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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 18/07/2026

"Fascism has a script…You attack the universities, you attack the journalists…You attack voting rights. And he's doing it, step by step." (Video source: @thegoodliars.bsky.social)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 13/04/2026

Jesus was “weak on crime” too. It’s called mercy—something Donald Trump will need a lot of once he’s out of office.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 08/04/2026

Bombing a school and killing 100+ children is no hindrance to the NYT's Nicholas Kristof relaying the idea of an "operational success." Even though Kristof nods to their fate, their deaths are not ascribed to any particular cause, much less US bombers, but are dissolved into a generic "oppression."

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 07/04/2026

It is not too late for soldiers and generals of conscience to refuse to commit war crimes against civilians on a mass scale.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 05/04/2026

Somehow he always manages to find a lower and more deranged level.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 04/04/2026

By invoking God’s name in the promotion of violence and unlawful aggression, and in the midst of Christianity’s Holy Week, Trump has shown himself once again to be a serial blasphemer. There is nothing Christian about Trump’s pseudo-theology of war.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 04/04/2026

Bloomberg putting a brave face on the Strait of Hormuz transit data. Yes, weekly transits have “reached their highest since the war began”—but still just a trickle compared to the pre-war baseline.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 02/04/2026

“If we want everything to stay the same, everything must change.” (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 28/03/2026

Tomahawk depletion: “The most recent versions of the missile can cost as much as $3.6 million a piece and require up to two years to build, according to Navy documents. In recent years, they have been purchased in small batches, with just 57 included in last year’s defense budget.” (WaPo)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 17/03/2026

Singapore Bunker Prices: VLSFO (shipandbunker.com/prices/apac/...)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 17/03/2026

Middle East Crisis Prompts Surge in Fuel Costs for Airlines (www.bloomberg.com/news/article...)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 15/02/2026

Trump’s DOJ seems to think “Horowitz, Andreesen [sic]” is the name of an individual.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 06/02/2026

Epstein: "Did you ever respond to the Nobel peace Norwegian" Bannon: "I email him 5 times a day"

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 02/02/2026

“Steve [Bannon] and Nobel guy”—likely Asle Toje, member of the Nobel Peace Prize committee—“in touch a lot.”

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 31/01/2026

Epstein: “donalds head would explode if he knew you were now buds with the guy who on monday will decide the nobel peace prize.”

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 31/01/2026

Nobel Peace Prize committee member Asle Toje allegedly met with Steve Bannon in 2018. A further meeting was planned with Bannon, Toje, and then-deputy leader of Norway’s right-wing Progress Party Sylvi Listhaug. Possible MAGA ties raise questions about the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s credibility.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 27/01/2026

If only the state and city government would cooperate with ICE, this would all blow over, Barron suggested last week. Pope Francis would have shuddered. www.foxnews.com/opinion/bish...

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 27/01/2026

This both-sidesing piece by Bishop Robert Barron purports to be balanced but is deeply MAGA-coded: protest becomes "demonizing"; Barron "strongly defends our nation’s right to maintain the border." In a social crisis created by fascists, unequivocally siding with the oppressed is the bare minimum.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 25/01/2026

46% strongly support or somewhat support abolishing ICE, according to a recent YouGov poll. (Source: today.yougov.com/topics/polit...)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 25/01/2026

The level, extent, and sheer mendacity of the Trump administration’s coordinated propaganda messaging on the Pretti execution seems particularly intense. They are scared.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 13/01/2026

DHS’s Kristi Noem behind the slogan: “ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS.” This extreme, us-vs.-them phrase sets the stage for state violence and collective punishment (but for what crime?) and is terrifying when wielded by an official representative of a government entity with a $100 billion budget.

Kristi Noem at a January 8th press conference behind a podium carrying the slogan "ONE OF OURS, ALL OF YOURS".

Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQN0h23kM-M

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 12/01/2026

Kristi Noem’s reflection on shooting her dog and goat in No Going Back is awful—and a reminder that animal rights and human rights are inseparable.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 05/01/2026

More Americans polled by the Washington Post disapprove than approve of Trump’s Venezuela operation.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 04/12/2025

All available evidence suggests Somali-Americans in Minnesota still lean heavily Democratic. Support for Dems weakened over Gaza, but from a high base. Harris still comfortably won Minneapolis, for instance.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 23/11/2025

Voters across the board demand Trump “explain his decisions” with regard to possible military action—97% of Democrats and nearly two-thirds of Republicans:

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 23/11/2025

70 percent of Americans polled by CBS/YouGov oppose U.S. taking military action in Venezuela.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 22/11/2025

Yes, I would never suggest they’re naive. And Mamdani handled himself well. But, Trump’s predictable playbook—act charming toward those you can’t defeat—carries real risks to politicians who have built a significant part of their momentum on opposition to Trumpism (in addition to affordability).

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 21/11/2025

A French ICC judge placed under US sanctions for his work on the ongoing Gaza genocide case describes how sanctions have impacted his life: no Amazon, PayPal, Visa or Mastercard; severely restricted banking; hotel bookings canceled—"like being sent back to the 1990s." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 21/11/2025

As the UK Labour Party tacks rightward, is it any wonder that the Greens are rocketing ahead in the polls? On migration, the difference between them is palpable: while Labour boasts of 50,000 “returns,” the Greens want to treat “all new migrants as potential citizens” who can “feel at home here.”

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 02/11/2025

Just finished reading this one, which I’ll write about on theorybrief.com. Abundance from the (center-)right.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 22/09/2025

Required vs. actual in-office attendance. Turns out it’s really hard to force employees to give up what amounts to a significant salary and time bonus (e.g., no commute). (www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 19/09/2025

A majority believe Trump has "gone too far" with tariffs, the use of presidential power, and sending National Guard troops or federal law enforcement officers into U.S. cities. (Around one-third think Trump's actions have been "just about right.")

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 19/09/2025

Negative sentiment growing among U.S. Republicans and Independents. "Overall, 39% of adults approve of the way Trump is handing his job as president and 60% disapprove." (apnorc.org/projects/pes...)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 19/09/2025

A majority of those polled believe Trump has "gone too far," with around one-third saying his actions have been "about right" (and a small core of voters saying Trump hasn't gone far enough), per AP-NORC.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 19/09/2025

The New Yorker's September 29 cover.

A TV remote control with blue buttons that read "Mute", "Pause", "Stop", "Stifle", "Silence", "Shun", "Sack", "Banish", "Oust", "Muzzle", "Axe", "Dismiss", "Torment", and a red button reading "Deport".

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 19/09/2025

I think we are likely to see the direst effects under conditions of hegemonic power à la Trump 2.0, with multiple major economies coalescing around RPPs across the continent. But yes, there are RPPs in positions of authority today. Few would count UK and Germany, but certainly Meloni's Italy.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 15/09/2025

Another case of extrajudicial killings in international waters by the Trump administration. So far, no public evidence that the victims were drug traffickers has been presented. And even if they were, murdering them clearly isn’t an acceptable state response. More: edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/p...

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 14/09/2025

The gender gap remains striking: 40%. As in many other contexts, young men appear susceptible to far-right messaging—even though support among younger women is rising as well. (Source: elpais.com/espana/2025-...)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 14/09/2025

Spain’s far-right Vox party is polling at around 17%, but its most significant voting intention gains are among young voters. We need to study and scrutinize the digital ecosystems driving younger voters’ support for the far right across Europe.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 10/09/2025

Until the left starts advocating clearly and forcefully for the many tangible benefits of immigration, the far right will keep advancing and may come to dominate European politics.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 08/09/2025

Democrats’ perception of “big business” is tanking, per Gallup. Fertile ground for Zohran Mamdani-style democratic socialism.

“Sixty percent of Republicans, 36% of independents and 17% of Democrats rate big business positively, with the latter two figures being new lows for those groups. Compared with four years ago, Democrats’ rating has fallen the most (down 17 points), while independents’ rating is 10 points lower and Republicans’ is essentially the same. However, Republicans’ positive rating has dropped from 78% in 2019, mirroring the trend in their confidence in big business.”

https://news.gallup.com/poll/694835/image-capitalism-slips.aspx

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 08/09/2025

With three-quarters of the votes counted, Norway’s red-green bloc looks set to win, with Labour likely to remain in power, according to major media outlets. Worryingly, the right-wing Progress Party has nearly doubled its support since 2021, though it will remain in opposition.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 07/09/2025

‘Nearly half of Democrats (49%) report that they are “furious” about the actions of the Trump administration.’ (NBC)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 06/09/2025

Two final pre-election day polls in Norway look promising for the red-green side—but this is still a close race, with multiple possible outcomes. (Sources: VG, TV2)

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 06/09/2025

Trump's fascism has never been more evident.

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Victor Shammas @victorshammas.com · 06/09/2025

The Trumponomics-driven slowdown is real: Under Biden, in June 2024, an additional 87,000 jobs were created; under Trump, in June this year, 13,000 jobs were lost. U.S. jobs numbers are weak.

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