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Delia B

@notdelilah.bsky.social
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I research armed conflict & economic justice in the Horn of Africa. Fearlessly critical & post-liberal. My views only.

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Karin Chenoweth @karinchenoweth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I know there's a lot of passion to help fix what is ailing America. Here's one thought. You live in a school district. See if your district is holding an election for school board this year. If so, find out if there is a pro-public education candidate. If so, do something to support--put up a
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The US military industrial complex has rooted itself in Scotland and its historic usage as a playground for British oil and weapons development, making us all complicit by coercion
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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 03/01/2026
This illegal invasion of another country while its citizens sleep is a cynical act of American imperialism. The fact that Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves makes this feel very familiar. Greens stand against this contempt of international law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...
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Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - latest
The US President says Maduro has been
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Oh good it’s the 1970s again
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Keir Starmer says he wants to establish facts by *watching Donald Trumps press conference.* People said giving him a second state visit was a genius move of strategy - really seems to have paid off. Special relationship - alive and kicking.
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
America!
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
55 grades exams and I’m no longer sure what international relations even are (is? Was?). Also, is “liberalist” a word????
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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Remember to post your ballot 🗳️ #FairPayToday
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Obsessed with yasified highland coo
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Shedding nerd tears at this. What an incredible family (In Mahmood Mamdani’s “Citizen and Subject”)
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Time to reread this seminal work in honor of his son’s victory. Happy Zohran week!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Thinking more about how the West’s humanitarian aid, esp. “food security & livelihoods”, was set up in war-torn countries in large part to create conditions for capitalist expansion. Now many are experiencing the alienation, displacement, & culture death that comes w/ economic “formalization”
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Diversity, community, revolutionary culture, artisan donuts, mad hoards of pigeons—Glasgow is home for this former Northern Californian/New Yorker ❤️
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
These are my @sgsah.bsky.social photo competition submissions, despite not being anything close to a photographer. Gorgeous ride from Cumbrae to Arran yesterday aboard the Waverly; after a huge dolphin pod sighting we arrived back at Millport to a pipe band 🥹
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Though have to say, Picking up industrial remains (glass, concrete, piping..) across the way from a decommissioned nuclear plant feels…ominous? But correct for Scotland’s post-industrial/late capitalist crisis
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Kicking off another SGSAH residential with some beachcombing ❤️ @sgsah.bsky.social
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The truth revealed below. Yes, AI will have societal benefits. But left unchecked, the downside will drown the upside. CEOs are going to lay off millions of workers and then use the savings to supersize the concentration of wealth and economic power.
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 26/07/2025
Someone today referred to the fight over USAID as "do we help the right people or do we help the white people" and god damn that's still in my head
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I love this phenomenon of registered Republicans doing research in search of truth, uncovering networks of political pay offs & accidentally ending up socialists. More of this! ❤️
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
My hopes!
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
The mainstream media narrative is neoliberal capitalism—not socialism, not conservatism, not classical liberalism. News media won’t expose system failure due to misled austerity AND it won’t overtly support racism—it’ll protect a “middle” open market+mass/margina. labor+private property at all costs
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
No but it’s actually crazy how this country 🇬🇧 has been led to believe immigrants, and not the wholesale severing of economic ties with its biggest trade partner(s) 🇪🇺, is the reason for the fiscal crisis gahhhh
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Go Kate!!!
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Kate Nevens (she/her) @katenevens.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
So we may not have won the local by-election in the 'traditional' sense 😅​ but we did incredibly well, and due to our phenomenal team, the bestest of candidates in Q, and for the party's future, it feels like a victory 🌱​💚​ THANK YOU to EVERYONE who has been involved @qmanivannan.bsky.social
A large group of activists including Q pose for a photo in the park, some holding Vote Green posters
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Wake up call for the DNC: Stop ignoring us, start embracing progressive politics, and move the damn needle
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
“Tax cuts will lead to more jobs!!!”
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thanks to the lovely folks (and cohort mates <3) at E-IR for having me on their #BISA2025 Day 2 recap! In case you’re interested in hearing my ramblings on the evolution of political economy of conflict research, this one’s for you: www.e-ir.info/2025/06/19/e...
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E-IR x BISA – Day 2
The Thinking Global Team bring to you the highlights from Day 2 of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Conference 2025 in Belfast.
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
At #BISA2025, my first academic conference as a PhD student. Feeling inspired by just how many of the neocolonial, “rational” walls of the discipline have fallen in the last years & grateful for others’ work that now allows me to unabashedly study/criticize capitalist transformation in war settings
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
She may look asleep but I’m sure she’s planning her rise to fame and fortune, mom’s PhD salary isn’t cutting it
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Out canvassing again this morning for the dear @qmanivannan.bsky.social! Loving talking to people and getting my roots in the grass, finally. If you like workers’ and tenants’ rights, #VoteScottishGreens! 💚
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I am begging fellow Californians to take this as a wakeup call - we must act, really act, to fight fascism and authoritarianism. Call your senators and reps, donate to grassroots orgs, talk to friends & family, and protest protest protest
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Today I’m extremely proud of my home state ⭐️🐻❤️
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I was feeling torn on the flotilla. I generally don’t like flashy media stunts above the gritty everyday resistance work of protest and boycott. But hey if you’re going to do something flashy, putting your life on the line and getting worldwide visibility is one hell of a way to do it. #Madleen
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Scenes from the @standrewsir.bsky.social PhD writing retreat. Oh what a treat to learn and write in this countryside. Now on to that lit review redraft…
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Things I have learned from my first official semester teaching: -Need to make student nameplates to avoid late-semester embarrassment -Whiteboard erasers unilaterally suck (shark tank opp?) -Jokes really don’t always land and ego will be wounded -Watching someone learn is genuinely hope-inspiring
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
FYI heaven looks like this:
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Abhorrent, first reply sums it up
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Pieces that touched me at the lovely #GoMA today. Loved the way this museum focused as much on stories and artists as it did on the art. 💙
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Maggie @maggie-h.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Pretty certain this is true
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My new favorite page on here ⬇️
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Annual Progress Review ✅ First chapter draft ✅ Now to move from political settlements to thinking with Quijano, Mignolo, Escobar and the likes. It’s no surprise that many direct calls for corporate accountability in academic work emerge from Latin America, a home for decolonial thought.
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Lunan Yellow @lunanyellow.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Gone fishin’
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Let’s be clear: If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free. That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
+55°F/13°C in St Andrews means we hold class outside. Makes discussing war meddling and foreign policy making just a bit easier 😅
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Clocked
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Delia B @notdelilah.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Some peace of mind 🥹
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