Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialEva J. Koulouriotis | إيفا كولوريوتي @evacool.bsky.social · 06/03/2026🧵Thread As six days pass since the American–Israeli war against Iran began, the exchange of words and rhetoric continues. The end of this war remains unclear in both its scope and timing, while the conflict expands to include most of the geography of the Middle East. 111
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵 5339191227
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialEva J. Koulouriotis | إيفا كولوريوتي @evacool.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Diplomacy as a Prelude to War: The Strategic Chess Game Between Hezbollah, Israel, and Iran While Egyptian officials are intensifying their communications with the Lebanese state, the latest of which was an emergency visit by the head of Egyptian intelligence, Hassan Rashad, 111
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Here you go: Michael Mann, Sources of Social Power Anthony Giddens, The Nation-State and Violence Giancarlo Poggi, The Development of the Modern State; and The State: Its Nature, Development & Prospects Patricia Crone, Pre-Industrial Societies Bruce Trigger, Understanding Early Civilizations 1111
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025coming around to belief that discourse about cluster of topics ranging from low birthrates to lack of third spaces all has a similar barrier in terms of articulating useful solutions..... 1035640
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/06/2025In consoling a friend recently, I put words to something I've felt since my first brush with loss but never managed to articulate: One of the hardest things about loss is the co-existence of grieving time with normal time, in ways that can be both comfortingly complementary and jarringly dissonant. 315312
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Some scattershot thoughts on the protest discourse. 1. The nonviolent civil rights movement protests seem to be the standard against which all protests are judged now, but there are many reasons people protest and not all of them fit neatly into that model. 🧵 49839
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025This is the core of it. In the 20th century, verification happened inside institutions. Now, it has to happen in us. A short thread on what that shift really means, and why it has to start in schools. 🧵 23773280
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/06/2025There's something remarkable about how much of Trump II can be understood as a war against all things coded feminine, even as it presents itself as the defender of all things female, while adopting fashion styles, stances on hetero sex and interpersonal behavior that code homo-erotic. 2305
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Trump's Middle East tour really reinforces this point. He's stumbling toward recreating Obama's regional strategy: thaw w/ Iran to rebalance the US away from Israel & out of its regional security role. But Obama was constrained by having to play cleanup to GWB, and his belief in the lib-int order. 2629
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Among the things they question, for instance, is an idea traced to Rome's "mare nostrum" in the Med that underpins the dominant IR reading of the past 200 yrs: naval primacy was central to first British then US global hegemony, and the resulting open seas are a public good provided by hegemons. 🧵 2226
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialThu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Alle Arbeitsgruppen der Koalitionsverhandlungen geleaked außer Europa 😩😩https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/03/koalitionsverhandlungen-cducsuspd/fragdenstaat.deKoalitionsverhandlungen: Darüber streiten Union und SPDWie laufen die Verhandlungen der möglichen neuen Regierungsparteien? Wir veröffentlichen alle Ergebnisse der Arbeitsgruppen von CDU, CSU und SPD. 062
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialSander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Starter packs are a thing of the past, and as a result, we’re missing out on many voices who joined later and remain criminally underfollowed. A few such names: @gesineweber.bsky.social @bradsetser.bsky.social @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @paolatamma.bsky.social @b-eichengreen.bsky.social 1/ 4268
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/03/2025A good pack for those of you interested in open source investigation outside of Bellingcat bsky.app/starter-pack... 47422
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2025In this sense, a healthy radical/revolutionary left opposition is just as important to defending liberal democracy from fascism as a strong and democratic center-right party. 25711
Reposted by @sesw0.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes. 9826211028