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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So after about 9 months of development and training for a marathon and an ultramarathon my new App MtnRnr (Mountain Runner) has been released on the iOS App Store. apps.apple.com/us/app/mtnrn...

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MtnRnr App - App Store

Download MtnRnr by Moosepeak LLC on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like MtnRnr.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on #Kyiv. I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Kyiv today 💔

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ACIG @acigjournal.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

In their new paper Aaron Brantly (@afterwestphalia.bsky.social) and Ryan Mason present an analysis of an open-source database of #ransomware incidents and point to an overrepresentation of attacks originating from #Russia and targeting victims abroad. Available online now: tinyurl.com/48dretm7

Aaron Brantly, Ryan Mason, “The State in Ransomware: Evidence of Concentration and Targeting Patterns among Russian-Affiliated Groups.” At the top of the image the logos of ACIG and NASK can be seen. At the bottom there is a tagline “New article.”

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

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Job Vacancies - Institute for Political Science

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It’s like the death of reconstruction all over again. Same over arching racism.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/04/2026

A 2025 study out of M.I.T. cautioned that “the integration of LLMs into learning environments may inadvertently contribute to cognitive atrophy.” This danger hasn’t slowed the advancement of A.I. in schools. www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in education.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Canada played so well. Hellebuyck saved team USA. Boldy made an amazing goal and Hughes excellently capitalized on 3-1 overtime breakaway. Great game between good neighbours. A solid win by the US team 🇺🇸.

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The Kidnapping of 5 yr old Liam Ramos by ICE Based on witnesses at the scene, this appears to be the sequence of events. The arrival: Father and Liam pull into their driveway after preschool. ICE agents approach. The apprehension: A witness said she did not see the father try to escape, CONTD 1

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

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Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story

Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It is not normal for agents of the government to randomly walk up to people on the streets, in neighbourhoods, in their places of work and ask them for their papers. This is totalitarianism in the making.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

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Vince Outlaw @vinceoutlaw.com · 06/01/2026

"Mr. Trump has long sought to whitewash the violence and vandalism committed on Jan. 6, 2021. The webpage, promoted on government social media accounts, put the official imprimatur of the White House on an astonishingly misleading account of the Capitol attack." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

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White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot’s 5th Anniversary

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Everyone who told us not to worry, because Venezuela wasn’t a precursor to invading Greenland, can sit down and shut up right now

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Flashback post and yep, still our favorite.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

“Liberating its historic lands militarily “ and there you have it… a revisionist state with a constructed history …

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"The takedowns and restrictions began in October and targeted the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of more than 50 organisations worldwide ... in what appears to be a growing push by Meta to limit reproductive health and queer content across its platforms."

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Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 05/12/2025

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It's giving Tuesday and if you are interested in helping students conduct reserach on issues on technology and human security please consider donating to the Tech for Humanity Lab. Donate here: giving.adv.vt.edu/gift?amt=25.... You can see the lab's work at: techforhumanitylab.org

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Corruption is endemic within the administration.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

A Dad cradles the coffin of his son. Russia killed 1,5 year old Nazar, his sister Kamila and their mom on November 19th in #Ternopil. Deepest condolences...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/11/2025

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace

Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 21/11/2025

The Trump administration openly says that it will use its domestic spying capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. And ICE has been bulking up on the latest surveillance technology.

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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants

The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

The US proposed peace plan is capitulation in every aspect. It is the abdication of leadership by the US and the pandering of the US to a revisionist authoritarian and genocidal regime. Our allies in NATO should be extremely concerned about US credibility.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Multiple things can be correct simultaneously. 1. The ACA caused inflation in insurance markets. 2. Congress failed to find an alternative plan to provide health insurance for millions of Americans 3. Democrats have no leverage to protect millions of an Americans healthcare except for a shutdown.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

This is a very good paragraph. From "The Last Days of the Pentagon Press Corps" in The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... By Nancy A. Youssef

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth,

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Shot/chaser

Trump enacted the biggest SNAP cuts in history

Trump is cancelling the annual hunger survey

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 20/09/2025

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

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Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech

The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound) DAY 18 SEPTEMBER 2025 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES OUR FREEDOMS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU NOW UNDER ATTACK PROJECT 2025 FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS OUR RIGHT PLEASE LISTEN "When society is under threat comedians are sent away first" Please understand what is at stake

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

So… we have entered a period where the 1st amendment is under direct assault by the ruling regime.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Political violence should never be tolerated and should be universally condemened regardless of political affliation.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Political violence is always bad. Regardless of motivation & echoes a decline in civil discourse & should be universally condemned. Rather than divide our nation such acts should have us all asking where we’re going & whether we are amplifying rhetoric that makes violence more or less likely.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 11/09/2025

For anyone looking for a source on TPUSA’s contribution to threats of violence. “Academics in the US have faced threats of death, rape and harm to their children after being singled out by ‘Professor Watchlist.’”

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'McCarthyism’ in the UK: why academics fear shaming for leftwing views

A rightwing US website whose citing of lecturers for perceived liberal bias has led to death threats now has a British arm

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I am opposed to political violence but, it is important to point out that Charlie Kirk developed programming that actively and knowingly directed political violence against academics. www.npr.org/sections/ed/...

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Professors Are Targets In Online Culture Wars; Some Fight Back

Across the country, in the past year and a half, at least 250 university professors have been targeted in cyber harassment campaigns because of their research, teaching or social media posts.

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Aaron Brantly @afterwestphalia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Fahrenheit 451 was supposed to be fiction...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Kids: Study causal inference

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

ICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know. #ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware

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