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Political scientist @ Princeton SPIA. Middle East, international security, civil-military relations.

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This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

06.03.2026 08:22 👍 3351 🔁 1175 💬 701 📌 1222

…couldn’t be…!

06.03.2026 11:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Or Pandoc pandoc.org/demo/example...

17.12.2025 12:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Quarto An open source technical publishing system for creating beautiful articles, websites, blogs, books, slides, and more. Supports Python, R, Julia, and JavaScript.

One option is to dictate slide content to plain text with markdown formatting and convert to PPT or other slide format with Quarto quarto.org

17.12.2025 12:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Hegseth Defends Boat Strikes: Cartels “Enemy Combatants” in War on Christmas

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Netanyahu’s crimes in Gaza must never be pardoned as “excesses” in defense of Israel. He has never acted in Israel’s best interests— only his own.

11.07.2025 11:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power

“In the months before that war, Netanyahu’s push to undermine Israel’s judiciary widened already-deep rifts within Israeli society and weakened its military…once the war began, Netanyahu’s decisions were at times colored predominantly by political and personal need.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

11.07.2025 10:49 👍 26 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

Ok, I’m no @profpaulpoast.bsky.social but I shall try to do a thread on militaries and protests. Apologies up front to all the brilliant scholars I accidentally leave out - am doing this from memory.
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08.06.2025 20:37 👍 204 🔁 65 💬 2 📌 20

What does research tell us about Trump decision to deploy national guard in LA? Civ-mil expert Risa Brooks explains 👇

08.06.2025 16:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought
Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am | Updated Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am
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The Washington Post

= Nation & World - The Seattle Times My Account ™ The T. Rex may have been a lot smarter than you thought Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am | Updated Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:36 am By DINO GRANDONI The Washington Post

typical corrupt science

17.05.2025 22:20 👍 15655 🔁 2331 💬 158 📌 109
Liverpool FC 2024-2025 Premier League Champions celebration poster with all players’ images

Liverpool FC 2024-2025 Premier League Champions celebration poster with all players’ images

Mo Salah taking a selfie with the crowd after scoring

Mo Salah taking a selfie with the crowd after scoring

Mo Salah celebrating after Liverpool clinch the Premier League title

Mo Salah celebrating after Liverpool clinch the Premier League title

YNWA! 👏👏

27.04.2025 18:33 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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On Order, Authority, and Modern Civil-Military Relations Lindsay P. Cohn reads Augustine from the perspective of modern civil-military relations, analyzing how Augustine's views on order, authority, war, peace, violen…

Friends, I am so excited to share that my book is finally available for pre-order, and it’s CHEAP 😁
(They accidentally put up a cover image w an older version of the title - no “allegiance”)

www.bloomsbury.com/us/on-order-...

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Apropos nothing in particular:

23.03.2025 03:34 👍 39 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Right, and if I’m not mistaken, this has been broadly true since before 10/7, plus a growing popular mobilization demanding the same? From start to finish the Gaza war has been the critical lifeline to Netanyahu’s crumbling political career

06.03.2025 11:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Me please 👋

كل سوريا كل الحرية!!

09.12.2024 12:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I fear we will never match the course title sexiness of @jaylyall.bsky.social: “Development Under Fire.” 😭😂

21.11.2024 10:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

…all of them? 😬

16.11.2024 02:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NORMS, POLITICIZATION, AND THE MILITARY PROFESSION There is a global trend of increased politicization of the military in eroding democracies, some of which are allies of the United States. Risa Brooks joins host Carrie Lee to shed light on the evolvi...

Thrilled to join @carriealee.bsky.social on the U.S. Army War College's "A Better Peace" podcast for this discussion of how politicians seek to turn the military into their partisan ally in eroding democracies around the world.
warroom.armywarcollege.edu/podcasts/pol...

29.10.2024 15:12 👍 25 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
the trolley problem meme, but the track forks 3 ways, and then there's a second set of junctions that could switch from one of any of the 3 tracks to one of the other 2. at the end of the tracks are 3 barriers marked with question marks, and behind them are a goat, a car, and another goat

the trolley problem meme, but the track forks 3 ways, and then there's a second set of junctions that could switch from one of any of the 3 tracks to one of the other 2. at the end of the tracks are 3 barriers marked with question marks, and behind them are a goat, a car, and another goat

21.10.2023 01:05 👍 435 🔁 154 💬 18 📌 8
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The Right Wing’s Loyalty Test for the U.S. Military A dangerous turn in civil-military relations.

At the time, when I wrote this piece in Nov. 2022 I wondered if maybe I was pushing the envelope just a bit too far.

I only wish that had been the case . . .

So, how does this effort to politicize the military work? 1/

27.09.2023 21:16 👍 30 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 5