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Victor Asal

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UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · Sep 8

shared this in a chat on X & I realized given the world Today I should share with everyone -
There are bad people and good people in every group. I teach my students - you can hate an individual, you can hate an organization or a movement but never hate an entire people

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1h

Hostages to Be Released by Hamas Starting Early Monday, Israeli Officials Tell Families

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Hostages to be released by Hamas starting early Monday, Israeli officials tell families

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 4h

Cutie

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 8h

Arson in Nepal Looked Like Spontaneous Rage. Evidence Suggests Otherwise.
A New York Times investigation points to a coordinated campaign of destruction during last month’s unrest. An official inquiry is underway but answers are growing harder to find.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Arson in Nepal Looked Like Spontaneous Rage. Evidence Suggests Otherwise.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 8h

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/u...

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 8h

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 8h

Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of how the brain works - but also raised ethical questions

How brain organoids are revealing what truly makes humans unique

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 18h

Awful

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 20h

🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 20h

CONGRATULATIONS 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 20h

Same. She was a great actress

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 22h

Still pretty good!

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 22h

Testing the Strategic Simultaneity Conundrum: Insights into Crisis Management from a Classroom Simulation
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Testing the Strategic Simultaneity Conundrum: Insights into Crisis Management from a Classroom Simulation

This article examines the use of simulation as an active learning tool in undergraduate European and American Studies courses in Australia. It draws on an EU-NATO crisis management simulation condu...

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 22h

Flashback for October 11, 2025

28 points
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Play here:
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Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, Oct. 11, 2025

Can you sort 8 historical events?

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 23h

Agreed and now following you here

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you!

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

In the Yarriambiack Shire, 350 kilometres from Melbourne in Victoria's rural north-west, virtually all of the towns are shrinking.

In one of Australia's fastest-shrinking regions, towns are fighting to remain

In the Yarriambiack Shire, 350 kilometres from Melbourne in Victoria's rural north-west, virtually all of the towns are shrinking.

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

Done and now following you as well!

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

TRUE

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas’s Oct. 7 Plans

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

A Memo in a Bunker, Intercepted Communications and Hamas’s Oct. 7 Plans

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

Some Americans Are Starting to Feel the Impact of the Government Shutdown

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Some Americans Are Starting to Feel the Impact of the Government Shutdown

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

Good Morning!

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Eleanor Roosevelt Day!

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October Nominees

October 1: Daniel Boorstin , the towering historian and Librarian of Congress whose pioneering and influential scholarly works include T...

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 1d

Tracking Trump Tariffs on Countries and Products

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Tracking Trump Tariffs on Countries and Products

See which countries and industries are being targeted by President Trump, as he seeks to remake the global trading system.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 2d

Purgatory

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed

Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 2d

James Indictment Mirrors Her Civil Case Against Trump in Miniature www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/n...

James Indictment Mirrors Her Civil Case Against Trump in Miniature

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