Official: #Jordan bans the Muslim Brotherhood as an "illegal movement", seizes its property and bans any political or media entity from working with the dissolved Brotherhood or spreading its ideology. Jordan's largest opposition movement is banned. Expect arrests.

2 wrinkles in Jordan's just-now ban of Muslim Brotherhood: 1/ Many Islamist groups still legal, inc. the Zamzam (breakaway, dove-ish faction from MB) 2/ Future of MB's Islamic Action Front party unclear, esp. as it has _31_ out of 138 parli seats jordantimes.com/news/local/int…

Fine for Jordan to ban the MB for terroristic plots. That's the law. BUT... To ban any talk of MB's "ideology"? What about the other legal Islamist parties/groups? Is this criminalizing ideas? Even during the ISIS war, Jordan never outlawed _Salafism_ aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/23…

Finally Rome will have good pizza

When you’ve lost the UAE….

"On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia alone pledged to invest $600 billion in the U.S., including $142 billion in arms sales. Israel, on the other hand, relies on billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars every year to help it buy weapons." politico.com/news/magazine/…

I think it goes without saying that today’s Ukrainian strikes against Russian air forces are impressive and devastating. While the exact scale of damage will likely be confirmed with satellite footage over the coming days, it is quite likely that considerable portion of Russian

cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🚨 Super excited to see my paper, "Unconditional Loyalty: The Survival of Minority Autocracies", finally out in the American Political Science Review American Political Science Review Quick thread below🧵

Piketty has just discovered dependency theory ;)

This millenium sucks

My article "Land and Politics" with Kathleen Klaus is in this new ARPS issue, with good company!

The connections between IMMIGRATION and AUTHORITARIANISM are becoming more obvious and tragic by the day. Our latest issue of Democracy & Autocracy U-M Center for Emerging Democracies tackles these connections head-on, from multiple comparative angles: 1/6 ii.umich.edu/emerging-democ…

Europe now has less say in the Middle East than it has at any time in recent memory. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/25/eur…

Today, I successfully defended my dissertation at Political Science! I'm deeply grateful to my supervisor Lucan Ahmad Way, my committee members Professor Olga Chyzh and Janine Clark, and reviewers Edward Schatz and Sean Yom seanyom.bsky.social for their generous support and thoughtful engagement.

Kuwait is shrinking itself in population and in relevance. It makes me very sad.

The US is running out of missiles responsiblestatecraft.org/missile-deplet…

Nice model of combining qualitative research and an RCT. I know many papers will do the qual research and not report it, but writing about it really enhances the credibility of mechanisms and the narrative, esp for contexts unfamiliar for many readers.

Alex de Waal tells Isaac Chotiner that even if humanitarian aid now reaches Gaza, probably thousands of Palestinian children "have got to that stage of severe acute malnutrition where their bodies just can’t digest food." All happening on the world's watch. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/h…

Hard times have fallen upon the Lion of Damascus