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As someone who studies kidnapping, I’d say we don’t have to label every abduction/ detention as “kidnapping” to indicate that it’s arbitrary, unlawful, or just plain vile. Fortunately, we’ve got a whole slate of terms for what’s going on. More from me with all of them, soon.

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🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's comptroller, mayoral candidate Brad Lander, has been arrested while visiting an immigration court.

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 862 comments

🧵 To make this more concrete: don't assume Trump himself knows what he is going to do next in in the Israel-Iran conflict. He definitely doesn't want to get the US involved in a major war in the Middle East (that much he's been clear on). But he loves to bomb and look tough. 1/

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Norms & the duct tape of two mostly functional, mostly pro-democracy mainstream political parties that mostly abide by them, folks. It’s all that’s held the Republic together for centuries, sometimes barely. And we appear to be all out of both norms & tape.

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The devastation I felt to read this news and realize that I never, not for one second, lost hope that he might someday come home www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Nothing subtle about what's happening here. The only question is what we'll do about it.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Stop Looking for Red Lines. You no Longer Live in a Full Democracy It's going to be up to us to bring it back to life open.substack.com/pub/ryandeno...

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

Which leads to the usual, rhetorical, unanswerable for the lack of an answer but still essential question I have been asking for years: "And then what?"

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Time to update the Intro IR slides on “entrapment” and how to tell the difference between “preemptive” and “preventive” war…

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Obama was president. Obama said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Biden was president. Biden said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Trump is president. Trump said no and he did.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

The Israelis are calling this a "preemptive" strike. Whether you agree or disagree with this attack, these are not - from what we know tonight - "preemptive" strikes. The Israelis are using that word for a reason. Read on. /1

submitted 6 days ago • 50 comments

Updates from @nytimes.com

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New at Tusk: A fellow scholar was recently arrested at a peaceful protest in L.A., along with several journalists. Here's their account.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

I posted in slack earlier this week asking if the wheels were coming off. Today's events provided a definitive yes.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Seeing lots of discussion about whether the U.S. military will go along or push back against orders to confront mass protests. Here’s my take on what other cases and prior research tell us about what might happen. 1/

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Prof Dani Gilbert (@danigilbert.bsky.social) joins Amb Robert O'Brien, Adam Boehler, Diane Foley, Amb Roger Carstens & Sarah Levinson Moriarty to launch the @csis.org's Combating State Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention report www.youtube.com/live/MRTN6VS...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The @csis.org Bi-Partisan Commission on Hostage Taking & Wrongful Detention released its long-awaited report on new tools to combat state hostage taking as well as key areas for international cooperation, US government organization, & outreach to US citizens. www.csis.org/analysis/com...

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For the past two years, I’ve had the enormous privilege to serve on the @csis.org Bipartisan Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention, led by the incomparable duo of Jon Alterman & Jason Rezaian (@rezaian.bsky.social). Today, our report is live! www.csis.org/analysis/com...

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For the past two years, I’ve had the enormous privilege to serve on the @csis.org Bipartisan Commission on Hostage Taking and Wrongful Detention, led by the incomparable duo of Jon Alterman & Jason Rezaian (@rezaian.bsky.social). Today, our report is live! www.csis.org/analysis/com...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Watch our commission report launch live! 👇👇👇

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It is past time for university presidents to do more than sign letters or write op-eds. Do something that puts a counter-message in the news. Show up on the Capitol steps and say Trump's attacks on universities are dangerous for America's economy, well-being, competitiveness, and national security.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

This Tottenham squad will go down as legends. They have accomplished what Gareth Bale, Harry Kane and Luka Modric could not. Son Heung-min might now eclipse Kane as the best player in Spurs’ modern history. Kane left to win a trophy, Son stayed to prove the doubters wrong. 🔗 bit.ly/4dsecfv

submitted 28 days ago • 77 comments

SECOND SEASON MATE

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

COYS COYS COYS COYSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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"I ALWAYS WIN SOMETHING IN MY SECOND YEAR" --ANGE POSTECOGLOU

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

This paper is SO cool. Don’t miss it! Congratulations, @naunovmartin.bsky.social!!

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Thrilled to share my article “The Right Kind of (Gay) Man?” was accepted @thejop.bsky.social I started it as a 1st-year grad student, it became my MA, then a dissertation & job market paper. It’s the piece I’m most proud of (and relieved to finally share) 🏳️‍🌈 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

We can’t have nice things 😩 #coys

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

American media utterly failed yesterday in explaining the sheer illegality, unconstitutional and corrupt nature of Trump’s Qatar “Air Force One” deal. Oh, and then there’s the catastrophic security risk…. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/corruption...

submitted 37 days ago • 27 comments

Open bribery Masked armed officials arresting residents without warrants, citizens who try to intervene Arrests for engaging in non-violent speech Destruction of government capacities Massive economic uncertainty and damage Unprecedented targeting of government power against political enemies

submitted 39 days ago • 113 comments

Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!

submitted 40 days ago • 36 comments

Short thread (hopefully in plain English) on the nuclear deterrence dynamics in the India-Pakistan relationship and where this goes if escalation continues. <1>

submitted 40 days ago • 25 comments

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

submitted 40 days ago • 125 comments

🧵Ok, I rag on Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, for his impeachable conduct on deportations and abandonment of all his prior views. But today he's the one "constantly on the phone" and paying attention to the India-Pakistan crisis. Should we be reassured? Absolutely not. 1/

submitted 40 days ago • 80 comments

Holy shit what a small, small man

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