Omair Ahmad
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"It took time to sink in. Are they talking about me? It reflects govt's desperation to destroy our credibility"
Kashmir Times editor @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social to @betwasharma.bsky.social on police alleging weapons possession in raid on office shut for 4 yrs
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Kashmir Times editor @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social to @betwasharma.bsky.social on police alleging weapons possession in raid on office shut for 4 yrs
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‘Ridiculous’: Kashmir Editor Responds To UAPA Case, Arms-Recovery Allegations From Office Shut For 4 Years
Three days after Kashmir Times editor Anuradha Bhasin criticised the Modi government’s counterterror measures following a deadly Delhi terror attack, she was accused of conspiring with secessionists. ...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"It took time to sink in. Are they talking about me? It reflects govt's desperation to destroy our credibility"
Kashmir Times editor @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social to @betwasharma.bsky.social on police alleging weapons possession in raid on office shut for 4 yrs
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Kashmir Times editor @anuradhabhasin.bsky.social to @betwasharma.bsky.social on police alleging weapons possession in raid on office shut for 4 yrs
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“The intention of these sanctions, and the extraordinary difficulties they cause for the ICC judges, is obvious. They are aimed at sabotaging the work of the court and, in a larger sense, delegitimising the institutions of international law”
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
November 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“The intention of these sanctions, and the extraordinary difficulties they cause for the ICC judges, is obvious. They are aimed at sabotaging the work of the court and, in a larger sense, delegitimising the institutions of international law”
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
~Mark O’Connell
The Irish Times
☕️🥐
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Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.
⭕️ Sen. Chris Van Hollen (@vanhollen.senate.gov) credited for key role in release of US teen from Israeli detention
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
Palestinian-American child Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, was freed today after 9 months of Israeli imprisonment w/o charge. Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who has been a major advocate for...
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Van Hollen is being personally credited as the chief pressure point that made Israel release a Palestinian teenager with American citizenship from their dungeons, where he was held for 9 months without even a criminal charge.
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"All literature is political...by virtue of its active space, what you’re engaging with, or its negative space, what you’re choosing to ignore." Omar El Akkad, author of 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'.
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"All literature is political...by virtue of its active space, what you’re engaging with, or its negative space, what you’re choosing to ignore." Omar El Akkad, author of 'One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This'.
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I enjoyed reading Lyse Doucet’s new book. It is engaging and thoughtful and tells Afghanistan’s harrowing recent history with empathy and through the eyes of its people. Highly recommend it.
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I enjoyed reading Lyse Doucet’s new book. It is engaging and thoughtful and tells Afghanistan’s harrowing recent history with empathy and through the eyes of its people. Highly recommend it.
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I think I became convinced that most of the United States is an anti-human hellscape when I worked in refugee resettlement. Seeing that Afghan family who went from rural Kandahar to the Red Roof Inn off the interstate. The look on their faces when I dropped them off. Dark fucking shit.
Listen, I was there when the first afghans evacuees got off the plane at Dulles in late July 2021. But a few months later we had nice liberals in the community asking us if they could host a Ukrainian family. "What about Afghan or Congolese?"
"Oh, no thanks"
Racist fucking country, man
"Oh, no thanks"
Racist fucking country, man
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I think I became convinced that most of the United States is an anti-human hellscape when I worked in refugee resettlement. Seeing that Afghan family who went from rural Kandahar to the Red Roof Inn off the interstate. The look on their faces when I dropped them off. Dark fucking shit.
"Justice, justice, you shall pursue!"
Words in a book ascribed to God.
And I was God's willing hound,
Drunk on His words,
Stupid with them,
So stupid that even when I left God behind,
I did for the Godwords that I could not deny.
But in a world where no God can be found, justice is rarer still.
Words in a book ascribed to God.
And I was God's willing hound,
Drunk on His words,
Stupid with them,
So stupid that even when I left God behind,
I did for the Godwords that I could not deny.
But in a world where no God can be found, justice is rarer still.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Justice, justice, you shall pursue!"
Words in a book ascribed to God.
And I was God's willing hound,
Drunk on His words,
Stupid with them,
So stupid that even when I left God behind,
I did for the Godwords that I could not deny.
But in a world where no God can be found, justice is rarer still.
Words in a book ascribed to God.
And I was God's willing hound,
Drunk on His words,
Stupid with them,
So stupid that even when I left God behind,
I did for the Godwords that I could not deny.
But in a world where no God can be found, justice is rarer still.
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The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The journalist who got this scoop and reported it is a former U.S. Army infantry soldier and Iraq War vet
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It is an interesting case where all the Israeli "moderates" understand that keeping the PA alive is good for maintaining apartheid but all the Israeli hardliners want to get rid of it as soon as possible because they think it is actually an impediment to further implementing their version of it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It is an interesting case where all the Israeli "moderates" understand that keeping the PA alive is good for maintaining apartheid but all the Israeli hardliners want to get rid of it as soon as possible because they think it is actually an impediment to further implementing their version of it.
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This is a big part of it, for me. Instead of glancing at the image and continuing to listen to the talk, I’m noticing that the table leg is connected to the chair, that the shirt buttons sideways, that the window bleeds weirdly into the wall. And wondering why the presenter didn’t notice or care.
It's also just distracting because usually the image has some weirdness to it, and it doesn't tend to add explanatory value. So if you're just adding them for ambience or to represent a generic concept, just use a regular picture.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is a big part of it, for me. Instead of glancing at the image and continuing to listen to the talk, I’m noticing that the table leg is connected to the chair, that the shirt buttons sideways, that the window bleeds weirdly into the wall. And wondering why the presenter didn’t notice or care.
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Every work conference in a nice place
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Every work conference in a nice place
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If my argument would be that a substantial part of Jewry is part of, or agrees with a "new wave of antisemitism" against Israel, I would question my conceptualisation of antisemitism and if what I am doing is actually fighting antisemitism or defending Israel no matter the implications.
November 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
If my argument would be that a substantial part of Jewry is part of, or agrees with a "new wave of antisemitism" against Israel, I would question my conceptualisation of antisemitism and if what I am doing is actually fighting antisemitism or defending Israel no matter the implications.
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In 2018, @nytimes.com published an investigation into the CIA-trained units that the National Guard shooter was a part of in Afghanistan, documenting horrific crimes they committed.
It's insane that investigating these programs is not our first response www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/w...
It's insane that investigating these programs is not our first response www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/w...
C.I.A.’s Afghan Forces Leave a Trail of Abuse and Anger (Published 2018)
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
In 2018, @nytimes.com published an investigation into the CIA-trained units that the National Guard shooter was a part of in Afghanistan, documenting horrific crimes they committed.
It's insane that investigating these programs is not our first response www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/w...
It's insane that investigating these programs is not our first response www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/w...
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He recognises this course but this time around he believes he's on the side holding the gun. As Ben Gvir's top aide Chanamel Dorfman said “The only problem with the Nazis is that I was on the losing side”.
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
He recognises this course but this time around he believes he's on the side holding the gun. As Ben Gvir's top aide Chanamel Dorfman said “The only problem with the Nazis is that I was on the losing side”.
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Breaking Ranks: Inside the Israeli Army is free to watch on YouTube.
An important film.
Shout out to @itamann.bsky.social for the legal perspective.
youtu.be/OZ2hZE6P37E?...
An important film.
Shout out to @itamann.bsky.social for the legal perspective.
youtu.be/OZ2hZE6P37E?...
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Breaking Ranks: Inside the Israeli Army is free to watch on YouTube.
An important film.
Shout out to @itamann.bsky.social for the legal perspective.
youtu.be/OZ2hZE6P37E?...
An important film.
Shout out to @itamann.bsky.social for the legal perspective.
youtu.be/OZ2hZE6P37E?...
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Point is that transphobia and anti-Arab bigotry, both incredibly popular among liberal elites, are at odds with liberal principles and corrode a liberal's capacity to enforce their value set vis a vis policy and behavior.
Let’s blame rank transphobia on the real culprit: liberalism
there are a lot of brain-rotting ideologies that can twist a liberal without moral guide-lines into a vicious, miserable reactionary but transphobia and zionism really are something else in the social media age
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Point is that transphobia and anti-Arab bigotry, both incredibly popular among liberal elites, are at odds with liberal principles and corrode a liberal's capacity to enforce their value set vis a vis policy and behavior.
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Saw the Montrose Beach Snowy Owl this morning!! 🪶
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Saw the Montrose Beach Snowy Owl this morning!! 🪶
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Had a situation come up with roommates and now my share of rent has suddenly spiked so now feels like a good time to repost that I accept donations and tips if you appreciate my work and analysis (but they are not mandatory!)
Emissary of Night is writing about US-Palestinian relations and public opinion
I analyze and write about US Palestinian relations, among other things
buymeacoffee.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Had a situation come up with roommates and now my share of rent has suddenly spiked so now feels like a good time to repost that I accept donations and tips if you appreciate my work and analysis (but they are not mandatory!)
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you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
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It seems Mr Pivariu is actually a former deputy head of Romanian military intelligence, which, I am sorry to say, completely undermines my trust in Romanian military intelligence.
Like if they were to claim that this object that pops up on radar over Transylvania is just a normal bat, I don’t know.
Like if they were to claim that this object that pops up on radar over Transylvania is just a normal bat, I don’t know.
Fake sources using my name keep cropping up.
Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s...
It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.
Here, a former senior military official from Romania, Corneliu Pivariu, cites me in an article for Diplomat Magazine: diplomatmagazine.eu/2025/11/25/s...
It's entirely made up, presumably by his AI ghost writer. I haven’t written for Carnegie in years.
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It seems Mr Pivariu is actually a former deputy head of Romanian military intelligence, which, I am sorry to say, completely undermines my trust in Romanian military intelligence.
Like if they were to claim that this object that pops up on radar over Transylvania is just a normal bat, I don’t know.
Like if they were to claim that this object that pops up on radar over Transylvania is just a normal bat, I don’t know.
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I can't get over this. In response to a kid committing suicide after talking to ChatGPT, OpenAI's response is literally "he prompted it wrong."
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
Sure sure you might say that my client's knife "caused" the victim to stop being able to pump blood to their brain, but Hume's 𝘌𝘯𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 really makes it clear that we should all have some reasonable doubt about the concept of "causation"
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I can't get over this. In response to a kid committing suicide after talking to ChatGPT, OpenAI's response is literally "he prompted it wrong."
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
There's something profoundly broken in these people's hearts.
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Thoughts about the what the Ukraine negotiations tell us about the current administration’s foreign policy process — or lack thereof. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
The Trouble With Start-Up Diplomacy
The latest Ukraine initiative is a highlight reel of the administration's broken-down policymaking process
danieldrezner.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thoughts about the what the Ukraine negotiations tell us about the current administration’s foreign policy process — or lack thereof. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-troubl...
Indian safety and prosperity is dependent on a rules-based order being undermined by US and Russian aggression, and India is stuck with the personalised foreign policy revolving on a man with a history of cowardice.
m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
Modis Cowardice Is Only One of Indias Problems - The Wire
As Narendra Modi hides from Trump it is increasingly clear that a decade of personalised foreign relations has left India in the lurch.
m.thewire.in
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Indian safety and prosperity is dependent on a rules-based order being undermined by US and Russian aggression, and India is stuck with the personalised foreign policy revolving on a man with a history of cowardice.
m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
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A photo of India, and of the world, in the 21st century.
‘Not a Maoist, just a tribal student’: Who is the protester in the viral India Gate photo?
According to the Kartavya Path FIR, Akshay E R used pepper spray on police officers. He is among the 22 now in judicial custody.
www.newslaundry.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
A photo of India, and of the world, in the 21st century.