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drianhall.bsky.social
I wonder what the people doing this no longer covert work think about this confirmation.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 8h
President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations in the country.
Trump confirms CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela
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starsandstripes.bsky.social
President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela and said he was weighing carrying out land operations in the country.
Trump confirms CIA is conducting covert operations inside Venezuela
www.stripes.com
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
Ashley Tellis. This will come as a shock to many in this area.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents reut.rs/43e10Hb
US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents
A leading expert on U.S.-India relations who has advised successive U.S. administrations has been arrested and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information, including over a thousand pages of top secret and secret documents at his home, court documents showed.
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US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents reut.rs/43e10Hb
US-India expert who advised US administrations arrested over secret documents
A leading expert on U.S.-India relations who has advised successive U.S. administrations has been arrested and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information, including over a thousand pages of top secret and secret documents at his home, court documents showed.
reut.rs
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radicalreports.bsky.social
The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump’s Detention State
The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state
With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.
www.motherjones.com
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peterbakernyt.bsky.social
Of Trump's 98 Senate-confirmed appointees to the most senior leadership roles in its first 200 days, only two, or 2%, are Black. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Ian Hall, Anna O. Law, Nina Jankowicz , and 17 more

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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
We’ve experienced a big bump in in-person attendance this year, after several years of low numbers. Not sure it will continue or exactly why (maybe related to high fees or changing attitudes) but I guess we’ll see…
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
We have both. Attendance online for my courses is now below 5%. They can watch recordings, of course.
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
Exactly. The empty spaces are the online seminars.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 5d
'It is no secret that student attendance has plummeted in recent years, with near-empty lecture halls a staple of the post-pandemic world.'

Really? I lecture to all our 1st years. Lecture hall is full, not near-empty. Student engagement picked up last year and (early days) seems stronger again. 1/2
Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes
University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by Ian Hall, Michael H. Whitworth, Jonathan Portes

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'It is no secret that student attendance has plummeted in recent years, with near-empty lecture halls a staple of the post-pandemic world.'

Really? I lecture to all our 1st years. Lecture hall is full, not near-empty. Student engagement picked up last year and (early days) seems stronger again. 1/2
Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes
University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences
www.timeshighereducation.com
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
What an odd chap.
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Frederik Obermaier @frederikobermaier.com · 5d
🤦‍♂️😈 "Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power & hastening Armageddon,saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
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🤦‍♂️😈 "Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power & hastening Armageddon,saying: “It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money.”" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
Sellar and Yeatman must be spinning in their graves. "It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History", says Trump.
Very 1066 and All That.
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
He won’t be happy.
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Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Barron Trump tipped for top job at TikTok as dad says users ‘owe’ him
The president has previously claimed that users ‘owe’ Barron Trump for saving the social media platform in a video from the Oval Office
www.independent.co.uk
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jmulich.bsky.social
It's not just the US that is shutting down foreign language programs and funding. We are dismantling the tower of babel with our own hands and replacing it with the broken toaster of automatic translation.
Chinese Universities Abandon English Departments Amid Policy Changes and AI Disruption – Chinascope
English departments, once among the most popular programs at Chinese universities, are facing widespread closures across the country. Multiple factors including government policies, AI advancement, an...
chinascope.org
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Reposted by Ian Hall, Louise Edwards, Adrian Vickers , and 1 more

redunley.bsky.social
🚨 JOBS!!! 🚨

2 lots of jobs advertised in the School of Humanities & Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra

2.5 FTE positions in War Studies related disciplines - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

1 FTE in Indo-Pacific Studies - external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Lecturers/Senior Lecturers, Humanities & Social Sciences
Join our internationally recognised team of academics and share your knowledge in a humanities discipline relevant to the study of warfare. We have full and part-time teaching opportunities on offer.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
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Reposted by Ian Hall, Ugo Panizza, Lesley A. Hall , and 7 more

rikefranke.bsky.social
And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch
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by Marc Lynch — Reposted by Ian Hall

abuaardvark.bsky.social
Omg students don’t come to class and don’t do the readings, that’s never happened before in college. This generational crisis requires, nay demands, blatantly unconstitutional federal pressure and extortion of not just Harvard but everyone, everyone!

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
www.nytimes.com
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
I like a good pun, but this one almost sent me over the edge!

by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
Really @internationalintrigue.io? Really??
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fbermingham.bsky.social
The torrent of UK China news keeps coming. So much for the reset...

China threatened to retaliate against the UK government if ministers targeted parts of its security apparatus under foreign influence rules, the Guardian can disclose.
China threatened to retaliate against UK over foreign influence rules
Exclusive: Chinese officials warned that targeting its security apparatus would negatively affect relations
www.theguardian.com
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The Chinese embassy in Manila hired a marketing firm that ran fake social media accounts praising China, undermining the Philippines’ security alliance with the US, and criticizing Western COVID vaccines, Reuters found reut.rs/437dUqn
How China waged an infowar against U.S. interests in the Philippines
The Chinese embassy in Manila hired a marketing firm that ran fake social media accounts praising China, undermining the Philippines’ security alliance with the U.S., and criticizing Western COVID vaccines, Reuters found.
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
This looks like a triumph of hope over experience (or should that be Triumf?) given the almost decade long delay in the delivery of the systems ordered in 2018. But anyway...India wants more Russian S-400 air defence systems. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/i...
India-Russia in talks to acquire 5 more S-400 air defence systems
The Russian S-400 system ensured that Pak Air Force did not fly east of Indus on May 10 during Operation Sindoor.
www.hindustantimes.com
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cbgoodman.co
The third amendment is about to get very relevant.
'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...
www.rawstory.com
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BREAKING: Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative security hawk, is set to become Japan’s new — and first female — prime minister.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister
The new leader will take the helm of the world’s fourth-largest economy at a time of unusual political instability, rising prices and increasing regional tensions.
www.washingtonpost.com
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
Nothing improves morale, aids retention, and shows respect to highly trained professionals quite like wasting their time on pointless, menial, purely performative tasks.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 12d
The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show
A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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by Ian Hall

drianhall.bsky.social
Ah yes. Minor conflict termination issues like laying down arms.
ndtv.com
NDTV @ndtv.com · 12d
President Donald Trump told Israel on Friday to immediately stop bombing Gaza after Hamas agreed to release hostages and some other terms in a US plan to end the war, but vexing issues like disarmament appeared unresolved.

Read: www.ndtv.com/world-news/h...
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