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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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.

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To folks who follow me on Bluesky & appreciate the journalism I do. Can you please read the EPA story and post on social media platforms if you are so moved. This kind of work is important. But it only matters if people read it and engage with it. Here's the link. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

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The Ramaswamy campaign not only tried to capitalize on a child rape victim, they did it by using an old homeless woman who—while vile—is in no mental shape to adequately understand the stakes. And did they pay her? Either answer is bad.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

Donna Arthur — aka Amy Acton’s estranged mother, and the person whose testimony Vivek Ramaswamy devoutly trusts — has been living with her cats, in a car, in a church parking lot, having declined housing assistance. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

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Replying to @bschiff.bsky.social

Nationalize all of his companies and denationalize his citizenship. Send him back to South Africa.

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The Trump Regime continues to block wind turbine permits this way, even after losing in court. Not one no-hazard determination or approval in the past 30 days for wind turbines, even as every other kind of structure routinely gets them. oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/oe3a/m...

oeaaa.faa.govObstruction Evaluation / Airport Airspace Analysis (OE3A)
jae holzman@jael.bsky.social

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

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In the Kherson region, a russian drone dropped explosives on a man walking his dog. The dog was killed instantly. The man’s fate is still unknown. russian troops filmed it and shared the footage online. Deliberately targeting civilians is a war crime, and russia is committing it openly.

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This is appalling, illegal, immoral, and 500 other things, by a private citizen who is not even in the same universe as the chain of command.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com

❗️Zelensky says Starlink and Starshield speed restrictions are still in place and interceptor deliveries needed against Russian ballistic missiles remain delayed. “This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every day,” he said. #Ukraine

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Be prepared for the pardons.

Lakota Man 🪶@lakotaman.bsky.social

I sincerely hope that whoever’s the next democrat president, goes after this corrupt little shit, locks him up and throws away the god damn key.

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Palestinian farmers face 21 attacks by Israeli forces, settlers in single day, commission says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-farmers-face-21-attacks-israeli-forces-settlers-single-day

middleeasteye.netPalestinian farmers face 21 attacks by Israeli forces, settlers in single day, commission says <article data-history-node-id="449873" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-farmers-face-21-attacks-israeli-forces-settlers-single-day" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-farmers-face-21-attacks-israeli-forces-settlers-single-day" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinian farmers face 21 attacks by Israeli forces, settlers in single day, commission says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission (CWRC) has documented 21 attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinian farmers across six governorates in a span of 12 hours on Friday, Wafa reported.</p> <p>The commission said that the attacks, between 6am and 6pm,&nbsp;included shootings, burning and cutting down of olive trees, theft of crops, and denying farmers access to their lands or forcing them to leave at gunpoint, as well as causing injuries to several farmers.&nbsp;</p> <p>The CWRC said that escalating attacks on the olive harvest season were no longer limited to disrupting harvesting activities, but had come to directly target Palestinians' ability to remain on and cultivate their lands through a systematic pattern of violence, military intimidation, crop theft, tree destruction, and restrictions on access to agricultural land, all an integral part of Israel’s systematic policy of forced expulsion and settler-colonialism.</p> <p>The commission said that the coordination between settler attacks and the intervention of Israeli forces to protect the assailants or prevent farmers from accessing their lands demonstrated that these practices were not isolated incidents, but interconnected tools for seizing land and undermining the foundations of Palestinian agricultural life.</p> <p>It called on the international community to take concrete measures to halt the attacks and ensure protection for Palestinian farmers.</p> </div> </div> </article>