owes almost everything to Peter Thiel, a pro-Trump billionaire and "New Right" ideologue ***
Peter Thiel has been supporting Trump's newly selected running mate since before he entered politics” 7/22/24 www.salon.com/2024/07/22/j...
JD Vance owes almost everything to Peter Thiel, a pro-Trump billionaire and "New Right" ideologue
Peter Thiel has been supporting Trump's newly selected running mate since before he entered politics
www.salon.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM