NEW: In opposing efforts to block the Anti-Weaponization Fund in not just one, but two courts, DOJ claims the case is now moot because acting AG Todd Blanche says they've dropped the fund. 1/
I'm not aware of any cases finding a dispute moot because of verbal promises by government officials. But more importantly, based on the cases they cite in their abbreviated legal argument about mootness, nor is DOJ. 2/
Ordinarily, the "voluntary cessation" doctrine requires the party claiming mootness to show "it is absolutely clear the allegedly wrongful behavior could not reasonably be expected to recur." 3/
Heute wieder recht braun bei @kallweit_heiko. Mit dabei: @CharlotteHinri6. Höcke-Girl. Gerne redet sie über "die Frazen" in der Politik.
Es kann wieder richtig bekloppt werden. Hören wir mal rein.
Der @baaskelabs redet von den "netten Leuten hier". Herrje. Nun labert er über die Staatsquote. "Alles kann weg, die ganzen Gesetze"
@Patric_ForPeace redet über die, "die uns die Worte verbieten wollen". Merkwüdigerweise labern sie jeden Tag Mist in Spaces ...
@baaskelabs @Patric_ForPeace Nun spricht @Patric_ForPeace von "selbsternannten Eliten". Er meint, jeder und auch er, muss darüber nachdenken, was er so schreibt und sagt.
Я всегда его поддерживал. Даже после “бутерброда”. Не потому что разделял его взгляды, Боже упаси.
Потому что считал его единственным политиком, способным шатать режим.
Тред-рассуждение о том, почему у Навального ничего не вышло и могло ли выйти в принципе.
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1. ПЛАТФОРМА
Навальный был русским националистом.
Стремясь расширить фан-базу, он стал заметать национализм под коврик. Но хотел держать связь с националистами, потому что именно они — таран, способный на боевые действия, в отличие от хомячков, годных в основном для массовки. 2/
Национализм его постоянно прорывался в виде “грызунов”,“х*хлов”, ”хачиков”, “хватит кормить Кавказ”. Примеров масса.
Для русского политика это была не самая глупая позиция. Жириновский с человеческим лицом. Но проблема в том, что никакой политики в России не существует. 3/
1/ Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin predicts that Russia will be stripped to the bone – "IN THE EVENT OF DEFEAT, THEY WILL TAKE EVERYTHING FROM US—UP TO AND INCLUDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND SOVEREIGNTY" – in a long and deeply gloomy commentary posted on Telegram. ⬇️
2/ Girkin, who is currently in a prison for former security officials in the Kirov region, analyses the deteriorating situation in the war and warns that Russia is not going to end up in a good place:
3/ "Having taken a breather during the so-called "ceasefire," the enemy has begun a long-planned campaign to "isolate the front from the rear to great depth ," as many observers and authors have quite correctly noted.
1/ Un análisis del programa de gobierno de Iván Cepeda revela cómo entiende la paz en Colombia. 🧵
No es un tema menor. Es el capítulo más largo del documento.
2/ Su modelo tiene nombre: "paz completa".
En la práctica, es la Paz Total de Petro continuada. El eje central es la implementación del Acuerdo de 2016 — más diálogos, más negociaciones, más mesas con grupos armados.
3/ Sobre la extradición, el programa es explícito.
La califica como "sometimiento neoimperial" y la ubica como parte de una "guerra contra las drogas que ha fracasado".
Eso es una señal clara sobre cómo usaría — o no usaría — ese instrumento con grupos como el ELN.
You know what? I wanna do a thread about the Shibui/Hade distinction that underlies Japanese aesthetics since a mutual brought it up. Please read! 🧵
Very often when people talk about Japan, they’ll use the word “contrast” a lot, usually about tradition/modernity, but this is usually a euphemism for Japan’s odd fusion of asceticism and maximalism. Foreigners often assume this is a euro-style high/low culture gap. It isn’t!
Philosopher Kitaro Nishida wrote in the 1900’s, when Japan was rapidly modernizing, and surmised that core to Japanese worldview was a rejection of Hegel’s synthesis. While Westerners would try to rectify opposites, Japan would let them fight, and draw culture from that fight.
1/ Russia's corrupt elites are drinking 'Long Epstein Island' cocktails in St Petersburg while soldiers and civilians die, Crimea is effectively cut off, the Donbas is under constant attack, and Russian defenders struggle, an angry Russian warblogger complains. ⬇️
2/ Anger and contempt at the excesses of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) has become a widespread theme among Russian warbloggers, who almost all regard it as an expensive distraction from an increasingly difficult war.
3/ 'Ural PartiZan' writes:
"The elites [at the SPIEF] increasingly look like bourgeois citizens feasting on champagne-drenched pineapples and cold-smoked hazel grouse in 1917.
🧵 Here’s a thread on what happened, and why now is probably not a good time to start panicing 👇
We can start with the HTF: Support is clearly closing in, while price is moving into technical levels we typically only see around bottoming structures.
2/7 The HTF gives us context, where price stands relative to historic performance and behavior.
But without MTF structure and volume, that context is incomplete: we need to tell whether BTC is being accumulated or distributed: weak low v. strong bottom.
52 refs have been named to go to the #WorldCup. The belief is there’ll be 32 main + 16 support refs.
Tried to follow the most likely options from the chatter on Law5.
Data from Transfermark
ChatGPT has given some officials a glow-up.
ABDULRAHMAN AL JASSIM
Country: Qatar 🇶🇦
Took charge of two matches at his home World Cup in 2022, including the third-place play-off. Overall, he showed 8 yellows & awarded 1 pen. Also refereed May’s AFC Champions League Elite final.
PIERRE ATCHO
Country: Gabon 🇬🇦
Limited data for this official, so using his AFCON record, where he took charge of a semi-final at this most recent edition. The 33-year-old has only shown 7 yellows in 5 games across CAF Champions League & Confederations Cup.
Over-explaining is a habit response. It comes from emotional monitoring. When we believe someone might feel upset or hurt by something we say, we over-explain to try to please the other person and to protect ourselves.
The issue with over-explaining is, we're creating a story about how someone will feel before we actually give them a chance to tell us what they think or feel.
ABENDREPORT aus Europa 🇪🇺🇺🇦 1/7 Leichenwagen als Zukunftstransport Nr.1 in St. Petersburg:
Der Chef des Transportkomitees von St. Petersburg Denis Minkin wurde gefragt welches Transportmittel er für die Zukunft der Stadt sieht. Seine Antwort: „Es gibt nur ein Transportmittel das definitiv zur Zukunft gehört und jeden von uns betrifft. Das ist der Leichenwagen." Am Tag des SPIEF-Forums. In Putins Heimatstadt. Das war kein Witz. Das war ein Freud'scher Versprecher einer ganzen Nation.
🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺
2/7 Russische Versicherungen gegen Kriegsschäden:
Russische Versicherungsunternehmen bieten jetzt Privatpersonen „Schutz gegen Kriegshandlungen" an – Aufpreis 10 bis 12 Prozent. Versichert werden Schäden durch Militäreinsätze, Drohnen, Raketen und Luftabwehrsysteme. Manche Policen decken sogar Bürgerkrieg ab. Russland führt offiziell eine „Spezialoperation" durch – keinen Krieg. Aber seine Versicherungsgesellschaften verkaufen Kriegspolicen. Das sagt mehr als jede Propagandarede. 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺
3/7 Apple löscht russischen Messenger Max:
Apple hat den russischen Messenger Max aus dem App Store entfernt – wegen Sanktionsverstößen. Der Kontext: Cloudflare hatte Max als Spyware eingestuft. Im März wurde festgestellt dass die App VPN-Nutzung erkennt und Verbindungen zu Telegram-Servern aufbaut. Journalist Zakharov: Max ist ein persönliches Asset der Putin-Familie – über die Strukturen von Putins „Schatzmeister" Kovalchuk. Beim SPIEF wurde zeitgleich eine große Max-Party mit Ksenia Sobtschak gefeiert. Apple löscht. Putin feiert. 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇪🇺
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