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People of the left & right both must realize that, whatever its stated goals & allegiances, autocracy/caudillismo is its own ideology.
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Michael Deibert
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Michael Deibert
@michaelcdeibert
Author and journalist. Enemy to autocrats. Friend to all cats. Piti piti, zwazo fe nich-li. Now on Bluesky: https://t.co/uUSMQ67wUN
Florida Beigetreten Eylül 2009
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Some nice early positive reviews coming out for my forthcoming book, With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Deeply grateful to Howard French and Adam Hochschild, two authors whose work I admire immensely
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Thank you and mèsi anpil to everyone who attended my "Coloquio" at @LatamUF for my forthcoming book, With the Pen in One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, as Frederick Douglass and Anténor Firmin gazed down upon us.
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@renatabb Haiti's national anthem - "La Dessalinienne" - is even better:
Pour le Drapeau, pour la Patrie
Mourir est beau, mourir est beau !
(For the Flag, for the Fatherland
To die is beautiful, to die is beautiful!)
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As someone who experienced the gloriousness of Yemeni café culture firsthand back when I lived in Brooklyn in the 1990s, I think this is a very fine development: Yemeni coffee culture is taking over Philly inquirer.com/food/yemeni-co…
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@MickAntoniw1 I just mentioned the Budapest Memorandum today to the class of undergrads I teach. Most of them were hearing about it for the first time.
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Funny- i thought USA signed Budapest memorandum to guarantee Ukrainisn sovereignty after unilaterally giving up nuclear weapons
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
Trump: When I heard the head of Germany say, "This is not our war," about Iran, I said, "Well, Ukraine is not our war." We helped, but Ukraine is not our war. I thought it was a very inappropriate statement to make. But if I can solve that, it will be a great honor.
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Tomorrow, I will be speaking at the University of Florida's @LatamUF in Gainesville about my forthcoming book, With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century. #LASatUF #haiti #ayiti #caribbean
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Cuban doctors suggest government is lying about alleged chikungunya epidemic, saying symptoms of those affected do not correspond to an arbovirus but rather to a respiratory illness similar to COVID-19 14ymedio.com/cuba/letalidad…
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Read the full piece: open.substack.com/pub/michaeldei…
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As someone who has covered drug trafficking & organized crime for 20 years, this certainly appears as Trump intervening to protect some drug trafficking factions while acting against others via a policy of extrajudicial murder in the Caribbean & Pacific. nytimes.com/2025/11/28/wor…
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Reinhard Heydrich-wannabe Gregory Bovino of the United States Border Patrol called a "bitch" and mocked by residents as he tries to terrorize suburban Waukegan, Illinois with his masked thug traitors at his side.
armando l sanchez@mandophotos
Video of members of the community yelling towards Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and federal officers while they conduct an immigration enforcement action Friday in Waukegan.
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And, as I have said before, Maduro & co being remorseless criminals who belong in a cell at The Hague in no way justifies a U.S. invasion or attack in Venezuela. But it is very good to see Mamdani speak with Boric-like clarity about the nature of the regime.
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Despite my scepticism of politicians in general, I like him more every day: "Nicolás Maduro is a dictator. [He is] someone who has repressed the freedom of the press and jailed political dissidents...Our vision is entirely distinct from [his] politics" youtu.be/iTVaTTWFUt4
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As Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces telegraphed their intentions to commit mass murder in Darfur's El Fasher, the world did nothing. Please listen to the voices of Hala al-Karib of @Sihanet, @nattyray11 & @mukeshkapila on a special episode of @NotesFromWorld. michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-…
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Last night, a broad Democratic coalition ranging from the centre to the left showed up at polls from New York to New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Virginia to California in a strong rebuke to the hatred, chaos & corruption emanating from the would-be caudillo in Washington, D.C.
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In New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania and other places around the country, the good people won. Sanity and humanity and common human decency won. Maybe we're not as far gone as I thought we were. There are more of us than there are of them. On y va. 🙏👊
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Hopping back on for a minute to share this: What if It Was Your Country? Those criticizing the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuela’s María Corina Machado might take a moment to meditate on what the nation has lived through over the last 20 years michaeldeibert.substack.com/p/what-if-it-w…
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There have been many good reasons to leave before now, but this weekend's call for mass murder & civil war by the drug-addled oligarchic owner of this platform make it impossible to justify staying. Twitter was great but it is no more. Find me on Bluesky from time to time. xo MD
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Weird how all the NATO countries who allied with us after 9/11 didn’t feel this way…
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
What about Russia attacking Poland? Hegseth: We've projected power for a long time in far-flung places that had a nebulous connection to our own security in the homeland. We're securing the homeland.
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In case you are wondering where Brian Kilmeade is getting his inspiration. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…
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Also, I wish I could keep replies open so I could discuss this with you all but I am flooded with crypto/tech spam whenever I do so...
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These are Nazi words advocating a Nazi policy (a historically-documented policy enacted by Hitler & his cadre in Germany) so the American right can spare me their faux outrage about inflammatory language. They’re well & enthusiastically conversant in the discourse of genocide.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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