I don't even know who Nate is talking about, but I don't know many utilitarians who would defend something like, 'Journalists should lie to ensure X political outcome.' Utilitarians consider multiple harms & journalism becoming (more?) dishonest would be considered a great harm.

This is not a utilitarian outlook.

Melika Hosseini, an Iranian Red Crescent first responder who was killed in the Kerman blast today. She was helping victims of the first blast when the second blast occured 💔

The Flandolorian 🐈 Where there is antisemitism, antiblackness is not far behind and vis-versa.

1/2 Pointing out this analysis from WaPo about Trump's latest filing as an example of how traditional political reporters continue to get snowed by bad actors 7 years after 2016.

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The reason I decided once more to post a full article here is that it's important that people don't get discouraged from reading the horrors just because of a couple of dollars paywall. This article by The Wall Street Journal, just like the previous one by The New York Times, is extremely important,…

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An accompanying goal of Israel’s investigation could also be preserving history, much like the Eichmann trial laid out Nazi Germany’s Final Solution to the world and began a process for witnesses to come forward en masse to speak of the horrors they experienced.

Israel has…

This.

This is why rape kits, which are useful to find and convict individual rapists, are relatively useless in war crimes tribunals. What matters is that widespread rapes occurred and were sanctioned or not reasonably prevented by military leaders, not that solider A raped victim 1.

Those were the ICC tribunals for war crimes in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Both were (as they typically are) against military leaders—NOT individual soldiers—for sanctioning or not using reasonable measures to prevent widespread rape. One of those cases was overturned on appeal btw.

Legit question is why any university official will ever want to speak before Congress again

Huge risk, no visible upsides

I was 22 years old the first time I was detained by Hezbollah in Dahiyeh. I remember it clearly because it was the first time anyone had put a gun to my head.

This is not a normal fucking situation, and anyone telling you otherwise is disgusting.

💉💪 One of the very many benefits of being up to date on your Covid vaccinations is that this sharply reduces your chances of developing Long Covid

This large reduction in LC risk from vaccination has been confirmed in multiple studies

scientificamerican.com/article/vaccin…

Biden critics: 'tHe Us Is IsOlAtEd On ThE wOrLd StAgE.'

The World Stage:

The lesson here is that plagiarism is not a disqualifying offense (it's just 'borrowing' from others, after all) if you're a powerful, conservative white male. politico.com/story/2017/04/…

Things that can be true at the same time:

1) Ben Gvir is a far right lunatic who has no business being in government

2) Ben Gvir is not part of Israel's war cabinet

3) People & media who omit point 2 are doing a disservice when talking about his odious Gaza advocacy