It has been 60 days since @AbiyAhmedAli declared #WarOnTigray. 60 days on, the war still rages across Tigray & the region is still under almost full communication, banking and transport block out. From the limited info that comes out, millions of people are starving 1

due to lack of access to power, cash to buy supplies as banks are still closed and bank accounts every Tigrayan suspended, & absence of trade activities. UNICEF reports that more than 2m children in Tigray are completely cut off from humanitarian assist https://t.co/ylWJQ0u0NF 2
Civilians killed and displaced: According to UN-OCHA, there are reportedly over a million internally displaced people with no humanitarian assistance. Families in their hundreds of 1000s are separated. We also hear that supplies of humanitarian assistance are deliberately
curtailed by the regime. Despite Eth-UN agreements to allow unfettered humanitarian access, areas outside Mekelle are inaccessible for humanitarian actors.

Ethnic profiling: travel restrictions have been placed on #Tigrayans across #Ethiopia.
Tigrayans across Ethiopia face #ethnicprofiling in their workplaces (many have been laid off or told to stay at home, mostly without pay), their homes are arbitrarily searched, are constantly harassed & arrested by security forces.

Impoverishing Tigray:
Factories and other vital civilian infrastructures have either been looted or destroyed by the Ethiopian army, #Amhara ethnic militia & the Eritrean army who've been invited by the Ethiopian regime to fight along. #Almeda Textile in Adwa (the biggest textile industry in Eth), 5
Almeda Factory in Adwa
https://t.co/tXioNiQ10u
Zenith Oil factory in Shire:
https://t.co/NQLIXQIJFm
Addis Pharmaceutical Factory in Adigrat (reportedly completely looted and destroyed) https://t.co/BsV3Vuq533
Addis Pharmactual factory in Adigrat, Adigrat & Axum Universities (lab and office equipment looted), Wolqait Sugar factory, Zenith oil factory in #Shire, #Saba Stones in Adwa, Semayata Stones in Wukro, Goda bottle factory in EdagaHamus, & many others are among the most notable 6
of the civilian properties looted and destroyed. Harvests in farms & homes of farmers across villages have been torched by soldiers & ethnic militias loyal to Abiy Ahmed. Homes across towns particularly in areas bordering Eritrea & #Amhara region are also emptied or destroyed. 7
Extrajudicial killings: Civilians and army personnel are executed without due process for allegedly supporting the Tigray regional government in its fight against @AbiyAhmedAli's regime and #Eritrea's invading army. https://t.co/itPs7mRP6n
Every day, we hear of the killings of children, women & people with disabilities who could not flee their villages which are now occupied by the invading forces.
Historical heritages targeted and looted: The #WarOnTigray also targets #Tigray’s historical heritage sites such as the Negash Mesjid near Wukro, which is believed to have been built on the 7th C AD. https://t.co/ngwL2rXzL6 9
Mr. Faki of the @_AfricanUnion in particularly believes the bombing, looting, & starving millions of Tigrayans is worth doing in order to maintain the "territorial integrity" of the country, a typical tyrant's mindset.
Mr. @AUC_MoussaFaki told us that wiping out the approx 10mln #Tigrayans is a commendable act by the Ethiopian government. https://t.co/aFXa1i9fCi 12

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1/10 With respect, multiple straw men here:
A) If you mean by "legally questionable" either that Senate is barred by constitution from trying an official impeached while in office, or that there are even very strong arguments against it, I have to differ...


2/10 Constitutional structure, precedent & any fair reading of original intent dictate that argument for jurisdiction is far stronger than argument against. On original intent, see

3/10 If you mean argument against jurisdiction is plausible, sure, it's plausible. It's just weak. In practical fact, Senate can try Trump now, find him guilty & disqualify him from future office if there are sufficient votes. And no court would presume to overturn that result

4/10 b) The argument from resources is awfully hard to take seriously. Fewer than a dozen House members act as Managers for a few weeks. They are staffed, as are Senators hearing case, by folks whose job it is to do stuff like this...

5/10 Yes, Senate floor time will be taken up. But it's past time for us to stop thinking of members of either house as feeble, fluttering, occupants of a nationally-funded convalescent home. There are nearly 500 of these people with 1000s of staff and a bunch of big buildings...
"MLs" do support the proletariat of Xinjiang & have the whole time. People like @Tursunali_7 & @GulnarNorthwest (and many others) who show the world the real Xinjiang via their everyday videos.

Shopkeepers like in this video below say

"Pompeo, we Xinjiang people hate you."


Or everyday working people like Zaynura Namatqari, who speak out against vicious & disgusting US lies and accusations about


.@qiaocollective have a brilliant thread of everyday proletarian Uyghurs speaking out against the harassment they face from the US and their paid


'Uyghur proletariat' looks like this:


Not like this: (photo from a pro Islamist separatist protest in Turkey in 2017)
🧵 ⚡️ #Navalny, in handcuffs, expects his second verdict in one day NOW, about to be ready any minute now. He’s joking about cucumbers he pickles in his cell. I will translate his SECOND last address in one day but here is the previous trial coverage


Extracts from #Navalny last address #2 today: “Putin’s party is akin a swine devouring oil and gas dollars from a trough, & when poked & reminded that $ are for everyone, growls, “What about the WWII? What about veterans?!” The verdict is due any minute now. #FreeNavalny 👇🏼☝🏼

The judge is back and reads the verdict now.

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I hate when I learn something new (to me) & stunning about the Jeff Epstein network (h/t MoodyKnowsNada.)

Where to begin?

So our new Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's stepfather, Samuel Pisar, was "longtime lawyer and confidant of...Robert Maxwell," Ghislaine Maxwell's Dad.


"Pisar was one of the last people to speak to Maxwell, by phone, probably an hour before the chairman of Mirror Group Newspapers fell off his luxury yacht the Lady Ghislaine on 5 November, 1991."
https://t.co/DAEgchNyTP


OK, so that's just a coincidence. Moving on, Anthony Blinken "attended the prestigious Dalton School in New York City"...wait, what? https://t.co/DnE6AvHmJg

Dalton School...Dalton School...rings a

Oh that's right.

The dad of the U.S. Attorney General under both George W. Bush & Donald Trump, William Barr, was headmaster of the Dalton School.

Donald Barr was also quite a


I'm not going to even mention that Blinken's stepdad Sam Pisar's name was in Epstein's "black book."

Lots of names in that book. I mean, for example, Cuomo, Trump, Clinton, Prince Andrew, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen - all in that book, and their reputations are spotless.