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Jurist—Catalan Parliament and Spanish Judiciary Council’s former member—Writes in @businessinsider @ctxt_es @myfairobserver @Jerusalem_Post @htTweets @trtworld

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Not Our First Rodeo—The Global Authoritarian Populism Rule or perish Political mafia, anti-meritocratic communitarianism Narcissism, cognitive dissonance, victimhood Genes and human agency The Will of the People What is to be done? By Alfons López Tena
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Pro-democracy demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand
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Coats don't work!
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are threatening to sue over a pair of @ProjectLincoln ’s giant, side-by-side billboards in Times Square that blast the couple’s response to the coronavirus crisis
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Protesters in Nigeria's Lagos are into the second day of a sit-in campaign calling on the government to scrap a notorious police unit that is accused by many of brutality. The hashtag #ENDSARS has been trending at no.1 worldwide today Via @BBCAfrica
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葛飾北斎の浮世絵「神奈川沖浪裏」の巨大な壁画が、ロシアの首都モスクワに出現した。 郊外のブトーヴォ地区に建設された6棟のマンションの壁面に、「神奈川沖浪裏」の巨大な波が描かれている。壁画の総面積は6万平方メートルで、すでに地域のランドマークになっているという
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Hong Kong reporter Chan Yu-hong has been diagnosed with chloracne, raising public health concerns about the widespread use of tear gas by the police—The condition is “rare skin eruption of blackheads, cysts and nodules, directly linked to dioxin exposure”
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Russia's new export
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Far-right yellow vests and far-left yellow vests fight one another. Lyon, France.
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Ukraine's Supreme Court judge Ivan Mishchenko drove his family out of Kiev, returned, and joined the armed resistance to Russian invasion
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Staging Caravaggio paintings
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The sound of Mars
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QAnon supporters have acted with dismay and confusion after Trump announced the dates of his upcoming fees-raising speaking tour with Bill O'Reilly, which coincides with when he is meant to have already been reinstated as president
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Hong Kong’s white-collar workers join the ranks of protesters — Driven by anger at the authorities’ response to massive protests, and guilt that the burden of defending democracy has fallen on the city’s youth, a white-collar rebellion is rippling out
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First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.
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Ice tsunami in Dudinka, Siberia
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So far, Germany's fatality rate for coronavirus — 0.5% —is the lowest in the world, by a long shot. Experts say that's because they're testing early and often. One virologist estimates the country has been testing about 120,000 people a week
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Did you just call me a Nazi?
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Coronavirus in Catalonia — Boars descend from the mountains to the very center of Barcelona, after several days of people being locked at home
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Cambridge Analytica, collaborating with a software company, has created a platform for US churches that targets the poor, the addicted, and the disabled — to radicalize them for far-right politics
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An orangutan teaches how to crack coconuts
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“I was just doing my duty. Even if I was not in uniform, I would have done the same thing and every Indian should do the same,” said Uttarakhand sub-inspector Gagandee Singh. As long as India may count on heroes like this brave man, there’s hope.
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A couple of Roman skeletons known as the Lovers of Modena, because they are holding hands, were both males — The actual relationship between the males from the 4-6th Century CE is unknown, but the two adult males were intentionally buried hand-in-hand
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Feuds can be solved
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#EiBolsonaroVaiTomarNoCu (Hi Bolsonaro, get yourself fucked) becomes the hit at Brazil’s Carnival and No. 1 Trending Topic worldwide
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The usually dry Los Angeles River
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Coronavirus’ silent spreaders — Iceland, able to test its entire population, found half of those who tested positive had no symptoms #TestTestTest
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Wuhan partygoers attending the HOHA Water Electrical Musical Festival over the weekend, around 15,000 — Wuhan has not had a local coronavirus case since mid-May, and about 9.9 million people in the city have been tested for the coronavirus
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A Russian click farm of thousands of machines generating fake accounts, posts, likes, retweets, and other engagements
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When there’s a will there’s a way
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Israel’s Health Minister Yaakov Lizman, head of Agudat Yisrael party, who weeks ago declared that coronavirus is a "divine punishment for homosexuality", has been infected. His wife too. This forces PM Netanyahu to have to isolate himself for another 15 days
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To Trumpists in my TL: I don’t bear fools, abuse, smear, bullying, whataboutism. Your right to free speech does not include the right to have me as a willing audience. You’ll be blocked, keep on ranting and whining elsewhere, sore losers!
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Spain has one the highest vaccination rates in the world – 79.2% of all residents are fully vaccinated, 89% of those over 12 yo– without government mandates or incentives. Here is what's behind the Spanish success story and what others could learn from it
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Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which is believed to contain the holiest Christian sites (Jesus’ crucifixion, burial, resurrection), has never been indefinitely closed in a millenia and a half, except •In 1349, Black Plague •Today, Coronavirus
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“Testing is central because that leads to early detection”, says South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha about how her country has reversed the coronavirus spread
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A street musician in Berlin singing Smalltown Boy is joined by Jimmy Somerville, its original singer
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Human footprints in New Mexico, at least 23,000 years old
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Glenn Gould performs Bach’s Partita 2 at his cottage in Uptergrove, Ontario in the 1958 documentary “Off the Record.”
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Uganda's dictator Museveni asked Google to block at least 14 YouTube accounts linked to the country’s main challenger in next month’s elections @HEBobiwine
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French jogger accidentally crosses US border from Canada and is jailed for two weeks — “It was just unfair that there was nothing, no sign at the border, it’s like a trap … anybody can be caught at the border like this.”
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A handful of Afghan women protest in Kabul today against Taliban rule
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Capercaillie in the Pyrenees
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Wisdom, a 68-year-old Laysan albatross, world's oldest known wild bird to become a mother for the 37th time — She has laid another egg with her longtime lover Akeakamai at the Midway Atoll national wildlife refuge
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Lion, Hyenas & Lion
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Osprey
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Puppy reenacting poses
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A message to Putin: Speed up! #UkraineUnderAttack
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GOP further and further into Trumpism: authoritarian, nationalist, highly regimented around the obedience to the Dear Leader. I am worried about the more competent, smart, presentable version of Trump, that's going to come in a few years By @TheRickWilson
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Dead birds and rashes: Hong Kong residents fear teargas poisoning — Police have fired 10,000 canisters in protests, sparking health scare over possible harmful effects
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Lord Heseltine on Johnson breaking the law: The law is the law, no exceptions. You can’t say he’s bigger than everybody else—What does a tyrant do next? The law is the ultimate defence of the rights of every single one of us against tyranny, cruelty, abuse
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The Hong Kong protest movement won the elections battle – but the war over our five demands is still ongoing. As encouraging as the victory was, we have a long way to go before we can turn our attention away from the central cause By @joshuawongcf
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Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine — To understand why it is worth trying to help Ukrainians rebuild, consider how difficult Europe’s economic recovery from the second world war actually was
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Biden is quietly erasing one of Trump's cruelest legacies: imposing work requirements for Medicaid, on which 76 million Americans rely. This is a genuine achievement, in both symbolic and practical terms
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Trump’s mass graves for poor coronavirus victims on Hart Island, New York — Workers burying bodies of people with no known next of kin or families unable to pay for funerals
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Grace
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This is how a Trump constitutional coup would unfold — A coup in the United States may sound absurd. But who would have thought the US would be in a position where the sitting president is refusing to concede defeat? By Alfons López Tena in @TRTWorld
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If you hate wearing a mask, you’re really not going to like the ventilator
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How countries with more than 20 million people compare when it comes to getting their populations fully vaccinated against Covid-19
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Denmark's former immigration minister, Inger Stojberg, was sentenced to prison for ordering to separate underage married asylum-seekers, even if they had children. Her harsh migration policies were hailed by populist right-wing European parties
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In Hong Kong, local entrepeneurs and the middle class champion the pro-democracy cause and help protesters financially — A new restaurant and shopping guide called the “Hong Kong’s Rice Pig Guide” (米豬蓮) identifies shops that support the protests
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Hong Kong’s protests are a universal fight for freedom, activists @joshuawongcf , @hoccgoomusic , @BrianLeungKP , and @nathanlawkc say. The world must join us.
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When your evolved brain misrepresents reality: This arrow by mathematician and sculptor 杉原厚吉 –Kokichi Sugihara– can’t point left while in a mirror it can’t point right. It’s made with a bunch of curves human brains don’t register
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Hong Kong impasse shows China’s dictatorship’s strength, and weakness — Like a caged wild animal the Communist Party has taken to clawing at the bars, leading the leadership to believe that Hong Kong’s democracy movement can be crushed by brute force
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Ukraine's president says anyone who wants to help defend Ukraine can go to the country and will be given arms
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What to expect if the shooter turns out to be: Hispanic — Build the wall Arab — Ban Muslims Black — BLM are terrorists! White — We need to ask ourselves how are we as a society failing these poor troubled young men? What kinds of movies, video games, and music are we making?
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Imran Khan promised to reduce the army's influence over Pakistan's politics. The opposite has happened: Pakistan’s generals are ever more involved in running the country. And he seems ever more dependent on their backing
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Firing Trump
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A mouse-sized elephant shrew that had been lost to science for 50 years has been discovered alive and well in Djibouti — The Somali sengi mates for life, can race around at 30km/h, and sucks up ants with its trunk-like nose
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Nigeria’s Twitter ban harms people and democracy. It's a hissy fit, a childish tantrum exposing the president’s thin skin and authoritarian streak. This is not a democracy, and Buhari is no longer pretending that it is. It’s time we drop the pretense, too
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Trumpers try to storm TCF hall to stop the count of ballots Don’t miss the reply: “We’re not deterred. The Black vote in Detroit is higher than it’s ever been and we will determine the outcome, because we’ve gone from picking cotton to picking presidents”
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New York, Paris, Beijing, and Moscow in brought-to-life century-old footage
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Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has ordered all Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and Commissioners of Police to use force on peaceful protesters, warning that the Nigeria Police Force would not allow any form of protests
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香港で「逃亡犯条例」改正案を機に大規模なデモが続いている問題で、市民ら170万人が18日、香港島中心部の大通りをデモ行進した。参加人数は6月のデモの約200万人に次ぐ規模。香港市民らは大規模デモを継続するという「決意」を表明した形になった。
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Facial Recognition Towers are tore down by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. Yes, you’ve read it right: Facial.Recognition.Towers
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How to lose a country — The seven steps from democracy to dictatorship. People will say: “It wouldn’t happen here” Don’t worry. I know it can because it happened to us. It happened to me. By @ETemelkuran
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Trump goes full Caligula
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A world dominated by the richest people, who wouldn’t be accountable to anyone for facts, truth, science or common good—That’s Musk’s dream. And Trump’s. And Putin’s. Of every dictator, strongman, demagogue and modern-day robber baron on Earth By @RBReich
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Coronavirus in France — Two stags stroll along rue Valloue de Villeneuve into rue de Paris in Boissy-Saint-Léger, Île-de-France, 21 km away from Paris
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Sweden’s top epidemiologist Tegnell has admitted his strategy to fight coronavirus resulted in too many deaths, after driving his country to avoid lockdown— Sweden’s mortality rate is among the highest globally and far exceeds that of neighboring countries
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Hong Kong police sprays pepper to people who were just walking around Via @chowtingagnes
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Khashoggi’s killing tape revealed: “Has the sacrificial animal arrived?” — An audio transcript obtained by a UN investigator reveals a minute-by-minute account of what happened the day journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
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Stage 1: NOTHING is going to happen Stage 2: SOMETHING may happen, but we won't do anything about it Stage 3: Maybe we SHOULD do something about it, but there's nothing we CAN do Stage 4: Maybe there's something we COULD have done — but it's too late now
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! Bram Stoker
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US photography professor who covered ongoing protests barred from Hong Kong — @MatthewConnors_ , a professor in photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design @MassArt , was detained by immigration officials and expelled
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#BlackLivesMatter protest in London
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Stand with Hong Kong 與香港站在一起
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Spreading coronavirus in India — Millions try to go back home after Modi ordered lockdown with no contingency plans and sent the police to beat people in the streets. This is the result.
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Coronavirus outbreak from a gay bar in South Korea. Authorities’ message: The virus does not discriminate. We should not discriminate each other. Discrimination and undermining could lead to significant harm and hinder our quarantine efforts going forward
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Liberating occupied Ukraine
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A Syrian child
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