Steven Heydemann
@stevenhyde.bsky.social
Ketcham Chair in Middle East Studies, Prof. of Gov, Smith College; Nonresident Senior Fellow CMEP, Brookings. Former VP, Center for Applied Research on Conflict, USIP. https://smith.academia.edu/StevenHeydemann
Phew. Sigh of relief Kansas voters say no to electing state supreme court justices - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Kansas voters say no to electing state supreme court justices
Kansas voters on Tuesday decisively rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed them to elect the state's supreme court justices — a measure opponents warned could lead to th...
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TIMEP’s @saharmechmech.bsky.social discusses Tunisia’s power cuts and protests against Saied with the @financialtimes.com: “People are not seeing progress but rather we’re actually going backwards… They are disillusioned with the promises that were given five years ago.” www.ft.com/content/06e0...
Tunisia power cuts provoke protests against president
Rolling blackouts during severe heatwave spur night-time demonstrations against authoritarian Kais Saied
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Syria tells US it is willing to drastically drop Russian oil imports, sources say - www.reuters.com/business/ene...
EXCLUSIVE: Syria tells US it is willing to drastically drop Russian oil imports, sources say
Damascus has agreed to drastically reduce imports of Russian oil as part of its ongoing discussions with the United States on lifting the last major sanctions designation on Syria, three sources fami...
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Israeli settlers cross into Syria and launch a pogrom against civilians. The idea that the Israeli government is powerless to stop this and hold criminal settlers to account is not credible.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Iran's Araghchi issues warning in separate phone calls with the foreign ministers of Turkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
Iran warns any US-Israel aggression will be met with a ‘decisive' response
Iran's Araghchi issues warning in separate phone calls with the foreign ministers of Turkiye, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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Civil Defense in Gaza: The bodies and remains of 112 Palestinians, including 40 children and 38 women, were recovered from under the rubble of homes destroyed by Israel in November 2023 after 136 hours of work. The bodies of another 157 missing persons could not be found under the rubble
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 4d agoPreparations are underway in Gaza for the funeral procession of over 100 martyrs from the Abu Sharia and Hasayna families in the Sabra neighborhood. They perished in one of the largest massacres witnessed since the beginning of the war.
www.arabnews.com/node/2653044...
Syrian authorities arrest three brothers over mass execution during Assad rule
DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have arrested three brothers accused of taking part in the mass execution of 15 civilians during the rule of former President Bashar Assad, with investigators citing video...
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Not to worry it’s a fringe movement. www.ynetnews.com/article/hyds...
IDF struggles with Israeli activists sneaking into Syria to establish settlements
IDF officials warn that Israeli activists crossing into Syria to establish Jewish settlements are diverting military resources from confronting enemies and creating security risks
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“Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition” founded in Saudi Arabia, also including Bahrain, Bangladesh, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Turkey, and Yemen. Aims to protect shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. arab.news/r66jy
Saudi Arabia and 13 other countries establish Middle East maritime defense coalition
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and 13 other countries established a maritime defense coalition on Thursday aimed at protecting shipping in key waterways of the Middle East. The announcement came after military ...
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What the fuck is wrong with Cornyn. All the recent talk about him finding the corroded remnants of a spine . . . so much for that. Stabbed in back by Trump. Defeated by MAGA cultist. Leaving Congress. Still can't muster the nerve to support a measure that does what he says he wants to happen.
Politico@politico.com · 6d agoFinance Republicans kill bid to stop Trump IRS audit-immunity deal
Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s mainstream. apnews.com/article/isra...
Fringe Israeli settler group is sneaking into Syria to try to claim land for a Jewish outpost
Right-wing Israeli activists are ramping up their fringe campaign to establish Jewish settlements inside Syria by staging frequent incursions across the border.
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Astonishing that the Bar Assoc of Blanche for disciplinary proceedings seems not to matter at all to Senate Rs. Pathetic sycophants.
Voice4Justice@voices4justice.bsky.social · last wk.Blanche nomination hangs by a thread as Cornyn stands by settlement ultimatum “Maybe they think I’m just going to give up or, you know, go along, but they’re mistaken,” the GOP senator said. www.politico.com/live-updates...
The balance of Trump’s affections has changed, to Netanyahu’s detriment and Erdogan’s (unstable and likely temporary) gain, but let’s not go overboard.
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics@geopolist.bsky.social · last wk.1- …Netanyahu presented Trump with a map of Syria that showed that the areas Turkey controls in Syria "are 50 times larger" than the areas Israel occupies, the Israeli official said. The Israeli official claimed Turkey controls 5% of Syria while Israel controls 0.1%. www.axios.com/2026/07/29/i...
We’ll see how Trump responds tomorrow to Bibi’s open defiance. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
Report: Netanyahu tells cabinet US wants Israel to withdraw troops in Lebanon, Gaza, Syria; says he’s going to refuse
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Check out York University's Call for Contributors: Cooperation and Conflict Special Issue Proposal (2028). For more information: pomeps.org/york-univers...
York University Call for Contributors: Cooperation and Conflict Special Issue Proposal (2028) - Project on Middle East Political Science
You are invited to contribute to a special issue of Cooperation and Conflict, scheduled for publication in December 2028. The proposed issue, “Cartographies of Dispossession: War, Statecraft, and Int...
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Egypt’s military expands control over economy. Egypt to restructure military-linked 'Future of Egypt' economic body - www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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This kind of bullshit criminality must be high on list of House inquiries post-midterms.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last wk.This needs to be scrutinized very closely. We will probably find that hundreds of millions, if not billions, of future contracts were executed in the couple of hours before Trump announced his latest unilateral ceasefire... and that this was done with people who had foreknowledge.
BIDEN. Damn him!! He's fired off all of our weapons in those wars he started!! 😏
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · last wk.LOL
Yes. Almost no attention to Gaza or the OTs in the anti-government protests of the past 3 years.
Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2w agocool but you missed the mark that no one's just angry about bibi, the anger is about the genocidal apartheid regime that a good 90% of israeli jews fully support, regardless of which party controls the knesset
