Ama y No Olvida: El museo que rescata la verdad frente a la impunidad en Nicaragua Familiares de las víctimas preservan la memoria de abril de 2018, un pilar fundamental para la lucha por justicia en Nicaragua

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There's a reason I always teach that piece every year when discussing liberalism and its roots as an ideology...

Importantly, Sapphire was done with knowledge and cooperation of the host government (Kazakhstan). It took a month. It was not done under fire in enemy territory

Eyewitnesses recount three deadly Israeli strikes on medics in southern Lebanon Israeli strikes targeted three different medical teams in the span of mere minutes in southern Lebanon, killing four medics and wounding six.

Eyewitnesses recount three deadly Israeli strikes on medics in southern Lebanon

“The attack on the 3rd team of ambulances to make a rescue attempt Wednesday happened as they were still assessing the first 2 crews’ injuries, less than 6 minutes after their arrival.”

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Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

New article! @risabrooks12.bsky.social & I have a piece forthcoming in Security Studies presenting a typology of military responses when politicians erode democracy, ranging from partnering to blocking those efforts, + offering hypotheses & directions for future work kaithaler.com/wp-content/u...

Thanks, Andrew--hope you're doing well!

New article! @risabrooks12.bsky.social & I have a piece forthcoming in Security Studies presenting a typology of military responses when politicians erode democracy, ranging from partnering to blocking those efforts, + offering hypotheses & directions for future work kaithaler.com/wp-content/u...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result, ending 16 years in power for a powerful figure in the far-right movement allied with U.S.

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power.

Amazing work by voters of Hungary today. Ending democratic backsliding requires a public that chooses to embrace democratic norms and reject autocracy - and the Hungarian people did just that.
Since my recent work explores authoritarianism, thought I'd share some observations from the literature:

I understand why people are using the the term "Gazafication of Lebanon," but there is a long history to Israel's current tactics that long predates 2023. It used to be the "Dahiyeh Doctrine," a term that references the 2006 July War. That said, Israel's 1982 Lebanon invasion is a key precedent 1/4

Russia will see revenue from its biggest ‌single oil tax double to $9 billion in April due to the oil and gas crisis triggered by the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran, Reuters calculations showed, the first concrete evidence of a windfall for Russia.

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You've got lots of people on your team, wanting you to keep going. Your work & perspectives are really valuable (even if our messed up political economy doesn't reward them as it should), & you matter beyond work or tweets. Try to find help, or things that take your mind off the edge, where you can

TEHRAN-7 APRIL 2026 On behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, I express gratitude and appreciation for my dear brothers HE Prime Minister of Pakistan Sharif and HE Field Marshal Munir for their tireless efforts to end the war in the region. In response to the brotherly request of PM Sharif in his tweet, and considering the request by the U.S. for negotiations based on its 15-point proposal as well as announcement by POTUS about acceptance of the general framework of Iran's 10-point proposal as a basis for negotiations, I hereby declare on behalf of Iran's Supreme National Security Council: If attacks against Iran are halted, our Powerful Armed Forces will cease their defensive operations. For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordination with Iran's Armed Forces and with due consideration of technical limitations. Seyed Abbas Araghchi Minister of Foreign Affairs Islamic Republic of Iran

Statement from Aragachi on Twitter. Last sentence is key IMO.

A black and white picture of a Japanese woman wearing a white collared shirt

Thinking of Yoshie today, my husband's grandmother. When she was 16-years-old, she survived the fire bombing of Tokyo. Her mother and father did not. They did not die from the fires, they drowned. So many people jumped into a a canal to escape the fire that they piled on top of each other & drowned

Trump Threatens to Kill Thousands More Iranians in Unnerving Tirades In a blunt warning, Senator Chris Murphy tells us that “everybody in that chain of command has to think hard” about carrying out such a hideously inhumane order, which he described as “war crimes.”

If Trump bombs power plants in Iran, the humanitarian crisis will be horrific. Experts tell me to expect water shortages, closed hospitals, many deaths.

“We’ve never had a US president so proudly promise to commit war crimes," Sen Chris Murphy says. 1/

(new piece)
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These strikes would be war crimes on a massive scale and any military personnel who carried them out would be subjecting themselves to possible prosecution. Of course Trump is approximately as concerned about those military personnel as he is about Iranian civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...

Attacks on Iranian universities continue with latest report of an Israeli-US attack on world-renowned Sharif University of Technology, often referred to as Iran's MIT.

After you post about the NSF here, email to your member of Congress, professional association, and university. SBE program officers are not being fired but moved to other directorates where “SBE” proposals will compete in broad RFPs, but there is still a window to prevent this catastrophic change.

will buy a drink at aapor for anyone who adds "teleported to a waffle house" to their "what did you do last weekend" attention check

Don Leonard for US Congress

Remains to be seen what legal costs might be, but more generally if you want to support someone fighting for civil rights, against economic inequality, & against abuses of power & state violence in the US & abroad, his campaign could use your help donforohio.com

My friend @donforohio.bsky.social who’s running for Congress in Ohio was arrested by police while speaking at a demonstration yesterday. This is suppressing 1st Amendment rights, whether anyone’s running for office or not, especially when he handed over his bullhorn www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

The boat strikes are still happening, and SOUTHCOM is now referring to them as “applying total systemic friction”

Title and abstract of an academic article, “Who supports hostage recovery? Explaining individual variation in American support for bringing hostages home”

One day, @laurenrprather.bsky.social is going to ask you to embark on a joint research agenda. It’s very important that you say yes 🤝

Thrilled that our first collaboration is out in the world! 👇👇

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This afternoon at 4pm (ET) here in Ann Arbor and online!

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work

a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife

mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Good luck and keep fighting through!

Protest and Change in an Undemocratic Moment - IGCC

How are unarmed & armed resistance movements organizing amid strong headwinds, & why is in-person organizing still critical? I reflect on this at Global Policy at a Glance @ucigcc.bsky.social, extending my remarks from Tufts' Institute for Global Leadership last month. ucigcc.org/blog/protest...

Next Thursday I'm looking forward to discussing my book When Rebels Win (@cornellupress.bsky.social) at the @umich.edu Center for Emerging Democracies with comments from Justine Davis. Will be hybrid, so Zoom attendance is available with registration! ii.umich.edu/emerging-dem...