Yan Matusevich

Decades of qualitative research being undervalued and undercut, careers stunted, researchers disparaged, grad students steered away from qual methods by quant dorks just for them to suddenly realize they're on shaky ground and true original research will keep coming from real world researchers.

After a quiet day in Haifa, it’s been a nonstop barrage of incoming rocket fire for the past 10 minutes. All intercepted from the sounds of it.

I’m gonna chalk it up to sheer incompetence, but who the hell knows

Tweet from Alex Soros: "Why aren’t more Europeans standing up to an illegal war! Same with Canada! They make nice speeches at conferences, but do little. Spain is becoming the leader of the free world!"

What are the people convinced the Iran war is entirely due to a conspiracy of wealthy Jews going to do with the fact that the wealthy Jew whom they are most obsessed with is against the war?

This may sound counterintuitive for someone who works to fight antisemitism, but I wish the coverage around the recent growth of it didn't limit it to just anti-Jewish sentiment.

This is about a far broader transformation happening. A far right recruitment campaign and conspiracism spread.

Incredible to see my Kyrgyz mobile phone provider offering free roaming for all SIM-card holders currently stranded in the Middle East: from Israel to Bahrain, the UAE and Iran.

Can't imagine my German operator extending that kind of solidarity to its users.

I know we all want justice and accountability, but it seems so out of reach, the institutions so compromised and hollow, that calling out the crimes of American imperialism feels like a pointless exercise in stating the obvious. We all crave a savior, but there isn't one on the horizon.

There's something so numbing and debilitating at seeing people decrying American imperialism on addictive social media platforms owned and run by the absolute worst and most depraved people you could imagine

I've been trying to understand why all the people "fuck Israel, fuck the US, fuck the hypocritical West" on social media, fill me with a sense of numb emptiness. It's not that I have some particular fondness for all three, but things feel bad on a much more global scale.

oh absolutely

I still can't get over the sheer stupidity of the German government dropping its renewable energy mandate in the face of a fossil fuel world quite literally on fire

Ditto

"I manage to stay angry at much this gang does to wreck our country and the world, but I confess to feeling almost a sense of numb resignation. It’s all so senseless and ill-conceived. We have teetered so long at the edge of an abyss that looking into it is longer so vertiginous."

just heard it here in Haifa—and it was louder and closer than anything up to now tbh

The Iran war is going to fuel a new level of anti-semitism

The monetary cost of munitions and interceptors used in this war by the US, Israel, and the Gulf states is going to be monumental. The rate of usage is almost certainly at least double that in June. So probably another week or two max of available interceptors.

getting so many messages on WhatsApp from well-meaning contacts with poor media literacy, containing links to completely bogus videos on X, showing Tel Aviv and Haifa in ruins

Languages spoken in the bomb shelter: Arabic, Tajik, Russian, Tagalog and Georgian (no Hebrew actually)

Looked at the members of the Iranian Guardian Council and one of them, Ahmad Jannati, is literally 99 years old. Almost as bad as the US Senate…

Loudest interceptions yet over Haifa just a few minutes ago, much closer than anything up to now.

The refugee spillover from Iran is about to grow enormously

Turkey's #1 security concern right now.

X as a website encourages people to do bigotry for likes and affirmation and this is the people who identify as left wing on there have decided it is morally acceptable to indulge in bsky.app/profile/bfis...

Noch vor wenigen Wochen wollte Innenminister Dobrindt weiter an Abschiebungen in den Iran festhalten und damit mit dem Regime kooperieren.

It is surreal that we are still locked in the never-ending debate over whether military intervention on behalf of democracy and human rights is good, when the current administration has been extremely explicit they are not intervening on behalf of democracy and human rights

"No new wars" really just meant "f*ck Ukraine" and everyone knew it.

I think it’s been pretty clear for while that Putin is more than willing to hang Iran out to dry

Unless you believe the obvious Trump lie that Iran was days away from building a nuclear weapon, the word “preemptive” should not appear in any description of this war. It is an illegal “preventative” war like the US invasion of Iraq and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Almost certainly true, and another opportunity to remember that Netanyahu would willingly trade away the safety of every Jew on earth to save his own political career and avoid going to prison for his crimes.