The good news from Brazil and Serbia tonight is a reminder that democracy can and must prevail against the forces of autocracy.
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Floating Orbán feels like a stalking horse from Trump and his autocratic friends meant to make the UAE’s Lana Nusseibeh look like the “compromise candidate.” Countries shouldn't be fooled into handing the UN to a top denier of the UAE’s role in arming the RSF in Sudan's genocide.
New: Sources from three countries confirm that the Trump Administration has advocated Viktor Orbán for UN Secretary-General.

The US has encouraged Orbán to enter the race, even bringing him the initial idea of a joint U.S.-Russia-China candidacy.

WSJ:
wsj.com/opinion/viktor…
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The Bernie team tried to get this into the Democratic platform in 2016, the Clinton team blocked it.

We tried again in 2020, the Biden team blocked it.

Glad folks are coming around but it’s absurd that it’s taken this long on what should be a noncontroversial point of fact.
One of many critical points in Jon Finer's excellent post-elections Israel policy agenda for Democrats: "A new approach should also start from the principle that U.S. policy will distinguish occupied territory and Israel proper."
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opi…
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I know up is down these days but serenading the UN for a position when you undermined the same institution and rejected the UN Panel of Experts’ findings on UAE links to the RSF to run cover for your government’s calamitous role in Sudan’s war is an outrage and an insult.
I've spent much of my life in and around the @UN. What stays with me most is its people: colleagues who, in the world's hardest places, deliver food and medicine, protect civilians and help parties take the first steps towards peace.

The UN was never meant to agree with the help the world agree. This UN Day, I remain confident in what the United Nations can achieve - and in the future we can build when it acts early, supports its personnel, and measures success by what changes on the ground. #UNDay
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The US and Russia seem to be pushing for the next UN Secretary General to be a UAE official, @Lana_Nusseibeh, who has helped underwrite mass murder and mass rape in Sudan and then lied about it, as she is doing here.
في يوليو 2024، رفضت لانا نسيبة، علناً وبصورة قاطعة، ما توصل إليه فريق الخبراء التابع للأمم المتحدة من أدلة موثوقة تثبت دعم الإمارات للجرائم والإبادة الجماعية التي ارتكبتها مليشيا الدعم السريع في السودان.
وحين واجهتها شبكة سي إن إن، قالت: «لا، تلك الاتهامات غير صحيحة بشكل قاطع». نت تشكك في نتائج لجنة خبراء الأمم المتحدة، أجابت: «نعم، بالتأكيد».
واليوم، تسعى السيدة نسيبة إلى تولي قيادة المؤسسة ذاتها التي رفضت نتائجها رفضاً قاطعاً دفاعاً عن حكومتها. فكيف يُمكن أن تُؤتمن على هذه المسؤولية؟
ليس السؤال الجوهري ما إذا كان من حقها أن تدافع عن نظامها، بل ما إذا كان من وضع هذا الدفاع فوق النتائج الموثوقة لخبراء الأمم المتحدة يمكن أن يُؤتمن حقاً على صون استقلال المنظمة ونزاهتها ومرجعيتها.
وكيف للعالم أن يثق بقدرتها على إدارة موقع الامين العام بحيادية عندما تتعارض ادلة وتقارير الأمم المتحدة مع مصالح حكومتها التي رشحتها؟ إن منصب الامانة العامة الأمم المتحدة ليس موقعاً لحماية نظام إجرامي من التدقيق والمساءلة، ومقعد الأمين العام لا ينبغي أن يكون للبيع.
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בצלם קורא בדחיפות לקהילה הבינלאומית, לממשלות ולמוסדות בינלאומיים לפעול מיד, בכל האמצעים העומדים לרשותם לפי המשפט הבינלאומי, כדי לעצור את מסע הטיהור האתני שישראל מנהלת בחברון ולמנוע עקירה בכפייה של אזרחים פלסטינים, ענישה קולקטיבית והרס נרחב ובלתי חוקי. מנהיגי ישראל מכריזים בגלוי שטח כבר החלו.

בעקבות אירוע הירי סמוך לחברון ב־23 באוקטובר, שבו נהרגו שני חיילים ישראלים, הודיעו ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו ושר הביטחון ישראל כ״ץ בגלוי על תוכניות לעקור בכפייה תושבים פלסטינים מבתיהם ולבצע הרס נרחב באזור.

בהצהרתו אמר נתניהו: ״ניישם בערים את המודל ההתקפי המוצלח שהפעלנו במחנות הפליטים״.

אותו מודל כבר הוביל לעקירתם של יותר מ־33 אלף פלסטינים במחנות הפליטים בצפון הגדה המערבית. כעת, מנהיגי ישראל מאיימים להחיל את אותה מדיניות של עקירה המונית והרס גם בחברון.

והצעדים בשטח כבר החלו. כוחות הצבא הטילו כתר על חברון וחלחול, בעוד שהמנהל האזרחי החל להרוס מבנים פלסטיניים בשכונת פרש אל-הווא. במקביל, הודיע השר בצלאל סמוטריץ׳ על הקמת ארבעה מאחזי חווה חדשים בדרום הר חברון.

מנהיגי ישראל מכריזים בגלוי על תוכניות לענישה קולקטיבית ולמעשים שעלולים להוות פשעי מלחמה. תוכניות אלה מהדהדות את הפעולות ההרסניות שביצעה ישראל במסגרת הג׳נוסייד בעזה, ומהוות הסלמה נוספת במסע הטיהור האתני ובפרויקט המחיקה שהיא מקדמת בגדה המערבית: פירוק שיטתי של הקיום הפלסטיני הקולקטיבי, תוך הרחבת ההתנחלויות וביסוס שליטה ישראלית קבועה.

העולם אינו יכול לעמוד מנגד בזמן שישראל ממשיכה במתקפתה על הפלסטינים, ולהמתין עד ששכונות נוספות יתרוקנו מתושביהן ויימחקו, למרות מה שכבר ראינו בעזה ובצפון הגדה המערבית. ממשלות ומוסדות בינלאומיים חייבים לפעול עכשיו כדי למנוע את הפשעים האלה ולהגן על האוכלוסייה הפלסטינית.
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Hold up…
To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.
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Vile, desperate warmonger.
Trump: We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran. We'll have a ship stop about 50 yards off the coast. They'll raise up their hands, and then we're going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up.
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There is simply no equivalent to the right's anti-Muslim sentiment on the left. To my knowledge, there is not a single prominent leftist or member of the Democratic Party who has said anything like, "You want more Jews in positions of power?"
Gutfeld: You support this? You want more Muslims in positions of power?
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Because the US’s goal is to cripple the UN and she’s a suitable instrument for doing that.
I understand why @Lana_Nusseibeh is seeking to be UN secretary-general. Ambition. I don't understand why the US or other countries would support her given her role in underwriting mass murder and mass rape in Sudan, in a campaign Trump and Biden both defined as genocide.
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This is a key reason why the UAE’s Lana Nusseibeh is a totally inappropriate choice to serve as the next UN Secretary-General.

As the UAE was arming the RSF’s atrocities—including genocide—in Sudan, Nusseibeh led its denial and cover-up effort at the UN.

internationalpolicy.org/publications/c…
"Deeply disturbing."

UN human rights chief Volker Türk reacts to a BBC investigation finding evidence that the RSF systematically destroyed hospitals in Sudan, stating the actions may amount to war crimes. bbc.in/3W1oONU
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Hold up…
To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.
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The centrist cul-de-sac: stay silent on tough issues to win, but once you win you have to keep staying silent so as not to endanger front line candidates.

Or you could have the courage to offer an actually compelling governing agenda, build support for it, and then do it.
Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?"

@mattyglesias: "Yeah."

Me: "Just stay silent?"

Yglesias: "I think that sometimes, if ... you gotta win first."

Me: "They might be dead in three years time, by the time you win."

Despite all the arguments on this hellsite over the exact number of his Piker tweets, this was the part of my interview with Matthew Yglesias that really stood out to me. I was actually stunned by this response. Shouldn't politics also stand for something more than triangulation, polling and 4-D chess strategizing?

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/matt-yglesia…
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I would really appreciate if the conspiracy theorists who think I'm a far-left Jew paying millions of protesters could get together with the folks who think I'm Israeli zionist controlled opposition and issue a final ruling. Pick one conspiracy theory people, this is confusing!!!
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This racism has gotten so vile and disgusting I really can’t take it anymore. Sending $2,500 from my campaign to @AbdulElSayed today and I hope others will chip in too.
I’ve done a lot of cable news interviews over the years, but I still get questions that shock me.
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Hi Adam and Free Beacon, that quote about AIPAC "performing antisemitic tropes" is a great quote from our film, and it's from Jewish Congressional candidate and grandson of Holocaust survivors @DanielBiss.

Everyone should watch our new film 'Night Flower' to see how good it is - and how full of shit you are.
insideaipac.com
NEW: Mehdi Hasan Presides Over Anti-AIPAC Event Where Conspiracy Theorists Spun Tales of a Jewish Cabal Plotting World Domination -- 'AIPAC is performing antisemitic tropes and then getting mad when you criticize them' freebeacon.com/israel/it-blos…
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Israeli settlement expansion & settler violence are out of control. The last 3 years saw 50,000 West Bank Palestinians forced from their homes by Israeli military operations, demolitions & settler terror attacks.

Now, dozens of lawmakers led by @JoaquinCastrotx are pushing back.
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Netanyahu: Hebron neighborhood of gunmen in checkpoint attack to be “destroyed.”

Collective punishment and forced displacement are both grave war crimes.

We may be about to see a horrific escalation of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank.
timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…
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This is a key reason why the UAE’s Lana Nusseibeh is a totally inappropriate choice to serve as the next UN Secretary-General.

As the UAE was arming the RSF’s atrocities—including genocide—in Sudan, Nusseibeh led its denial and cover-up effort at the UN.

internationalpolicy.org/publications/c…
"Deeply disturbing."

UN human rights chief Volker Türk reacts to a BBC investigation finding evidence that the RSF systematically destroyed hospitals in Sudan, stating the actions may amount to war crimes. bbc.in/3W1oONU
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The next UN Secretary-General must defend international institutions and norms against the forces of autocracy and corruption.

@CIPolicy explains why Lana Nusseibeh, the public face of the UAE's denials of arming a genocide in Sudan, is the wrong choice: internationalpolicy.org/publications/c…
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