I will give a hybrid course on the ontology of situations and situation-like entities, especially their part-whole structure, and the role of those entities in semantics, especially truthmaker semantics. Interested online participants welcome: https://t.co/rGJMorvUyd
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Chiquita was just held liable in a Florida court for paying Colombian death squads to police their plantations. Couldn't help but think of Rivera's La Gloriosa Victoria. Eisenhower righteously doing the United Fruit Company's dirty work. For what? cheap bananas
Visualized another way: Clarence Thomas took in ~$4 million in gifts over the last 20 years (and only disclosed $2.4M worth).
That's a total haul 5.6x larger than the other 16 justices combined.
cc: @FixTheCourt
NDA leads/has won 290 seats while INDIA bloc has 235 as of 7 pm on June 4. Our map traces NDA, INDIA, and other parties' performances over the last four Lok Sabha elections.
#Election2024#ResultsonIndiaToday#ElectionsResults#DIU
The BJP has dropped compilation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) from its manifesto that was released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14. NRC was one of the prominent poll promises in the party’s 2019 manifesto.
https://t.co/wh4oZ0TDG6
At the very same time, the Israeli government is bombarding the over 1.3 million displaced Palestinians they forced into Rafah with no escape. The reality these Palestinians are facing is a stark contradiction to the Israeli military’s designation of Rafah as a “safe zone.”
On Monday morning, five senior-most judges of the #SupremeCourt of India will deliver their verdict in the challenge to the abrogation of #Article370 of the Constitution.
@guavakashyap writes about what’s at stake.
https://t.co/XybuyBdF02
Just as they were re-entering negotiations with Egypt, Ethiopia has unilaterally resumed filling the Grand Renaissance Dam...so much for negotiations
https://t.co/yfgrGWCz9o
The 1st case concerns National Register for Citizens (NRC) which was exercised under Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955.
The Assam NRC is meant to identify illegal immigrants in the State who migrated from Bangladesh after March 24th, 1971.
https://t.co/8kT0GiYd4s