Happy to announce my latest work: a chapter in the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Geopolitics titled, 'Geopolitics and Far-Right Ideology.' Deepest thanks to our indefatigable editor Zak Cope and the good people at Springer.

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FBI director: “Between October 7 and January 30 of this year, we opened over three times more anti-Jewish hate crime investigations than in the four months before October 7.”

cnn.com/2024/04/17/pol…

I got to chat about my book (mainly about the Byzantium-related parts) with Anthony Kaldellis, a scholar of Byzantine history and the host of the “Byzantium and Friends” podcast. Check out the new episode of the podcast here: byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/115-imaginar…

'Is musk a conservative? here's why it's more complicated than you think!'

it would be funny if other car companies started running ads of their own cars doing rugged and hard things that these rust buckets can't, like ... driving through a car wash or .. washing their cars in the light of the sun.

'He is the first Texas journalist to win the prize since Molly Ivins, in 2006.' 🤠🤠🤠
texastribune.org/2024/04/17/rob…

Let's see, but it looks very much like Tehran played directly into Bibi's hands.

USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students”

‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/pro…

one could always design a class around the mathematical pedagogy or engineering projects of colonial regimes, but most universities lack a comedy department.

Qualitative modeling environments are brilliant ways of understanding human-natural systems, and reckoning with Traditional Ecological Knowledge in that light has been standard fare since Lansing or even Mead and Bateson. Nothing to sneeze at, tbh.

so basically the site is behaving exactly like its owner would like it to. just not sure it will reach full self-driving hate capabilities without Musk steering the discourse into currency scams, race science, and conspiracy theories.

Under Meloni the Environment Ministry has been largely dormant but today has apparently awoken from its stupor & presented 237 objections to Salvini's plans for the Messina Strait bridge, describing his plans as 'deficient, outdated & at times illegible.'
repubblica.it/politica/2024/…

'in 2022, Brannon placed calls to two foreign adversaries, hoping to offer himself up as a 'mole' by providing U.S. intelligence.'

of course he did.

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