"A military intervention premised on the wrong diagnosis would not save Nigerian Christians," @james-barnett.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/3LPioMs

On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.

The scorched-earth tactic has been used as a war tactic since ancient times. And it is still used in modern warfare. Senior Researcher at DIIS, Peer Schouten, has just received a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark to map how the tactic is used today in a three-year project 🎉

#UK removes Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham from terrorist organisation list

Diarra will comply. This is the power of embargoes: not just an instrument of warfare but also a massively effective instrument of governance. We have a major bus company accepting the ruling of a jihadist group, making wonder who governs Mali

News on Trump boat bombings --> Now that SouthCom Commander Alvin Holsey has resigned, likely over the bombings, ranking Armed Services Dem Adam Smith tells me committee Ds will demand Holsey's sworn testimony and press Rs to join them. Smith spoke to us on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

New Jihadology Guest Post: Who Are Nigeria’s “Newest” Jihadist Militants? by @james-barnett.bsky.social and @vincentfoucher.bsky.social jihadology.net/2025/10/15/g...

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

Breaking News: Raila Odinga, a former prime minister and a towering figure of Kenyan politics, died at 80. Read more: nyti.ms/42D5BT9

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Fukuyama debunks the AI abundance myth: we can't feed or clothe all not due to a lack of smarts, but priorities and resources. The world simply can't sustain the abundant lifestyle AI proponents promise, lacking even the electricity to run the very AI they favor.

What a story

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The anguish of migration is the context of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, but in the foreground is a breathless sequence of shoot-outs, rooftop flights and car chases, powered by a fiery soundtrack

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Here’s the term card for the Northeast Africa Forum in Oxford, a research seminar focused on the broader East Africa region. We meet on Tuesdays at 4 p.m., and most sessions are also held in hybrid format. @jasonmosley.bsky.social @mwangimwaura.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

If U.S. states have any degree of sovereignty, if there’s any states’ rights at all, it is the right not to be invaded by the armed forces of another U.S. state.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

🚨 #MOGADISHU Al-Shabaab militants stormed Godka Jilicow, a high-security spy agency prison near #Somalia's presidential palace. The attack began with car bomb, followed by gunmen. Reports say 8 attackers: 4 killed, 4 still fighting inside. Elite Gaashaan forces deployed.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

🚨 #SOMALIA President Hassan and Jubaland leader Ahmed Madobe are set to meet in Kismaayo, even as courts in Mogadishu & Kismaayo pursue treason cases against both. Neither case has been dropped — underscoring how Somalia's judiciary is used as a political tool.

Russian drones struck two passenger trains in northern Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least one person and injuring dozens of others in the region of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said.

This is an administration that does sizzle reels of ICE abusing communities. They want the visuals of dominance, regardless of the law.

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

My thoughts on the Quantico meeting

Kind of a big deal to see this from RUSI

South Africa's ambassador to France, Nkosinathi Emmanuel "Nathi" Mthethwa, was found dead at the foot of the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Tuesday. The Paris prosecutor's office said he had booked a room on the 22nd floor and a secured window had been forced open. It said the investigation was ongoing

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

(ABC News) - Russia is selling military equipment and technology to China that could help Beijing prepare for an airborne invasion of Taiwan, according to an analysis of leaked Russian documents by a London think tank. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

Please sign this petition for the release of Joseph Figueira Martin, a humanitarian who's been arbitrarily detained (for close to 1,5 years..) and tortured in the Central African Republic. petitions.protecthumanitarians.org/en/petitions...

BREAKING: The US military says it carried out airstrikes in #Somalia’s northeastern Sanaag region on September 13, killing a local elder, Omar Abdullahi Abdi. US Africa Command (AFRICOM) described Omar as an al-Shabaab weapons dealer, though no evidence was publicly provided to support the claim.

This is the owner of X actively campaigning to take down the elected government of a country he is neither a resident nor a citizen of - and using threats of violence in the streets to further his aims www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Two key things to point out re: Trump sending National Guard troops to Memphis: 1) Unlike in blue states, there’s just no need for this; even if circumstances warranted, Governor Lee, who still commands the TN National Guard, could’ve just sent them in himself; and 2) Chicago (and Illinois) won.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is apparently the latest in a string of terrifying acts of political violence in the U.S. “A society that resorts to violence to solve its problems starts to surrender its claim on being a society,” @dgraham.bsky.social writes.

For months, Russia used motorcycles and infantry around Pokrovsk. No tanks in sight. Then satellite images showed something terrifying: 150,000 troops moving south with armored vehicles. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/11/p...

In Northwest Nigeria, widespread banditry rivals and even surpasses jihadism in scope and impact. In two DIIS Reports researchers map the phenomenon, identifying over 150 different groups. Read "Battle for the bush" 👉 www.diis.dk/en/node/27802 and "Divided they rule?" 👉 www.diis.dk/en/node/27805

These images from Poland show the aftermath of the Russian drones crossing the border into Poland. Several facts already point that their movement, the direction of the drones' flight was not accidental. It's not enough to acknowledge that the drones were Russian.

Incredible level of starting something you have zero intention of finishing

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Pleased to share two new reports written with Peer Schouten for DIIS on Nigeria's banditry crisis The first provides historical context, framing banditry as a violent, decentralized response to decades of agrarian (and political) change in Nigeria: www.diis.dk/en/research/... (1/2)

Sinaloa drug cartel kingpin ‘El Mayo’ pleads guilty in US court on.ft.com/45OimLh

Extraordinary new detail about the FBI purge. *Senior officials were asked to fire lower level officials tagged by online right wingers as being anti-Trump. *When they asked for a reason - required by law - they were not given any. They refused. Then they were fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/politic...