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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ATTN: @drewmagary.bsky.social a local realtor stealing your tagline now that the Distraction pod is gone
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Is there a Bigger red Flag than random capitalization?
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Prof. Robert Pape: "I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".
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Russ The Tedious Ghost @russ41.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
You can help build billionaire-free local news. Repost this -> I give $1 Follow @51st.news -> I give $1 Follow me -> I give $1 Donate -> I match your gift Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
-Political Theory of Late Modernity; -Geographic Perspectives on International Development; -The Architecture of Planning; -American Landscape 1825-1865; and -Ancient Greek Athletics
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
if this stat doesn’t convince policymakers to prioritize reforming ICE, they shouldn’t be taken seriously: “…over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%)”
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Critics fear this could reproduce yet another hybrid regime—an electoral authoritarian order with a different geopolitical alignment (closer to the U.S. and Israel rather than Russia and China) and a more explicit ethnonationalist discourse rather than Islamist ideology.”
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Visa ban =/= economic sanx so this doesn’t really map to weaponized interdependence in the sense you (astutely) point out in your other work
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Blowing up a Russian sub in its own port while simultaneously hacking into Russian surveillance cameras to watch it is quite the flex!
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Mmm drippy meat
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I said fondue with cheddar
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Israel clearly liking what it sees Iran doing with PMF in Iraq
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c074...
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NNAMDï - Sudafed (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by NNAMDIofficialVEVO
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Not disagree but we gotta make room for defectors (and this is my pitch to be the antisemitism correspondent for @defector.com)
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Fine to say maybe re: certain leadership but I know for a fact that staff at ADL hate what Greenblatt is doing and I think folks like @nexusproject.bsky.social have got it right in repeatedly calling him out and offering an alt to J Street, e.g., blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-lett...
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The Blogs: An open letter to Jonathan Greenblatt: This is not the way
From the blog of Jonathan Jacoby at The Times of Israel
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Got the wrong game on
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Gerard DiPippo @gdp1985.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A quiet bombshell in Europe’s tech world The Dutch government seems to have effectively frozen operations of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker, citing national security, according to corporate filing today - via @zichenwanghere
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Dutch govt accused of freezing operations of Chinese semiconductor giant's chipmaker Nexperia
Wingtech, the Shanghai-listed parent, denounces what it essentially calls a boardroom coup involving the Dutch government and local executives
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Cc @drewmagary.bsky.social
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data
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When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900
The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...
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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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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting on the ground with the words pretty good above him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting on the ground with the words pretty good above him
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Seems like an obvious sign that they expect armed civilians to descend upon the city at some point
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Teri Kanefield @terikanefield.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I add new research, new conclusions, and venture into new territory including existence pain and the role of the artist. terikanefield.com/heres-why/ Special thanks to @karenstenner.bsky.social and @leorzmigrod.bsky.social who helped me understand how to pull this all together. 2/
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- Teri Kanefield
Part I: Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen Introduction In September 2024, I visited Chile for the national independence festivities and a reunion for my husband and his siblings. I learned that an ...
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This how we end up with a Supreme Court of the Cultural Revolution
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Sandwich is the bridge between Truth and Beautiful
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
@piperformissouri.bsky.social has thoughts
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Wait why are you Pritzker in this scenario? As pres candidate?
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Ok but in what country
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
@nexusproject.bsky.social
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Honored to meet another of the 150 geniuses with a Dumoreau salmon
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@craigsilverman.bsky.social probably could help
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
open.spotify.com/track/4mOWnj...
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Bonde do Brunão
Bruno Mars · Bonde do Brunão · Song · 2025
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“American responses to the challenge of China’s ambitions in innovation ought not to envy or seek to emulate aspects of China’s model” thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2...
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In Military-Civil Fusion, China is Learning Lessons from the United States and Starting to Innovate
China’s national strategy of military-civil fusion is provoking some anxiety in Washington. There are concerns the United States could be challenged, or even outright disadvantaged, in technological c...
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
During the first Trump admin, his own A/S Ford (Int’l security and non-pro) said, “The PRC’s “Military-Civil Fusion” Strategy Is a Global Security Threat” and “MCF is nothing like what normal countries do.” 2017-2021.state.gov/the-prcs-mil...
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The PRC’s “Military-Civil Fusion” Strategy Is a Global Security Threat - United States Department of State
Over the past year, I have been sounding alarm bells to the United States’ partners and allies, U.S. corporations, and to the American public about Beijing’s strategy of “Military-Civil Fusion,” or MC...
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Is your global security architecture crumbling? Have you considered listening to synthpop?
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
tbh that just looks like a turd, but I feel compelled to note this excellent mini-doc about the po boy-banh mi cultural mashup youtu.be/DGnOeS-0oQ8?...
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How New Orleans Birthed a Vietnamese Po 'Boy Movement | Food Grails
YouTube video by First We Feast
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
If the inclusion of senior RU officials is sparking consternation, then this is a useful case for why political targets can be just as meaningful as economic ones. Both kinds of pressure are necessary, of course, but OFAC takes a lot of heat for seemingly symbolic designations.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Terrified by the russian shelling, the dog jumped into the river in Kharkiv and couldn’t get out on his own. First responders arrived by boat to rescue him. For us in Ukraine, every life matters.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A Pope from Villanova?! Knicks in Four.
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
You’re good people but this is a bad take. At worst, swapping Donte and Hartenstein for KAT and Bridges is a wash (and it isn’t), and even then, OG’s offense is way better this year.
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Yeah but these “investors” don’t expect $ returns: “Trump wants to make a lot of money in crypto,” Konstantin Kuznetsov, a Russian citizen living in Miami whose Gibraltar-based firm bought $1 million of World Liberty’s coins, said in an interview. “We can join in this wave.” Who’s the “we” here?
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Jonathan Heaps @jonathanrheaps.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hegel is right on this one: cynicism is indistinguishable from conservatism in practice. Nothing can change and nothing should change are the same position.
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Christopher Woody @chrstphrwdy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
China is more overtly pursuing a security role in Southeast Asia, using military exchanges and policing. It’s a challenge the US’s traditional sway in that realm, but it also threaten the region’s ability to balance between the superpowers. New story from me: open.substack.com/pub/thedatel...
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China’s muscle follows its money into Southeast Asia
China is Southeast Asia's leading trade partner, and it's being "very, very bold" about expanding its security presence there.
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Orpheus Condescending @maryscottoconnor.com · 01/04/2025
Nice people made the best Nazis. My mother spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves, chose not to focus on politics... They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. Naomi Shulman www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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No Time To Be Nice: Now Is Not The Moment To Remain Silent
Naomi Shulman makes the post-election case for speaking out.
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I’m a former federal employee and got married in this building. Getting through it by imagining the reopening ceremony funded by Trump reparations and launching a special peace initiative funding trans healthcare for Central American migrants.
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Forced by circumstance to read this to the tune of “Laid” by James but it doesn’t work. Please redo
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
This is the way
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ابن يعقوبي @jjstitches.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Ain’t no such things as halfway crooks
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