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Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
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Diplomacy as a Prelude to War: The Strategic Chess Game Between Hezbollah, Israel, and Iran
While Egyptian officials are intensifying their communications with the Lebanese state, the latest of which was an emergency visit by the head of Egyptian intelligence, Hassan Rashad,
While Egyptian officials are intensifying their communications with the Lebanese state, the latest of which was an emergency visit by the head of Egyptian intelligence, Hassan Rashad,
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Diplomacy as a Prelude to War: The Strategic Chess Game Between Hezbollah, Israel, and Iran
While Egyptian officials are intensifying their communications with the Lebanese state, the latest of which was an emergency visit by the head of Egyptian intelligence, Hassan Rashad,
While Egyptian officials are intensifying their communications with the Lebanese state, the latest of which was an emergency visit by the head of Egyptian intelligence, Hassan Rashad,
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Here you go:
Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence
Giancarlo Poggi, The Development of the Modern State; and The State: Its Nature, Development & Prospects
Patricia Crone, Pre-Industrial Societies
Bruce Trigger, Understanding Early Civilizations
Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence
Giancarlo Poggi, The Development of the Modern State; and The State: Its Nature, Development & Prospects
Patricia Crone, Pre-Industrial Societies
Bruce Trigger, Understanding Early Civilizations
August 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Here you go:
Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence
Giancarlo Poggi, The Development of the Modern State; and The State: Its Nature, Development & Prospects
Patricia Crone, Pre-Industrial Societies
Bruce Trigger, Understanding Early Civilizations
Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power
Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence
Giancarlo Poggi, The Development of the Modern State; and The State: Its Nature, Development & Prospects
Patricia Crone, Pre-Industrial Societies
Bruce Trigger, Understanding Early Civilizations
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coming around to belief that discourse about cluster of topics ranging from low birthrates to lack of third spaces all has a similar barrier in terms of articulating useful solutions.....
oh, yeah, okay, that’s the source for almost all of my disdain for these pieces at this point; everyone can describe the symptoms, they’re literally everywhere, but, like, now what?
July 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
coming around to belief that discourse about cluster of topics ranging from low birthrates to lack of third spaces all has a similar barrier in terms of articulating useful solutions.....
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In consoling a friend recently, I put words to something I've felt since my first brush with loss but never managed to articulate:
One of the hardest things about loss is the co-existence of grieving time with normal time, in ways that can be both comfortingly complementary and jarringly dissonant.
One of the hardest things about loss is the co-existence of grieving time with normal time, in ways that can be both comfortingly complementary and jarringly dissonant.
June 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In consoling a friend recently, I put words to something I've felt since my first brush with loss but never managed to articulate:
One of the hardest things about loss is the co-existence of grieving time with normal time, in ways that can be both comfortingly complementary and jarringly dissonant.
One of the hardest things about loss is the co-existence of grieving time with normal time, in ways that can be both comfortingly complementary and jarringly dissonant.
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Some scattershot thoughts on the protest discourse.
1. The nonviolent civil rights movement protests seem to be the standard against which all protests are judged now, but there are many reasons people protest and not all of them fit neatly into that model.
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1. The nonviolent civil rights movement protests seem to be the standard against which all protests are judged now, but there are many reasons people protest and not all of them fit neatly into that model.
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June 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Some scattershot thoughts on the protest discourse.
1. The nonviolent civil rights movement protests seem to be the standard against which all protests are judged now, but there are many reasons people protest and not all of them fit neatly into that model.
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1. The nonviolent civil rights movement protests seem to be the standard against which all protests are judged now, but there are many reasons people protest and not all of them fit neatly into that model.
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This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Who should do the fact checks with millions and millions of fake news? The nature of social media itself is the problem. However it probably is impossible to get rid of every social network and revert debates to pre 2010-status.
June 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions.
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
Now, it has to happen in us.
A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵
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There's something remarkable about how much of Trump II can be understood as a war against all things coded feminine, even as it presents itself as the defender of all things female, while adopting fashion styles, stances on hetero sex and interpersonal behavior that code homo-erotic.
June 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There's something remarkable about how much of Trump II can be understood as a war against all things coded feminine, even as it presents itself as the defender of all things female, while adopting fashion styles, stances on hetero sex and interpersonal behavior that code homo-erotic.
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Trump's Middle East tour really reinforces this point.
He's stumbling toward recreating Obama's regional strategy: thaw w/ Iran to rebalance the US away from Israel & out of its regional security role.
But Obama was constrained by having to play cleanup to GWB, and his belief in the lib-int order.
He's stumbling toward recreating Obama's regional strategy: thaw w/ Iran to rebalance the US away from Israel & out of its regional security role.
But Obama was constrained by having to play cleanup to GWB, and his belief in the lib-int order.
And in the same way that the end of the Cold War "liberated" the guild from the discipline of a bipolar order, so too Trump's not belonging to the guild "liberates" him from the discipline of the liberal international order.
May 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Trump's Middle East tour really reinforces this point.
He's stumbling toward recreating Obama's regional strategy: thaw w/ Iran to rebalance the US away from Israel & out of its regional security role.
But Obama was constrained by having to play cleanup to GWB, and his belief in the lib-int order.
He's stumbling toward recreating Obama's regional strategy: thaw w/ Iran to rebalance the US away from Israel & out of its regional security role.
But Obama was constrained by having to play cleanup to GWB, and his belief in the lib-int order.
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Among the things they question, for instance, is an idea traced to Rome's "mare nostrum" in the Med that underpins the dominant IR reading of the past 200 yrs: naval primacy was central to first British then US global hegemony, and the resulting open seas are a public good provided by hegemons.
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In the book, Amitav and @manjeetsp.bsky.social compare the ancient Roman Med with the classical Indian Ocean region to make much deeper and similarly thought-provoking arguments about the limits of Western-centric IR theory in general, and hegemonic stability theory specifically.
Highly recommend.
Highly recommend.
April 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Among the things they question, for instance, is an idea traced to Rome's "mare nostrum" in the Med that underpins the dominant IR reading of the past 200 yrs: naval primacy was central to first British then US global hegemony, and the resulting open seas are a public good provided by hegemons.
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Alle Arbeitsgruppen der Koalitionsverhandlungen geleaked außer Europa 😩😩https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/03/koalitionsverhandlungen-cducsuspd/
Koalitionsverhandlungen: Darüber streiten Union und SPD
Wie laufen die Verhandlungen der möglichen neuen Regierungsparteien? Wir veröffentlichen alle Ergebnisse der Arbeitsgruppen von CDU, CSU und SPD.
fragdenstaat.de
March 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Alle Arbeitsgruppen der Koalitionsverhandlungen geleaked außer Europa 😩😩https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/03/koalitionsverhandlungen-cducsuspd/
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Starter packs are a thing of the past, and as a result, we’re missing out on many voices who joined later and remain criminally underfollowed. A few such names:
@gesineweber.bsky.social
@bradsetser.bsky.social
@meredith-crowley.bsky.social
@paolatamma.bsky.social
@b-eichengreen.bsky.social
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@gesineweber.bsky.social
@bradsetser.bsky.social
@meredith-crowley.bsky.social
@paolatamma.bsky.social
@b-eichengreen.bsky.social
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March 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Starter packs are a thing of the past, and as a result, we’re missing out on many voices who joined later and remain criminally underfollowed. A few such names:
@gesineweber.bsky.social
@bradsetser.bsky.social
@meredith-crowley.bsky.social
@paolatamma.bsky.social
@b-eichengreen.bsky.social
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@gesineweber.bsky.social
@bradsetser.bsky.social
@meredith-crowley.bsky.social
@paolatamma.bsky.social
@b-eichengreen.bsky.social
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A good pack for those of you interested in open source investigation outside of Bellingcat bsky.app/starter-pack...
March 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A good pack for those of you interested in open source investigation outside of Bellingcat bsky.app/starter-pack...
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In this sense, a healthy radical/revolutionary left opposition is just as important to defending liberal democracy from fascism as a strong and democratic center-right party.
March 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
In this sense, a healthy radical/revolutionary left opposition is just as important to defending liberal democracy from fascism as a strong and democratic center-right party.
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.