Kip Hale

Attorney - #atrocitycrimes @accountability; @TRPforJustice; fmr @GtownICJI @UN FFM Libya @ABAICCProject @KRTribunal @ICTYnews

[Kip Hale @kiphale]

Pleased to announce my new position as Director of Legal Affairs for @TRPforJustice! Under leadership of @janinedigi, TRP has done fantastic work. I look forward to working on TRP’s expanding portfolio of programs in several countries & helping enhance its investigative work too.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

WOW! This is something you NEED to see!

Earlier today in Ireland, while Hunter Biden was receiving an award, a student began shouting about Gaza.

But instead of letting security remove the student, HUNTER STEPPED IN, stopped them, and delivered an absolutely WONDERFUL response.

No hostility. No running from a difficult question. Just compassion, dignity, and respect.

THAT is Joe Biden's son, through and through.

Like father, like son.

JUST LISTEN! 👇🇺🇸🇮🇪

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

‘JD, habibi’ is going viral after Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed used the phrase to mock JD Vance in his victory speech.

Now, the Arabic term of endearment is inspiring viral videos, memes, music, and even a political fundraising committee.

[Haizam Amirah Fernández @HaizamAmirah]

I simply cannot believe this was aired on corporate US media.

Israel’s absolute impunity is no longer a taboo.

Times are changing.

[Sa'ad @hesis_saad]

Stephen A. Smith CHALLENGES Abdul El-Sayed on Open Borders — His Answer Shuts Down the Assumption

Stephen A. Smith: You’ve said the only way forward is to abolish ICE and start from scratch. What does that mean?

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: Let me be clear: I believe we ought to have a safe, secure southern border.

I believe you ought to enforce immigration law, but not through masked men with AR-15s acting against the Constitution.

ICE didn’t exist before this century. It’s not part of the Constitution. ICE is not about immigration. It’s about making a show of immigration and normalising paramilitary force on our streets.

I believe we need to undo it and build a system that enforces immigration law while respecting the Constitution.

Stephen A. Smith: Is there any condition under which you think open borders are acceptable?

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: No. You have to have borders that you can control. There’s no question about that.

People think ICE is about border enforcement, but it’s not. Customs and Border Protection enforces the border. ICE handles immigration enforcement inside the country.

I went to Minneapolis during the height of Project Metro Surge.

Some of the things I saw, I never thought I would see in the United States of America. We can’t allow that to continue.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

Nothing pisses @LauraLoomer off more than this video getting attention. Do your part, patriot.

[Ethical American @AmericanEthical]

The New America 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

I think there’s a non-zero chance we see the progressive populist version of Donald Trump the final two years of his Administration.

Don’t forget — he was a Democrat for 40+ years.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

True heroes wear a badge. The recent actions of police officers in Krakow during a mass shooting are a powerful, living example of biblical principle in action: Romans 13:4.

“But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.”

This is the true face of biblical pacifism - confronting and neutralizing evil to establish a just peace and protect one's neighbors.

Jakub Kulik, a former paratrooper who recently joined the Krakow police force, proved what heroism looks like. When a heavily armed individual shot his own family and began randomly firing at people on the street, Jakub and his partner, Artur Moranski, didn’t hesitate. Armed only with pistols, they went up against a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle, essentially shielding civilians with their own bodies.

Despite taking fire, they kept fighting. Jakub was hit three times - one bullet devastating his lung - but he refused to back down until the threat was completely neutralized. Only after the shooter was down did Jakub collapse and apply a tourniquet to his wounded arm.

This speaks volumes about the caliber of individuals serving in Polish police. Poland has every reason to be proud - their police force is willing to pay the ultimate price to keep people safe.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

THIS is the young man who is the first Texas Democrat in 38 years to win a seat in the US Senate. Elon Musk poured over $200 MILLION into preventing this from happening and he FAILED 💙 James Talarico, ladies and gentlemen.

[ashley fanatic @ashleypaddila]

THIRD TIME THEY’VE DONE THIS AND ITS THE BEST ONE SO FAR

[Ted Sikkink @tedsikkink]

Listen to Mamdani..

[Janis Kluge @jakluge]

A group of hackers published classified data on Russian soldiers killed in the war, from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat. In late August, the total was 450,100 (around 100k per year). It is in line with other independent estimates. There is also a regional breakdown.

[The Daily Decode @Sciencedecod]

“We must completely halt financial aid to Pakistan 🇵🇰, Israel 🇮🇱, and Egypt 🇪🇬 because these countries are violating international law.”

— Newly elected U.S. Senator Abdul El-Sayed

Do you agree that American taxpayer money should stop funding these three countries?

[MxM @Mukurima]

Jon Ossoff was 16 when he finished reading John Lewis’s memoir and wrote him a letter. He asked if he could interview him, spend some time with him, anything that would let him learn from the man whose book he had just read. He didn’t expect an answer. Lewis wrote back and invited him to work in his congressional office.

There was something about that letter Lewis would have understood. He had written one himself at 17. A college near his home in Alabama had never answered his application, and Lewis wanted to challenge its segregation. He wrote to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. without telling his parents or his teachers. King did not just write back; he sent Lewis a round-trip Greyhound ticket to Montgomery so they could talk in person.

Oh my!

The first time Lewis and Ossoff sat down for a meal, Lewis spent about an hour and a half telling him about the rabbis and Jewish activists who had marched alongside him in the South. Ossoff was a Jewish kid from Atlanta. He knew from the book what had happened to Lewis on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where a state trooper fractured his skull during a march for voting rights. Now Lewis was telling him who had walked beside him.

The internship lasted a few months. The friendship lasted 17 years. In 2017, when Ossoff ran for Congress and lost, Lewis was there on election night. A reporter saw him sitting in a small room next to the party, looking out into the room. Later that night, Lewis came out and told the crowd how glad he was that he had answered the letter Ossoff sent him in high school.

Lewis died in July 2020, six months before Ossoff won his first Senate race. When Ossoff took the oath of office, he had copies of two old passenger lists in his jacket pocket. One recorded his great-grandfather Israel’s arrival at Ellis Island in 1911. The other recorded his great-grandmother Annie’s arrival two years later. In his hand was a book of Hebrew scripture that had belonged to Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, who led the Atlanta synagogue where Ossoff had his bar mitzvah (this is a Jewish coming-of-age milestone for a boy, usually at age 13).

In 1958, white supremacists had bombed that synagogue. Rothschild and his wife, Janice, grew close to Martin and Coretta Scott King in the years afterward. Janice lived long to see Ossoff take the oath with her late husband’s book

This week, Georgia reelected 39 year old Jon Ossoff to the United States Senate. At his victory speech in Atlanta, he thanked his wife, Alisha, and their daughters, Eva and Lila. Then he talked about a conversation he expects to have when Eva is older. He imagined her asking what he did when people were losing their health coverage and voting rights were under threat. He told the crowd what he hoped he would be able to say to her.

“The year you turned five, Georgia sent me back. Here is what we did with the time they gave us.”

Isitoshe,

After his win in Georgia, Jon Ossoff is now the prediction markets’ favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. He has the gift of gab and, some women are saying he is easy on the eye. But if he runs, the first test will be South Carolina, where Black voters helped turn Joe Biden’s campaign around in 2020. Ossoff will have to make his own case to those voters and when he talks about John Lewis there, he will tell them about the man who wrote back to him at 16, sat down with him over lunch, and was still in his corner the night he lost his first race.

May the day break

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

HOLY SHIT, JAMES TALARICO WAS IN THE SNL COLD OPEN!!! 🤯

THUNDEROUS applause! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

El-Sayed on Trump and Stephen Miller: "He decides to hire the most broken man to continue to run the most dysfunctional White House we've seen. I don't know what Stephen Miller has actually contributed to our culture, our society, in any real way, except to make us more angry and stoke the worst kind of fear and vitriol."

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

My vision for diplomacy and USAID.

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.

(clip via @DropSiteNews)

[MLFootball @MLFootball]

THROWBACK: #Broncos RB Clinton Portis had one of the GREATEST performances in #NFL HISTORY against the #Chiefs in 2003.

Portis EXPLODED for 218 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns as Denver demolished Kansas City, 45-27.

An absolutely historic performance.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The UAE hired Colombian mercenaries to help a notorious Sudanese paramilitary group accused of genocide, UN investigators found. https://t.co/o5t2LYtfSc