Yusuf Sarfati
@yusufsarfati.bsky.social
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Professor of Comparative Politics, Illinois State University, autocratization, religion, social movements & mobilization. Turkey, Israel. Istanbulite, Normalite. Anti-fascist. He/him. Siyaset Bilimi. Akademisyen. İnsan. Baba.
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I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.
Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic
yusufsarfati.bsky.social
Brought to you by the administration that cynically claims it's fighting antisemitism.
paleofuture.bsky.social
I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.
Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic
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yusufsarfati.bsky.social
The guy is so narcissistic he can't stop himself disrespecting and ridiculing Charlie Kirk who he and his followers recently turned to a political martyr.
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Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
yusufsarfati.bsky.social
The guy is so narcissistic he can't stop himself disrespecting and ridiculing Charlie Kirk who he and his followers recently turned to a political martyr.
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Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."
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Governing by (empty) threats!
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Trump: "If somebody is doing a bad job and if I feel there is unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni, the head of FIFA, and I would say, 'let's move it to another location.' And he would do that ... I could say the same things for the Olympics."
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.
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joelhs.bsky.social
This is not really about Hamas violating the terms of the ceasefire. This is just collective punishment of the people of Gaza. And the fact that Israel is still doing this is a big part of why people are not celebrating the ceasefire just yet.
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joelhs.bsky.social
Really glad to see this much needed report. The Nexus Project is the moral voice we need against antisemitism and for democratic pluralism, at a time when too many other organizations have abdicated that role.
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This!
amlwhere.bsky.social
“Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document…That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.”
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Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
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amlwhere.bsky.social
“Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document…That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.”
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NPR @npr.org · 1d
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.
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yusufsarfati.bsky.social
Corruption in daylight: "We look for better price!"
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Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.
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Shameless leaders who play sycophant feudal lords to a narcissistic king!
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oh my goodness world leaders are rubbing sores in Egypt about Trump and the Nobel
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Shameless leaders who play sycophant feudal lords to a narcissistic king!
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oh my goodness world leaders are rubbing sores in Egypt about Trump and the Nobel
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
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He is Ayman Odeh, a member of Knesset and the leader of the Haddash party, a left-wing Jewish-Palestinian party.
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Trump's speech to the Knesset is interrupted by a demonstrator
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Horrific!
theswprincess.bsky.social
CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.
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joycewhitevance.bsky.social
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.
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When incompetency meets cruelty...
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The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
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yusufsarfati.bsky.social
🎯 Deinstitutionalization and personalization of the regime go hand in hand.
andreapitzer.bsky.social
The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.
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cplaisant.bsky.social
After Ekrem İmamoğlu and Özgür Özel, is Mansur Yavaş the Turkish government's next target? The Palace appears to be stepping up its operations against the CHP-run municipality of Ankara, which has already been the subject of judicial investigations for some time.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Turkish Prosecutors Plan Misconduct Probe of Ankara Mayor Yavas
Turkish prosecutors have requested official permission from the country’s interior ministry to investigate Ankara’s mayor, a move likely to further heighten political tensions.
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Hamas official says group will not completely disarm, will hand over weapons to future Palestinian military.