Isaac Seder
@zacseder.bsky.social
So please weigh in @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social celebré historians #RichardHaass & #DavidIgnatius et. al.:
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"Aiming to…accomplish impossible but rational things."—Kushner
I'm no historian—so I wonder if any of @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social habitues know of any circumstance where this kind of wholesale transformation occurred without unconditional surrender/years-long occupation.
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I'm no historian—so I wonder if any of @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social habitues know of any circumstance where this kind of wholesale transformation occurred without unconditional surrender/years-long occupation.
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Kushner and Witkoff reveal how the Trump admin plans to disarm Hamas amid faltering peace deal
December 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
So please weigh in @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social celebré historians #RichardHaass & #DavidIgnatius et. al.:
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In peacemaking's "complicated business…signing a ceasefire deal before the cameras is usually just the beginning. Changing the realities on the ground/getting combatants to lay down their weapons—requires a more sustained level of follow-through/commitment."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Why Trump’s ‘peace deals’ keep unraveling
Ending wars requires patient diplomacy and a longterm commitment, not flashy headlines.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
In peacemaking's "complicated business…signing a ceasefire deal before the cameras is usually just the beginning. Changing the realities on the ground/getting combatants to lay down their weapons—requires a more sustained level of follow-through/commitment."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
First it's the "Trump-Kennedy Performing Arts Centre," then it's "Trump, D.C."
December 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
First it's the "Trump-Kennedy Performing Arts Centre," then it's "Trump, D.C."
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 AM
First it's the "Trump-Kennedy Performing Arts Centre," then it's "Trump, D.C."
2/ Neither the FBI, nor #DirectorKashPatel, nor #AGPamBondi know of any connection between the crimes & the investment.
December 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
2/ Neither the FBI, nor #DirectorKashPatel, nor #AGPamBondi know of any connection between the crimes & the investment.
1/Mere coincidence—just as "The FBI on Tuesday said it knew of no connection between the [Brown/MIT] crimes."
What possible link could bet. Loureiro, a leading fusion energy/clean/limitless power researcher—“Fusion energy will change the course of human history,” he'd foretold—& Trump’s investment?
What possible link could bet. Loureiro, a leading fusion energy/clean/limitless power researcher—“Fusion energy will change the course of human history,” he'd foretold—& Trump’s investment?
An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation
A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been fatally shot at his home near Boston and authorities say they have launched a homicide investigation
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
1/Mere coincidence—just as "The FBI on Tuesday said it knew of no connection between the [Brown/MIT] crimes."
What possible link could bet. Loureiro, a leading fusion energy/clean/limitless power researcher—“Fusion energy will change the course of human history,” he'd foretold—& Trump’s investment?
What possible link could bet. Loureiro, a leading fusion energy/clean/limitless power researcher—“Fusion energy will change the course of human history,” he'd foretold—& Trump’s investment?
So that's that, neatly tied in an Xmas bow!
Or is it?
Or did some foreign service (Iran? Russia?) 1)target Prof. Loureiro (leading fusion energy/plasma dynamics/clean, limitless power researcher)
2)hire Claudio Manuel Neves Valente to hook Brown terror red herring
3)pin all on & murder him.
Or is it?
Or did some foreign service (Iran? Russia?) 1)target Prof. Loureiro (leading fusion energy/plasma dynamics/clean, limitless power researcher)
2)hire Claudio Manuel Neves Valente to hook Brown terror red herring
3)pin all on & murder him.
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
So that's that, neatly tied in an Xmas bow!
Or is it?
Or did some foreign service (Iran? Russia?) 1)target Prof. Loureiro (leading fusion energy/plasma dynamics/clean, limitless power researcher)
2)hire Claudio Manuel Neves Valente to hook Brown terror red herring
3)pin all on & murder him.
Or is it?
Or did some foreign service (Iran? Russia?) 1)target Prof. Loureiro (leading fusion energy/plasma dynamics/clean, limitless power researcher)
2)hire Claudio Manuel Neves Valente to hook Brown terror red herring
3)pin all on & murder him.
Left out of #PresTrumpJeremiad last night: the fact that Biden's wide-open immigration policies are obv. behind this shooting, as Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, "the 2nd victim of the Brown University shooting…is a naturalized citizen from Uzbekistan living in Virginia.“
www.foxnews.com/live-news/br...
www.foxnews.com/live-news/br...
Suspect in Brown shooting ID'd as authorities probe possible connection to MIT killing
Providence Police have identified a suspect in the Brown University shooting and have a warrant, according to Fox News sources. Police are also investigating a possible link between the Brown and MIT...
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Left out of #PresTrumpJeremiad last night: the fact that Biden's wide-open immigration policies are obv. behind this shooting, as Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, "the 2nd victim of the Brown University shooting…is a naturalized citizen from Uzbekistan living in Virginia.“
www.foxnews.com/live-news/br...
www.foxnews.com/live-news/br...
Ro Khanna: "Susie Wiles is "basically implying that Ghislaine Maxwell tricked the President of United States."
And perhaps neither the first, nor the last, time Ghislaine Maxwell "tricked" Donald Trump.
And perhaps neither the first, nor the last, time Ghislaine Maxwell "tricked" Donald Trump.
December 17, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Ro Khanna: "Susie Wiles is "basically implying that Ghislaine Maxwell tricked the President of United States."
And perhaps neither the first, nor the last, time Ghislaine Maxwell "tricked" Donald Trump.
And perhaps neither the first, nor the last, time Ghislaine Maxwell "tricked" Donald Trump.
Perhaps you, Prof. Glaude, who work closely with some of the best young minds of the nation, might explore with them possible ways to reach & affect somehow those twisted brains out there who seem to find no other outlet than sheer atrocity.
December 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Perhaps you, Prof. Glaude, who work closely with some of the best young minds of the nation, might explore with them possible ways to reach & affect somehow those twisted brains out there who seem to find no other outlet than sheer atrocity.
what a ludicrous headline that cannot even acknowledge the man is a sociopath: wapo.st/3MEXZKH ... just testing?!?
Analysis | Trump attack on Rob Reiner tests the limits, even for his MAGA base
The president accused the Hollywood director, who was stabbed to death along with his wife, of having “Trump derangement syndrome.”
wapo.st
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Piers Morgan slams his friend Donald Trump over his vile post about Rob Reiner:
“That just crossed every line of basic human decency… This is just unacceptable — when people get murdered, you just show basic respect.”
“That just crossed every line of basic human decency… This is just unacceptable — when people get murdered, you just show basic respect.”
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
#RussellMoore is seriously mistaken: That kind of behavior has not been 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑—it's widely recognized as a contemptible degradation of public discourse, as an odious defilement of the office of President, as indicative of a vacuum of common decency, & as a vile depravity of the soul.
December 15, 2025 at 11:09 PM
#RussellMoore is seriously mistaken: That kind of behavior has not been 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑—it's widely recognized as a contemptible degradation of public discourse, as an odious defilement of the office of President, as indicative of a vacuum of common decency, & as a vile depravity of the soul.
& @nicollewallace.bsky.social
All of that, Prof. Glaude, plus:
To culturally twisted minds, the random shootings signify an 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡—a mark of personal 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒—in lives devoid of any other personal acts that garner society's recognition.
All of that, Prof. Glaude, plus:
To culturally twisted minds, the random shootings signify an 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡—a mark of personal 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒—in lives devoid of any other personal acts that garner society's recognition.
December 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
& @nicollewallace.bsky.social
All of that, Prof. Glaude, plus:
To culturally twisted minds, the random shootings signify an 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡—a mark of personal 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒—in lives devoid of any other personal acts that garner society's recognition.
All of that, Prof. Glaude, plus:
To culturally twisted minds, the random shootings signify an 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡—a mark of personal 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒—in lives devoid of any other personal acts that garner society's recognition.
One has to wonder how much influence former Gov. Mike Pence's courage in the face of "politics of fear" exerted on the GOP-controlled legislature's decision to stiff-arm Trump's efforts to gerrymander the state any further.
& indeed, if behind the scenes, he's been directly involved in the struggle.
& indeed, if behind the scenes, he's been directly involved in the struggle.
December 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
One has to wonder how much influence former Gov. Mike Pence's courage in the face of "politics of fear" exerted on the GOP-controlled legislature's decision to stiff-arm Trump's efforts to gerrymander the state any further.
& indeed, if behind the scenes, he's been directly involved in the struggle.
& indeed, if behind the scenes, he's been directly involved in the struggle.
«Challenging war's laws built Hegseth's career»:…
"If our warriors are forced to follow rules arbitrarily/asked to sacrifice more lives so internat'l tribunals feel better about themselves/aren’t we just better off winning our wars according to our own rules?!"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"If our warriors are forced to follow rules arbitrarily/asked to sacrifice more lives so internat'l tribunals feel better about themselves/aren’t we just better off winning our wars according to our own rules?!"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Hegseth’s ‘who cares?’ doctrine is finally taking heat
In U.S. history, war crimes have been rare. Accountability is needed to keep them that way.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
«Challenging war's laws built Hegseth's career»:…
"If our warriors are forced to follow rules arbitrarily/asked to sacrifice more lives so internat'l tribunals feel better about themselves/aren’t we just better off winning our wars according to our own rules?!"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
"If our warriors are forced to follow rules arbitrarily/asked to sacrifice more lives so internat'l tribunals feel better about themselves/aren’t we just better off winning our wars according to our own rules?!"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
The Geneva Conventions (7/12/1949) applies to internat'l & non-internat'l armed conflict.
"These treaties, wh/are 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 wounded/the sick/the 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝/POWs and civilians…in enemy hands."—International Red Cross Committee (IRCC).
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"These treaties, wh/are 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 wounded/the sick/the 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝/POWs and civilians…in enemy hands."—International Red Cross Committee (IRCC).
www.icrc.org/en/publicati...
www.icrc.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The Geneva Conventions (7/12/1949) applies to internat'l & non-internat'l armed conflict.
"These treaties, wh/are 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 wounded/the sick/the 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝/POWs and civilians…in enemy hands."—International Red Cross Committee (IRCC).
www.icrc.org/en/publicati...
"These treaties, wh/are 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 wounded/the sick/the 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐰𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝/POWs and civilians…in enemy hands."—International Red Cross Committee (IRCC).
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The Trump administration has called its Caribbean operations "non-international armed conflict w/the alleged drug traffickers."
…The Geneva Conventions' rules of engagement "forbid the targeting of wounded participants," who should "instead be apprehended and cared for."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
…The Geneva Conventions' rules of engagement "forbid the targeting of wounded participants," who should "instead be apprehended and cared for."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The Trump administration has called its Caribbean operations "non-international armed conflict w/the alleged drug traffickers."
…The Geneva Conventions' rules of engagement "forbid the targeting of wounded participants," who should "instead be apprehended and cared for."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
…The Geneva Conventions' rules of engagement "forbid the targeting of wounded participants," who should "instead be apprehended and cared for."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Neither #SecDefHegseth nor #PresidentTrump will ever be held accountable for the apparent murder of those 2 alleged traffickers, bc/to do so would mean throwing #AdmFrankBradley under the bus (or in this case, the boat he ordered sunk)—wh/lawmakers—despite rhetoric—are quite reluctant to do.
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Neither #SecDefHegseth nor #PresidentTrump will ever be held accountable for the apparent murder of those 2 alleged traffickers, bc/to do so would mean throwing #AdmFrankBradley under the bus (or in this case, the boat he ordered sunk)—wh/lawmakers—despite rhetoric—are quite reluctant to do.
& @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @WhiteHouse.senate.gov
Truth is, #DirectorKashPatel simply can't say "No" to his girlfriend.
He can swear "to support and defend the U.S. Constitution…and well and faithfully discharge my duties…so help me God".
He simply can't tell her to "Call a cab."
Truth is, #DirectorKashPatel simply can't say "No" to his girlfriend.
He can swear "to support and defend the U.S. Constitution…and well and faithfully discharge my duties…so help me God".
He simply can't tell her to "Call a cab."
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
& @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com @WhiteHouse.senate.gov
Truth is, #DirectorKashPatel simply can't say "No" to his girlfriend.
He can swear "to support and defend the U.S. Constitution…and well and faithfully discharge my duties…so help me God".
He simply can't tell her to "Call a cab."
Truth is, #DirectorKashPatel simply can't say "No" to his girlfriend.
He can swear "to support and defend the U.S. Constitution…and well and faithfully discharge my duties…so help me God".
He simply can't tell her to "Call a cab."
& @atrupar.com
Not necessarily: @lesliestahl.bsky.social's interview 𝑤𝑎𝑠 "accusatory"—& no doubt partly for ratings & to sell soap & cereal.
Perhaps a quieter/more empathic approach would have elicited a more open response.
& maybe that needs a private space? (If #MTG is at all truly repentant.)
Not necessarily: @lesliestahl.bsky.social's interview 𝑤𝑎𝑠 "accusatory"—& no doubt partly for ratings & to sell soap & cereal.
Perhaps a quieter/more empathic approach would have elicited a more open response.
& maybe that needs a private space? (If #MTG is at all truly repentant.)
December 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
& @atrupar.com
Not necessarily: @lesliestahl.bsky.social's interview 𝑤𝑎𝑠 "accusatory"—& no doubt partly for ratings & to sell soap & cereal.
Perhaps a quieter/more empathic approach would have elicited a more open response.
& maybe that needs a private space? (If #MTG is at all truly repentant.)
Not necessarily: @lesliestahl.bsky.social's interview 𝑤𝑎𝑠 "accusatory"—& no doubt partly for ratings & to sell soap & cereal.
Perhaps a quieter/more empathic approach would have elicited a more open response.
& maybe that needs a private space? (If #MTG is at all truly repentant.)
& @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Reimagining 1ary ally relationship, EU ministers/diplomats/civilian & military leaders must create pan-partisan Shadow State Dept. confirming NSS:
*radically short-termed/aberrational trends
*elements to collaboratively build on
*traditional policies' durability/validity
Reimagining 1ary ally relationship, EU ministers/diplomats/civilian & military leaders must create pan-partisan Shadow State Dept. confirming NSS:
*radically short-termed/aberrational trends
*elements to collaboratively build on
*traditional policies' durability/validity
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 AM
& @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Reimagining 1ary ally relationship, EU ministers/diplomats/civilian & military leaders must create pan-partisan Shadow State Dept. confirming NSS:
*radically short-termed/aberrational trends
*elements to collaboratively build on
*traditional policies' durability/validity
Reimagining 1ary ally relationship, EU ministers/diplomats/civilian & military leaders must create pan-partisan Shadow State Dept. confirming NSS:
*radically short-termed/aberrational trends
*elements to collaboratively build on
*traditional policies' durability/validity
"Suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere" serve as convenient cover for Trump's true motive in threatening Venezuela w/invasion: to coerce Putin ally/Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro to pressure his Russian patron to make deep concessions at US/Ukraine's negotiating table forthwith.
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere" serve as convenient cover for Trump's true motive in threatening Venezuela w/invasion: to coerce Putin ally/Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro to pressure his Russian patron to make deep concessions at US/Ukraine's negotiating table forthwith.
#Putin's "Russia's ready for serious peace talks" claim is typical FSB tradecraft—exploiting/hooking Trump’s desperate/narcissistic #NobelPeacePrize need.
No EU gov't/US policy analyst wants to deliver Ukrainian territory/security into Putin's hands—bc/they beware his tradecraft.
No EU gov't/US policy analyst wants to deliver Ukrainian territory/security into Putin's hands—bc/they beware his tradecraft.
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
#Putin's "Russia's ready for serious peace talks" claim is typical FSB tradecraft—exploiting/hooking Trump’s desperate/narcissistic #NobelPeacePrize need.
No EU gov't/US policy analyst wants to deliver Ukrainian territory/security into Putin's hands—bc/they beware his tradecraft.
No EU gov't/US policy analyst wants to deliver Ukrainian territory/security into Putin's hands—bc/they beware his tradecraft.
Has to work overtime since Nana Banana AI image generator cut deeply into his primary trade as photographer.
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Has to work overtime since Nana Banana AI image generator cut deeply into his primary trade as photographer.