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Eva 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.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Those 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. 🧵
Racial Resentment Among White Americans by Birth Year and Demographics

This figure presents the same four-panel layout (education, gender, geography, religion) but for White Americans from birth years 1940 to 2000.

Education panel: A pronounced divide shows non-college Whites with substantially higher resentment across all cohorts, increasing sharply for older birth years. College-educated Whites rise more modestly but remain distinctly lower, especially among younger cohorts.

Gender panel: Male and female trendlines rise together, with women slightly higher in mid-century cohorts. Younger cohorts of both genders start lower and climb with age.

Geography panel: Regional lines separate clearly: the South is highest in resentment, followed by the Midwest. The West and Northeast show lower levels, with the Northeast consistently at the bottom. All regions slope upward toward older cohorts.

Religion panel: Protestants show the highest resentment, peaking among mid-century cohorts. Catholics sit in the middle. Non-affiliated Whites show the lowest resentment, especially among younger respondents, with a small rise among mid-century generations.

The figure notes CES 2024 data with GAM-smoothed trendlines.
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Eva J. Koulouriotis | إيفا كولوريوتي @evacool.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Diplomacy 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,
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Here 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
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
coming 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.....
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
In 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.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Some 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. 🧵
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This 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. 🧵
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
There'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.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Trump'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.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Among 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. 🧵
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Thu Nguyen @onethuthree.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Alle Arbeitsgruppen der Koalitionsverhandlungen geleaked außer Europa 😩😩https://fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exklusiv/2025/03/koalitionsverhandlungen-cducsuspd/
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Koalitionsverhandlungen: Darüber streiten Union und SPD
Wie laufen die Verhandlungen der möglichen neuen Regierungsparteien? Wir veröffentlichen alle Ergebnisse der Arbeitsgruppen von CDU, CSU und SPD.
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Starter 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/
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A good pack for those of you interested in open source investigation outside of Bellingcat bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
In 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.
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Eliot 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.
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