Brad Simpson
@bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
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US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
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If and when this is ever over, the evidence will be overwhelming that Stephen Miller was personally directing a huge range of crimes which Trump may have supported but was only dimly aware of. But Miller has no immunity. He is a racist gangster and should spend many years in prison for this.
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CNN @cnn.com · 3h
In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department of Defense personnel: Prepare to send in the troops.
Stephen Miller emerges as key architect of Trump’s offensive on Democratic cities | CNN Politics
In the hours after a chaotic confrontation in Chicago last week that culminated with a federal agent shooting a local woman, top White House aide Stephen Miller delivered an urgent order to Department...
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The one consistent through line among most Maga supporters is their racism, whether directed at Muslims or Latinos, or Palestinians. Everything else is flexible.
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The Trump Admin is really engaged in an epistemological war, a war on knowledge and data that states need to perform basic functions and plan for a democratic society, rather than a personalist dictatorship.
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A random neighbor the other day was door knocking handing these out to everyone in the area. This day of protest is going to be huge, and Trump and Co. publicly denouncing everyone protesting as terrorists and Soros plants is just going to make it bigger.
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Yes, but more you make the harder it gets.
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These immigrant development economists who won the Nobel Prize in 2019 and are now leaving the US founded the Abdul Latif Poverty Action Lab at MIT to research global poverty elimination strategies. The Trump Admin is a bunch of racist arsonists. www.povertyactionlab.org
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Biden could have forced Netanyahu to accept a much better deal for everyone on Gaza at a moment when genocide could have been prevented, and he did not, and it is to his, Blinken’s, and many other Democrat’s eternal disgrace that they never viewed Palestinians as worthy of saving from annihilation.
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This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.
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The NYT journalists who wrote this - Samuel Granados, Genevieve Glatsky and Annie Correal - devote not a single word to the blatant criminality of the Trump Administration extrajudically murdering people.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs
President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.
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There is a debate to be had over whether or not the United States is veering in the direction of authoritarian Eastern European states of the early 1970s-1980s or Central/Latin American death squad regimes of the same era. I think the evidence suggests we are headed towards the latter.
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Schiff: "You begin to wonder -- do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can't rule that out."
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It sucks to have to cancel a subscription to your hometown paper, but I did that when they fired @karenattiah.bsky.social.
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So I finally made a website with links/PDFs to much of my writing, media, and other stuff. Hoping soon to upload many of the primary sources from my self-determination book so others can use them as well. www.bradleyrsimpson.com
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I used to do this in my US survey, but I would also ask “when is the West?”
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Academics - finally taking the plans to make an academic website. Which do you use, square space, Weebly, WordPress?
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Frum was helping Israeli officials write speeches “during an Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip that killed over 2,200 Palestinians, including over 551 children, and wounded over 11,000.”
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The police in full view of the assembled cameras. They couldn’t very well beat little children trying to hit them with pillows on camera and so they slunk off, humiliated, and the standoff ended without violence. Nonviolence resistance can be a form of jujutsu - much more than passive resistance.
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I once heard German Green politician and peace activist Petra Kelly talk about this, shortly before her death. She described a first nations protest in Canada, where hundreds of police and activists had a standoff that seemed destined for violence until scores of children with pillows “attacked” …
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i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer
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Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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To be clear, Noem is praying for God to bless the ICE, DHS, CBP goons tear gassing, arresting, brutalizing, and shooting pepper rounds at Christian clergy attempting to defend immigrants in their communities. Literal blasphemy made flesh.
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Hey @npr.org you are no longer receiving federal funding, so you can use words that actually convey what is happening. Sending troops from other states to invade Oregon and Illinois and terrorize and brutalize their residents is not "bucking tradition." Have the courage to speak to the moment!
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NPR @npr.org · 4d
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
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Come on now, they are taking the brave stand of performatively asking questions that they know Bondi will refuse to answer or will treat with contempt. what more could you possibly ask or expect from the elected representatives of the world's most powerful legislative body?