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Erik E. Mueller

@erikemueller.com
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Minnesotan. he/هو. armed groups, the state, North Africa, West Asia. Social science researcher & PhD candidate @umnpolisci.bsky.social. Comparative Politics & Methods. Past: RAND and CPOST. Wolves. Lynx. www.erikemueller.com

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
umn in august I [08.16.26] 📷: Minolta X-500 🎞️: Fujifilm 200 #35mm #photography #filmisnotdead
the social sciences building on the u of minnesota campusferguson hall on the university of minnesota campusfootbridge over south 4th street on the u of minnesota campus, looking southfootbridge over south 4th street on the u of minnesota campus, looking north
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Beyond two parking tickets for not moving his vehicle during snowstorms, Abdullah has no criminal record in Minnesota and was working legally as a mechanic while his asylum application was pending. He arrived in the United States in early 2023.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is extraordinarily well written.
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Christopher Solomon @chris-solomon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My new article for @thenewarab.bsky.social: With US forces leaving Iraq, Baghdad faces a difficult choice between confronting powerful Iran-backed militias and absorbing them into the state. www.newarab.com/analysis/can...
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Like these folks have spent years developing military industry supply chains to credibly produce a lot of weapons using parts off the open market
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From Smugglers to Supply Chains: How Yemen’s Houthi Movement Became a Global Threat
Over the course of a decade, Yemen’s Houthi movement has transformed from local insurgent group to disruptive global force. Time and again, efforts to
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I do think it's worth underlining the Houthis have had 12 years entrenched in most of Yemen's pre-war state apparatus centered on Sana'a, and inherited most of Yemen's pre-war arsenal They've adapted to asymmetric war, but honestly just a very different beast from a rebel rabble in trucks
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Yemen: Houthi Tank Rams 12 Citizens in Baidaa
Houthi insurgents have committed a new crime in Yemen’s Baydaa province where a BMP tank ran over a vehicle carrying 12 people, killing seven passengers. "The vehicle of Saif Mohammed Ali al-Arabji wa...
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Mattie Electric Air Line @mrbtx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
is homestar runner minnesotan? in this essay,
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 22/09/2026
The Timberwolves masses yearn for Jim Peterson to join Bluesky
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
The video of this is insane. They just leave this man laying bleeding in the street and drive off. This is a couple blocks from where my kid played soccer a few hours later.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Lebron's life will not be noticeably different for doing these ads in any respect but one: a lot of people who respected him will think less of him now. His legacy is cheapened.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
ICE officers reportedly shot and wounded a man today in Austin. Details still coming in. www.statesman.com/news/local/a...
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This will not stop until ICE is abolished. Demand it.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026
Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19/09/2026
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab, Iran
bloom.bg
Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Paweł Wójcik 🦋🇵🇱🇪🇺 @saladinaldronni.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The battle of Dioura exposed Malian government in a way that foreshadows massive blows in the next couple of months. Spectacular collapse as evidenced by JNIM releasing actual videos of literal hunred of soldiers taken hostage and amount of weapons/ammo/vehicles captured. Grim.
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator
Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026
Armed groups are intentionally choosing to murder obvious civilians - kids, old people - with small, cheap drones at vastly higher rates than we’ve ever seen before. In my latest with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social, we talk about what we must do to protect those people:
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Civilians Need Better Protections in the Drone Age
Hunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 17/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Austin Tice: Assad regime planned US journalist's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds
Austin Tice’s abduction was approved by Syria’s former leader Bashar al-Assad, a source claims.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Totally missed this news that the ICE agent who shot into a house in North and shot an immigrant was taken into custody in Minnesota www.startribune.com/minnesota-of...
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ICE agent wanted in Metro Surge shooting is booked into Hennepin County Jail
Christian Castro will now appear in state court one day ahead of his federal court proceedings.
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 16/09/2026
"We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed."
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 16/09/2026
www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 16/09/2026
“A cloud region losing customer data because of an airstrike—I don’t think that’s ever happened before.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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AWS Says It Can’t Restore Some Data From Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran
Amazon’s announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Feel like between yesterday's Wired story and the Arch Manning thing, we need some sort of massive social intervention in young men. Just absolutely hopeless stuff.
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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Max Weber “We have concerns about the long gap (fifteen years!) on his CV. The candidate does not demonstrate an ability to produce steady research output.”
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1400 Yemeni refugees arrive in Djibouti in 24 hours, minister says - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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1400 Yemeni refugees arrive in Djibouti in 24 hours, minister says
<article data-history-node-id="447609" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/1400-yemeni-refugees-arrive-djibouti-24-hours-minister-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/1400-yemeni-refugees-arrive-djibouti-24-hours-minister-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">1400 Yemeni refugees arrive in Djibouti in 24 hours, minister says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 1400 refugees fleeing Yemen have arrived in Djibouti, according to Djibouti’s minister of economy and finance, Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh.</p> <p>At least 46,000 people have been displaced in Yemen since fighting escalated last week, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday.&nbsp;Since July, at least 76,000 people have been displaced in Yemen.</p> <p>Yemeni government-run Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps said 1,367 families were displaced on 8 September alone in the provinces of Taiz, Al-Hudaydah and Lahj.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">1400 <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/refugees?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#refugees</a> arrived in <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/Djibouti?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Djibouti</a> from <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/Yemen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Yemen</a> in just 24 hours. <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/BabelMandeb?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BabelMandeb</a> <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/Redsea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Redsea</a> <a href="https://t.co/l3CMF72l7T">pic.twitter.com/l3CMF72l7T</a></p> — Ilyas M. Dawaleh (@Ilyasdawaleh) <a href="https://x.com/Ilyasdawaleh/status/2098862678475161938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 11/09/2026
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Saudi Oil Pipeline That Bypasses Hormuz Shut After Attacks
Saudi Arabia’s critical East-West oil pipeline that acts as a workaround for shipments unable to transit the Strait of Hormuz was shut as a precautionary measure following multiple attacks on Thursday...
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Saudi Arabian oil pipeline system hit by projectiles triggering fires edition.cnn.com/2026/09/11/p...
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Saudi Arabian oil pipeline system hit by projectiles triggering fires | CNN Politics
A key oil pipeline system in Saudi Arabia was struck by projectiles on Thursday, according to two US officials familiar with the matter.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Few rightly recognize one of the most important and pernicious impacts of 9/11: how it changed our society’s very understanding and relationship to facts and truth. My new @wired.com essay: www.wired.com/story/conspi...
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How 9/11 Made Everyone a Conspiracy Theorist
Crackpot theories were once the stuff of shortwave radio, but September 11 unleashed the Age of Alex Jones.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/09/2026
#BREAKING Houthis have seized control of Yemen's entire Red Sea coast: govt military official
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 10/09/2026
likely a hard-drive issue. might be as simple as replacing it with another or replacing with an iFlash adapter www.iflash.xyz
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The immigrants... have endured beatings, death threats, and denial of food, are afraid for their lives, and desperately want to leave... but because ICE flew them to Equatorial Guinea without any identification, they have no idea when, how, or even if they’ll ever be released."
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 07/09/2026
experiencing daycare’s revenge (my whole house is sick)
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When I get my kid to nap even though he’s clearly trying to foment a napstrike
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Lionel Hutz: Done, Still Got It (Simpsons)
Alt: Lionel Hutz: Done, Still Got It (Simpsons)
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Without notifying Congress or the American people, DoD has signed an interagency agreement that could give the Department access to billions of dollars that Congress provided to NIH for critical biomedical research.”
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026
This is Matt Bradley's news package of armed Israeli settlers assaulting him, his colleagues, and a Palestinian woman, as shown on the NBC Nightly News Instagram page Monday night.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Generational damage being done right now
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 01/09/2026
state fair time
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The -30- Newsletter @30newsletter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sports Illustrated is hiring a staff writer focused on covering the WNBA and women's college basketball (salary: $105k-125k). www.comeet.com/jobs/minutem...
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com
A white hand with Signal-blue painted nails holds a cellphone with a near-dead battery, with the Signal icon the only app on screen. Crop art by Molly Gehrke
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 27/08/2026
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Exclusive: US Patriot missile stocks in Europe are 'beyond critical' due to Iran war, officials say
The U.S. military faces a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump's war with Iran.
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Castro was released this morning per NYT
nytimes.com
ICE agent Christian Castro Released From Texas Jail After Minnesota Loses Court Fight
The state had sought to have the agent extradited from Texas to answer charges in Minneapolis related to an on-duty shooting that wounded an immigrant.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 24/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Canada sees little chance of resuming talks with the US before the midterms and is preparing to ride out Donald Trump's term
bloom.bg
Canada Sees Long Trade War With US That May Last Beyond Midterms
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government sees little chance of resuming talks with President Donald Trump before the midterm elections after trade negotiations collapsed, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Erik E. Mueller @erikemueller.com · 24/08/2026
Seems bad for US standing and policy that this is becoming a normal response to the president (see Iran before this)
Bloomberg notifications stating: 

Canada sees little chance of resuming talks with the US before the midterms and is preparing to ride out Donald Trump's term
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
University of Minnesota students are testing soil for what enduring harms tear gas caused. Good, vital work. www.startribune.com/operation-me...
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What did a winter of tear gas leave in Minneapolis soil? U of M researchers are trying to find out.
The study aims to determine whether chemical munitions used by federal agents left contaminants in neighborhood gardens and soil.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The Largest Chemical Weapons Attack in Recent History: Bashar al-Assad’s Attack on Syrians in 2013 On the night of August 21, 2013, the Assad regime carried out a chemical weapons attack using sarin gas against civilians in Eastern and Western Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria. 🧵
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