Sara Mitchell
@sbmitche.bsky.social
Professor, international relations, Spartan & Cyclone alumni, studies conflict, institutions, and disasters; mother of awesome rehabilitation counselor
Negative peace!
“We are not at war” with Russia, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said recently, “but we are no longer at peace either.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Europe Is in a Gray Zone Between War and Peace
The continent’s leaders suspect Russia of being behind an intensifying barrage of increasingly disruptive attacks.
www.wsj.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Negative peace!
She’s gone full MAGA now, even on tariffs. Not a wise move in Iowa.
Poor Marionette got yelled at again. Perhaps she should resign so her constituents will stop yelling at her.
Miller-Meeks faces heated crowd at Iowa town hall before return to D.C. • Iowa Capital Dispatch share.google/eBggESXMR257...
Miller-Meeks faces heated crowd at Iowa town hall before return to D.C. • Iowa Capital Dispatch share.google/eBggESXMR257...
Miller-Meeks faces heated crowd at Iowa town hall before return to D.C. • Iowa Capital Dispatch
U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faced a contentious crowd in Keosauqua when she held a public town hall Monday.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
She’s gone full MAGA now, even on tariffs. Not a wise move in Iowa.
Agreed
“If Europe wants to help shape Russia, it must start now,” argue @vanghel.bsky.social and @radchenko.bsky.social. “Otherwise, Russian drones over Poland and Romania may be a harbinger of a far more troubling future to come.”
Europe’s Delayed Reckoning With Russia
A plan to beat the Kremlin on its own terms.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Agreed
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A systematic attack on the rule of law. Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A systematic attack on the rule of law. Watergate-level high crimes and misdemeanors happening every day.
Because lawyers don’t want to lose their future ability to earn $ by engaging in illegal acts
Since the start of the Trump administration, the Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys and filled only a fraction of the vacancies amid hiring freezes, delays, and a shortage of qualified candidates.
Justice Department struggles as thousands exit — and few are replaced
The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys and backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, in part because of a lack of qualified candidates.
wapo.st
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Because lawyers don’t want to lose their future ability to earn $ by engaging in illegal acts
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Oh my god
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnSudan
“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”
Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
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Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Oh my god
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#KeepEyesOnSudan
Just watched the first two episodes last night and I agree
Pluribus might be one of the best pilot TV episodes of the past 20 years
Insanely intriguing
Insanely intriguing
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Just watched the first two episodes last night and I agree
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Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS CASE THAT THREATENED ITS LANDMARK 2015 RULING RECOGNIZING A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT REJECTS CASE THAT THREATENED ITS LANDMARK 2015 RULING RECOGNIZING A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
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With 2025 marking the ten-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, countries have made some progress lowering global heating predictions, but trends are still not on track to meeting climate commitments.
Here's what to know from our explainer:
Here's what to know from our explainer:
Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures
International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren't doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
www.cfr.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
With 2025 marking the ten-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, countries have made some progress lowering global heating predictions, but trends are still not on track to meeting climate commitments.
Here's what to know from our explainer:
Here's what to know from our explainer:
I have been saying for years that the GOP’s abortion/birth control bans and immigration restrictions are part of one plan to make America whiter. It’s the fast path to hegemonic suicide.
"The far right in America sees women as a national—as well as natural—resource, a means of reversing the mass tide of migration that they think has taken their country from them." www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...
Women Should Make Babies, Not Vote: Why Some on the Far Right Want to Repeal the 19th Amendment
The far right takes losses at the ballot box as evidence that women do not deserve their rights.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I have been saying for years that the GOP’s abortion/birth control bans and immigration restrictions are part of one plan to make America whiter. It’s the fast path to hegemonic suicide.
The AI future is here 😂
it finally happened to me -- reviewing a manuscript that cites a paper by me that doesn't exist
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The AI future is here 😂
People should always trust scientists above politicians, and yet…
No link between acetaminophen and autism despite Trump claims, major review finds
No link between Tylenol, autism: major review of research
There is no clear link between pregnant women taking the common painkiller acetaminophen and autism in their children, despite repeated claims otherwise by Donald Trump, according to the most comprehensive review of the existing evidence published Monday.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
People should always trust scientists above politicians, and yet…
Plus Ernst and Grassley every week 😂
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Plus Ernst and Grassley every week 😂
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Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Fetterman is not a Democrat anymore to be fair 😂
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Fetterman is not a Democrat anymore to be fair 😂
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
That a Reagan judge would give up his lifetime appointment willingly because he feels a future GOP president has rendered that appointment meaningless in the midst of an authoritarian speedrun is quite remarkable:
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Erasing African Americans from the military and our history books/memorials 😡😡
What the hell are we doing?
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Erasing African Americans from the military and our history books/memorials 😡😡
“Promoting economic growth” 😂 Maybe you should swap growth for cancer or other health threats 🤷♀️
In the first eight months of Trump’s second term, the Justice Department filed only nine major pollution cases for the EPA.
The shift in enforcement shows the extent to which the Trump administration has reoriented the agency toward promoting economic growth. https://wapo.st/4os3LNF
The shift in enforcement shows the extent to which the Trump administration has reoriented the agency toward promoting economic growth. https://wapo.st/4os3LNF
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Promoting economic growth” 😂 Maybe you should swap growth for cancer or other health threats 🤷♀️
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 9, 2025 at 4:15 AM
😡😡😡
That the GOP convinces so many people to vote for the rich getting richer while they suffer inflation and a shrinking job market…
Under the Trump administration, the Treasury Department and IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to big companies and the ultrarich. Here's how.
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.
nyti.ms
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
That the GOP convinces so many people to vote for the rich getting richer while they suffer inflation and a shrinking job market…
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The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Times interviewed dozens of migrant men sent to a prison in El Salvador by the Trump administration. Independent forensic analysts called the testimony credible and consistent and said the treatment met the U.N.’s definition of torture.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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So, uh, what exactly is our defense posture? Does anyone know what our China policy is? Will we have any generals to implement it?
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
So, uh, what exactly is our defense posture? Does anyone know what our China policy is? Will we have any generals to implement it?