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Africa expert, Red Sox fan, stay-at-home dad, obsessive new country visitor. Blogs at expatriarch.substack.com

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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 5h
If you're an American it's pretty easy to vote from abroad (depending on your state of residence). Sign up for your ballot here www.votefromabroad.org
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If Trump ended the DRC-Rwanda war, why did Erik Prince's mercs die fighting there?
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I dunno, cost controlled infielder who can't hit--kind of in Henry's wheelhouse.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I recently learned that lots of kids in our Swiss public school can’t tell time. Is this because in the land of watches kids are expected to learn this at home? Is it because there are so many non-Swiss kids in the Geneva schools?
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Why Can't Swiss Kids Tell Time?
Is it entitlement or immigration?
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It was a wonderful wedding. Hamas doesn’t own the day.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I just looked it up and he now has the same career WAR as Nomar. With seven years left on his contract, does he put up the career numbers to make the HoF?
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If only the Germans had a word for it.
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Homer and Marge Simpson: Schadenfreude
ALT: Homer and Marge Simpson: Schadenfreude
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
John the Baptist saying “some day some one dumber than me will come!”
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today is my oldest friend's 50th birthday. He probably would not like all of the attention of a lengthy essay about what a good friend he is. That's why this essay gave him a clever alias. @karlschafer.bsky.social
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What to Get Your Friend for His 50th?
Nobody wants an essay.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tension has been there since liberation. Americans have a very hard time grasping that in the ANC’s version of the liberation story, we’re the bad guys.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Southern Africa analyst here. Trumpism is global a white supremacist movement. Whites living under the power of non-whites is the uncrossable line. When one stops considering strategy or even interests and focuses on cruelty, plunder and racism as the only interests, everything snaps into focus
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Much worse than last year. Over the entire series, gray and Tolle were the only guys who did their jobs… at least to the extent allowed.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A-men. I said at the time that if he was serious, he should have run as a D, debated Gore and got his message out. But it was vanity. Four years later, he couldn't even be bothered to compete for the green nomination. I'm not a Bernie guy, but he did it right and moved discourse left.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I re commend buying fabric.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
F’n inflation.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t believe ethnic cleansing has a legal definition. Most ethnic cleansing probably meets the definition of genocide. All that said, I completely agree with your premise that anti-Semitism these days and two states is the only way, albeit seemingly impossible.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I should add that this also makes it obvious that Hamas, and at least until it reformed it charter the PLO ar/were genocidal movements.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Generally, people think the whole only, and I think that’s the common meaning, but the legal language is pretty clearly set. IANAL
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here’s the text of the the convention. “(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;”.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I imagined this was Schmidt from New Girl for a second and was delighted. It totally works.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Genocide is a legal term. I think the convention is written too broadly, but the words “in part” pretty clearly set the bar below what Israel is doing. Gaza is fully able to meet the legal standard while still falling far short of the Holocaust or Rwanda.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Indeed. I think this will only become more obvious when the Rs get flattened in November and even more of the right starts blaming “The Jews.”
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I refuse to let her horrible, bad faith use of it to discredit everyone left of Attila ruin the marvelous Greenfield story for me.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Seriously. Aside from the secondary and maybe the punter, everyone was an F
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That 1994 series was so fun. I went to every game.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Also, completely agree that he’s done.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fair enough. That said, I think the world of writing not only for your audience, but to prove to a machine that you wrote it is whack.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I tried it on some of my own writing and it was correct. When I’d asked ChatGPT previously it though piece I wrote about Africa were ai because they’d been edited by the outlet into their standard style. Pangram didn’t t make the mistake of edited = AI.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’d imagine he did use AI, but joe confident are we in panagram?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026
Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation
Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I spend September in Dakar one year and they were definitely there T this time of year. Enjoy!
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They fly low over Geneva constantly in spring and summer, though not in the flocks like I’ve seen on west Africa. They’re so elegant. I love them.
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Maybe you’re feeling depressed about the state of the world but hey. Jose Canseco is antifa now so, yanno, there’s like hope
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Jaime Fear Her 👻 @bogrosemary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As DC parents and caregivers, we’re alarmed by how armed National Guard and federal agents are patrolling outside our schools and rec centers. Join us in demanding that @cmbrookepinto.bsky.social meet w/ a delegation of parents and hold an emergency Council hearing. actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
As DC parents and caregivers with kids at several different schools we are alarmed by how the National Guard and other heavily-armed federal law enforcement agencies are congregating in large numbers outside elementary schools and rec centers. This is putting our kids at risk and a huge waste of our tax dollars.

That's why we're demanding that Councilmember Brooke Pinto meet with a delegation of parents and hold an emergency Council hearing.

[Image of armed federal agents patrolling a neighborhood street in DC.]
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Public safety?
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait she’s not our ward member right? I assume she’s chair of something g relevant?
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gross. I live overseas so I can’t meet or protest in person, but certainly happy to sign anything as a neighbor.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Always happy to sign. I still bot and pay taxes in Trinidad!
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just signed. Is she refusing to meet? Insane.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How possible is it that the Greenfield lesbian bar story is a piece of performance art. I've seen no evidence that it is, but when you have something this attention getting from a radical community art space, don't you sort of have to wonder?
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I took a three hour walk around town and looked at some bits. They were sort of shitty birds, but it was still nice to be out.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'll say this for the story about the maskless night at the lesbian bar in Greenfield: If it's not real, which I sort of hope, it is an all-time great piece of performance art.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'll check this out. I've been really aggravated by it.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones’s recent piece about how her daughter resents her for enrolling her in a low performing school got me thinking a lot about what we owe our children and whether one of the things we owe them os not writing about them in public fora. expatriarch.substack.com/p/what-do-we...
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What Do We Owe Our Children?
And should I be discussing it here?
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pretty spectacular piece of journalism. And it seems like it was corruption even in John Roberts' America.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm curious what you've seen in Africa, but my observation is that the people who stayed through dictatorships are seldom eager to hand power over to exiles--even virtues ones--when liberation comes.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
For me 43 on the Sox is forever Stan Belinda. No idea why, I was 19 during his Boston time.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve thought this was such an obvious reality show since literally the birth of reality tv.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm beginning to think it was a bad idea to make Apocalypse secretary of HHS.
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Expatriarch @expatriarchkeys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was incredibly jealous of the picture NESN showed of Lou Merloni at Terry Black's BBQ, though I almost had a heart attack just from looking at it.
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