Mollie Gerver
@mgerver.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Ethics at King’s College London, focusing on immigration, consent, and experimental philosophy. www.mgerver.com
This episode explains why: www.npr.org/2025/05/02/1...
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet : Planet Money
Why is it so hard to find a bathroom when you need one? In the U.S., we used to have lots of publicly accessible toilets. But many had locks on the doors and you had to put in a coin to use them. Pay ...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This episode explains why: www.npr.org/2025/05/02/1...
Pretty democratic, based on what I’ve read - regular elections, pretty free, even if there was and is widespread corruption.
October 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Pretty democratic, based on what I’ve read - regular elections, pretty free, even if there was and is widespread corruption.
Strictly speaking, other governments have done this since Idi Amin. In 2013 the Dominican Republican stripped individuals with Haitian ancestry of their citizenship, effecting over 100,000 people. But this was widely condemned, so just reinforces your point. cmsny.org/dr-stateless...
Ten Years After a Fateful Court Decision, the Dominican Republic Still Has a Statelessness Problem - The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)
The Dominican Republic is at a crossroads in how it handles the situation of stateless Dominicans and Haitian migrants in their country.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Strictly speaking, other governments have done this since Idi Amin. In 2013 the Dominican Republican stripped individuals with Haitian ancestry of their citizenship, effecting over 100,000 people. But this was widely condemned, so just reinforces your point. cmsny.org/dr-stateless...
Well, the BNP wanted to offer people - including citizens! - money to leave voluntarily if they weren’t white, and also to deport a lot of people.
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Well, the BNP wanted to offer people - including citizens! - money to leave voluntarily if they weren’t white, and also to deport a lot of people.
Agree with your general point, but worth noting that in Israel young people are *less* liberal than older people, and dramatically so: in a 2023 poll, 73 percent of Jewish Israelis between ages 18 and 24 identified as right-wing, compared with 46 percent over 65. www.vox.com/world-politi...
How Israeli youth helped usher in the farthest right-wing government ever
Young voters are often more liberal than their grandparents. Not in Israel, a new poll finds.
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October 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Agree with your general point, but worth noting that in Israel young people are *less* liberal than older people, and dramatically so: in a 2023 poll, 73 percent of Jewish Israelis between ages 18 and 24 identified as right-wing, compared with 46 percent over 65. www.vox.com/world-politi...
It’s also worth noting that, based on what we’ve found, even people who oppose migrants crossing over mostly do not moderately or strongly support deporting those migrants to unsafe life-threatening conditions.
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It’s also worth noting that, based on what we’ve found, even people who oppose migrants crossing over mostly do not moderately or strongly support deporting those migrants to unsafe life-threatening conditions.
I wish I had a kangaroo that ate my roses.
October 11, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I wish I had a kangaroo that ate my roses.
A thought: perhaps far right anti-semitism in the UK is less common partly because many Jews are represented by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which is sort of centrist/right. In the US there is no org like BofD, Jews are viewed as left, and far right anti-semitism is *extremely* common.
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A thought: perhaps far right anti-semitism in the UK is less common partly because many Jews are represented by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which is sort of centrist/right. In the US there is no org like BofD, Jews are viewed as left, and far right anti-semitism is *extremely* common.
I hope @theguardian.com includes a follow up or a clarification: that’s an extremely misleading headline and bad journalism to not mention that most soy is grown for meat.
September 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I hope @theguardian.com includes a follow up or a clarification: that’s an extremely misleading headline and bad journalism to not mention that most soy is grown for meat.