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Dan Silverman

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Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST) Ohio State PhD. International Security, Political Psychology, Middle East Politics Opinions my own, don’t reflect employer, etc.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · Nov 22

🚨Publication day — my first book is out! “Seeing is Disbelieving: Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better” is a deep dive into factual misinformation in modern war and conflict, and why people do and don’t believe it. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

cambridge.org/9781009523585

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

I turned off the Eagles game for mental health reasons

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 18h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 12h

Even Putin’s probably like, “c’mon man, have some class about it”

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 17h

And why the shift, btw? Because the *anti-Israel* wing of MAGA (Tucker, Candace, etc.) has reared its head.

They never cared when it was Fuentes’s Jewish control tropes and MTG’s space lasers and Candace’s Ben should bow to Jesus, but now that it’s a threat to *Israel* suddenly some attention

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing that some of these folks are now admitting antisemitism happens on the right too, finally!

They’ve moved from “it’s all the left, they’re the new Nazis” to horseshoe-theory bothsidesism

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18h

Yes though not at the scale she's talking about...ain't no country taking in 1 let alone 7 million

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 19h

“A minute from victory, they threw it all away” — an astounding sentence to type and publish to the world

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 22h

this man is actually so dumb it's statistically remarkable.

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 23h

worth pointing out: one of the many reasons Bibi didn't give a shit about the hostages is because they were all from Shaar haNegev, a region that, before the attack, was full of peaceniks and leftists who wanted to live in peace and equity with the Gazans and consequently did not vote for him.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Chaim Peri told another Nir Oz hostage, who was released in the first ceasefire, that a general hostage deal would take two years, because "it's Bibi and we're leftists." He was subsequently murdered last year and never saw his prediction come true to within days.

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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social · 23h

Unfortunately, we will need to get used to higher rates of terrorist attacks for as long as counterterrorism is deprioritized and under-resourced at the FBI. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

What does that mean “get the dog” exactly? I don’t like the sound of that

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is standing next to another man in a kitchen .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing next to another man in a kitchen .

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I mean if we’ve learned nothing else today it‘s how much he outsources the post writing

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Specifically, my sense is that the game both Bibi and Hamas are currently playing is to not be the one “holding the bag” — that is, to be the party seen as responsible for bargaining failure/breakdown. Rather than truly wanting an end

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Is Trump willing (and able) to do that?

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

This is to be celebrated

And it’s definitely the most serious effort yet

But I don’t know if everyone is still accepting that there’s a significant risk of failure

Israel and Hamas truly hate and distrust each other, and they’ll both have to be dragged across the finish line kicking and screaming

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

President Trump announces that Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase of the peace plan.

The president has ALL hostages will be released soon.

Photos release — which I will post in the thread below — show mediators celebrating.

Donald J. Trump *
@realDonaldTrump
I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace. All Parties will be treated fairly! This is a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding Nations, and the United States of America, and we thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what Ric Grenell and Peter Thiel think of this stuff

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Are we done with the “debate” on the fringes of this site about how he should be viewed now?

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Welp

Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent who drove a car into pedestrians and attacked people with a knife at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, claimed allegiance to Islamic State in call to police

www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...

U.K. synagogue attacker claimed allegiance to Islamic State in call to police, reports say

Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British Citizen of Syrian Descent, Made the Call After Driving a Car Into Pedestrians and Attacking People With a Knife at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue ...

www.haaretz.com

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

”From Paper Boy to Rat Czar: The Many Lives and Wives of Curtis Sliwa”

Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, the guy is just the strangest and most NYC human

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Openly admits to faking crimes to get attention for his Guardian Angels stuff

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe New Yorkers all know this! But the rest of us don’t know there was an apparent mob hit against him, which he escaped by jumping out of a moving vehicle after being shot in the legs!

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