Dr Shonali Banerjee

Assistant Prof of International Development @PAISWarwick, Research Fellow @CambridgeJBS. I study philanthropy, development, ICT4D, financialization. 🇺🇸in 🇬🇧

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Sorry, what? The federal “investigation” into ICE’s killing of an American is investigating the *victim*?

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

The suggestion that applicants from top fee paying schools are somehow naturally 'higher quality' than applicants from state schools is vile classism.

If you manage to get 3 x A* despite having class sizes of 25-30, no private tuition, and no family pal to mentor you through the application system, I’d argue you might be the highest quality applicant there is.

[LBC News @LBCNews]

LIVE from 10 with @SteveHReports:

▶️@AndyHughesCrime on a lack of vetting on potential police officers.

▶️@BanerjeeShonali on the ICE shooting in Minneapolis.

▶️@ShannahanLuke on preparations for Storm Goretti.

🎧https://t.co/mZdq4umSrT

[Reggie Saxx @ReggiSaxx]

Take a wild guess who owns the companies that they are allowed to sell their own diamonds to

[Katherine Krueger @kath_krueger]

rarely do you get such an explicit tour of the consent manufacturing plant

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

#Israel authorities’ plans for legislation that would impose mandatory death sentences exclusively on Palestinians under certain circumstances fly in the face of international law. They are discriminatory and they violate international humanitarian law norms. We urge the authorities to drop these proposals.

➡️ https://t.co/pXImUCdbLA

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.

Let that sink in.

File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

AI consumed as much water as the water bottle industry this year.

It also created as much carbon pollution as New York City, according to a new study.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

“Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”

https://t.co/gYLYnaxkmy

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Good on you, David. Boycotts absolutely work.

So do divestment and sanctions. That terrifies them more than lethal weapons.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

EXCLUSIVE: 1/ Epstein didn’t just prey on children. He helped bankroll and embed a worldview of race science, climate “culling” and eugenics inside Silicon Valley’s elite AI networks. Tonight we publish the final part of my @BylineTimes investigation🧵https://t.co/acIzo60XHF

[Dr Ally Louks @DrAllyLouks]

People invest themselves in arguing about the craziest stuff on here. Is it unethical to have AI write your PhD thesis? Obviously. Is Virginia Woolf a good author? Obviously. Is that 650 word college essay bad? Obviously. No further comment.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

Friendly reminder that universities have been unceremoniously firing/expelling profs/students for speaking out against a genocide for over 2 years now!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells]

“Epstein’s name is inextricably linked with sexual predation, as it should be. But it should just as readily be linked to global militarism and authoritarianism.” https://t.co/cDUuO3bfoa

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

This is inhumane. You survive a war or some catastrophe and you can’t bring your kids or partner with you? This is a monstrous unforgivable policy

[Yassamin Ansari @yassaminansari]

The New Yorker story is chilling: shutting down USAID has already killed 600,000 people, most of them children.

For no reason other than Elon Musk’s ego, Marco Rubio’s complicity, & Republican Members of Congress’ cult-like loyalty to Trump. Devastating.
https://t.co/09PYFSEuHV

[Nour Odeh 🇵🇸🍉 #FreePalestine @nour_odeh]

A charter plane full of Palestinians from Gaza arrived at Johannesburg airport. A shady org called AlMajd Europe that is accused of human trafficking, coordinated their exit for $$. This couldn’t be done without cooperation with Israel. Follow the story on @AJEnglish

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

A good op-ed would be "Every single person included in the Epstein emails must immediately resign any position of public confidence and never be allowed to hold another one" does not seem harsh at all to me