even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them
András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 6mo agoORBÁN CONCEDED
Ora Szekely
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Political science professor | political violence and civil war in the Middle East | very pro-Rhode Island.
András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 6mo ago
Trans friends, thank you for being you, and for, when you can, sharing yourselves with a world that is so frequently undeserving of the light you bring to it. I love and support you, always. 🏳️⚧️🫂🫶
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
Apparently "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was just Bezos's mission statement.
The Stories from the Field podcast is now back with a second season!
Peter Krause@peterkrause.bsky.social · 8mo agoSo excited to publish Season 2 of the "Stories from the Field" podcast w @oraszekely.bsky.social. This season, we focus on research on civil war, from doing research in one’s home country to the special importance of research ethics in scholarship on armed conflict /1
Rhode Island, write to your state senators about this ASAP:
Rhode Island deserves better judges than Michael McCaffrey - The Boston Globe
We should insist that our governor and legislators choose judicial nominees who believe in protecting civil rights, writes one former state senator and former leader at the US Department of Labor’s Wo...
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Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Some top-notch Rhode Island reporters to follow: @tednesi.bsky.social @iandonnis.bsky.social @amandamilkovits.bsky.social @fitzprov.bsky.social @waveelection.bsky.social @antoniafarzan.bsky.social @steveahlquist.bsky.social
Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer. www.brown.edu
Brown University
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky @oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts. press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...
Insurgent Women
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.
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A protest against ICE in the Park Avenue neighborhood appeared to provoke the federal agents to leave a roofing job site. www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest
The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.
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6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’
Are there any civ-mil scholars who are not alarmed by this? Anyone?
Risa Brooks@risabrooks12.bsky.social · last yr.Sending the Guard to police DC citizens politicizes the military--just like using it and active duty troops against protesters and in immigration and counter cartel missions does. This is no accident. It's part of a broader effort to transform the military into a partisan force.
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
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During McCarthyism, they went after individuals to force their agenda, now they're going after entire institutions. The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all. We must fight back. #DefendHigherEd
University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure From Trump Administration
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it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now
Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · last yr.Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant. Guess the country.
This phone interview contains a detailed description of the wildest fucking shit I've ever heard on television news, hands down
'Never seen anything like it in my life': New Jersey congressman reacts to Newark mayor arrest
YouTube video by MSNBC
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I don't generally give out life advice but one suggestion I have is to not take or remain in a job that requires you to hide your face from your fellow citizens in shame while you do your fucking nazi cosplay on behalf of a paste-brained tyrant
congratulations to Donald Trump on losing the Canadian election
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · last yr.CTV HAS DECLARED A LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!