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Michael ስደት🐝

@sdet-m.bsky.social
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ሓበሻ ኣይኮንኩን። Interest: migration, Horn, W Africa. No manners. Stop #TigrayGenocide #EritreansAreRefugees #fckRussia

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Benjamin Brillaud @notabenemovies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Avant le XVIIe siècle, la Réunion était encore une île sans aucun habitant. Alors comment en est-on arrivé là aujourd'hui ? Quelle est son histoire ? C'est ce que je vous propose de découvrir ! youtu.be/fDEzf9Om5ms
Nouvel épisode Nota Bene sur l'histoire de la Réunion. On voit au centre la carte de la Réunion en blanc, et on peut lire au-dessus "Deux Réunion". L'image est coupée en deux verticalement, on peut voir un paysage naturel de l'île, avec la jungle, un ciel bleu, des nuages blancs, des oiseaux et un arc en ciel ; et de l'autre on voit deux bras humains levés vers le haut, attachés par de la corde, sur un fond rouge sang.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There are many West African traditions about a heroic prince slaying a mythical serpent/dragon that was worshiped as a God (most famously, Bida, the seven-headed python God of the Ghana Empire) These traditions may be based on actual history
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is, quite simply, the rise of fascism.
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Detlev "Sizwe" Reichel @sizwe1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yes, I would call those "protests" in Durban and elsewhere simply pogroms against foreigners. It's a dangerous development also because many people bear silent sympathies with these anti-immigrant movements.
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Denmark and Norway transported nearly 110,000 enslaved Africans to the West Indies between 1670 and 1804, as recorded in the ship logs of the slave vessel Fredensborg (below) that sailed to the Gold Coast in 1767 #slaveryarchive
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Glückspilz.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Europe is Ukraine's security guarantee, and Ukraine is Europe's. Keep calm and support Ukraine's self-defence. Thank you to everyone who stands with us. This isn't the first time they've tried to throw us under the bus. It won't be the last. We'll persist. Rage-donate to Sternenko Fund!
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Unfassbar. Solche Unfreundlichkeiten kenne ich eigentlich echt nur aus... dem Regionalverkehr.
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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ich versuche wirklich trotz allem der @deutschebahn.com die Treue zu halten, aber heute wurden meine Grenzen echt ausgetestet. Verspätungen sind das eine, Mitarbeiter:innen, die gegenüber Fahrgästen derart ausfallend werden, sind das andere.
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I could certainly come up with a few criteria, but the main one is what one knows best, least one make terrible mistakes in a Nobel speech. I remember Soyinka apologising to Montesquieu decades on (Montesquieu, counting in centuries by then, didn't mind the delay).
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Things are being washed at a rate that these terms are pouring forth like a waterfall of their own!
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
@guillaumeerner.bsky.social : "... le Financial Times, un journal qui n'est pas spécifiquement bolchévique..." - qu'est-ce que j'aime ce type !
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have no reason to think that she's going to be shy, let alone prone to what @tekgw.bsky.social or I (can't remember who coined it) call Gaza-washing. Her record is much too universalist &historic for that. But she has a lot to mention in our day, and will choose what she knows best.
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just hoping she will use the occasion to point out the irony. That would be novel. I am not aware of any other laureate who has _ordered mass rape_. I doubt there are many more of *this* particular kind. Also, all those who have been outspoken about every other place have never mentioned this one.
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Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Anti-African xenophobia made in South Africa: What to know about the refugee ruling that sparked riots in Durban and Soweto www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
dailymaverick.co.za
What to know about the refugee ruling that sparked riots in Durban and Soweto
Violent protests erupted in Durban and Johannesburg this week following widespread misinformation about a Home Affairs directive on how asylum seekers should be processed. Here’s what you need to know...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hegseth is a guy who lectures Europe on upholding its civilisational integrity Firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed www.thetimes.com/article/238b...
thetimes.com
Firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed
The war secretary announced that the execution of the Fort Hood terrorist, scheduled for December 3, would be ‘public’
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is she aware she's reveiving the same prize as the génocidaire and sexual predator Abiy Ahmed?
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 07/10/2026
The US Administration's new proposed $100,000 tax on Optional Practical Training (int'l students who stay to work) was published this morning—> public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-20660.pdf I analyze the effects of this OPT tax in my new paper at @iza.org —> www.iza.org/publications...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Pagans,” “Heretics,” and foreign refugees in East Africa during the Middle Ages: Examining the Historical Evidence. www.patreon.com/isaacsamuel6...
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It is a real honor to receive this year’s Slavery Archive Book Prize for *Freedom Ship*. The award means all the more to me because I have such respect for what @araujohistorian.bsky.social and her colleagues have built through the Slavery Archive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social).
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Geschichte der Gegenwart @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nationale Eigenständigkeit wurde in der Sowjetunion stets unter Verdacht gestellt. Evgenia Lezina zeigt, wie der KGB das Feindbild des „ukrainischen Nationalisten“ schuf – ein Stereotyp, das auch die aktuelle russische Kriegspropaganda nutzt. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/die-schaffun...
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Die Schaf­fung des „ukrai­ni­schen Natio­na­listen“: Der KGB und die Konstruk­tion eines Feindbildes
Nationale Eigenständigkeit wurde in der Sowjetunion stets unter den Verdacht des „bourgeoisen Nationalismus“ gestellt. Am Beispiel der KGB-Akten, die in der Ukraine seit 2015 für die Forschung zugängl...
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Irgendwie sind Dissidenten halt doch nicht die Heiligen, zu denen sie von jeweils ausländischen Medien und Regierungen hochstilisiert werden...
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Franziska Davies @efdavies.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Vielleicht Russland einfach mal nicht retten? (Der Spiegel 1994, Solschenizyn damals schon eindeutig ein Fascho). #Archivfund
Spiegel Titel 1994: „So kann Rußland gerettet werden. Alexander Solschenizyn im Gespräch mit Rudolf Augstein. Abgebildet ist ein Porträt von Solschenizyn
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Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Hunter-gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated - "inequalities are part of even the most equal of societies" theconversation.com/hunter-gathe...
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Hunter-gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated
Hunter-gatherers do not always seek total equality, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t egalitarian.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This “iron mountain” in Guinea holds over 1.5 billion tonnes of high-grade iron ore And like most of Africa's mineral resources, it was known and utilised by Africans centuries before Rio Tinto showed up The myth that pre-colonial Africa didn't exploit its own natural resources is completely false
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So instead of resurrecting soldiers, he resurrected something else?
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Lemkin institute may be correct here, but it has nothing to do with Lemkin, and it has been just bizarre on Ethiopia and Tigray.
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Politique africaine @politiqueafricaine.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Très fier de vous présenter notre tout nouveau numéro... un numéro double, co-dirigé par Greg Mann et Laurent Fourchard, autour des historicités - des rapports à l'histoire - dans l'Afrique d'aujourd'hui... (bientôt sur Cairn... et sinon chez Karthala...) www.karthala.com/accueil/3667...
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Politique africaine n°178-179 - Passés disputés
Ce numéro étudie l’histoire comme cause en explorant les histoires vernaculaires portées par un nombre grandissant d’acteurs sociaux sur l’ensemble du continent africain. Inspiré des travaux de l’hist...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The explorers encountered numerous African merchants from the interior who had previously visited Monrovia, and they met local Muslim scholars who operated networks of schools in the interior and in the Liberian colony itself www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-a...
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What Did Africans Know About The Outside World?
On British “Spies” and News from India
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The whole myth about anything anticolonial in Ethiopia is hardly tenable. Hope to read more from you soon. foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/22/e...
foreignpolicy.com
Ethiopia’s Problems Stem From Internal Colonialism
Robert Kaplan’s selective reading of history bolsters proponents of a centralized state while ignoring the legitimacy of federalists’ demands.
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Oleksandr Polianichev @opolianichev.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A history of an alleged Russian anti-colonial hero in Ethiopia who never was one, the project traces tsarist officer Nikolai Leontiev’s transimperial career in Africa, which led him to team up with Leopold II and become Governor-General of his supposed private colonial fiefdom north of Lake Turkana.
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Read my thread on Twitter, too. x.com/Sdet_M/statu...
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Michael ስደት 🐝 (@Sdet_M) on X
1. The basics: famine has been and is being used as a weapon of extermination. Eritrean soldiers have done the worst in the previous part of the war, and the blockade is an Eritrean idea, gotten from ...
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You have been following me talk about this war. It is starting off again... destroyed social fabric after famine makes political marketplace possible. Disastrous. @opolianichev.bsky.social @efdavies.bsky.social @ahatanhel.bsky.social @kreienbaumj.bsky.social afriquexxi.info/Ethiopia-cou...
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“Ethiopia could face a famine as devastating as the one in 1984” - Interview
Mehdi Labzaé, a researcher at France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), warns that the resumption of war in northern Ethiopia, combined with drought and blockades imposed by the (…)
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 03/10/2026
A sobering, clear assessment in @pnas.org of the current US policy of international student exclusion. "The damage would not end with academic careers. A discovery becomes a vaccine, a company, and an industry only when someone commercializes it, and that work runs on the same imported talent."
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Taxing the talent that builds American science | PNAS
Taxing the talent that builds American science
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Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This cleric is calling for JASDJ members to accept awam ("common men") and others into jihadi territory, and allow them to farm. He is insisting that jihadists should not force civilians to work for them for free but should actually pay them wages.
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Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Very important TikTok video from #JASDJ #BokoHaram cleric tinyurl.com/4p7a5rju (yes, I know, jihadist clerics use the same media as make-up obsessed teens). Here is why...
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Vincent Foucher @vincentfoucher.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Pleased to share this piece written with @james-barnett.bsky.social and Murtala Ahmed Rufai on the Sadiku group, a branch of #BokoHaram #JASDJ which has been growing roots in Northwestern Nigeria for some years now. Open Access, too... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Politics of Jihadist Expansion: Sadiku and “Boko Haram” In Northwestern Nigeria
Formed in 2020–2021, the Sadiku group is the extension to northwestern Nigeria of the jihad waged in the country’s northeast by Jama’at Ahl al-Sunna li-Da’wa wal-Jihad (JASDJ), the outfit created b...
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.
Ukrainian USF tweet: "Ok, fellas, we see all your tags and we get it.

But.
Being a shitty person doesn't make someone a legitimate military target under international law. Climbing on a tank for internet clout isn't enough to become a combatant.

Do something that actually qualifies — then we can talk. Until then, we'll keep our drones for real military targets 😉"
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Substack ≠ peer review
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gonna put your tweet in my insta status, this is serious stuff
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are about to finally get serious about fighting woke on Mars
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
icon St George and the dragon and apostles on the left, enthroned Virgin with Child and angels in the center, Jesus being crucified and Jesus risen on the right. Ethiopia, 18th-19th century #randomxt
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/10/2026
"It takes a lot of effort to make immigration look zero-sum" A forceful piece by the brilliant @jerusalem.bsky.social on what it might take for populist politicians to take their migration-skeptical supporters' concerns seriously—>
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Stop trying to make xenophobia sound smart
No one actually cares about how immigration impacts the economy
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Le génocide ayant détruit le tissu social au Tigray, la marchandisation des personnes rend les alliances imprévisibles. Les technologies de la guerre du XCIe siècle ont toutes été testées au Tigray, avec des échos coloniaux et du NS. Écoutez: @temesgen.bsky.social www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
radiofrance.fr
L’Éthiopie au bord d’une guerre de grande ampleur ?
La semaine dernière, en Éthiopie, les principaux groupes armés du pays se sont réunis autour d’une coalition pour renverser le gouvernement fédéral. Des combats ont éclaté principalement au nord du pa...
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Michael ስደት🐝 @sdet-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/ki...
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VIDEO Opnieuw oorlog in Tigray:"Mensen waren nog getraumatiseerd van vorige oorlog" | VRT NWS Nieuws
Opnieuw oorlog in Tigray:"Mensen waren nog getraumatiseerd van vorige oorlog". Bekijk de video op VRT NWS: nieuws.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/2 Another in the excellent @theguardian.com series on the new slave traders registry, focusing on Michael Bennett’s longstanding work on the Bank of England. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds
Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans
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Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What would Mandela do? Lessons for Mbeki and Zuma in confronting the past www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
dailymaverick.co.za
What would Mandela do? Lessons for Thabo Mbeki and SA
Former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma have launched several legal actions aimed at delaying testifying before the Khampepe Commission of Inquiry into delayed post-Truth and Reconciliation Commi...
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There are multiple reasons why the agricultural revolution began when it did in different regions at different times One convincing theory is that it was a more gradual process than the term "revolution" implies www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...
africanhistoryextra.com
The invention of Agriculture in Africa: plant domestication and the spread of African crops to Asia and the Americas.
The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and herding was among the most profound economic changes that occurred in human history.
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Humans were processing wild sorghum grains 100,000 years ago in Mozambique, long before agriculture even existed www.science.org/content/arti...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 15/09/2026
militarytimes.com
National Guard’s DC deployment has had no ‘measurable effect’ on violent crime: Report
The report, which the White House called "out of touch," asserted that Guard troops have been deployed in “the wrong places for the wrong types of crime.”
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