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Evan Procknow

@eprocknow.bsky.social
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French colonial history; all things Algeria and the Sahel. Also tweets about policy, defense, and sports in that order.

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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 3h
This past decade, I can’t escape Toynbee’s aphorism “Civilizations aren’t murdered, they commit suicide.”
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 18h
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 21h
That’s both Leicester and Nottingham closing down languages then, after Lincoln closed theirs in 2024.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 05/10/2026
Citizen Lab's @rondeibert.bsky.social is quoted in the @theguardian.com about Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s increasing influence on AI dominance. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Fixer, financier, spymaster: how the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is setting his sights on AI dominance
The long read: The Emirati royal is increasingly influential on the world stage. Some see him as a visionary. Others compare him to a Bond villain. Who is he?
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 05/10/2026
Yeah, this is a big time impeachment abuse of power.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"These early results in Brazil are astounding 🤯 The far-right is simply crushing in the Congress & Senate,displacing the traditional conservative sector with extremist Bolsonaristas–& all but crippling the prospects for legislative progress in the next coming years"-David Adler x.com/davidrkadler...
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is a sick joke
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Manchester City's importance to the Premier League both as a brand and as a business is the real scandal here." newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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How Manchester City Got Away With Historic Fraud
Yes, the English soccer club got caught—eventually. But the team’s meteoric rise was aided by the willful blindness of the Premier League.
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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
you do not hate newspaper editors/publishers enough
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Actually, I think Donald Trump should treat this even MORE seriously. He should take time next week to deliver a big primetime address about this. Sit us down in the Oval Office and let us know why Richard Nixon was treated improperly. I want to hear "Watergate was a Witch Hunt" from Trump.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jesus Christ, what an abomination. Everyone involved in making this happen should take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask what kind of person they really are.
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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Viktor Orban travelled to Belfast yesterday, appearing alongside the Northern Irish anti-abortion group Precious Life, "celebrating" preventing Belfast City Hall from joining"International Safe Abortion Day" Precious Life's former director, Jim Dowson, is a far-right extremist with ties to Hungary.
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Viktor Orban was in Belfast last night at City Hall

Precious Life and other prolife groups were celebrating after successfully preventing City Hall from being lit up to celebrate 'International Safe Abortion Day' 

📸 Precious LifeAnti-abortionist resigns from job
Anti-abortion poster The anti-abortion campaign has come in for criticism

The leader of the controversial anti-abortion group Precious Life is reported to have quit his job because of his views.

Jim Dowson, 33, who has admitted previous involvement with hard-line loyalist groups in the west of Scotland, was told he should curb his activities or face dismissal. Notorious far-right extremist returns to Scotland to fund growing anti-immigration protests
Jim Dowson has spent the last 20 years fundraising for the far-right in ­Scotland, Northern Ireland, Hungary and the US.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2026
Reminder that Schmitt was responsible for rehabilitating Nate Hochman’s career after he got fired for posting a Neo-Nazi video for the DeSantis campaign www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery
Nate Hochman, staffer for Eric Schmitt, also peddled far-right conspiracy theories as experts decry rise in extremism
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Oliver Kay @oliverkay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sham contracts", "artificially inflate", "misstated accounts", "concealed", "clearly intended to circumvent (...) rules", "multiple breaches of duties of cooperation & (...) good faith”. The commission's verdict against Manchester City could not be more damning #MCFC www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
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Manchester City guilty of ‘sham payments’ and £900m of financial misstatements, independent commission finds (Gift Article)
City said the club are "innocent of the accusations" in a statement released shortly after the Premier League's announcement.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I know I shouldn't be surprised, but it still blows my mind that we have a cast of clowns as ambassadors and a purged State Department
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just putting this out there. If Democrats win the midterms, we need a full-court press to reverse the damage Russell Vought and RFK Jr. have caused. No half-measures will do. Put on your big boy pants and get to work. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
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404 Media @404media.co · 25/09/2026
Meta announced that its new AI agent, Muse could call businesses for you to do things like make reservations. But in reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media @jasonkoebler.bsky.social learned. www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Academic freedom continues to crumble at the hands of Republican Party political appointees at UT.
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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not deporting people. Literally. Legally. There is a deportation process and this isn't it. This is rendition. This is disappearing people.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
I hope you're sitting down, ma'am, because I have some shocking news about your royal family
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The Afrikaner resettlement effort is projected to cost the U.S. government $500 million, the notice to Congress said.”
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Trump administration to welcome up to 17,500 more White South Africans as refugees
The Trump administration is planning to welcome up to 17,500 additional White Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees over the next 12 months, according to a notice sent to Congress.
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Science sir @clearskies93101.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A friend working on refugee resettlement for a U.S. nonprofit said Afrikaner families were disappointed that they weren’t issued maids or cooks. They said that our state department mislead them. From the 1st batch a number have returned to SA. The friend says this never happens with real refugees.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Gene Procknow @geneprocknow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sneak peek at the cover of my new book! Look for a publication announcement later this month #History
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The opposition party-controlled Congress loves it when you do this sort of thing.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's honestly impressive how this was has totally fucked the security architecture the U.S. has been building really since WW2, bunch functionally post 1979
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"
The "secretary of war" wearing a shirt that says "THIS IS WAR" while PTing in a stadium in Texas, which is not war
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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
ffs. Universities are dying by suicide rather than murder
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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
*Cough Cough* ICD 203
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18/09/2026
ffs
Screenshot of a tweet from the Scott Bessent, the treasury secretary, dated 18 Sep 2026 and reading as follows: "Great to welcome @jakepaul to the Treasury Department today. Jake’s path from content creator to entrepreneur and professional boxer is a distinctly American story." And there are pictures of Bessent and Paul together, shaking hands and otherwise looking at stuff in the Treasury building together.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
wild definition of "efficiency" tbh
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Gregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mounting evidence that Sudan has developed and used chemical weapons. See recent reporting in the thread.
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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Nothing bad has ever happened in Europe from a failed potato crop.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the highly incompetent, dim-witted secretary of defense who is badly losing a war should be impeached. Makes sense to me
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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Quiznos is partnering with Blackwater to crush insurgencies in their supply chain.
A notification reads "Chipotle is partnering with Palantir to track food safety risks at its stores"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder again that the President of the United States has no idea what a trade deficit is — a concept taught in high school econ. He thinks that if the US buys $500 of goods and services from Canada, and Canada buys $400 of goods and services from the US, we have “lost” $100.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026
Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses
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