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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 2h

And of course, Israel refusing to release Barghouti is a sign of their lack of seriousness when it comes to any of the political aspects of this ceasefire deal.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 3h

Excluding Marwan Barghouti from the list of prisoners for release means none of the parties are serious about the second stage of the agreement (replacing Hamas with an alternative administration) let along any "peace" prospects

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 10h

Trump deserves no credit for this ceasefire - even in a backhanded way. He could have stopped the war this entire past year. If you have to thank someone - and there is little to be thankful for given the ruins of Gaza - please thank the global protest movement.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 20h

This is the guy Israel tried to assassinate by rocket in Doha a month ago…

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 20h

🚨Breaking: Chief Negotiator for Palestinian resistance, Hamas’ Dr. Khalil Al-Hayya says the resistance have received guarantees from U.S. and mediators that the war has ended permanently.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 20h

As Tariq Dana has written over @merip.bsky.social merip.org/2025/10/the-...

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 20h

Of course, this has been baked into Turkish flavors of anti-imperialism that long preceded Erdogan’s. That being said, I think he sees collaboration w/ western powers much like he sees democracy — it’s a tramway, and when you reach your stop, you get off.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, though I think he’s convinced himself the US and UK will be happy to subcontract a lot of the actual work to Turkish firms.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 21h

As clunky as it is, neo-ottomanism still captures his regional worldview better than any other descriptor. And in that case, an Anglo-Turkish condominium in Gaza would be a rather striking achievement.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 21h

Erdoğan’s anti-imperialism has always and forever been an objection to *western* imperialism, not to the concept of empire tout court.

Nicholas Danforth @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social · 1d

Bitterly ironic that after years of anti-imperial posturing, Erdogan is now boasting about securing Hamas's signoff on an international mandate for Palestine.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 23h

The formula in PA has been well known for a long time. It’s boring white male centrist. There are huge material differences between McCormick and Casey but they cut the same figure.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 23h

Right. But perhaps more than others he seems to enjoy being flattered by the other side. McCormick seems to have intuitively understood this.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t think it’s all stroke. He’s been strongly negatively polarized by Gaza, and plenty of people who haven’t had strokes suffer the same affliction.

Much as I like Kenyatta, this is PA. He’d have to prove he’s electable statewide in a different office before betting on Senate imo.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 1d

Even moderate and center-right Israelis would’ve admitted back then that this kind of hostage exchange should’ve ended things before 2023 came to a close. That it’s now 10/2025 is all you need to know the war, like the peace, has been about something else.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an important token for Hamas bc it signals an agreement that isn’t a total capitulation. But the central fact remains that if this was the sticking point of the conflict and negotiations, many hundreds more Israeli hostages could have been returned alive and 60K+ Gazans needn’t be murdered.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 1d

One fundamental thing about this deal, if it does actually sustain, is that the release of political prisoners like Marwan Barghouti has been an obvious centerpiece of any potential negotiated end to the war since 10/8/2023.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Al-Mayadeen says that the deal is done and Hamas and other factions have agreed.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 2d

Are we all living in secret mall apartments?

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats Hrag, Hakim, and hyperallergic!!

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 6d

The WH wanting things to happen and the WH having the guts to do what they need to make it happen is… not clear in so many cases this far.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 6d

When you actually explain the scale of the genocide of indigenous Americans it hits students real hard. Then you give them Las Casas — for many of them the oldest non-scriptural text they’ve ever tried to read — and the light bulbs just start popping.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 6d

A point I am emphasizing to my World History since 1500 students constantly and from day one.

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 6d

One of the things I always find telling is the idea that we have to judge past people by the standards of their time, as if the fact that they did bad things means that everyone thought it was okay. They didn't. Pretty much every obviously evil act had people saying that it was, in fact, bad.

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