Brian Nussbaum
@ilnuttree.bsky.social
Researcher and teacher on security issues at UAlbany.
Interested in terrorism/CT, transnational crime, and - of course - the cybers.
Interested in terrorism/CT, transnational crime, and - of course - the cybers.
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It occurred to me that x’s new location feature reveals a lot about the international networks of those who posted during the campaign.
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
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@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It occurred to me that x’s new location feature reveals a lot about the international networks of those who posted during the campaign.
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
Academics who studied #Brexit should reanalyze your account lists for country data.
@dfrlab.bsky.social
@katestarbird.bsky.social
@dfreelon.bsky.social
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My step-grandfather was one of the lead financial forensic investigators who gathered documentary evidence used in those trials. I wish he'd lived to participate in that conversation. But he did leave us a book.
![Rathenau wrote shortly after World War I: shortly after World War I:
“We are are confronted confronted by by significant significant upheavals upheavals in economic in economic was structure structure and and thought. thought. The The war, war, which which since since 'in in its its nature nature was political, was an event of world revolutionary character, political, was an event of world revolutionary character, Eur[which] [which] shattered shattered the-economic theeconomic and and social social order order of of Europe. . . From the ruins will arise neither a Communist State ruins will arise neither a Communist State
nor a system allowing free play to the economic forces. In nor a system allowing free play to the economic forces. In enterprise the individual will not be given greater latitude; enterprise the individual Will not be given greater latitude; on the other hand, individualistic activity will be consciously on the other hand, individualistic activity will be consciously accorded a part in an economic structure working for Society accorded a part in an economic structure working for Society .” as as a a Whole. whole. . . .”
What Rathenau is talking about, under a light mist of verbiage, is a completely cartelized State. Given further development with a strong dose of police brutality and creation velopment with a strong dose of police brutality and creation of of a a phony phony “race “race science,”science,” it it is is a a Nazi State. ' Shrewd business leaders in later years praised Rathenau for his foresight. But he himself did not live to observe the for his Eoresight. But he himself did not live to observe the outcome of his predictions. As such he became a target for the terrorist gangs Minister. As such he became a target for the terrorist gangs
of free-hooters, fore-runners of Hitler’s Storm Troops, who of free-booters, fore-runners of Hitler’s Storm Troops, who roamed Germany after World War I, and he was assassinated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q25tg5qy6kzwtuecpe6b4shw/bafkreidu2i7ce225myt6p7ypy6twuxhop3ym5fecu4nbldlav6bb6tiiwi@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
My step-grandfather was one of the lead financial forensic investigators who gathered documentary evidence used in those trials. I wish he'd lived to participate in that conversation. But he did leave us a book.
Reposted by Brian Nussbaum
There is a really interesting section in Jonathan Haslam's book "Near and Distant Neighbors" where he talks about a KGB officer who put together the methodology, which Haslam lays out, by which the KGB figured out who at the US embassy was CIA.
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
There is a really interesting section in Jonathan Haslam's book "Near and Distant Neighbors" where he talks about a KGB officer who put together the methodology, which Haslam lays out, by which the KGB figured out who at the US embassy was CIA.