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Sam Ratner
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This is a first-ballot "Kelsey." hall of famer.
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Sam Ratner@samratner.bsky.social |
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Policy director at Win Without War, working to enact a more just and progressive US foreign policy. Formerly @ACLEDINFO and @ZitamarNews. He/him. Views my own.
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Sam Ratner
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This is a first-ballot "Kelsey." hall of famer.
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Sam Ratner
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T-six months before there's a @thecut.bsky.social essay that's like "My toxic dad never taught me how much to tip city councilors, and now I have to take over his waste management business and I'm lost"
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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I am still impressed that the axiomatically true statement "the occupation of Palestine is as illegal as the occupation of Ukraine" got so many people mad yesterday.
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Sam Ratner
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"Ah, but you see, the gold bars were delivered *after* I voted to send billions in weapons to the authoritarian Egyptian government! Checkmate, libs!" - Bob Menendez
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Sam Ratner
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Wanna see which gun shops in your neighborhood are supplying murder weapons in Mexico? Now you can! (And, make no mistake, gun shops in your neighborhood very much are supplying murder weapons in Mexico). stopusarmstomexico.org/iron-river/
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Will Oremus
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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...
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Andrew Facini
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"The Air Force’s Sentinel ICBM is so massively over budget and behind schedule that it must be bailed out by SecDef before July 9 or face termination. [Ending the program]...would make the country much safer while saving taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars."
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/0...
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Osita Nwanevu
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I think we should give the Congressional Research Service one billion dollars.
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mattie lubchansky
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TOKUGAWA SHOGUNATE ERA RODNEY DANGERFIELD: i tell you i get no respect. the daimyo says i have to commit seppuku to restore my house’s honor. okay. i write my death poem, no problem. i ask my wife if she’ll be my second and she says she wants to be my FIRST!
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Sam Ratner
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Rafael literally makes the missiles that were likely used to kill World Central Kitchen workers on April 1. They put the Rafael CEO in charge of investigating the strikes.
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Sam Ratner
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A particularly choice piece of absurdism from State's NSM-20 report. The retired IDF general trumpeted as doing an "independent, fact-finding assessment" of IDF IHL violations? He's the CEO of Israel's national arms manufacturer! www.jpost.com/israel-hamas...
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Sam Ratner
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Costa Samaras
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The USG should buy the Tesla supercharger network, make it open access to all EVs immediately, co-locate energy storage and solar where possible, and run it as virtual power plants as part of national critical infrastructure.
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Taylor Barnes
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“a career intellectualizing state violence” - really wish this wasn’t such a viable career path here
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Still think all the time about how she didn’t know Ayatollahs Khomeini and Khamenei were two different guys and thought the Iranian government was running a Twitter account purporting to be a dead person
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yarrriv
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Calling on Joe Biden to step in and solve the crisis at Columbia (abolish the university, hand its endowment to CUNY, turn all campus buildings into housing)
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Sam Ratner
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4) His later career turn toward quantitative work on migration has been positive in some ways, but seems weirdly determined to avoid the politics of migration. For someone with a Migration Lab, it’s strangely incurious about the drivers of migration.
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Sam Ratner
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3) His early work on the Mozambican civil war pursues that same ideological project in a context that’s especially susceptible to it — the idea that Renamo had no domestic politics is really common.
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Sam Ratner
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2) I’m *deeply* skeptical of the Inside Rebellion thesis, and of its underlying ideological project of discounting the political preferences of non-state actors as an explanation for their behavior.
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Sam Ratner
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Four big complaints about Weinstein:
1) His 2005 FA piece with Eizenstat and Porter explicitly calling for a global U.S. intervention strategy to combat the scourge of “weak states” is one of the most appallingly misguided policy pieces I’ve ever read. www.jstor.org/stable/20034...
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Sam Ratner
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It’s hard to imagine Harvard making a good appointment to run HKS, but this is particularly bad. t.co/pxXUEaJEJW
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Sam Ratner
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My colleagues can confirm that I will not shut up about this. It’s borderline malpractice how little discussion there’s been in the nuclear world about the dangers of regime fragility in Israel.
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Corinna Jentzsch
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My book "Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil War in Mozambique" (doi.org/10.1017/9781...) is now available #OpenAccess Go and check it out!
polisky Afripolsky conflictsky AfroLuso
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Sam Ratner
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Pusha T set to score a knockout punch in his beef with Drake today, as the Toronto rapper's views from the six and will be 99% blocked out by Clipse.
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Sam Ratner
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I'm hearing reports that the epicenter was the Brill Building www.youtube.com/watch?v=6913...
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Sam Ratner
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I did think this was John Ganz for a second.
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J. Mijin Cha
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Deranged racism and misogyny makes you forget math
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Costa Samaras
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Yeah we should be worried about EMPs: Emissions from Methane Powerplants
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Sam Ratner
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Sina's piece is really vital, and I'm glad it's getting shine.
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Sam Ratner
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Maybe the biggest hole in mainstream political discourse of the last decade+ has been the persistent underrating of the explanatory power of that fact, even by people who recognize it as a fact.
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Kelsey Atherton
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"The question now is whether the U.S. and Iran can prevent this from escalating into a wider war, which neither side wants but Netanyahu seems bent on for his own political survival."
Latest at the International Policy Journal internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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Samer Anabtawi (he/him)
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WaPo visualizing how the deliberate starvation of over one million Palestinians has unfolded over the past several months. Gift link attached.
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Sam Ratner
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Monty Python-ass conflict analysis.
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Sam Ratner
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Unironically describing people murdered in brutal state violence as eggs being broken to make the omelet of (I guess) neoliberalism is... a choice!
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Sam Ratner
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At extremely long last, the US has released its 10-year Global Fragility Act country plans, including for Mozambique. state.gov/wp-content/u...
Here's my early analysis on the plan's notable strengths and considerable weaknesses: acleddata.com/acleddatanew...
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Sam Ratner
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(And anyone who trades a stock or finds a way to profit from trading stocks while in Congress should get booted out on their ass)
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Sam Ratner
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Members should be paid way more, their staffs (and committee staff and all the professionals who make Congress function) should be paid way more and there should be more of them, and those should not be controversial positions. If we want government to work, we should give it resources to work!
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Daniel Martin
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Adam Serwer
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Trump’s remarks about liberal Jews are not new, but the entire point of them is to say, antisemitism against liberal Jews does not count as antisemitism, and so it is morally acceptable to engage in it. From my book:
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Sam Ratner
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I just learned that the lead author of A Theory of Justice: The Musical! is the (now fired, for somehow lying too blatantly) Israeli government propagandist Eylon Levy.
I need to sit down. Having this many priors confirmed at once is dizzying.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theor...!
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Gabe Ortíz
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If folks think that only immigrants will be affected by this “show me your papers” law, they are sadly mistaken. Reports have previously highlighted how Abbott’s crackdown has already been profiling and targeting US citizens: www.npr.org/2024/01/03/1....
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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The exact same people who think it’s outrageous to condition aid to Israel tend to have very specific opinions about what you should be able to buy with EBT
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Sam Ratner
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I'm currently reading Low Life and am also desperate for this.
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Sam Ratner
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All of us, frolicking in an astral paradise once Marianne Williamson is president:
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Sam Ratner
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Cool, now do Ben Gvir and Smotrich.
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Sam Ratner
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Typically strong analysis from Emilia. Looking at the expansion of attacks in southern CD and the declining strength of the international coalition against the insurgency, I think this conflict is on the cusp of getting a lot worse for people in the region.
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Sam Ratner
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Constantly!
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