lol I have now taken to wandering into rooms, shouting “Unleash The Chang!” then leaving my kids to wonder if I have entirely lost my mind. My husband, however, gets it. I will never ever get over this.

Really don't get why they are leaking this. Is this another pressure tactic?! The last thing the Iranians are going to fear is a limited ground war with a group they know pretty well…. x.com/KurdistanWat...

the accuracy of @apnews.com’s race calls and underlying vote count data should be treated as sus due to the risk of incentive contamination. even if it changes nothing, the conspiracy narratives, which are inevitable, will radically alter the interpretive environment after every major call.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

I have been a subscriber since, I dunno, since a long time. Note that The Conversation has a multi million $ budget and Made By History partnered with major media outlets and did not pay writers. Contingent, from the start, pays. A model to emulate.

The company’s cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services, said late Monday that two data centers in the United Arab Emirates were “directly struck” and another facility in Bahrain was also damaged after a drone landed nearby.

HAHAHAHAHAHA this is both the best and the worst of times to be a professor of history

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Disturbing story in the Atlantic about the unprecedented, all-out war waged by the Trump admin to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

Kid came home with a 3D printed ICE whistle one of her classmates gave out to everyone and knew exactly what to do and what it is used for. I'm happy she has one, but I'm sad she needs to. My 9 year old does active shooter drills and knows the government is kidnapping her friends and their parents

Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE. Literally, "abolishing." yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Florida prohibits universities from using the H-1B program to hire “new employees” until Jan. 5, 2027. The change will not affect existing H-1B holders, according to system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues. @unitedfacultyfl.bsky.social

It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei

Afghanistan started at 92 percent approval. Iraq started at 71. Iran started at 27. The "whose side are you on" rhetoric is identical. The country underneath it isn't. I wrote about how the framework works, and who's deploying it. www.readtpa.com/p/with-us-or...

My favorite paper of 2019 has just been conditionally accepted at AER (lmao) The Voting Rights Act rapidly increased Black wages in the South via public employment & redistribution static1.squarespace.com/static/59dc0...

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

What, massive bombing isn’t encouraging people to go into the streets to protest?

you are not prepared for the soundtrack

"The premise of the war rests on a profound misreading of the Islamic Republic...Iran’s formative experience was the 8-year conflict with Iraq, when it was diplomatically isolated and militarily outgunned, yet survived through a combination of ideological mobilisation and asymmetrical adaptation."

NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

There goes that. It had a good 2 hour run.

When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

Some analysis on why Trump's call with Kurdish Iraqi leaders was leaked. This analyst thinks that the leaks were meant to pressure the Iraqi Kurds to support a Kurdish invasion of Iran, after they rejected the proposition x.com/KurdistanWat...

Kentucky prosecutor charges woman who had an abortion with a crime, even though the law makes clear that women who end their own pregnancies are exempt. Then, prosecutor hastily dismisses the charge and *all but admits* that they simply didn’t read the law first ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Wow. The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem tells Americans they’re on their own.

This is the story of slavery at its most traumatic, one predicated not just on physical violence against enslaved people by slave owners, but the all-encompassing terror of slavery as a psychological tool of control and oppression, and the desperate ways enslaved people tried to resist it. A small 🧵

According to @nytimes.com, Israel “claims” parts of other countries — it doesn’t invade and occupy them

When protests took off against Qaddafi in Feb 2011, masters students were told they would get their degree immediately if they joined pro-Qaddafi demonstrations.

"i'm praying in a special way for the south asian workers in gulf countries right now. they built those countries brick by brick & get treated like dirt. they're among the ones most affected because those countries don't care about them. please don't forget about them"[email protected]

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A Day 3 recap of the war (with focus on Iranian strategic narrative) -- @hamidrezaaz.bsky.social x.com/HamidRezaAz/...

"From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims" A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:

Mystery Solved! Turns out it is "Webinar.tv" whose disgusting and unethical business model is: register for a zoom call under a fake name and email address, record it without consent and put it on a public website with genAI summary and everyone's names and faces and then charge for access. WTAF.

This article and the academics quoted are a stunning illustration of how both media and academia have fundamentally failed to recognise how a random number generator is being used to widen the already-fucking-wide permission space for mass murder Both now helping that project archive.ph/wip/RlMO5

Iranian attack just hit Fujairah oil field in UAE.

Israel invaded Lebanon again

Doing this WHILE writing TWO books at the same time…🫠

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.

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Massive displacement in Lebanon as Israel starts land operations in addition to aerial attacks. More than 11000 people entered to Syria from Lebanon, mainly Syrian refugees who had fled to Lebanon during Syrian war... - AlJazeera

This is the death toll in Iran that some are calling "low." It's only been 3 days & over 700 ppl at least have been killed. Nearly 700 more deaths are being reviewed. That's 1400 deaths in 3 days. Israeli carnage in Palestine has fully shifted the Overton window for folks x.com/AdHaque110/s...

There are at least 10,000 Amcits in Qatar alone, and the US government is saying we are on our own

So glad to share this interview about Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy, coinciding with the US publication of the book with @academic.oup.com Many thanks to @rohanvenkat.bsky.social for this thoughtful conversation and for his close and generous reading of my book.

Not to make it about economics, but that plane right there constitutes the budget of my city for the next 27 years

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

It seems like most of Arab twitter is convinced the Saudis have indeed sent soldiers into Bahrain

"We may choose to foreground specific voices, but that choice should be explicit: these are the voices *we* amplify, not *the* voice of the Iranian people." Nazanin Shahrokni for Spectre spectrejournal.com/who-speaks-f...

been saying this for close to a decade now and it keeps getting horrifically more true bsky.app/profile/tee-...