Whatever happened to Pete Marocco? No news about him since he was removed from USAID after he ripped it apart. Is it because he’s at the CIA now?

A lot of the weird white identity stuff we are starting to see and will see more of is natural as white Americans slowly discover they in fact have a culture and are not merely default humans. I for one am interested to see if they develop diaspora cringe adjacent literature.

Fun fact, “cummerbund” is directly from the Persian word کمربند meaning belt, or waistband.

e.g., I think trying to replace the settled meaning of the fourteenth amendment with some random concept from ancient roman law with (admittedly!) no historical relationship to the meaning of the constitution is injurious to American tradition, culture, and the substance of the American family

if you stop for a second and try to imagine a country less suited to blood and soil ethnonationalism - both in terms if its traditions, its institutions, and its demographic on the ground realities - it is hard to come up with a worse candidate than the contemporary united states of america.

yes. because what MAGA extremists believe and advocate is fundamentally unamerican. not conservative. not even reactionary. unamerican. these are foreign ideas that failed at enormous human cost within living memory. these are not serious people. they are maladjusted wreckers. symptomatic.

There's actually a more recent historical framework for this exact argument than Roman law. But Vermeule chose not to cite the "Subjects and Citizens" chapter of Hitler's Mein Kampf for some reason!

This by former Turkish PM indicates extent to which Turkey sees the Israeli recognition of Somaliland as a threat to Turkish interests and to other Muslim-majority states, especially Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Egypt has expressed alarm with some pointing finger at UAE for role.

I did leave the theater thinking Avatar is bringing the message of Islam to all, Alhamdulillah

He literally stops the movie and Kiri looks at the audience and says "Tawhid, literally "to unite" or "to make one"[2], refers to the principle of monotheism in Islam.[3] It is the religion's central and single most important concept, upon which a Muslim's entire religious adherence rests. It unequi

Most arguments I read in favor of revoking birthright citizenship are based on changed circumstances—14A drafters didn’t anticipate millions of immigrants. If that’s even true, that’s not consistent with an originalist reading!

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Bluesky working hard on Christmas to mark as spam a newborn baby in the Holy Lands

Please 🙏🏾

By way of contrast, Yu Dunhai: * Graduated with a law degree 25 years ago * Joined China's civil service * Worked for the Chinese Embassy to the US * Rose to Counselor for the Embassy in the US * Promoted to Ambassador to Malta * Promoted to Ambassador to Nigeria How he talks about Nigeria:

One of America's low-key worst couples. The Millers of the Biden administration.

*Every* court to have addressed the question has held that foreign citizens in the United States generally have the same First Amendment rights as citizens do. /END

I've been posting stream of consciousness but here's what I've found out: Rachel Halber, from a Polish/Austro-Hungarian family settled in Antwerp, is my great grandmother who immigrated to Palestine in 1933. She was a member of "apolitical" zionist youth group Zeire Ha’am.

Fascinating and worthy dive into UAE influencers!

I’m a Rick Steves American 🇺🇸

I’m getting the sense that the white identity “heritage American” people (it’s mostly men) are like the libertarians who were super into Austrian economics in like 2012. In many cases it’s literally the same exact guys.

Yasmine doesn't have an active bsky but she desperately needs support! Baby Sham broke her arm yesterday and Yasmine will need our help affording treatment and a good calcium-rich diet (eggs! milk!) as Sham heals. 🔗 tinyurl.com/support-yasmine ➡️ instagram.com/jasminali1384

I’ve given up the new iPhones and the avocado toast and still can’t buy a house. Unironically can someone better with numbers than me help budget this? I suspect the main factor is I want to live where I grew up and where my family is—California!

This would be greatly enjoyable to observe at UVA Law.

Israel is potentially bringing back the death penalty… exclusively for Palestinians. But don’t you DARE call it an apartheid state. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Work to begin next year on a metro line to Ankara Airport

It’s natural for me to take offense because Netanyahu wants to kill my family members in Tehran and their ancestral homes in Tabriz, but I also can’t help but be offended as an American.

A lot of Christian’s treat Bethlehem like it’s a fictional town that doesn’t exist in time and space. An ugly example of this is when Canadian Christian nationalists went there and were disgusted that it had Palestinian in it. They went on video calling for a “crusade.”

I think the most likely scenario is Epstein was killed along with all the really incriminating evidence under Trump 1 for a reason. We’re never going to get the full story; a lot of those girls have also probably been disappeared. And the slow drip of info they keep releasing makes it all worse.

Santiago Montag reports from Syria, where 16 million people—70% of the population—are dependent on humanitarian aid, and are increasingly desperate after USAID cuts: "We’ve reduced our meals to just one plate a day" "People only get water once every ten days" prospect.org/2025/12/19/u...

Israel dictates the pace of Gaza’s decay. This is not a failure of the ceasefire-that-is-not-a-ceasefire. It is its essence.

Also, unlike with other fields, faculty hiring is extremely public. It is easy to find out who was hired instead of you. In many cases, the school has splashy announcements & photos on the website! Same with most media and journalism jobs. These would be relatively easy, open and shut cases!

Amy just found out about Al-Andalus

Something important and unfortunate about Tucker recently is that he contrasts extremely favorably with Biden and most establishment Democrats in his (lack of) racism towards Palestinians and Muslims. Sorry.

Carlson is going extremely fucking hard against genocide in Gaza to scattered applause "Now that I've made everyone mad, are there any questions I can answer?"

The U.S. has sanctioned two ICC judges for allowing war crimes cases involving Israel to proceed, saying the court acted “illegitimately” by asserting jurisdiction without Israel’s consent. Washington threatened it will continue to impose “significant and tangible consequences” to block the ICC...

Huge and hopeful for Syria!

I’m unfortunately finding this targeted ad quite amusing. No doubt they do great work there!

I’m just confused about how you could listen to anything the pro-Palestine left says and come away with the conclusion that they must really like Saudi Arabia. Sure it’s worth pushing back against, but like, liking the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not an actual thing among advocates.

Interesting stat within the piece too that Trump 1 made people like Muslims more. Very much felt that way, good to see some backing for it.

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I really don’t think Americans can wrap their minds around this unless they go and experience it for themselves. A military occupation that gets worse every day, swallowing trees, the sky, clouds, the sea…a sea only a few miles away. It’s unfathomable.

Whenever people want to justify the de facto single state reality of the occupied Palestinian territory I just show them maps like this and ask them what it means

Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.

Really fascinating book and resource.

I’m unfortunately finding this targeted ad quite amusing. No doubt they do great work there!

Two Republican members of Congress are calling for the mass expulsion of Muslims from the U.S. following a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia over the weekend, amplifying an increasingly brazen Islamophobic sentiment within the party.

“Let me tell you a story. In 2007, President Jimmy Carter visited me. I respected him because he conducted himself with high moral standards. He wrote books supportive of the Palestinian cause. I valued him, and he gifted me some of his signed... (Read the full list of guarantees below. Continues👇)

It shouldn’t be surprising that a Muslim Syrian man jumped into action to defend innocents against ISIS. Muslims in Syria and Iraq did the same to protect themselves from ISIS there. Muslims, especially Shia, and other minorities, notably Yazidi people, were ISIS’s primary victims.