Imran Jaferey
@ijaferey.bsky.social
Science and history buff. Avid reader. Gave up on fairy tales when I grew up.
I can think of no other reason than the ones @timothysnyder.bsky.social lists here for this meeting. None are good.
Hegseth is putting all of the American generals and admirals from around the world into a single room. Why might Hegseth do such an extraordinary thing? Here I discuss four possible reasons.
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Hegseth puts us all at risk
Why put all the American commanders in one room?
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September 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I can think of no other reason than the ones @timothysnyder.bsky.social lists here for this meeting. None are good.
Can we please focus on Robert Redford now? Please!
September 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Can we please focus on Robert Redford now? Please!
@nytimes.com can fuck right off with this bullshit. This smells of another “oh things were better in the good old days” article to appease the mob who want some fables past. The good old days were good if you were a white male. Most of us aren’t.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | The Curse of Curse Words
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September 14, 2025 at 8:25 AM
@nytimes.com can fuck right off with this bullshit. This smells of another “oh things were better in the good old days” article to appease the mob who want some fables past. The good old days were good if you were a white male. Most of us aren’t.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
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@nytimes.com and @msnbc.com we need you to step up.
(3/3) His math is 6th grade level - one grade above his vocabulary. (1200% drug price reductions?) His myth is now sustained only by gaslighting and puffery. He is terrified of humiliation. It's our obligation - Dems, Ind's, media, business leaders, sane people - to challenge him more. Lots more.
August 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
@nytimes.com and @msnbc.com we need you to step up.
As bad as it might be, in the aggregate it’s no worse than I expected.
June 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
As bad as it might be, in the aggregate it’s no worse than I expected.
I didn’t realize I was part of the crew if every flight I’ve ever taken. Hooray for me. #blueorigin
April 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I didn’t realize I was part of the crew if every flight I’ve ever taken. Hooray for me. #blueorigin
I’m talking to all the law firms, universities and news outlets when I say listen to this, fuckheads!
Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.
April 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’m talking to all the law firms, universities and news outlets when I say listen to this, fuckheads!
Perfect. 10/10. No notes.
April 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Perfect. 10/10. No notes.
April 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Not a fun read but painfully true. From @thebulwark.bsky.social
“The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.”
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“The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.”
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The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.
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April 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Not a fun read but painfully true. From @thebulwark.bsky.social
“The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
“The American age is over. And it ended because the American people were no longer worthy of it.”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
#Trump is very, very, very dumb. So the math of the #tariffs is not supposed to make sense. Please stop trying to analyze it with logic. It won’t work.
youtu.be/iMIKzUAY8n4
youtu.be/iMIKzUAY8n4
The Trump Files: Watch The Trumps Not Be Able To Multiply 17 By 6
YouTube video by Mother Jones
youtu.be
April 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#Trump is very, very, very dumb. So the math of the #tariffs is not supposed to make sense. Please stop trying to analyze it with logic. It won’t work.
youtu.be/iMIKzUAY8n4
youtu.be/iMIKzUAY8n4
"Anyone, anyone" teacher from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
YouTube video by pmw8000
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April 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Please read more @timothysnyder.bsky.social and reread it. Memorize it until it’s burned in your brain and then live it. It’s the only way we survive this disaster.
Lesson 13: "Practice corporeal politics... Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them."
***There will be chances to practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th.***
Find yours here: handsoff2025.com
***There will be chances to practice corporeal politics all over the USA on April 5th.***
Find yours here: handsoff2025.com
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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April 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Please read more @timothysnyder.bsky.social and reread it. Memorize it until it’s burned in your brain and then live it. It’s the only way we survive this disaster.
Yet somehow not scathing enough.
Wow, this is truly scathing.
April 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Yet somehow not scathing enough.
The stupidity is championship level.
Another one! This is St. Pierre et Miquelon. Population: 5819.
It now has one of the world’s highest tariffs - 99%. The US imported only $3.5M of its shellfish last yr. BUT the island imports ZERO from the US.
So, the idiotic White House formula (imports v exports) couldn’t cope. It spat out 99%.
It now has one of the world’s highest tariffs - 99%. The US imported only $3.5M of its shellfish last yr. BUT the island imports ZERO from the US.
So, the idiotic White House formula (imports v exports) couldn’t cope. It spat out 99%.
April 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The stupidity is championship level.
“Bigger than COVID”.
Congratulations, boss, you've done it: You're bigger than covid.
April 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“Bigger than COVID”.
I was worried that #Amazon had become too needed, too convenient, too ubiquitous to stop using. I used it for everything and had since it first started as a bookstore. I deleted the app from my phone and I haven’t missed it. Apparently a lot of things I thought I needed tomorrow morning can wait.
March 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I was worried that #Amazon had become too needed, too convenient, too ubiquitous to stop using. I used it for everything and had since it first started as a bookstore. I deleted the app from my phone and I haven’t missed it. Apparently a lot of things I thought I needed tomorrow morning can wait.
If you do anything today, spend ten minutes with this. I’ve gotten in a habit of reading a chapter from “On Tyranny” daily just to remind myself.
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you do anything today, spend ten minutes with this. I’ve gotten in a habit of reading a chapter from “On Tyranny” daily just to remind myself.
This may be the most perfect use of this meme ever.
March 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This may be the most perfect use of this meme ever.
March 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hello, my fellow Americans. This is the energy we need.
NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey.
A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it!
Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel:
“Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷
A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it!
Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel:
“Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷
March 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Hello, my fellow Americans. This is the energy we need.
Libraries are amazing.
2) fun fact - You can get free access to bypass paywall and read the Atlantic if you have a DC Public Library card number…. Or know a friend who does.
(You can get a free DC library card even if you live in suburban Virginia or Maryland too)
www.dclibrary.org/research-and...
(You can get a free DC library card even if you live in suburban Virginia or Maryland too)
www.dclibrary.org/research-and...
Atlantic, The
The Atlantic features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science.
www.dclibrary.org
March 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Libraries are amazing.
These fucking guys are both the dumbest bunch of asshats to ever spend time in the White House and the most cruel. A hell of a combination.
In other news, Der Spiegel
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
found private phone numbers, email addresses and some passwords for Waltz, Gabbard and Hegseth online
www.spiegel.de/internationa...
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
These fucking guys are both the dumbest bunch of asshats to ever spend time in the White House and the most cruel. A hell of a combination.
@profanity.accountant how the fuck have I been doing?
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
@profanity.accountant how the fuck have I been doing?