Evan Procknow
@eprocknow.bsky.social
French colonial history; all things Algeria and the Sahel. Also tweets about policy, defense, and sports in that order.
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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers
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On 11 November, 1965, Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence and its break with Britain. For the global far right in the 1960s-70s, Rhodesia became a cause celebre, seen as on the frontline (alongside apartheid South Africa) against communism and multi-racial democracy.
November 11, 2023 at 4:04 AM
On 11 November, 1965, Rhodesia announced its Unilateral Declaration of Independence and its break with Britain. For the global far right in the 1960s-70s, Rhodesia became a cause celebre, seen as on the frontline (alongside apartheid South Africa) against communism and multi-racial democracy.
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truly the highs and lows of electoralism in five days
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
truly the highs and lows of electoralism in five days
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They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
I’ve come to believe that we need to gather considerable forces and a campaign to demand the removal of face masks by ICE, Border Patrol, FBI and police.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
It is a practice in conflict with the principles of transparency & accountability that are central to the concept of democracy.
Video on social media shows an immigration agent pulling a gun in Little Village and holding it to the side — which is not an appropriate or safe way to hold a gun. (Among other issues.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.
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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...
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...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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...
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...
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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Tulsi Gabbard is trying to take control over counterintelligence from the FBI. It's not going great. A scoop with @shaneharris.bsky.social
Tulsi Gabbard’s Quest to Bring the ‘Deep State’ Under Her Control
A memo circulating within the federal government lays out her office’s reasoning for wanting to transfer counterintelligence work away from the FBI.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Tulsi Gabbard is trying to take control over counterintelligence from the FBI. It's not going great. A scoop with @shaneharris.bsky.social
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AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
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BTW, this was Peter Theil's vehemently expressed view too--before he started injecting himself with twink blood and obsessing about the anti-Christ
Old enough to remember Joe Kernen and Eric Cantor yanking each other in 2010 about how the Fed's response to the GFC was only going to make things worse and the fiscal response of the Obama admin was way too large and would do nothing but crowd out the private sector
a clown with a rainbow hat and a bow tie
ALT: a clown with a rainbow hat and a bow tie
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November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
BTW, this was Peter Theil's vehemently expressed view too--before he started injecting himself with twink blood and obsessing about the anti-Christ
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The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The absolute collapse of their stupid AI ruse — hopefully followed by a massive wave of tech regulation and imprisoning the politicians who enabled this — cannot come soon enough.
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This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
Listening to the Odd Lots Episode on the Argentina Bailout…the guest is a huge Milei fanboy. Having never heard of him, I google Greg Makoff and see that he formally supported PROMESA…
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Listening to the Odd Lots Episode on the Argentina Bailout…the guest is a huge Milei fanboy. Having never heard of him, I google Greg Makoff and see that he formally supported PROMESA…
Oh no! Who could have predicted?
Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story on.ft.com/4p0LsPH
November 6, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Oh no! Who could have predicted?
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what the fuck man
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
Opinion | The War Powers Irresolution
A Senate measure would let Congress block military action in Venezuela. It’s unconstitutional.
www.wsj.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
what the fuck man
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
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Bahahahahahaha
November 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Bahahahahahaha
The rank ignorance on display
Loevy gets into the feds' use of tear gas.
Loevy: "Tear gas is a serious weapon, do you agree?"
Hewson: "No."
Loevy: "Did you know that tear gas has been banned in warfare?"
Hewson: "I did not know that."
Loevy: "Tear gas is a serious weapon, do you agree?"
Hewson: "No."
Loevy: "Did you know that tear gas has been banned in warfare?"
Hewson: "I did not know that."
November 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The rank ignorance on display
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A predator walking off with a kid by dressing up as an ICE agent and threatening every adult who gets in his way is a matter of When, not If.
Federal agents wearing plain clothes tried to question kids at elementary schools in L.A. on Monday, according to a reporter at Spectrum News.
"Superintendent Carvahlo said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids, but it wasn't true"
"Superintendent Carvahlo said the agents claimed they had parent permission to question the kids, but it wasn't true"
April 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A predator walking off with a kid by dressing up as an ICE agent and threatening every adult who gets in his way is a matter of When, not If.
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Since Q is a boomer who doesn't understand technology I have done you all the favor of posting this insane footage
November 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Since Q is a boomer who doesn't understand technology I have done you all the favor of posting this insane footage
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yes please, fucko
now that's what I call a Mamdani endorsement. Don't threaten New Yorkers with a good time, Dave. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Dave Portnoy Threatens To Move Barstool Sports Out of New York City If Zohran Mamdani Becomes Mayor: ‘I Hate This Guy So Much’
Portnoy, 48, admitted that he has already asked his "finance guy" to begin looking at potential office spaces outside of the city.
www.yahoo.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
yes please, fucko
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I assume no one has any remaining doubts that DHS forces will comply with orders to a) seize ballot boxes and b) use force against pro-democracy protestors.
A Border Patrol agent was caught on video telling another to throw tear gas “for fun,” according to a court filing. They also mocked protesters and residents who were getting gassed.
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I assume no one has any remaining doubts that DHS forces will comply with orders to a) seize ballot boxes and b) use force against pro-democracy protestors.
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The philosemitic wing is perfectly comfortable with antisemitism and also is pro-Israel so there is already a lot of important overlap
This is how the ostensibly philosemitic wing of the party is going to reconcile itself with the openly antisemitic wing. “We tried to help you, we really did, but you wouldn’t let us.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The philosemitic wing is perfectly comfortable with antisemitism and also is pro-Israel so there is already a lot of important overlap
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Wow. CBP Bovino says anyone who shows up to a protest is * presumptively violent * and that DHS officers may act against them on that basis. Has 'never seen' a protestor who is not violent.
Overnight court filings seem to be giving us a peek at what U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino said in his deposition so far (it apparently continues today):
November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Wow. CBP Bovino says anyone who shows up to a protest is * presumptively violent * and that DHS officers may act against them on that basis. Has 'never seen' a protestor who is not violent.
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It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...