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A round up of initial responses to Ocalan from Kurdish leaders. medyascope.tv/2025/02/27/o...

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Useful graph...

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Stiff arm

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Hmm, criticism hysterical and overreacting? Autism again? Or just an uncontrolled motion? The new gesture of one's heart going out? Have your Bingo card for justifications ready this time.

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Hitler, who I do not support, never would have embraced genocide, which I also do not support, if the Weimar shitlibs hadn't tried so hard to deplatform him. by Glenn Greenwald

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The sober version. Anything else would require and fundamental revision of posture and action beyond nice words.

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Those who said Trump would be weak against foreign authoritarians seem vindicated. Those who said he might pursue a hardball strategy to force an end to the war seem to have relied on people in his camp who have no power to determine any direction.

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Free speech ™️

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I suspect Trump's "peace through weakness" policy will not work as intended.

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A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

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Roddigan celebrating what would have been Bob Marley's 80th on Feb 6th... Great show www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This is exactly why the "Roman Salute" ™️ and Musk's subsequent call to the AfD party conference, saying these exact words, felt so weird and uncanny... It's like the world we grew up in turned upside down...

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the academic fixation on contrarianism via counterintuitive findings or arguments really helps burnish some fundamentally underbaked perspectives on the world

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Was struggling to write my section on the history of Western scholarship on Turkish theology for the intro to the book below. Then I suddenly remembered that some 15 years ago the great Turkish theologian Sönmez Kutlu (still at Ankara U) kindly agreed to meet with me in his office when...

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"...Secretary of State Marco Rubio was for years a staunch supporter of US Agency for International Development's mission while in the US Senate, reversing his views only recently as President Donald Trump and his allies have moved to dismantle the agency." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...

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If you're an early career researcher - perhaps based in a fledgling authoritarian state - and want an out, @britishacademy.bsky.social offer 2-year fellowships to come to a UK university (including relocation costs and research funds). www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

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"Trump...feels emboldened to adopt the conduct...familiar from his businesses: just see how far you can push and see who will...sue... the imperative – break things, and if they were ...important, someone else will put them back together – is also part of the worldview of his Silicon Valley allies."

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Two 3-year PhD positions in Turkish Studies, at @LMU_Muenchen (50% of full academic pay with full social coverage). job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/9...

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Le Monde recently sat down with me to discuss my book, New Spirit of Islamism, and its connection to the latest developments in Syria. Also thrilled that the interview features work by one of my favorite artists, Taner Ceylan. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

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Awesome headline

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Free Speech!!! (if it's our speech)

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Two 3-year PhD positions in Turkish Studies, at @LMU_Muenchen (50% of full academic pay with full social coverage). job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/9...

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Excited about the publication of my essay 'ARE WE AT A TURNING POINT IN WORLD HISTORY?' in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com

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A harsh insult to Indonesian culture...

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Lame duck Scholz government can’t agree on new law to protect critical infrastructure. They have sleep-walked through a geopolitical earthquake. History won’t be kind

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Team free speech doing their thing

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Replacing USAID funding to organisations around Europe and the Mediterranean would be a move of long term strategic self-interest for the EU

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Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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There are many Europeans who would rightfully be affronted if Germany were to gloss over its past as the unhinged billionaire suggested. Sick that we even have to discuss this. Neither the AfD suggested it nor did any mainstream politician of 70 years. We're talking real fundamentals here...

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Response to a bullying president// the Bully Doctrine

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So Starter Packs are great and all, but it's kind of a pain to add people to them and also you might not WANT to follow 150 people at once. SO, for all your "I want to see posts about the academic study of religion" needs, I present: the Study of Religion FEED. bsky.app/profile/alan...

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New article in Internationale Politik about Indonesia's place in the world, the guidelines of its foreign policy, and what these mean for the German and European engagement with Indonesia... internationalepolitik.de/de/indonesie...

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One of those days that leaves you shell-shocked...

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THE FREE SPEECH SALUTE ™️

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"‘free speech’ justifies everything, including taking free speech away from other people"

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Agree that Farage may end up misreading how much anti-Americanism is a potential factor even on the UK Right. But the UK government is also misreading MAGA politics even if Mandelson manouevres his way around this. Trump's Washington is not about dealmaking, it's about bullying and submission.

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