I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years. apnews.com/article/turk...

yeah it's a good thing Landon didn't publish any of this shit. the Times might have had to bump an article about trans people. bsky.app/profile/arid...

Fictional conspiracies operate on the naive premise that evidence and exposure would bring down the conspiracy.

I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Israeli Academics Find Themselves Isolated Despite Gaza Cease-Fire Boycotts of Israeli universities, largely imposed in Europe, have multiplied since the start of the war and reflect Israel’s international isolation over its conduct in Gaza. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

“I've been a commander for seven months now," said Vova. "In that time, about 2,000 guys have passed through my unit. Three-quarters of them are no longer here. It's only because they have given their lives that we are sitting here now, instead of the Russians." www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

This is a good article on the changes in warfare brought about by drones. And the changes in the character of war happening during this war. www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Article on the drone unit mentioned in the discussion www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

The BBC will also find out that they will never be far right enough for its critics.

““Whether you want to judge it by the number of supporters of the white nationalist movement, by their capacity for fundraising, or by the number of people who are signing up for their more militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger.”

Trump's former Israel ambassador David Friedman will become executive chairman of the sanctioned spyware firm NSO Group as it shifts to full American ownership www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Someone needs to give the author of the Torment Nexus tweet a Macarthur fellowship because they really nailed what life would be like in the 2020s

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

One government run by genocide deniers targeting another.

"The scale of the firings also has alarmed some in Congress, like Sen. Elissa Slotkin... who previously served as a C.I.A. officer analyzing foreign militaries. She recently described Mr. Hegseth’s moves as a 'purge.' “The places where we’ve looked at these kinds of things are places like China"

“For a state that claims to be a Jewish state for all Jews, if you just show up one day and stand in support of Palestinians by doing something as basic as picking olives together, actually, then your Jewishness is irrelevant.” www.timesofisrael.com/banned-from-...

Ukraine's strike campaign v Russian oil. "Refineries are still running, but with deferred maintenance, rushed emergency repairs, and a mounting backlog of safety and efficiency issues. The result is not collapse, but quiet degradation." www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/slow-...

Can you imagine if someone released a computer game, or a musical album, or *whatever*, that was designed to sexual groom children, or encourage them to commit suicide or any of the things LLMs are doing on a daily basis, how quick the media and political condemnation would be?

The BBC visits an IDF outpost on the eastern edge of Gaza City: “The Gaza of maps and memories is gone, replaced by a monochrome landscape of rubble stretching flat and still for 180 degrees…there's almost nothing left to orient you here or identify the neighbourhoods.”

There are no words for how evil this is

“Welcome to Hell” is a report on the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7 October 2023. B’Tselem collected testimonies from 55 Palestinians held during that time and released, almost all with no charges. Full report: www.btselem.org/publications...

‘There are more of us’: The Palestinians risking everything to build a future with Israelis and Jews Three Palestinians tell Jewish News why they choose coexistence over extremism – even when speaking out means exile, threats or worse www.jewishnews.co.uk/there-are-mo...

New from BBC Verify: 'Our job is only killing' - how Sudan's brutal militia carried out a massacre Our team verified dozens of videos, analysed satellite imagery and tracked RSF fighters across social media to piece together how the mass killings unfolded www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Germ theory is out, Physiognomy is in.

the word "taqqiya" hits my ears like the voice of my third grade homeroom teacher. something from the deep past. an echo of memories long in the dust. a single tear slides down my cheek.

A new Bellingcat investigation geolocates the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Darfur. More than eighty bodies were found beside destroyed vehicles along an earthen berm built around the city. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...

This could be framed as either “an overwhelming two-thirds of New York Jews voted against Mamdani” or as “a record 1 in 3 New York Jews supported an avowed anti-Zionist.” Both framings are technically true, but bear very different implications.

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 "Neoclassical Realist Theory of Populist Foreign Policy" just out with @risjnl.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S026... I explore how populism affects state behavior over time. This aims at further integrating populism scholarship into, and combining it with, IR theory. 1/9

Elizabeth Tsurkov, a citizen of Israel and Russia, recounts a harrowing story of cruelty, survival, U.S. diplomatic pressure and, finally, release from the grip of a group backed by Iran. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/w...

This is a fantastic article, and I'm really impressed with @jelenasubotic.bsky.social in her contributions to it as an interviewee haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter. He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.

“An extraordinary situation in which the president, who is followed everywhere by an aide carrying the ‘nuclear football’ with nuclear codes and options, cannot get on the same page with one of his top cabinet officials on how the US government is handling the most destructive weapons in the world.”

Excellent piece ““Within the Western Hemisphere,” wrote Ben Rhodes…Mr. Trump is beginning to act like Mr. Netanyahu in the Middle East or Mr. Putin within the former Soviet Union — a right-wing leader claiming a sphere of influence where he is free to act as he chooses.””

Four Bulgarian nationals were jailed in France yesterday for desecrating a Jewish Holocaust memorial. Investigators suspect they did it at the behest of the Russian govt, to drive a wedge between French Jews and French Muslims and feed support for the far-right. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

An administration admitted that the drug smugglers pose no threat to US troops. The drone killings don't count as hostilities because the victims are completely defenseless, the WH says. If the rule of law is ever restored, they'll regret admitting that.

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

I missed this. It's a huge deal

OK. Who wants another Captain Dan history thread? (Reprised and rescued from the bad place....) I present you with Chemical Warfare and Chemical Weapons in the Second World War.

This three-hops theory is especially insane. Even if you assume each person is connected to only 100 other people, there are 1m people within three hops of every suspected drug trafficker—and remember that even *known* drug traffickers aren’t legitimate targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

'We saw people murdered in front of us' - Sudan siege survivors speak to the BBC #KeepEyesOnSudan www.bbc.com/news/article...

You haven’t heard as much about Sudan because people in Sudan aren’t able to broadcast their suffering on social media the way many others are but it is really bleak there. This is just the tip of the iceberg. 🎁🔗

Drug traffickers aren’t terrorist organizations. They pursue money, not political change, and there’s no terrorist attacks to respond to or prevent. When fighting nonstate orgs, killing low level operatives serves little purpose. The boat strikes are illegal, immoral, and bad strategy all at once.

Hi folks! A few thoughts on this essay, and the questions that we *should* be asking, rather than the ones this Army officer seems inclined to answer. I haven’t done a CMR thread in a while so I’m overdue. 🧵

Just a terrific thread by a very sharp civ-mil scholar. Thanks, @carriealee.bsky.social

New from 404 Media: someone managed to get into a Microsoft Teams call with phone hackers Cellebrite, who then detailed some of the company's hacking capabilities against Google Pixel phones. Also its capabilities against GrapheneOS, security-focused devices www.404media.co/someone-snuc...

I wrote this in September 2024. If you want to understand where we are and how we got here, read it all. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“The Trump administration’s targeting of Hamdi comes one year after he himself argued that, in many respects, the Democrats were not the lesser of two evils relative to Trump, and urged Muslim Americans in swing states to punish Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for complicity in genocide.”

This is unsurprisingly good