I'm quoted a fair bit in this story on the. Blair-led GITA proposal for governing and reconstructing Gaza www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

I try to resist doomerism, but I have to admit that hearing Gen Z "conservatives" describe their media diets made me want to walk into the sea. Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, etc. Ben Shapiro framed as a moderate. Bari Weiss as the go to for "liberal opinions." youtu.be/fpTXMVpdyRg?...

For 500 days, 260,000 people have been trapped by the paramilitary RSF. While political progress stalls, those who attempt escape are killed and those who remain inside are starving. Experts believe the city will soon fall and the endgame has begun #Sudan www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

1/n A few days ago, an article appeared in The Atlantic with a bold headline “Left-wing terrorism is on the rise.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is not a random person, but the writer of "Mornings in Jenin," the most widely-read Palestinian novel of all time. This person is opining on Jewish history without knowing anything about it. None of this is true about the concept of Jewish peoplehood.

i love this part and i think it very much shows the difference in depth of thinking between someone like Klein, desperately fighting in the here-and-now and arguing to win a battle with compromise, versus Coates' position that he is a soldier in a long war.

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

“It is now clear: even w votes still to be counted, Moldova has chosen Europe. @sandumaiamd & PAS are heading to a decisive majority. A victory for the European spirit in Eastern Europe & a hard lesson for Putin. Free citizens choose democracy, free citizens choose Europe” @sandrogozi.bsky.social

A century removed from Western colonial powers casually drawing Middle Eastern borders with a ruler while disregarding the will of local populations, the region gets Tony Blair to dream up schemes of governing Gaza with little say by its people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

SIM farms flood phones with spam calls and texts, and have grown to the point they have caused large-scale disruption of critical infrastructure The NYC SIM farm found by the Secret Service this week came on their radar after “swatting” attacks targeting Congressional members Reports @wired.com

'In genocide studies, there is a broad consensus that there is no contradiction between committing genocide and expelling the civilian population; ethnic cleansing and genocide often go hand in hand.' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

@hernandesraph.bsky.social , @porcelinad.bsky.social and I spent the better part of a year watching and analysing how far right ideology is shared in open Facebook groups: here is what we found: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... with immense help from Pablo Gutiérrez, Garry Blight, Lydia McMullan

The plan is unsurprisingly vague on many issues, but perhaps the biggest sticking point is the lack of a clear schedule of Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

This sort of thing should, in fact, ping your anti-semitism radar.

Sudan is What Happens When you Recognize a Junta A guest essay co-authored by Professor Mai Hassan appeared in yesterday's New York Times. nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o... @mit-cis.bsky.social

Sharing to parse later and offer to better quants than myself

A Reuters investigation found that visual evidence of Israel’s strike on Nasser hospital that killed 22 people including 5 journalists in Gaza last month contradicts Israel’s official account. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

1. Scorched earth on SCOTUS. Roberts court is unpopular. Trump is even more unpopular. Tie them together. 2. Dem aides should already be attending regular session on mobilization — especially for if and when Trump tries to interdict results — with veterans of overseas democratization movements.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Magazines. The only thing you can say from nine months of 2025 data is that right-wing terrorism appears to be sharply down this year. I wonder why that is? 🤔🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

British friends, help me understand: is this all just because Labour party leaders are reasonably worried about losing swing votes to Reform?

People will make silly jokes about Hostomel. Not recognising that the airborne assault part of the operation was in fact successful. Ignoring also that either way Russia has combat experience the PLA is very much interested in. Question your priors. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

@camanpour.bsky.social & Jamie unpack the fact that several major nations took the historic decision to recognise a Palestinian state this week - and whether this could be a victory for Hamas Watch Christiane Amanpour Presents: The Ex Files 🗂️ on @globalplayer.com 🎧

1. This piece by Roge Karma is absolutely worth reading - www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch... . If the Supreme Court allows Trump to fire Lisa Cook, the consequences are likely to be disastrous. key points:

The situation in Gaza continues to worsen. The displacement of people from Gaza City is untenable for the few hospitals left, stating there is “not enough of anything”. Some facilities see hundreds upon hundreds per day, the vast majority children. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The BBC and three international news agencies have released a short film calling on Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is a good post. It is witty and it points to a larger truth. But as someone who has thought a lot about this comparison, I think the US has a much greater potential to devolve into civil violence than Turkey does.

Negotiations have stalled. Trump keeps changing his policies. Ukrainians, backed by Europeans, are taking matters into their own hands, by targeting the Russian oil industry: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

Fine: 1) What’s happening to the U.S. is part of a transnational far-right, autocratic wave and it cannot be treated as a purely domestic issue 2) A major subset of these dynamics is globalized kleptocracy/oligarchy; tackling that requires rebuilding & enhancing int’l anti-corruption mechanisms

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Secret Service said it dismantled a massive network of electronics in the New York City area that investigators believe was used to threaten U.S. officials and was capable of cyberattacks that could knock out large sections of cellular communications.

One interesting thing that’s happening is the US using all its financial tools (sanctions, tariffs, ESF) to try regime change/maintenance in BZ and AR pretty much simultaneously, based entirely on perceived ideological correspondences in the domestic politics of US, BZ, AR.

Last week I had the pleasure of interviewing @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his new book The Mission: the CIA in the 21st century for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. You can listen to the episode here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

When a typo in your Google search leads to new and exciting philosophical positions

Anajali is live-posting the absolutely bonkers Trump speech at the UN and I am not sad I missed it

A leaked Project 2025 questionnaire database appears to reveal the books, thinkers, and dictators some Trump appointees most admire.

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have withdrawn from the International Criminal Court. The past and present show that only states who fear accountability for atrocity crimes attack or leave the #ICC. guardian.ng/news/burkina...

I'd describe mine as shofar so good but it's only been a few minutes

שנה טובה ומתוקה חברים! May your new year be filled with love, joy, and a better world!

BBC News: Starmer on Palestine - 30 seconds. Charlie Kirk memorial - 15 minutes with every possible speaker.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I saw, during my reporting in Hungary, how much putting friendly oligarchs in charge of the media matters in authoritarian consolidation. That's starting to happen in the United States. www.vox.com/politics/462...

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America. Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here. www.vox.com/politics/462...

No one could’ve seen this coming

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Solidarity to that grad student who is having panic attacks at the bottom of a rabbit hole trying to isolate the causal variables that cause crime while Hanania pumps out linear regression slop.

One hellscape to another: Gazans tell of dire conditions in Israeli-declared humanitarian zone www.bbc.com/news/article...

Feature, not bug.