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@philbrickyadav.bsky.social
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Professor, coffee drinker, civil actor, daily dog parker. Author on peacebuilding in Yemen: global.oup.com/academic/product/yem…

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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A student shared an AI tool that he evidently used all summer in a Congressional internship. It purports to track the influence of donor funding on DC think tanks, something that should interest us all. 1/n
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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If you’re new to submitting public comments on US draft regulations: you can remain anonymous (keep scrolling down) TL;dr another effort to defund universities ⬇️
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A quick PSA thread, in case you get a similar text. 1/5
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
As a Comparativist, if I saw this happening elsewhere, I’d describe this as (among other things) facilitating payments to the security services, right? Just so we’re clear.
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
heatmaps from the report showing tracking
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hey, @merip.bsky.social is on the left and free to all consumers! And we do it on a microscopic budget compared to the right wingfluencers. You can help us keep it that way with a $10 donation today! www.delcogives.org/organization...
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Before heading to bed, my 16 year old asked me “just a quick question - was there almost nuclear war today?” We cannot normalize this.
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David Faris @davidfaris.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
For @thenation.com I look at why the Saudis are telling Trump to escalate from the sidelines, and what it says about the US-led security architecture in the Persian Gulf. With gratitude for insights from @andrewleber.bsky.social and @philbrickyadav.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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How the Saudis Keep Sidestepping a Costly Role in the Iran War
The brutal Gulf monarchy has been cheerleading Trump’s insane war off-stage but won’t commit to any direct role in the conflict
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EROCY @erocy.world · 07/04/2026
bring back consequences and shame
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Teaching a class on IHL in the fall [insert morbid joke if you must] and I'm looking for a good, recent case-study type monograph. What have you read recently that you can't forget? Will have plenty of articles etc. on the syllabus, but nothing beats a good book.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
A young Fred KorematsuA photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The quiet grief and shame enabled by our curated feeds. My feed talks to me about Yemen and I get angry when few of my friends and colleagues seem to know or care about what's happening. Then I "catch up" after the fact about outrages elsewhere, and I feel shame at what I didn't know. 1/n
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Pizza deliveries - often sent from abroad - are being sent to the adult children of judges who rule against the Trump administration, *dozens* in the name of one who was murdered in 2020.
nbcnews.com
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
For those who are unaware, TPS is scheduled to expire in March for Yemenis who have had legal status in the US since 2015, though Yemen's conflict remains a risk to most, if not all. A decision on whether to extend it is expected in early January. Read more here: wcys.org/protect-yeme...
wcys.org
Protect Yemeni TPS Holders from Forced Return to War: A Letter to U.S. Congress - WCYS
Send a letter to your congressional officials to protect Yemeni TPS holders and stand for justice, humanity, and security.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Took my family to the RPO Holiday Pops concert at the Eastman School to officially close out the semester and kick off the break. Best part? When my youngest realized that Jeff Tyzik - yup, that one - is also known as “Mimi’s dog dad” from the dog park.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A small bit of good news.
nytimes.com
Yemen’s Warring Sides Agree to Largest Prisoner Swap in a Decade of Fighting
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
In proof that I have lived my life wrong, it's 2:50 a.m., I'm still trying to finish my fall term grading, and I just found a student's hallucinated footnote to a putative book of mine that I never wrote.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“My dog” has an Instagram account that follows (a) my HS daughter, (b) two clubs she runs, (c) the pet of one academic colleague, and (d) Zohran Mamdani. That’s it. This has given me an unintended glimpse at algorithmically driven college recruitment, and it’s pretty interesting, actually. I’d go.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Disturbing, and I can’t shake comparisons to @abuaarvark’s description of the role of similar digital polarization in amplifying support for Tamarod —> total military takeover in Egypt. Honestly, thinking about that makes this is one of the darker bits I’ve read today.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
If you're thinking of a Spring 2026 syllabus, consider @kaimthaler.bsky.social's "Why Rebels Win." He was gracious enough to let my students take a sneak peak this term and as I work my way through their papers, I can tell you that students will read this book and take it in some great directions.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Notably coinciding with the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, happening right across town at the same time. And evidently drawing on the collective knowledge of its membership not a bit. This tracks entirely.
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Win Without War @winwithoutwar.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Our new round of billboards are up, with a clear message: a murder that the president orders is still a murder. NotWhatISignedUpFor.org can connect servicemembers with resources to help them understand their choices in the face of patently illegal orders.
notwhatisignedupfor.org
Not What You Signed Up For?
Not What You Signed Up For? You saw the billboard. You have questions. You’re not alone. But first, here are proactive steps you can take to reduce risk: Be sure to access resources from a personal de...
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I was annoyed when I read (too quickly, it seems) a @wsj.com article claiming that if Bamako falls to AQ, Mali would be the first country to be run by a US-designated terrorist group, since the same outlet has also written recently about FTO-designated Houthi rule in Sana'a. I've assigned both. 1/
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you’ve been focused on the Houthis and the situation in the North or the Red Sea, make sure you also read this editorial detailing the spiraling effects of conflict fragmentation in Yemen. The fallout from this editorial has also been significant for the writers. 1/
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A Lawless Land: Government Factions Must Impose Order or Risk Losing Legitimacy - The Yemen Review, July-September 2025 - Sana'a Center For Strategic Studies
The assassination of Taiz official Iftehan al-Mashhari in broad daylight is the starkest example yet of how political violence and impunity have taken root in the territories under the control of the ...
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Too grim to bear. But as I read a stack of essays arguing that if we can just get things right in Gaza, it’ll be better next time, I’m indebted to those who are compiling the evidence that next time is now.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/10/2025
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
What's also wild (derogatory) is that if many media outlets are making their journalists use AI to write & edit, or replacing journalists w/ AI to generate content, then you basically have social scientists' LLMs coding AI-generated material, w/o the chance to spot it as such the way a human might.
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Indivisible Rochester @indivisibleroc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Always a good reminder... snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10/10/2025
⚡️NEW from Drop Site News: “We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.” Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect. www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...
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“We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.”
Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2025
Stephen Colbert's Emmy victory speech: "Sometimes you only truly know how much you love something when you get a sense that you might be losing it. I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!"
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
September 14 deadline is approaching 🚨
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today in comic relief, it's my 18th first day of school as a college professor, my course has been prepped for a month, I've set up the website and sent the welcome message, I'm caffeinated and ready to go...and I totally forgot to print out the syllabus.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
No words for this one.
nytimes.com
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Journalists/media inquiries about recent events in Yemen, please contact me at my university email: philbrickyadav@hws.edu
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The airstrikes on Sana'a matter, but perhaps not in the way being most widely reported. Targeted strikes against members of the Houthi cabinet and Houthi PM would matter more if they represented the concentration of power in the Houthis' system of rebel rule. They don't. 1/n
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
For months, @ichamza.bsky.social's family were told by the IDF - warned, threatened, choose your verb - to abandon their home, even though the "strategic target" had left by May. Pressuring civilians to leave their homes is not a kindness. Doing it for months on end just terrorizes them in advance.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
#NIH is hanging by a thread. The #CDC has been decimated. #RFK Jr. and Russell #Vought are psychopaths--I don't say this frivolously--they are cold, calculating, inflicting violence on millions through public policy. It is where we are right now. These men are not normal. 1/
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Curtis Ryan @curtisryan.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Today is the last day to vote in Apsa Mena officer elections. Please vote if you haven’t already. And if you have, thanks for voting!
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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It's happened. An AI slop post in Arab American history is making the rounds, blending every immigration stereotype with a cloyingly implausible story about a fake Syrian peddler in Michigan. This is deeply fascinating and also troubling. AI can regurgitate these stereotypes endlessly. What to do?
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/08/2025
It has been almost two years since Hamas led the deadliest attack on Israel in the country’s history. Not a single person has been charged or prosecuted for it, and the entire subject is shrouded in secrecy.
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Israel Hasn’t Prosecuted a Single Suspect for the Oct. 7 Attack
Israel has extensively documented the 2023 Hamas-led assault and is believed to be holding at least 200 Palestinians suspected of involvement. Not one has been charged or put on trial.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“All…GHF food distribution sites are located in areas the Israeli military has marked for evacuation. To collect food, Palestinians must enter zones of direct danger. There are reports, and video evidence, of the Israeli military firing on Palestinians near or en route to these distribution sites.”
theguardian.com
Monday briefing: ​What a new investigation tells us about the shooting of Palestinians at Gaza aid sites
In today’s newsletter: A Guardian investigation uncovers chilling evidence that civilians in Gaza appear to have been targeted by coordinated ​gunfire during food distributions
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 08/08/2025
What's up, Chat-GPT 5? Do we have some PhD-level intelligence up in this piece?
lousy map of major language families in Southeast Asia lousy map of major religions in Southeast Asia
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Alex DeWaal's 2018 book "Mass Starvation" gives more serious thought to this dark subject than most any of us can bear, so I am grateful for his voice now. His work offers a conceptual vocabulary that improves our capacities to act, even in response to a "calamity that was forseeable and foreseen."
nytimes.com
Opinion | Netanyahu Is Choosing to Starve Gaza
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Excited to be co-organizing an APSA MENA Methods Workshop on "Participatory and Engaged Research in the MENA" with @apsamena.bsky.social colleagues @separkinson.bsky.social, @ammars.bsky.social and Lara Khattab at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. ECRs & practitioners, apply by 9/14.
apsa.wufoo.com
2026 APSA MENA Methods Workshop
APSA is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in a 4-day workshop titled, "Participatory and Engaged Research in the MENA Region." Organ...
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Dr Sarah Irving @drtermagant.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
This is the Washington Post (yes, that one): names in Arabic and English, and ages, of all 18,500 children killed in Gaza, plus portraits and stories where available: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
washingtonpost.com
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Stifling media freedom and repressing any dissent in both the north and south has become a hallmark of Yemen's prolonged war—with no end in sight. As Mohammed puts it, ‘The journalist fears seeking information and the sources fear sharing it.’”
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Stacey @philbrickyadav.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Person who skipped the meeting: “We are not legislating, and we should be.” AGREED. “One of the first items that had to be postponed Tuesday was a vote to transfer land once held by…a now-defunct homeless shelter system…for the development of a tiny house community.”
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