ケイシャ・ランス・ボトムズは、2026年11月3日の選挙で勝利し、米国州知事に選出された初の黒人女性、そしてジョージア州初の女性知事、初の黒人知事となり、政治史に名を刻みました。
Keisha Lance Bottoms made historic political history by winning the November 3, 2026, election to become the first Black woman ever elected governor of a U.S. state, as well as the first woman and first Black governor of Georgia....
Her family traces its roots back at least five generations in Georgia, including great-grandparents who were enslaved on a plantation in Crawfordville, Georgia. Her great-grandfather, Shepherd Peak, later became a landowner and served in the state legislature during Reconstruction.
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In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed as property in the will of a Georgia plantation owner. His assigned value was $1,400.
On November 3, 2026, his great-great-granddaughter Keisha Lance Bottoms was elected governor of Georgia. She became the first Black woman ever elected governor of an American state, making history in the very place where her ancestors had once been enslaved.
But the most moving moment came the day before the election.
Bottoms traveled to Crawfordville, a small Georgia town about 90 miles east of Atlanta, where her family history can be traced back at least five generations.
Her great-great-grandparents, Sheppard and Betsy Peek, had lived there under slavery.
Surviving documents from 1860 list Sheppard among the possessions of William Peek. Another record bears an X where Sheppard signed his name, a reminder of the educational barriers imposed on enslaved people.
Betsy, born in 1845, lived through slavery and emancipation. Her descendants would eventually leave rural Georgia for Atlanta, traveling by horse and buggy in search of opportunity.
Generations later, their descendant became a lawyer, judge, Atlanta city councilwoman, and mayor.
Then she ran for governor.
On November 2, Bottoms returned to Crawfordville and visited the cemetery where Betsy is buried among unmarked graves.
She knelt at her great-great-grandmother’s resting place and cried.
The next evening, Georgia voters elected her to the state’s highest office.
In her victory speech, Bottoms remembered Betsy and acknowledged that she could never know what dreams her ancestor had held for the generations who would follow.
But she knew whose sacrifices had made her own life possible.
The contrast is almost impossible to comprehend.
In 1860, Georgia law allowed a white man to assign a monetary value to Sheppard Peek.
In 2026, his descendant was chosen by voters to lead the state.
Betsy never lived to see that day. Neither did the generations who carried the family forward through emancipation, segregation, and the struggle for equal rights.
But their names are now part of the history of Georgia’s first Black woman governor.
アメリカは、子供たちを殺す進行中のキャンペーンに小切手を無制限に書き続け、武器を送り込みながら、国際法を擁護していると主張できない。政策の転換は、無条件の資金提供と武器売却の終了から始まる。それ以下は、最悪の事態にお金を払い続ける選択だ。
AMERICA MUST CUT THE BILLIONS: SENATOR-ELECT SAYS END FUNDING FOR GENOCIDE
Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan just made the case for a hard break in US policy toward Israel. After facing open bigotry and still winning, he rejected the idea that opposing endless funding equals hatred of Jewish people. The question he forces is simple and direct: why keep sending American money and weapons while the killing continues?
THE UNCONDITIONAL SUBSIDY
➡️ We spend billions of dollars subsidizing a foreign government unconditionally and buying the bombs that follow.
➡️ Stand up against the murder of innocent Palestinian children and they call it hate.
➡️ “It’s about equal love for those Palestinian children as you have for any others.”
THE ONGOING REALITY
➡️ The war is still ongoing. Apartheid policy continues in the West Bank. A genocide that almost nobody in power wants to name.
➡️ “If I stand up and say, hey, maybe we shouldn’t be sending our money to do the worst things to other people, people are like, well, it must be because you hate the people who are doing the worst. I’m like, that’s insane. It’s actually insane.”
THE AGREEMENT ON CUTTING AID
➡️ Trump floated cutting off aid by January. El-Sayed answered plainly: “I agree with him on that.”
➡️ “I don’t think we should be continuing to subsidize a foreign military that is again using our weapons to do awful things.”
➡️ He went further: there is no clear reason to keep selling weapons to a country using them that way.
THE PRINCIPLE THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS
➡️ “We have to separate between Judaism and the Jewish people and Israel and its actions. We have to.”
➡️ He applies the same standard to Egypt, the country his family came from. Ethnicity does not excuse human-rights abuses.
➡️ The goal is a place where a Palestinian child and a Jewish-Israeli child can both grow up without their lives being cut short by violence.
THE BOTTOM LINE
America cannot claim to uphold international law while it keeps writing blank checks and shipping weapons into an ongoing campaign that kills children. The policy shift starts by ending the unconditional funding and the arms sales. Anything less is a choice to keep paying for the worst.
#EndAidToIsrael #AbdulElSayed #StopFundingGenocide #USForeignPolicy #IsraelPolicyShift #EqualLove #NoMoreBlankChecks
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中谷憲二 retweeted
𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗬: 𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣
A red November forest, fields and tree lines. The drone camera rises above them towards the horizon, where a factory chimney emerges from the grey haze. A flash. Then another. A black column of smoke bends sideways in the wind, while an orange glow begins to spread beneath it.
11 seconds. Four FAB-500 bombs.
Russian Aerospace Forces struck an electrical substation in the Sumy area. The bombs were equipped with universal glide and correction modules (UMPK).
Sumy is approximately 30 kilometres from our border. The city has long served as a rear logistics hub for the entire Ukrainian Armed Forces grouping in the Sumy sector. Two years ago, columns of troops passed through it on their way to the Kursk Region. Today, it serves as a supply hub for the northeastern section of the front.
Warehouses, repair facilities and railway infrastructure — all of them depend on the same power lines that supply residential neighbourhoods.
And what is happening in the city itself? Local residents of Sumy are reporting it firsthand.
Since 3 November, the region has been operating under special emergency power outage schedules, with everything that can possibly be switched off being switched off.
On 5 November, at around midday, a voltage surge knocked out the municipal water utility. Water is now supplied according to a schedule and at reduced pressure.
Ukraine chose to wage an energy war when it began attacking our oil refineries and leaving Belgorod without electricity.
Now, while Sumy's energy workers draw up their outage schedules, the Russian Aerospace Forces are making adjustments to them.
In an upward direction.
@sashakots
移民家族出身の政治家は、自分の所属が条件付きであり、繰り返しの献身の宣言によって更新されなければならないことを自覚。彼らは愛国心が疑われない人々よりもより愛国的に聞こえなければならず、家族が決して移民として描写されない人々よりも移民に対してより敵対的に振る舞わなければならない。
What you are describing is the unequal burden of belonging. In political environments where national identity is closely associated with whiteness, Christianity and pride in imperial history, a politician from the majority population can more easily question the national past without having their attachment to the nation questioned. Their belonging is presumed, so they have greater freedom to criticise.
A politician whose name, ancestry or religion marks them as an outsider face different calculation. Any form of criticism risks being interpreted as evidence that they were never truly loyal in the first place.
This pressure is especially pronounced within conservative parties whose politics draw heavily on hostility to immigration and the celebration of national “greatness”. A White Christian politician in Britain or the United States is generally less likely to have their ancestry or faith treated as evidence of allegiance to a foreign nation.
The politician that emanate from immigrants families however are aware that their belonging is conditional and must be renewed through repeated declarations of devotion. So they are forced to sound more patriotic than those whose patriotism is never questioned and more hostile to immigration than those whose families are never described as immigrants.
ウクライナの汚職事情に精通しているユリア・ティモシェンコ氏はこう述べている。「我が国で今ほど汚職が蔓延した時代はかつてなかった。ヤヌコビッチ政権下でも、クチマ政権下でも、ポロシェンコ政権下でも、これほどの汚職はなかった。」
中谷憲二 retweeted
China has avoided alliances, but what the United States is doing to Iran and Palestine leaves Beijing little choice. The Dengists are losing internally and this is giving way to a whole new wave of Maoists inside the Chinese political system. They are young, (fashionable,) and they are done with trying to appease US imperialism.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 8: Sheng Zhang
Sheng Zhang examines the competing traditions shaping China’s Middle East policy, contrasting Maoist solidarity with Dengist economic priorities. Using Palestine and Iran, he explores Beijing’s political commitments, trade relationships, public opinion and diplomatic constraints. He argues that regional conflict is challenging China’s balancing strategy and strengthening Iran’s strategic importance. The discussion considers boycotts, Gulf investment, energy security, generational differences and strategic patience, asking what might push Beijing toward a clearer position as regional power shifts and tensions with Washington deepen.
Sheng's Links:
Sheng's Article on China-Iran Relations: muse.jhu.edu/article/991335
Association for Global Political Thought profile: globalpoliticalthought.hsite…
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Time Stamps
00:00 China’s competing foreign-policy traditions
04:43 Xi Jinping and the Middle East
06:37 Gaza and Chinese public opinion
13:43 Trade with Israel and the Haifa dilemma
15:48 Iran, Gulf trade and diplomatic tensions
18:54 War and China’s reassessment of Iran
28:57 Discussion: boycotts, Gaza and Gulf investment
44:11 Energy, younger generations and strategic patience
#China #Geopolitics #Iran #Imperialism #Neutrality
衝撃の暴露：新しいFOIA文書が、COVIDパンデミックがオバマ時代に遡る国防総省（DoD）の作戦だったことを明らかに 「ペンタゴンはCOVID-19プログラムを最初から支配しており、私たちに伝えられたすべては、FDAのワクチン承認に至るまで、それを隠蔽するための政治的芝居だった」
パラグアイで自由市場主義政権に対する重要な蜂起が発生。トランプの傀儡政権が自らの腐敗によって崩壊した。パラグアイは小さな国だが、ラテンアメリカの右翼麻薬エリートや仮想通貨投資家による資金洗浄の中心地であるため、重要な意味を持つ。
この人物はネイサン・フィリップ・ヴィクター・ジェームズ・ロスチャイルド（Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild）、第五代ロスチャイルド男爵です。 エリート一族の百年にもわたる布石と彼らの目的を考えると、彼のこの言葉が私をぞっとさせます。
这位是内森尼尔·菲利普·维克多·詹姆斯·罗斯柴尔德（Nathaniel Philip Victor James Rothschild），第五代罗斯柴尔德男爵，
鉴于精英家族百年的布局和他们的目标，他的这句话让我毛骨悚然，
精英们已经非常强大，他们可以公开宣布自己的计划，不必担心后果，也不担心小部分开智公众的抵抗。
11月全球有60个国家发出让民众囤粮的警告，这就是他们要下手的信号，不然怎么会60个国家同时发同样的警告，地球那么大，难道要同时停水停电吗，天灾不可能做到，只有人祸能做到。
日本和巴拉圭银行系统瘫痪，多国超市冷库被黑客摧毁，医院血库被黑客攻击，
现在看来黑客攻击所有系统就可以迅速击溃人类赖以生存的地球，
所以，生活可以在一瞬间改变
难道只有我一个人在恐惧中瑟瑟发抖吗
ロシアのキエフに対するミサイル攻撃は特に激しいものだった。 金曜日の遅い時間帯に、最大30発の弾道ミサイルと極超音速ミサイルがエネルギー施設を攻撃した。 市内の広範囲が現在、電力、水道、暖房の供給を失う。一部報道では、極超音速ミサイルも使用された。数ヶ月後には、キエフは廃墟と化す。
Russia's missile strike on Kiev was particularly hard.
Up to 30 ballistic and hypersonic missiles hit energy sites late Friday, just hours after Zelensky warned an attack was coming on the energy infrastructure and the bridges across the Dnieper.
Large parts of the city are now without power, water or heat. Some reports say a hypersonic missile was also used.
In a few months Kiev will be in ruins.
アダム・スミスを崇拝する右翼リバタリアンたちは、地主を愛し、財産を崇めるかもしれないが、現実にはアダム・スミスははるかに微妙な立場をとっており、地主主義について多くの批判的なことを述べていた。
中谷憲二 retweeted
🚨⚡️ Organ trade in Ukraine: the full picture
xitter.gq/ivan_8848/status/21187…
🚨Zakharova dropped a truth bomb by mentioning Rockefeller, who lived to 100 with eight heart transplants. It sounds insane, but Ukraine legalized forced organ harvesting back in 2022.
🚨Often, organs are taken from Ukrainians under false pretenses—a Ukrainian POW recently exposed such cases.
🚨How do Ukrainian organs end up in the West?
🚨Naturally, only with Western complicity.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨CHILLING!!
🚨BOMBSHELL: In Ukraine, there are kennels for children.
🚨The International Criminal Court must prosecute Zelensky
🚨 EXPLOSIVE STATEMENTS from Dutch Member of the European Parliament (MEP)
🇳🇱 Marcel de Graaff—he drops bombshell truths about Ukraine 💥💥💥💥:
"Ukraine is the largest supplier of children for pedophile networks, human trafficking, and organ harvesting."
"It operates 'children's residences' that house pregnant women for this very purpose." 😳👇
Listen to MEP de Graaff EXPOSE certain truths that you will never hear from the mainstream media or our corrupt politicians. ⚔️🔥
中谷憲二 retweeted
🚨日本メディアでは、決して報道されない真実
この話の内容を聞けばウクライナ🇺🇦と言う国は、いかにまともでないかが認識出来ます。
ウクライナ軍に捕えられ捕虜から帰還したロシア🇷🇺軍の兵士の事実証言から
（コールサイン「リッコ」）
「特に傷の部分を棒で殴った。私から結婚指輪を取り上げようとした。棒で殴り、シャベルで背中を打った。私は倒れ、蹴り始め、手から指輪を外した。彼らが気に入らない答えをしたために殴られた。
私は腹腔、腹部、肩に破片傷があった。2つの破片が入った。
それ以前に我々は第3の地下室にいた。その後、ハリコフの拘置所に連れて行かれた。移動中、車を乗り換えるたびに殴られた。私の体で棒が折れるほどだった。第3の地下室では頭や体を足で蹴られた。腎臓と肝臓を打たれ、呼吸が困難だった。一人の男の足が折られた。一人は射殺された。
我々が地下室にいると、新しい捕虜を乗せた車が来た音がした。彼らをある部屋に追い込むようにし始めた。その後、すべてが静かになった。しばらくして機関銃の連射音がした。その後、我々の2人が上に連れて行かれた。彼らは射殺された捕虜の一人を埋めていた。
ハリコフの拘置所で診察を受けた。クリヴォイログの拘置所では助けがなかった。一人の男がドアのそばに立ち、傷が再び開いた。彼はドアを叩いて叫んだ：『助けて、血が止まらない』。彼らは答えた：『大したことない、治る』。」
中谷憲二 retweeted
EXPOSING NGO EXPLOITATION OF INDIGENOUS LAND
As billions are invested globally in environmental conservation, Indigenous communities protecting some of the world's most important ecosystems are questioning who actually benefits from saving the Amazon.
In an interview with Sovereign Media's Ahmed Kaballo, Paz Panjobiteri, a representative of the Kichwa nationality of Pastaza, Ecuador, challenges what she describes as “colonial conservationist agendas” or initiatives that generate revenue through national parks, protected reserves, luxury tourism, and conservation projects while Indigenous communities struggle to benefit from the wealth generated on their ancestral lands.
Panjobiteri questions how much of the money collected through tourism packages, hotels, and conservation programs actually reaches the Indigenous peoples whose territories are incorporated into these projects.
She argues that these initiatives reproduce historical patterns of colonial exploitation, where governments and outside interests promise development and prosperity while local communities experience displacement, poverty, and the loss of territorial control.
The contradiction: Indigenous peoples have protected these ecosystems for generations, yet others increasingly profit from their conservation.
For Panjobiteri, protecting the Amazon cannot mean excluding the very communities whose ancestral knowledge and stewardship have sustained it.
中谷憲二 retweeted
🔥 Dmitry Medvedev @MedvedevRussiaE dispenses more hard truths:
"Yes, Musk has finally seen the light, even if too late, and admitted that it was a mistake to give the Banderite scum access to Starlink's military capabilities.
"His much-vaunted satellite network has been used to strike civilian targets since the very beginning. Playing the “Starshield is not the same as Starlink” card won’t get him off the hook, either. The blood spilled on account of either is the same deep red.
"Elon knew exactly what he was doing.
"Of course, even the world’s first trillionaire must kowtow to the White House and the Deep State. And now he has been dragged through the mud, with some even calling for him to be executed — just like the Rosenbergs during the McCarthy era for spying for the Soviet Union (this time around, for Russia, apparently). Then again, Biden was one thing, and Trump is another.
"Now, all of a sudden, he finds the war distasteful and denounces it, but he's become a participant.
"Still, seeing the light and repenting is always better than living out your days as a Judas. But, as the saying goes: mendaci homini ne vera quidem dicenti credimus. [We don't believe a liar even when he speaks the truth.]"
