Ben Schiff

Ben Schiff

@bschiff.bsky.social

Retired professor of international politics and law, Oberlin College. Wrote books on IAEA, UNRWA, Afrikaners after Apartheid (with June Goodwin), and the International Criminal Court. Garage woodworker.

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Replying to @meidastouch.com

The ad makes the case that Jackson is the wrong choice for senator because he has no relevant experience. But like He's been in Maine government since Bush II's first term. Including a long stint as president of the Maine Senate. This feels like an anti-Platner script they repurposed for Jackson.

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"Journalists often use the words 'unsubstantiated' or 'uncorroberated' when referring to the allegations victims have levied against powerful men, like Trump. Instead of saying these women’s accounts are not corroborated, maybe it’s time we say they were not investigated in spite of clear patterns."

jkbjournalist.substack.comTrump and Epstein’s intrasexual competitionFormer Miss Switzerland contestant accuses Trump of ‘brutal’ rape after event attended by Jeffrey Epstein

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For several days I have been hearing rumors of an ICE detainee death that ICE was not reporting. I've just learned a local journalist has confirmed it and will publish soon. Now I read this and see there are actually TWO deaths ICE is not reporting. www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-detainee...

daylightsandiego.orgICE detainee dies at Otay Mesa Detention Center in San DiegoPrivate prison company CoreCivic confirmed that someone in its custody died on Oct. 24 in one of the housing units.

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"Ben Gvir’s harsh policies drive high turnout in Arab towns." There is no doubt that many Palestinian Israelis, even as they fear no big-picture change, see extreme Jewish supremacists in government as posing existential threat to them, even personally. www.timesofisrael.com/hes-united-a...

timesofisrael.com‘He’s united Arab Israelis’: Ben Gvir’s harsh policies drive high turnout in Arab townsThe aftermath of October 7, 2023, and subsequent political discord drives changing voting patterns in southern Israel, from communities attacked during massacre to Bedouin hamlets

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Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

WIRED@wired.com

Despite the agency's human resources department saying he hadn’t even been onboarded, Jeremy Lewin oversaw the destruction of USAID. It’s not clear he had the legal authority to do so.

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Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

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Really something when yet another credible rape allegation against the sitting president is met with a yawn

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com

"Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee released a 52-page report titled 'We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover It Up.' Within the report are new details…"

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The "worst" thing Mamdani had done is advocate for state run grocery stores that at worst fail and at best feed some people and there is a huge constituency that believes this mad man must be stopped at all costs.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

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Men today stand on broken masonry of schools they bombed, the smell of canvases they burned still in the air, the ash of books they torched stinging the eyes, and they will insist "Those who dwell here build nothing. They contribute nothing to science, art, or literature. Savages, every one."

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The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Raise your hand if you are an Arab scientist. 👋🏽 I say this with all the disrespect intended. Fuck you.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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it feels truly insane that it’s not

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

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Replying to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

special Buckeye edition, episode 4 bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

The Ramaswamy ad has pushed the largest newspaper in Ohio, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, to reverse its position on endorsements. "A candidate who uses childhood sexual abuse as a weapon against the person who endured it has crossed a line that Ohioans should defend, whatever their party."

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I am requesting that we bring back shame a bit more urgently than usual

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social

Amy Acton's brother slams Vivek Ramaswamy featuring her estranged mother in a campaign ad. "This desperate, disgusting attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his core – a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he wants."

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Replying to @marisakabas.bsky.social

Will anyone—anyone at all—ask Trump about the rape allegations published in an official report by the House Judiciary Democrats? Or will he continue to escape accountability for his violence?

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VOTE

Dean Obeidallah@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro just lost in Brazil. Viktor Orban lost in Hungary. On Tuesday Benjamin Netanyahu will lose in Israel. Come next Tuesday we will win the midterms and take first step to destroying MAGA and putting Trump in prison! (That must be our goal)

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Mary Richards Bowser, who'd been enslaved in Van Lew's household, infiltrated Jefferson Davis’s Richmond home, the capital of the Confederacy, posing as an enslaved domestic servant. She gathered military intelligence that she passed along to other members of the spy ring who serviced the household.

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Trump already admitted it. "I'm the one that said do it," Trump told reporters as he landed for a campaign rally in Florida.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

asked if Trump directed him to sue Alaska, Blanche says "I will not talk about communications I have with the president" (So, yes, Trump did)

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Replying to @timothysnyder.bsky.social

For the Americans the war is just an element of a grift; they are, sadly, not negotiators in any sense, just men seeking to make more money from the bloodshed their actions enable.

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

also yeah, as everyone has pointed out, the punchline is that he is comparing trump to saddam hussein!

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“Donald Trump is a racist, awful piece of crap. He is a cancer to this world - one of world history’s most disgusting and despicable viruses to ever walk this planet. He foments so much hate and division. What a sick sex predator deviant he is!” Ben Meiselas The Meidas Touch 25 Oct 2026 #Trump

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Like, you know, inciting insurrections, abusing and killing Americans and immigrants, willfully tanking the economy, taking away your health care, interfering with elections... VISIONARY! NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “Here's something else Trump doesn't get credit for: he's visionary. “He imagines what people say is impossible. He thinks things that people say, "We can't do it because that's never been done before," and then he achieves them.”

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Do not recognize pardons granted to unindicted individuals. Democrats must make it clear — well before inauguration of the next president — that Trump administration staff will be investigated and potentially prosecuted regardless.

Jeff Stein@jeffstein.bsky.social

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

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The U.S was the world’s only major economy to see greenhouse gas emissions go up significantly last year. It happened as the Trump administration gutted pollution safeguards and forced dirty coal plants to stay running.

npr.orgUnited Nations report highlights significant increase in U.S. climate pollutionThe U.S. is the only major economy where planet-warming pollution dramatically increased last year. The United Nations warns the planet is on track for catastrophic warming.