Emile Parrotta

MSc Human Rights, LSE. Flaneur, teacher, politics connoisseur. 🌹 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇪 🍉

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Big fan of whatever is going here

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Thanks to a court ruling today, extending Temporary Protected Status, Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnics cleansing operation. The ruling is notable.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Chasiv Yar, Ukraine

This is what happens when the Russians come.

European countries should take a good look

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🇺🇳❗️UNRWA is a subsidiary body of the General Assembly: only the GA can decide its fate.

Israel is dismantling the UN system brick by brick, metaphorically and literally. Silence and inaction by member states and UN agencies deeply dishonours the UN itself.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Edward Snowden blew the whistle on illegal mass surveillance by US authorities of their own population – and had to flee into permanent exile.

Julian Assange published details of the US military's war crimes – and spent years locked up in a high-security jail, denied his most basic rights.

Francesca Albanese has documented US government and corporate complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza – and now, thanks to US sanctions, cannot have a bank account. As she explains here, anyone who deals with her faces up to 20 years in a US jail.

Notice a pattern? The US is the ultimate rogue state, destroying anyone who tries to hold it to account. It is utterly lawless. Its methods are those of the gangster, ruling a world where there are no police who can bring it to heel.

Trump is different only in that he no longer bothers to hide the fact.

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

Eurovision’s self-inflicted damage continues as 2024 winner Nemo sends a clear message to the EBU by returning their trophy in protest at Israel’s participation & disappointment at the contest’s betrayal of the values it claims to celebrate #GazaGenocide https://t.co/c5i3KTTXEE

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

I’ve been looking back at my old Russian newspaper reviews. They highlight how much Russia has changed - and signs of what lay ahead. #ReadingRussia

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

Ana Kasparian: “It doesn't matter which party you vote for, whether it's a Democratic presidential candidate or Republican, they're going to get dog walked by whoever the Prime Minister of Israel is at the time.”

She’s right.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Don't forget the good people of Georgia, now onto their 361st consecutive day of protests against the Russian occupied government.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Last night Russia sent about five hundred drones and missiles to kill Ukrainians. Most were intercepted but those that got through hit a post office, a store, a power plant, and multiple residences. 19 people were killed in Ternopil. This particular war crime is part of the larger crime of this war, and we need to do more to help Ukrainians defend themselves.

[Emile Parrotta @EmileParrotta]

@Mo7ammed_jawad6 …

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

I was honored to receive the endorsement of Rabbi Moshe Indig and Ahronim leaders in Williamsburg today, where we were joined by my friend @LincolnRestler.

Together, we will fight the scourge of antisemitism and build a city that works for every New Yorker.

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

This man is a psychopath and would be in jail in any vaguely sane democracy. Instead he is a proudly fascist Minister in Israel’s government. And one of the most racist human beings there has ever been - and I grew up in apartheid South Africa. This is what the West is supporting.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

From Irpinia, with love.

And pain, authentic pain, in the face of the monstruosity of the century that Israel continues to inflict on the Palestinians ‐ We must stop it.

[Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan]

Make no mistake, this is a scare tactic. I went on the podcast and as hard as the lobby groups and media tried, they couldn’t twist anything I said. So they have resorted to lobbying for Louis’ sponsorship to be pulled in an attempt to scare others out of giving me a platform.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Russia continues to attack, kill, and injure journalists who are covering its war against Ukraine.

Today in Kramatorsk, a Russian drone directly struck a car with Ukrainian “Freedom” TV reporters, killing journalist Olena Hubanova and cameraman Yevhen Karmazin, and severely injuring journalist Oleksandr Kolychev.

Condolences to families, close ones, and colleagues of the victims. Their courage in reporting the truth about Russian aggression against Ukraine will never be forgotten.

I also wish a speedy recovery to the injured reporter and wish strength to his loved ones.

Not long ago, a direct Russian drone strike killed French photojournalist Antoni Lallican and injured his Ukrainian colleague Heorhii Ivanchenko. Since 2022, Russia has already killed 135 media representatives in the course of its full-scale war.

These are not accidents or mistakes, but a deliberate Russian strategy to silence all independent voices reporting about Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine.

I am grateful to everyone around the world who does not close eyes to Russia’s targeted attacks against journalists and other crimes.

It is very important to support our people. And I urge everyone around the world, including reporters, media watchdogs, specialized UN and OSCE representatives, all governments and institutions to support Ukraine’s defense and all kinds of pressure on Russia that help end this war as soon as possible.

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

Sometimes you do need to beat a dead horse

[Palestine in the UK @Palestine_in_UK]

H.E. Ambassador @hzomlot says on BBC News that #Palestine is viable and it is Israel that needs to end its occupation of Palestine.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

“I am personally proud of the holocaust of Gaza, and that 80 years from now, they will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did,”

—The Israeli Minister of Social Equality.

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

Let's make hope normal again.