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Victor Asal
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UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · Sep 8
shared this in a chat on X & I realized given the world Today I should share with everyone -
There are bad people and good people in every group. I teach my students - you can hate an individual, you can hate an organization or a movement but never hate an entire people

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 8h
YUP

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 8h
YUMMY 😋

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 12h
I hope you have a GREAT Thanksgiving!

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 14h
What Trump’s plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ degrees actually means

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What Trump’s plan to exclude nursing from ‘professional’ degrees actually means
The Education Department's definition of professional degrees has been criticized for excluding some fields, with industry groups urging reconsideration.
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 14h
FBI seeks interviews with Democrats whom Trump called ‘traitors’

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FBI seeks interviews with Democrats whom Trump called ‘traitors’
The Trump administration has aggressively sought to punish lawmakers who encouraged service members to disobey unlawful orders.
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 15h
Online event: ‘Giving choice a chance: Assessment optionality in political studies education’
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Online event: ‘Giving choice a chance: Assessment optionality in political studies education’
Next Wednesday, from 1:30-2:3pm, I’ll be delivering a webinar for the Political Studies Association’s Teaching and Learning Network. If you’re free and your interested, it would b…
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 18h
Nonprofits fight to honor the Jewish roots of long-overlooked comic book creators
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Nonprofits fight to honor the Jewish roots of long-overlooked comic book creators
The Jack Kirby Museum is launching a pop-up exhibit in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, near the Lower East Side, where the famed Marvel artist grew up as Jacob Kurtzberg
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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 20h
We've tracked the US military build-up in the Caribbean. Here's what it could do.
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Evan Ellis

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We've tracked the US military build-up in the Caribbean. Here's what it could do
The world's largest warship is now patrolling the Caribbean north of Venezuela. It carries 4,000 US sailors and 75 fighter jets. We've been tracking it for the past week.
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Jennifer Weeks @jenniferweeks83.bsky.social · 21h
During the Cold War, crusades against domestic enemies focused on alleged communists. Today, any kind of dissent is a target. By @gregorydaddis.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com theconversation.com/pentagon-inv...
Pentagon investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly revives Cold War persecution of Americans with supposedly disloyal views
President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21h
Solar and wind power are now cheaper than coal and natural gas for electricity generation. Yet in developing countries, higher financing costs still make renewable projects more expensive upfront, according to a professor who studies energy and climate solutions.

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Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it replacing fossil fuels faster?
Politics is just one challenge. The cost of borrowing to build wind and solar farms is another, especially in fast-growing developing countries. There are solutions.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21h
When you buy a digital item in a game, you're not actually buying it.

You're licensing it, and the company can change the terms whenever it wants. A law professor and gamer explains how gamers lost $2 billion on Counter-Strike 2 digital products.

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 22h
Undercooked turkey remains a leading cause of Thanksgiving illness. An immunologist explains why 78% of people still wash their raw poultry despite federal warnings against it since 2005.

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Don’t let food poisoning crash your Thanksgiving dinner
A few precautions as you prepare your Thanksgiving feast will help keep gastrointestinal distress out of your holiday gathering.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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