@sababausa.bsky.social
30-something Jewish 🇺🇸 🇦🇹 dual-citizen biologist patent lawyer who grew up in South Jersey, Delaware, and Geneva 🇨🇭. Now in Northern Virginia Proud dad to twin daughters 👶👶
Haven’t caught much kids’ content yet either
So far the only media they watch is a few minutes of Bluey to distract while their fingernails and toenails are clipped, and they lose interest and squirm away
I’ve seen none of the Oscar nominees, Stranger Things, or Vince Gilligan show, or GoT spinoff, or K-Pop Demon Hunters, or Fallout, or Star Trek, or..
Not sure what to start with or when I’d ever catch up
Having two 14-month-olds means the only zeitgeist or prestige movie or tv show I’ve seen since 2024 is the Super Bowl (which was C-, badly miscast villain IMO)
(But, yes, I will grant the story is not over and Trump could make himself into a consensus capital-v Villain, though that may be a real monkey’s paw situation …)
Nixon’s resignation and pardon has largely cemented his guilt in the public mind
Trump will never admit to any mistake or accept responsibility, and his legacy & actions, no matter how destructive, will always be contested along partisan lines sort of like, Idk, Pinochet
No accounting for taste, etc. but AFAIC loving gaudy ultra-autocratic playboy metropolises like Dubai and Abu Dhabi is a 🚩for someone’s character
Still dying that Hegseth stood up and declared “look at those post-cold-war neocon dipshits who went overseas looking for monsters to destroy” *ten days ago* and *five days into the Iran campaign*
Whatever any country does to the U.S. after this fiasco is all over:
![FINANCIAL TIMES
Asked to specify the help he needed, Trump said "whatever it takes". He added that allies should send minesweepers, of which Europe possesses many more than the US.
He also wanted "people who are going to knock out some bad actors that are along the [Iranian] shore"
". Trump implied he
wanted European commando teams or other military help to eliminate Iranians making "a nuisance" in the Gulf with drones and naval mines.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreihb3wu5fgvx5ub23ak526wtutgn4xb3lsguast4r4cosg3g77iile)
Things are going so well, Trump is pleading through the media for European allies to send minesweepers
![Trump said he was also expecting China
to help unblock the strait before he travels to Beijing at the end of this month for a summit with Xi Jinping, his first trip to China in his second term.
"I think China should help too because
China gets 90 per cent of its oil from the Straits [sic]," Trump said. Waiting until the summit would be too late, he said.
"We'd like to know before that. It's [two weeks is] a long time." He added that his trip to China might also be put back. "We may delay," Trump said. He did not say for how long.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreigzwebrbecktybblgw4imv5aohaxgnjsbtehgc2i4df6ujskeqcme)
Things are going so well Trump is venting to the Financial Times that he might push a state visit to China if they don’t send naval assistance
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Donald Trump with never, ever admit to mistake or accept responsibility for anything
Americans will need to find a way to memorialize that, no matter his shamelessness, the moral, geopolitical, and economic calamity is 100% on him and his sole decision
Frankly, it’s what trials are made for
(it’s like the 15th dumbest thing about Gingrich’s post but yes)
No just one of those things hiding in plain sight that i feel like i should have noticed by now
Those moments when you realize how many plants are named after 17th to 19th century British dudes
(Fuchs ➡️ Fuchsia
Forsyth ➡️ Forsythia
MacAdam ➡️ Macadamia
Dahl ➡️ Dahlia)
Even if one could be conjured, a narrow channel ~150 miles further south from the strait barely even addresses the problem with defending the waterway
The whole situation surrounding Mayor Mamdani’s wife and Susan Abulhawa is a depressing mask-off
feels pretty shitty 🤷♂️
different cultures at different times made attempts at visually illustrating geographic space
I’d had a gist that generally most put east toward the top until magnetic compasses were adopted, but apparently it varied a lot and Zoroastrian tradition puts south at the top
It’s a fascinating topic (if we set aside for a moment, you know, all the irredentism and war)
The modern Republic of Austria has struggled to make sense of itself since WW2, and the National Day designated in 1965 celebrates Austria’s declaration of neutrality in the Cold War 🤷♂️
Perhaps someone would need to explain to him what a map is and how to read one, and also why east is depicted to the right and not the top 😂
The author’s contradistinction with Israel as very young also steeped in contested narratives
Israel’s ancientness is a central narrative they use to support their legitimacy, they emphasize it all the time
Wrt Iran, ancient roots are a common narrative they lean into. Even Khomeini treated ancient Persia as national patrimony (as opposed to, eg, the Taliban in Afghanistan),
but tbh an American writer saying Iran is “ancient“ just kind of seems like Orientalism
Like would Americans say this about Italy? Greece?
The sort of standard French narrative is France was “founded” with Clovis I, but I doubt Americans would treat France as 1,500 years old
Re the original post, I‘d be sort of curious to study US perceptions of how “old” a country is, and also how that perception relates (or doesn’t) to how their government projects that narrative of continuity / discontinuity
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*circumference
fun fact about π is for all the infinite digit precision, 3.141592653589793238 is sufficient to calculate the diameter of the sun in kilometers to the nearest proton
It’s amazing how quickly & comfortably some ppl slip right into old dormant slurs
Search your camera roll for hell…
Was a not-insignificant problem during the Revolution when you had Khomeini but also a prime minister but also the Shah’s military is still there but also…
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*know bupkis
I find it cute when Jews in my family no bupkis about Christianity
My grandma just said of my sister-in-law she “keeps fake lent”
I asked what she meant, she said “she only keeps lent one month per year“
Apparently gran thought lent is like kashrut?