logged on to tiktok and was served a post called “mog the kuffar” and then logged off

An Israeli strike in Gaza just before the kickoff of the Egypt-Argentina World Cup match killed a top Palestinian aid official who helped organize public screenings of the game across the enclave. apnews.com/article/gaza...

Being a Chicago Bears fan prepared me for this, but also this loss is Sisi’s fault.

It's out! The full "Handbook on Authoritarianism in the Arab World" is available open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

EGYPT, ALL PRAISES DUE TO THE MOST HIGH, IN A CAB WITH FOUR MOHAMMEDS AND A MOSTAFA WITH NO SEATBELTS, AIRBAGS AND THREE DOORS, SMOKING CLEOPATRA CIGARETTES.

E G Y P T.

Things that made me dumber today: going down the rabbit hole on if Saudi scholars were in direct contact with Suge Knight and coordinated the killing of Tupac, or if he was an undercover Shia.

mood.

Yes.

"AI companies used what amounts to the collective history of our species to create software that obscures its very richness and complexity." www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

I used to have a proper brain.

“Arguing that there are no innocent civilians in any population justifies indiscriminate violence and collective punishment, and makes it easier to dismiss suffering, war crimes and extremist policies, including the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.”

What are these AI companies going to do if their products choke out the sources of information they depend upon to function? Is that just the end of new knowledge?

Also there are a lot of people on platforms talking about how their heart pumps gas, when in actuality their hearts pump pure Kool Aid, and have never been threatened with or been subjected to actual violence in a questioning scenario, and it shows.

Honestly, don’t think there really is a way to describe being a “third world” kid in the US, we, including myself in the royal we, have such wildly divergent “origins stories,” but there has always been one constant, and that’s our mothers reminding us at all times they will come for us.

There has to be a Moore’s Law for stupidity.

🚨🗞Today's Insight Monitor is out: our final installment in our series on Al Shabaab financing. We focus on how the group obscures the sources and destination of its funds. Have a read to learn about this critical component of #TerrorFinance newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/concealing...

My second paper "The Major Corporal Punishments of Islamic State" situates the group's use of corporal punishments within the wider context of pre-modern Islamic shari'a and its role in group ideology. It details how Islamic State's legal canon on major corporal punishments developed.

Check out my new article for @washinstitute.bsky.social: "The Damascus Church Attack: Who Is Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah?" www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analy...

this is the hardest song released in the past five years don’t care what anyone says

"Not unlike the Silicon Valley swindlers who also came to prominence during his rise and now populate the MAGA-verse, Prince is well known for making grandiose, undeliverable promises." thebaffler.com/latest/the-p...

In this week’s court records roundup, terror attack planning using Roblox. Plus we passively aggressively call out that one guy at a conference. www.courtwatch.news/p/131-planni...

Another day of being in the dog park and explaining al-Qaeda’s leadership structure to a bunch of dog moms of goldendoodles.

New interview exploring the issue of intra-Sunni Arab tensions surrounding matters of 'transitional justice' and former Assad regime supporters, examining the case of recent tensions in the town of Huraytan in north Aleppo countryside near border w/Turkey www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/intra-sunn...

this is the central rule of being online

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula released a 35 minute video yesterday where its leader Sa’ad al-Awlaki called for attacks in the US, and nearing the end, after heaping large amounts of vitriol on basically every US President, they appeared to have a soft spot for only one, Thomas Jefferson.

DOJ: "U.S. Citizen Who Trained and Fought for ISIS Sentenced to 10 Years in Federal Prison" www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/u...

After a very long hiatus from media- I recorded a two-part series with Cults to Consciousness. The comment section on the videos is INCREDIBLE 😭😭❤️ Take a listen & pass it on. Part One youtu.be/SjlWNeLPKtA?... Part Two youtu.be/TyHXVSSgn5E?...

Setting up new archive of Islamic State's claimed attacks against new Syrian govt (rather than Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces), beginning w/today's claim of attack in eastern al-Suwayda' province where the group had an insurgent presence back in 2018 www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/new-archiv...

📣New publication announcement! CJA presents 9 expert papers with new research on categories of IS membership, IS affiliates in Afghanistan, Central Africa, and Libya, relations with competing groups, and more. Access free:

In “Abduction, Exploitation, and Trickery,” @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and @anarchosunni.bsky.social look at the Islamic State in Central Africa and the abduction, recruitment and abuse of minors and the role it plays in IS’s overarching strategy: cja.org/wp-content/u...

every day brings some new monstrosity of stupidity unleashed upon me by some Studio Ghibli AI

Thanks to @ajaltamimi.bsky.social we got this gem about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's view of Ahmad al-Sharaa's media mentions "obsession." "It has become an obsession whereby he spends a lot of time tracking the media and what is said about him and regarding him."

Need someone to start a sidetalk YouTube channel that isn’t NYC but Cairo.

was just appointed to the Steak n Shake shura council

Research email account just got served up the dumbest thing from pinterest research account, an Islamic State Japanese denim joint suggestion, seamlessly coming together for what appears to be wiliyat willamsburg.

at the mechanic and dude asks what I do, I explain, and then he doesn't take his eye off what he's doing and just says 'how's terrorism these days?'. Perfect. No notes.

over March, Islamic State news aggregators on the open web had more than 56,000 unique visitors, who on average spent over 2 minutes on the websites, and roughly 25% of them were searching for the websites using the names of now defunct sites and adding the word 'new'

News: Konner Earnest, a Groyper who was fired last year from far-right Texas megadonor Tim Dunn's political network after we reported on his ties to Nick Fuentes and white nationalist groups, was arrested Tuesday on felony charges of sexual assault and continuous violence against the family.

In light of yesterday's terrible attack in Kashmir, here's a look at LeT financing. Paywall removed. Read to learn how this group finances its terrorist attacks: newsletter.insightthreatintel.com/p/lashkar-e-...

rewatched the last boy scout and am pretty positive I was 14 giving off suspended, divorced, alcoholic detective energy while riding around on my huffy white heat to pick up new album drops on tuesdays at midnight

"Mourid Barghouti calls ghourba a chronic illness. I don’t see it as something that can be solved. He also says displacements are always multiple. For those of us in ghourba, it’s a condition that compounds." thebaffler.com/latest/the-s...

sometimes 2025, its okay to smoke dirt weed, can’t be gas like this all the time

the Islamic State released a whole article about Trump’s tariff war and can’t stop thinking about some JP Morgan analyst getting it translated out of some drive to get 360-analysis of the current state of the global economy

if you’re not eating at a taco donut palace you’re not living right

"The General Intelligence Department said the suspects had been under surveillance since 2021 and their plans were aimed at 'targeting national security, sowing chaos and sabotage'."

at 16 heard Big Pun drop the bar “the first amendment is culturally biased” on his first album and to this day it’s the best aged rhyme of all time

Just going to tap the sign on this again while we’re talking about kids and their proximity to and involvement with terrorist content online. ctc.westpoint.edu/teenage-terr...