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Luke Baumgartner @lbaum94.bsky.social · 3h
Insanely good writing by @patrickobrienstrickland.com that I’m proud to have helped contribute to.
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How a factory for AI-powered weapons, a data center, and a needy public school collided in rural Ohio. By: @tkbarnes.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/an-ohio-scho...
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An Ohio School Needs Funds. It Voted to Cut Anduril’s Tax Bill, Anyway
In smalltown Ohio, the defense manufacturer Anduril is receiving tax breaks even as locals are left to foot the school bill.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 8h
"CBO warns that rebuilding those stocks will likely take at least five years, a shortfall the agency says 'would become especially problematic' in any future confrontation."
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"When Palestinians write, they write about their past through their present, knowingly, or unknowingly.”
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"Like the other eight nuclear armed nations, China is modernizing its arsenal. What’s different is that China is also significantly increasing its number of warheads."
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"The more stunts Beam pulled, the more alarmingly broad the Klan’s reach became. Toward the end of the decade, Beam and Duke hatched another plan: They would recruit active US military members into the Knights of the KKK." By: @patrickobrienstrickland.com
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The Seditionist: The Rise and Fall of an American White Nationalist
Louis Beam spent decades elevating violence to new heights in the white nationalist movement, then disappeared from public life.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
"Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around a narrower religious vision — one with implications far beyond the barracks."
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From Pulpit to Pipeline: How Religious Nationalism Captures a Military
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around religious nationalism—with implications far beyond the barracks.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 29/09/2026
“He redefined violence in the white supremacist movement. He predicted and created the future we’re living in. He’s a big deal for this heinous movement’s trajectory, and he looms large over everything that is happening to us today.” inkstickmedia.com/the-sedition...
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The Seditionist: The Rise and Fall of an American White Nationalist
Louis Beam spent decades elevating violence to new heights in the white nationalist movement, then disappeared from public life.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
"Samar Yazbek’s 'Your Presence is A Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza' is riveting in some of the most tragic senses imaginable." By: @akalfopoulou.bsky.social
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From Gaza, Testimonies of Unthinkable Violence
In a new book, Samar Yazbek documents the ‘algorithms of murder’ through testimonies from Palestinians enduring Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
"In Hajjah governorate, three direct strikes on April 1, 2025, destroyed the only health center serving the village of Abu Haqqa, where residents already lacked electricity and running water and women carried water from the valley on their heads."
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Deep Dive: US Airstrikes Killed and Injured Hundreds in Yemen
During the Biden era and the second Trump administration, Washington's attacks on Yemen have killed at least 213 civilians.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
"Presidents have long sought to shape their own public image. This is not simply a narrative in which journalists create the 'real' presidency, while the White House creates a false one. Administrations have long created their own visual archives, and these archives are extremely valuable."
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What Happens to Presidential Power When the Cameras Disappear?
The White House’s fight with the press over camera access raises a question that extends beyond today’s headlines: Who gets to shape the visual record of the presidency?
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Adrianne Kalfopoulou @akalfopoulou.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
thank you @inkstickmedia.com for giving this review a home.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 28/09/2026
In a new book, Samar Yazbek documents the ‘algorithms of murder’ through testimonies from Palestinians enduring Israel’s war on Gaza. inkstickmedia.com/from-gaza-te...
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From Gaza, Testimonies of Unthinkable Violence
In a new book, Samar Yazbek documents the ‘algorithms of murder’ through testimonies from Palestinians enduring Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 25/09/2026
"The Jewish Underground carried out a series of car bombings targeting Palestinian mayors across the West Bank. Ramallah Mayor Karim Khalaf lost his left foot, while Nablus Mayor Bassam Shakaa lost both legs."
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The West Bank's Long, Deadly History of Israeli Settler Violence
Since the 1980s, hardline Israeli settlers have carried out wanton violence, attacking Palestinians and their communities without pause.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 25/09/2026
"The heart of the novel’s story, a young woman named Marina, is the Chicago-raised granddaughter of a Nakba survivor who decides to visit Palestine and reconnect with her ancestry for the first time in the early 2000s."
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 25/09/2026
"From December 2023 to May 2025, US airstrikes on Yemen killed at least 213 civilians and injured 363 more, according to a new report that documents 46 separate incidents including strikes on homes, hospitals, water infrastructure, a steel factory, an oil port, and a migrant detention center."
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Deep Dive: US Airstrikes Killed and Injured Hundreds in Yemen
During the Biden era and the second Trump administration, Washington's attacks on Yemen have killed at least 213 civilians.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 24/09/2026
"In Trump’s first term, the US conducted 219 airstrikes in Somalia — quadruple that of the two previous administrations combined. This military escalation, of course, did not translate into lasting security."
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Why Is Trump Still Fanning the Flames of War in Somalia?
As the Trump administration goes to war elsewhere, it has also once again drastically escalated attacks in Somalia.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 24/09/2026
The White House’s fight with the press over camera access raises a question that extends beyond today’s headlines: Who gets to shape the visual record of the presidency? inkstickmedia.com/what-happens...
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What Happens to Presidential Power When the Cameras Disappear?
The White House’s fight with the press over camera access raises a question that extends beyond today’s headlines: Who gets to shape the visual record of the presidency?
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
"The United States cannot, in good faith, claim to care about religious freedom while it privileges and promotes a certain theology from the Pentagon podium."
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From Pulpit to Pipeline: How Religious Nationalism Captures a Military
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around religious nationalism—with implications far beyond the barracks.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
"Last year ... the US government put 76 children from Guatemala on a deportation plane over Labor Day weekend. The children were woken up in the middle of the night; one had a panic attack, another vomited from their nerves."
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The Quiet, Alarming Escalation of Trump's Immigration Crackdown
With Kristi Noem out at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump's immigration crackdown is going through a quiet, alarming escalation.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
"The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the war with Iran has cost the Pentagon roughly $38 billion as of Aug. 1, a nonpartisan accounting that comes in below the administration’s own public figures and has only deepened the confusion over how much the six-month conflict has actually cost."
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 23/09/2026
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around a narrower religious vision—one with implications far beyond the barracks. inkstickmedia.com/military-cha...
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From Pulpit to Pipeline: How Religious Nationalism Captures a Military
Designed to serve soldiers of every faith, the US military chaplaincy is being reshaped around religious nationalism—with implications far beyond the barracks.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
“The genocide in Gaza had really escalated, and it was a way of taking in the horrors in these sort of meted out little pieces, rather than what reality was feeling like. I’ve learned that in dark times people are drawn to horror, and I understand why, because you can control it.”
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
"I remember the night of June 2, 2019. We were at the barricade in Kolombia, behind the railway tracks, sleeping on the ground with 50 boys. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) trucks sat in the dark. Each time we tried to sleep, they hit the headlights."
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Tea Without Sugar: A Eulogy from Sudan
A harrowing personal account from inside Sudan’s war.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
"Earlier this year, US State Department officials made very specific accusations that China had conducted low-yield explosive nuclear tests in 2020 — which China firmly denied. Such tests, if they happened, would violate the intent of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty."
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'The two years of genocide we’ve all just witnessed constitute yet another dreamlike trauma that Palestinians will always be running from... a living nightmare.' Basma interviewed as part of a new article on Palestinian horror fiction for @inkstickmedia.com ✍ 🔗 inkstickmedia.com/palestinian-...
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 22/09/2026
Deena Helm's 'Our Cut of Salt' is the latest in a slate of distinctly Palestinian horror fiction releases that examine the legacy of displacement and ethnic cleansing. inkstickmedia.com/palestinian-...
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Palestinian Horror Fiction Is Having a Moment
Amid Israel's ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian horror fiction is teaching readers about the country's troubled history.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 21/09/2026
"Like the other eight nuclear armed nations, China is modernizing its arsenal. What’s different is that China is also significantly increasing its number of warheads." inkstickmedia.com/china-nuclear/
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 21/09/2026
A new report takes a hard look at the hardships more than 750 million women around the world face living near conflict zones.
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Deep Dive: 750 Million Women Live Near a Deadly Conflict
A new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo finds that more than 750 million women live within 31 miles of a deadly conflict.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 21/09/2026
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should. inkstickmedia.com/china-nuclear/
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China is Rapidly Expanding its Nuclear Arsenal. How Should the US React?
When Xi Jinping visits the White House on Sept. 24, it’s uncertain whether he and Trump will discuss nuclear weapons — but they should.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 20/09/2026
"Facing an unprecedented decline in revenue and confidence, Germany’s flailing automotive industry is betting on weapons manufacturing to help recoup its losses."
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As Germany Rearms, Carmakers Turn to Defense Contracts
From Volkswagen to Mercedes, the country's struggling auto industry is embracing defense production—even as workers question what they're being asked to build.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 20/09/2026
"Casting protestors as terrorists has become a routine move by JD Vance and Stephen Miller, widely considered the architect of Trump’s immigration agenda. Noem echoed those same claims while at DHS, though recently, Markwayne Mullin has focused on using the 'terrorist' label to describe immigrants."
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The Quiet, Alarming Escalation of Trump's Immigration Crackdown
With Kristi Noem out at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump's immigration crackdown is going through a quiet, alarming escalation.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"With wars from Ukraine to the Middle East to Africa still raging and putting ever more fossil fuels into the atmosphere, it remains an open question whether humanity can stop itself from essentially making full-scale war on planet Earth and so, in a deeply unnerving fashion, on ourselves."
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How Trump Is Giving American Imperial Decline a New Meaning
Under the rule of President Donald Trump, American imperial decline has intensified at such a rate that it has taken on a new meaning.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"The invasion theme saturated much of the country’s anti-immigrant sentiment throughout the remainder of the 19th century. In the 1870s, for instance, California newspapers made a habit of running panicked headlines about a so-called 'Chinese invasion.'"
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The Long, Lethal History of Trump's 'Invasion' Rhetoric
In 2018, Trump began to routinely describe immigration as an ‘invasion.’ That rhetoric has fueled deadly violence for nearly two centuries.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
Yemen's Houthis recently escalated a long-simmering conflict with Saudi Arabia. inkstickmedia.com/how-will-the...
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How Will the Houthis Impact the Trajectory of the Iran War?
With the recent Houthi escalation against Saudi Arabia, could the Yemen-based militant group change the trajectory of the Iran war?
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"The Pentagon initially told committee staff it had spent $25 billion on expended munitions, then revised the number upward to $27.7 billion two weeks later."
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
“They openly declared that it was their intention to drive all Arabs out of the West Bank.”
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The West Bank's Long, Deadly History of Israeli Settler Violence
Since the 1980s, hardline Israeli settlers have carried out wanton violence, attacking Palestinians and their communities without pause.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 19/09/2026
"The Trump administration, after the failure of other options, appears to be hoping that the Iranian regime either will be toppled by an economically strained Iranian public or will somehow give up and make concessions." inkstickmedia.com/how-will-the...
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How Will the Houthis Impact the Trajectory of the Iran War?
With the recent Houthi escalation against Saudi Arabia, could the Yemen-based militant group change the trajectory of the Iran war?
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 18/09/2026
"Now, as upcoming midterm elections all but guarantee Republicans will no longer control both chambers of Congress, the president has escalated the anti-communist rhetoric. The GOP has predictably followed suit, centering much of its campaign strategy on this supposed communist threat."
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Trump's Red Scare Is Not New. History Suggests It Will Backfire.
Trump has tapped into a long, often violent history of anti-communism ahead of upcoming midterm elections. Will it backfire?
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 18/09/2026
"If Washington wants to stop the war, it has to follow the money, name the names, and impose costs on the patrons. Until the people who finance the war have something to lose, the headlights will keep flashing, the uniforms will keep changing, the boys like Kisha and Qusai will keep falling."
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Tea Without Sugar: A Eulogy from Sudan
A harrowing personal account from inside Sudan’s war.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 18/09/2026
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 22 that combat costs through September would reach $37.5 billion, a figure close enough to CBO’s own that the two roughly lined up on everything except one line item: munitions." inkstickmedia.com/deep-dive-ho...
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 18/09/2026
The Trump administration has once again drastically escalated attacks in Somalia.
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Why Is Trump Still Fanning the Flames of War in Somalia?
As the Trump administration goes to war elsewhere, it has also once again drastically escalated attacks in Somalia.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 18/09/2026
A new Congressional Budget Office report examines how the Iran war has cost American taxpayers, depleted munitions, and put the US in a worse position for future conflicts.
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Deep Dive: How Much Has the Iran War Cost Americans, Really?
The Congressional Budget Office has released a report tallying its own estimates of how much the Iran war has cost American taxpayers.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 18/09/2026
"Although Israeli courts convicted 25 Jewish Underground members of crimes, all had been released within five years. When Menachem Livni, the group’s leader, left prison in December 1990, a group of settlers gathered outside to celebrate his release, throwing candy and welcoming him."
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The West Bank's Long, Deadly History of Israeli Settler Violence
Since the 1980s, hardline Israeli settlers have carried out wanton violence, attacking Palestinians and their communities without pause.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 17/09/2026
"In the quarter century since this AUMF became law, America’s military has conducted over 534 drone strikes in Somalia as part of the so-called 'Global War on Terror.'"
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Why Is Trump Still Fanning the Flames of War in Somalia?
As the Trump administration goes to war elsewhere, it has also once again drastically escalated attacks in Somalia.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 17/09/2026
"Gold is useful because it does not need a functioning state to become money. The mine stays in Sudan. The violence stays in Sudan. The money leaves. If the system that turns gold into cash remains open, the supply of weapons is not about one shipment. It is about cash for the next."
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Tea Without Sugar: A Eulogy from Sudan
A harrowing personal account from inside Sudan’s war.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 17/09/2026
"Virginia has also become one of many states where so-called 'mega-master' hearings take place ... This is another area where the Trump administration is breaking records: These hearings have led to a record high number of in-absentia deportation orders." inkstickmedia.com/the-quiet-al...
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The Quiet, Alarming Escalation of Trump's Immigration Crackdown
With Kristi Noem out at the Department of Homeland Security, Trump's immigration crackdown is going through a quiet, alarming escalation.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 17/09/2026
As Russian drones proliferate across the city, humanitarian workers in Kramatorsk are confronting a question they hoped they would not have to ask: When is it no longer safe to evacuate?
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How Long Can Ukraine's Embattled Kramatorsk Hold On?
As Russian drones proliferate across the city, humanitarian workers are confronting a question they hoped they would not have to ask.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 17/09/2026
"In Khartoum in 2021, an industrial worker could work 12 hours and earn a fraction of what an RSF recruit made in a day. When a worker earns less in 12 hours than a recruit makes in a day, the militia stops being an ideology. It becomes a day job, a wage." inkstickmedia.com/tea-without-...
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Tea Without Sugar: A Eulogy from Sudan
A personal account from inside Sudan’s War.
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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 16/09/2026
"Yet the Trump administration has also menaced other Middle Eastern countries. Most obviously, the Trump administration attempted to topple Iran’s government and install Venezuela-like comprador leadership earlier this year."
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In the Age of Trump, Progressives Should Stand Up for Sovereignty
As Trump escalates Washington's already bellicose foreign policy, US progressives should stand up for sovereignty.
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