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Teaching Political Science and World History in Abu Dhabi. Skeets mainly about the Seattle Sounders, the state of the world, and my generalized grumpiness https://buttondown.com/natebowling
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I can't believe he nearly scored

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

The replies are a mix of the following: 1. Yep 2. Rank Islamophobia 3. Weirdo liberal nat security bros tripping over themselves to justify another American war Also, the ability to mute a thread is indispensable

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Remember?

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I have a niece graduating tonight from a dental hygiene program. Another niece had her orientation to nursing school today. A third just took her final board exams to get her nursing license. Moments like this make me feel even older than my grumpy online persona.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This all feels very 2003 but somehow more dumb this time around. "Look, they're developing WMD. We gotta to go to war right now. Evidence? No, you just gotta trust us."

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

When Black people told you that it is a normal occurrence for police to lie about protest and assaulting officers now you see ... the test run for the justification of authoritarianism always begins in communities of color

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I belong to a group chat that used to be about the Sounders but we all got so frustrated with the team that instead we talk about crime novels by authors like @blacktopkid.bsky.social and @jordanharper.bsky.social. "King of Ashes" came out this week in the group chat is popping.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Here's a succinct explanation of the ways police escalate protests, the real causes of riots, and how the media covers it each time – playing stenographer rather than journalist. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"a theory of news coverage as a form of anti-democratic social management." Just read @natebowling.com's newsletter, and his discussion of the media framing reminded me of Todd Gitlin's The Whole World Is Watching, which I read early in college, and still think about pretty regularly.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's weird going into a tournament knowing your team is more likely than not going to ship double digit goals

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I'm begging folks to not compliment themselves too much on their "non-violent" marches & rallies. Instead, try to understand that violence at protests is generally a result of law enforcement escalation. Then, the galaxy brain move is to ask yourself "which protests do police tend to attack?"

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

I really wish more of y'all would have read ANYTHING about the interwar period – a single effing book – so you'd know what a March on Rome moment today is

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

I'm a gun owner and my neighbor and I are in a feud. But I heard he wants to buy a gun. So imma go over to his house and beat him with a bat. "You better not get a gun!" I scream as I clobber him. What's he going to want more than ever now? That's the "logic" of the last 72 hours.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

This is the dopest group chat in all of international education

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

That's the end of another academic year...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I asked an LLM about the implications of mass deployment of AI in society and the negative externalities it will create. In return, it proposed a regulatory framework that's to the left of anything that will come out of the US Congress under control of either party. buttondown.com/natebowling/...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The people who got more mad at Snowden for leaking, than the Feds for spying, are bringing that same bass-ackward energy to these protests

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment