M. Kabir
@mkabir.bsky.social
Ph.D in International Relations, faculty, research interests in alliances and the geopolitics of Asia-Pacific. Read non-fiction, history, and IR books. 💙 Rumi’s poetry, Stephen King📚& dystopian novels.
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Making money. . . That’s the deal!! 🎪
Republican Congressman Don Bacon:
Republican Congressman Don Bacon:
November 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Making money. . . That’s the deal!! 🎪
Republican Congressman Don Bacon:
Republican Congressman Don Bacon:
Yesterday’s WaPo story (“kill them all”) is significant and deserves serious scrutiny. If true, the order is a textbook case of war crimes.
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
November 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Yesterday’s WaPo story (“kill them all”) is significant and deserves serious scrutiny. If true, the order is a textbook case of war crimes.
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
For an explanation, see 👇
Attacks against Persons Hors de Combat
ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary...
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
— Erich Maria Remarque
— Erich Maria Remarque
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.”
— Erich Maria Remarque
— Erich Maria Remarque
“I am your moon
and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden
and your water too
I have come all this way,
eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
— RUMI 💙
and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden
and your water too
I have come all this way,
eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
— RUMI 💙
November 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“I am your moon
and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden
and your water too
I have come all this way,
eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
— RUMI 💙
and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden
and your water too
I have come all this way,
eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”
— RUMI 💙
Today in History:
November 28, 1943
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran for the first time to discuss Allied cooperation during World War II.
November 28, 1943
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran for the first time to discuss Allied cooperation during World War II.
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Today in History:
November 28, 1943
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran for the first time to discuss Allied cooperation during World War II.
November 28, 1943
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran for the first time to discuss Allied cooperation during World War II.
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.”
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.”
— Carl Sagan
— Carl Sagan
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
— Terry Pratchett
— Terry Pratchett
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
— Terry Pratchett
— Terry Pratchett
“Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.”
— Dora Russell
— Dora Russell
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.”
— Dora Russell
— Dora Russell
“Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.”
— Judith Butler
— Judith Butler
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.”
— Judith Butler
— Judith Butler
“I once had a thousand desires.
But in my one desire to know you,
all else melted away.”
— RUMI 💙
But in my one desire to know you,
all else melted away.”
— RUMI 💙
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
“I once had a thousand desires.
But in my one desire to know you,
all else melted away.”
— RUMI 💙
But in my one desire to know you,
all else melted away.”
— RUMI 💙
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask. . . “
— Milan Kundera
— Milan Kundera
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask. . . “
— Milan Kundera
— Milan Kundera
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
— George Orwell
— George Orwell
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
— George Orwell
— George Orwell
“There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.”
— Theodor W. Adorno
— Theodor W. Adorno
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.”
— Theodor W. Adorno
— Theodor W. Adorno
“Do not seek the company of the blind to share your vision.”
— RUMI 💙
— RUMI 💙
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“Do not seek the company of the blind to share your vision.”
— RUMI 💙
— RUMI 💙
Constitutional hardball and lawfare— using law to disenfranchise black voters.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Constitutional hardball and lawfare— using law to disenfranchise black voters.
Today in History:
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Today in History:
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
A wolf 🐺 doesn’t stop being a wolf just because it speaks sweetly and gently!
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A wolf 🐺 doesn’t stop being a wolf just because it speaks sweetly and gently!
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
“Nothing bewitches like service to others, and the best way to win friends is to act like one.”
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Nothing bewitches like service to others, and the best way to win friends is to act like one.”
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
These accounts saturate online and spread misinformation. Sad for American democracy!
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
These accounts saturate online and spread misinformation. Sad for American democracy!