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Loujain Al Hathloul, the Nobel-nominated Saudi women's rights activist, stands trial tomorrow. Here's a very important thread ahead of that. Please read & share.https://twitter.com/LinaAlhathloul/status/1331169930419589121 Louja

Did anyone make the connection between the recent thwarted plot against @GovWhitmer and the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011? The terror attack that Breivik

When a neocolonialist motherfucker such as @EmmanuelMacron points to the colonized and says "you guys have a problem", this isn't a dispassionate critique but rather a pretext for a narrative

The myth of Trump's invulnerability has persisted since 2016 and into 2020. Some are still speculating that "this could be in Trump's favor". The powerful have such a track record

Israel isn't merely normalizing relations with a bunch of Arab dictators. It is striking a full alliance with the worst Arab dictators. You can accept this or reject it or

Very quick commentary on this. MBS had two paths ahead of him - either institute actual reform that would convince the world, *or* guarantee his own secret police complete impunity.

Racism is more than bigotry. Racism is (1) the division of human beings into made-up categories and (2) systematic, institutional exclusion of humans beings based upon these made up categories.

The most difficult thing I ever had to do was to recover from PTSD. It's the one personal accomplishment I'm most proud of. Recovering from PTSD isn't like healing from

Time for another stream-of-consciousness thread that feels right now as random thoughts but I think will coalesce into something as I go on "If your cause is moral, and your

When you see the outsize influence of the UAE upon regional affairs remember the following. The UAE is has a population of around 10 million out of whom 9 million

As I said months ago, the UAE will cast itself as a hero, saying that they agreed to normalize relations with Israel in return for Israel agreeing to not annex

Many US liberals are so suspicious of US foreign policy that they fall into the trap of erasing and disparaging the struggles of societies whose dictators happen to be anti-US.