Another fantastic series from ‪@holland-tom.bsky.social‬ and Dominic Sandbrook and the @theresthistory.bsky.social‬ team delving into the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He played a crucial part at the end of the Civil War, but incredibly he was also there at the beginning…

Another fantastic series from ‪@holland-tom.bsky.social‬ and Dominic Sandbrook and the @theresthistory.bsky.social‬ team delving into the story of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. He played a crucial part at the end of the Civil War, but incredibly he was also there at the beginning…

#Constellations #Benjamin #FredricJameson

WATCH: 101st Airborne Division commander Maj. Gen. David Gardner spoke to soldiers and local high school students at the Carentan theater before the soldiers toured a WWII battlefield. Read more: www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Which also rather begs the question, if he thinks Trump is a sex offender why did Elon support his election?

Megalomaniacal narcissism is the new separation of powers

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Incidents like this — law enforcement entering the wrong house — are already far too common. Go read @radleybalko.bsky.social "Rise of the Warrior Cop." It details how military-style policing has been normalized over decades and how common adverse outcomes come from mistakes on addresses.

Legend

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I can’t believe he’s not wearing a tie. Outrageous display of disrespect.

I am so pleased to announce that Dr. Lynn Schneider and I have signed a contract with @columbiaup.bsky.social for our book “Extreme Childhoods: Growing Up in Families Affiliated with Violent Extremism and Terrorism.” /1

News in our ABCNews24 in Australia

Night Night, Blue Sky Walkers, sleep tight.😴 Sunset over my beloved Blue Ridge Mountains, NC.

The truly excellent @anitaanand.bsky.social, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social and @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on The Troubles finishes strong by highlighting how even terrorist groups must operate within powerful political constraints on their behaviour (*a thread*)…

Fun fact: Tsar Alexander II's Third Section (ancestor of Putin's FSB) planted spies on campuses, monitored student reading groups and sent a lot of young people to jail without trial #history teaches us things.

Another banger Troubles episode from @anitaanand.bsky.social, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and @empirepoduk.bsky.social highlighting another under-appreciated aspect of terrorism research – contagion theory. Yes, terrorists learn from other terrorist movements (*a thread*)…

This is why North Korea has the world's leading economy

Delighted to announce that my naval nerdery has peaked! I am now the Editor of our brand new maritime publication... ⚓️The Broadside⚓️ We're launching on Monday, with a stack of excellent articles lined up already. Subscribe for free below so you don't miss out! www.thebroadside.org.uk

Kudos to @anitaanand.bsky.social, @willdalrymple.bsky.social, @praddenkeefe.bsky.social and @empirepoduk.bsky.social for showing how state repression and human rights can breed and sustain terrorism. Terrorism research has long identified state violence as the #1 driver of terrorism (*a thread*)...

Dear America. Due process is not something that doesn’t apply if you did a crime. It’s literally how we determine you did a crime. Due process is not just the ‘way’ of the justice system. It’s the ‘why’ as well. Due process means we all matter or none of us do. Act accordingly

I'm very excited that @petercgrace.bsky.social's book, "The Intelligence Intellectuals" will be out soon (in publishing terms). It's a great book that gives us a new way of understanding the first decade or so of the CIA. And it's about analysis! Woo-hoo!

Very excited to receive the page proofs for my new book, Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism- forthcoming from Princeton University Press. Stay tuned for preordering & book tour info, hope to see many of you at in person events in the fall 🔥

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

The best* book ever written on the Caucasus Emirate’s ideology is now available for pre-order. The Caucasus Emirate: Ideology, identity and insurgency in Russia’s North Caucasus (Manchester University Press) amzn.eu/d/6QrSQ3h * and only

President Trump’s order to designate certain “international cartels” as terrorists won’t advance US public safety, writes @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social But it may ensnare many others with little to no links to #DrugTrafficking, let alone #terrorism. www.justsecurity.org/107400/trump...

For what it’s worth, when I spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, the most powerful thing I ever saw was USAID digging wells & repairing schools. The most effective power we will ever have.

Auch empfohlen, basierend auf @tdgparker.bsky.social s Buch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MfmCwjIlLw (repost Korrektur mit YT preview, video clip ist vom 21.10.2023, dh man kann Vorhersagen & Realität vergleichen)

“More than at any time in recent history, there is a real prospect that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party could disband—finally removing a threat that has plagued Turkey for the past 40 years,” writes Halil Karaveli.

ISIS in Somalia is the linchpin in the financial network of the broader Islamic State and its groups, cells, and franchises. ctc.westpoint.edu/the-financia...

One of the main points in the foreign interference commission's final report: there are still important flaws in how we connect intelligence to policy making in Canada. That is precisely the topic of the book @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social and I wrote: www.sup.org/books/politi...

Elon Musk and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere. By Anne Applebaum t.co/GvzkATHty4?s...

Argentine-Croatian criminologist Juan Vucetich died on 25 January 1925. He set up the world's first police fingerprint bureau, in Buenos Aires in 1891. A year later, he helped solve the first ever murder case using fingerprinting as evidence: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/first-murd...

It’s out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

That'll do it.

Courtesy of the unfathomable mysteries of the Amazon algorithm, the Kindle edition of Avoidng the Terrorist Trap is currently selling for the bargain price of $31.16. Now is the perfect moment to invest in a copy. Go on, treat yourself.

For history’s sake, record of a late stage capitalism life arc

In case you were in any doubt, Trump's ranting about Panama is ABSOLUTE INSANITY. And bottomless ignorance. (Canal transfer negotiations started *under Nixon*, completed under Carter. The main proponent was the US military.) More to come, but background: fallows.substack.com/p/panama-is-...

Quality burn from the legendary Larry

Terrorismus ist ein relativ junges politisches Phänomen, dass das im Kontext eines autoritären Regimes zu einem Problem wird, ist mm wenig überraschend? Empfehle zum Thema @tdgparker.bsky.social youtu.be/VJeh3bw1Fw0?...

“Today in Labor History January 5, 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg launched the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin …. the Social Democrats got the anti-Communist Freikorps paramilitary to fight for their side …. Many [Freikorps] went on to [become] Nazis”

Hmmm

It occurs to me that when we reflect on the long history of political violence in this country, the bloody fighting in "Bleeding Kansas" in the mid-1850s should be front and center. 🗃️

🚨Breaking: Officials revealed that Shamsud-Din Jabbar was wearing Meta glasses during the New Orleans vehicle ramming attack but had not activated them during the incident. These smart glasses are equipped with a camera and can live stream video.