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'A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue' Patrice Lumumba

[Jack Margolin @Jack_Mrgln]

@_hudsonc Surely it is possible to make infrastructure investments in Africa without, for example, supplying arms to the RSF or integrating in Wagner’s killchain in Libya

[🇵🇸 nope @nnnnnnxox]

I have never had this thought in my life

[Variety @Variety]

Wagner Moura on the biggest misconception Americans have about Brazil:

"The joyful image is accurate: the warmth, the culture, the music, the food — the best f*cking food. But Brazil was also the last country to abolish slavery. Inequality is massive. Power is concentrated. Brazil is complex. As ['Girl From Ipanema' composer] Tom Jobim said, Brazil is not for beginners. Bolsonaro didn’t come from nowhere — he reflects the country, just as Trump reflects America."

https://t.co/MVh4B1KGSe

[Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo]

CNN’s investigation into Tanzania’s post-election violence is out tomorrow around the world

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

This is embarrassingly stupid. People obviously can't lift themselves out of poverty without the right institutional environment and, if the policies to create such an environment were so obvious and easy to implement, other poor countries would also have had decades of almost uninterrupted double-digit growth, but they didn't. You can criticize the Chinese government without resorting to sophistry.

[michael wave @michael___wave]

agree with this, and it’s a reason i rarely use the phrase “identity politics” if I can help it. corporate capture of some superficial (and the cheapest to implement) elements of social struggles is really not that material to the fact that struggles based in race & gender exist

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Pay attention. Anyone who lionizes Biden as a great president in their real-time hagiography, absolutely doesn’t care about Palestinian human rights. Or about their ethnic cleansing. Make that mental note.

[Raziye Akkoç @RazAkkoc]

I am so excited to get my hands on this. Ankara is the best. Istanbul sucks. Don’t @ me

[Jace @sanklum]

@dandekadt @hecimovicemir @paulgp @matt_blackwell Is your applied regression course sufficient for this, or should I look into taking a specifically focused casual inference course?

[eliza @thefemiurge]

@NarratorOskar i know this might hurt but the point of activism isn't to feel like you're doing something

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Israel pushes Palestinians into smaller spaces, chokes them with settlements and soldiers, or just deprives them, even its citizens, of rights to land, water and resources, imposing economic terror and attrition, creating a coercive environment that promotes “voluntary” transfer.

[Jace @sanklum]

@BuddyYakov @JRHunTx Could you explain what you mean by this yakov? The fx hedge bit

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

Don’t put flags behind your username, it’s the online equivalent of a bumper sticker politics. But if you do, this is probably the only acceptable line-up:

[Jace @sanklum]

@Sharon_Kuruvila What book is this?

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

How to wreck a country in 13 years dot jpg

[Jace @sanklum]

Woah did not know @M_C_Klein was a raging Zionist, given he’s quite left on Econ issues

[Dr. Mia Brett @QueenMab87]

I find the “right to exist” convo for a nation state so weird. Nation states don’t have the right to exist. People and communities have the right to safety and self determination

[Kate Aronoff @KateAronoff]

Seems like the US and EU each have climate policy approaches that are grossly inadequate in different ways thanks to the unique political limitations of each place